Annecy Festival Reveals Full 2020 Selection For First Online Edition

For obvious reasons, this year's iteration of the Annecy International Animation Festival had to be cancelled. As with numerous other festivals and conventions, however, the organisers are replacing the in-person event with an online edition. Despite the lack of theatrical screenings, the jury will still have access to the films so the competition will proceed as normal. As of this week, the full 2020 selection has been announced.

20 feature films have been selected from a total of 75 submissions. A total of 18 countries are represented, with productions from Egypt, Estonia, Saudi Arabia and Mauritius alongside the more regularly represented likes of France, South Korea and Japan. No features from the US or UK have been selected this year.

The selection for the short film competition had already been revealed. Here an even wider variety of countries are represented, including The Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iran. The competing films were selected from a total of more than 3000 across all categories, representing 94 countries.

The festival will run from June 15-20. Due to licensing restrictions, not all titles submitted will be viewable in full online for all ticketholders, but the majority should be. The online festival will include not only the films but also masterclasses, work in progress and making of presentations, with passes set to sell for a very affordable €15 (approximately $16.50 /£13.50). They will be on sale soon through the website.

Official Competition

The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks 

Andrey Khrzhanovsky (Russia) 

Kill It and Leave this Town 

Mariusz Willczynski (Poland) 

Little Vampire 

Joann Sfar (France) 

Jungle Beat: The Movie 

Brent Dawes (Mauritius) 

Lupin III The First 

Takashi Yamazaki (Japan) 

7 Days War 

Yuta Murano (Japan) 

Ginger’s Tale 

Konstantin Scherkin (Russia) 

Bigfoot Family 

Ben Stassen, Jérémie Degruson (Belgium, France)

Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary 

Rémi Chayé (France, Denmark)

Nahuel and the Magic Book 

German Acuña (Chile)

 

Contrechamp Competition

On Gaku: Our Sound!

  Kenji Iwaisawa (Japan) 

The Old Man – The Movie 

Mikk Mägi, Oskar Lehemaa (Estonia)

Lava 

 Ayar Blasco (Argentina) 

Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus 

 Dalibor Baric (Croatia) 

Beauty Water 

Kyung-hun Cho (South Korea)

My Favorite War 

Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen (Latvia, Norway) 

The Shaman Sorceress 

Jae-huun Ahn (South Korea) 

The Legend of Hei 

Ping Zhang (China)

True North 

Eiji Han Shimizu (Japan, Indonesia)

The Knight and the Princess 

Bashir El Deek, Ibrahim Mousa (Saudi Arabia, Egypt)

Short Film Competition

10 000 Ugly Inkblots  

Dmitry Geller (China, Russia)


A Mãe de Sangue  

Vier Nev (Portugal)


Altötting  

Andreas Hykade  (Germany, Canada, Portugal)


Arka  

Natko Stipanicev (Croatia)


Average Happiness 

 Maja Gehrig (Switzerland)

Bela  

Nick Simpson  (Australia)

Beyond Noh  

Patrick Smith, Kaori Ishida (USA)


Carne 

 Camila Kater (Brazil, Spain)


Carrousel  

Jasmine Elsen  (Czech Republic)

De Passant  

Pieter Coudyzer  (Belgium)


Empty Places

 Geoffroy De Crécy (France)


Familie Zilla macht Picknick 

 Christian Franz Schmidt (Germany)


Freeze Frame  

 Soetkin Verstegen  (Belgium)


Friend of a Friend   

Zachary Zezima (France)

Genius Loci  

Adrien Merigeau (France)

Ghosts 

 Jee-Youn Park (South Korea)

Gorodskaya Koza  

Sveltana Razgulyaeva (Russia)


Homeless Home  

Alberto Vázquez  (France, Spain)

Hot Flash  

Thea Hollatz (Canada)

Já-Fólkið  

Gisli D Halldorsson (Iceland)

Kosmonaut  

Kaspar Jancis (Estonia)


Lursaguak

 Izibene Oñederra (Spain)

Machini  

Frank Mukunday, Trésor Tshibangu  (Congo [The Democratic Republic Of The], Belgium)


Moi, Barnabé  

Jean-François Lévesque (Canada)


Murder In The Cathedral  

Matija Pisacic, Tvrtko Raspolic (Croatia, Serbia)

My Galactic Twin Galaction   

Aleksandr Sasha Svirsky (Russia)

Något Att Minnas  

 Niki Lindroth Von Bahr (Sweden)

No, I Don't Want To Dance!  

