French animation was in the spotlight in the international press, particularly during the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Here we take a look at the reviews and interviews with the directors of French films in Competition.
Links to the articles are available by clicking on the magazines' titles.
Reviews
Cineuropa, ScreenDaily, and AnimationWeek gave their opinion on the winner of the Cristal for a Feature Film at the Annecy Festival: Chicken for Linda! by Sébastien Laudenbach and Chiara Malta
Variety, ScreenDaily, and Cineuropa each published a review of Mars Express by Jérémie Périn.
Variety and ScreenDaily took a look at Annecy's opening film and the Audience Award winnerr: Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds by Benoît Chieux.
Cineuropa published an article about Robot Dreams by Pablo Berger.
Interviews
Benoît Chieux and Ron Dyens were interviewed, respectivement by Variety and Deadline, about Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds.
AnimationMagazine took a look at Kensuke's Kingdom with its co-directors Kirk Hendry and Neil Boyle.
Jérémie Périn spoke with Cineuropa about his debut feature, Mars Express, presented at the Cannes Film Festival then at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
AnimationMagazine interviewed Flóra Anna Buda, director of 27, which won the Palme d’Or for a Short Film at Cannes then the Cristal for a Short Film at Annecy.
