Annecy Announces 130 Shorts in Five Categories

Women directed or co-directed 46 percent of films that will screen in the festival.

ANNECY, FRANCE -- The Annecy International Animation Festival has selected 130 short films for the 2018 festival.

The festival received more than 3,050 submissions in all categories, coming from 93 countries. France, the United States and the United Kingdom led the way in the number of submissions.

The selection includes 46 shorts in competition, eight films in Off-Limits, 18 in Perspectives, 10 in young audience and 48 graduation films.

The festival says 46 percent have been directed or co-directed by women.

The official selection of TV and commissioned films will be revealed at the end of March and feature films in competition and out of competition will be revealed during a press conference in Paris at the end of April. The VR@ANNECY selection will be announced April 16.

The official selection of the festival has been made by artistic director Marcel Jean and the films and program planning team: Laurent Million, Yves Nougarède and Sébastien Sperer, who were supported by Peggy Zejgman-Lecarme, the director of La Cinémathèque de Grenoble, in selecting the short films in competiton.

The full list of short films selected follows:

Short films in competition:

(Fool Time) Job -- Gilles Cuvelier; France
20 ritnika -- Dimitar Dimitrov; Bulgaria
A Fly in the Restaurant -- Xi Chen, Xu An; China
Afterwork, Luis Usón, Andrés Aguilar; Ecuador, Spain, Peru
Agouro -- David Doutel, Vasco Sá; Portugal, France
Animal Behaviour -- Alison Snowden, David Fine; Canada
Best Laid Plans -- John Morena;USA
Biciklisti -- Veljko Popovic; Croatia, France
Biryuk -- Polina Fyodorova;Russia
Bloeistraat 11 -- Nienke Deutz; Belgium, Netherlands
Death Van -- Michael Enzbrunner; Canada
Dicks -- John Morena; USA
Egg -- Martina Scarpelli; Denmark, France, Italy
Elektrika diena -- Vladimir Leschiov; Latvia
Étreintes -- Justine Vuylsteker; France, Canada
Fest -- Nikita Diakur;Germany
Freedom from Fear -- John Morena;USA
Guaxuma -- Nara Normande; Brazil, France
Happiness -- Steve Cutts; United Kingdom
Hunter -- Ryoji Yamada; Japan
I'm OK -- Elizabeth Hobbs; Canada, United Kingdom
III -- Marta Pajek; Poland
La Chute -- Boris Labbé; France
La Mort, père & fils -- Denis Walgenwitz, Vincent Paronnaud (Dit Winshluss); France
Le chat qui pleure -- Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli; Belgium, France
Le Sujet -- Patrick Bouchard; Canada
Love He Said -- Inès Sedan; France
Mang-ja-ui-sum -- Ji Hyeon Kim; South Korea
Maria ja 7 pöialpoissi -- Riho Unt; Estonia
Mr. Deer -- Mojtaba Mousavi; Iran
Not My Type -- Gerd Gockell; Germany, Switzerland
Panta Rhei -- Wouter Bongaerts; Belgium
Raymonde ou l'évasion vertical -- Sarah Van Den Boom; France
Ride -- Paul Bush; Portugal, United Kingdom
Sellők és Rinocéroszok -- Viktoria Traub; Hungary
Simbiosis Carnal -- Rocio Alvarez; Belgium
Slurred -- John Morena; USA
Strange Beasts -- Magali Barbé; United Kingdom
String of Sound -- John Morena; USA
Tears of Chiwen -- Sun Xun; China
Telefonul -- Anca Damian; Romania
That Yorkshire Sound -- Marcus Armitage; United Kingdom
Tightly Wound -- Shelby Hadden; USA, Chile
Vibrato -- Sébastien Laudenbach; France
Weekends -- Trevor JIMENEZ, USA
Žltá -- Ivana Ebestová; Slovakia

Off-limits short films in competition

An Excavation of Us -- Shirley Bruno; France, Greece, Haiti
Cadavre exquis -- Stéphanie Lansaque, François Leroy; France
Edge of Alchemy -- Stacey Steers; USA
Everything -- David O'Reilly; USA
Garoto transcodificado a partir de fosfeno -- Rodrigo Faustini; Brazil
Home: A Portrait of New York City -- John Morena; USA
Maze of Noumenon -- Tianran Duan; China
Ulysses -- Shu Cao; China