Andrea Vinciguerra (Italy, United Kingdom)


Physique De La Tristesse  

Theodore Ushev (Canada)

Purpleboy  

Alexandre Siqueira (Belgium, France, Portugal)

Rebooted  

Michael Shanks  (Australia)

Rivages  

 Sophie Racine (France)

Schast'e

 Andrey Zhidkov (Russia)


The Town  

Yifan Bao (China)

Time O´ The Signs  

Reinhold Bidner  (Austria)

To: Gerard  

Taylor Meacham  (USA)

Yo  

Begoña Arostegui (Spain)

 

Off-Limits Short Films in Competition

4:3  

Ross Hogg (United Kingdom)

Aletsch Negative

 Laurence Bonvin (Switzerland)

Aquamarine 

 Billy Roisz, Dieter Kovacic  (Austria)

Black  

Ao Chen (China, United Kingdom)

Collapsing Mies 

 Claudia Larcher (Austria)

Dune   

Gabor Ulrich (Hungary)

My Dear Lover

 Milva Stutz (Switzerland)

Pulsator

 Thor Sivertsen (Norway)

Schneestaub

 Betina Kuntzsch (Germany)

Serial Parallels  

Max Hattler (Germany, Hong Kong)

Trauma Chameleon  

Gina Kamentsky (USA)

Wieczór 

 Marcin Gizycki (Poland)

Perspectives Short Films in Competition

3 Teaspoons Of Sugar  

 Dr Tshepo P. Maaka, Kabelo Maaka (South Africa )

Algo-Rhythm  

Manu Luksch  (Austria, United Kingdom, Senegal)

Annah La Javanaise 

 Fatimah Tobing Rony (Indonesia)

Black Loop  

Adel Elbadrawy (Egypt)

Eclosion

 Rita Basulto (Mexico)

Esfinge Urbana 

 Maria Lorenzo Hernández (Spain)

Hier Oben, Bei Den Weißen Göttern  

Jalal Maghout, Alexander Lahl, Mike Plitt (Germany)

Home  

Anita Bruvere (United Kingdom)

Jù Rén 

 Harry Zhuang, Henry Zhuang (Singapore)

Just A Guy  

Shoko Hara (Germany)

Kapaemahu  

Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Daniel Sousa (USA)

Migrante

 Esteban Ezequiel Dalinger, César Daniel Iezzi (Argentina)

Night Session 

 Peter Tomadze (Georgia)

Only The Seas Live Forever 

 David Ehrlich (China, USA)

Pogovorim?

 Ekaterina Mikheeva  (Russia)

Prirodni Odabir

 Aleta Rajic (Bosnia And Herzegovina)

Todo Es Culpa De La Sal  

María Cristina Perez (Colombia)

Wade  

Bhattacharyya Upamanyu, Kalp Sanghvi (India)

White Paradise  

Xavier Istasse (Belgium)

Young Audiences Short Films In Competition

Archie 

Ainslie Henderson (United Kingdom)
 
Boriya  

Sung-Ah Min (France, South Korea)

Cinema Rex 

Eliran Peled, Mayan Engelman (Israel)

Devochka-Ptichka 

Ekaterina Nevostrueva (Russia)

Ghadameh Yazdahom 

Maryam Kashkoolinia (Iran)

Like And Follow 

Tobias Schlage, Brent Forrest (Germany, Canada)

Matilda Ir Atsargin? Galva 

Ignas Meilunas (Lithuania)

Nature 

 Isis Leterrier (France)

Reven Og Nissen 

Are Austnes, Yaprak Morali  (Norway, Sweden, Denmark)

Teplaya Zvezda 

Anna Kuzina(Russia)

TV Films in Competition

Bluey "Escape"  

Joe Brumm, Richard Jeffery (Australia)

Close Enough "100% No Stress Day"
 Jg Quintel (USA)

Culottées "Leymah Gbowee"

  Phuong Mai Nguyen, Charlotte Cambon De Lavalette (France)

Jj Villard's Fairy Tales "Boypunzel" 

J.J. Villard (USA)

L'amour A Ses Réseaux "Petit Piment" 

Romain Blanc-Tailleur, Cécile Rousset (France)

L'odyssée De Choum 

Julien Bisaro (Belgium, France)

Le Quatuor À Cornes : Là-Haut Sur La Montagne 

Benjamin Botella, Arnaud Demuynck (France, Belgium)

Les Espionnes Racontent "Yola"

 Aurélie Pollet (France)

Love, Death & Robots "The Witness" 

 Alberto Mielgo (USA)

Mlsne Medvedi Pribehy "Na Lanýze!" 

