The Annecy International Animation Festival has postponed outdoor screenings until Monday after Thursday’s knife attack at a playground near the lakeside screening venue in the French mountai…
The Annecy International Animation Festival has postponed outdoor screenings until Monday afterat a playground near the lakeside screening venue in the French mountain resort town. However, the festival will open as planned on Sunday.
Festival head Mickaël Marin and his team said in a statement, “The people of Annecy, France, and farther afield, have all been shaken to the core by yesterday’s tragic events. It has now been established that this was an isolated act. “The Festival screenings will reflect the values that they have always endorsed: sharing, solidarity and fraternity.”
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