Feb 26, 2024

Chicken For Lindas! won the Best Animated Feature Film at the César Awards in France.

The French Academy's César Awards were held over the weekend, and Chiara Malta and Sebastian Rodenbach's "Chicken for Linda! won the award for Best Animated Feature Film. Although only three films were nominated, each brought an impressive resume to the competition.

"Chicken for Linda! premiered out of competition in the Acid section of last year's Cannes Film Festival before heading to Annecy, where it won the Crystal Award for Best Feature Film. It also won Best Feature Film at the Manchester Animation Festival and Animation is Film in L.A., and screened in competition in Ottawa and Turin.

GKIDS has "Chicken for Linda! for distribution in the U.S. and has not yet announced a release date, but says the film is "coming soon."

Similarly, GKIDS has distribution rights to the Cesar-nominated "Mars Express," which will be released in the U.S. later this year. Directed by Jeremy Perrin, the sci-fi film was an official selection at last year's Cannes and Annecy International Film Festivals.

The last nominee for this year's Cesar Awards in the animated feature category was No Dogs or Italians Allowed, directed by Alain Uguette. Slightly older than the other two nominees, 2022, this stop-motion immigrant tale won awards at numerous international film festivals, including Annecy, Tokyo Animation, Turin, Anima - Brussels, and Bucheon. It also won the Best Animated Feature Film at the 2022 European Film Awards. [Cyrille Bonjean, Bruno Sommier, and Jean-Louis Autret won the César for Best Visual Effects for "The Animal Kingdom" directed by Thomas Kiley.