Annecy Festival Residency: The winning projects in 2022

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Deep Fake - Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis (France)

Deep Fake by Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis (France)

The story about a fictious virtual world, also known as a metaverse, in which Amy, a YouTuber artist who makes her living by doing ASMR performance videos. But her popularity is questioned when a lookalike hacks her account and posts controversial videos. The YouTuber will then do everything to prove her innocence and try to win back her community.

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Dino Doom on Desert Planet - Zsuzsanna Kreif, Balázs Turai & Clare Macdonald (Hongrie/Hungary)

Dino Doom on Desert Planet by Zsuzsanna Kreif, Balázs Turai and Clare Macdonald (Hungary)

A catastrophic love story between a humanoid slave, Azaz, and a teenage meteor girl, NIKU-278. Using wormholes to spy around the Universe, NIKU notices Azaz and falls fatally in love with him. She changes course and heads straight for Planet Urth, Azaz’s home. Urth is a depleted, desert planet where only a few humans, dinosaurs and cacti remain after a great catastrophe. The tiny civilization is divided into a majority of workers and a minority of rulers. Tensions are ever-present. The love story introduces a touch of romance into a world about to be destroyed.

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Hanta - Emilio Ramos (Mexique/Mexico)

Hanta by Emilio Ramos (Mexico)

The story about freedom seekers. It is also the story about those who are silenced, imprisoned, and killed. In 1968, the writer Bohumil is censored when he is in the prime of his career. To save himself, he pretends to obey the current government while secretly writing a novel starring Hanta, an old paper presser of censored books. Bohumil's reality and Hanta's fiction intertwine in the midst of a dangerous context for both of them, from which they will only manage to free themselves through death.