Feature films in competition at Annecy 2017, the biggest animation festival in the world and considered more important than the Academy Awards by animation connoisseurs
>Animal Crackers by Tony Bancroft and C Scott Sava (USA)
>A Silent Voice by Noako Yamada (Japan)
>Big Fish & Begonia by Xuan Liang and Chun Zhang (China)
>In This Corner of the World by Sunao Katabuchi (Japan)
>Ethel and Ernest by Roger Mainwood (United Kingdom)
>Have a Nice Day by Jian Liu (China)
>Lu Over the Wall by Massaki Yuasa (Japan)
>Loving Vincent by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh >Welchman (Poland, United Kingdom)
>Tehran Taboo by Ali Soozandeh (Austria, Germany)
>Zombillenium by Arthur de Pins (France)
Do you think Japan will win considering they occupy 3/10 spots? Yuasa and Science Saru have quite the reputation.
Fuck those spelling errors, I just copied and pasted the list from cartoonbrew
>>156354707
>>A Silent Voice by Naoko Yamada (Japan)
This is huge for Yamada and KyoAni
>>156356103
Of course there'll be more attention and shitposting about muh oscars even though this one has more diversity and legitimacy in the animation circle.
>>156354707
>In This Corner of the World by Sunao Katabuchi (Japan)
Foreigners won't like this one since it's about Jap butthurt in WW2.
>>156356923
Not really, people actually like the Stalingrad (1993) and Der Untergang.
>>156357099
It's not quite the same with the Japs since they never apologized for their war crimes on the scale of the Germans.
>>156357132
Is there anyone left who really gives a shit nowadays?
>>156354707
>tehran taboo
>Germany
/pol/ was right again
>>156357239
To be fair, we don't produce anything of worth in general when it comes to television/film nowadays.
>>156357188
the gooks do
I hate your name
>>156357566
LEL
Your Name isn't even nominated.
>>156357188
The gooks and chinks do whenever their politician need a distraction of their corruption for their citizen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan
The Night is Short, Walk on Girl wasn't nominated?
>>156354707
>Big Fish & Begonia by Xuan Liang and Chun Zhang (China)
Really liked this one.