21 animation features (out of 130 features submitted) were selected for this year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival (8-14 June 2025).

Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville, The Illusionist) makes his comeback with the biography of French author and playwright Marcel Pagnol, 'A Magnificent Life'.  Unlike his two other acclaimed animation features, the film (which will premiere at Cannes 2025) will also feature dialogue.

Another French film (but on the experimental side) is Momoko Seto's 'Dandelion's Odyssey'. Momoko Seto is known for her meticulous, arthouse work and her mixture of different techniques in an environment that comes alive (Planet Σ, Planet Z).

Canadian Félix Dufour-Laperrière (Archipel) returns to Annecy Festival with 'Death Does not Exist' and its official competition. As described, "the film plunges us into the torments of a young woman haunted by guilt following an attack that went wrong."

The 70-minute stop-motion film "Olivia and the Invisible Earthquakes" by Irene Iborra explores the issue of housing, a contemporary challenge that is here given its cinematic animation treatment.

The Contrechamp competition has some interesting gems; we find here the Berlinale-premiered 'Tales from the Magic Garden' stop-motion anthology

• Read our Interview with the Tales from the Magic Garden creators

We also see the Rotterdam-premiered, 'The Great History of Western Philosophy' by Aria Covamonas (Mexico), a dadaist retelling of Western Philosophy.

• Our interview with Aria Covamonas

'The Square' by Bo-Sol Kim (South Korea) tells the forbidden love story between a Swedish diplomat and a young North Korean woman. And the Brazilian 'Nimuendajú' by Tania Anaya tells the story of Curt Unckle, the German ethnologist and writer christened Nimuendajú by the Guarani people in 1906. 

Official Competition

• Allah is Not Obliged by Zaven Najjar (Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg)
• A Magnificent Life by Sylvain Chomet, (France, Luxembourg, Belgium)
• Arco by Ugo Bienvenu (France)
• ChaO by Yasuhiro Aoki (Japan)
• Dandelion's Odyssey by Momoko Seto (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 Irene Iborra  (Belgium, Chile, Spain, France)
• The Last Blossom by Baku Kinoshita  (Japan)
  
  

Dandelion's Odyssey

Contrechamp Competition

• >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 (Canada)
• Tales from the Magic Garden by David Sukup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar, Jean-Claude Rozec (Czech Republic, France, Slovakia, Slovenia).
• The Great History of Western Philosophy by Aria Covamonas (Mexico)
• The Square by Bo-Sol Kim (South Korea)

The Square

Annecy International Animation Film Festival takes place 8-14 June in Annecy, France.

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