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Canada Standard
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Canada Standard
The NFB at the 2025 Annecy International Animation Film Festival. An opening-night film, three shorts in official competition, activities at the film market and more.
May 28, 2025 - Montreal - National Film Board of Canada (NFB) The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is back at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival (June 8-14), with a strong presence throughout the event. Three NFB short films have been selected for the official competition, including the eagerly awaited The Girl Who Cried Pearls ( La jeune fille qui pleurait des perles ) by the Oscar-nominated duo of Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski ( Madame Tutli-Putli ). It will screen as a world premiere on the festival's opening night. The NFB will also be taking part in the Annecy International Animation Film Market (MIFA). The NFB at the 2025 Annecy festival The Girl Who Cried Pearls ( La jeune fille qui pleurait des perles ) by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (opening-night film, official competition, world premiere) Two other films in official competition: Bread Will Walk ( Le pain se lve ) by Alex Boya and Hairy Legs ( Poil aux jambes ) by Andrea Dorfman MIFA: Telefilm Canada / NFB networking event and panel on Canadian animation, with Suzanne Guvremont, Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson of the NFB, in attendance SHORT FILMS - OFFICIAL COMPETITION The Girl Who Cried Pearls (La jeune fille qui pleurait des perles) by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (NFB, 16 min) - OPENING-NIGHT FILM AND WORLD PREMIERE Press kit: First screening: Sunday, June 8, 8:30 p.m. (Short Films Official 1) A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds. The film was presented at a Work in Progress at Annecy in 2023. With the voice of: Colm Feore. Original Music: Patrick Watson. Sound Designer: Olivier Calvert. Artistic Director: Brigitte Henry. Bread Will Walk by Alex Boya (NFB, 11 min 18 s) Press kit: First screening: Friday, June 13, 3:30 p.m. (Short Films Official 6) A devoted sister flees with her brother, a benevolent, bread-turned zombie. A mob pursues, mouths agape. Streets twist into mazes, reason dissolves, hunger reigns. Can love defy appetite? The film was just featured as part of the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. Actor Jay Baruchel voices all the characters in the original English version. Hairy Legs (Poil aux jambes) by Andrea Dorfman (NFB, 17 min) Press kit: First screening: Wednesday, June 11, 3:30 p.m. (Short Films Official 4) Deciding not to shave her legs at 13 led a young Andrea Dorfman to question and ultimately defy society's expectations. The film received an Honourable Mention for the DGC Award for Best Canadian Animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival (2024). MIFA Telefilm Canada / NFB networking event: Canada, Your Next Animation Partner Tuesday, June 10, 7 to 9 p.m. This soiree will underscore the presence of Canadian animation at Annecy and provide opportunities to develop new partnerships. With Suzanne Guvremont, NFB Chairperson, and Julie Roy, Executive Director and CEO of Telefilm Canada, in attendance. By invitation only. Panel - Investing in the Future: Canadian Animation at the Forefront Wednesday, June 11, 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. This panel will bring together leaders from the Canadian animation industry as well as filmmakers presenting their projects. With Suzanne Guvremont of the NFB and filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, among others, in attendance. WOMEN AND ANIMATION, 10 YEARS Thursday, June 12, 5:30 p.m. Affairs of the Art (L'art dans le sang) by Joanna Quinn (Beryl Productions International Ltd/NFB, 2021, 16 min 23 s) How to Be at Home ( la maison) by Andrea Dorfman (NFB, 2021, 4 min 51 s) HONORARY CRISTAL RECIPIENT JOANNA QUINN The NFB congratulates filmmaker Joanna Quinn, who this year is a recipient of the Annecy Festival's prestigious Honorary Cristal. She will also lead a captivating masterclass during the festival, talking about her passion for drawing and animation, and sharing secrets of how she brings her characters to life. - 30 - Stay Connected Online Screening Room: NFB Facebook | NFB X | NFB Instagram | NFB Blog | NFB YouTube | NFB Vimeo Curator's perspective | Director's notes About the NFB
Montreal Gazette
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Montreal Gazette
Actor Jay Baruchel only too happy to provide all of the voices for Bread Will Walk
Movies And TV By Jay Baruchel didn't need any arm-twisting to agree to lend his voice to the brand-new National Film Board animated short Bread Will Walk. In fact, he was so into this extraordinary 11-minute film that he agreed to do all 10 voices in the short film! 'Number one, it's just gorgeous and wholly unique,' said the former Montrealer in a recent phone interview from his home in Toronto, explaining why he agreed to jump on board the film created by Montreal director Alex Boya. 'I can't explain its look or tone to anybody, which is a rare thing,' said Baruchel, who has appeared in the films Goon, Knocked Up, BlackBerry and Million Dollar Baby. 