The Annecy International Animation Film Festival has announced the program for its 2024 edition, taking place from June 9th to 15th. (Scroll down for the full list of titles and events.)
Highlights announced Thursday include guest of honor Terry Gilliam, who will receive an honorary award and give a master class. He joins previously announced guest of honor Wes Anderson.
23 new animated features will be introduced in the main areas “Competition” and “Contrechamps”.
Features in the main competition include the first animated film from Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius The most valuable of all cargoeswhich will also open the festival.
The drama follows the fate of a little boy who is thrown off a train to Auschwitz by his French-Jewish father. The film will premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
Other Cannes films in the Annecy main competition include the selection “Un Sure Regard.” Flow by Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis and Ghost cat Anzu by the Japanese Yoko Kuno, who will play in Directors’ Fortnight.
In a sign of the strength of Japan’s creative animation sector, three other titles from the region are also in the running for the Cristal for the festival’s best film: Shinnosuke Yakuwa’s Totto-Chan: The little girl at the window, Yoshiyuki Momoses The imaginary and Naoko Yamadas The colors inside.
Memoirs of a Snail
Arenamedia
Other competition highlights include Adam Elliots memoirs of a snail, with Sarah Snook as the voice of the young outsider.
The award-winning Swiss animation director Claude Barras is also in the competition Savageshis first animated feature since his Golden Globe, Bafta and Oscar-nominated 2016 film My life as a zucchini.
The stop-motion animated film is set in Borneo, on the edge of the tropical forest, and follows the emotional journey of a girl, her father and a rescued baby orangutan.
The popular lakeside animation festival welcomed 15,820 badge holders from 102 areas in 2023, up 19% from 2022.
Offering demonstrations, work-in-progress and making-of presentations, studio previews and first looks, as well as the market and recruiting fair, it is a must-attend event for established professionals, aspiring animators and students.
As usual in Annecy, there will be numerous preview events for upcoming studio animations.
This includes sneak previews of Transformers One And Despicable Me 4 as well as first insights The wild robotT, Inside Out 2 and Moana 2.
As the streamer previously announced, Netflix will also announce a number of upcoming animated originals, including the new untitled title Wallace & Gromit Movie and Zack Snyder’s series Twilight of the Gods.
Full list of films and tentative list of preview events
Main competition
Ghost cat Anzu by Yoko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita
Produced by: Shin-Ei Animation Co., Ltd, Miyu Productions / Japan, France
To the Wonderwoods (In the dark and mysterious forest) by Vincent Paronnaud (Winshluss), Alexis Ducord
Produced by: Je Suis Bien Content, Gao Shan Pictures, ZEILT Productions, Amopix, EV.L Prod, France 3 Cinéma / France, Luxembourg
Flow by Gints Zilbalodis
Produced by: Dream Well Studio, Take Five, Sacrebleu Productions / Latvia, Belgium, France
The colors inside (KIMINOIRO) by Naoko Yamada
Produced by: STORY inc., Science SARU Inc. / Japan
Totto-Chan: The little girl at the window (Madogiwa no Totto-chan) by Shinnosuke Yakuwa
Produced by: Shin-Ei Animation Co., Ltd / Japan
Memoirs of a Snail by Adam Elliot
Produced by: Arenamedia / Australia
Valley floor by Maria Trenor
Produced by: Alba Sotorra, Jaibo Films, GS Animation / Spain, Poland
Savages! by Claude Barras
Produced by: Nadasdy Film, Haut et Court, Panique! / Switzerland
A boat in the garden (Slocum and Moi)by Jean-François Laguionie
Produced by: JPL Films, Melusine Productions/Studio 352 / France
The imaginary by Yoshiyuki Momose
Produced by: Studio Ponoc Inc. / Japan
The storm by Zhigang (Busifan) Yang
Produced by: CMC Pictures / China
The most valuable of all cargoes by Michel Hazanavicius
Production: Ex Nihilo, Les Compagnons du Cinéma, Les Films du Fleuve, StudioCanal / Belgium, France
Back shot
Sultana’s dream (The Sultana’s Dream)by Isabel Herguera
Produced by: Abano Productions SL, Fabian&Fred GmbH / Spain
gill by Jae-hun Ahn
Produced by: Studio Meditation With a Pencil / South Korea
The missing (In the lost)by Carl Joseph Pope
Produced by: Project 8 Projects / Philippines
Live big by Kristina Dufkova
Produced by: Barletta Productions / Czech Republic
Black butterflies (black butterflies) by David Baute
Produced by: Ikiru Films, SL, Tinglado Film, Anangu Grup, Tunche Films / Spain, Panama
Our crazy love by Nelson Botter Jr.
