Two Hungarian animated shorts are competing in the official short film competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, which opened on Sunday in France.
Among more than 30 films selected for the festival’s main short film competition are Adgwa-Ata by Zsuzsanna Kreif and Creation (Alkotás) by Béla Klingl. The programme also includes Danse Macabre, a Dutch–French–Belgian–Hungarian co-production directed by Hisko Hulsing, with Hungarian producer Temple Réka serving as co-producer. Hungarian animators Ildikó Czipa, Beáta Ujj and Csaba Báros also contributed to the five-minute film.
Hungary is further represented in the student competition, where Bonefuzz, created by Márk László as his 2025 master’s graduation project at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, will be screened. The university is also represented in the commissioned films competition through Máté Horesnyi’s promotional animation created for the Friss Kakas Animation Film Days.
Adgwa-Ata, which previously premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, is a 15-minute Hungarian–French co-production supported by the National Film Institute. Written and directed by Zsuzsanna Kreif, the film explores the mystical world of an Amazonian initiation ritual. It was produced by Boddah, with Gábor Osváth and Benjámin Péter Lukács serving as producers alongside French production companies Avec Ou Sans Vous and XBO Films.
Creation tells the story of a painter’s canvas coming to life as playful abstract shapes emerge, revealing the human stories behind them. The six-and-a-half-minute experimental short was produced by Béla Klingl, directed by Árpád Koós, with production management by Tibor Sólyom and music and sound by Zsolt Hammer and Ádám Jávorka.
Danse Macabre is inspired by the powerful Allegro movement of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony. Director Hisko Hulsing said the music served as the primary inspiration for the film.
‘The protagonist of Bonefuzz is Vajk, a hearing-impaired teenager who controls his connection to the outside world through the volume of his hearing aid’
The protagonist of Bonefuzz is Vajk, a hearing-impaired teenager who controls his connection to the outside world through the volume of his hearing aid. His life changes after his brother takes him to a live concert. According to MOME, the film combines detailed 3D environments with hand-drawn 2D animation, while Márk László also composed the original score.
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival runs until 27 June. Hungarian film historian Anna Ida Orosz is also serving on one of the festival’s juries, evaluating works recognized for innovative storytelling and visual approaches.
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