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Tribute to Japanese Animation: New Motion – Directors

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  5. When and where ?

A concentration of creativity from Japan’s most promising directors.

Japan produces hundreds of original creative animated commercial productions per year, 340 on average to be exact. From this wide selection of films emerge the works of rising directors who embody the next generation of Japanese animation.

We offer you the chance to meet these promising artists through a selection of films that range from the subtle expression of emotion in Pigtails, by Yoshimi Itazu, to Hiroko Utsumi’s daring choice in movement in BANANA FISH, by way of the skillful image composition in Hiroshi Kobayashi’s Hisone & Masotan.

"If I had to name one country with a true culture of animation, it would definitely be Japan." A seemingly obvious declaration made by French director Georges Lacroix in 1999, the year when the Annecy Festival celebrated Japanese animation for the very first time. Twenty years later the Festival pays homage to this truly singular cinematographic style through both a retrospective and a look to the future to reveal several hidden gems still relatively unknown in the West.

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Films

  • Space Dandy Ep 18 "The Big Fish is Huge, Baby"

    Space Dandy Ep 18 "The Big Fish is Huge, Baby"

    Japan - Kiyotaka OSHIYAMA

  • Banana Fish

    Banana Fish

    Japan - Hiroko UTSUMI

  • Dragon Pilot Hisone & Masotan

    Dragon Pilot Hisone & Masotan

    Japan - Hiroshi KOBAYASHI

  • Pigtails

    Pigtails

    Japan - Yoshimi ITAZU

Admission info

Open to all badgeholders by reservation and single admission ticket sales for the general public

When and where ?

    • Wednesday 12 June
    • 14:30 → 16:12
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 3
    • Saturday 15 June
    • 18:30 → 20:12
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 4
    • Wednesday 8 June
    • 14:30 → 16:12
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 3
    • Saturday 11 June
    • 18:30 → 20:12
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 4
    • Tuesday 25 April
    • 14:30 → 16:12
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 3
    • Friday 28 April
    • 18:30 → 20:12
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 4
    • Tuesday 9 May
    • 14:30 → 16:12
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 3
    • Friday 12 May
    • 18:30 → 20:12
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 4
    • Wednesday 7 June
    • 14:30 → 16:12
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 3
    • Saturday 10 June
    • 18:30 → 20:12
    • Cinéma Pathé Pathé 4