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Please (Anna Mantzaris) wins the Jean-Luc Xiberras Award for a First Film at Annecy 2026

2026-06-30 medium priority

Anna Mantzaris' stop-motion short Please won the Jean-Luc Xiberras Award for a First Film at the Annecy 2026 closing ceremony on 27 June. It is the festival's prize for a debut feature-length or standout first film, and the most significant stop-motion recognition at this year's edition — Annecy's top Cristal prizes (The Violinist, Paper Trail, Iron Boy) all went to non-stop-motion work.

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