34 animation shorts were selected for the 'shorts film official' section of the 2026 Annecy Animation Festival (this year: 21-27 June 2026).

This was a culmination of a scaled announcement of films in a 5-day period. Graduation animation films (43 overall) were first announced, followed by TV Films (29 animation film selected ) and Commissioned Films (35 animation shorts), with the official short competition to follow -along with its side categories, Perspectives and Off-Limits. (New info: the Midnight Shorts and WTF categories will have their own award, the festival announces).

The official selection looks like a 'who's who' of indie animation. Oscar-nominated Koji Yamamura is here, with his new film 'The Spring Sea'; the Swiss veteran Georges Schwizgebel returns with the painterly (which matches its theme), 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray'.

The Oscar-nominated duo of Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata (Negative Space) comes to the French city with their new puppet film, 'Cartoon Physics'. And it's always interesting to see what UK author Elizabeth Hobbs will do of the 1920 Katherine Masfield short story, 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel'.

The Berlin-premiered, 3-story queer opus 'Cosmonauts' by  Leo Černic is there, and Anca Damian (Crulic, The Magic Mountain) returns with her 18-minute 2D/3D 'Motherhood'.

The commissioned films competition is another who's who of animation festival trailers (which need some recognition on their own), including Anima Festival, Anibar Festival, and MONSTRA Festival.

The Full 2026 Annecy Festival  Selection List (Short Films): 

Short Films Official

Adgwa-Ata, Zsuzsanna Kreif (France, Hungary)
Balconada, Iva Tokmakchieva (France, Bulgaria)
Black Box, Anton Dyakov (France, Norway)
Blessed, Birute Sodeikaite (Canada)
Cartoon Physics, Ru Kuwahata, Max Porter (France, Netherlands, Switzerland)
Cosmonauts, Leo Černic (Slovenia, Italy)
Creation, Béla Klingl (Hungary)
Danse macabre, Hisko Hulsing (Netherlands, France, Belgium, Hungary)
God is shy, Jocelyn Charles (France)
Hag, Anna Ginsburg (UK)
How to Walk, Zak Margolis (USA)
Invisible Harvests, Stephanie Dudley (Canada)
Lake Messejana, Diego Maia (Brazil)
Motherhood, Anca Damian (Belgium, France, Romania)
My Bellyaching Skin, Etienne Bonnet (France)
Night Song, Karla Castañeda (Mexico)
Paper Trail, Don Hertzfeldt (USA)
Penguin, Kaspar Jancis (Estonia, France)
Please, Anna Mantzaris (Finland, France, Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic)
The Berry Picker, Pieter Coudyzer (Belgium)
The Daughters of the Late Colonel, Elizabeth Hobbs (UK, Germany)
The Little White Queen, Théo Hanosset, Mathieu Georis (Belgium, France)
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Georges Schwizgebel (Switzerland)
The Quinta’s Ghost, James A. Castillo (Spain)
The Spring Sea, Koji Yamamura (Japan)
To the Woods, Agnès Patron (France)
Two Ice Creams Please, Jasmine Elsen (Belgium)
Uka-uka, Henri Veermäe (Estonia)
Ultra Strong, Catherine Lepage (Canada)
Virgem Fandango, Marcy Page (Canada, Portugal)
Water Girl, Sandra Desmazières (France, Netherlands, Portugal)
What We Leave Behind, Jean-Sébastien Hamel, Alexandra Myotte (Canada)
When the Sea Was Calm, Mamuka Tkeshelashvili (Georgia)
Winter in March, Natalia Mirzoyan (Armenia, Belgium, Estonia, France)

'The Spring Sea' by Koji Yamamura 

Cartoon Physics, Ru Kuwahata & Max Porter

Perspectives

Acid City, Jack Wedge, Will Freudenheim (USA)
Because Today Is Saturday, Alice Eça Guimarães (Portugal, France, Spain)
Bucketman, Takaya Tanaka (Japan)
Chance, Pooya Afzali (Iran)
City of Roses, Siso Barros, Barca Bogante (Brazil)
Decay, Juan Camilo González (Colombia)
Entelechy, Marcos Sánchez (Chile)
Hold It Together, Fan Sissoko (Iceland, France, Belgium)
Misophonia, Michelle Gruppetta (Malta)
Once in a Body, María Cristina Pérez González (Colombia, USA)
Paper Daughter, Cami Kwan (USA)
Rest, Ryotaro Miyajima (Japan)
That Night, Hoda Sobhani (Iran, USA)
The Boa Woman, Stephanie Boyd, Miguel Araoz Cartagena (Peru)
The Comet, Julie Charette (Canada)
The Travails of Ajadi, Adeoye Adetunji (Nigeria)
Three pariah cats, Ivan Sierra (Colombia)

