Six Spanish Female Animators Unveil Projects at Annecy
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- Women in Animation from Spain will present six emerging female directors at Annecy on June 25, with three of the five titles coming from Catalonia as the region builds out as a European animation hub.
- Noon Films (Barcelona) brings "A Dangerous Journey," a transmedia project co-directed by Lucija Stojević, Colombia's Carla Melo, Ukraine's Iulia Voitova, and Laura Ginès, portraying children interned at the Rivesaltes concentration camp in WWII France.
- Sandra Morán directs "A la Fresca," a hand-drawn 2D film about Lola, a woman in her 80s who summons deceased friends on full moons to cope with loneliness, framed as 'a story of countless villages slowly falling silent.'
- Susana Casares and Júlia Francino direct "The Journey," based on Agustina Guerrero's graphic novel, following Agus on a Japan trip with friend Loly that addresses reproductive choice, unrealized motherhood, and self-forgiveness.
- Natasha Barreto directs "Night Forest," a 2D series conceived as transmedia IP, following Kai, Aspen, and Onyx battling dark energy, built around the message: 'being different is not something to hide, but something to embrace.'
- Romina Marti O'Toole directs "Who Killed Cock Robin," a Frog Animation/Alhena Production in which Sparrow calmly confesses to hanging Cock Robin, described as a portrait of power where 'the system that created it will always find a replacement.'
Why it matters: The showcase crystallizes where auteur-driven animation is heading in Spain, with three of five titles from Catalonia, signaling Barcelona's Noon Films and Frog Animation as production nodes to watch. Each project carries overt thematic weight — power, discrimination, difference, motherhood, rural decline — making this less a market sampler and more a thesis on socially engaged European 2D animation.
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