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"Arco" and "Amélie et la métaphysique des tubes" honored at Annecy Festival!
The 2025 edition of the Festival international du film d'animation (International Animated Film Festival) honored a new generation of French talent. Leading the way: Ugo Bienvenu (Designer and Director of Animated Films
(class of 2010), who won the prestigious Cristal du long métrage for "Arco", a luminous and humanistic science fiction fable. Maïlys Vallade (class of 2009) and Liane-Cho Han (class of 2007) were also recognized for "Amélie et la Métaphysique des tubes", with which they won the Audience Award.
"Arco, a futuristic fable, optimistic and colorful".
Noted and rewarded for his graphic novels and previous short and medium-length films, Ugo Bienvenu signs his first feature film with "Arco", a post-apocalyptic fable about the power of transmission and reconnection with nature.
The favorite of the competition, the film received a standing ovation at the end of its screening in Bonlieu's main auditorium.
Produced by Remembers (co-founded by Ugo Bienvenu and Félix de Givry) and Mountain A, the American company founded by Natalie Portman and Sophie Mas, the film was presented in a special screening at Cannes.
"We wanted the film to be a kind of big hug that gives us - the adults and the generation to come - a bit of hope to walk away with the strength to do our best, to believe in fragility and defend it."
Ugo Bienvenu
The film also won the SACEM prize for original music in the feature film category.
Synopsis:
In the year 2075, a 10-year-old girl named Iris sees a mysterious boy in a bow-tie suit fall from the sky. It's Arco. He comes from a distant, idyllic future where time travel is possible. Iris takes him in and does everything she can to help him get home.
Amélie and the Metaphysics of Tubes, an ode to early childhood
Maïlys Vallade and Liane-ChoHan's first feature-length film , "Amélie et la Métaphysique des tubes" also received a standing ovation at the festival , and was praised for the quality of its animation.
Adapted from the novel byAmélie Nothomb, the film recounts the first three years of Amélie's life with her family in Japan. A veritable ode to childlike perception, the film uses all the formal possibilities of animation to plunge us into the emerging consciousness of a child.
Produced in hybrid animation combining traditional 2D and digital animation, the film invites viewers to adopt the gaze of a toddler and rediscover the world through his or her sensitive, singular perception.
"I read 'Metaphysics of Tubes' when I was 19, I wasn't a big fan of literature, but this book moved me deeply.And the dream of adapting it was born in me".
Liane-Cho Han
Also presented at Cannes in a special screening, the film will be released in cinemas on June 25, 2025.
Synopsis:
Amélie, a little Belgian girl born in Japan, grew up discovering and marveling at her friend Nishio-san. But on her third birthday, something happens that turns her world upside down. At that age, anything can happen: joy or tragedy.
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