Fantoche
An annual film festival for animated films with international participation takes place in Baden ( Switzerland ) under the name Fantoche (pronounced Fantosch ) .
The first Fantoche took place in 1995 with the idea of enriching the Swiss cultural landscape with an international animation festival. In the meantime, the festival has actually developed into a cross-sector meeting point for visual media .
Various types of animated films are shown in four cinemas. Most are short films , but full-length films are also shown. Various thematic focuses are set, such as the Swiss film scene, children's films , history, Asia, USA, etc.
The competition program is intended to explore the artistic limits of animation film and to push it further.
Award winners
In 2005, a total of CHF 23,000 in prize money was announced in the following categories:
- High Risk Winner Craig Welch (CA) for Welcome To Kentucky
- Hot Talent winner Takashi Kimura (JP) for Striking Daughter
- Best Visual Winner JJ Villard (US) for Son of Satan
- Best Sound - Winner Dmitrij Geller (RU) for Little Night Symphony
- Best Idea / Best Script - Winner Arash Riahi (AT) for Mississippi
- Audience Award - winner Laura Neuvonen (FI) for The last Knit and Ivan Maksimov (RU) for The Wind Along the Coast
- Minimotion - winner Jean-Claude Campell (CH) for Metamorpho
In 2007 , two Russian films won the most prestigious jury awards, which, according to the jury, “points to the particularly innovative character of Russian animated films”. The main prize, endowed with 10,000 francs , went to the animated film “Foolish Girl” by Russian artist Zoija Kirejewa “for celebrating a comical female figure, the unconventional script and capturing universality by means of small moments through beautiful drawings, emotions and gestures”.
From 2009 the Fantoche film festival will also be holding a Swiss competition with a jury award (“Best Swiss”) and an audience award. A year later, the national “High Swiss Risk” prize will also be awarded. In addition, two prizes will be awarded for children's films from 2009; a jury award (consisting of a 5-person children's jury) and a children's audience award.
Award winners since 2009 by category
International competition:
Best film:
| year | Movie title | Award winners | Country and year |
| 2009 | Lucía | Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña, Niles Atallah | CL 2007 |
| 2010 | In A Pig's Eye | Atsushi Wada | JP 2010 |
| 2011 | The External World | David OReilly | DE 2010 |
| 2012 | Oh Willy ... | Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels | BE / FR / NL 2012 |
| 2013 | Gloria Victoria | Theodore Ushev | CA 2013 |
| 2014 | The Bigger Picture | Daisy Jacobs | GB 2014 |
| 2015 | World of Tomorrow | Don Hertzfeldt | US 2015 |
| 2016 | Before love | Igor Kovalyov | RU 2015 |
| 2017 | The Burden | Niki Lindroth from Bahr | SE 2017 |
| 2018 | Wildebeest | Nicolas Keppens, Matthias Phlips | BE 2017 |
Audience Award:
| year | Movie title | Award winners | Country and year |
| 2009 | Muto | Blu | IT 2008 |
| 2010 | Sinna man | Anita Killi | NO 2009 |
| 2011 | Bon voyage | Fabio Friedli | CH 2011 |
| 2012 | Chinti | Natalia Mirzoyan | RU 2012 |
| 2013 | Pandy | Matúš Vizár | SQ / CZ 2013 |
| 2014 | My Own Personal Mose | Leonid Shmelkov | RU 2013 |
| 2015 | Changeover | Mehdi Alibeygi | IR 2014 |
| 2016 | Mr Madila | Rory Waudby-Tolley | GB 2015 |
