Out of a total of 3,000 submissions across all categories, 40 animated short films have been selected for this year’s Official Competition.
Directed by Tomasz Popakul, ‘Acid Rain’ is one of 40 short films selected for the Official Competition at Annecy 2019.
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival has announced that 80 short films have been selected to screen in competition at this year’s edition, which runs June 10-15.
The Festival received more than 3,000 submissions across all competition categories from 86 countries, with the bulk of entries coming from the U.S., France and the U.K.
Forty short films were selected for the Official Competition, with an additional eight shorts selected for the Off-Limits category; 23 short films will compete in the Perspectives category, and nine shorts have been selected for the Young Audience category.
Forty-five percent of this year’s selections were directed or co-directed by women, which is the second highest proportion in the Festival’s history, following 43% in 2017. Representing a landmark high for the region, 15 of the selected films are from Asia.
“The exceptionally high standard is reflected in the Short Films selection 2019,” commented Festival artistic director Marcel Jean. “An international competition where everyone rubs shoulders, Annecy Cristal Award winners (Regina Pessoa, Dahee Jeong, Franck Dion), with award-winning filmmakers, who were just students (Wiep Teeuwisse, Nadja Andrasev, Jenny Jokela and Michael Frei), competition regulars (Xi Chen, Chintis Lundgren, Jean-Claude Rozec, Donato Sansone and Mirai Mizue) and genuine discoveries that we can’t wait to show you (Valerie Barnhart, Canadian, Di Liu, Chinese, Pedro Casavecchia, Argentinian, Aria Covamonas, Mexican and Nykyta Lyskov, Ukranian).”
The official selection of the Graduation Films and TV and Commissioned Films will be revealed at the end of March. Feature Films in competition will be announced during a press conference to be held on April 15, along with the VR Works.
Short Films in Competition
- Acid Rain
Directed by: Tomasz POPAKUL
Country: Poland - Bavure
Directed by: Donato SANSONE
Country: France - Bridge
Directed by: Di LIU
Country: China - Briljantsuse Demonstratsioon Neljas Vaatuses
Directed by: Lucija MRZLJAK, Morten TSINAKOV
Country: Croatia, Estonia - Deszcz
Directed by: Piotr MILCZAREK
Country: Poland - Elu24
Directed by: Kristjan HOLM
Country: Estonia - Flut
Directed by: Malte STEIN
Country: Germany - Girl in the Hallway
Directed by: Valerie BARNHART
Country: Canada - Gun Shop
Directed by: Patrick SMITH
Country: USA - Hideouser and Hideouser
Directed by: Aria COVAMONAS
Country: Mexico - Intermission Expedition
Directed by: Wiep TEEUWISSE
Country: Netherlands - Je sors acheter des cigarettes
Directed by: Osman CERFON
Country: France - Kids
Directed by: Michael FREI
Country: Switzerland - Kohannia
Directed by: Nykyta LYSKOV
Country: Ukraine - Le Cortège
Directed by: Pascal BLANCHET, Rodolphe SAINT-GELAIS
Country: Canada - Le Mans 1955
Directed by: Quentin BAILLIEUX
Country: France - Live a Little
Directed by: Jenny JOKELA
Country: Germany, United Kingdom - Lola, the Living Potato
Directed by: Leonid SHMELKOV
Country: France, Russia - Mémorable
Directed by: Bruno COLLET
Country: France - MIMI
Directed by: Lisa FUKAYA
Country: Denmark - Movements
Directed by: Dahee JEONG
Country: South Korea - My Generation
Directed by: Ludovic HOUPLAIN
Country: France - Nuit chérie
Directed by: Lia BERTELS
Country: Belgium - Per Aspera Ad Astra
Directed by: Franck DION
Country: France - Per tutta la vita
Directed by: Roberto CATANI
Country: France, Italy - Piat minut do moria
Directed by: Natalia MIRZOYAN
Country: Russia - Pulsión
Directed by: Pedro CASAVECCHIA
Country: Argentina - Selfies
Directed by: Claudius GENTINETTA
