The Annecy Competition revealed right now extra particulars of one other packed program for 2023, together with the alternatives for the characteristic movie and Contrechamp competitions. Operating June 11-17, the world’s largest devoted animation fest will begin with a bang, premiering Benoît Chieux’s Sirocco and the Kingdom of Air Streams (Belgium/France), in addition to a brand-new Disney quick directed by Trent Correy and Dan Abraham in the course of the Opening Ceremony.
In Sirocco, two sisters, four-year-old Juliette and eight-year-old Carmen, uncover a passage between their world and the world of a e-book titled The Kingdom of Air Streams, and should search out a terrifying character known as Sirocco who can management the wind to get residence. Particulars of the Disney quick are
Chieux’s 2D fantasy is considered one of 11 characteristic movies competing for the coveted Cristal this 12 months. The opposite contenders within the Official Competitors are:
- Artwork School 1994 (directed by Liu Jian, China)
- 4 Souls of Coyote (Áron Gauder, Hungary)
- Kensuke’s Kingdom (Neil Boyle & Kirk Hendry, U.Ok./Luxembourg) — WORLD PREMIERE
- The Siren (Sepideh Farsi, Germany/Belgium/France/Luxembourg)
- Hen for Linda! (Chiara Malta & Sébastien Laudenbach, France/Italy)
- Lonely Citadel within the Mirror (Keiichi Hara, Japan)
- Mars Categorical (Jérémie Périn, France)
- The Inseparables (Jérémie Degruson, Belgium/Spain/France)
- The Inventor (Jim Capobianco & Pierre-Luc Granjon, U.S./France/Eire) — WORLD PREMIERE
- The Tunnel to Summer time, the Exit of Goodbyes (Tomohisa Taguchi, Japan).
Operating for the sixth 12 months, the Contrechamp Competitors will provide up one other 12 eclectic animated options:
- When Adam Modifications (Joël Vaudreuil, Canada)
- Tender Metalheads (Carlos Perez-Reche & Joan Tomas, Spain)
- Johnny & Me – A Journey by Time with John Heartfield (Katrin Rothe, Germany/Austria/Switzerland)
- Komada – A Whisky Household (Masayuki Yoshihara, Japan)
- The Sacred Cave ( Daniel Minlo & Cyrille Masso, Cameroon)
- Robotic Goals (Pablo Berger, Spain/France)
- Rosa and the Stone Troll (Karla Nor Holmbäck, Denmark)
- Saleem (Cynthia Madanat Sharaiha, Jordan)
- Slide (Invoice Plympton, U.S.)
- Toldi (Marcell Jankovics & Csakovics Lajos, Hungary)
- Tony, Shelly and the Magic Mild (Filip Pošivač, Hungary/Czech Rep./Slovakia)
- White Plastic Sky (Tibor Banoczki & Sarolta Szabo, Hungary/Slovakia)
After all, there’s greater than sufficient to entertain and encourage attendees exterior the competitors screenings. Main Hollywood studios shall be again by the lake to premiere and sneak peek hotly anticipated initiatives. A number of of the highlights:
- Walt Disney Animation Studios continues its one hundredth birthday bash with a number of celebratory occasions. Along with the TBA quick opening the fest, CCO Jennifer Lee shall be in attendance to share extra particulars of Want, which she helped write and exec produce. The studio may also current a screening of Fantasia 2000 with director Eric Goldberg.
- Pixar Animation Studios will current never-before-seen supplies from its first unique sequence Win or Lose (Disney+), and shall be screening Elemental, following the movie’s Cannes premiere.
- Sony Footage Animation will display the brand new quick The Spider Inside: A Spider-Verse Story, the primary challenge from the studio’s new shorts program for abilities from underrepresented teams, and reveal a primary have a look at the studio’s first-ever R-rated comedy, Fastened, from animation icon Genndy Tartakovsky.
- Warner Bros. Animation will provide glimpses at The Lord of the Rings: The Struggle of Rohirrim by Kenji Kamiyama and Rick and Morty: 10 Years of Intergalactic Adventures.
- Nickelodeon Animation Studios will carry Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount Footage/Nickelodeon Motion pictures) out of the sewers for a sneak peek.
- Illumination will current it’s unique high-flying comedy-adventure Migration (Common Footage), directed by Benjamin Renner.
- GCI Movie, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ramsay McBean and Keith Chapman Productions will introduce Ozi, Voice of the Forest, directed by Tim Harper.
- Beforehand introduced: DreamWorks Animation will premiere Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (Common Footage) on the occasion, attended by director Kirk DeMicco, producer Kelly Cooney Cilella and co-director Faryn Pearl, in addition to presenting a Work-in-Progress classes on Trolls: Band Collectively and a particular outside screening of its hit sequel Puss in Boots: The Final Want.
- Beforehand introduced: Netflix has deliberate a jam-packed program, together with a particular screening and “Making of” for Nimona, panels with the inventive groups behind Aardman’s Hen Run: Daybreak of the Nugget and upcoming sequence Blue Eye Samurai, a serious “What’s Subsequent” panel and extra.