| 2017 | Negative space | Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata | FR 2017 |
| 2018 | Enough | Anna Mantzaris | GB 2017 |
High risk:
| year | Movie title | Award winners | Country and year |
| 2009 | Please say something
Ezurbeltzak, una fosa común |
David OReilly
Izibene Oñederra |
DE 2009
ES 2007 |
| 2010 | Love & Theft | Andreas Hykade | DE 2010 |
| 2011 | Two | Steven Subotnick | US 2011 |
| 2012 | Kuhina | Joni Männisto | FI 2011 |
| 2013 | Futon | Yoriko Mizushiri | JP 2012 |
| 2014 | Through the Hawthorn | Anna Brenner, Pia Borg, Gemma Burditt | GB 2014 |
| 2015 | Endgame | Phil Mulloy | GB 2015 |
| 2016 | Monkey | Jie Shen | CN 2015 |
| 2017 | Vilaine fille | Ayce Kartal | FR 2017 |
| 2018 | Firmly | Nikita Diakur | DE 2018 |
New Talent:
| year | Movie title | Award winners | Country and year |
| 2009 | Noteboek | Evelien Lohbeck | NL 2008 |
| 2010 | Kuchao | Masaki Okuda | JP 2010 |
| 2011 | Chroniques de la poisse | Osman Cerfon | FR 2010 |
| 2012 | Belly | Julia Pott | GB 2011 |
| 2013 | Goat place | Tomasz Popakul | PL 2013 |
| 2014 | The wound | Anna Budanova | RU 2013 |
| 2015 | The Pride of Strathmoor | Einar Baldvin | US 2014 |
| 2016 | Forever | Zhong Su | CN 2016 |
| 2017 | Ugly | Nikita Diakur | DE 2017 |
| 2018 | Bloeistraat 11 | Nienke Deutz | BE 2018 |
Best Story (awarded until 2013):
| year | Movie title | Award winners | Country and year |
| 2009 | Chainsaw | Dennis Tupicoff | AU 2007 |
| 2010 | Divers in the Rain | Olga Pärn, Priit Pärn | EE 2010 |
| 2011 | Tord och Tord | Niki Lindroth from Bahr | SE 2010 |
| 2012 | The great rabbit | Atsushi Wada | FR / JP 2012 |
| 2013 | Pandy | Matúš Vizár | SQ / CZ 2013 |
Best Visual (awarded until 2016):
| year | Movie title | Award winners | Country and year |
| 2009 | Madame Tutli-Putli | Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski | CA 2007 |
| 2010 | Get Real! | Evert de Beijer | NL 2010 |
| 2011 | Amar | Isabel Herguera | IT 2010 |
| 2012 | What happens when children don't eat soup | Pawel Prewencki | PL 2011 |
| 2013 | Bath | Tomeck Ducki | PL / GB 2013 |
| 2014 | Wonder | Mirai Mizue | JP / FR 2014 |
| 2015 | Elf king | Georges Schwizgebel | CH 2015 |
| 2016 | Among the Black Waves | Anna Budanova | RU 2016 |
Best sound:
| year | Movie title | Award winners | Country and year |
| 2009 | Drux Flux | Theodore Ushev | CA 2008 |
| 2010 | Divers in the Rain | Olga Pärn, Priit Pärn | EE 2010 |
| 2011 | Amar | Isabel Herguera | IT 2010 |
| 2012 | 663114 | Isamu Horabayashi | JP 2012 |
| 2013 | Sock Skewer Street 8 | Elli Vuorinen | FI 2013 |
| 2014 | Snow Hut | Yoriko Mizushiri | JP 2013 |
| 2015 | rhizome | Boris Labbé | FR 2015 |
| 2016 | Any Road | Boris Labbé, Daniele Ghisi | FR 2016 |
| 2017 | Impossible Figures and Other Stories II | Marta Pajek | PL 2016 |
| 2018 | Solar Walk | Réka Bucsi | DK 2018 |
National competition:
Best Swiss:
| year | Movie title | Award winners | Country and year |
| 2009 | Flowerpots
Retouches |
Rafael Sommerhalder
Georges Schwizgebel |
GB / CH 2008
CH / CA 2008 |
| 2010 | Miramare | Michaela Müller | HR / CH 2009 |
| 2011 | Bon voyage | Fabio Friedli | CH 2011 |
| 2012 | La Nuit de l'Ours | Samuel and Fred Guillaume | CH 2012 |
| 2013 | Plug & Play | Michael Frei | CH 2013 |
| 2014 | Oh whale | Joana Locher | CH 2014 |
| 2015 | Elf king | Georges Schwizgebel | CH 2015 |
| 2016 | Life is hard | Simon Schnellmann | DE / CH 2015 |
| 2017 | Airport | Michaela Müller | CH / HR 2017 |
