The animated films Coraline by US director Henry Selik and Mary & Max by Australian Adam Eliott were both awarded Cristal, the top prize, at the Annecy International Film Festival late on Saturday. In its 33rd year, the festival is Europe’s premier event for animated films.

Coraline, highly acclaimed by audiences in the US, tells the story of an adventurous girl who finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but has sinister secrets.

Mary & Max deals with a tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

Both films have been out in theaters for several months in their respective countries. France2.fr has more details.