Comedy/horror wins at Anifilm

Spanish director Sam Conflictivos won the main award for best animated full-length film for adults with his puppet horror comedy Possessed at the Anifilm international festival in Třebon at the weekend. The Tale of Princess Kaguya by Japanese Isao Takahata, which was nominated for an Oscar this year, won as the best animated full-length film for children. Special mentions in these categories went to Signe Baumane, a Latvian animator living in New York, for her autobiographical study of depression, Rocks in my Pockets, and Irish director Tomm Moore, from the Cartoon Saloon studio, for Song of the Sea.

Author: Jan Velinger