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‘My Sunny Maad,’ ‘Granny’s Sexual Life’ Score French Academy César Awards

Visual effects supervisor Laurens Ehrmann also won a César for his work on ‘Notre Dame on Fire.’

Animated short films ‘Câline,’ ‘Black Sun,’ and ‘Granny’s Sexual Life’ also earned nominations.

Pavlátová’s films obsessively explore how language, boredom, sex, desire, and death inevitably mess up marriages and relationships.

Bestia, Steakhouse, and To the Last Drop featured among the winners at this year’s Stuttgart Festival.

Two indie titles from Europe also made the list – “Flee” and “My Sunny Maad” – while key Sony contender “The Mitchells vs. The Machines” was snubbed.

They include some of the year’s most acclaimed films. But do they stand a chance against Hollywood?

Favorites like “Encanto” and “Flee” are jostling against smaller films such as “The Spine of Night” and “The Ape Star.”

Reviews of three disparate films that played in competition at this year’s Annecy festival.

Read the full list of winners at Annecy 2021, a strong year for animated documentaries.

European producers aren’t following the same path as American animation producers. Here’s some of the key things they do differently.

The exciting world of European feature animation will be on display next month at Cartoon Movie in Bordeaux, France.