An oasis of auteur, adult-targeted animation works-in-progress awaits consumers on the Cannes Marché du Movie this 12 months, because of the Annecy Animation Showcase. Organized by the Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Competition, the choice spotlights movies in varied levels of manufacturing that carry of unique works that stand out sharply towards the worldwide toon panorama.
Highlights of the lineup embrace Hina Is Lovely (Japan), a brand new movie from cult hit On-Gaku: Our Sound director Kenji Iwaisawa; the textile animation of Heirloom (India), and Annecy Residency mission by Upamanyu Bhattacharyya (Annecy Award winner for Wade); and Berlinale Teddy Award-winning Spanish director María Trenor’s (With What Shall I Want It?) hippie tradition drama Rock Backside.
Annecy Animation Showcase at Cannes
Heirloom — Upamanyu Bhattacharyya, India
In Sixties Ahmedabad, on the cusp of a technological revolution, husband Kirti spends a fortune on a handloom museum, whereas his spouse Sonal urges him to get into the ability loom enterprise. Whereas their story performs out in painted 2D, the tapestry backgrounds present a portal into their household story, which comes alive with a daring embroidered material animation approach created by Bhattacharyya and textile artist Maitri Ravishankar.
Hina Is Lovely — Iwaisawa Kenji, Japan
This 2D/rotoscopy comedy-action-drama takes place in Izu, Japan, the place a lady named Hina with mysterious motives conjures up males to battle over her. As every suitor strives to declare their love, muscley rivals seem, and the sound of pageant drums alerts a confrontation. The movie is directed by Iwaisawa, written by Oscar nominee Takamasa Oe (Drive My Automotive) with character design by Naoyuki Asano (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0, Hold Your Palms Off Eizouken!)
Rock Backside — María Trenor, Spain
Impressed by the adolescence and acclaimed artwork rock album by Robert Wyatt (former Smooth Machina vocalist/drummer), this musical mission combines rotoscopy and 2D frame-by-frame animation to inform the typically lifelike, typically psychotropic, self-destructive love story of Bob and Alif — two artists caught up within the artistic hippie tradition explosion of the early Nineteen Seventies. The mission gained a €20,000 ($21,000) Netflix award at Spain’s Mianima mentoring program, and is due for a Q1 2024 premiere in line with producer Alba Sotorra. Jaibo Movies, Empatic and GS Animation (Poland) additionally produce.
Silex and the Metropolis — Jul, co-directed by Jean-Paul Guigue; France
Based mostly on the comic-book collection by Jul and according to the TV animation adaptation The Darwinners, the film riffs on the fashionable age as seen via the eyes of a Stone Age household flung ahead in time to our period. Jul is directing the movie, which is able to start the second stage of manufacturing in June or July at Je Suis Bien Content material (Avril and the Extraordinary World, My Father’s Secrets and techniques), which additionally produces the collection.
The Son of a Bitch — Otto Guerra, Tania Anaya, Erica Maradona, Savio Leite; Brazil
Latin American animation veteran Guerra (Till Sbornia Do Us Half) is again with this grownup/YA standout from the Ventana Sur 2022 Animation! occasion (additionally organized with Annecy MIFA). The story charts the non-public odyssey of Ishmael, who escapes to the large metropolis from his Brazilian backlands city the place his mom runs a brother, however can’t escape his origins. Exec producer Tatiana Mitre (Anaya Prod.) informed Selection “The movie addresses points that folks don’t have in frequent, comparable to language and aesthetics, an evocation of Brazilianess, at a time when the world is experiencing rising globalization and its consequent emptying and/or erasing of native cultures.” Anaya and Guerra’s Otto Desnhos Animados produce.
[Source: Variety]
