Feature film winners from the Annecy animation festival 2022 — official competition and Contrechamp.
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The main feature competition — Cristal, Jury Award, Jury Distinctions, and distribution.
Cristal for a Feature Film
Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre · 2022 · France, Luxembourg · 82 min
A warm animated portrait of Little Nicholas and the friendship between his creators, mixing childhood charm with artistic memory.
Bright, playful and energetic, with a lighthearted pace and a mix of humor and warmth.
Jury Award · Gan Foundation Award for Distribution
Alain Ughetto · 2022 · France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Portugal · 70 min
A filmmaker reconstructs his family’s history of poverty, migration, work, and memory across Italy and France in the twentieth century.
Nostalgic and bittersweet, with a mix of humor and melancholy, featuring textured visuals that oscillate between warmth and coldness.
Jury Distinction
Signe Baumane · 2022 · Latvia, United States, Luxembourg · 108 min
A woman looks back on love, marriage, gender expectations and the stories she was taught about being desirable.
Colorful and dynamic, with a mix of humor and emotional tension, balancing lighthearted animation with moments of stark realism.
Jury Distinction
Pierre Földes · 2022 · France, Luxembourg, Canada, Netherlands · 108 min
An animated adaptation of Haruki Murakami stories, weaving together loneliness, dreams, earthquakes and surreal encounters.
Dreamlike and fragmented, with a mix of quiet melancholy and absurd humor, contrasting light and shadow in a surreal landscape.
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Annecy’s Contrechamp sidebar for edgier and newer feature voices.
Contrechamp Award
A wordless, fragmented animated journey through desolate northern landscapes, memories and strange visions.
Cold and fragmented, with a slow, disorienting pace that oscillates between silence and sudden bursts of noise.
Contrechamp Jury Distinction
Hong Jun-pyo · 2021 · South Korea · 99 min
When Taeil gets hired as a tailor's assistant, he dreams of becoming a fully-fledged tailor to be able to financially support his family. But he finds himself constantly reminded of the laborers' inferior working conditions. The young 22-year-old Taeil decides to confront the reality and become the flame of hope himself.
Earnest labor-rights biopic — a young tailor who turns himself into a flame for workers.
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