Hana to Alice, Miss Hokusai, and Other Anime at this Years Annecy

Genkina Hito

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A number of the biggest anime films to be seen in 2014/15 will be at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Here's the line-up. Click on the links to be taken to the festival page which has more information.

<strong>Features</strong>

<em>The Case of Hana & Alice (Hana to Alice Satsujin Jiken)</em>, and <em>Miss Hokusai (Sarusuberi -Miss HOKUSAI-)</em> have both been selected for the Official Feature Film Competition.

<em>The Boy and the Beast</em>, or at least parts of it, will be featured in the Work in Progress section which involves a talk given by the film&rsquo;s producer Seiji Okuda. The <em>Out of Competition section features</em> <em><em>Stand by Me Doraemon</em></em>.

<em>Ghost in the Shell: The Movie</em>, the most recent adaptation of the franchise by character designer and director Kazuchika Kise and his co-director Kazuya Nomura, is also getting screened.

<strong>Shorts</strong>

In other areas, Yusuke Sakamoto's <em>The Night of the Naporitan</em> is competing in the Short Films category and in the Commissioned Films category Mirai Mizue and Yukie Nakauchi's Shugo Tokumaru <em>Poker</em> is present.

There are three Japanese student films at this year&rsquo;s Graduation Films category. They are&nbsp; Sayaka Kihata's <em>I Can't Breathe</em>, Sawako Kabuki's <em>Master Blaster</em>, and Shishi Yamazaki's <em>Tsukiyo & Opal</em>.

<em>The Lost Breakfast, a</em> short by Q-RAIS, is screened out of competition.

<strong>Television</strong>

The "Food Chain" episode of <em>Adventure Time</em> is in the TV Films category and Making Of category. It will be known to anime fans because that was the episode written, directed and animated by director Masaaki Yuasa (<em>Ping Pong The Animation</em>, <em>Space Dandy</em>, <em>The Tatami Galaxy</em>). Yuasa and Eunyoung Choi, his prot&eacute;g&eacute; and frequent collaborator, are listed as guest speakers.

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