From 8th to 14th June 2025, participate in the Annecy International Animation Film Festival! For one week, this event celebrates the best of international animation.
Official Selection
Mickaël Marin, CEO of CITIA, and Marcel Jean, Artistic Director, presented the Official Selection, Screening Events, the new features for 2025 and other highlights of this year’s progamme, which will be held from 8th to 14th June.
“After a historic 2024 edition, with a record attendance of 17,400 badgeholders, 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”, emphasised Mickaël Marin in the introduction. Out of the 130 high-quality films submitted, Marcel Jean revealed 21 feature films in the Official Selection
The International Animation Film Market (MIFA) Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary!
During the Mifa press conference this evening at the CNC, Director of Mifa Véronique Encrenaz outlined some highlights of the upcoming edition, which will be held from 10th to 13th June 2025.
Covering an area of over 10,000m², the Mifa will be offering editorialized days from this anniversary edition onwards. With 200 events programmed, 200 stands in the ever-larger Exhibition Area, an XR&Games area that returns to the heart of the Mifa and therefore closer to the professionals on the 1st floor of the Exhibition Area, and a restyled, revitalised Le Campus Mifa, the Mifa is celebrating its 40th anniversary in grand style!
THE Mifa Animation Industry Award
The Mifa is delighted to present the award to an iconic producer, Didier Brunner, notably the producer of Kirikou, which was presented for the very first time by Michel Ocelot as a Pitch project during one of the early editions of the Mifa in 1993! The award will be presented during the Guest Cocktail Reception on 9th June 2025.
A Tribute to Hungarian Animation
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival is thrilled to shine a light on the dazzling, culturally diverse feature films and shorts, as well as the vibrancy of the contemporary Hungarian production recently awarded at Annecy.
“Despite the political turmoil, the historic richness of Hungarian animation has never faltered. For more than twenty years, many student films have heralded the arrival of a real new wave, while the recent successes of films by Flóra Anna Buda (27), Balázs Turai (Amok), Nadja Andrasev (Symbiosis) and Áron Gauder (Four Souls of Coyote) have come and reinforced this emergence to demonstrate the cultural vibrancy and profound originality of this country’s production. The significant undertaking of digitising and restoring works that the Hungarian National Film Institute is doing will enable Annecy 2025 to present the great Hungarian animation classics in optimal conditions.” Marcel Jean, Annecy Festival’s Artistic Director
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Annecy Festival: https://www.annecyfestival.com/
