The Anilogue International Animation Festival takes place in Budapest from the 29th of November till the 3rd of December 2017. The 15th edition includes 70+ shows and live events, 13 feature length movies, animated concerts and workshops and hundreds of new animations from around the world in seven festival locations across Budapest.
The 5-day festival engulfs 2 competitive parts, feature premieres, including Cartoon Saloon’s 3rd featured film The Breadwinner, a series of masterclasses and a variety of special programmes and focus-screenings.
The Feature premieres section showcases 4 international films: Have a nice day – Hao Ji Le (by Jian Liu, 2017, China), Your name – Kimi no na wa (by Makoto Shinkai, 2016, Japan), Aunt Hilda – Tante Hilda (by Jacques-Remy Girerd, Benoît Chieux, 2013, France) and a national premiere of the long-awaited The Breadwinner (by Nora Twomey, 2017, Ireland). The film is a co-production between Canada, Luxembourg, and Ireland, and had its world premiere at Toronto’s TIFF 2017. Directed by Nora Twomey, co-produced by Tomm Moore and Angelina Jolie.
Alongside the Competition features, the festival presents 3 Competition shorts sections, with pieces such as The Absence of Eddy Table (Rune Spaars, 2016, NO, 14′), the European Animation Award nominated Manivald (Chintis Lundgren, 2017, Estonia/Croatia, 13′), the Annecy-awarded The Burden (Niki Lindroth von Bahr, 2017, SE, 14′) captivating the respected screenings.
The Out of competition section also draws attention with the classic futurological film Fantasic Planet by René Laloux (1973, France) returning to the big screen of Anilogue. Also, the Animated night featuring Sex’n’animation, Paranimated, Thrill zone, Eye candy shop as thematic parts, promises an interesting screening experience.
From the World selection of the festival, 2 screenings of the New Polish animation art are highlighted. Carousel Films also presents an Introduction to Greek animation. The Animation from Argentina programme tops the country’s exploration with a special masterclass in Argentinian animation with Argentinian jury member, stop-motion animation director Javier Mrad.
Angewandte animation section features Experimental films from Vienna and Negative spaces present a selection of the Best of Fantoche Animation Festival. A special section with films of Don Hertzfeldt has also made the cut to the final programme.
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