Annecy Filmfestival 2018

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Das diesjährige Festival findet vom 11. - 16.06.2018 statt. Die folgenden Langfilme werden im Wettbewerb gezeigt:

• Virus Tropical von Santiago CAICEDO
  
  
• La casa lobo (The Wolf House) von Cristóbal LEÓN und Joaquín COCIÑA
  
  
• The Wall von Cam CHRISTIANSEN
  
  
• Seder-Masochism von Nina PALEY
  
  
• Mirai no Mirai (Mirai of the Future) von Mamoru HOSODA
  
  
• The Breadwinner von Nora TWOMEY
  
  
• Gatta Cenerentola (Cinderella the Cat) von Ivan CAPPIELLO, Alessandro RAK, Marino GUARNIERI und Dario SANSONE
  
  
• Funan von Denis DO
  
  
• Tito e os Pássaros (Tito and the Birds) von Gustavo STEINBERG, Gabriel BITAR und André CATOTO DIAS
  
  
• Waka Okami wa Shōgakusei! (The Young Innkeeper is a Grade Schooler!, aka Okko's Inn) von Kitaro KOSAKA

Die Festivalseite zu "Seder-Masochism":

The story of Exodus is retold by Moses, Aharon, the Angel of Death, Jesus, and the director's own father. But there's another side to this story: that of the Goddess, humankind's original deity, who is resurrected in a tragic struggle with the forces of patriarchy.

Ausschnitt:

https://vimeo.com/108679857

"The Breadwinner" wurde u. a. von Angelina Jolie produziert.

Parvana is a young girl living in Kabul, Afghanistan, under control of Taliban. ... After Parvana unsuccessfully tries to procure food while going out as a girl, she decides to dress as a boy and pretend to be Nurullah's nephew, "Aatish", in order to support the family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breadwinner

Die Festivalseite zu "Gatta Cenerentola":

Cinderella struggles to escape the shadow and evil schemes of her stepmother and six stepsisters who all live aboard the Megaride, a ship stuck in the port of a decaying Naples set in the future.

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJD4KVWY8ps

Und worum geht es bei "Tito e os Pássaros"?

The film follows the life of Tito, a 10-year-old boy who is on mission to save the world from an unusual epidemic - people fall ill whenever they are scared.

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnK0l1OTwfU

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Insgesamt 15 Spielfilme werden außer Konkurrenz gezeigt. Hier die ersten acht:

• Chris the Swiss von Anja KOFMEL
  
  
• Kikoriki: Deja Vu von Denis CHERNOV
  
  
• On Happiness Road von Hsin-Yin SUNG
  
  
• Un homme est mort von Olivier COSSU
  
  
• Maquia - When the Promised Flower Blooms von Mari OKADA
  
  
• El ángel en el reloj (The Angel in the Clock) von Miguel Ángel URIEGAS
  
  
• The Tower von Mats GRORUD
  
  
• Hoffmaniada von Stanislav SOKOLOV

"Chris the Swiss" ist ein animierter Dokumentarfilm mit Realfilmsequenzen. Die Festivalseite:

On 7 January 1992 during the war in Croatia, a body is discovered - it is a young journalist dressed in the uniform of an international mercenary group. Twenty years later, his cousin Anja Kofmel, an animation film director, investigates the story of an assassination of this young man from Switzerland who got lost in a dark and brutal world.

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVmnKhpNxOo

"On Happiness Road" stammt aus Taiwan.

Chi's American dream came true after her studies in Taiwan. When her grandmother is dying, Chi returns to her family on Happiness Road. Everything in her mind is brought into question: childhood nostalgia, the history of China and Taiwan, the bitterness of exile, two cultures, hopes for her career, her American boyfriend, and slightly old-fashioned traditions. Is the American dream just a dream?

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E6aI6oMIQo

"Un homme est mort" beruht auf dem gleichnamigen Comic von Christophe Goret (Kris) und Étienne Davodeau (hier). In "The Angel in the Clock" geht es um ein Mädchen mit Leukämie.

A girl with leukaemia wants to stop time. As she attempts to do so, she meets Malachi, an angel that lives inside her cuckoo clock. Malachi will take Amelia on a magical adventure and help her learn the value of "here" and "now".

Teaser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHEZTY9oRlw

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Und hier die nächsten sieben:

• The Last Fiction von Ashkan RAHGOZAR
  
  
• Cats and Peachtopia von Gary WANG
  
  
• North of Blue von Joanna PRIESTLEY
  
  
• Marnie's World von Christoph und Wolfgang LAUENSTEIN
  
  
• Captain Morten and the Spider Queen von Kaspar JANCIS
  
  
• Liz to Aoitori (Liz and the Blue Bird) von Naoko YAMADA
  
  
• Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires von Mike MORT

Vor ewigen Zeiten erhielten die Brüder Lauenstein den Oscar für ihren Kurzfilm "Balance". Zu ihrem Langfilm "Marnie's World" verrät die Festivalseite:

Four crazy animal antiheroes on the run. Their leader is the unworldly and naive house cat Marnie, who only knows about real life from watching TV. A modern and hilarious road movie, based loosely on Brothers Grimms fairy tale "Town Musicians of Bremen".