Perspectives Short Films in Competition

32-Rbit -- Victor Orozco Ramirez; Germany, Mexico
Almofada de Penas -- Joseph Specker Nys; Brazil
Between Us Two -- Wei Keong Tan; Singapore
Bodo Rostam Bodo -- Hossein Molayemi; Iran
Cielo -- Miguel Anaya; Mexico
Death of a Father -- Somnath Pal; India
Gummy Gas Crisis -- Rodrigo Diaz; Argentina
Heart Rot -- Tomás Pichardo; Dominican Republic
Just Walking -- Subien Han; South Korea
Mariposas -- Andrés Gomez Isaza, Mauricio Leiva; Colombia
Metevze da gogona -- Mamuka Tkeshelashvili; Georgia
Neputovanja -- Ana Nedeljkovic, Nikola Majdak; Serbia, Slovakia
Trump Dreams -- Ruth Lingford; USA, United Kingdom
Un printemps -- Chen Keyu; Canada
V. El artificio -- Andrea Robles; Mexico
Waldo's Dream -- Jorge Campusano, Jose Ignacio Navarro, Santiago O´Ryan; Chile
Xamarim -- Bálint Kelen; Hungary

Young Audiences Short Films in Competition

Ameise -- Julia Ocker; Germany
Brooklyn Breeze -- Alex Budovsky; USA
Coucouleurs -- Oana Lacroix; Switzerland
Drôle de poisson -- Krishna Chandran A. Nair; France, Switzerland
Hotshu Jit W Zooparke -- Evgenia Golubeva; Russia
Link -- Robert Loebel; Germany
Promenons-nous -- Hugo Frassetto; Belgium, France
The Pig on the Hill -- Jamy Wheless, John Helms; USA
The Theory of Sunset -- Roman Sokolov; Russia
Vivat musketeers! -- Anton Diyakov; Russia

Graduation Short Films

"Stranac" u mojoj glavi -- Petra Balekic; Croatia
[O] -- Mario RADEV, Chiara Sgatti; United Kingdom
A Daily Chat -- Cheng-hsu Chung; United Kingdom
A Love Letter to the One I Made Up -- Rachel Gutgarts; Israel
A Table Game -- Nicolás Petelski Meson; Spain, Estonia
Am I Oright -- Yen Liang Chen; Taiwan
Augenblicke -- Kiana Naghshineh; Germany
Bacchus -- Rikke Alma Krogshave Planeta; Denmark
Barbeque -- Jenny Jokela; United Kingdom
Blind Mice -- Nicholas D'Agostino; USA
Bloem? -- Jorn Leeuwerink; Netherlands
Body World -- Kitty Faingold; United Kingdom
Contact -- Léa Bancelin; France
Creature from the Lake -- Renata Antunez, Alexis Bédué, Léa Bresciani, Amandine Canville, Maria Castro Rodriguez, Logan Cluber, Nicolas Grangeaud, Capucine Rahmoun-Swierczynski, Victor Rouxel, Orianne Siccardi; France
Facing It -- Sam Gainsborough; United Kingdom
Follower -- Jonathan Behr; Germany
Fuse -- Shadi Adib; Germany
Hors Saison -- Nicolas Capitaine, Céline Desoutter, Lucas Durkheim, Leni Marotte; France
Hybrids -- Florian Brauch, Matthieu Pujol, Marie Kim Tailhades, Yohan Thireau, Romain Thirion; France
Inanimate -- Lucia Bulgheroni; United Kingdom
Inny -- Marta Magnuska; Poland
Juste avant la fonte -- Eve Tayac; France
Kaiju Shinwa -- Yosuke Tani; Japan
Kwadratura Kola -- Karolina Specht; Poland
L'Homme aux oiseaux -- Quentin Marcault; France
Le Grand Bain -- Elise Augarten; France
Les Enfants du béton -- Jonathan Phanhsay-Chamson; France
Losing Sight of a Longed Place -- Tsz Ying Wong, Ka Chun Shek, Chun Long Wong; Hong Kong
Love Me, Fear Me -- Veronica Solomon; Germany
Még nem -- Timea Varga; Hungary
Microdistrict -- Ivelina Ivanova; United Kingdom, Bulgaria
Ming -- Danski Tang; USA
Muteum -- Äggie Pak Yee Lee; Estonia
Na Zdrowie! -- Paulina Ziolkowska; Poland
Nosis -- Vincenz Neuhaus; Germany
Jezu! -- Betina Bozek; Poland
tom co potom -- Matous Valchar; Czech Republic
Ooze -- Kilian Vilim; Switzerland
Parfum Fraise -- Alix Arrault, Martin Hurmane, Jules Rigolle, Samuel Klughertz; France
Schnurksel -- Léo Becker; Belgium
Shadow -- Lei Lei; China
Sigh of Sighs -- Bo-seong Gim; South Korea
Sister -- Siqi Song; USA, China
Stockholm -- Victor Chavanne, Thomas Nemery, Morgane Perrin, Camille Roubinowitz, Jean-Baptiste Aziere; France
Take Me Please -- Olivér Hegyi; Hungary
Tango tesknot -- Marta Szymanska; Poland
Travelogue Tel Aviv -- Samuel Patthey; Switzerland
Vermine -- Jérémie Becquer; Denmark