Annecy’s official short film competition is one of the festival’s centerpieces. Many years, at least one ends up snagging an Oscar nomination. Every year, Variety watches the shorts in Annecy’s main competition selection and picks 10 of our favorites. We’re not saying these are the best 10 shorts this year, though four won prizes, but we believe each brings something that shouldn’t be missed.
“Anxious Body,”
Screening at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Mizushiri’s fourth short and the first project co-produced by Japanese New Deer and France’s Miyu Productions. Employing Mizushiri’s hallmark focus on the senses, non-plot stories and geometric landscapes, a film about touch – “something very hard to do in animation basically because of the lack of a real body on screen,” Annecy Festival Artistic Director Marcel Jean commented. Em
“Amok,” (Balázs Turai, Hungary, Romania)
Annecy’s 2022 best short film Cristal. Taunted, he thinks, by an evil Santa Claus gnome,...
“Anxious Body,”
Screening at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Mizushiri’s fourth short and the first project co-produced by Japanese New Deer and France’s Miyu Productions. Employing Mizushiri’s hallmark focus on the senses, non-plot stories and geometric landscapes, a film about touch – “something very hard to do in animation basically because of the lack of a real body on screen,” Annecy Festival Artistic Director Marcel Jean commented. Em
“Amok,” (Balázs Turai, Hungary, Romania)
Annecy’s 2022 best short film Cristal. Taunted, he thinks, by an evil Santa Claus gnome,...
- 6/19/2022
- by Ben Croll, Emilio Mayorga, John Hopewell and Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
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