A French animated film directed by prize-winning Japanese artist Atsushi Wada won the silver award Saturday in the short film section of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.

The film "Great Rabbit," using a delicate hand-drawn style, is about people who worship a rabbit, an allusion to an aspect of modern society in which people unconsciously submit themselves to something mysterious.

The jury said the film depicts "the confusion of the modern world in an animated form."