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Natalie Portman-Produced French Animated Film ‘Arco’ Wins Annecy. Illustrator Ugo Bienvenu's debut feature, about a boy from the future trying to find his way home, took the Cristal for best ...
Ugo Bienvenu’s French feature Arco won the Cristal award for best feature film at the 2025 Annecy International Animation Film Festival.. Produced by Felix de Givry for France’s Remembers and ...
Still from the animated film "Arco" by Ugo Bienvenu. MOUNTAIN A. While many French animation studios and their teams are grappling with a crisis, the French animation industry received significant ...
EXCLUSIVE: Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired UK and Irish distribution to Ugo Bienvenu’s Annecy award-winning French animation Arco from Goodfellas. The 2D computer animation was premiered ...
Swiss-born director and designer Marcel Barelli will receive the Locarno Kids Award at the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival this summer. He will be awarded the honor, presented by la ...
Natalie Portman-produced animated feature Arco, by the first feature of French director Ugo Bienvenu, has won the top Cristal Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The movie ...
At the end of an edition trouncing yet another attendance record (18,200 accredited attendees from 118 countries), the 44th Annecy Animation Film Festival has unveiled a winners’ list dominated by ...
Natalie Portman-produced animated feature Arco, by the first feature of French director Ugo Bienvenu, has won the top Cristal Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.. The movie ...
Natalie Portman’s animated production Arco has been awarded the top Cristal Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.. The French animation, directed by Ugo Bienvenu, received ...
Arco, Ugo Bienvenu (France) Jury Award. ChaO, Yasuhiro Aoki (Japan) Paul Grimault Award. Dandelion’s Odyssey (Planètes), Momoko Seto (France, Belgium) Gan Foundation Award for Distribution.
The feature debut of famed French illustrator Ugo Bienvenu, which premiered in Cannes and counts Natalie Portman among its producers, follows Arco, a 10‑year‑old boy from the year 2932 who ...