'It's like nothing meets nothing. I don't know how I would possibly describe what Bread Will Walk is and in 2025 that's a rare special thing to be treasured. There is not one piece of phoney inside of Alex Boya. There isn't a phoney bone in his body. He's as authentic an artist as I've ever worked with and I felt it watching it. When I saw this f---ed up Grimm's Fairy Tale, it reminded me of the scariest stories my mother would read to me as a kid. Then on top of that I really liked what he had to say about the food industrial complex and the inherent predatory nature of free-market capitalism.' Bread Will Walk is kind of a reverse zombie-apocalypse movie. The zombies are peaceful beings made of bread and it's the hungry living who're trying to eat the zombies! It's not The Walking Dead. It's The Walking Bread! Like in any zombie flick worth its salt, the setting is a world on the verge of collapse with a little social critique thrown in for good measure. It's about hunger, nasty food multinationals and a media world gone mad. The basic story is simple: An older sister is on the run with her younger brother who is indeed made of bread. Bread Will Walk is set to have its world premiere on Thursday in the Directors Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival. 'It started off with a dream,' said Boya, on the phone from Cannes. 'I had a dream many many years ago about a man who was faceless, who had a jet turbine on his head instead of a face. In that world you also had a scene where someone pulled my hand, I was trying to get away from this industrial wasteland, and someone held on to my arm and then my whole arm was ripped off. But it wasn't an arm. It was a baguette and there were crumbs everywhere.' It took Boya four years to make the film using paper and 2D animation mixed with digital collages. It's built around 4,000 ink-on-paper hand drawings. Baruchel does 10 different voices in the film, using styles of voice that range from a guy who sounds like an older Louisiana man to someone who sounds like a BBC announcer. He also sings the jazz standard All of Me. 'It appealed to my hubris,' said Baruchel. 'He said: 'Do you want to do the work of 10 people?' And I'm like: 'Yeah! Absolutely I can'.' Doing voice work is old hat for Baruchel. One of his highest-profile roles on the big screen was voicing the character Hiccup Haddock in the How to Train Your Dragon movies, but even that was far from his first experience doing voices in animation. 'I have spent years at a microphone figuring out a way to make my voice suit an animated story,' said Baruchel. 'When I started my career, when I was 12 or 13, I worked at Astral Tech a lot on Ste-Catherine St. near Fort (St.). I would dub French TV shows into English, live action and animated. That was like boot camp for voice recording. So that put me in a good place to do How to Train Your Dragon, which turned into three movies and eight-plus years of a TV series. It is now a place in the world that I am as at home in as anywhere else. 'I'm plus à l'aise in doing a voice because nobody's looking at me and it's devoid of vanity. I'm not worried about my complexion or my hairline or my posture or any of these things. All I'm doing, in a pretty pure way, is just creating with no ego, no sense of personal aesthetics. When you take away a camera, you take away a microscope and any superficiality, which is a necessary evil of being a person who gets makeup put on their face and stands in front of a camera and lights. So it becomes this really pure almost childlike channeling of your imagination.'
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Gérard Depardieu Found Guilty of Sexual Assault, Gets 18-Month Suspended Sentence
A Paris court on Tuesday found Gérard Depardieu guilty of sexual assault, giving him an 18-month suspended sentence. Depardieu was found guilty of sexually assaulting two women, a production designer and an assistant director, on the set of Jean Becker's French film The Green Shutters in 2021. The court also placed the French star of Green Card and Cyrano de Bergerac on the national sex offender registry. Depardieu did not appear in court for the sentencing. More from The Hollywood Reporter RadicalMedia Heads Talk Cannes, Bono and Bringing Stage Musicals to the Big Screen Cannes Hidden Gem: Jay Baruchel Voices Surreal 'Bread Will Walk,' a "Nightmarish Riff" on Capitalism Italian Producer Andrea Iervolino, "Hollywood Envoy" Mel Gibson Unveil Italy-U.S. Film Treaty Proposal The ruling is the first successful case made against Depardieu, who faces at least 20 separate public accusations of sexually inappropriate behavior, going back decades. The ruling is being seen as a landmark in the #MeToo movement in France. The set dresser, referred to only as Amélie in court, said the actor grabbed her with his legs and started groping her, saying he was going to take his 'big parasol' and 'shove it up your pussy.' The third assistant director, referred to as Sarah, described Depardieu grabbing her buttocks and breasts on two separate occasions on set. Depardieu has repeatedly denied the charges against him, claiming that as an old man (he is 76) he was 'not into groping' and that his actions had been misinterpreted. In one instance, the actor claimed, he had grabbed Amélie's hips 'to keep from slipping.' His lawyer has said he will appeal. During this trial, Depardieu had some prominent defenders, including actress Fanny Ardant (8 Women), who testified that she had 'never witnessed an act that I would have found shocking' by Depardieu. But she acknowledged that 'the world has changed, society has changed, the benchmarks are no longer the same, there are things that we tolerated and that are no longer tolerable.' Depardieu could be back later this year to stand trial in a separate case, involving rape allegations made by actress Charlotte Arnould, dating back to 2018. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Goonies' Cast, Then and Now "A Nutless Monkey Could Do Your Job": From Abusive to Angst-Ridden, 16 Memorable Studio Exec Portrayals in Film and TV The 10 Best Baseball Movies of All Time, Ranked
