Car­toon Movie 2024: Highlights

For all ages. Films aimed at fam­i­ly audi­ences were still in the major­i­ty for this edi­tion with 31 works (58%) such as ​“Rose and the Mar­mots”, ​“Mou­Moush - The King of Plas­tic”, ​“Lucy Lost”, and ​“SuperK­laus”. 18% of the projects were aimed at Young Adults/​Adults, 16% at Chil­dren, 4% at Teenagers, and 4% at Pre-schoolers.

Spot­light on Pub­lish­ers. In col­lab­o­ra­tion with Frank­furter Buchmesse and VIP Brands, this year’s Spot­light was ded­i­cat­ed to the pub­lish­ing indus­try. Del­e­gates from about 20 pub­lish­ing com­pa­nies from all over Europe had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to meet pro­duc­ers and to rein­force the exist­ing con­nec­tions between both sec­tors. This two-way dynam­ic is already appar­ent in the 15 projects (28%) based on books or graph­ic nov­els in this year’s line­up. Among those, ​“The Fly­ing Man’s Prophe­cy”, ​“The Trea­sure of the Wyrm”, ​“Elli and her Mon­ster Team”, or ​“The Wild Inside” made the leap from paper to screen. The oppo­site is also true as ​“Siroc­co and the King­dom of the Wind”, pitched at Car­toon Movie in 2020, had its own book adap­ta­tion. Some com­mer­cial projects, such as ​“The Defects”, and less con­ven­tion­al films like ​“The Lit­tle Run” or ​“Pale Pink”, cap­tured the inter­est of pub­lish­ers too.

4 projects from the Ter­ri­to­ry. The Nou­velle-Aquitaine stands out in the 2024 Car­toon Movie selec­tion with 4 projects. 3 projects are sup­port­ed by the Nou­velle-Aquitaine Region: ​“Picas­so in Roy­an” by Benoît Lau­re, ​“Into the Won­der­woods” by Vin­cent Paron­naud & Alex­is Ducord, and ​“Liv­ing Large” by Kristi­na Dufkovà. ​“Picas­so in Roy­an” as well as ​“The Line” are sup­port­ed by the Départe­ment Charente.

Cel­e­brat­ed direc­tors. Reflect­ing the rich­ness and diver­si­ty of Euro­pean ani­ma­tion, the selec­tion fea­tured both cel­e­brat­ed and up-and-com­ing direc­tors. Alessan­dro Rak (“The Lit­tle Prince of Shangri-La”), Toby Genkel (“Out of Frame”), and Neil Boyle & Kirk Hendry (“Ken­suke’s King­dom”) are some of the renowned direc­tors who pitched their new works in Bordeaux.

Young tal­ents on the front­line. An engag­ing half-day of mas­ter­class­es was arranged as part of the Coach­ing Pro­gramme specif­i­cal­ly designed for young tal­ents from 12 local French schools. In the after­noon, stu­dents also had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to net­work and con­nect with local com­pa­nies at a ​“Jobs & Intern­ships Market.”