2025 Annecy International Animation Film Festival
2025 film festival
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The 2025 Annecy International Animation Film Festival took place from 8 to 14 June 2025, in Annecy, France. Unlike previous editions, the festival opened with the world premiere of a selection of five shorts instead of a single feature-length film.[1] These short films were: 9 Million Colours by Bára Anna; Carcassonne-Acapulco by Marjorie Caup & Olivier Heraud; La Vie avec un Idiot by Theodore Ushev; "Black" (from the anthology series Star Wars: Visions) by Shinya Ohira; and The Girl Who Cried Pearls by Chris Lavis & Maciek Sczcerbowski.[2]
Opening film9 Million Colours
Carcassonne-Acapulco
La Vie avec un Idiot
Black
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Carcassonne-Acapulco
La Vie avec un Idiot
Black
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
LocationAnnecy, France
AwardsCristal for Best Feature Film: Arco
Contrechamp Grand Prix: Endless Cookie
Contrechamp Grand Prix: Endless Cookie
Festival date8–14 June 2025
Official poster by Raman Djafari | |
| Opening film | 9 Million Colours Carcassonne-Acapulco La Vie avec un Idiot Black The Girl Who Cried Pearls |
|---|---|
| Location | Annecy, France |
| Awards | Cristal for Best Feature Film: Arco Contrechamp Grand Prix: Endless Cookie |
| Festival date | 8–14 June 2025 |
French film Arco, directed by Ugo Bienvenu, won the Cristal for Best Feature Film, while Canadian film Endless Cookie, directed by Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver, received the Contrechamp Grand Prix.[3][4]
Background
The year's complete Annecy International Animation Film Festival lineup was announced on 23 April 2025.[5] Alongside the films for each section, special presentations of upcoming projects were also announced. These include works from various film studios such as Sony Pictures Animation (Tyree Dillihay's Goat), DreamWorks (Pierre Perifel's The Bad Guys 2), Paramount (Derek Drymon's The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants and Chris Miller's Smurfs), Netflix (Stranger Things animated series, Alex Woo's In Your Dreams and Raphael Bob-Waksberg series Long Story Short), Disney (Jared Bush and Byron Howard's Zootopia 2), Pixar (Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi's Elio), Warner Bros. Animation (Smiling Friends season 3), and Rocketsheep Studio (Avid Liongoren's Zsazsa Zaturnnah).[6][7]
Three recipients for the Honorary Cristal Lifetime Achievement Award were announced: American producer and animator Matt Groening, Academy Award-winning French filmmaker Michel Gondry, and English director and animator Joanna Quinn. Groening, creator of both animated sitcoms The Simpsons and Futurama, presented an exclusive screening event of the former series alongside executive producer and showrunner Matt Selman and consulting producer David Silverman, while Gondry presented his first fully-animated film Maya, Give Me a Title.[8]
For this year's edition, Hungarian animation was chosen to be highlighted with the screening of multiple films including the Cristal Award for Best Feature Film winners Heroic Times by József Gémes (1985) and The District! by Áron Gauder (2004).[9] The festival's poster, designed by illustrator and animator Raman Djafari, draws inspiration from Hungarian folk art and Kalocsa embroidery, using floral motifs as well as the colors in the Hungarian flag.[10]
Sections
The films selected for each section are as follows:[6][11][12]
Official competition
Feature films
