Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Market 2023

2023 Call for Entries

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 2022 and never previously entered at the Annecy Festival will be accepted.

a) Short films
b) Feature films (made for the cinema with a running time of over 60 mins)
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

• Festival Regulations (Short Films)
• Festival Regulations (Feature Films)
• Festival Regulations (Graduation Films)
• Festival Regulations (Commissioned Films)
• Festival Regulations (TV Films)
• Festival Regulations (VR works)

Registration deadline is 15th February 2023 for the following categories:

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

Registration deadline is 15th March 2023 for Feature Films and 6th April 2023 for VR Works.

• Entry Form

2022 Festival Coverage

• Brazil and the Imperian 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

• For MIFA and projects in development, check here 

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

Festival Jury:
- Feature Films: Julie Gayet, Yoshiaki Nishimura, Nora Twomey
- Short Films: Camélia Jordana, Izabela Plucińska, Koji Yamamura
- Graduation Films & Off-Limits: Antonio Canobbio, Dean DeBlois, Virginia Mori
- TV & Commissioned Films: Jinko Gotoh, Vrej Kassouny, Judith Nora
- Contrechamp/Perspectives: Anja Kofmel, Sébastien Onomo, Gerben Schermer

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