Country: Switzerland - Sous la canopée
Directed by: Bastien DUPRIEZ
Country: France - Story
Directed by: Jolanta BANKOWSKA
Country: Poland - Symbiosis
Directed by: Nadja ANDRASEV
Country: France, Hungary - Têtard
Directed by: Jean-Claude ROZEC
Country: France - The Dawn of Ape
Directed by: Mirai MIZUE
Country: Japan - The Elephant's Song
Directed by: Lynn TOMLINSON
Country: USA - The Flood Is Coming
Directed by: Gabriel BÖHMER
Country: United Kingdom - The Juggler
Directed by: Skirmanta JAKAITE
Country: Lithuania, France - The Levers
Directed by: Boyoung KIM
Country: South Korea, USA - The Six
Directed by: Xi CHEN, Xu AN
Country: China - Tio Tomas
Directed by: Regina PESSOA
Country: Canada, France, Portugal - Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves
Directed by: Chintis LUNDGREN
Country: Croatia, Estonia, France
Off-Limits Short Films in Competition
- A Year Along the Geostationary Orbit
Directed by: Felix DIERICH
Country: Germany - But One Bird Sang Not
Directed by: Pierre HÉBERT
Country: Canada - Dont Know What
Directed by: Thomas RENOLDNER
Country: Austria - L'Espace commun
Directed by: Raphaële BEZIN
Country: France - Leaking Life
Directed by: Shunsaku HAYASHI
Country: Japan - Matter and Motion
Directed by: Max HATTLER
Country: Hong Kong - Mustererkenntnis
Directed by: Thorsten FLEISCH
Country: Germany - Unsettled
Directed by: Tara KNIGHT
Country: USA
Perspectives Short Films in Competition
- Azumah: The Ghanaian Hero
Directed by: Nii Ofei-Kyei DODOO
Country: Ghana - Bayn Bayn
Directed by: Dalyah BAKHEET
Country: Saudi Arabia - Chin Up
Directed by: Joanne SALMON
Country: United Kingdom - Dum Dum (De De Bom)
Directed by: Benjamin HALL, Robin HALL
Country: United Kingdom - Giant Bear
Directed by: Daniel GIES, Neil CHRISTOPHER
Country: Canada - Gorgam-o-Gale Mibaram
Directed by: Amir Houshang MOEIN
Country: Iran - Ispod kojeg li su samo kamena ispuzali
Directed by: Daniel SULJIC
Country: Croatia - Jim Zipper
Directed by: Alexandre ROY
Country: Canada - Mascot
Directed by: Dohyung KIM
Country: South Korea - Memorie di Alba
Directed by: Andrea MARTIGNONI, Maria STEINMETZ
Country: Germany, Italy - Mom's Clothes
Directed by: Jordan WONG
Country: USA - Not Your Panda
Directed by: Tigris ALT. SAKDA
Country: Canada, China - Piece of Meat
Directed by: Jerrold CHONG, Junxiang HUANG
Country: Singapore - Por ahora un cuento
Directed by: Carla MELO
Country: Colombia - Red
Directed by: Ao CHEN
Country: China, United Kingdom - Sangro
Directed by: Thiago MINAMISAWA, Bruno CASTRO, Guto BR
Country: Brazil - Son of the Sea
Directed by: Abbas-Mohammad Hossein JALALI YEKTA-AZAM POUR
Country: Iran - Talv Vihmametsas
Directed by: Anu-Laura TUTTELBERG
Country: Estonia, Lithuania - Tany Mena
Directed by: Kim YIP TONG
Country: Germany, Mauritius - The Person in Crevice
Directed by: Tingting LU
Country: China - Udahnut zivot
Directed by: Ivana BOSNJAK, Thomas JOHNSON
Country: Croatia - Violent Equation
Directed by: Antonios NTOUSSIAS
Country: Greece - Y así aparecieron los ríos
Directed by: Miguel ARAOZ CARTAGENA
Country: Peru
Young Audiences Short Films in Competition
- Bone Mother
Directed by: Sylvie TROUVÉ, Dale HAYWARD
Country: Canada - Dobroe serdtse
Directed by: Evgeniya JIRKOVA
Country: Russia - Grand Loup & Petit Loup
Directed by: Rémi DURIN
Country: Belgium, France - Le crocodile ne me fait pas peur
Directed by: Marc RIBA, Anna SOLANAS
Country: Spain - Le Renard et l'Oisille
Directed by: Samuel GUILLAUME, Frédéric GUILLAUME
Country: Belgium, Switzerland - Mon papi s'est cache
Directed by: Anne HUYNH
Country: France - Nest
Directed by: Sonja ROHLEDER
Country: Germany - Sarkan
Directed by: Martin SMATANA
Country: Czech Republic - The Wheat Keeper
Directed by: Haitao BAI
Country: China
Source: Annecy International Animation Film Festival
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
