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 Programme 2016

  • 00:00

  • Exhibitions

    Future French Animation Talents Exhibit their Work at the 2016 Annecy International Animation Film Festival

    • 00:00 →
    • Préfecture

    The Disney Art Challenge is highlighting the talent and creativity of French Graphic Arts students at the Annecy Festival.

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  • 10:00

  • Exhibitions

    Inverso Mundus The World Upside Down

    • 10:00 → 19:00
    • Haras Salle du haras

    It’s the French premiere of this remarkable video installation that was conceived by the internationally acclaimed Russian art group: AES+F.

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  • Short Films – Competition: Official

    Short Films in Competition 1

    • 10:00 → 11:15
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 1
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  • TV and Commissioned Films – Competition: TV Films

    TV Films in Competition 1

    • 10:00 → 11:15
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 4
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  • Special Programmes

    The Big Sleep

    • 10:00 → 11:25
    • Bonlieu Petite salle

    The Big Sleep pays tribute to filmmakers who have passed away over the past year: Colin Low, Jane Aaron, Pascual Perez, Robert Balser and Giuseppe Maurizio Laganà.

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  • The Festival and Beyond!

    aaa Appointments

    • 10:00 → 18:00
    • Cinéma Pathé Hall d'attente

    The aaaworkshop (Animation Atelier of Annecy and Haute-Savoie) is back this year with new animated appointments during Festival week.

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  • Exhibitions

    La Chouette du cinéma presents The Mitten. Clémentine Robach’s trade secrets

    • 10:00 → 19:00
    • Le Mikado Novel Cinéma Novel

    During the Annecy Festival, you can go behind the scenes of Clémentine Robach’s short "The Mitten" at the MJC Novel.

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  • 10:30

  • Exhibitions

    The AFCA Collection: An International Vision of Animation

    • 10:30 → 18:00
    • Conservatoire d'art et d'histoire Musée du film d'animation

    This exhibition presents a chapter out of the history of animation around the world through material collected by the AFCA.

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  • Exhibitions

    The Poetic Worlds of Jean-François Laguionie

    • 10:30 → 18:00
    • Musée-Château d'Annecy Exhibition area

    From initial graphic research to backgrounds, come and visit an exhibition that takes you through the films of Jean-François Laguionie.

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  • Feature Films – Competition: Official

    Feature Film in Competition 1: Seoul Station

    • 10:30 → 12:00
    • Bonlieu Grande salle
    • Original version
    • English subtitles
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  • 11:00

  • Special Programmes

    French Animation: The Mirror Effect – The Classics' Classics

    • 11:00 → 12:12
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 3

    Come and discover a retrospective of seven French animation shorts that have become classics since they made their marks on the animation world between 1908 and 1999.

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  • 14:00

  • Feature Films – Competition: Official

    Feature Film in Competition 3: Psiconautas, the Forgotten Children

    • 14:00 → 15:15
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 1
    • Original version
    • French subtitles
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  • Short Films – Competition: Official

    Short Films in Competition 1

    • 14:00 → 15:15
    • Bonlieu Grande salle
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  • Graduation Films

    Graduation Films in Competition 2

    • 14:00 → 15:18
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 4
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  • Signing Sessions

    Michaël Dudok de Wit - 'The Red Turtle'

    • 14:00 → 15:30
    • Bonlieu Forum
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  • 14:30

  • TV and Commissioned Films – Competition: TV Films

    TV Films in Competition 3

    • 14:30 → 15:51
    • Le Mikado Novel Cinéma Novel
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  • Making of

    Robot Chicken

    • 14:30 → 15:45
    • Bonlieu Petite salle

    After 8 seasons, 160 episodes and 6 specials, this Emmy award-winning stop motion animated series just keeps clucking on U.S.-based Adult Swim. It's the brainchild of co-creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, and each quarter-hour episode is a sketch-comedy takedown of everything from children's programming to current pop culture.

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  • 15:00

  • Feature Films – Competition: Official

    Feature Film in Competition 5: My Life As a Courgette

    • 15:00 → 16:05
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 2
    • French version
    • English subtitles
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  • Special Programmes

    Korean Animation in the 21st Century 1

    • 15:00 → 16:16
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 3

    As part of the Year France-Korea, a special programme is dedicated to the evolution of Korean animation production.

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  • 16:00

  • Feature Films – Competition: Official

    Feature Film in Competition 2: La Jeune Fille sans mains

    • 16:00 → 17:16
    • Bonlieu Grande salle
    • French version
    • English subtitles
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  • Short Films – Competition: Official

    Short Films in Competition 2

    • 16:00 → 17:13
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 1
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  • Commissioned Films

    Commissioned Films in Competition 1

    • 16:00 → 17:00
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 4
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  • Studio Focus

    An Approach to Animated Characters in Commercials

    • 16:00 → 17:15
    • Salle Pierre Lamy

    Julien Vallet, Head of Creative and Motion Design studio will introduce Mikros' history and a production aspect of some key "commercials".

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  • 16:30

  • Feature Films – Competition: Official

    Feature Film in Competition 9: Snowtime! (Aka: Cleo)

    • 16:30 → 17:54
    • Le Mikado Novel Cinéma Novel
    • French version
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  • Short Films – Competition: Official

    Short Films in Competition 4

    • 16:30 → 17:44
    • La Turbine
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  • Masterclasses

    Music and Animation

    • 16:30 → 17:45
    • Bonlieu Petite salle

    Triple César-winning composer Bruno Coulais will host a Masterclass about how to put a filmmaker's images to music while preserving your own musical style.

