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Lucia Bulgheroni,  Nienke Deutz, Vincent Paronnaud, Boris Labbé, This Magnificent Cake! get special prizes at the 2018 Annecy Festival. All winners.

The French film Stockholm and Swiss/Israeli film Travelogue were also standouts of the second student competition programme of Annecy Festival 2018.

A puppet with a soul to lose. Cannes-awarded Italian director Lucia Bulgheroni talks to Zippy Frames about her stop-motion short, Inanimate.

The puppet film won the third prize at the Cannes festival Cinéfondation competition.

Films from Poland, France and UK in this year's Cannes Cinefondation selection