'Rest' by Ryotaro Miyajima

Off-Limits

Adage, Jack Barrett (UK)
Core Dump, Alona Rodeh (Germany)
Evacuations, Lilli Carré (USA)
From Apple to Egg, Nadiia Pliamko (Estonia)
Merrimundi, Niles Atallah (Chile)
Symbionts, Quirijn Dees (Switzerland)
The Stars Watch from Long Ago, Stacey Steers (USA)
XYZ, Alexandre Alagôa (Portugal)

'From Apple to Egg' by Nadiia Pliamko

Young Audiences

A Dog's Life, Sophie Olga De Jong, Sytske Kok (Netherlands)
Aller & Retour, Lucia Bulgheroni, Michele Greco (Italy)
Bats & Bugs, Lena von Döhren (Switzerland)
Cloud Fish, Noé Garcia (France, Belgium)
Cosmonaut, Zoltán Horváth (Switzerland)
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe!, Andrea Szelesová (Slovakia, Czech Republic)
Grounded, Chris Callus (New Zealand)
Into the Forest, Antonin Niclass (Switzerland)
Piccolo Piccolo, Marta Gennari (France, Switzerland)
Vor meiner Tür auf einer Matte, Antje Heyn (Germany)

'Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe' by Andrea Szelesová

Midnight Shorts

A Couple Clucking Chickens Were Still Kickin' in the Schoolyard, Seishiro Nagaya (Japan)
A Trip to the Ear, Jee-Youn Park (South Korea)
Best in Show, Niklas Dahlqvist (Sweden)
Builder, Ryoji Yamada (Japan)
CALM, the Last Tale of Horacio Quiroga, María Ruisánchez, Alvaro León (Spain, Argentina, Mexico)
Carla and her legs, Christoph Büttner (Germany)
Dawn at Terezinha Building, Cesar Cabral, Renato José Duque (Brazil)
Dinner, Haeji Jeong (South Korea)
Eclosión, Luis Morillo (Dominican Republic, Spain)
Grey, Xiaobei Song (USA)
Hunger, Imanol Ortiz López (Spain)
My Name Is Lilith, Leo Luna Robert-Tourneur (Belgium, France)
Praying Mantis, Joe Hsieh (Hong Kong, Taiwan)
Tenebras, Francisco Rojas (Dominican Republic)
The Flesh Dress, Joachim Hérissé (France)
Wolpie of the Woods, Kat Messing (USA)

'A Trip to the Ear' by Jee-Youn Park

WTF

Babyface, Sacha Beeley (UK)
Broc!, Calvin Woo, Wong Chung Him (Hong Kong)
I Have a, Rory Waudby-Tolley (UK)
I'm Glad I know That Now Thank You: Phones, Mike Greaney (UK)
King Kong vs Pinocchio, Janet Perlman (Canada)
Pigeon Businessman, Will Blank (USA)
Smokedog, Andrew Onorato (Australia)
We're Kinda Different, Ben Meinhardt (Canada)
What Is, Is Now, Jikke Lesterhuis (Netherlands)

