Running for sixty years, the Annecy animation film festival has established itself as one of the animation world’s key moments of the year. From 13 to 18 June, it will once again host and screen the works of globally esteemed professionals.

Luxembourg, with its growing cinema presence, will also be present at the event, as was revealed by the Film Fund on the evening of 3 May. Aside from having a stand at the Mifa--the international animation film market--where the grand duchy will promote fifteen of its animation companies--, the country’s skills will be represented by three co-productions.

In the selection is Le petit Nicolas – Qu’est-ce qu’on attend pour être heureux?, which was Coproduced by Lilian Eche and Christel Henon, it is based on the work of René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé. Luxembourg’s Studio 352 in Contern worked on the backgrounds and colours of the first feature film of the Le Petit Nicolas franchise. Luxembourg City-based Onyc Lux 3D worked on special effects too, while Philophon Studios in Bettembourg worked on the sound editing of the film. Sounds and the score for the film were also recorded at the Philharmonie.

Saules aveugles, femme endormie, a collaboration between France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Canada, also had its sound postproduction undertaken by Philophon, while the Doghouse studio animated a large part of the 2D-3D hybrid film.

My Love Affair with Marriage, also screened at Cannes, is a coproduction between the US, Luxembourg and Latvia, on which the Luxembourg co-prodicer Raoul Nadalet worked with Loïc Collignon and Pierre Vedovato on the sound of the film.