• 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 shout this magic word again as soon as a pair of ears appears on the screen. And throw a few hundred 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 come - there were 15,000 from 110 countries last year. "Our online edition last year worked very well,"

festival director Mickaël Marin

reminds

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. 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, starting at 20 euros, for the "most beautiful festival", 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: 

Ma Vie de Courgette

(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 film journalist of

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Caroline Vié and the former artistic director of the festival Serge Bromberg.

They will have to decide between the twelve feature films selected in the official competition, among which a strong Japanese presence with three films or 

La Traversée

by 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 Marcel Jean calls it: “This is where we see creation express itself most freely, the major themes that stir us up, he explains to

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. 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. "

#HappyBirthdayAnnecy 🎂 🐭🎶Let's sing


along to our hearts, with the mice of @memelessouris, a "happy birthday" to the #annecyfestival!


🙏 A big thank you to @FilmsCygne!

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- Annecy Festival (@annecyfestival) June 9, 2021

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.

The 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 +.

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