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Hungary Brings 5 Competition Films, 7 Pitch Projects to Annecy 2026

Hungarian animation studios, producers and creators head back to the festival and MIFA with a broad film and project presence spanning shorts, series, and international co-productions under HAPA and National Film Institute Hungary support.

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‘Butterfly:’ A Filmmaker’s Homage to Her Father and His Olympic Idol

Painter and animator Florence Miailhe’s hauntingly beautiful hand-painted short was inspired by her dad Jean’s fellow resistance fighter, Jewish French swimmer Alfred Nakache, who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and 1948 London Olympics after surviving imprisonment in Auschwitz, where his wife and daughter were murdered.