16-06-2024

FESTIVALS: Awards for Films from FNE Partner Countries at Annecy International Animation Film Festival

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    ANNECY: The Latvian majority coproduction Flow by Gints Zilbalodis received four awards including the Jury Award and the Audience Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival (9-15 June 2024), while the Czech/Slovak/French long animated film Living Large by Kristina Dufková won the Contrechamp Jury Award.

    In the short films category, the Audience Award went to Hurikán by Jan Saska, a coproduction between Czech Republic, France, Slovakia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    The Polish minority coproduction Lola and the Noisy Piano directed by Augusto Zanovello was presented with the Jury Award for a TV Special.

    Polish/German/Czech Joko by Izabela Plucinska received a special award for best original music for a short film, while another special award, the Young Audience Award, went to the short film Hello Summer (Slovakia, Czech Republic, France) directed by Martin Smatana and Veronika Zacharová.

    Alongside the Jury Award and the Audience Award, Flow also received the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution and Best Original Music Award for a Feature Film.

    Films from FNE Partner Countries Awarded at 2024 Annecy International Animation FF:

    Feature Films:

    Jury Award:
    Flow (Latvia, Belgium, France)
    Directed by Gints Zilbalodis
    Produced by Dream Well Studio
    Coproduced by Sacrebleu Productions, Take Five
    Supported by the National Film Centre of Latvia, the French CNC, Eurimages, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone, the Belgian Tax Shelter, French regional funds

    Contrechamp Jury Award:
    Living Large (Czech Republic, Slovakia, France)
    Directed by Kristina Dufková
    Produced by Barletta
    Coproduced by NovinskiMagiclab, Novanima Productions
    Supported by the Czech Film Fund, the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Eurimages, Creative Europe – MEDIA, French CNC, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region fund

    Gan Foundation Award for Distribution:
    Flow (Latvia, Belgium, France)
    Directed by Gints Zilbalodis

    Audience Award:
    Flow (Latvia, Belgium, France)
    Directed by Gints Zilbalodis

    Short Films:

    Audience Award:
    Hurikán (Czech Republic, France, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
    Directed by Jan Saska

    TV and Commissioned Films:

    Jury Award for a TV Special:
    Lola and the Noisy Piano (France, Poland, Switzerland)
    Directed by Augusto Zanovello
    Produced by Komadoli Studio
    Coproduced by Folimage, Momakin, Nadasdy Film

    Special Prizes:

    Best Original Music Award for a Feature Film:
    Rihards Zalupe and Gints Zilbalodis for Flow (Latvia, Belgium, France)

    Best Original Music for a Short Film:
    Aliaksandr Yasinski for Joko (Poland, Germany, Czech Republic)
    Directed by Izabela Plucinska

    Young Audience Award:
    Hello Summer (Slovakia, Czech Republic, France)
    Directed by Martin Smatana, Veronika Zacharová