Feature competition announced!

The feature film competition has finally been unveiled.

As in previous years, the competition will include 10 films. The children & young audience category will feature Into the Wonderwoods (dir. Vincent Paronnaud, Alexis Ducord), an adventure fantasy story using unusually stylised 3D animation. The heroes of the puppet feature Savages (dir. Claude Barras) will also go on an adventure, this time in the jungle. Also Living Large (dir. Kristina Dufková) uses puppets and artistic stylisation, but this adventure takes place during puberty. This is something that Karin, whose life is changed by the quirky titular character of Ghost Cat Anzu (dir. Yôko Kuno Nobuhiro Yamashita), knows very well. The last film in the selection is the Oscar-awarded Flow (dir. Gints Zilbalodis).

Major names, strong competition and a rich variety of animation techniques and topics which characterise the first five films also apply to the feature film competition for adult audiences. The Florida sun burns the young high-school dropout in the indie 3D CGI film Boys Go to Jupiter (dir. Julian Glander). Flavors of Iraq (dir. Léonard Cohen), the only animated documentary in the competition, uses expressive colours and successfully evokes the feeling of heat. The Most Precious of Cargoes (dir. Michel Hazanavicius) is based on a true story and the tragedy of the Holocaust. Also in this category audiences will enjoy the art of puppet animation – Memoir of a Snail (dir. Adam Elliot) is an arresting story about outsiders told with a sense of the tragicomic. And like the eponymous book by Bruno Schulz, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (dir. Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay) will leave its audience a little shaken and bemused.

You will find the list of selected feature films here.