2023-06-10 09:44:00
The Annecy International Animation Festival opens its doors on Sunday, three days following the stabbing of young children, which left six injured, including four young children.
Three days following the attack which sowed fear in Annecy, the city will try to find a little lightness by hosting its international animation festival on Sunday, where the craze around the Ninja Turtles or the centenary of Disney will combine to that of works for adults, in full swing.
As of Thursday, the management and the festival team expressed their “astonishment”, sending in a press release their “thoughts” to the victims of the stabbing which left six injured, including four very young children.
Given the “isolated nature” of the attack, they have since decided to maintain the main world animation meeting, placed “under the sign of the values it has always defended: sharing, solidarity and brotherhood”, to welcome more than 13,000 participants until June 17.
Launch of outdoor sessions postponed
However, the launch of the outdoor sessions has been postponed to Monday “as a sign of support for families and victims”. Little Nicolas, what are we waiting for to be happy? In particular, should have been screened on Sunday near Lake Annecy, a year following winning the Cristal d’Or there.
Eleven feature films, a record, are in the running to succeed him, including Sirocco and the Kingdom of Drafts by Benoît Chieux, which opens the ball on Sunday and follows two sisters trapped in the universe of their favorite book.
This will be followed by films for adults, such as Mermaid by Iranian dissident Sepideh Farsi on the Iran-Iraq war, the sci-fi thriller Mars Express by Frenchman Jérémie Perin, Art College 1994 by the Chinese Liu Jian, and works more suitable for children, such as Kensuke’s Kingdomtaken from the eponymous bestseller of the British Michael Morpurgo.
Out of competition, Disney, which is celebrating its centenary this year, will present the first images of its end-of-year film, Wish, Asha and the lucky star. The studio will also offer a film lesson from its cartoonist Eric Goldberg (Aladdin, Pocahontas…) and a projection ofElementarythe new Pixar that closed the 76th Cannes Film Festival.
An edition in the colors of “pride and diversity”
Director Guillermo del Toro, Oscar winner in March for Pinocchiowill return to Annecy to represent Mexico, the country of honor at this 47th edition, also in the colors of “pride and diversity”.
Another highlight was the screening of a work-in-progress version of Ninja Turtles: Teenage Years (Paramount and Nickelodeon), on the adolescence of Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphaël, co-produced by American comedian Seth Rogen.
There will be a behind-the-scenes presentation of the Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim, by the Japanese Kenji Kamiyama. This new version of Tolkien’s universe, set 250 years before the events of Peter Jackson’s trilogy, is due out in 2024.
Other films unveiled in preview will land more quickly in theaters or on platforms, such as the next Dreamworks, Ruby l’Ado Kraken (June 28), or Nimonaadaptation of a comic book by ND Stevenson available on June 30 on Netflix, also at the origin of a sequel to Chicken Run.
Many conferences dedicated to works as diverse as the crazy Rick et Morty or the cutie Bluey will punctuate a week which, with the market related to the festival, will make it possible to take the pulse of the sector.
“Age d’or”
This one lives “still a golden age”, reassures Mickaël Marin, the director of the organizer Citia. “There are more cross-generational audiences, a lot more “international” productions beyond the United States/Japan/France podium, while streaming platforms have encouraged the rise of adult animation “with films that anywhere else would never have seen the light of day,” he told AFP.
And this, even if these platforms, in difficulty following flamboyant years of growth, seem to slow down their orders, “refocusing” for some on “quality rather than quantity”.
Proof that the sector is doing well: it’s an animated film, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Versepartially unveiled at Annecy last year, which is dominating the French and North American box offices this week.
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