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Cartoon d'Or 2012
The pan-European award for the best animated short film

The Cartoon d'Or rewards each year the best European animation short among the prize-winning films from the major European festivals.

The jury selects 5 finalists and the winner is announced during the Cartoon Forum, the co-production forum for animated TV series. The 2012 Award Ceremony took place on 13th September 2012 in Toulouse in the presence of French director Michel Ocelot.
And the 2012 winner is… "Oh Willy…" by Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels.

From left to right: Tomer Eshed, Franck Dion, Michaela Pavlatova, Marc James Roels & Emma De Swaef, Kyra Buschor, Giuseppe Lagana, and Esben Toft Jacobsen.


Nominees

Edmond Was a Donkey

Edmond Was a Donkey

by Franck Dion
France / Canada, 2012, 15mn 4s

Prod: Papy3D Productions / Arte France / L'office national du film du Canada

Flamingo Pride

Flamingo Pride

by Tomer Eshed
Germany, 2011, 6mn 2s

Prod: Talking Animals, HFF "Konrad" Wolf
Oh Willy

Oh Willy…

by Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels
Belgium / France / Netherlands, 2012, 16mn 53s

Prod: Beast Animation, Polaris Film & Finance, Vivement Lundi!, il Luster Productions
Tram

Tram

by Michaela Pavlátová
France / Czech Republic, 2012, 7mn

Prod: Sacrebleu Productions, Negativ Film
Zing

Zing

by Kyra Buschor & Cynthia Collins
Germany, 2011, 7mn 31s

Prod: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg


Jury

The 2012 jury was composed of directors Alain Gagnol (France), Esben Toft Jacobsen (Denmark) and Giuseppe Lagana (Italy).


Films that took part in the competition (award-winners at the partner festivals)

  • Aalterate, Christobal de Oliveira, France / Netherlands
  • Atlas, Aike Arndt, Germany
  • Body Memory, Ulo Pikkov, Estonia
  • Danny Boy, Marek Skrobecki, Poland
  • Dodu - The Cardboard Boy, José Miguel Ribeiro, Portugal
  • Duo de volailles, sauce chasseur, Pascale Hecquet, Belgium / France
  • Farmer Jack, Arjan Wilschut, Netherlands / Belgium / Ireland
  • L'envol du chat, Clément Doranlo, France
  • La boîte de sardines, Louise-Marie Colon, Belgium
  • La Veuve Caillou, Agnès Patron, France
  • Lumberjack, Pawel Debski, Poland
  • Moxie, Stephen Irwin, UK
  • Natasha, Roman Klochkov, Belgium
  • PL.ink, Anne Kristin Berge, Norway
  • Romance, Georges Schwizgebel, Switzerland / Canada
  • Sem Querer, Joao Fazenda, Portugal
  • Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto, Johan Oettinger, Denmark
  • Slow Derek, Dan Ojari, UK
  • Story of Him, Pascual Perez, Spain
  • The Backwater Gospel, Bo Mathorne, Denmark
  • The Chronicle of Oldrich S., Rudolf Smid, Czech Rep
  • The Last Bus, Martin Snopek, Ivana Laucikova, Slovakia
  • The Mangel, Jan Andersson, Katja Kettu, Finland
  • The Origin of Creatures, Floris Kaayk, Netherlands
  • The People Who Never Stop, Florian Piento, France / Japan
  • Una furtiva lagrima, Carlo Vogele, Luxembourg

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