At a press convention hosted by the CNC, Annecy organizers unveiled the competitors lineups for this yr’s pageant which can run June 11-17.
Presenting the lineup had been CITIA chairman Dominique Puthod, Annecy director Mickaël Marin, and pageant creative director Marcel Jean.
Along with revealing this yr’s competitors movies, the group additionally outlined a number of main highlights for the upcoming version together with particular screenings, works in progress periods, and studio shows. We’ll dive extra deeply into these occasions in an article tomorrow.
In the present day, we’re specializing in the pageant’s official competitors and Contrechamp lineups. Based on Annecy organizers, it’s probably the most aggressive they’ve ever seen.
“It’s not that we had so many greater than previously, however the vital factor was that the common stage was clearly larger than in previous years,” Jean advised Cartoon Brew in a dialog forward of Thursday’s press convention. “In different years, it’s been a lot simpler to pick 10 movies for the official competitors, however this yr was very exhausting as a result of there have been so many extra who deserved it. Different movies that, in some other yr, would have undoubtedly been within the competitors.”
Concerning tendencies amongst this yr’s submissions and eventual choices, Jean was particularly pleased with the variety inside the lineup. For instance, this yr’s competitors options its first Cameroonian movie in Daniel Minlo and Cyrille Masso’s The Sacred Cave. Liu Jian, who was alleged to compete together with his movie Have a Good Day again in 2017 however was forbidden from doing so by the Chinese language authorities, will likely be again with newest Artwork College 1994.
And, almost 1 / 4 of this yr’s movies come from girls administrators, a brand new greatest for Annecy.
“It’s nonetheless not near parity,” Jean admitted, explaining that sooner or later the pageant wish to get there. “But it surely’s a lot better than what it was, whilst just lately as 5 years in the past.”
Annecy will host a number of massive Hollywood premieres this yr, all out of competitors. That’s often the case for the studio fare, as pageant organizers need to highlight movies that received’t already be backed by million-dollar budgets {and professional} PR groups. On prime of that, Jean says the studios don’t usually submit movies for the competitors sections as there’s little or no to be gained.
“The massive-budget movies desire particular screenings. If a $100 million movie loses the Crystal to a $3 million movie, that’s not good for them in any respect. And if the $100 million movie wins, all anybody will say is that it ought to,” he identified.
Even out of competitors although, these massive gamers are sometimes the principle drivers of the pageant in sensible phrases. The advertising cash from massive studios permits the pageant to ask extra unbiased, worldwide, and brief filmmakers. It lets organizers give out extra accreditations, host extra occasions for underrepresented teams, and supply a non-competitive platform that smaller tasks and works in progress can share alongside the massive canines.
In complete, 23 movies will display on this yr’s official competitors, 11 in the principle competitors and one other 12 in Contrechamp.
Annecy 2023 Official Competitors
- Artwork School 1994, Liu Jian (China Academy of Artwork, Hangzhou Lightriver Tradition & Media/China)
- 4 Souls of Coyote, Áron Gauder (Cinemon Leisure/Hungary)
- Kensuke’s Kingdom, Neil Boyle, Kirk Hendry (Lupus Movies, Mélusine Productions/Studio 352, Le Pacte/Okay., Luxembourg, France)
- La Sirène, Sepideh Farsi (Les Movies d’ici, Katuh Studio, Bac Cinema, Lunanime, TrickStudio Lutterbeck/Germany, Belgium, France, Luxembourg)
- Hen for Linda!, Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach (Dolce Vita Movies, Miyu Productions, Dorje Movie/France, Italy)
- Lonely Citadel within the Mirror, Keiichi Hara (A-1 Photos/Japan)
- Mars Categorical, Jeremy Périn (All people on Deck, Je Suis Bien Content material/France)
- Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds, Benoît Chieux (Sacrebleu Productions/Belgium, France)
- The Inseparables, Jérémie Degruson (nWave Digital, Octopolis, A Contracorriente Movies/Belgium, Spain, France)
- The Inventor, Jim Capobianco, Pierre-Luc Granjon (Curiosity Studio, Leo & King, Foliascope/U.S.A., France, Eire)
- The Tunnel to Summer time, the Exit of Goodbyes, Tomohisa Taguchi (Clap/Japan)
Contrechamp Competitors
- When Adam Adjustments, Joël Vaudreuil (Parce Que Movies/Canada)
- Tender Metalheads, Carlos Perez-Reche, Joan Tomas (La Productora de Juanjo Saez/Spain)
- Johnny & Me – A Journey via Time with John Heartfield, Katrin Rothe (Hanfgarn & Ufer Filmproduktion/Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
- Komada – A Whisky Household, Masayuki Yoshihara (Story INC., P.A. Works, DMM.com /Japan)
- The Sacred Cave, Daniel Minlo, Cyrille Masso (Malo Photos/Cameroon)
- Robotic Desires, Pablo Berger (Les movies du Worso, Arcadia Movement Photos, Noodles Manufacturing/Spain, France)
- Rosa and the Stone Troll, Karla Nor Holmbäck (Tegnefilm/Denmark)
- Saleem, Cynthia Madanat Sharaiha (Digitales/Jordan)
- Slide, Invoice Plympton (Plymptoons Studio/U.S.)
- Toldi, Marcell Jankovics, Csakovics Lajos (Kecskemétfilm/Hungary)
- Tony, Shelly and the Magic Gentle, Filip Pošivač (Filmfabriq, Nutprodukcia, Nutprodukce/Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia)
- White Plastic Sky, Tibor Banoczki and Sarolta Szabo (Salto Movies, Artichoke/Hungary, Slovakia)
