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The official selection of the 2025 Annecy International Animation Film Festival has been unveiled, with 21 feature films selected from 130 submissions, and the full Mifa program has been revealed.
“After a historic 2024 edition, with a record attendance of 17,400 badge-holders, and all this despite a difficult context for the industry, we have worked with renewed determination to make the 2025 edition stronger, open and ambitious to assist the revival,” said Mickaël Marin, CEO of CITIA, organizer of the festival and Mifa market.
The selections in the official competition are Allah is Not Obliged by Zaven Najjar (Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg); Arco by Ugo Bienvenu (France); ChaO by Yasuhiro Aoki (Japan); Dandelion’s Odyssey by Momoko Seto and GEBEKA Films (Belgium, France); Death Does Not Exist by Félix Dufour-Laperrière (Canada, France); Into the Mortal World by Zhong Ding (China); Little Amélie or the Character of Rain by Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han (France); Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake by Irina Iborra (Belgium, Chile, Spain, France); and The Last Blossom by Baku Kinoshita (Japan).
In the Contrechamp competition, the selected projects are Balentes by Giovanni Columbu (Italy); Endless Cookie by Seth Scriver and Pete Scriver (Canada); Jinsei by Ryuya Suzuki (Japan); Lesbian Space Princess by Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese (Australia); Memory Hotel by Heinrich Sabl (Germany, France); Nimuendajú by Tania Anaya (Brazil, Peru); Olivia & the Clouds by Tomás Pichardo Espaillat (Dominican Republic); Space Cadet by Eric San, aka Kid Koala (Canada); Tales from the Magic Garden by David Sukup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar, Jean-Claude Rozec and GEBEKA Films (Czech Republic, France, Slovakia, Slovenia); The Great History of Western Philosophy by Aria Covamonas (Mexico); and The Square by Bo-Sol Kim (South Korea).
The festival will feature a variety of screening events, including for Animal Farm by Andy Serkis; Maya, Give Me Another Title by Michael Gondry; Falcon Express by Jean-Christian Tassy and Benoît Daffis; The Songbird’s Secret by Antoine Lanciaux; and Fixed by Genndy Tartakovsky.
Netflix, Sony Pictures Animation, DreamWorks Animation, Warner Bros. Animation and The Walt Disney Company will all host exclusive first-looks at upcoming projects.
The non-competitive category Annecy Presents will again take place, with previews of 13 international films, including titles from Norway, Finland, France, Malaysia, Poland, China, Belgium, Mexico, Switzerland, Ireland and many more.
Mifa, the market running parallel to the festival, will be celebrating its 40th anniversary with 200 programmed events, 200 stands in a larger exhibition area, an XR&Games area and a restyled Le Campus Mifa.
The program includes 32 pitch sessions—seven Mifa pitch sessions and 25 partner pitch sessions. For the Mifa pitches, 48 projects were shortlisted in the categories of short films, feature films, series and TV specials, immersive experiences and documentaries. Over 120 projects in development from all continents will be presented across the 25 partner pitch sessions.
A brand-new student pitch will take place on June 20, with eight graduation film projects from international animation schools selected.
There will be 11 Mifa conferences across three categories—innovation/technology, industry and business.
There will also be press conferences, demo sessions, studio focuses, industry panels, presentations from major figures and six sessions of “Meet the…” meetings aimed at publishers, festival programmers, producers, sales agents, buyers and composers.
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival is set to run from June 8 to 14, and Mifa will run from June 10 to 13.