Produced by: Tortuga Studios / Brazil
Pelican blue by László Csáki
Produced by: Umbrella Collective / Hungary
Journey of Shadows (Journey of Shadows)by Yves Netzhammer
Produced by: Freihändel Filmproduktion GmbH, Liechti Filmproduktion GmbH / Switzerland
Sunburnt unicorn by Nick Johnson
Produced by: 2448223 Alberta Ltd., New Machine Studios Inc., Squid Brain Studios Inc. / Canada
The Birth of Kitaro: The Secret of Gegege by Go Koga
Produced by: Toei Animation Co., Ltd / Japan
The glass worker by Usman Riaz
Produced by: Mano Animation Studios / Pakistan
Annecy presents
Buffalo Kids by John Galocha (Gallo), Peter Solis
Produced by: 4 CATS Pictures / Spain
Detective Conan: The Million Dollar Pentagram (Meitantei Conan: 100 man dollars without Michishirube) by Nagaoka Chika
Produced by: TMS Entertainment Europe / Japan
Diplodocus (dropped)by Wojtek Wawszczyk
Produced by: Human.film / Poland
die out by Behnoud Nekooei
Produced by: Magic Picture Films / Malaysia
Fox and hare save the forest by Mascha Halberstad
Produced by: Submarine Animation BV / Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium
give everything (Ganbatte Ikimasshoi) by Yuhei Sakuragi
Produced by: MOE/REIRS / Japan
The Garfield movie by Mark Dindal
Produced by: DNEG Animation, Alcon Entertainment / USA
Christmas stories about Christmas magic (The big animal Christmas) by Camille Almeras, Caroline Attia Lariviere, Ceylan Beyoglu, Haruna Kishi, Natalia Chernysheva, Olesya Shchukina
Produced by: Les Valseurs / France, Germany
Get out of the nest by Arturo Hernandez
Produced by: T&B Media Global Thailand co., Ltd. / Thailand, China
Sandland by Toshihisa Yokoshima
Produced by: Bandai Namco Filmworks / Japan
The sloth alley by Tania Vincent, Ricard Cussó
Produced by: Like a Photon Creative / Australia
The worlds divide by Denver Jackson
Produced by: Cloudrise Pictures / Canada
Screening events
June 9th
Honor Crystal for delivery to Terry Gilliam
Opening film: The most valuable of all cargoes by Michel Hazanavicius
June 10th
- Preview of Transformers One Directed by: Josh Cooley. Produced by: Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Animation Studio
June 11th
- First sight: The wild robot Directed by Chris Sanders
Produced by: DreamWorks Animation, Universal Pictures - First, look at Alain Chabat’s Asterix and Big Fight series in his presence. Produced by: Alain Goldman & TAT
12th of June
- Next up on Netflix Animation
- First, take a look at them Twilight of the Gods Series by Zack Snyder and Jay Oliva, in their presence. Produced by: Stone Quarry Animation, KRAKN Animation, Xilam
- Sneak preview screening of Ultraman: Rise Directed by: Shannon Tindle and John Aoshima. Produced by: Netflix Animation, Tsuburaya Productions co., Ltd., ILM – Industrial Light & Magic
June 13th
- panel on Transformers One
- Making of Ultraman: Rise / Netflix
- Masterclass by Wes Anderson
14th June
- First look at it Inside Out 2 Directed by Kelsey Mann. Produced by: Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures
- First look at it Moana 2 Directed by Dave Derrick Jr. and Jason Hand. Produced by: Walt Disney Animation Studios
- Preview of Despicable Me 4 by Chris Renaud and Patrick Delage. Produced by: Illumination Entertainment, Universal Pictures