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21 animation features (out of 130 features submitted) were selected for this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival (8-14 June 2025).<\/p>\n
Sylvain Chomet<\/strong> (The Triplets of Belleville, The Illusionist) makes his comeback with the biography of French author and playwright Marcel Pagnol, ‘A Magnificent Life’.\u00a0 Unlike his two other acclaimed animation features, the film (which will premiere at Cannes 2025) will also feature dialogue.<\/p>\nAnother French film (but on the experimental side) is Momoko Seto<\/strong>‘s ‘Dandelion’s Odyssey’. Momoko Seto <\/strong>is known for her meticulous, arthouse work and her mixture of different techniques in an environment that comes alive (Planet \u03a3, Planet Z).<\/p>\nCanadian F\u00e9lix Dufour-Laperri\u00e8re<\/strong> (Archipel) returns to Annecy Festival with ‘Death Does not Exist’ and its official competition. As described, “the film plunges us into the torments of a young woman haunted by guilt following an attack that went wrong.”<\/p>\nThe 70-minute stop-motion\u00a0film\u00a0“Olivia and the Invisible Earthquakes” by\u00a0Irene Iborra<\/strong> explores the issue of housing, a contemporary challenge that is here given its cinematic animation treatment.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe Contrechamp competition<\/strong> has some interesting gems; we find here the Berlinale-premiered ‘Tales from the Magic Garden’ stop-motion anthology<\/p>\nWe also see the Rotterdam-premiered, ‘The Great History of Western Philosophy’ by Aria Covamonas<\/strong> (Mexico), a dadaist retelling of Western Philosophy.<\/p>\n‘The Square’ by Bo-Sol Kim <\/strong>(South Korea) tells the forbidden love story between a Swedish diplomat and a young North Korean woman. And the Brazilian ‘Nimuendaj\u00fa’ by Tania Anaya<\/strong> tells the story of Curt Unckle, the German ethnologist and writer christened Nimuendaj\u00fa by the Guarani people in 1906.\u00a0<\/p>\nOfficial Competition<\/em><\/h4>\n
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- A Magnificent Life by Sylvain Chomet, (France, Luxembourg, Belgium)<\/li>\n
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- Arco by Ugo Bienvenu (France)<\/li>\n
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- ChaO by Yasuhiro Aoki (Japan)<\/li>\n
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- Dandelion’s Odyssey by Momoko Seto (Belgium, France)<\/li>\n
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- Death Does Not Exist by F\u00e9lix Dufour-Laperri\u00e8re\u00a0 (Canada, France)<\/li>\n
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- Into the Mortal World by Zhong Ding (China)<\/li>\n
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- Little Am\u00e9lie or the Character of Rain by Ma\u00eflys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han (France)<\/li>\n
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- Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake by Irene Iborra\u00a0 (Belgium, Chile, Spain, France)<\/li>\n
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- The Last Blossom by Baku Kinoshita\u00a0 (Japan)<\/li>\n
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Dandelion’s Odyssey<\/em><\/p>\nContrechamp Competition<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n- >Balentes by Giovanni Columbu (Italy)<\/li>\n
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- Endless Cookie by Seth Scriver and Pete Scriver (Canada)<\/li>\n
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- Jinsei by Ryuya Suzuki (Japan)<\/li>\n
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- Lesbian Space Princess by Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese (Australia)<\/li>\n
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- Memory Hotel by Heinrich Sabl (Germany, France)<\/li>\n
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- Nimuendaj\u00fa by Tania Anaya (Brazil, Peru)<\/li>\n
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- Olivia & the Clouds by Tom\u00e1s Pichardo Espaillat (Dominican Republic)<\/li>\n
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- Space Cadet by Eric San (Canada)<\/li>\n
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- Tales from the Magic Garden by David Sukup, Patrik Pa\u0161\u0161, Leon Vidmar, Jean-Claude Rozec (Czech Republic, France, Slovakia, Slovenia).<\/li>\n
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- The Great History of Western Philosophy by Aria Covamonas (Mexico)<\/li>\n
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- The Square by Bo-Sol Kim (South Korea)<\/li>\n
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The Square<\/em><\/p>\nAnnecy International Animation Film Festival takes place 8-14 June in Annecy, France.<\/em><\/p>\n