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Cinekid honours French animation filmmaker Michel Ocelot with Lifetime Achievement Award

The feature-length French animated film is on the rise. To emphasise this, Michel Ocelot, one of the pacesetters, has been invited as guest of honour by the Cinekid children's film festival. Tonight, he was also presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award, which he accepted with a modest protest. As an animation filmmaker, Michel Ocelot (1943) still considers himself an adolescent with much to discover.

Met zijn op Afrikaanse sprookjes gebaseerde Kirikou et la sorcière (1998) verwierf Ocelot wereldfaam en inspireerde hij ook andere makers. Het ook hier in de bioscoop uitgebrachte Une vie de chat (2010) van Felicioli en Gagnol is met zijn stoere lijn en expressieve beelden een mooi voorbeeld van het eigen karakter van de Franse animatie. Een andere succesvolle film van Ocelot is Azur et Asmar (2006), waarvoor hij zich zowel door Arabische als vroege Europese kunst liet inspireren. Opvallend kleurgebruik is een van de kenmerken van zijn werk.

Twee nieuwe Franse animatiefilms – Zarafa and Ernest et Célestine – zijn geselecteerd voor de competitie van Cinekid. Het festival presenteert daarnaast Ocelots nieuwste: Kirikou et les hommes et les femmes.

 

Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

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