Cartoon Saloon’s ecological fable Wolfwalkers is a throwback to the final awards season, when it earned loads of prizes and an Oscar nomination. The opposite three have stored low profiles thus far this season, and have but to seek out U.S. distribution.
The place Is Anne Frank is a retelling of the well-known Holocaust sufferer’s story directed by Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir). The Ape Star is a household movie about an orphan who varieties a friendship with a gorilla; it performed in competitors at Annecy this yr. Even Mice Belong in Heaven is a stop-motion characteristic, additionally for younger audiences, a couple of mouse and a fox who meet in animal heaven; it too performed at Annecy.
That is the primary time 5 movies have been nominated on this class, relatively than the customary three or 4. Curiously, the foundations for this yr’s awards state that 4 movies can be nominated.
The EFA winner is voted on by the European Movie Academy’s 4,000-odd members. Current winners within the class embody Josep (2020), Buñuel within the Labyrinth of the Turtles (2019), One other Day of Life (2018), Loving Vincent (2017), My Life as a Courgette (2016), and Music of the Sea (2015).
Within the quick movie class, which mixes each animated and live-action movies, the only animated nominee this yr is Nicolas Keppens’s Easter Eggs (Belgium/France/Netherlands).
Picture at high: “Even Mice Belong in Heaven”
