With awards season fast approaching, it’s looking like this could be the year animation awards finally grow up.
With Sundance winner “Flee” earning early buzz, there’s clearly a growing appetite for more mature animated fare in the U.S.
Entering into the fray this year is “The Summit of the Gods,” a sweeping 2D animation from French director Patrick Imbert.
Adapted from the acclaimed manga series of the same name, “The Summit of the Gods” follows a Japanese adventure photographer and mountaineer obsessed with finding a legendary climber attempting to scale Mount Everest.
IndieWire is proud to premiere the trailer exclusively below.Here’s the official synopsis, per Netflix: “Were George Mallory and his companion Andrew Irvine the first men to scale Everest on June 8, 1924? Only the little Vestpocket Kodak camera they took with them might reveal the truth.
In Kathmandu, 70 years later, a young Japanese reporter
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