Now that the award season is officially over, we can devote our attention to what’s coming up in the new animation festival season: Just today, Annecy Festival announced the 67 lucky titles selected to screen at the massive event this year. The 2024 edition’s widely eclectic and inspiring collection features shorts from talented artists all over the world, including Belgium, Finland, France, Hungary, Iran, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, S. Korea, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S.
According to the officials, more than 1,500 films from a hundred countries were submitted for consideration. This year’s Official Selection jury included Artistic Director Marcel Jean, Laurent Million, Yves Nougarède and Sébastien Sperer as well as Cecile Giraud (project manager for Nouvelle-Aquitaine Independent Cinemas), Marie-Pauline Mollaret (journalist and film critic), Maud Ahmadnia (screenwriter), Gala Frecon (VR, Film programmer), Isabelle Vanini (exec director of the French Association of Animation).
The selection breakdown is as follows:
- 31 shorts in the Official Selection
- 12 titles in the Off Limits category
- 16 shorts in the Perspectives sidebar
- 8 selected in the Young Audiences group
Tennis, Oranges by Sean Pecknold
The official Graduation Films and TV & Commissioned Films lineup will be announced in two weeks, followed by the VR works revealed in mid-April and the feature films at the end of April. The Annecy Festival runs June 9 to 15, 2024, with the final awards ceremony is planned for June 15. You can get the full list of this year’s selected shorts here.
Here is the list of the 31 titles selected for the Official Competition lineup:
- [S] by Mario Radev (U.K.)
- Abzi by Shiva Sadegh Asadi (Iran)
- Beautiful Men by Nicolas Keppens (Belgium, France, Netherlands)
- Circle by Yumi Joung (South Korea)
- Dar Saaye Sarv by Hossein Molayemi, Shirin Sohani (Iran)
- Drizzle in Johnson by Ivan Li (Canada)
- Etorriko da (eta zure begiak izango ditu) by Izibene Oñederra
- Flower Show by Elli Vourinen (Finland)
- Free the Chickens by Matus Vizar (Slovakia, Czech Republic)
- Gina Kamentsky’s Pinocchio in 70MM by Gina Kamentsky (U.S.)
- Hurikán by Jan Saska (Czech Republic, France, Bosnia and Herzegovnia)
- In Perpetuum by Birute Sodeikaite (Canada)
- Joko by Izabella Plucinska (Poland)
- Kaminhu by Marie Vieillevie (France)
- Kanskje det var elefanter (Maybe Elephants) by Torill Kove (Norway, Canada)
- Kawauso by Akihito Izuhara (Japan)
- La Voix des Sirènes by Gianluigi Toccafondo (France)
- Le Tableau by Michele Lemieux) (Canada)
- Margarethe 89 by Lucas Malbrun (France)
- Miserable Miracle by Ryo Orikasa (France, Canada, Japan)
- Mont Noir by Jean-Baptiste Peltier, Erika Haglund (France, Portugal)
- Moral Support by Vuk Jevremovic (Germany)
- Papillon by Florence Miailhe (France)
- Percebes by Alexandra Ramires, Laura GonÇalves (Portugal, France)
- Plus Douce Est la Nuit by Fabienne Wagenaar (France)
- Portret Konia by Witold Giersz (Poland)
- Preoperational Model by Philip Ullman (Netherlands)
- Retour à Hairy Hill (Return to Hairy Hill) by Daniel Gies (Canada)
- Shoes and Hooves by Viktoria Traub (Hungary)
- Tennis, Oranges by Sean Pecknold (U.S.)
- The Car that Came Back from the Sea (Jadwiga Kowalska (Switzerland)
For more info, visit annecyfestival.com.
