Adam Elliot’s oddball has won the Cristal award for best feature film at the 2024 Film Festival, the world’s leading animation fest. The dark dramedy, about a — voiced by star — recounting her life story to one of her beloved gastropods, is Elliot’s first feature since 2009’s , which also won the top honor at Annecy. An impressive group of Australian A-listers, including Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jacki Weaver, Eric Bana and Nick Cave provide supporting voice work.
picked up North American rights to ahead of the festival. , a drama from Latvian animator Gints Zilbalodis ( ), which follows a cat that survives a world-destroying deluge on a boat with a collection of other animals, won this year’s jury award and audience prize, voted on by Annecy attendees. It also took home a special award for best music for the score by Rihards Zalupe and Gints Zilbalodis.
, Shinnosuke Yakuwa’s animated adaptation of the memoir by Japanese television star Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, took Annecy’s Paul Grimault honor. Isabel Herguera’s , which had its world premiere in competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival last year, won the Grand Prix honor in Annecy’s Contrechamp section, with the jury award going to , the stop-action feature film debut from Czech director Kristina Dufková. Among Annecy’s special awards, the Festivals Connexion award for best VR production went to from Marion Burger and Ilan Cohen.
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