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Magnificent Life | Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol | Sylvain Chomet | France, Luxembourg, Belgium |
| Allah Is Not Obliged | Allah n'est pas obligé | Zaven Najjar | Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg |
| Arco | Ugo Bienvenu | France | |
| ChaO | Yasuhiro Aoki | Japan | |
| Dandelion's Odyssey | Planètes | Momoko Seto | Belgium, France |
| Death Does Not Exist | La mort n'existe pas | Félix Dufour-Laperrière | Canada, France |
| Into the Mortal World | 落凡尘 | Zhong Ding | China |
| Little Amélie or the Character of Rain | Amélie et la Métaphysique des tubes | Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han | France, Belgium |
| Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake | L'Olívia i el terratrèmol invisible | Irene Iborra | Belgium, Chile, Spain, France |
| The Last Blossom | ホウセンカ | Baku Kinoshita | Japan |
Contrechamp
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balentes | Giovanni Columbu | Italy | |
| Endless Cookie | Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver | Canada | |
| Jinsei | 無名の人生 | Ryuya Suzuki | Japan |
| Lesbian Space Princess | Emma Hough Hobbs, Leela Varghese | Australia | |
| Memory Hotel | Heinrich Sabl | Germany, France | |
| Nimuendajú | Tania Cristina Anaya | Brazil, Peru | |
| Olivia & the Clouds | Olivia & Las Nubes | Tomás Pichardo Espaillat | Dominican Republic |
| Space Cadet | Eric San | Canada | |
| Tales from the Magic Garden | David Sukup, Patrick Pašš, Leon Vidmar, Jean-Claude Rozec | Czech Republic, France, Slovakia, Slovenia | |
| The Great History of Western Philosophy | La gran historia de la filosofía occidental | Aria Covamonas | Mexico |
| The Square | 광장 | Kim Bo-sol | South Korea |
Short films
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Million Colours (opening film) | 9 milionů barev | Bára Anna | Czech Republic, Norway, Germany |
| At Night | Pooya Afzali | Iran | |
| Atomik Tour | Bruno Collet | France, Czech Republic | |
| Bread Will Walk | Alex Boya | Canada | |
| Carcassonne-Acapulco (opening film) | Marjorie Caup, Olivier Heraud | France | |
| Dog Ear | Péter Vácz | Hungary | |
| Dollhouse Elephant | Jenny Jokela | Finland | |
| Fusion | Richard Reeves | Canada | |
| Hairy Legs | Andrea Dorfman | Canada | |
| Hatker | Alejandro Ariel Martin | Argentina | |
| Il Burattino e la Balena | Roberto Catani | France, Italy | |
| La Vie avec un Idiot (opening film) | Theodore Ushev | France | |
| Les Bêtes | Michael Granberry | United States | |
| Luna Rossa | Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn | Estonia, France | |
| Murmuration | Zwermen | Janneke Swinkels, Tim Frihsinger | Netherlands, Belgium |
| My Brother, My Brother | Abdelrahman Dnewar, Saad Dnewar | Egypt, France, Germany | |
| My Wonderful Life | Calleen Koh | Singapore | |
| Ordinary Life | 普通の生活 | Yoriko Mizushiri | France, Japan |
| Ovary-Acting | Ida Melum | Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom | |
| Sappho | Safo | Rosana Urbes | Brazil |
| Shadows | Rand Beiruty | France, Jordan | |
| Shocking Dreams in the Circus | 马戏团枭雄 | Sun Xun | China |
| Signal | Emma Carré, Mathilde Parquet | France, Belgium | |
| Sisowath Quay | Quai Sisowath | Stéphanie Lansaque, François Leroy | France |
| Stampfer Dreams | Thomas Renoldner | Austria | |
| Star Wars: Visions: "Black" (opening film) | Shinya Ohira | Japan | |
| Sulaimani | Vinnie Ann Bose | France | |
| Tapeworm Alexis & the Opera Diva | Thaïs Odermatt | Switzerland | |
| Thank You Dr. Farsi | Samaneh Shojaei | Iran | |
| The Exploding Girl | La fille qui explose | Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel | France |
