17/06/2019 - Jérémy Clapin’s film has won the Crystal for Best Feature and the Audience Award, while a Special Mention from the Jury went to Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

Having previously scooped the Grand Prize in the Cannes Critics’ Week, I Lost My Body [+see also:
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interview: Jérémy Clapin
film profile] by France’s Jérémy Clapin has pulled off an impressive double win at the 43rd Annecy International Animated Film Festival (which notched up record attendance levels this year, with 12,300 accredited guests) by taking home both the Crystal for Best Feature and the Audience Award. This true narrative gem, a moving, inventive and masterful feature debut, was produced by Paris-based outfit Xilam Animation and co-produced by Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma. At Cannes’ Marché du Film, Charades sold the worldwide rights to I Lost My Body – outside France (where the theatrical release will be overseen from 6 November onwards by Rezo), Benelux, Turkey and China – to Netflix.

The jury bestowed a Special Mention upon Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles [+see also:
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interview: GoCritic! Interview: José L…
film profile] by Salvador Simó, a production by Spain’s Sygnatia Films and the Netherlands’ Submarine, sold by Latido Films. The movie will be released in French cinemas on 19 June by Eurozoom.

Interestingly, there was another double win in the short-film category, with the Crystal and the Audience Award both going to Mémorable by France’s Bruno Collet.

Lastly, it is worth mentioning that on the Work in Progress programme, the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution was given to Josep by Aurel, a production between France (Les Films d'Ici Méditerranée, Les Films du Poisson Rouge, Laboratoire d'écriture et d'images), Belgium (Lunanime BVBA) and Spain (B-Water Animation Studios). The film (the screenplay for which was penned by Jean-Louis Milesi), which will be released in France by Sophie Dulac Distribution, takes place in February 1939: overwhelmed by the sheer number of Republicans fleeing Franco’s dictatorship, the French government confines these Spaniards to internment camps, where a great many refugees would perish. In one of these camps, two men, separated by barbed-wire fences, will become friends. One is a police officer, and the other is Josep Bartoli, an illustrator and Spanish Maquis fighting against Franco.

Here is the full list of award winners:

Feature films

Crystal for Best Feature
I Lost My Body [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jérémy Clapin
film profile] - Jérémy Clapin (France)

Special Mention from the Jury
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles [+see also:
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trailer
interview: GoCritic! Interview: José L…
film profile] - Salvador Simó (Spain/Netherlands)

Audience Award
I Lost My Body - Jérémy Clapin

Contrechamp Award
Away [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Gints Zilbalodis
film profile] - Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia)

Short films

Crystal for Best Short Film
Mémorable - Bruno Collet (France)

Jury Prize
Tio Tomás – A contabilidade dos días - Regina Pessoa (Canada/France/Portugal)

Jean-Luc Xiberras Award for Best Debut Work
La pluie (Deszcz) - Piotr Milczarek (Poland)

Special Mention from the Jury for Strong Screenplay
Pulsión - Pedro Casavecchia (Argentina/France)

Special Mention from the Jury for Social Impact
My Generation - Ludovic Houplain (France)

Audience Award
Mémorable - Bruno Collet

"Off-Limits" Film Prize
Don't Know What - Thomas Renoldner (Austria)

Television movies

Crystal for Best TV Production
Panique au village: La foire agricole - Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier (Belgium)

Jury Prize for a TV Series
Le parfum d’Irak "Le cowboy de Fallujah" - Léonard Cohen (France)

Jury Prize for a TV Special
La vie de château - Clémence Madeleine-Perdrillat and Nathaniel H’Limi (France)

Commissioned films

Crystal for Best Commissioned Film
Ted-Ed "Accents" - Robertino Zambrano (Australia/USA)

Jury Prize
#TakeOnHistory "Wimbledon" - Smith & Foulkes (UK)

Graduation films

Crystal for Best Graduation Film
Dcera - Daria Kashcheeva (Czech Republic)

Jury Prize
Rules of Play - Merlin Flügel (Germany)

Special Mention from the Jury
These Things in My Head – Side A - Luke Bourne (UK)

VR works

Crystal for Best VR Work
Gloomy Eyes - Jorge Tereso and Fernando Maldonado (Argentina/France)

Special awards

City of Annecy Award
Son of the Sea - Abbas Jalali Yekta (Iran)

André-Martin Award for Best French Short Film
Mon juke-box - Florentine Grelier (France)

André-Martin Special Mention for a French Short Film
Flow - Adriaan Lokman (Netherlands/France)

André-Martin Award for Best French Feature
The State Against Mandela and the Others - Nicolas Champeaux and Gilles Porte (France)

Vimeo Staff Pick Award
A Year Along the Geostationary Orbit - Felix Dierich (Germany)

Gan Foundation Award for Distribution
Josep - Aurel (France/Belgium/Spain)

Award for Best Original Score in the feature-film category, supported by SACEM
Arturo Cardelús - Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

Award for Best Original Score in the short-film category, supported by SACEM
Normand Roger - Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days (Canada/France/Portugal)

FIPRESCI Award
Têtard - Jean-Claude Rozec (France)

Canal+ Young Audience Award
Grand Loup & Petit Loup - Rémi Durin (Belgium/France)

Young Audience Award
The Kite - Martin Smatana (Czech Republic)

Junior Jury Award for Best Graduation Film
Daughter - Daria Kashcheeva (Czech Republic)

Junior Jury Award for Best Short Film
Mémorable - Bruno Collet

Festivals Connexion Award – Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, in partnership with Lumières Numériques and Mèche Courte
Fille dans le couloir - Valerie Barnhart (Canada)

(Translated from French)