This year's Shanghai International Film Festival will launch a number of Japanese classic animations, including "New Century Evangelion Theater Edition: DEATH TRUE(2)", "Evangelion Theater Edition: Air/True for You", "Akira", "Venus Wars", "White Snake", etc., which have caused many anime fans to scream. In fact, the animation world is so big that there are animation masterpieces in various countries around the world. Today's SIFF animation is going to introduce you to a number of new animation films with different styles, including:
Japanese popular actress Masayuki Matsuoka voiced the Japanese version of "Alice in Wonderland" of "Birthday Paradise"; the latest sci-fi animation "Three Fools" by the German twin brothers who won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for "Balance"; "Future Machine City" based on the strip manga series "7723" and co-produced by "Rampage Manga" and the North American team; the fourth work of the Fighting Nation BIG IP "Ice Queen 4: Magic Mirror World" A 25-year-old director from Latvia painted the animated feature film "Departure" alone; the cartoon "Salma's Long-cherished Wish" about the Mexican Day of the Dead; the theatrical version of the animation "Osma: The First Piece on the Long Bread", based on the TV animation series that every adult and child in Brazil loves to watch; Hayao Miyazaki's first animated short film collection of proud protégé and Ghibli's three sons; adapted from the popular Dutch manga, "Dutch Cat Hynes" about the fat cat saving the world.
In addition, please be sure to carefully look at the specific introduction of these cartoons, because some cartoons are mainly aimed at adult audiences, and children may not necessarily be suitable for watching.
Highlights: Matsuoka Moyu voices the Japanese version of "Alice in Wonderland"
Schoolboy Akane is a shy, unconfident girl. The day before her birthday, when she went to the antique shop to pick up her birthday present, she was taken into a mysterious country by the mysterious alchemist, where she became the key to saving the world! Adapted from the fantasy novel "The Wonderful Journey That Begins in the Basement" by writer Sachiko Kashiwaba, directed by anime director Keiichi Hara ("Summer of the Kappa"), the film has been shortlisted for the main competition unit of this year's Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The film has a strong dubbing cast, including big names such as Apricot, Masamune Ichimura, and Kumiko Aso, while the popular young actress Matsuoka Momoyo plays the role of Akane, leading the audience on a colorful "wonderland journey".
Highlights: Cartoons of one person
In order to escape the evil spirits, the boy takes the birds across the island to find a way home. The 25-year-old latvian up-and-coming director, Kinz Zebarodis, spent three years alone completing the 70-minute dialogue-free 3D animated film. The young and promising director has directed and produced seven animated short films since the age of 15, this film is his feature film debut, the inspiration of the film's first work of Hayao Miyazaki", "Future Teenager Conan", consists of four chapters, the whole character is only the protagonist teenager, the audience can experience the fantasy and vast scenes in the film with the protagonist's adventure during the viewing process, and a strong sense of substitution and a huge sense of oppression will bring the audience a very special viewing experience.
Highlights: Genuine Mexican version of "Dream Quest"
Salma embarked on a journey to find her parents on the Day of the Dead at the age of 16. Mexican director Carlos Gutierrez Medrano, a leading figure in latin American animation, began conceiving the film in 2004, with the first draft of the script being completed in 2007 and the art design and animation production taking a decade. This is a pure Mexican folk style film, the animation of the buildings, churches and colorful ethnic costumes tell the deep cultural heritage, the audience follows the beautiful girl back to the past, understand that more important than the pursuit of the deceased, it is more important to cherish the family around them.
Highlights: A short film collection of Ghibli's disciples' entrepreneurship
Hiromasa Mibayashi, a proud disciple of Hayao Miyazaki and the original artist of Ghibli, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature film for "Marnie in Memory". Millin left Ghibli in 2015 to form Studios Pleka, the latest collection of Pleka's animated short films, consisting of three stories, namely "Canini and Canino", directed by Milin and telling the adventures of crab brothers and sisters; "Samurai Egg", directed by Yoshiyuki Hyakuse and depicting a teenager with an allergy to eggs, and "Transparent Man" directed by Akihiko Yamashita, which depicts a transparent and lonely man. The three people who are also Ghibli's biography have delivered satisfactory answers with three wonderful short films with different styles, coupled with the strong voice cast joined by Oda Cherjan and the soundtrack of the famous electronic music producer Yasutaka Nakada, how can anime fans miss it? In addition to the three short films, this screening will also show interviews with Yoshiaki Nishimura, producer of The Pleka Studio, and Maggie Q, the american voice actor of "Samurai Egg", to reveal the behind-the-scenes story of the planning and production of the three short films.