| The Girl Who Cried Pearls (opening film) | La jeune fille qui pleurait des perles | Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski | Canada |
| The Gnawer of Rocks | Mangittatuarjuk | Louise Flaherty | Canada |
| The Magician | Magicianul | Bogdan Mureşanu | Croatia, France, Romania |
| The Night Boots | Les Bottes de la nuit | Pierre-Luc Granjon | France |
| The Pool or Death of a Goldfish | Daria Kopiec | Poland | |
Television Films
| English title | Episode | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| An Almost Christmas Story | David Lowery | United States | |
| Anne Shirley | Hiroshi Kawamata | Japan | |
| Anselmo Wannabe | "The Architect" | Massimo Ottoni | Italy |
| Astérix & Obélix, le Combat des chefs | "Episode 102" | Alain Chabat, Fabrice Joubert | France |
| Baby Bot's Backyard Tales | "Where's Billy?" | Markus Vad Flaaten | Spain |
| The Big Lizard | Amaël Isnard, Jeanne Meister | Belgium, France, United Kingdom | |
| Christo The Civilized Barbarian | "Hunting Party" | Shaddy Safadi | United States |
| Common Side Effects | "Episode 9" | Vincent Tsui | United States |
| Devil May Cry | "The First Circle" | Han Cheong II | United States |
| Firsts | "Junko Tabei" | Bambú Orellana, Paloma Mora | Chile, Spain |
| Freaked Out | "Major Decision" | Théo Grosjean, Mothy Richard | Belgium, France |
| Goat Girl | "I Ain't Afraid of No Goat" | Krystal Georgiou, Matthieu Giner, Lauri Saunders | Belgium, France, Ireland |
| Guard Dog & Bill Plympton in Brazil | "Lost in Iguazu" | Cesar Cabral | Brazil |
| Il est une fois | Patrick Volve | France | |
| In Search of the Star Vegetable | "Boris and His Drum" | Loisette Ratsivahiny | Madagascar, Switzerland |
| Jeremy Super Caribou | "Jeremy's Fast Delivery Service" | Mathieu Auvray, Pauline Pinson | France, Belgium |
| Kiff | "Kiff Is Good at Sports" | Allison Craig | United States |
| Kippkopp and Tipptopp | Tama Mikori | Hungary | |
| Lena's Farm | "Volles Nest" | Elena Walf | Germany |
| Max & the Midknights | "Welcome to Byjovia" | David Skelly, Chris Perry | United States |
| Metallic Rouge | Motonobu Hori | Japan | |
| Pucio | "Pucio and the Crocodile" | Marta Strozycka | Poland |
| Star Wars: Tales of the Empire | "Devoted" | Dave Filoni | United States |
| Stories from Backwoods | Leevi Lemmetty | Ireland, Finland | |
| Tales from Outer Suburbia | "Distant Rain" | Noel Cleary, Shaun Tan | Australia |
| The Ruins of Kunlun Linglong | Jiajia Huai | China | |
| The Upside Down River | Paul Leluc | France | |
| Tiddler | Andy Martin, Alex Bain | United Kingdom | |
| Tiny Toot | "Mushroom Magic" | Maria Mac Dalland | Denmark |
| Zombie Safari | "We Will Be Animals" | Jerrold Chong, Joanne Lin | Singapore |
Commissioned Films
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Absolute Doom | Ralph Karam, Santiago Oddis | United States |
| Animateka Festival 2024: "Elephant Trailer" | Jelena Dragutinović, Lene Lekše, Janja Kosi, Andreja Goetz, Brina Lekše, Urszula Domańska | Slovenia |
| Arnold Turboust: "Les Lettres de Krakovie" | Antoine Dahan, Clement Delaby, Rayan Takhedmit | France |
| CNESST: "Hanging by a Thread" | Dale Hayward, Pierre Dalpé | Canada |
| Desi Oon | Suresh Eriyat | India |
| ENEDIS: "Les Oiseaux" | Jean-Charles Kerninon, Clément Lauricella | France |
| Get Back | Hyojin Mo, Moonyoung Oh | South Korea |
| Ichon: "We Must" | Corentin Chauviere, Léo Soulard | France |
| Melanie Martinez: "Play Date" | Clavel Gris | France |
| Moving Back Moving Up | Lucile Leroy | France |
| My Algorithm | Balázs Turai, Benjamin Efrati | France |
