The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) has unveiled seven features comprising its 2022 feature lineup.
The films will compete for the feature animation grand prize, voted on by an OIAF jury comprised of Pilar Newton-Katz, assistant professor of animation at The City College of New York; Marc Bertrand, producer at the National Film Board of Canada; and Hugo Covarrubias, Oscar-nominated director of the Chilean short Bestia.
“This year’s feature finalists are stylistically, technically, and thematically diverse, and oh so timely,” said OIAF artistic director Chris Robinson in a release. “We’ve got a musical film about refugees; a decidedly adult anti-war film featuring teddy bears and unicorns; a touching and comic memoir about a family’s experience living under repressive regimes in China; an utterly hypnotic and mystifying beauty from past OIAF Grand Prize winner Koji Yamamura; a lo-fi indie comedy from cult sensation and OIAF special guest Jonni Philips; and a surprising work from Algeria about a boy with amnesia who embarks on a journey to restore his memory.”
