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‘Arco’ Takes Annecy’s Top Prize, ‘Endless Cookie’ Wins Contrechamp and ‘The Night Boots’ Scoops Best Short as Filmmakers Address Conflict in the Middle East
'Arco,' which premiered at Cannes, wins Annecy's top prize with its touching, sci-fi tale of friendship and time travel and vibrant 2D animation.
Later in the evening, Iranian filmmaker Shiva Sadegh Assadi (“Abzi”), on this year’s short film competition jury, read a poem in Persian by an author who was killed in the strikes against her country. A “personal family scrapbook of a film,” according to Carlos Aguilar’s Variety review at Sundance, “Endless Cookie” sees the Scriver brothers dive into absurdist territory with a surreal, offbeat tale that plays like a stoner parable for late-stage capitalism. The latest from celebrated stop-motion specialist Pierre-Luc Granjon (“Four Seasons in the Life of Léon”) – who co-directed the 2023 Annecy-playing feature “The Inventor” – tells the story of a young boy who sneaks out in the middle of the night and is escorted by a strange creature into the depths of the woods to meet their nocturnal inhabitants.
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