35 short films in the official selection of the 2025 Annecy Festival, which is dominated by French (12 films produced or co-produced in France). We see familiar names in the lineup of the prestigious fest. Theodore Ushev returns to Annecy with 'My Life with an Idiot, a film co-directed with Alexandra Ushev. Accused by the authorities of not working hard enough, Vladimir is forced to live with an idiot as punishment.

Another Oscar-nominated animation artist, Bruno Collet competes with 'Atomik Tour', a 12-minute stop-motion exploration of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and its repercussions on a young tourist

More about 'Atomik Tour'

The 2025 Anima Festival winner 'Sisowatch Quay'  by  Stéphanie Lansaque & François Leroy, a strange, nightmarish film of an Asian romance, is on board in the official selection. Master Estonian animation director Priit Pärn and Olga Pärn continue their exploration of quirky comedy by moving into Italy with their 33-minute 2D animation 'Luna Rossa'.

Fadi Syriani is selected in the Perspectives section (17 films selected) with the 16-minute stop-motion  'All this death'. An old Beirut resident checks the obituaries page and attends funerals daily. Krste Gospodinovski's puppet Macedonian film 'Silent Cinema' uses an intergenerational play with cinema at its main center.

9 animation shorts in the Off-Limits festival section and 10 animation films for young audiences in the corresponding section (including the sweet 'Capybaras' by Alfredo Soderguit).

Update 21/3: 45 short animation films were selected for the graduation programme of the festival.

The full lineup of short animation films for Annecy Festival 2025 (announced 18 March & 21 March)

Official selection 2025 - Official

9 Million Colours,  / Czech Republic
At Night   / Iran
Atomik Tour  / France
Bread Will Walk / Canada
Carcassonne-Acapulco / France
Dog Ear / Hungary
Dollhouse Elephant / Finland
Fusion / Canada
Hairy Legs / Canada
Hatjer / Argentina
Il burattino e la balena /France, Italy
La Vie avec un idiot / France
Les Bêtes / USA
Luna rossa / Estonia, France
Murmuration /Netherlands
My Brother, My Brother / Germany, Egypt, France
My Wonderful Life / Singapore
Ordinary Life /France, Japan
Ovary-Acting / Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
Praying Mantis / Taiwan
Sappho / Brazil
Shadows / France, Jordan
Shocking Dreams in the Circus / China
Signal / France, Belgium
Sisowath Quay / France
Star Wars: Visions – "Black" /Japan
Sulaimani / France
Tapeworm Alexis & the Opera Diva / Switzerland
Thank You Dr. Farsi / Iran
The Exploding Girl / France
The Girl Who Cried Pearls / Canada
The Gnawer of Rocks / Canada
The Magician / Croatia, France, Romania
The Night Boots / France
The Pool or Death of a Goldfish / Poland

Atomik Tour

My LIfe with an Idiot

Official selection 2025 - Perspectives

All This Death / Lebanon
Blinded by the Lights / Ghana
Bloody Mess / Canada
Box / China
By the Way / Iran
Chronicity / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dark Orange / Iran
Dédé (Ancestor) / United Kingdom
Fačuk / Croatia, Slovenia
Goldau / Switzerland
Ibuka, Justice / Canada
K'uchu: A Childhood Place / Peru
Psychonauts / Croatia
S The Wolf: "I Will Have the Crown Back On My Head" /Egypt, France
Silent Cinema / North Macedonia
Snake Soup / Armenia
The Mustached Clown Circus / Argentina

Fačuk 

Official selection 2025 - Off-Limits
Capriccio / Hungary
Coda / Norway
Firewalk / Finland
Gerhard / Germany
SKRFF / Austria
The Graffiti / Japan
The Prologue / Austria
This Is Not Your Garden / Colombia
Vader Ademt / Belgium

Coda

Official selection 2025 - Young Audiences

A Walk into the Afterlife / Luxembourg
Capybaras / Chile, France, Uruguay
Cardboard / United Kingdom
Forevergreen / USA
Sapan / Turkey
Snow Bear / USA
The Carp and the Child / Belgium, France
The Great Annual Party of the Creatures of the Moon / Canada
The Night Tunnel / Belgium, France, Netherlands
Tsuru / Brazil

Capybaras

Official selection 2025 - Graduation Films

A Bird Hit My Window and Now I'm a Lesbian / USA
Arachnophobia / Slovenia
Better Man / Czech Republic
Between the Gaps / France
Blargh / USA
Casual / Denmark
Chair Cemetery / France
Cleanliness / Latvia
Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) / South Korea
Cocoon / China, United Kingdom
Cottage Cheese / Switzerland
Detlev / Germany
Flares / Czech Republic, France
Floating / Croatia, Germany, Serbia
Football Stuff / Spain
Hand / Japan
Hello, Headquarters / Poland
Hunting / Switzerland
Laute Stille / Austria
Lights, Haze / Belgium, Finland, Georgia, Portugal
Mother's Child / Netherlands
Neh Neh Pok / Singapore
Passageways / Canada
Pebble to Pebble / France
Pillow Talks / Belgium
Poppy Flowers / Estonia
Q / Japan
REM Sleep / Netherlands
Secret Theatre / Mexico
Sphere Supreme / Belgium, Turkey
Sublime / France
The Angelic Touch /Poland
The Crooked Heads /Poland
The Diffusion Pilot / Estonia
The Doll Kiln / USA
The Eating of an Orange /United Kingdom
The Last Drop / Hungary
The tale of Trần Thanh Dương / Vietnam
The Virtue of Voice / Netherlands
Triassic Cuddle / Romania
Veils of Landscape / Japan
Watashiha, Watashito, Watashiga, Watashiwo / Japan
Weathered / United Kingdom
Won't be Here / China
Zootrope / France

Poppy Flowers

More categories are to be announced. Annecy International Animation Film Festival takes place 8-14 June 2025.

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