| Naïve New Beaters & Star Feminine Band: "Ye Kuo Si Kuo" | Lola Lefrevre | France |
| Naruto x Oasis | Matthieu Poirier | France |
| Need a Good Sleep | Joseph Wallace | United Kingdom |
| Očima Franze Kafky: Mezi obrazem a jazykem | Hanna Palamarchuk | Czech Republic |
| Olipop Yeti | Chris Finnegan, Mark Caballero, Seamus Walsh | United States |
| Pantagruel | Lucia Auge | France |
| Shadow | Mario Muñoz | Mexico |
| London International Animation Festival 2024: "Show Your Working" | Isolda Milenkovic | United Kingdom |
| Sis: "Bow to Your Wilderness" | Danski Tang | United States |
| South of Midnight | Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski | Canada |
| Starpets: "Teaser" | Stéphane Berla | France |
| StopTrik Festival: "Trailer 2024" | Reinhold Bidner | Austria, Slovenia |
| The Decameron: "Main Title Sequence" | Katrina Crawford, Mark Bashore | United States |
| The Eclipse | Laurence Arcadias, Robin Corbet | United States |
| The Rumor Is Born | Moisés Arancibia | Chile |
| TED: "Three Sisters - When Ancient Wisdom Beats Modern Industry" | Luisa Holanda | United States |
| 22nd Sommets du cinéma d'animation: "Trailer" | Daniel Gies | Canada |
| Ubu roi | Romane Tulli Houzet | France |
| Vanish: "The Bully Monster" | Gabriel Nobrega, Pedro Conti | Brazil |
| Vinheta CineSesc | Cesar Cabral | Brazil |
| Vladimir Komarov | Junhee Lee | South Korea |
| Welcome to the City of Love | FX Goby | United Kingdom |
| With Letter and Love | Ana Chubinidze | Georgia |
| Wood You Believe It? | Cadi Catlow | United Kingdom |
Off-Limits
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capriccio | Gábor Ulrich | Hungary | |
| Coda | Thor Sivertsen | Norway | |
| Firewalk | Pink Twins | Finland | |
| Gerhard | Ulu Braun | Germany | |
| SKRFF | Corrie Francis Parks, Daniel Nuderscher | Austria | |
| The Graffiti | Rakugaki | Ryo Orikasa | Japan |
| The Prologue | Marzieh Emadi, Sina Saadat | Austria | |
| This Is Not Your Garden | Este no es tu jardín | Carlos Velandia | Colombia |
| Vader Ademt | Juliette Pons | Belgium | |
Perspectives
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All This Death | Fadi Syriani | Lebanon, Germany | |
| Blinded by the Lights | Francis Y. Brown | Ghana | |
| Bloody Mess | Megan Wennberg | Canada | |
| Box | Tingyi Zhou, Yafei Xie, Yuanjia Huang | China | |
| By the Way | Nagofteh Namanad | Mahboobeh Kalaee, Ali Fotoohi | Iran |
| Chronicity | Kronicitet | Aleta Rajič | Bornia and Herzegovina |
| Dark Orange | Zahra Azadpour | Iran | |
| Ancestor | Dédé | Yasmine Djedje-Fisher-Azoume | United Kingdom |
| Fačuk | Maida Srabovic | Croatia, Slovenia | |
| Goldau | Roman Kälin | Switzerland | |
| Ibuka, Justice | Justice Rutikara | Canada | |
| K'uchu: A Childhood Place | K'uchu: Rincón de la infancia | Alessio del Pozo | Peru |
| Psychonauts | Niko Radas | Croatia | |
| S the Wolf | Sameh Alaa | France | |
| Silent Cinema | Krste Gospodinovski | Macedonia, Romania | |
| Snake Soup | Zack Demirtshyan | Armenia | |
| The Mustached Clown Circus | El circo de los payasos bigotones | Ana Comes, Tomas Alzogaray Vanella, Paz Bloj | Argentina |
Young Audiences
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Walk into the Afterlife | Jiyun Jeong | Luxembourg | |
| Capybaras | Los Carpinchos | Alfredo Soderguit | Chile, France, Uruguay |
| Cardboard | Jean-Philippe Vine | United Kingdom | |
| Forevergreen | Nathan Engelhardt, Jeremy Spears | United States | |
| Sapan | Kerem Yoruk, Yasir Atis | Turkey | |
| Snow Bear | Aaron Blaise | United States | |
| The Carp and the Child | La Carpe et l'Enfant | Morgane Simon, Arnaud Demuynck | Belgium, France |
