The celebrated European animation celebration Annecy Pageant, going down this 12 months from June 11-17, introduced as we speak a thematic highlight on Satisfaction and Variety, that includes 4 quick movie packages exploring queer life from worldwide, creative views in latest productions. This system has been coordinated by Benoit Berthe Siward, Founding father of The Animation Showcase and Co-Founding father of LGBTQ+ in Animation.
“This theme has turn into a topical situation, particularly for younger filmmakers, a lot of whom sort out points associated to gender and variety yearly,” explains Marcel Jean, the Pageant’s Inventive Director. He sat down to debate the Satisfaction and Variety program on video:
Annecy Pageant – Satisfaction and Variety Program
TRUE QUEER STORIES by Holly Murtha
How does it really feel to be queer on this world? This program is a showcase of real-life tales from the LGBTQ+ neighborhood. Starting from new views on love, relationships and need, to an ode to household and neighborhood. From journeys of self-discovery to closeted, troubled lives, this part is a reminder of the variety of lived experiences contained in the queer neighborhood and the significance of illustration.
Among the many movies:
- All These Sensations in My Stomach by Marko Djeska (Croatia, Portugal)
- Oneself Story by Géraldine Charpentier (Belgium)
HIDDEN QUEER DESIRES by Patricio Plaza
For a lot time, queer need has been pressured to be lived with guilt, within the margins of society, hidden or unstated. Instances have modified however the marks of historic persecution are nonetheless a battle for a lot of queer identities.
Among the many movies:
- We Had been a Sterile Bomb by Dotan Moreno (Israel)
- Lovely by Cheng-Hsu Chung (Taiwan, U.Ok.)
- Piteous Liaisons by Chloé Alliez and Violette Delvoye (Belgium, France)
HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS by Jakub Spevák
This part of movies is devoted to the sensation of belonging — which for queer individuals usually means making a secure place, a refuge. Movies discover the necessity to share, to be your self, to like, to forgive… As queer individuals, do we’ve to maintain pretending to slot in?
Among the many movies:
- Chado by Dominica Harrison (U.Ok.)
- Purpleboy by Alexandre Siqueira (Portugal, France, Belgium)
- In Nature by Marcel Barelli (Switzerland)
FREAKS & PROUD by Jakub Spevák
Queer people have usually been labelled as freaks, monsters, mutants, even ghosts who hang-out society. This part of movies takes these usually pejorative labels and deconstructs them. Movies present “queer” in all its variety and open their arms to the weirdness and strangeness.
Among the many movies:
- Slug Life by Sophie Koko Gate (U.Ok.)
- The Boob Fairy by Léahn Vivier-Chapas (France)
- Superbia by Luca Tóth (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia)
The Pageant may also be awarding an Honorary Cristal to the British filmmaker Barry J.C. Purves, creator of a seminal stop-motion piece and pioneer of embracing gay themes in animation. His most acclaimed quick movies might be proven collectively in a retrospective program, and the Display screen Play auteur might be presenting a Masterclass.
Annecy’s Jean factors out Achilles, which Purves made in 1995, as a significant landmark within the historical past of gay illustration in animation. “The director’s audacity is spectacular when it comes to theme, aesthetics and route. To not point out his technical mastery, which is nothing wanting distinctive!” says Jean. “This 12 months, we’re paying tribute to one in every of modern animation’s most esteemed figures.”
As ever, “satisfaction and variety” might be on show all through the Annecy Pageant’s intensive programming, not simply inside the themed quick movie collections. The Work-In-Progress classes will embrace the characteristic movie Eugene, written by Joëlle Oosterlinck and directed by Anaïs Caura. The movie portrays the lifetime of Eugene Falleni, a trans man accused of murdering his spouse in Australia within the Twenties.
Additionally, among the many movies within the Official Brief Movies choice is Christopher at Sea by Tom CJ Brown, winner of the Arte France Prize and Ciclic Prize on the Mifa Pitches in 2018.
Mifa can also be renewing its Parity – Variety programming and creating it to replicate the Pageant’s Animation, Satisfaction and Variety packages: the Girls In Animation World Summit will deal extra comprehensively with inclusion and variety points; girls’s animation associations around the globe will current pitch venture classes, the Mifa Conferences and a panel dialogue on the Mifa Campus will present the possibility to lift particular questions and try and ship some options.
Going into its seventh decade, the Annecy Pageant has an extended observe document of spotlighting movies addressing LGBTQIA+ points and experiences, from the comical to the heartbreaking to the bitter-sweet. The occasion gives a global free speech platform to administrators from around the globe to current shorts, sequence, graduate movies and animated options in competitors.
Some award-winning queer tales from the previous couple of years embrace In Deep Waters, quick movie by Sarah Van Den Increase (France, Canada), Festivals Connexion Award – Région Rhône-Alpes with Lumières Numériques (2015); Mothers on Hearth, quick movie by Joanna Rytel (Sweden), Jury Distinction (2016) and Festivals Connexion Jury Distinction – Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes/In partnership with Lumières Numériques & Pilon Cinéma (2016); The Fish Curry (Maacher Jhol), quick movie by Abhishek Verma (India), Metropolis of Annecy Award (2017); and the multi-award successful Flee, characteristic movie by Jonas Poher Rasmussen (Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden), Cristal for a Function Movie (2021), Gan Basis Award for Distribution (2021) and Finest Authentic Music Award for a Function Movie, sponsored by the SACEM (2021).
Annecy Pageant will maintain its 2023 version in France from June 11-17. Registration is now open. Extra data out there at annecyfestival.com.
