Animated filmmaker Claude Barras receives the Locarno Kids Award 2024
Published: Tuesday, May 28th 2024, 10:01
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The animated filmmaker Claude Barras is honored with the Locarno Kids Award la Mobiliare. He is known for "Ma vie de Courgette". His latest film "Sauvages" celebrated its world premiere in Cannes and will be shown in Loarno for the first time in Switzerland.
The award honors personalities who inspire the younger generations for cinema, according to those responsible. Barra's new film "Sauvages" is about an orangutan who fights with his friends to save the forests on the south-east Asian island of Borneo. The film deals with social, political and ecological issues.
Barras' animations are exemplary: they strive for a socially conscious form of filmmaking that is "nevertheless endlessly entertaining and excellently designed", wrote the Locarno Film Festival organizers in a press release on Tuesday. The stop-motion comedy "Ma vie de Courgette" was released in 2016 and has won numerous awards. The film won two Césars, among others, and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Film in 2017.
On August 13, Barras will receive the Locarno Kids Award la Mobiliare on the Piazza Grande. Afterwards, "Sauvages" will be shown for the first time in Switzerland. The theatrical release in German-speaking Switzerland is scheduled for early February 2025. "Ma vie de Courgette" is also part of the Locarno program, as well as a selection of the Swiss filmmaker's earlier works. A panel discussion with the director is also on the program.
The Locarno Kids Award la Mobiliare has been awarded since 2021. So far, Mamoru Hosoda (2021), Gitanjali Rao (2022) and Luc Jacquet (2023) have received the award. The 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival takes place from August 7 to 17.
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