Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Market 2026

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Category
ANIMATION & FILM FESTIVALS
Dates
21/06/2026 - 27/06/2026
City
Annecy, France
Email
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Website
http://www.annecy.org
Edition
50
Final submission deadline
2026-03-15
Submission/Registration Fee
Yes

2026 Festival Coverage

Juries 2026

OFFICIAL FEATURE FILMS

Faisal Baltyor (Producer and CEO of the Red Sea Film Foundation, Saudi Arabia), Mónica García Massagué (General Manager of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, Spain), Maïlys Vallade (Director, Screenwriter, Storyboard Artist, Animator, Concept Author, France)

CONTRECHAMP FEATURE FILMS

Suresh Eriyat (Artist, Author, Animator, Filmmaker, India), Lola Lefèvre (Director, France), Anna Ida Orosz (Film Historian, Animation Curator, Hungary)

OFFICIAL SHORT FILMS

Marina Rosset (Director, Producer, Switzerland), David Silverman (Animator, Director, USA), Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Composer, Chile, Canada)

TV & COMMISSIONED FILMS

Fernando Galrito (University Lecturer, Cinema Director, Artistic Director MONSTRA | Lisbon Animation Festival, Portugal), Mariam Kandelaki (Director, Producer, Cultural Events Organiser, Georgia), Imogen Sutton (Producer, Director, Unided Kingdom)

IMMERSIVE WORKS

Abi Feijó (Director, Producer, Educator, Portugal), Aubry Mintz (Animator, Director, USA), Negar Motevaly (Director, Animator, Visual Artist, Iran)

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2026 Festival Coverage 

2026 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 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.

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.

 

2025 Festival Coverage 

2024 Festival Coverage

2023 Festival Coverage

2022 Festival Coverage

 2021 Festival Coverage

2020 Festival Coverage

2019 Festival Coverage (Archive)

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)

2017 Festival Coverage

2016 Festival Coverage

2015 Festival Coverage

 

 
 

Event Dates

  • From 21/06/2026 to 27/06/2026
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