Katerina Karhankova, Alexandra Majova (Czech Republic)

My Better World 

 Christian Morgan, Michael Clark, Johannes Abraham Scheepers (South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania)

Non-Non Rétrécit 

Wassim Boutaleb (France)

Robot Chicken's Santa's Dead (Spoiler Alert) Holiday Murder Thing Special 

Thomas Sheppard (USA)

Summer Camp Island "Midnight Quittance" 

Julia Pott (USA)

Taffy "DNA" 

Ahmed Guerrouache (France)

The Adventures Of Paddington "Paddington And The Magic Trick" 

Adam Shaw, Chris Drew (United Kingdom)

The Midnight Gospel "Mouse Of Silver" 

Pendleton Ward, Mike L. Mayfield (USA)

The Snail And The Whale 

Daniel Snaddon, Max Lang (United Kingdom)

The Tiger Who Came To Tea  

Robin Shaw (United Kingdom)

Undone "The Hospital"

 Hisko Hulsing (USA)

Graduation Short Films In Competition

100,000 Acres Of Pine 
Jennifer Alice Wright (Denmark)

1000 Rêves: Zenti L'invincible 
Jonathan Phanhsay-Chamson (France)

3 Minutes To Live  
Vittorio Ascolani, Emanuele Motti (Italy)

A Forrás És A Torony 

Melinda Kadar (Hungary)

À La Mer Poussière 

Héloïse Ferlay ( France)

Airship Of Unknown Direction 

Alexandra Galitskova (Russia)

Any Instant Whatever

 Michelle Brand (United Kingdom)

Better 

Emily Downe ( United Kingdom)

Catgot Tsz 

Wing Ho ( Hong Kong)

Ce N'était Pas La Bonne Montagne, Mohammad 

 Mili Pecherer ( France, Israel)

Cucaracha  

Agustin Tourino ( Argentina)

Dogs 

Benjamin Berrebi, Mohammad Babakoohi Ashrafi, Jakub Bednarz, Marthinus David Van Rooyen, Théo Lenoble, Karlo Pavicic-Ravlic, Diego Cristofano ( France)

Eadem Cutis: Dieselbe Haut 

Nina Hopf ( Germany)

I'm Not Feeling Very Well 

Suncana Brkulj (Croatia)

Inès 

 Elodie Dermange ( France)

Inside Me 

Maria Trigo Teixeira ( Germany)

Jestem Tutaj 

Julia Orlik ( Poland)

Jumping Moments  

Justin Jinsoo Kim (USA)

Mate 

Chaerin Im (USA)

Milk  

Jennifer Kolbe (Germany)

Moundform

 Catherine Slilaty (Canada)

Naked  

Kirill Khachaturov (Russia)

Nausea  

Subien Han ( South Korea)

Night Shift

Linda Sture ( Latvia)

No Body 

Ko Haemin (United Kingdom)

Pile  

Tobias Auberg ( United Kingdom)

Podle Sylvie 

Verica Pospislova Kordic (Czech Republic)

Portret Kobiecy 

Natalia Durszewicz ( Poland)

Puppy Love 

I-Wen Chen ( Taiwan)
 
Shergar 

Cora Susan Mckenna ( Denmark)

Six To Six 

 Neta Cohen (Israel)

Sous La Glace 

 Ismaïl Berrahma, Milan Baulard, Laurie Estampes, Hugo Potin, Quentin Nory, Flore Dupont (France)

Such A Beautiful Town 

Marta Koch (Poland)

Sura 

Hae-Ji Jeong (South Korea)

Tente 113, Idomèni  

Henri Marbacher ( Switzerland)

Tête De Linotte ! 