"Liz and the Blue Bird" ist ein Spin-Off zu der TV-Serie "Sound! Euphonium".

Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki are a pair of best friends in their final year of high school. Their shared obsession? The school's brass band club. With Mizore on the oboe and Nozomi on the flute, they spend their days in happiness - until the club begins to practice songs inspired by the fairy tale Liz und ein Blauer Vogel.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/liz-and-the-blue-bird

"North of Blue" ist ein abstrakter Film.

Drawing inspiration from natural landscapes, "North of Blue" offers a dense multiverse of images and shifting focal points where scenes transmogrify from rhythmic dances to sublime trance-inducing patterns.

http://oregonconfluence.com/2017/09/11/world-premiere-of-north-of-blue

Trailer:

https://vimeo.com/268106599

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Kurzfilme im Wettbewerb (Programm 1)

• Weekends von Trevor JIMENEZ
  
  
• Guaxuma von Nara NORMANDE
  
  
• Slurred von John MORENA
  
  
• Love He Said von Inés SEDAN
  
  
• Happiness von Steve CUTTS
  
  
• Tears of Chiwen von Sun XUN
  
  
• Death Van von Michael ENZBRUNNER
  
  
• Ride von Paul BUSH
  
  
• La Mort, père & fils (The Death, Dad & Son) von Denis WALGENWITZ und Vincent PARONNAUD

"Weekends" is the story of a young boy shuffling between the homes of his recently divorced parents. Surreal, dream-like moments mix with the domestic realities of a broken up family in this hand-animated film set in 1980's Toronto.

https://vimeo.com/234003945

"Death Van" ist eine faszinierende Computeranimation. Die Festivalseite:

The fictitious space-rock duo Death Van tours through a miniature world inhabited by surreal creatures that are haunted and terrorized by a menacing and mischievous entity.

Film:

https://vimeo.com/233387572

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Kurzfilme im Wettbewerb (Programm 2)

• Tightly Wound von Shelby HADDEN
  
  
• Raymonde ou l'évasion verticale von Sarah VAN DEN BOOM
  
  
• Dicks von John MORENA
  
  
• Afterwork von Luis USÓN und Andrés AGUILAR
  
  
• A Fly in the Restaurant von Xi CHEN und Xu AN
  
  
• Agouro von David DOUTEL und Vasco SÁ
  
  
• I'm OK von Elizabeth HOBBS
  
  
• Maria ja 7 pöialpoissi (Mary and 7 Dwarfs) von Riho UNT
  
  
• Fest von Nikita DIAKUR

Die Festivalseite zu "Raymonde or The Vertical Escape":

Raymonde is really fed up with peas, aphids, dirty panties and her kitchen garden to dig. After all, she would prefer sex, and love, and the immensity of the sky ...

Trailer:

https://vimeo.com/256026485

Zu "Agouro" heißt es:

A harsh winter freezes the surface of a river, close to a house where two cousins live. Immersed in the cold wind on that day, tension in their relationship grows and reaches its peak.

Trailer:

https://vimeo.com/261131330

Riho UNT war bereits 2015 in Annecy mit "Isand (The Master)" vertreten. Zu der Puppenanimation "Mary and 7 Dwarfs" (12 min 30 s) verrät die Festivalseite:

Having spent her entire life behind the convent walls, the old and dignified nun Maria has decided to fulfill her childhood dream. The only obstacle is her fragmentary memory. Maria is afraid that her ultimate dream may turn out to be a sin instead.

Die Gefahren des Bungeespringens schildert "Fest":

https://vimeo.com/257761642

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Kurzfilme im Wettbewerb (Programm 3)

• Bloeistraat 11 von Nienke DEUTZ
  
  
• Impossible Figures and Other Stories III von Marta PAJEK
  
  
• Best Laid Plans von John MORENA
  
  
• Le chat qui pleure von Alain GAGNOL und Jean-Loup FELICIOLI
  
  
• Étreintes von Justine VUYLSTEKER
  
  
• Animal Behaviour (Zoothérapie) von Alison SNOWDEN und David FINE
  
  
• La Chute von Boris LABBÉ
  
  
• 20 ritnika von Dimitar DIMITROV
  
  
• Biryuk von Polina FEDOROVA

John MORENA hat im Jahr 2017 52 kurze Filme gedreht. In jedem der fünf Kurzfilmprogramme läuft einer davon. Alain GAGNOL und Jean-Loup FELICIOLI sind u. a. für den Langfilm "Die Katze von Paris" bekannt. Zu "Le chat qui pleure" verrät die Festivalseite:

After being punished by his mother, a ten-year-old boy who hates his little brother is forced to spend an afternoon with a slightly strange old man. The boy will receive a lesson in life when he discovers the terrible secret of the old man.

Teaser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxQOLtI-pzA

"Étreintes" ist eine Nagelbrett-Animation. Die Festivalseite:

A woman stands facing the open window and watches the dark clouds on the horizon. Motionless, she struggles against her memories resurfacing. A passionate embrace appears in the clouds.

Ausschnitt:

https://vimeo.com/264423907