Hiroshima Kokusai Animation Festival
Hiroshima Kokusai Animation Festival ( Japanese 広 島 国際 ア ニ メ ー シ ョ ン フ ェ ス テ ィ バ ル , Hiroshima Kokusai animēshon fesutibaru , dt. "International Hiroshima Animation Festival ") is a film festival that has been taking place in Hiroshima since 1985 . It is one of the most important international festivals for animated films and the most important in Asia.
The festival was founded by the Association internationale du film d'animation . The Hiroshima venue was chosen for its history to promote “Thoughts of Unity” in the form of art. The festival director has been Sayoko Kinoshita since the first festival , and she was also instrumental in founding it. The first two times the festival took place on odd years (1985 and 1987), since 1990 it has taken place every two years on even years in August.
The most important section is the competition. While in 1985 around 450 films were sent in to apply for a screening at the festival, in 2006 there were over 1,700. An international jury, often made up of previous winners, awards several awards. Of these, the Grand Prix for the best short film is the most important.
Grand Prix winner
- 1985: Omboro Film ( お ん ぼ ろ フ ィ ル ム ) - Osamu Tezuka (Japan)
- 1987: The man who planted trees (L'homme qui plantait des arbres) - Frédéric Back (Canada)
- 1990: The Cow (Корова) - Alexander Petrov (Soviet Union)
- 1992: The Sandman - Paul Berry (United Kingdom)
- 1994: Le fleuve aux grandes eaux - Frédéric Back (Canada)
- 1996: Repete - Michaela Pavlátová (Czech Republic)
- 1998: The old lady and the pigeons (La vieille dame et les pigeons) - Sylvain Chomet (Canada / France)
- 2000: When the Day Breaks - Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis (Canada)
- 2002: Father and Daughter - Michael Dudok de Wit (United Kingdom / Netherlands)
- 2004: Atama-yama ( 頭 山 ) - Kōji Yamamura (Japan)
- 2006: Milk - Igor Kovalyov (United States)
- 2008: Kafka - Inaka Isha ( カ フ カ 田 舎 医 者 ) - Kōji Yamamura (Japan)
- 2010: Sinna Mann - Anita Killi (Norway)
- 2012: Ya videl kak mishy kota horonili - Dmitry Geller (China)
Web links
- Official website (Japanese, English)
- Interview with Sayoko Kinoshita at Animation World Magazine (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gigi Hu: The 7th Hiroshima International Animation Festival (August 20-24, 1998) . In: Animation World Magazine , October 1998.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
