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 has attended the Annecy International Animation Film Festival since 2010, with its earliest on-site reports documenting both the festival atmosphere and a wide range of international animation. The 2010 coverage highlighted the Swedish feature 'Metropia', praised for its cold, photo-based digital aesthetic and voice performances by Vincent Gallo and Juliette Lewis, as well as Stelios Polychronakis's 'The Village', the sole Greek participation that year. It also reported on upcoming productions such as the South African stereoscopic feature 'Jock of the Bushveld' and the Polish-British stop-motion project 'The Flying Machine'. The festival's major industry personalities were equally prominent: Don Hahn discussed his documentary on Disney's renaissance, while Matt Groening and David Silverman presented material and stories from the history of 'The Simpsons'. The reports also covered competition films including 'Allez raconte', 'Recordare' and 'Miss Remarkable and Her Career'.

Zippy Frames' combination of festival reporting, independent and European animation coverage, filmmaker encounters and attention to emerging productions and techniques. (zippyframes.com) 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.

(2026 Archive)

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.

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