The 16th Anilogue International Animation Film Festival will take place from 28 November to 2 December, during which the audience will be able to watch the most significant animations of the past year from around the world. Michel Ocelot, who created the figure of Kirikou, is personally opening the animation series in Budapest at the Uránia National Film Theater, where the latest film by the legendary French director Dilili Paris will be screened. This year, the festival will feature 300 animated short films and 14 full-length films and many of them will be featured in the Three Raven, the French Institute, the Polish Institute and the Cervantes Institute will also provide free screenings. In the series titled Adriatic Wave, contemporary animation art from Italy, Croatia and Slovenia will be introduced.
The opening film of the festival will be the latest work by Michel Ocelot: in Dilili, Paris, which is an exciting cartoon of the century-old French art world. After the screening, there will be an audience meeting with the director. Ocelot’s new work can also serve as a mirror image of the new Hungarian animation Ruben Brandt. The two films are first seen by Budapest viewers – on Anilogue. The festival will also feature two earlier films by Michel Ocelot, the Evening Tales and the Kirikou and the Witch, among the Hungarian public. Anilogue’s closing film will be the latest work by Mamoru Hosoda, the Mirai – Girl from the future, in which the four-year-old Kun has been angry with the world since the birth of his little sister. But in the morning he finds a secret, fairy-tale world in the garden, where he meets a little girl who will be his mother and the man who will be his great-grandfather. In the magical adventures, a girl is his companion. A girl who is just called exactly as the hated little sister.
This year, five full-length animations will be competing: in the Colombian-Ecuadorian film titled Tropical Virus by Santiago Caicedo, Paola grows up in a not-so traditional family, and is facing a number of prejudices for her independence, due to her unique women’s worldview. Another Day of Life reveals the horrors of civil war in Angola between 1975 and 2002, estimated to have claimed half a million deaths. The film was created in Polish, Spanish, German, Belgian and Hungarian co-productions, so the Puppetworks animation film studio in Budapest took part in the film. Denis Do’s work, Funan, also takes place in 1975, during the Red Khmer Revolution. While struggling for his own survival, Chou, a young Cambodian mother, is looking for her four-year-old son who has been taken away by the regime. In Kaspar Jancis’ family animation, Captain Morten and the Spider Queen, a boy can shrink himself to insect size. American Nina Paley’s new film, Séder-Masochism, deals with the history of Old Testament’s exodus in the form of a grotesque animated musical. Melinda Kiss, head of the animation department at Metropolitan University, Croatian director Veljko Popovic and Piotr Kardas Polish animation curator, will decide which film will be awarded the prize for the full-length films.
This year, 30 short films compete, including Réka Bucsi’s Solar Walk and Olivér Hegyi’s Take Me Please. In the short film competition, Ferenc Ambrus producer, Pedro Rivero Spanish-, and Drasko Ivezic Croatian director will decide which film will receive the € 2,000 prize offered this year for the first time by Cartoon Network. Another exciting addition to this year’s Anilogue is that the Hungarian audience will be the first to see the latest series of Cartoon Network, the Charm Camp – by Julia Pott (the co-creator of Adventure!).
Date: November 28th – December 2nd, 2018
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