| The Great Annual Party of the Creatures of the Moon | Le Grand Party annuel des créatures de la Lune | Francis Desharnais | Canada |
| The Night Tunnel | Le Tunnel de la nuit | Annechien Strouven | Belgium, France, Netherlands |
| Tsuru | Pedro Anias | Brazil | |
Graduation Films
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) | Institution(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Bird Hit My Window and Now I'm a Lesbian | AJ Dubler, Carmela Murphy | United States | School of the Art Institute of Chicago | |
| The Doll Kiln | Wenwen Zhu | United States | ||
| Arachnophobia | Arahnofobija | Melita Sandrin | Slovenia | University of Nova Gorica |
| Better Man | Lepší člověk | Eliška Jirásková | Czech Republic | Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague |
| Between the Gaps | Entre les jours | Martin Bonnin | France | La Poudrière |
| Blargh | Sofjia Zivkovic | Germany | Film Academy Baden-Württemberg | |
| Detlev | Ferdinand Ehrhardt | Germany | ||
| Casual | En jeg ser | Kauli Green | Denmark | National Film School of Denmark |
| Chair Cemetery | Toute portes ouvertes | Alicia Levy | France | Lycée René Descartes |
| Cleanliness | Tīrība | Andrejs Brīvulis | Latvia | Art Academy of Latvia |
| Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) | Jaehyeok Lee | South Korea | Hansung University | |
| Cocoon | Yiwei Chen | China, United Kingdom | Royal College of Art | |
| The Eating of an Orange | May Kindred-Boothby | United Kingdom | ||
| Cottage Cheese | Janina Müller, Liina Luomajoki, Lena Metzger, Alice Kunz | Switzerland | Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts | |
| Flares | Paprsky | Jáchym Bouzek | Czech Republic, France | École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs |
| Pebble to Pebble | De caillou à caillou | Charlotte Annereau | France | |
| Floating | Jelena Milunovic | Croatia, Germany, Serbia | Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg | |
| Zootrope | Léna Martinez | France | École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs | |
| Football Stuff | Cosas de fútbol | Alejandro Ara Alonso, Matilde Chicharro Randet, Yuu Cortés Maicas, Layla Díaz Pérez, Sara García Jiménez, Marta Iglesias Martín, Carla Muñoz Ramírez | Spain | Escuela de Arte de Huesca |
| Hand | Jing Wang | Japan | Musashino Art University | |
| Hello, Headquarters | Halo, Centrala | Zuzanna Heller | Poland | Łódź Film School |
| The Crooked Heads | Na krzywe łby | Jakub Krzyszpin | Poland | |
| Hunting | Qui part à la chasse | Lea Favre | Switzerland | École cantonale d'art de Lausanne |
| Laute Stille | Lisa Bayr, Katharina Arbeithuber, Leo Roithner | Austria | University of Applied Arts Vienna | |
| Lights, Haze | Tata Managadze | Belgium, Finland, Georgia, Portugal | RE:ANIMA | |
| me* | 私は、私と、私が、私を | Rina Ito | Japan | Tokyo Zokei University |
| Mother's Child | Naomi Noir | Netherlands | Utrecht School of the Arts | |
| Neh Neh Pok | Jaime NG | Singapore | Nanyang Technological University | |
| Passageways | Voies de passage | Geneviève Tremblay, Milla Cummings | Canada | Université Laval |
| Pillow Talks | Amandine Vautrin | Belgium | La Cambre | |
| Poppy Flowers | Evridiki Papaiakovou | Estonia | Estonian Academy of Arts | |
| The Diffusion Pilot | Aurelijus Čiupas | Estonia | ||
| Q | Masataka Kihara | Japan | Tama Art University | |
| REM Sleep | REM Slaap | Husam Zakaraya | Netherlands | ArtEZ University of Arts |
| Secret Theatre | Teatro Secreto | Diego Martínez | Mexico | Taller del Chucho |
