Annecy Festival Winners 2023

After wrongly punishing her daughter, a mother tries to make things right by cooking chicken, setting off a chaotic chase through the neighborhood.

This film is a tribute to a humiliated and destroyed nation. "As Long as the Grass Grows" is an alternative, ancient and humble creation story, where man is not the crown of the creation, but the weakest of all creatures. The film takes us back to the beginning of time, where Old Man begins to create the world out of a handful of mud. Everything he creates is new and nameless, and affects the rest of the world. Even feelings and desires are unknown and when they emerge, the world becomes more and more complicated.

Two sisters, Juliette and Carmen, find a passage into the world of their favorite picture book. Turned into cats and separated, they must reach Sirocco, who controls the wind, before they can go home.

Urashima Tunnel – Once you enter that tunnel, you can get whatever you want, but at a price. Kaoru Tohno, who seems to have an elusive personality and traumatic past, and Anzu Hanashiro, who is struggling to reconcile her ideal image and true-to-heart attitude, team up to investigate the Urashima Tunnel and get what they want. This is an unforgettable summer story of nostalgia and sprinting in a remote countryside.

A lonely dog in 1980s New York builds a robot companion, beginning a tender story of friendship, separation, and memory.

Tony has been glowing since the day he was born and it causes him a lot of trouble. Just before Christmas, a new odd girl with thick glasses moves into Tony’s house. Shelly has a strange way of expressing herself. Together with Shelly’s flashlight, they explore their house and slowly get to know each other. The kids have to join all their efforts to figure out who’s behind the circuit of dark cracks that sucks out all the light bulbs, even the daylight.