"Flee" won the Cristal for feature film at the Annecy Festival.
It was one of the four feature films in competition which dealt, always with great originality, with the subject of refugees or migration.
The Danish film won an award at Sundance and is due to air on Arte soon, unless it finally hits theaters.
Who will succeed
Calamity
in 2021 at
the top of the prize list of the 60th Annecy Festival?
Flee
, a Danish animated documentary by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, whose title means "to flee" in English and which tells the odyssey of a young Afghan refugee who became an academic perfectly integrated in Copenhagen.
It is this film, both sober and sharp, that the jury wanted to salute for its animation qualities, in front of two other frank successes:
My Afghan family
by Czech director Michaela Pavlatova (jury prize) and
La Traversée
by the Frenchwoman Florence Mihaile (mention of the jury), two other extremely strong and touching films.
For the short films, the Crystal was awarded to Ecorce, a Swiss film by Samuel Patthey and Silvain Monney.
Movie of the day: Flee pic.twitter.com/EUgcTtLYcM
- CloneWeb (@cloneweb) June 18, 2021
Flee
lifts a modest veil on Amin's story.
You have to see this young Afghan caught in adversity disembarking from Russia, alone, after having fled with his family from Kabul in the midst of civil war.
A true odyssey that Amin had not shared with anyone before it was brought to the screen by one of his closest friends, director Jonas Poher Rasmussen himself.
Neat animation and charcoal sketches
Careful animation to tell the present, period documents and charcoal sketches for the somewhat vague memories of a teenager during his exile.
This animated documentary on the refugee crisis offers more questions than answers as to the impossible choices of a family in the midst of adversity or the doubts of an isolated minor in search of a home.
The serious candidates for the Cristal 2021 of # AnnecyFestival are therefore:
- Flee, by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
- La Traversée, by Florence Miaihle
- And perhaps Ma Famille Afghane, by Michaela Pavlatova.
Answer tonight!
🐰 pic.twitter.com/sJMNqRbv94
- Benjamin Benoit (@BenjaminBnt) June 19, 2021
It's the same subject, but with a feminine gaze and in a reversed course, which
My Afghan Family
treats
of the Czech director Michaela Pavlatova, also inspired by the true story, of a young Czech who falls in love in Prague with a student whom she will follow and marry in Afghanistan, before finding herself in the heart of a loving family, certainly, but confronted with the mores of a country ruled by the Taliban.
La Traversée
by Florence Miailhe, which is distinguished by an animated painting technique on glass plates, pays homage to her grandmother who fled the Odessa pogroms at the beginning of the 20th century by aiming for the universal through the journey of 'a family persecuted in an imaginary region and for undefined reasons. Less subtle in its narration,
Lamya's poem
is the fourth film in the competition on a similar subject: the flight of a young Syrian woman confronted with that of a poet who experienced a similar fate in the 16th century.
Healthy humor
What place for humor in the face of all this misery?
Annecy did not fail to respond through some nuggets like the very schoolboy
Petit Moutard
of the German Marcus Rosenmüller and the Spaniard Santiago Lopez Jover, the very acid
Hayop Ka!
from the Filipino Avid Liongoren or the very childish
My mother is a gorilla (so what?)
from the Swedish Linda Hamback.
The humor was even more frankly present outside of the competition, in
Luca
, the last Pixar, presented in preview in a crowded room, or in
Even the mice go to paradise
, fantastic tale for children from 5 years old. , slated for release in theaters this fall.
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