'Pigeon Businessman' by Will Blank

Graduation Films

A Bloody Situation, Nerian Keywan (UK)
A Body without a Horse?, Lara Fuke (Belgium, Brazil, Finland, Portugal)
Awaken Night, Julie-Ann Déry (Canada)
Aïcha Kandicha, Fayrouz Harmatallah Sbaï (France)
Ball Face, Laurence Thérien (UK)
Bonefuzz, Márk László (Hungary)
Cold Bathroom, Eleni Aerts (Belgium, Switzerland)
Dying Embers, Léa Pulini (France)
Eyeliner, Aisha Boudjillouli (UK)
False Door, Oktawia Derybowska (Poland)
Fingerbang, Yeonwoo Kim (South Korea)
Fisheye, Łukasz Rygał (Poland)
Foreign Bodies, Lysander Wong (UK)
Free Food Race, Swan Brocher (France)
From Narva with Love, Paulina Belik (Estonia)
Gauze, Noran Alezabi, Nicholas Arujah, Xinyue Ma, Yulin Yue, Xiaonan Zhou (France)
Gently, Jamaica Kindlová (Czech Republic)
I Am Li Yangqiao, Yiqian Ma, Qianai Lin, Xihan Yin, Zhiyan Chen, Ruizhe Pan (China)
Immature, Eddy Wu (Netherlands, Taiwan)
Insecticide, Paula Gallego González (Spain)
Jincheng Driving School, Bing Hao Jiao (China)
L'Œuf noir, Ousmane Cissé (France)
Mauruuru Roa, Ysoline Despierre (France)
Mis-Angel, Wyatt Carson (UK)
Mom, Camille DE Vulpillieres (Belgium)
Nursing Room, Tianjing (Kiki) Yuan, Sijia Wang (China)
Oldies of the Coast, Clarence Fennessy (Australia)
Plankton α, Yini Guo (Japan)
Queens of the Pampa, Millaray Isella Arriagada (Chile)
Slap, Yiling Wang (Japan)
So He Grabbed the Knife, Sam Kuwa (Japan, China)
Taming Phenomena, Shunyuan Yao (Estonia)
Tar, Fariba Farzanfar, Kaveh Sistani (Iran)
Tethered, Alessandro Cino Zolfanelli (UK)
The 12 Inch Pianist, Lucas Ansel (USA)
The Amazing Kitsuverse, Leo Neumann (Germany)
The Day I Licked a Pebble, Flavie Eliézer, Chloé Bernuchon, Goli Atefi, Maud Kolasa, Nathan Jauze, Marie Pijollrt (France)
The Mirage of a Dream, Kalyani Bhagyanath (India)
The Mother's Voice, Mian Ijlal Ahmad (Pakistan)
The Rossini Garden, William Burger, Siméon Jacob, Garance Mondamert, Mathilde Vergereau, Arthur Wong, Odelia Laine, Tara Rewal (France)
The Sea Spirit, Edwin Ivemark Kihlström (Sweden)
The Sound of the Jaguar, Antonia Sofía Silva Alvardo (Mexico)

'Eyeliner' by Aisha Boudjillouli

TV Films

Candy Caries, Tomoki Misato (Japan)
Chip Joins a Cult, Maddie Brewer (USA)
Christmas in the Boonies, Mikk Mägi (Estonioa)
Dino Does It Wrong?, Danna Galeano (Canada, Colombia, Egypt)
Doggie and Pussycat, Barbora Dlouhá (Czech Republic)
Ewilan's Quest "On the Road", Fabien Daphy, Eve Ceccarelli-Moing, Justine Mettler (France, Belgium)
Il Baracchino, Nicolò Cuccì, Salvo Di Paola (Italy)
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia, Naoko Yamada, Abel Gongora (Japan)
Ling Cage – Season 2, Xiangbo Dong (China)
Long Story Short "Shira Can’t Cook", Jack Shih, Katie Rice, Ryan Quincy (USA)
Love, Death + Robots "How Zeke Got Religion", Diego Porral (USA)
Max and Bunny, Clément Céard (France)
My Brother the Minotaur "Episode 10", Maurice Joyce (Ireland, USA)
Not a Box "It's a Boat", Siri Melchior (United Kingdom, USA)
Patouille and Momo "The Banana Tree", Inès Bernard-Espina, Mélody Boulissière, Clémentine Campos (France)
Pol the Pirate Mouse "Cave Monster", Bouwine Pool (Netherlands)
Puissances noires, Cécile Bonneau (France)
Song of the Storms, Caroline Attia (France, Belgium)
Sparks of Tomorrow "Episode 1", Minoru Ota (Japan)
SpongeBob SquarePants "Go Fetch!", Adam Paloian (USA)
Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord "Chapter 9: Strange Allies", Brad Rau, Steward Lee (USA)
Takopi’s Original Sin, Shinya Iino (Japan)
The Broos, David Mirailles (France)
The Chosen One, Yong Yang (China)
The Doomies "Night of the Fishing Dead", Andrès Fernandez (France)
The Great Dreamscape, Rémi Durin (Belgium, France)
Woolly Woolly "The New Kid", Emmanuel Linderer (France, Canada)
Wuthering Hearts, Laura Jayne Hodkin (UK, USA)
YaYa's Band, Chun-Chien Lien, Pohan Lee (Taiwan)

