The Grand Prize in the feature film category of the New Chitose Airport International Animation Film Festival was awarded to Lorenzo Matotti for  The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily.

The film has been selected in around twenty international festivals including Cannes, Anima (Be), Les Césars, Seville (Es), BIAF (Co), Annecy, Locarno (It)… and has received numerous awards including the Junior Europe Prize at the FFE in Seville (Es, 2019), the Best Director at Festa del Cinema di Roma (It, 2019)…