Animated film from Hamburg in the official programme

20.04.2018 | 71st Cannes Film Festival

The animated film Another Day of Life has received an invitation to the Cannes Film Festival. Two companies from Hamburg are behind the international co-production with FFHSH funding.

Maria KöpfCEO of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein: "The invitation to Cannes shows: Hamburg is and remains a strong centre for animation. We are very proud that the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein film region is being honoured withAnother Day of Life and send our congratulations to the Hamburg teams from Wüste Film and Animationsfabrik. The docu-drama about the Angolan civil war from the perspective of a war reporter is impressive proof of the wide artistic range that animated film has to offer."

More about the film The animated filmAnother Day of Life by Raúl de la Fuente and Damian Nenow will celebrate its world premiere in Cannes in the Official Selection Out of Competition - Special Screening. The film is the gripping story of a three-month journey by the famous Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuściński through war-torn Angola. InAnother Day of Life the Directors skilfully interweave animation with documentary images.

At the 20th Cartoon Movie, the meeting place for the European animated film industry, the team fromAnother Day of Life has already been honoured as "Segment Producer of the Year".

The film is a production of Platige Films (Poland) and Kanaki Films (Spain), with Walking the Dog (Belgium) and the Hamburg companies Wüste Film and Animationsfabrik involved as co-producers. The production was made in cooperation with NDR/ARTE and was supported by Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein with 350,000 euros, with distribution being handled by Pandora Film.

To the Cannes Film Festival The 71st Cannes International Film Festival will take place from 8 to 19 May 2018. This year, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein will once again be present at the joint stand of "Focus Germany", the association of the seven German film funding organisations, and "German Films" in the International Village.

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