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Peut-être des éléphants de Torill Kove – espacemedia.onf.ca/epk/peut-etre-des-elephants

Le tableau de Michèle Lemieux – espacemedia.onf.ca/epk/le-tableau

Misérable miracle de Ryo Orikasa – espacemedia.onf.ca/epk/miserable-miracle-fr

Corpus et l’exploration divine de Jo Roy – espacemedia.onf.ca/epk/corpusexplorationdivine

Graver l’homme : arrêt sur Pierre Hébert de Loïc Darses – espacemedia.onf.ca/epk/graverlhomme

Dossier de presse complet ONF@Annecy2024 ici.

The National Film Board of Canada will take part in this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival(June 9–15) with a strong, diverse lineup of 11 productions and co-productions, screening across a wide range of sections at the event. Four films have been selected for various competitions, including Torill Kove’s Maybe Elephants (Mikrofilm/NFB), which will be having its world premiere. In addition, Michèle Lemieux, a virtuoso with the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen, will present her latest short, Le tableau (The Painting).

The festival will also be presenting an Honorary Cristal award to filmmaker Pierre Hébert to mark his 60-year career.

The NFB at the 2024 Annecy Festival

• Official Competition: Maybe Elephants (Mikrofilm/NFB) by Torill Kove, Le tableau (The Painting) by Michèle Lemieux and Miserable Miracle (Miyu Productions/NFB/New Deer) by Ryo Orikasa.
• Off-Limits Competition: Corpus and the Wandering by Jo Roy.
• Annecy Classics: Loïc Darses’ documentary Graver l’homme: arrêt sur Pierre Hébert (Scratches of Life: The Art of Pierre Hébert), and an Honorary Cristal presented to filmmaker Pierre Hébert.
• Choreographies: Animation and Dance 3: LOCA by Véronique Paquette.
• NFB Collection: three co-productions directed by Regina Pessoa (A Tribute to Portuguese Animation)and two films in the Choreographies: Animation and Dance section, directed by Norman McLaren and Claude Cloutier.

Complete press release

Ticketing

Short Films – Official Competition 2

2024 | 16 min 43 s

Three rebellious teenage daughters, a restless mother, a father struggling with potatoes, and maybe some elephants, find themselves in Nairobi. What could possibly go wrong?

A film by Torill Kove
A Mikrofilm/NFB co-production

Electronic press kit: mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/maybe-elephants

SCREENINGS
Le Mikado Novel, Cinéma Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10/06 | 16h30
Bonlieu, Grande salle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11/06 | 15h30
Cinéma Pathé 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11/06 | 21h30
Cinéma Pathé 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12/06 | 9h00
Auditorium de Seynod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13/06 | 18h30
La Turbine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14/06 | 16h30
Cinéma Pathé 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15/06 | 11h30

Short Films – Official Competition 3

2024 | 11 min 56 s

A short film made using pinscreen animation, The Painting explores the 1652 portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria by Velázquez. Michèle Lemieux demonstrates incredible mastery of the pinscreen, playing with shadow and light to evoke the tragic fate of Mariana, who was married to her uncle at the age of 14. Both painful and tender, this experimental work is a poem of a film: a meditation on the brutality of institutionalized incest and art’s power to capture the soul.

A film by Michèle Lemieux
NFB production

Electronic press kit: mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/the-painting

SCREENINGS
La Turbine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10/06 | 16h30
Le Mikado Novel, Cinéma Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11/06 | 18h30
Bonlieu, Grande salle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12/06 | 15h30
Cinéma Pathé 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12/06 | 21h30
Cinéma Pathé 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13/06 | 9h00
Auditorium de Seynod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14/06 | 18h30
Cinéma Pathé 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15/06 | 14h00

Short Films – Official Competition 5

2023 | 8 min

Directed by Japanese filmmaker Ryo Orikasa, the animated short Miserable Miracle was inspired by Henri Michaux’s book of poetry and drawings of the same name, about his experiences with mescaline. The film explores the limits of language and perception, creating connections between sound, meaning, shapes and movement. 

A film by Ryo Orikasa
A Miyu Productions/NFB/New Deer co-production

Electronic press kit: mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/miserable-miracle

SCREENINGS
Cinéma Pathé 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10/06 | 9h00
Auditorium de Seynod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11/06 | 18h30
La Turbine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12/06 | 18h30
Le Mikado Novel, Cinéma Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13/06 | 18h30
Bonlieu, Grande salle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14/06 | 16h00
Cinéma Pathé 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14/06 | 21h30
Cinéma Pathé 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15/06 | 19h00

Short Films – Off-Limits Competition

2024 | 7 min

One dancer, one body, one phone. In a time of collective alienation and technological mass control, one woman rediscovers her soul and reclaims her mind. A short, experimental self-portrait composed of 100 video screens, Corpus and the Wandering transcends the walls of a fragmented grid system to uncover the shared humanity in each of us, and our place in the cosmos.

A film by Jo Roy
NFB production

Electronic press kit: mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/corpusandthewandering

SCREENINGS
Bonlieu, Petite salle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10/06 | 11h30
Cinéma Pathé 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11/06 | 15h30
Cinéma Pathé 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13/06 | 11h30
Cinéma Pathé 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13/06 | 21h30
Bonlieu, Petite salle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14/06 | 13h30
Cinéma Pathé 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15/06 | 16h30

Annecy Classics

2024 | 75 min

Employing an arresting black-and-white palette punctuated with animated flourishes, Scratches of Life: The Art of Pierre Hébert unwinds the thread of the scratch-on-film technique, guiding us through the inspiring labyrinth of the celebrated animator’s life and work. Loïc Darses captures the imprint of an extraordinary artist who continues to create to this day, striving to share his vision of new forms of life.

A film by Loïc Darses
NFB production

Electronic press kit: mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/scratchesoflife

SCREENINGS
Bonlieu, Petite salle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11/06 | 17h00
Cinéma Pathé 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13/06 | 15h00

On Tuesday June 11th, the Annecy Festival will take advantage of a screening of the film to present an Honorary Cristal to Pierre Hébert in recognition of the pioneering nature of his work, which has spanned 60 years.

CHOREOGRAPHIES: ANIMATION AND DANCE 3
2024 | 5 min

A woman finds the path to freedom through the energy of tango.

A film by Véronique Paquette
Producers Marc Bertrand (ONF/NFB), Christine Noël (ONF/NFB)
Executive Producer Christine Noël (ONF/NFB)

Electronic press kit: https://mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/loca/

SCREENINGS

Bonlieu, Petite salle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9/06 | 19h30
Cinéma Pathé 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10/06 | 21h30
Cinéma Pathé 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14/06 | 17h30

A Tribute to Portuguese Animation

TRAGIC STORY WITH HAPPY ENDING (2005)
Regina Pessoa, Folimage, Ciclope Filmes, ONF/NFB
Winner of the Annecy Cristal Award for Best Short Film 2006

KALI THE LITTLE VAMPIRE (2012)
Regina Pessoa, Folimage, Ciclope Filmes, ONF/NFB

UNCLE THOMAS: ACCOUNTING FOR THE DAYS (2019)
Regina Pessoa, Ciclope Filmes, ONF/NFB, Les Armateurs

Choreographies: Animation and Dance

PAS DE DEUX (1968)
Norman McLaren, ONF/NFB

CARFACE (2015)
Claude Cloutier, ONF/NFB

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MIFA: Chill Out Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11/06 | 19h