Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated documentary picked up the Cristal Award Best Film, the Gan Foundation for Distribution and Best Original Music - Feature Film.

The major awards collected on Saturday at the 60th Annecy Animation Festival come on top the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Göteborg Dragon Award-Best Nordic Documentary won earlier this year, as the Danish film continues to conquer festival and general audiences around the world.

The film was produced by Denmark’s Final Cut for Real, with animation studio Sun Creature Studio, in co-production with France’s Vivement Lundi!, Sweden’s Mostfilm, and Norway’s Mer Film. Cinephil handles global sales.

The powerful and poetic story of a refugee from Afghanistan who recounts his heartfelt story was among three feature films about displacement that were bestowed top awards in the feature film category, together with the Jury Prize winner My Sunny Maad (Czech/French/Slovakian) about a Czech woman who marries an Afghan and has to adjust to post-Taliban Afghanistan, and The Crossing (German/French/Czech), about children refugees.

Other winners in the ‘Contrechamp’ section were Brazil’s Bob Cuspe-We Do Not Like People, which scooped the Jury Distinction, and Archipelago (Canada) Mention Award winner.

In other sections, the Norwegian short film Help! We Have a Blind Patient by Robin Jensen produced by Mikrofilm, was awarded the Jury Prize for a Commissioned Film. The puppet animation film was made for The Norwegian Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted.

More than 8,000 participants attended the 60th Annecy Film Festival’s first hybrid edition.

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