Poster for the 2020 Annecy International Animation Festival in France
Recently, the Annecy International Animation Festival in France, known as the "Oscar of Animation", announced the list of official feature film competition units in 2020, and the Chinese animation "Luo Xiaohei" was shortlisted for the official feature film Contrechamp competition unit. Founded in 2018, the "Contrechamp Competition Unit" is a competition unit that pursues innovation and personalization of works.
Luo XiaoHei is a Chinese animated film directed by MTJJ that tells the fantasy adventure of one person and one cat. The film uses two-dimensional hand-drawn paintings back to basics to complete a beautiful and soothing national style story, trying to explore the topic of how people and nature get along with themselves. Inhabiting modern society, monsters and mythological figures who have witnessed the development and change of human beings provide people with an alternative and interesting perspective on modern society. The film was released on September 7, 2019 in Chinese mainland and grossed 311 million yuan at the box office.
Poster of "Luo Xiao black war"
In addition to "Luo Xiaohei", the shortlisted films also include the 3DCG animated film "Lupin III: The First", the one-man Japanese animated feature film "Music", the "Our Seven-Day War" written by the first floor of Da Hanoi, and the Polish animation "Kill It and Leave this Town" that participated in the Berlin Film Festival.
It is reported that this year's Annecy International Animation Festival in France will be held online from June 15 to 30, 2020.
Attached is the shortlist for the 2020 Annecy International Animation Festival:
Official Feature Film Main Competition Unit:
Our Seven Days' War / Yuta Murano (Japan)
Kuni III:The First / Akira Yamazaki (Japan)
Nose, or the conspiracy of those mavericks / Andrey Khrzhanovsky (Russia)
Kill it and leave the town / Mariusz Willczynski (Poland)
Little Vampire / Joann Sfar (France)
Jungle Beat / Brent Dawes (Mauritius)
The Legend of Turmeric / Konstantin Scherkin (Russia)
Bigfoot Family / Ben Stassen, Jérémie Degruson (Belgium / France)
Pioneer Girls / Rémi Chayé (France / Denmark)
Nahur and the Book of Magic / German Acua (Chile)
Official feature film Contrechamp competition section:
Luo Xiaohei / MTJJ (China)
Music / Kenji Iwaizawa (Japan)
Old man / Mikk Mgi, Oskar Lehemaa (Estonia)
Lava / Ayar Blasco (Argentina)
The Occasional Beauty of translucent watery anagrams / Dalibor Baric (Croatia)
Pretty Water / Kyung-hun Cho (South Korea)
My Favorite War / Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen (Latvia / Norway)
Shaman / Jae-huun Ahn (Korea)
True North / Eiji Han Shimizu (Japan / Indonesia)
Knight and Princess / Bashir El Deek, Ibrahim Mousa (Saudi Arabia / Egypt)