Annecy Unveils 36 Titles Across Its 2026 Feature, Contrechamp, And Annecy Presents Lineups
The festival’s latest selections highlight a globally diverse slate of auteur-driven features, rising voices, and audience-friendly titles.
The festival’s latest selections highlight a globally diverse slate of auteur-driven features, rising voices, and audience-friendly titles.
From studio previews to auteur tributes, this year’s slate highlights animation’s evolving landscape across commercial momentum and creative ambition.
Illumination returns to the French fest, reminding of its Paris studio roots and long-standing pipeline since the days of Mac Guff.
This year’s lineup mixes techniques, genres, and highlighting filmmakers and features from across Europe, Japan, and Latin America.
Films from established animation voices debut alongside award-winning titles and emerging experiments, signaling a strong and diverse year for the French fest.
The festival’s latest selections span global series, music videos, ads, and auteur shorts, highlighting animation across formats and audiences.
The ‘King of the Hill’ and ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’ creator will be honored at the 2026 edition of the festival with a career tribute and special screening event.
One of the world’s top film markets is going all-in on animation, working with Annecy to shake up the industry’s usually quiet first quarter.
Animation Is Film 2025 runs Oct 17–19 in Hollywood, featuring global and U.S. premieres, industry panels, and a diverse selection of shorts.
Stream award-winning shorts from Annecy 2025, including ‘The Night Boots’ and ‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls,’ now on The Animation Showcase.
Annecy, typically held in the first week of June, saw a record 18,200 guests visiting the fest. What impact might a change in dates have?
As animation directors explore longer film formats, the trend is causing headaches for producers, distributors, festival programmers, and educators.
From first-timers to Oscar winners, this year’s four short film sections feature 67 films from 30 countries.
The festival is teaming with Spain’s Weird Market for a video game cinematics and trailers competition. Submissions are open now.
Animela is billed as India’s first-ever international festival for animation, vfx, xr, video games, and comics.
The facility will include a screening room, training spaces, exhibition space, and a year-round workplace for the festival’s organizers.
The L.A.-based festival released its lineup today, featuring 100th anniversary events for Warner Bros. and Disney.
“A lot of people have a lot of ideas how [Ruby] should be living her life and this journey she goes on is figuring out how she wants to,” says director Kirk DeMicco.
Several titles spanning back to the 1930s have been digitized and were screened at this year’s Annecy Festival.