Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Market

Annecy International Animation Film Festival has become a vital point of reference for global animation since its first edition in 1960. The international animation world uses the festival as a standing point of excellence and relevance. Its various competitions (animation shorts, features, commissioned films, TV films) keep evolving, while MIFA, its industry part, has grown exponentially since the 1980s, having its own separate calls for animation projects. It takes place every June in Annecy, France.

Zippy Frames coverage of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival includes selection announcements, award winners, film reviews, interviews, and festival reports.

Annecy Call for Entries

2027 Call for Entries — Currently not open. Submission details will be reported here when announced by the festival.

(2026Archive)

Any audiovisual animation, created frame by frame whatever the technique, made for the cinema, television, and any other screening platform may be entered.
Only works completed after 1st January 2025 and never previously entered at the Annecy Festival will be accepted.

a) Short films (a running time of less than 59 minutes and 59 seconds, including the credits.)
b) Feature films (made for the cinema with a running time of over 60 mins). The feature films selected (in all categories: Competition, Contrechamp, Midnight Specials, Annecy Presents) must not have been screened in France before the end of the Festival.
c) TV films and webseries
- TV series and webseries (don’t submit more than one episode per series; presenting an episode of a series already selected in a previous year, as well as submitting pilots, will not be accepted)
- TV specials
d) Commissioned films
- Educational, scientific or industrial films
- Advertising or promotional films
- Music videos
e) Graduation films (a minimum running time of 2 minutes and maximum running time of 29 minutes and 59, including the credits)
f) Immersive works (submission open from December 2025)

Registration deadline is 15th February 2026 for the following categories:

• Short Films
• TV Films
• Commissioned Films
• Graduation Films

Registration deadline is 15th March 2026 for Feature Films.

• Entry Form

NB: Since the 2026 edition, Annecy Festival has introduced a 30 EUR submission/administrative fee for all its shorts categories, a 50 EUR fee for its TV Category, and a 100 EUR fee for its Feature Animation film category.

 Previous Coverage

2023 Festival Coverage

• 'Mexican Animated Archaeology': A Programme and A Commentary
• Our Top Animation Shorts: Annecy Festival 2023
• 2D Animation Rules at the 2023 Annecy Festival Winners
• Annecy Festival Special Prizes 2023
• Annecy Festival 2023: 11+12 Animation Features Selected
• Barry Purves Gets Honorary Annecy Cristal, LGBTIQ+ Annecy Programme Introduced
• Annecy Festival: Selection Results for Short Films 2023 (Complete Lineup)
• Jorge R. Gutierrez Creates the Annecy Festival 2023 Poster

2022 Festival Coverage

• Brazil and the Iberian Peninsula at Annecy 2022
• Annecy Festival 2022: Our Top Picks
• 'Amok', 'Little Nicholas' in the Annecy Festival winners
• 9 Annecy Special Prizes 
• 10+10 Animation Features for Annecy Festival
• Swiss Animation Focus at Annecy: A Comprehensive Guide
• Annecy Festival 2022: Selection Results

 2021 Festival Coverage

• On (Loosening) Boundaries and (Discipling) Form: Annecy Festival 2021

• Annecy Festival 2021: Our Top Picks
• 'Ecorce', 'Flee' in the Annecy Festival winners

• 12 Special Prizes for Annecy Festival

• Realism and Adventure: Annecy MIFA Feature Film pitches

• 19 Animation Features for Annecy Festival

• Annecy Festival 2021: Selection Results

2020 Festival Coverage

• Annecy Festival 2020 winners
• Annecy Special Prizes 2020: All winners
• Works In Progress, Previews, and Making Of from Annecy Festival 2020
• 10+10 Animation Features, 7 VR Works for Annecy Festival 2020
• Selection results, Festival goes online
• Wes Anderson Comes to Annecy Festival

2019 Festival Coverage (Archive)

• VIDEO: Annecy Festival Zippy Quiz

• Memorable, I Lost My Body win Annecy 2019

• Annecy Commissioned Films: Our Top Picks

• Dislocation by Veljko Popović and Milivoj Popović

• Graduation, Commissioned and TV Films selection

• Annecy: Animation Feature Selection

• 9 VR Projects for Annecy Festival

• 80 Short Films for Annecy Festival

• Annecy Festival Celebrates Japanese Animation

• Charlotte Gastaut Designs the 2019 Annecy Poster

2018 Festival News (Archive)

• Bloeistraat 11, Funan Gest Annecy 2018 Prizes
• Dilili in Paris Opens 2018 Annecy Festival
• Women in Animation Conference at Annecy 2018
• Annecy 2018 Goes Brazil
• Pascal Blanchet Designs the 2018 Annecy Poster
• 130 Shorts for Annecy 2018
• Films in Official Selection

2017 Festival Coverage

• The Burde, Lu Over the Wall Win 2016 Annecy Prizes

• Annecy 2017: More Than Competition

• Politics at Annecy: Feature Films Deal With Fragile Societies

2016 Festival Coverage

• The Head Vanishes, Ma Vie De Courgette Take Home 2016b Annecy Awards

• Annecy Zippy Diary 15/6

• Annecy Zippy Diary 14/6

2015 Festival Coverage

• Dudok De Wit and The Red Turtle at Annecy: Report

• 8+9 Features for Annecy 2015

• Annecy Opens With The Prophet