'The Broos' by David Mirailles

Commissioned Films

A$AP Rocky "Helicopter", Daniel Streit (USA)
Anima Festival Trailer 2025, Raman Djafari (Germany)
Arrigo Barnabé "Clara Crocodilo", 1980, Samuel Mariani, Camila Kater, Camila Kater (Brazil)
Christmas Legend, Quentin Fachon, François Hogue (Cananda)
Cœur Vert Nez Rouge, Fabienne Le Loher, Juliette Hamon-Damourette (France)
Design and Animation School (DAS), Natia Nikolashvili (Georgia)
Detention's Ripple Effect: Why Inhumanity Breeds Hatred, Ahmad Mohammad Nady (Egypt)
Devil May Cry "Opening Credits", Arthur Chaumay, Simon Duong Van Huyen (France)
Eco Beat, Eva Bienert, Max Mörtl (Austria, Germany)
El Cuarteto de Nos "En el cuarto de Nico", Julia Conde, Magality (Argentina)
Equity in the Workplace: The Experiences of Black Irish Women in Academia and Teaching Profession, Sandra Vivas (Ireland, Venezuela)
Flea feat. Thom Yorke "Traffic Lights", Nespy 5EURO (Mexico, Italy, USA)
Friss Kakas Animation Film Days Spot, Máté Horesnyi (Hungary)
Future Islands "The Moon Is Blue", Wandrille Maunoury (France)
Here's to 100 Years of Circuit Breakers, Alan Smith, Adam Foulkes (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK)
How Smart Are Crows, Irida Zhonga (Greece, USA)
La Petite Robe noire : le Parfum, Elsa Snakers (France)
La Ride Partie 2, Edern Van Hille (France)
Little Nightmares "Broken Promises", Sofia Carrillo, Juan J. Medina (France, Mexico)
Oberka "Wildbait", Shao Yung Huang (Czech Republic)
Odezenne "Aïe aïe aïe", Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka (France)
Paul Kalkbrenner "Cronitis Boy", Raman Djafari (Germany)
Pune Design Festival 2026, Susmit Nimbhorkar (India)
Reply 2 H8, Simón Wilches-Castro (USA)
Ricoré, Victor Haegelin (France)
Siamés "The Phoenix", Mary Yanko, Marlène Ciampossin (France)
Snoop Dogg feat. Jelly Roll "Last Dance with Mary Jane", Dave Meyers, Ravach Kelzang, Marion Castéra (USA, France)
Spot MONSTRA 2025, Vasco Casula (Portugal)
Teleton Changes Everything, Mario Muñoz (Mexico)
The Magic Palm Theatre – Feinaki Beijing Animation Week 2025, Zexin Nie (China)
The Notebook, Aghil Hosseinian, Sogol Sanagoo (Iran)
Unloved, Illogic STUDIO, Victor Caire, Lucas Navarro, Théophile Dufresne (France)
WTF?! – 16th Anibar International Animation Festival Trailer, Joni Männistö (Finland, Kosovo)
Wonder Studios Ident, Stefan Falconer, Mathieu Durand (UK)
You Are an Idiot, Inari Sirola (Sweden, UK)

'Arrigo Barnabé "Clara Crocodilo", 1980' by Samuel Mariani, Camila Kater, Camila Kater 

The 2026 Festival Poster by Canadian Randall Finnerty

Randall Finnerty is a visual artist originally from Northern Ontario, Canada. He has lived in Montreal since 1992, where he worked for 24 years at the National Film Board of Canada as Technical Advisor on numerous award-winning animated short films. During that time, he maintained an active practice as an exhibiting artist. Since his retirement from the NFB, he has concentrated solely on his own practice.

“While searching for an image that captures the spirit of the Annecy Festival, I combined my love of eccentric animals engaging in human-like behaviour with a gathering of native birds from the Haute-Savoie region – a spiral pilgrimage that reflects the diversity of people bound by a common love for cinema and animation film.” 

Annecy International Animation Film Festival takes place from 21st to 27th June 2026 in Annecy, France 

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