The Bonlieu room during the credits before the screening of a film (2019 archives) – L. Gouttenoire / CITIA
- The Annecy Festival, of which it is the 60th edition, is held both face-to-face and online, from June 14 to 19, 2021.
- On the program, hundreds of short films, around fifty features, including twelve for the official competition alone, works in progress, masterclasses, meetings and dedications while respecting barrier gestures.
- Two films take advantage of the Festival to come out: the Japanese “Josée, the tiger and the fish”, Wednesday in theaters, and the latest Pixar, “Luca”, Friday on Disney +.
The “rabbits” are back. We will be able to scream again that magic word as soon as a pair of ears appears on the screen. And throw some
hundreds of paper planes to wait before the session. Annecy will regain its school spirit from this Monday and this, all week, face-to-face or
online for all those who could not make it – there were 15,000 from 110 countries last year. “Our online edition last year worked very well,” reminds 20 minutes the festival director
Mickaël Marin. And since we didn’t really know what to do with this year, we worked on the two formulas that we can offer today. “
Accreditations, from 20 euros, for the “Most beautiful of festivals”, can satisfy all cinema appetites. Unseen films, we will see them everywhere, all the time, in theaters and on screens, between 9 a.m. and 11 p.m., curfew requires. Two hundred short and fifty long. Those whom the next Caesar ceremony will consider the best of the year. Let us recall the last award-winning feature films: My Zucchini Life (2016), I lost my body (2019), Calamity (2020)…
The director of Calamity, Rémi Chayé, is also part of the jury this year, surrounded by the cinema journalist from 20 minutes Caroline Vié and the former artistic director of the festival
Serge Bromberg. They will have to decide between
twelve feature films selected in official competition, among which a strong Japanese presence with three films or Crossing by the Frenchwoman Florence Miailhe.
The short film, “the nobility of animation”
And then there are all the short films, the preferred format of professionals, “the nobility of animation”, as it is called. Marcel Jean : “This is where we see creation expressing itself most freely, the major themes that stir us up,” he explains to 20 minutes. This is where all the daring is revealed, that the filmmakers cut their teeth before embarking on feature films that are much more expensive, and therefore necessarily more consensual. It is also in short films, more responsive to current events, that we will see films inspired by the pandemic or containment. “
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Many other films will also be there to make us forget the Covid-19. Starting with the two feature films that come out during the festival. Japanese Josée, the tiger and the fish, a romantic encounter inspired by Françoise Sagan, in theaters this Wednesday. And
Luca, the new Pixar, a story of little boys who also hide a secret (they are sea monsters), available from Friday on Disney +.