| Sphere Supreme | Hasan Pastaci | Belgium, Turkey | Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) | |
| Sublime | Marie Heribel, Candice Yernaux, Juliette Buysschaert, Camille Leroy, Joséphine Vendeville, Martin Laurent, Lucas Foutrier | France | Piktura, L'École de l'image | |
| The Angelic Touch | Un tocco angelico | Nicole Golek | Poland | University of Fine Arts, Poznań |
| The Last Drop | Az utolsó dobás | Anna Tőkés | Hungary | Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design |
| The Tale of Tran Thanh Duong | Hachul Le Do | Vietnam | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | |
| The Virtue of Voice | Wat is Spreken Waard? | Leticia Van Neerven | Netherlands | AKV St. Joost |
| Triassic Cuddle | Un Cuplu Triasic | Iulia Teodora Turicianu | Romania | I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film |
| Veils of Landscape | Yamanaka Chihiro | Japan | Tokyo University of the Arts | |
| Weathered | Karina Casanas Invernon, Jáchym Bouzek | United Kingdom | University of the Arts London | |
| Won't Be Here | Jiali Tan, Haoyuan Zhu | China | Communication University of China | |
Out of competition
Screening Events
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|
| A Legendary Encounter: Icons of Animation Celebrate The Simpsons [a] | United States | |
| Animal Farm | Andy Serkis | United States, Canada, United Kingdom |
| Creating Creativity: Celebrating 25 Years of Cartoon Network Studios [b] | United States | |
| Fixed | Genndy Tartakovsky | United States |
| Goat [c] | Tyree Dillihay | United States |
| Maya, Give Me a Title | Michel Gondry | France |
| Next on Netflix Animation: From Stranger Things to In Your Dreams [d] | United States | |
| Pets on a Train | Jean-Christian Tassy, Benoît Daffit | France |
| Pixar Animation Studios Spotlight — To Elio... and Beyond! [e] | United States | |
| Waksberg Masterclass [f] | United States | |
| The Bad Guys 2 [g] | Pierre Perifel | United States |
| The Songbirds' Secret | Antoine Lanciaux | France, Belgium |
| Walt Disney Animation Studios – Welcome Back to Zootopia! [h] | United States | |
| Smurfs x SpongeBob x Turtles: A Paramount Animation & Nickelodeon Presentation[13] [i] | United States | |
Annecy Presents
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 Meters | Kenji Iwaisawa | Japan | |
| Captain Sabertooth and the Countess of Grel | Kaptein Sabeltann og Grevinnen av Grel | Yaprak Morali, Are Aystnes, Rasmus A. Sivertsen | Norway |
| Chickenhare and the Secret of the Groundhog | Benjamin Mousquet | Belgium, France | |
| Fleak | Jens Moller, Miko Pitkanen, Luca Bruno | Finland, France, Malaysia, Poland | |
| I Am Frankelda | Soy Frankelda | Rodolfo Ambriz, Arturo Ambriz | Mexico |
| Little Caribou | Barry O'Donoghue | Ireland | |
| Mary Anning | Marcel Barelli | Belgium, Switzerland | |
| My Grandfather is a Nihonjin | Meu Avô é um Nihonjin | Celia Catunda | Brazil |
| Spiked | Caroline Origer | Belgium, France, Luxembourg, United Kingdom | |
| Stitch Head | Steve Hudson | Germany, Luxembourg | |
| The Girl Who Stole Time | Ao Yu, Tienan Zhou | China | |
| The Quest | Csongor és Tünde | Mali Csaba, Pálfi Zsolt | Hungary |
| Thelma's Perfect Birthday | Reinis Kalnaellis | Latvia, Luxembourg | |
Midnight Specials
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All You Need Is Kill | Kenichiro Akimoto | Japan | |
| Another World | Tommy Kai Chung Ng | Hong Kong | |
| Heart of Darkness | Rogerio Nunes | Brazil, France | |
| Mononoke the Movie: The Ashes of Rage | 劇場版「モノノ怪 第二章 火鼠」 | Kenji Nakamura, Kiyotaka Suzuki | Japan |
| Nightmare Bugs | Saku Sakamoto, Osamu Fukutani | Japan | |
