Between screenings, events, previews and revelations, discover the complete program of the 2024 International Animated Film Festival in Annecy!
The International Animated Film Festival is back this early June for its 48th edition! Still based in Annecy, the event once again brings together several big names in the field to talk creativity, style and techniques.
We are counting in particular on the exceptional presence of director Wes Anderson, but also of Terry Gilliam, winner of the Crystal of Honor for his entire career, as well as that of French actor Alain Chabat.
The biggest studios used to the Festival will also be there. In addition to the broadcast of the new film in the Ultraman franchise, Netflix will present its future animated projects. Disney and Illumination will not be left out with the screening of sequels eagerly awaited by the public: Moana 2, Vice-Versa 2 and Despicable Me 4.
Lord of the Rings fans will be able to look forward to the arrival of Andy Serkis to present The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim scheduled for December 2024. He will be accompanied by Kenji Kamiyama and Joseph Chou, director and producer of the film, which will reveal to us the first images.
Fans of Japanese animation will also have something to enjoy with the highly anticipated Detective Conan: The Million Star, Look Back and Blue Lock: Episode Nagi. Pretty, more discreet gems like Anzu, Ghost Cat, also seen in Cannes, or Give It All will also be available in the program.
Concerning our Hexagon, this year again it is a French film which has the honor of opening the ball. After being presented and winning the Positive Cinema Prize in Cannes, The Most Precious Goods by Michel Hazanavicius will be screened this Sunday June 9 at the opening of the Festival.
While waiting to know which film will succeed Linda Wants Chicken! and will win the precious Feature Film Crystal, discover the official selection:
Feature films in competition – l’Officielle
- Angelo in the mysterious forest by Vincent Paronnaud and Alexis Ducord (France, Luxembourg)
- Flow by Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia, Belgium, France)
- Anzu, Ghost Cat by Yoko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita (Japan, France)
- The Colors Within by Naoko Yamada (Japan)
- The Most Valuable of Goods of Michel Hazanavicius (France, Belgium)
- Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window by Shinnosuke Yakuwa (Japan)
- Memoir of a Snail by Adam Elliot (Australia)
- Rock Bottom by María Trénor (Spain, Poland)
- Savages by Claude Barras (Switzerland, France, Belgium)
- Slocum and I by Jean-François Laguionie (Luxembourg, France)
- The Imaginary by Yoshiyuki Momose (Japan)
- Zhigang Yang Thunderstorm (China)
Feature films in competition – Contrechamp
Previews and special screenings
- Despicable Me 4 by Chris Renaud and Patrick Delage (United States)
- Silex and the City by Jean-Paul Guigue and Julien Berjeaut (France, Belgium)
- Transformers One by Josh Cooley (United States)
- Ultraman: Rising by Shannon Tindle and John Aoshima (United States)
- Vice-Versa 2 by Kelsey Mann (United States)
- Buffalo Kids by Juan (Galo) Galocha and Pedro Solı́s (Spain)
- Diplodocus by Wojtek Wawszczyk (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia)
- Extinction of Behnoud Nekooei (Malaysia)
- Fox and Rabbit save the forest of Mascha Halberstad (Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium)
- The Great Animal Christmas by Camille Alméras, Caroline Attia Larivière, Ceylan Beyoglu, Haruna Kishi, Natalia Chernysheva, Olesya Shchukina (France, Germany)
- Detective Conan: The Million Star dollars from Chika Nagaoka (Japan)
- Out of the Nest by Arturo Hernandez and Andrew Gordon (Thailand, China)
- Sand Land by Yoshihisa Yokoshima (Japan)
- Garfield: Hero in spite of himself by Mark Dindal (United States)
- The Sloth Lane by Tania Vincent and Ricard Cusso (Australia)
- The Worlds Divide by Denver Jackson (Canada)
- Little panda in Africa by Richard Claus and Karsten Kiilerich (France, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark)
- Look Back by Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Japan)
- The Perfume of Iraq by Leonard Cohen (France)
- Give It All by Yuhei Sakuragi (Japan)
- Blue Lock: Episode Nagi by Shunsuke Ishikawa (Japan)
Special programming: Portugal!
Go there! Portuguese animation is in the spotlight this year with the presence of Leonor Silveira, José Miguel Ribeiro and David Doutel as members of the jury, and a poster signed by director Regina Pessoa.
On the selection side, the country will be represented by 7 films:
- It Shouldn’t Rain Tomorrow by Maria Trigo Teixeira (Perspectives short film)
- Percebes by Alexandra Ramires and Laura Gonçalves (L’officielle short film)
- Mont Noir by Jean-Baptiste Peltier and Erika Haglund (L’officielle short film)
- O Diário by Alice by Diogo Viegas (TV film)
- Is This Now the Time I Should Let You Go? by Yi-Chin Tsai (Graduation film)
- To be a seed (Ser semilla) by Julia Granillo Tostado (Graduation film)
- Chantelouve of Regina Pessoa (Command film)
But also…
- Exclusive images from the Asterix and Obelix series in the presence of the directors Alain Chabat and Fabrice Joubert
- A masterclass on cinema taught by Wes Anderson
- The first minutes of the second opus of Moana by Walt Disney Animation Studios
The selection and the complete program can be discovered on the website of the Annecy Festival (June 9 to 15).
