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Cannes’ Annecy Animation Showcase Frames New Films From Kenji Iwaisawa, Otto Guerra, Maria Trenor (EXCLUSIVE)

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Kenji Iwaisawa, director of the cult “On-Gaku: Our Sound”), headlines an Annecy Animation Showcase at this year’s Cannes’ Marché du Film.

The Showcase in general look like a declaration of intentions from the world’s most important animation festival: Its heartfelt support for some of the world’s most original, redolent and sometimes riotous – think France’s Jul, Brazil’s Otto Guerra – adult animation auteurs of all ages, hailing from four corners of the earth. “Hina” looks to have largely flown  under the international radar to date, which will make this year’s Showcase a must-attend after Iwaisawa burst onto the scene with left-of-field musical comedy “On-Gaku: Our Sound,” hailed by Variety as 2020’s “biggest dark horse in anime fandom.” If it’s half as good as “On-Gaku” which in 2019 beat “I Lost My Body” and “Children of the Sea” to win the Grand Prix at the Ottawa Animation Festival, as Variety noted, it should be worth watching.

Wetting appetites all the more, the film’s screenplay is written by Academy Award nominated Takamasa Oe (“Drive My Car”). The animation director and character designer is Naoyuki Asano (“Evangelion: 3.0+1.0,” “Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!”).

Some of this year’s Showcase directors stand out for boldness of technique: 2021 caught India’s Upamanyu Bhattacharyya at an Annecy Residency, transferring animation frames onto fabric which textile artist Maitri Ravishankar embroidered frame by frame and Bhattacharyya photograph as he established the visuals for “Heirloom.” “The film is a celebration of Indian textiles and their capacity to contain epic narratives about families, communities and legends,” Bhattacharyya told Variety. “The ‘main’ storyline is presented in 2D animation with

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