Gaspar Chabaud ( Belgium)

The Balloon Catcher 

Isaku Kaneko (Japan)

The End 

Wiebe Bonnema (Netherlands)

The Fire Next Time 

 Renaldho Pelle ( United Kingdom)

The Fox & The Pigeon 

Michelle Chua ( Canada)

The Next Few Months 

 Kayleigh Gemmell ( South Africa)

The Piece Of Tail In The Mouth Of The Snake That Bites Its Own Tail  

Pablo Nicolas Martinez Ballarin ( Estonia)

There Were Four Of Us 

Cassie Shao ( USA)

Unraveled 

Arden Colley, Asil Atay, Isabel Wiegand, Kellie Fay ( Spain, Canada, USA, Italy, Turkey)

Commissioned Films In Competition

12 Mffa Animator Trailer  

Karolina Specht(Poland)

A Mother's Promise 

Richard O'Connor (USA)

Beatbox Anima Mundi 2019 

Janet Perlman (Canada)

CBS "Pudsy's Christmas"

 Steve Angel (Canada)

Ciné Court Animé Trailer 2020 "Strange Light" 

Simon Vergely (France)

Disorder 

Robert Grieves (Australia)

Followfood "In Your Hands" 

Ralf Karam (Spain)

France "Patrouille De France / Dernier Tour" 

Emmanuel Lantam Ninsao (France)

Greenpeace "Turtle Journey" 

Gavin Strange (United Kingdom)

Happy Year Of The Rat 2020 

 Lei Lei (China, France)

Jo Goes Hunting "Careful"

Alice Saey (France, Netherlands)

Journey Of Krok 

Nijin Nazeem (India)

Lai Awareness "Out Of The Dark" 

Chris Carboni (USA)

Lea Porcelain "The Love" 

Jakob Schmidt (Germany)

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society "Grace" 

Natalie Labarre (USA)

Lightning Bolt "Blow To The Head" 

Caleb Wood (USA)

Lucky Chops "Traveler" 

Daniel Almagor, Raman Djafari (Germany)

Mashrou' Leila "Radio Romance" 

Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka (France, Lebanon)

Memoirs Of Vegetation "The Castor Bean"

 Jessica Oreck (USA)

My Friend Pedro 

Directed By: CRCR (France)

Past "Tíse?" 

Nora Strbova, Alzbeta Suchanová (Czech Republic)

Pixelatl 2019 "Raiz Y Mañana"

 César Gabriel Cepeda Sánchez (Mexico)

Poulehouse : L'?Uf Qui Ne Tue Pas La Poule

Akama Studio (France)

S+C+A+R+R "The Rest Of My Days" 

Antoine (Dit Jack) Charlot (France)

Selvforstyrrelser 

Julian Vargas (Norway)

Short Cuts "Cris Et Chuchotements" 

 Inés Sedan (France)

Ted-Ed "Why Should You Read Sci-Fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?" 

Tomás Pichardo (USA, Dominican Republic)

The Fish 

 PES (USA)

The Life Saving Twins "Dirty Hands Make You Sick" 

Angelin Paul (Burundi, Ivory Coast, France, United Kingdom)

The Mystical Journey Of Jimmy Page's '59 Telecaster  

Smith & Foulkes (USA, United Kingdom)

Tricky Women / Tricky Realities - Festival Trailer 2020 

Rachel Gutgarts (Austria, Israel)

Vow "Rebellion" 

Parallel Teeth (United Kingdom)

Wantaways "The Turning Point" 

Steve Cutts (United Kingdom)

We Only Get One Planet 

Aghil Hosseinian (Iran)

WWF® X Ivan Dorn "Wild" Petrick 

Animation Studio (Russia)

VR Works – Competition

AJAX All Powerful 

Ethan Shaftel (USA, China)

Battlescar - Punk Was Invented By Girls 

Martin Allais, Nicolas Casavecchia (USA, France)

Great Hoax: The Moon Landing 

John Hsu, Marco Lococo (Taiwan, Argentina)

Minimum Mass 

Raqi Syed, Areito Echevarria (France, New Zealand)

Odyssey 1.4.9 

François Vautier (France)

Saturnism 

Mihai Grecu (France, Romania)

The Orchid And The Bee 

Frances Adair Mckenzie (Canada)