www.euronews.com There was a diverse line-up in the official selection at this year's International Animation Film Festival in the French city of Annecy, with 244 movies from 80 countries It was jury member and Irish film producer Darragh O'Connell who announced that the Cristal award for best short film went to "Tram" by Michael Pavlatova. The erotic short film by Oscar-nominated Czech director Michael Pavlatova, about the sexual fantasies of a female tram driver, also won praise from the International Federation of Film Critics. Wolfgang Spindler, euronews: "What did your mother say when she saw the film?" Michael Pavlatova: "Ahm, my mother would not like it but my grandmother would like it because she just loves everything around sex and relations and all this things around flirt so she would love it." Darragh O'Connell "The special mention we wanted to give to a film the jury was really impressed by the great storytelling, great lighting, packed with an emotional wallop..and that was "Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto" by Johan Oettinger." The animated puppet stop motion film is about an eight-year-old Jewish boy living in the Warsaw ghetto with his family during the Second World War. Johan Oettinger: "Its about beeing a child and that a child's spirit will always shine through, no matter what condition and no matter what terrible things are happening , the spirit and radiance of childhood will always shine through." Winner of Best Feature Film, "Crulic - the Path to ...

• published: 13 Jun 2012
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