Ten feature films are in official competition while ten others compete in the counterchamp category of the international demonstration, which is held in Haute-Savoie until June 18.
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After two years of covid-19 pandemic, which forced him to an entirely digital edition in 2020 and another hybrid (both online and on site) in 2021, the International Film Festival Annecy animation finally finds its usual form. Public, professionals in the sector, confirmed filmmakers and emerging talents will be able to meet again in the city of Haute-Savoie, from June 13 to 18. Six days during which will be presented, analyzed, discussed short and feature films from around the world. Among the long formats, ten will be in official competition and ten others will contribute to the counterchamp category, whose vocation is to highlight original films and new signatures.
Each year, the selection is tough. According to Marcel Jean, artistic delegate of the festival for ten years, she also reveals herself, over the editions, always more complex. And this due to an exponential level of quality. “More and more countries are able to produce and make films by benefiting from very trained teams and increasingly daring techniques, explains the delegate. Faced with this extremely powerful offer, we must make choices that , at the same time, take into account our favorites, but can also reflect, both in form and in substance, the great international currents of animated creation. “
Among the twenty feature films in competition this year, more than a quarter are engaged in memory work, reopen pages of our collective history through intimate accounts, sometimes even autobiographical. This is the case for Alain Ughetto who, nine years after his heartbreaking Jasmine, returns with prohibitions to dogs and Italians. An evocation in modeling paste of the journey made by the grandfather, Luigi Ughetto who, at the beginning of the 20th th century, left the family cradle of northern Italy and crossed the Alps to win the France.
The historical current also crosses Nayola, from Portuguese José Miguel Ribeiro, who traces the fate of three generations of women marked by war, in Angola; Or Charlotte, the 2D film by Eric Warin and Tahir Rana, on the very short life of the German Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943), who died in Auschwitz at the age of 26. In a lighter register, the little Nicolas: what are we waiting for to be happy?, From Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre, also redo the story. That of friendship and professional complicity which united Goscinny and Sempé, whose trait reproduced in animation brings us, in a very documented way, at the origin of the work.
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