| Playing God | Matteo Burani | Italy, France | |
Work in Progress
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Films | |||
| Carmen | Sébastien Laudenbach | France | |
| Daisy's Life | ひな菊の人生 | Masaaki Yuasa | Japan |
| Fairyheart | Anita Doron | Hungary, Canada, Germany | |
| Fallen | Le corset | Louis Clichy | France, Belgium |
| Heirloom | Upamanyu Bhattacharyya | India | |
| In Waves | Phuong Mai Nguyen | France, Belgium, United States | |
| Lucy Lost | Olivier Clert | France | |
| The Cat in the Hat | Alessandro Carloni, Erica Rivinoja | United States | |
| The Devil's Vein | Germán Acuña | Chile, Colombia | |
| The Mourning Children: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black | つるばみ色のなぎ子たち | Sunao Katabuchi | Japan |
| The Violonist | Ervin Han, Raul Garcia | Singapore, Spain, Italy | |
| Zsazsa Zaturnnah | Avid Liongoren | Philippines, France | |
| Series | |||
| Bitches | Manon Tacconi | France | |
| Get Jiro | Rick Morales | United States | |
| Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Deathwatch | Guillaume Dousse, Félicien Colmet Daâge | France, United States | |
| Women Wearing Shoulder Pads | Gonzalo Cordova, Rodolfo Ambriz, Arturo Ambriz, Ana Coronilla, Fernanda G. Manzur, Irene Melis, Roberto Petiches, Marta Hernaiz Pidal | United States, Mexico | |
Hungarian Animation
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Films | |||
| Bubble Bath (1979) | Habfürdő | György Kovásznai | Hungary |
| Son of the White Mare (1981) | Fehérlófia | Marcell Jankovics | Hungary |
| Heroic Times (1984) | Daliás idők | József Gémes | Hungary |
| The District! (2004) | Nyócker! | Áron Gauder | Hungary |
| Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018) | Ruben Brandt, a gyűjtő | Milorad Krstić | Hungary |
| Four Souls of Coyote (2023) | Kojot négy lelke | Áron Gauder | Hungary |
| Video Clip Geniuses | |||
| "Just Like" by Beat Dis | Andras Szabó | Hungary | |
| "Délelőttök a kádba" by Péterfy Bori & Love Band & András Lovasi | László Csáki | Hungary | |
| "Kaktusz" by Bioberber | Zsuzsanna Kreif | Hungary | |
| "All I'm Saying" by James | Péter Vácz | United Kingdom | |
| "Napséta" by Amorf Lovagok | László Csáki | Hungary | |
| "Illuminair" by Middlemist Red | Nóvé Soma | Hungary | |
| "Re" by Nils Frahm | Simon Balázs | Hungary | |
| "Demons on the Beach" by Fran Palermo | Henri Gonzo | Hungary | |
| "Where Blue Meets Red" | Tamás Patrovits | Hungary | |
| "Together" | Kata Fodor | Hungary | |
| "Meteor" by Architects | Jeb Hardwick, Peter Batory | Hungary | |
| "Walking on the Planet" by Gábor Antal Trio | Tamara Bella, Gábor István Gurka, Kata Hollós, Kornél Pittmann | Hungary | |
| "Keringő" by Dzsudló | Boglarka Aszity, Réka Anna Szakaly | Hungary | |
Awards
The following awards were presented:[3][4]
Feature films
- Cristal for Best Feature Film: Arco by Ugo Bienvenu
- Jury Award: ChaO by Yasuhiro Aoki
- Paul Grimault Award: Dandelion's Odyssey by Momoko Seto
- Contrechamp Grand Prix: Endless Cookie by Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver
- Contrechamp Jury Award: The Square by Kim Bo-sol
- Gan Foundation Award for Distribution: Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake by Irene Iborra
- Audience Award: Little Amélie or the Character of Rain by Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han
Short films
- Cristal for Best Short Film: The Night Boots by Pierre-Luc Granjon
- Jury Award: Les Bêtes by Michael Granberry
- Alexeïeff Parker Award: Sappho by Rosana Urbes
- Jean-Luc Xiberras Award for a First Film: Zwermen by Janneke Swinkels and Tim Frijsinger
- Off-Limits Award: The Graffiti by Ryo Orikasa
