Annecy Unveils 2025 Lineup (Full List)

Annecy, the world’s leading animation film festival, unveiled its official program on Wednesday, with a line-up that includes features from some 20 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas and a range of styles, from the big-budget 3D computer animated feature Into the Mortal World from Chinese director Zhong Ding; to the hand-drawn title Balentes by Italian filmmaker Giovanni Columbu, and the digital cut out animation of Mexican filmmaker Aria Covamonas: The Great History of Western Philosophy.

Covamonas’ debut premiered at the Rotterdam festival, and Annecy’s 2025 lineup features a best-of selection of recent fests, including Berlinale highlights Lesbian Space Princess and Tales from the Magic Garden, and several features premiering in Cannes next month, including The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol from The Triplets of Belleville director Sylvain Chomet; Dandelion’s Odyssey from Japanese director Momoko Seto; and Death Does Not Exist from Canadian filmmaker Felix Dufour-Laperrière.

Among the Annecy world premieres are Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake, a coming-of-age stop-motion feature from Spanish director Irene Iborra; Zaven Najjar’s Allah Is Not Obliged, about a child soldier during the Liberian civil war; and Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, from directors Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han, about a Belgian girl growing up in Japan.

Highlights from the adult animation midnight screening program include Kenichiro Akimoto’s All You Need Is Kill, an anime adaptation of the Hiroshi Sakurazaka sci-fi novel adapted as the 2014 Tom Cruise/Emily Blunt feature Edge of Tomorrow, Kenji Nakamura and Kiyotaka Suzuki’s Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II – The Ashes of Rage, the second feature in a feature trilogy based on the Toei Animation series Mononke, and Heart of Darkness, an animated adaptation of the Joseph Conrad’s classic by director Rogerio Nunes set in a near-future Rio de Janeiro.

Annecy is coming off a phenomenal 2024, which saw two of its prize winners, Gints Zilbalodis’ Latvian feature Flow, and Adam Elliot’s Aussie claymation drama Memoir of a Snail both score Oscar nominations, with Flow winning the Academy Award for best animated feature.

Outside this year’s official selection, Annecy will feature first-looks, sneak peaks and highlights from all of the major U.S. studios, with Sony Pictures Animation giving a first look at Tyree Dillihay’s basketball-themed Goat; Dreamworks showcasing Pierre Perifel’s Bad Guys 2; Paramount Animation presenting new franchise titles The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants and Aang: The Last Airbender; and Netflix giving a first look at its upcoming Stranger Things animation series, as well as feature In Your Dreams from 3 Body Problem showrunner Alex Woo and Long Story Short, the new series from Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg, who will attend the festival and screen an episode of the show.

Disney for the first time will bring films and series from all of its animation divisions, giving Annecy attendees a sneak peak at Disney Animation’s Zootopia 2, Pixar‘s Elio, Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Tales of the Empire, Marvel Animation’s Eyes of Wakanda, and Disney Television Animation’s Dragon Striker, and screening early footage from Pixar’s upcoming 2026 titles Hoppers and Toy Story 5. Pixar’s chief creative officer, Pete Docter, will attend Annecy to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the original Toy Story and to be inducted into Annecy’s Walk of Fame.

Warner Bros. Animation will take part in a 25th anniversary celebration of Cartoon Network Studios and present a new season of the Adult Swim series Smiling Friends.

Among the screening events this year, Andy Serkis will present his new animated adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky will present his Netflix feature comedy Fixed. French screening highlights include Falcon Express from directors Jean-Christian Tassy and Benoît Daffis, and Antoine Lanciaux’s The Songbird’s Secret.

This year’s Work in Progress showcase – always one of the most popular sidebars at any edition of the fest – will feature early looks at such features as Carmen from Chicken for Linda! director Sébastien Laudenbach; Alessandro Carloni and Erica Rivinoja’s The Cat in the Hat adaptation for Warner Bros. Animation and Olivier Clert and Jean-Christophe Dessaint’s Lucy Lost from French studio Xilam. On the series side, Annecy’s works in progress will feature Netflix’s upcoming Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Deathwatch; Adult Swim’s Women Wearing Shoulder Pads and Get Jiro!, and the French series Bitches from director Manon Tacconi.

The 2025 Annecy Film Festival runs June 8-14.

ANNECY 2025 LINEUP

Official Competition
Allah Is Not Obliged, Dir. Zaven Najjar
Arco, Dir. Ugo Bienvenu
ChaO, Dir. Yasuhiro AOKI

Contrechamp Competition
Balentes, Dir. Giovanni Columbu
Endless Cookie, Dir. Seth and Peter Scriver
Great History of Western Philosophy, The, Dir. Aria Covamonas
Jinsei, Dir. Ryuya Suzuki
Lesbian Space Princess, Dir. Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese
Memory Hotel, Dir. Heinrich Sabl
Nimuendaj, Dir. Tania Cristina Anaya
Olivia & The Clouds, Dir. Tomás Pichardo Espaillat
Space Cadet, Dir. Kid Koala
The Square, Dir. Bo-Sol Kim
Tales from the Magic Garden, Dir. David Sukup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar, Jean-Claude Rozec

Midnight Specials
All You Need Is Kill, Dir. Kenichiro Akimoto
Another World, Dir. Kai Chung and Tommy Ng
Heart of Darkness, Dir. Rogerio Nunes
Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II – The Ashes of Rage, Dir. Kenji Nakamura and Kiyotaka Suzuki
Nightmare Bugs, Dir. Saku Sakamoto and Osamu Fukutani

Works in Progress
Carmen, Dir. Sébastien Laudenbach
The Cat in the Hat, Dir. Erica Rivinoja and Alessandro Carloni
Daisy’s Life, Dir. Masaaki Yuasa
Devil’s Vein, The, Dir. Germán Acuña
Fairyheart, Dir. Anita Doron
Fallen, Dir. Louis Clichy
Heirloom, Dir. Upamanyu Bhattacharyya
In Waves, Dir. Phuong Mai Nguyen
Lucy Lost, Dir. Olivier Clert
The Mourning Children: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black, Dir. Sunao Katabuchi
The Violinist, Dir. Ervin Han and Raul Garcia
Zsazsa Zaturnnah, Dir. Avid Liongoren

Series
Bitches, Dir. Marion Tacconi
Get Jiro, Dir. Rick Morales
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, Dir. Guillaume Dousse and Félicien Colmet Daâge
Women Wearing Shoulder Pads, Dir. Gonzalo Cordova, Rodolfo Ambriz, Arturo Ambriz, Ana Coronilla, Fernanda G. Manzur, Irene Melis, Beto Petiches, Marta Hernaiz Pidal