Centerpiece Film
The Best of Annecy 2024
Schedule
Friday, January 24, 2025
Run Time: 85 min
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival is the world’s largest animated film festival, gathering movie lovers from around the globe to experience the best of the artform, forecast trends, and meet filmmakers and creators. This curated selection of shorts highlights the greatest from the 2024 Festival, including a tailor-made opening sequence by students from GOBELINS Paris.
This program will be preceded by a 20-second bumper film created by Brassart-MOPA students.
Afterparty
GOBELINS Students: Cléo De Lasteyre, Juliette Divol, Morgane Fraudeau, Cassiopée Melero, Louise Trichet, and Xinrou Zhou, 2024, France, 45sec, DCP
Without dialogue or commentary
The Car That Came from the Black Sea
Jadwiga Kowalska, 2023, Switzerland, 11min, DCP
In Polish with English subtitles
Director Jadwiga Kowalska’s film follows six friends as they traverse the Polish Baltic coast in a small beat-up car.
Carrotica
Daniel Sterlin-Altman, 2024, Germany, 13min, DCP
In English
Director Daniel Sterlin-Altman’s stop-motion animated film weaves together middle-aged sexual reawakening and the anxiety of queer adolescence; a funny, fantastical, thought-provoking tale told through puppetry.
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Mario Radev, 2024, United Kingdom, 13min, DCP
Without dialogue or commentary
The film delves into an immersive loop of organic forms, reflecting on the entangled nature of life and art.Â
Beautiful Men
Nicolas Keppens, 2023, Belgium, France, Netherlands, 19min, DCP
In Dutch with English subtitles
This stop motion film follows three balding brothers as they travel to Istanbul to receive hair transplants.
Butterfly
Florence Miailhe, 2024, France, 15min, DCP
In French, Arabic and German with English subtitles
This meditative film follows a man swimming in the sea.
Hurikán
Jan Saska, 2024, Czech Republic, France, Slovakia, Bosnia Herzegovina, 13min, DCP
Without dialogue or commentary
This dialogue-free film follows Hurikán as he rushes to secure a full keg in a last-ditch effort to save his favorite beer stand from closure.
Venue
Event Pricing
The Centerpiece Pass includes 1 ticket for each of the films that are screened on Friday, Jan 24th at 7:00pm and 9:45pm, and admission to the Centerpiece Party from 8:15-9:45pm.
Festival passes are also available here!
Photo Credit: Carrotica © Daniel Sterlin-Altman
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