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Fantoche 2022 Reveals Competitive Program Selections

The event’s 20th edition takes place September 6-11 and will feature 8 competitive programs in International, Swiss and Kids animated film categories, plus 26 selected in three panorama screenings.

The 20th edition of the Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, which runs September 6-11, has announced its selections for eight competition programs in three categories: International, Swiss, and Kids. Out of 2,552 entries received, the International Competition will see 32 films vie for five prizes (Best Film, High Risk, New Talent, Best Visual, and the Audience Award), while 20 have been chosen to compete in the Swiss competition. In the Kids Film Competition, 24 films were selected. In addition, 26 films were selected to screen in three panorama screenings.

The official selections include:

International Competition:

  • Steakhouse by Špela Čadež (SI 2021)
  • Khon-Temporary by Methas Chantawongs (TH 2022)
  • Cherry by Bone Evgenia Gostrer (DE 2021)
  • Nuisibles by Juliette Laboria (FR 2021)
  • All the Blue Cats Look Like the Same Color by Wenzhe Xu (GB 2021)
  • Garrano Vasco Sá by David Doutel (PT 2022)
  • Downfall by Rona Fayad (LB 2021)
  • Au revoir Jérôme ! by Adam Sillard, Gabrielle Selnet, Chloé Farr (FR 2022)
  • Bird in the Peninsula by Atsushi Wada (FR/JP 2022)
  • Buried in Europe by Hardi Volmer, Urmas Jõemees (EE 2021)
  • Vampire by Zhong Xian (GB 2021)
  • Elephant in Castle by Florence Yuk Ki Lee (HK 2021)
  • Beware of Trains by Emma Calder (GB 2022)
  • Menagerie by Jack Gray (US 2022)
  • Red Giant by Anne Verbeure (BE 2021)
  • YUGO by Carlos Gómez Salamanca (CO 2021)
  • Komsomolsk – Boredom by Nigina Rakhmatulloyeva (KK 2021)
  • Iizuna Fair by Sumito Sakakibara (JP 2021)
  • ZOON by Jonatan Schwenk (DE 2022)
  • Hotel Kalura by Sophie Koko Gate (GB 2021)
  • Intermission by Réka Bucsi (HU 2022)
  • Sierra by Sander Joon (EE 2022)
  • Salute to the Sun by Darko Masnec (HR 2022)
  • OUR 2 by Yungsung Song (JP 2021)
  • Deux Sœurs by Anna Budanova (FR 2021)
  • Boddyssey by Jonas Bienz (CH 2022)
  • Epicenter by Heeyoon Hahm (KR 2022)
  • My Jeopardy by Roman Muradov (US 2022)
  • Lunar Love & Ever by Gabriel Gabriel Garble (SE 2021)
  • A Dog Under Bridge by Rehoo Tang (CN 2022)
  • Sensual Pill by Sam3 (GR 2021)
  • Bestia by Hugo Covarrubias (CL 2021)

Swiss Competition:

  • Sit Down, Don’t Touch Anything by Frederic Siegel (CH 2022)
  • The Record by Jonathan Laskar (CH 2022)
  • Leoni Leoni – Weirdest Ritual by Inger Bierma (DE 2021)
  • Arrest in Flight by Adrian Flury (CH 2021)
  • The Smortlybacks Come Back! By Ted Sieger (CH 2021)
  • Boddyssey by Jonas Bienz (CH 2022)
  • DUDE by Konstantin Rosshoff, Tokay Yotimo, Marco Jörger (CH 2021)
  • La Piscine by Antonin Niclass (GB 2022)
  • IDODO by Ursula Ulmi (CH 2022)
  • Baroudeur by Mauro Carraro (CH 2021)
  • La reine des renards by Marina Rosset (CH 2022)
  • Manchmal weiss ich nicht wo die Sonne by Samantha Aquilino (CH 2021)
  • Intersect by Dirk Koy (CH 2021)
  • Lost Brain by Isabelle Favez (CH 2021)
  • Lucky Man by Claude Luyet (CH 2022)
  • Places I’ve Never Left Pt. 1 by Loïc Kreyden (CH 2021)
  • Ethel by Beatrice Jäggi (CH 2022)
  • Anscht by Matthias Huber (CH 2022)
  • script.exe by Team Tumult (CH 2021)
  • Miracasas by Raphaëlle Stolz (CH 2022)

