Adam Elliot's stop-motion feature and the 2D short by Alexandra Ramires and Laura GonÇalves among the 22 winners at the jam packed 48th festival edition that saw a record 17,440 accredited attendees from 103 countries.
The 2024 edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Mifa finished up this evening, a week-long celebration of all things animated, with a record 17,400 badge holders from 103 countries converging on the beautiful lakeside town of Annecy.
Mickaël Marin, CEO of CITIA, the festival organizer, shared, "Every year, the Annecy Festival welcomes passionate industry professionals, highly-motivated students and a dynamic public all with the same desire: to meet and experience the magic of animation film in cinema theatres. This year's record attendance highlights the vitality of the sector in a fast-evolving industry. We will continue to encourage existing synergies between the 7th art and other disciplines. We are proud to be a part of the dynamic development and widespread recognition of animation. But most of all, we are proud to see that the cinema continues to attract audiences of all kinds and in particular the younger generation. We are convinced that animation film, in all its diversity, plays a key role in drawing audiences into cinema theatres."
22 Official Awards and Distinctions were presented by 11 juries (another 9 special prizes were awarded the previous day). They are as follows:
FEATURE FILMS
Cristal for a Feature Film:
Memoir of a Snail
Adam Elliot
Arenamedia / Australia
Jury Award:
Flow
Gints Zilbalodis
Dream Well Studio, Take Five, Sacrebleu Productions / Latvia, Belgium, France
Paul Grimault Award:
Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window (Madogiwa no Totto-chan)
Shinnosuke Yakuwa
Shin-Ei Animation Co., Ltd / Japan
Gan Foundation Award for Distribution:
Flow
Gints Zilbalodis
Dream Well Studio, Take Five, Sacrebleu Productions / Latvia, Belgium, France
Contrechamp Grand Prix:
Sultana’s Dream (El sueño de la sultana)
Isabel Herguera
Abano Producións S.L., Fabian&Fred GmbH / Spain
Contrechamp Jury Award:
Living Large
Kristina Dufkova
Barletta Productions / Czech Republic
Audience Award:
Flow
Gints Zilbalodis
Dream Well Studio, Take Five, Sacrebleu Productions / Latvia, Belgium, France
SHORT FILMS
Cristal for a Short Film:
Percebes
Alexandra Ramires, Laura GonÇalves
Portugal, France
Jury Award:
The Car that came back from the Sea
Jadwiga Kowalska
Switzerland
Alexeïeff – Parker Award [ex mention du jury]:
Beautiful Men
Nicolas Keppens
Belgium, France, Netherlands
Jean-Luc Xiberras Award for a First Film:
[S]
Mario Radev
United Kingdom
Off-Limits Award:
Glass House
Boris Labbé
France
Audience Award:
Hurikán
Jan Saska
Czech Republic, France, Bosnia and Herzegovnia
TV FILMS
Cristal for a TV Production:
The Drifting Guitar
Sophie Roze
France, Switzerland
Jury Award for a TV Series:
My Life in Versailles "Versailles Ghost"
Clémence Madeleine-Perdrillat, Nathaniel H'Limi
France, Luxembourg
Jury Award for a TV Special:
Lola et le Piano à bruits
Augusto Zanovello
France, Poland, Switzerland
Audience Award:
The Drifting Guitar
Sophie Roze
France, Switzerland
COMMISSIONED FILMS:
Cristal for a Commissioned Film:
Pictoplasma "Opener 2023"
Will Anderson
United Kingdom
Jury Award for a Commissioned Film:
TED-Ed "How Did South African Apartheid Happen, and How Did It Finally End?"
Aya Marzouk
USA, South Africa, Egypt
GRADUATION FILMS
Cristal for a Graduation Film:
Carrotica
Daniel Sterlin-Altman
Germany
Jury Award:
Pubert Jimbob
Quirijn Dees
Belgium
Lotte Reiniger Award:
Maatitel
Govinda Sao
India
VR WORKS
Cristal for the Best VR Work:
Gargoyle Doyle
Ethan Shaftel
USA, Austria, Argentina
SPECIAL PRIZES
City of Annecy Award:
The Meatseller
Margherita Giusti
Italy
Festivals Connexion VR Award:
Emperor
Marion Burger, Ilan Cohen
France, Germany
Festivals Connexion Award:
Beautiful Men
Nicolas Keppens
Belgium, France, Netherlands
André Martin Award for a French Short Film:
Butterfly (Papillon)
Florence Miailhe
France
Best Original Music Award for a Feature Film:
Flow
Rihards Zzlupe, Gints Zilbalodis
Latvia, Belgium, France
Best Original Music Award for a Short Film:
Joko
Aliaksandr Yasinski
Poland, Germany, Czech Republic
Young Audience Award:
Hello Summer
Martin Smatana, Veronika Zacharova
Slovakia, Czech Republic, France
CANAL+ Junior Jury Award:
Noodles au Naturel
Matteo Salanave Piazza
France
France TV Award for a Short Film:
The Car That Came Back from the Sea
Jadwiga Kowalska
Switzerland
Source: Annecy International Animation Film Festival
Dan Sarto is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network.