Highlights: Crazy aliens looking for lost love
It tells the story of what happens after the home of a lonely little boy Louis is invaded by three aliens. With elements of comedy, sci-fi and adventure, it is full of childlike fun and imagination, and deliberately evokes the preciousness of people to cherish their family affection. As the first animated feature film to make a comeback after a thirty-year absence for The Balance, the German twin brothers Christopher and Wolfgang Lauenstein won the 1989 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film marks the rise of a new German animation empire.
Highlights: Amnesiac robot falls in love with a rebellious girl
Based on the 2012 comic series "7723", which swept the online community, the story of the friendship between the lonely girl Su Mai and the top-secret robot 7723 turns her life into a thrilling adventure, and they have to face the big boss with the dream of destroying mankind. The cartoon, which made Netflix win the overseas distribution rights for $30 million, was produced by China's "Riot Comics" and the North American team, and also attracted Feng Yuanzheng, Tu Songyan, Shi Banyu and many other big-name actors as voice actors. Winner of the Anne Award for Animation, known as the Oscar of the animation industry, was nominated for three nominations.
Highlights: Defense of the Enchanted Kingdom
King Harrard nearly lost his family due to the Ice Queen's evil deeds, and he finds a way to ban all magic in the world— all those with magical powers are now trapped in the Mirror Nation, and only Gerda can stop him. The latest sequel to the Russian animation big IP "Ice Queen" series, created by the creators Robert Rensey and Alexei Testislin and his wife, continue the unique combat national fairy tale characteristics of ice and snow + magic; compared with the previous game, the villain Ice Queen in this episode has become a highlight of the transformation of evil under the inspiration of truth, goodness and beauty.
Highlights: Walk through the years with the master
Spanish surrealist film master Buñuel was confronted with the contradictions of reality, childhood memories, Dalí, dreams and patron Ramon when filming the documentary "Land Without Grain" in 1933. The film's director, Salvador Sim, pays homage to the aesthetic and style of Buñuel's documentaries with its original rough backgrounds, computer-produced footage, and plenty of brown and gray tones. At the same time, it also imitates Buñuel's addition of fictional elements to the documentary to emphasize the theme, and fabricates "anecdotes" that happened to Buñuel to entertain the audience, which is profound and humorous.
Highlights: It turns out that bread can be so cute
Osma, the first slice of bread cut from the long bread, was disliked because it was hard, so he went to the "breakfast" city to find his own value and began the struggle of the poor boy. Osma is a well-known TV series in Brazil, and in 2009, the pilot episode was named the most popular cartoon for teenagers aged 7-14 at the Cannes Television Festival. This film is the theatrical version of Osma, directed by the TV version of the original class, the well-known Brazilian animation producer McHador, the characters in the play are all kinds of bread, the street is a tablecloth, the apartment is a milk carton, and various cute settings evoke countless children's hearts.
Highlights: The most gentle growth material
The terminally ill little girl Emelia wants time to stop so she doesn't die. One day. She entered the world of clocks and made a deal with time. The film has little dialogue but is full of philosophical thoughts, inspiring children to think about the nature of time and the connotation of life and death. Mexican director Miguel Angel Jurigos has created a childish and cute character shape that makes people can't help but be funny, the exquisite animation details are close to the high level of Japanese animation, and the warm interaction between angels and little girls makes every adult and child feel that there is an angel guarding them.
Highlights: Fat cats claw out to save the world
Hines, the Dutch cat, lost his child with his girlfriend one day, and he inadvertently foils a plot to destroy the earth on his way to find the baby cat. This is a typical, sharp-style adult animation, and the cute image of Hines is sophisticated, grumpy and loves to take advantage of small things, and walks around in trouble, just like you and me. Director Pete Krone, who participated in the production of "Despicable Me 2", made his first animated feature film, adapted the comic that swept the Netherlands in the last century, and also invited the original author of the comic to paint for the film, and the two-dimensional flat animal figures appeared in the three-dimensional landmark building of Amsterdam, which was particularly vivid.
Highlights: Brazilian oil painting hand-drawn cartoons
The village where the little boy Tito lives is infected with a strange disease: people with fear turn to stone. Tito discovers that the bird's language contains the secret of a strange disease, so he embarks on a dangerous journey. Brazilian director Gustav Steinberg spent eight years hand-painting this allegory of fear frame by frame in oil paintings, with bright colors and rough brushstrokes complemented by digital drawing embellishments reminiscent of the visuals of Beloved Van Gogh. The film also contains political satires about the Brazilian right-wing forces delivering fake news, controlling public opinion, and dividing society.