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  • Signing Sessions

    Zeb Wells, Matthew Senreich and Tom Root - 'Robot Chicken'

    • 16:30 → 17:30
    • Bonlieu Forum
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  • 17:00

  • Feature Films – Competition: Official

    Feature Film in Competition 6: Sheep and Wolves

    • 17:00 → 18:18
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 2
    • English version
    • French subtitles
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  • Special Programmes

    French Animation: The Mirror Effect – View from Hollywood

    • 17:00 → 18:21
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 3

    American producer Ron Diamond was chosen to put together a programme for the Festival about how French animation as is seen from the hills of Hollywood.

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  • Special Programmes

    La Grenadière

    • 17:00 → 18:00
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 5

    Using a new animation concept, Japanese filmmaker Kôji Fukada adapted La Grenadière, the short story of the same name written by Honoré de Balzac.

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  • 18:00

  • Feature Films – Competition: Official

    Feature Film in Competition 4: Window Horses

    • 18:00 → 19:25
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 1
    • English version
    • French subtitles
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  • Short Films – Competition: Official

    Short Films in Competition 1

    • 18:00 → 19:15
    • Bonlieu Grande salle
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  • Commissioned Films

    Commissioned Films in Competition 2

    • 18:00 → 19:00
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 4
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  • Studio Focus

    Google Spotlight Stories - Once Upon a Time in 360

    • 18:00 → 19:15
    • Salle Pierre Lamy

    Stories connect us, regardless of screen size or innovation.

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  • 18:30

  • Feature Films – Competition: Official

    Feature Film in Competition 3: Psiconautas, the Forgotten Children

    • 18:30 → 19:45
    • La Turbine
    • Original version
    • French subtitles
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  • Short Films – Competition: Official

    Short Films in Competition 3

    • 18:30 → 19:44
    • Le Mikado Novel Cinéma Novel
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  • Special Programmes

    French Animation: The Mirror Effect – The Invisible Child

    • 18:30 → 19:33
    • Bonlieu Petite salle

    Ironically, given its title, André Lindon’s 1983 feature The Invisible Child hasn’t been widely seen.

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  • 19:00

  • Feature Films – Competition: Official

    Feature Film in Competition 1: Seoul Station

    • 19:00 → 20:30
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 2
    • Original version
    • English subtitles
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  • Special Programmes

    French Animation: The Mirror Effect – 2016: A Prolific Year

    • 19:00 → 20:15
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 3

    The Annecy Festival receives an ever-increasing number of short films each year, which makes the selection process a difficult task that also means leaving out a great quantity.

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  • 20:30

  • Screening Events

    The Red Turtle

    • 20:30 → 21:55
    • Bonlieu Grande salle

    For Michaël Dudok de Wit’s feature film debut, Isao Takahata was the artistic director on The Red Turtle, which is opening Annecy 2016.

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  • Short Films – Competition: Official

    Short Films in Competition 2

    • 20:30 → 21:43
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 1
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  • Graduation Films

    Graduation Films in Competition 3

    • 20:30 → 21:48
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 4
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  • 20:45

  • Feature Films – Competition: Official

    Feature Film in Competition 7: 25 April

    • 20:45 → 22:10
    • La Turbine
    • English version
    • French subtitles
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  • Feature Films – Competition: Official

    Feature Film in Competition 8: Nuts!

    • 20:45 → 22:04
    • Le Mikado Novel Cinéma Novel
    • English version
    • French subtitles
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  • 21:00

  • Screening Events

    The Red Turtle

    • 21:00 → 22:25
    • Bonlieu Petite salle

    For Michaël Dudok de Wit’s feature film debut, Isao Takahata was the artistic director on The Red Turtle, which is opening Annecy 2016.

    • See information
  • 21:30

  • Screening Events

    Belladonna of Sadness

    • 21:30 → 22:59
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 2
    • Original version
    • French subtitles

    Thanks to the recent restoration of Belladonna of Sadness, a stunning piece of erotic Japanese animation from 1973, you can come and see it on the big screen during the Festival.

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  • Special Programmes

    French Animation: The Mirror Effect – Animated Scores

    • 21:30 → 22:30
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 3

    Composer Andrea Martignoni has prepared this programme that highlights the importance music plays in French animated shorts.

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  • 22:00

  • Open-air Screenings

    The Triplets of Belleville

    • 22:00 → 23:30
    • Musée-Château d'Annecy Courtyard
    • French version

    Come along with Madame Souza and her loyal dog Bruno as she sets off in search of Champion, her grandson who was kidnapped at the Tour de France.

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  • 22:10

  • Open-air Screenings

    Les Shadoks

    • 22:10 → 22:15
    • Le Pâquier

    Each evening as an opener to the screenings on the Pâquier, catch an episode of the famous Shadoks!

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  • 22:15

  • Open-air Screenings

    Ice Age

    • 22:15 → 23:45
    • Le Pâquier
    • French version

    As the next instalment of the "Ice Age" saga is set to hit theatres this summer, refresh your memory about the first adventures of Sid, Manny and Diego, the most famous prehistoric animals of their generation!

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  • 23:00

  • Graduation Films

    Graduation Films in Competition 1

    • 23:00 → 00:17
    • Bonlieu Grande salle
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