Annecy Festival to Honor Michel Gondry
The Annecy animated film festival will this year honor French film iconoclast Michel Gondry.
Annecy will present the director of The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Silence of Sleep, and Be Kind Rewind with an honorary Crystal award for lifetime achievement. It will mark the first time Gondry has attended Annecy, the world’s largest animation film festival.
Gondry has used forms of stop-motion animation in his live-action features, as well as in numerous music videos — famously in Björk’s Human Behaviour, but to date has only directed two full-length animated films: The hand-drawn animated documentaryIs the Man Who Is Tall Happy?: An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky (2013), and the upcoming feature Maya, donne-moi un titre (Maya, Give Me a Title), which will have its international premiere at the Berlin film festival next month, screening in the Generation Kplus sidebar. The film is described by Gondry as a “stop-motion love letter to his daughter Maya” and features the voices of Maya Gondry and French star Pierre Niney.
Calling Gondry “a visionary artist and a veritable magician of images” Annecy credits Gondry will helping bring “hand-crafted animation back into the mainstream.”
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The 2025 Annecy film festival runs June 8 to 14.