- Audience Award: The Night Boots by Pierre-Luc Granjon
TV and Commissioned Films
- Cristal for Best TV Production: Christo The Civilized Barbarian: "Hunting Party" by Shaddy Safadi
- Jury Award for a TV Series: Christo The Civilized Barbarian: "Hunting Party" by Shaddy Safadi
- Jury Award for a TV Special: An Almost Christmas Story by David Lowery
- Cristal for Best Commissioned Film: Naïve New Beaters & Star Feminine Band: "Ye Kuo Si Kuo" by Lola Lefrevre
- Jury Award for a Commissioned Film: Desi Oon by Suresh Eriyat
- Audience Award: Freaked Out: "Major Decision" by Théo Grosjean and Mothy Richard
Graduation Films
- Cristal for Best Graduation Film: Zootrope by Léna Martinez (École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs)
- Jury Award: Between the Gaps by Martin Bonnin (La Poudrière)
- Lotte Reiniger Award: Q by Masataka Kihara (Tama Art University)
VR
- Cristal for Best VR Work: Fragile Home by Ondřej Moravec and Victoria Lopukhina
Special Prizes
- City of Annecy Award: Ibuka, Justice by Justice Rutikara
- Jury Special Distinction Award: Psychonauts by Niko Radas
- André Martin Award for Best French Short Film: The Night Boots by Pierre-Luc Granjon
- SACEM Award for Best Original Music in a Short Film: Dollhouse Elephant by Jenny Jokela
- SACEM Award for Best Original Music Award in a Feature Film: Arnaud Toulon for Arco
- Pablo Pico Distinction: Jean L'Appeau for Death Does Not Exist
- Young Audience Award: The Great Annual Party of the Creatures of the Moon by Francis Desharnais
- CANAL+ Junior Jury Award: Forevergreen by Nathan Engelhardt and Jeremy Spears
- XPPen Award for a Graduation Film: Won't Be Here by Jiali Tan and Haoyuan Zhu (Communication University of China)
- Festivals Connexion VR Award: Fragile Home by Ondřej Moravec and Victoria Lopukhina
- France TV Award for a Short Film: At Night by Pooya Afzali
- Vimeo Staff Pick Award for a Short Film in the Official and Off-Limits Categories: Les Bêtes by Michael Granberry
Notes
- Exclusive panel with the series creator Matt Groening alongside executive prodycer and showrunner Matt Selman and animator David Silverman.
- Conversation panels with creators Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Laboratory), Craig McCracken (The Powerpuff Girls), Pendleton Ward (Adventure Time), Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe), J.G. Quintel (Regular Show), and Adam Muto (Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake).
- First look of Sony Pictures Animation's Goat, expected to be released in 2026.
- Sneak peek of the animated series Stranger Things: Tales from '85, based on Stranger Things, and screening of extensive footage of Alex Woo's In Your Dreams, expected to be released in 2025.
- Screening of exclusive footage of Elio, directed by Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, and Adrian Molina, and slated to be released on June 20, 2025. First looks of upcoming films Hoppers and Toy Story 5.
- Conversation panel with Raphael Bob-Waksberg.
- Screening of exclusive footage of DreamWorks Animation's The Bad Guys 2, slated to be released on August 1, 2025.
- First look of Zootopia 2, directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, and expected to be released on November 26, 2025.
- Exclusive panel featuring Chris Miller's Smurfs and Derek Drymon's The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, slated for July 18, 2025 and December 19, 2025, respectively. Also screenings of two short films: Sean Charmatz's Order Up and Kent Seki's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 – Lost in New Jersey.