Best Animated Feature Film

THE BIG FIGHTING BETWEEN WUKONG AND GOD ERLANG (Wukong Da Zhan Er Lang Shen) China. Produced by Hansen Liang and Zhou Meiling
Adapted from one of the most famous classical novels in China, The Big Fighting Between Wukong and God Erlang is the story of Sun Wukong, entitled by Jade Emperor as the Monkey King, Great Sage Equalling Heaven. Forever making trouble in the King’s mansion, Wukong was given the job of running the Peach Orchard. After he destroyed Mother Queen’s peach party and stole the Golden Elixir, Mother Queen sent Heavenly King Lee with 100,000 heavenly soldiers to capture him, but Wukong defeated them all. The God Erlang was sent to fight Wukong and after three hundred rounds, Wukong was captured. With the Golden Elixir, Wukong could be captured but not defeated and Jade Emperor had no choice but to ask for help from Rulai Buddha, who has boundless supernatural power.

5 CENTIMETERS PER SECOND (Byosoku 5 Centimeters) Japan. Produced by Noritaka Kawaguchi
5 Centimeters Per Second is a serial short animation consisting of three independent works, all of which are depicted with a boy at the core. The film is set in Japan from the 1990s to present day and moves, with the boy’s life, around Tokyo and to the Japanese countryside. Director, Makoto Shinkai attempts to present the real world as inspiration “by depicting life as true as it is and allowing the viewers a different view to the familiar surroundings that everyone has seen before.”

SUMMER DAYS WITH COO (Kappa No Coo To Natsuyasumi) Japan. Produced by Yutaka Sugiyama
Kouichi Uehara, a fourth grade student in elementary school, lives in a suburb of Tokyo. One day, walking back from school along the river, Kouichi picks up a large stone which looks like a fossil. It turns out to be a baby “Kappa” - a Japanese mythical water creature called Coo who was sleeping underground for the past 300 years. Kouichi and Coo become good friends and live together with Kouichi’s family. However, Coo cannot adjust to the lifestyle in Tokyo and so, on a hot summer day, Kouichi and Coo decide to go on an adventurous road trip to find Coo’s peers.