| 2018 | The Cannonball Woman | Albertine Zullo, David Toutevoix | CH / FR / CA 2017 |
Swiss audience award:
| year | Movie title | Award winners | Country and year |
| 2009 | Signalis | Adrian Flückiger | CH 2008 |
| 2010 | Homeland | Andrea Schneider, Loretta Arnold, Marius Portmann, Fabio Friedli | CH 2010 |
| 2011 | Borderline | Dustin Rees | CH 2011 |
| 2012 | La Nuit de l'Ours | Samuel and Fred Guillaume | CH 2012 |
| 2013 | The kiosk | Anete Melece | CH 2013 |
| 2014 | Aubade | Mauro Carraro | CH 2012 |
| 2015 | D'ombres et d'ailes | Elice Meng, Eleonora Marinoni | CH / FR 2015 |
| 2016 | Analysis paralysis | Anete Melece | CH 2016 |
| 2017 | In a nutshell | Fabio Friedli | CH 2017 |
| 2018 | Drôle de poisson | Krishna Chandran A. Nair | CH 2017 |
High Swiss Risk:
| year | Movie title | Award winners | Country and year |
| 2010 | Cronache marxiane | Laura Solari | CH 2009 |
| 2011 | Logged in | Stephanie Cuérel, Joshua Schaub | CH 2010 |
| 2012 | Enjoy it | Cecile Brun | CH 2011 |
| 2013 | Washed Ashore | Jonas Ott | NL 2012 |
| 2014 | Cyclopèdes | Mathieu Epiney | CH 2014 |
| 2015 | Ivan's Need | Veronica L. Montaño, Manuela Leuenberger, Lukas Suter | CH 2015 |
| 2016 | Analysis paralysis | Anete Melece | CH 2016 |
| 2017 | Living Like Heta | Bianca Caderas, Isabella Luu, Kerstin Zemp | CH 2017 |
| 2018 | SELFIES | Claudius Gentinetta | CH 2018 |
Award "Best Kids":
Best Kids:
| year | Movie title | Award winners | Country and year |
| 2009 | The Incredible Story of My Great Grandmother Olive | Alberto Rodriguez | GB 2009 |
| 2010 | The precise Peter | Martin Schmidt | DE 2010 |
| 2011 | Fluffy Mc Cloud | Conor Finnegan | IE 2010 |
| 2012 | Zing | Kyra Buschor, Cynthia Collings | DE 2012 |
| 2013 | Hedgehogs and the City | Evalds Lacis | LV 2013 |
| 2014 | Spades spades spades | Dmitry Vysotskiy | RU 2014 |
| 2015 | purple | Carlos Lascano | AR / ES 2014 |
| 2016 | L'arbre | Lucie Sunkova | FR / CZ 2015 |
| 2017 | Ethnophobia | Joan Zhonga | AL / GR 2016 |
| 2018 | Fruits of Clouds | Kateřina Karhánková | CZ 2017 |
Children's audience award:
| year | Movie title | Award winners | Country and year |
| 2009 | The Incredible Story of My Great Grandmother Olive | Alberto Rodriguez | GB 2009 |
| 2010 | The precise Peter | Martin Schmidt | DE 2010 |
| 2011 | Fluffy Mc Cloud | Conor Finnegan | IE 2010 |
| 2012 | Zing | Kyra Buschor, Cynthia Collings | DE 2012 |
| 2013 | Hedgehogs and the City | Evalds Lacis | LV 2013 |
| 2014 | Le vélo de l'éléphant | Olesya Shchukina | FR / BE, 2014 |
| 2015 | Johnny Express | Kyungmin Woo | KR 2014 |
| 2016 | Taking the plunge | Elizabeth Ku-Herrero, Nicolas Manfredi, Marie Raoult, Thaddaeus Andreades | US 2015 |
| 2017 | Ethnophobia | Joan Zhonga | AL / GR 2016 |
| 2018 | penguin | Julia Ocker | DE 2017 |
Further categories:
Baden honorary award:
| year | Movie title | Award winners | Country and year |
| 2015 | Tik Tak | Ülo Pikkov | EE 2015 |
| 2016 | Blind Vaysha | Theodor Ushev | CA 2016 |
A selection can be seen under the name Fantoche on Tour in various Swiss cities.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Binotto : Other Possibilities - Preview of the 12th International Animated Film Festival Fantoche . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . No. 201 . Zurich September 1, 2014, p. 13 .
- ↑ a b FANTOCHE 07: SCHLUSSCOMMUNIQUE ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
