Goodbye, Don Glees! & The House Of The Lost On The Cape Nominated For Annecy Film Festival 2022

Among the many 10 nominations introduced on Might 2, 2022, two Japanese animated characteristic movies, Goodbye, Don Glees!, directed by Atsuko Ishizuka, and The Home of the Misplaced on the Cape, directed by Shinya Kawatsura, have been nominated for The Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Competition 2022.

The movies can be screened within the Official Function Movies class at this 12 months’s occasion.

The Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Competition Function Movies Class Nominees:

• “Charlotte” by Eric Warin, Tahir Rana – Belgium, Canada, France
• “Goodbye, DonGlees!” by Atsuko Ishizuka – Japan
• “Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens” by Alain Ughetto – France, Italy 
• “The Island” by Anca Damian – Romania, France, Belgium 
• “The Home of the Misplaced on the Cape (Misaki no Mayoiga)” by Shinya Kawatsura – Japan
• “My Love Affair with Marriage” by Signe Baumane – USA, Latvia, Luxembourg
• “Nayola” by José Miguel Ribeiro – Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, France
• “Little Nicholas – Joyful as Can Be” by Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre – France, Luxembourg
• “Blind Willows, Sleeping Lady” by Pierre Foldes – Canada, France, Luxembourg
• “Unicorn Wars” by Alberto Vazquez – Spain, France

Goodbye, DonGlees!, based mostly on director Ishizuka’s personal screenplay, was launched on Feb 18, 2022 in 217 Japanese cinemas. Takahiro Yoshimatsu designed the characters. Kadokawa is distributing the movie.

The movie is Ishizuka’s first enterprise into authentic anime. Ishizuka commented on the movie’s setting in Iceland, noting that “after reaching Antarctica” in her earlier animation A Place Additional Than the Universe, she opened a map and appeared for the alternative excessive.

The Home of the Misplaced on the Cape (Misaki no Mayoiga), based mostly on Sachiko Kashiwaba’s 2015 fantasy novel of the identical identify, was launched in Japan on August 27, 2021. The animation was directed by Kawatsura at David Manufacturing, whereas the script was written by Reiko Yoshida. The movie’s character design was dealt with by Kamogawa, and the music was composed by Yuri Miyauchi.

2022’s Annecy Competition will run from June 13 to 18, 2022.

The Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Competition was created in 1960 and takes place in the beginning of June within the city of Annecy, France. Initially occurring each two years, the pageant grew to become an annual occasion in 1998. It is without doubt one of the 4 worldwide animated movie festivals sponsored by the Worldwide Animated Movie Affiliation.

The pageant is a contest between animated movies of assorted strategies (conventional, cut-outs, claymation, 3DCG, and many others.) categorised in varied classes:

Function movies
Quick movies
Movies produced for tv and promoting
Pupil movies
Movies made for the web (since 2002)
Function movies contrechamp in competitors (since 2007)

Supply: Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Competition’s web site, Eiga Natalie