The Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Pageant, held from June 9 to fifteen in Annecy, France, has introduced this yr’s winners. Totto-Chan: The Little Woman on the Window, an anime movie from Shinei Animation, gained the Paul Grimault Award for Characteristic Movies.
This movie relies on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi’s autobiographical memoir, which describes her distinctive experiences with Tomoe Gakuen throughout the warfare in Japan.
Initially revealed in 1981, Kuroyanagi’s e-book turned a bestseller and was broadly learn by Japanese major college college students within the Eighties.
Different notable winners on the competition included Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail, which obtained the highest Cristal for a function movie award.
Gintz Zilbalodis’ Circulate, a co-production from Latvia, Belgium and France, gained a number of awards: the Jury Award, the Gan Basis Award for Distribution, the Viewers Award and the Finest Unique Music Award for a function movie.
Competing anime within the function movie class included Ghost Cat Anzu, The Colours Inside and The Imaginary, however these didn’t win any awards.
In different classes, The Start of Kitaro: The Thriller of Gegege competed within the Characteristic Movies Contrechamp class however didn’t win, with Dwelling Massive taking the prize. Within the TV film class, each Pokemon Concierge and Zom 100: Bucket Checklist of the Lifeless have been contenders, however have been left with none awards.
Kawauso and Depressing Miracle by Akihito Izuhara competed within the Brief Movies class, however didn’t win both.
Moreover, Masataka Kihara’s Yapolaponky and Lindong Chen’s Return competed unsuccessfully within the Commencement Movies class.
Koji Yamamura’s quick movie My Internal Ear Quartet was a part of the VR Works class, the place Gargoyle Doyle gained the Cristal for greatest VR work.
Subsequent yr’s competition will honor Hungary as the main focus nation, persevering with Annecy’s custom of celebrating international animation.
