From Buzz Lightyear, the astronaut in
Toy Story
, to films about art during the Shoah, shaken up like the rest of the 7th art by the pandemic and the supremacy of platforms, animation cinema finds itself from Monday in Annecy.
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The International Animation Film Festival, the main global meeting of the sector, is held until Saturday, with the awarding of the Cristal d'Or to the best film in competition.
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New testimony to the importance of the festival, most of the majors, which like the streaming platforms will be united within the international market, have chosen Annecy to unveil their latest blockbusters out of competition or the first images of their most anticipated projects.
Minions 2: Once Upon a Time Gru
, a new opus derived from a saga that began 12 years ago with
Despicable Me
and which has since brought in billions of dollars, opens the ball on Monday, before its release in France July 6.
Will also be revealed the first images of
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One)
, expected in 2023, new marriage of the world of superheroes and animation, and those of
Pinocchio
in animation by Guillermo del Toro, Oscar winner for
The Shape of Water
and which Netflix will bring.
Finally, Pixar, the Disney subsidiary that revolutionized the genre a quarter of a century ago with
Toy Story
, will conclude the festivities, with
Buzz Lightyear
imagining the life of the astronaut who inspired the
Toy Story
toy (release French on June 22).
A tribute to Sempé and Goscinny
The 2022 edition of the Festival, the first to be held entirely in physics since the health crisis, is intended to be a “
fireworks of creativity and diversity
”, argued its director Mickaël Marin.
Because beyond these "
star
" films, the Festival wants to continue to play the research heads.
Its Cristal d'Or has in the past propelled filmmakers such as the Japanese Hayao Miyazaki (
Porco Rosso
in 1993) or the Frenchman Michel Ocelot - who will receive a Cristal d'Honneur and will present
the Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess
, three decades later to have been sacred to
Kirikou
.
Ten feature films will try to succeed
Flee
, film nominated for the Oscars after being crowned in the lakeside city.
Visible until the end of July on arte.tv, this film on the journey of a young Afghan homosexual fleeing his country for Denmark will be released on August 24 in theaters.
Four directors are in the running, including Atsuko Ishizuka for the initiatory story of three Japanese teenagers (
Goodbye
) or Amandine Fredon, co-director with Benjamin Massoubre of a tribute to Sempé and Goscinny, already unveiled at Cannes,
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?
Once again, Annecy is honoring testimonials or films inspired by real events, whether they return to historical tragedies or document current events.
Charlotte
will retrace the fate of the Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, murdered at the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz at the age of 26, when
Nayola
is a dive into the history of Angola through the violent destiny of three women.
Apart from the main competition, it will be about the Armenian genocide, through the fate of a survivor, Inna Sahakyan, silent film actress (
Aurora's Sunrise
), or young Mexican migrants in the United States (
Home is Somewhere Else
) .
If the films are projected on the big screen, the question of the fight between platforms and dark rooms, sometimes within the same major, will be very present in Annecy.
Animation is one of the battlefields of this struggle for influence.
At Disney, the debate is not yet settled: if
Buzz
is released in theaters, the multinational once again provoked the fury of French cinemas by announcing at the beginning of June that it would broadcast its next production,
Strange World
, expected at the end of the year. , directly online.