Kids Competition:

  • Second Breakfast by Lukas Winter (EE 2021)
  • Dream in Color by Marijn Raeven (BE 2022)
  • The Turnip by Piret Sigus, Silja Saarepuu (EE 2022)
  • Laika & Nemo by Jan Gadermann, Sebastian Gadow (Co-Director) (DE 2022)
  • Smile by Viacheslav Erlychenkov (RU 2021)
  • Don’t Blow It Up by Alžbeta Mačáková Mišejková (CZ 2022)
  • The Smortlybacks Come Back! by Ted Sieger (CH 2021)
  • Menagerie by Jack Gray (US 2022)
  • I’m Not Afraid! by Marita Mayer (NO 2022)
  • Step by Step by Fanny Paoli, Anabelle David, Emma Gach, Claire Robert, Julie Valentin, Thēodore Janvier (FR 2021)
  • Snuggle Up by Subin Jang (KR 2022)
  • The Encounter by Aleksandra Krivolutskaia (RU 2022)
  • LOOP by Pablo Polledri (ES 2021)
  • Housing Problem by Daniela Muralles Arroyave (TW 2021)
  • Clair De Lune by Fabio Bozzetto, Diego Zucchi (IT 2022)
  • Flour & Mush by Emily Wong  (HK 2022)
  • Pivot by Ana Gusson (CA 2021)
  • Elevator Alone by Anastasia Papadopoulou  (GR 2021)
  • It’s a Gray, Gray World by Seyed Mohsen Pourmohseni Shakib (IR 2022)
  • Musica Quarantena by Lilian T. Mehrel (US 2022)
  • Mosaic by Eleonora Berra (CH 2022)
  • Bed Trip by Victor Cazal (FR 2021)
  • 6 Paws Under by Nicolas Bianco-Levrin (FR 2021)
  • The Paper by Katariina Anna Maria Haukka (FI 2022)

Panorama:

  • A Long Protracted Scene of an Accident by Lisa Rydberg, Lars Henrik Andersson (SE 2021)
  • How Did the Pandas Become Extinct? by Halim Yentür (TR 2021)
  • Holy Holocaust by Osi Wald, Noa Berman-Herzberg (IL 2021)
  • Persona by Sujin Moon (KR 2022)
  • Tap Runner by Paolo Chianta (GB 2021)
  • Love, Dad by Diana Cam Van Nguyen (CZ 2021) 
  • SCALE by Joseph Pierce (FR 2022)
  • Impossible Figures and Other Stories I by Marta Pajek (PL/CA 2021)
  • Les liaisons foireuses by Chloé Alliez, Violette Delvoye (FR/BE 2021)
  • Things That Disappear by Changsoo Kim (KR 2022)
  • The Exhausted by Justin Jinsoo Kim (US 2021)
  • Please Let Me In by Peter Millard (GB 2022)
  • 73 by Meshy Koplevitch (IL 2021)
  • Drone by Sean Buckelew (US 2022) 
  • Pig by Jorn Leeuwerink (NL 2022)
  • Fledge by Hani Dombe, Tom Kouris (IL 2021)
  • Before Dark by Pavel Pogudin, Max Kulikov (RU 2022)
  • No Worries! by Tamara Bella (HU 2021)
  • Regular by Nata Metlukh (US 2022)
  • The Invention of Less by Noah Erni (CH 2021)
  • Something in the Garden by Marcos Sánchez (CL 2021)
  • How To Survive The Heatwave And Stay Human by Ronni Shalev, Alon Sharabi (IL 2021)
  • When the Moon Was Gibbous by Erika Grace Strada (DK 2021)
  • Je ne suis pas by Valentine Zhang (FR 2021)
  • Two Little Birds by Alfredo Soderguit, Alejo Schettini (UY 2021)
  • Louis I., roi des moutons by Markus Wulf (DE 2022)

For additional information visit the event website.

Source: Fantoche 2022

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