Moana 2, Arcane, The Lord of the Rings… the biggest animated hits are back at the 2024 Annecy festival

The 48th edition of the International Animated Film Festival will be held at the beginning of June! Still based in Annecy, the event once again brings together some of the biggest names in the field to talk about creativity, style and technique.

We are counting on the special presence of director Wes Anderson in particular, but also Terry Gilliam, the holder of an honorary crystal throughout his career, as well as the French actor Alain Chabat.

The largest studios used at the festival will also be there. In addition to airing a new movie in the Ultraman franchise, Netflix will present its upcoming animated projects. Disney and Illumination will not be left behind with the sequels that the public is eagerly waiting for: Moana 2, Vice-Versa 2 and Despicable Me 4.

Lord of the Rings fans are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Andy Serkis to present The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, which is scheduled for release in December 2024. He is accompanied by Kenji Kamiyama and Joseph Cho, director and producer. A film that will reveal the first images.

Fans of Japanese animation will also enjoy the highly anticipated Detective Conan: A Million Stars, Looking Back and Blue Lock: Episode Nagi. There will also be nice, more discreet gems available in the program, such as Anzu, Ghost Cat, which also appear in the skin, or Give It All.

As for our hexagon, this year it is again a French film that has the honor of opening the ball. After presenting and winning the Positive Cinema Prize at Cannes, Michel Hazanavicius’ most prized commodity will be screened at the opening of the festival this Sunday, June 9.

While you wait to find out which movie will be successful Linda Wants Chicken! and will win the coveted Feature Film Crystal, discover the official selection:

Feature films in competition – l’Official

• Angelo in the Mysterious Forest by Vincent Paronneau and Alexis Ducord (France, Luxembourg)
• Flow by Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia, Belgium, France)
• Anzu, the ghost cat By Yoko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita (Japan, France)
• Colors Inside Naoko Yamada (Japan)
• The most valuable commodity from Michel Hazanavicius (France, Belgium)
• Toto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window, Shinnosuke Yakuwa (Japan)
• Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail (Australia)
• Rock Bottom Maria Trainor (Spain, Poland)
• Savages by Claude Barras (Switzerland, France, Belgium)
• Slocum and I by Jean-François Laguionie (Luxembourg, France)
• Imaginary Yoshiyuki Momose (Japan)
• Zhigang Yang Thunderstorm (China)

Feature films in competition – Contrechamp

• El sueño de la sultana by Isabel Hergera (Spain, Germany)
• Gil from Ahn Jae Huun (South Korea)
• Iti Mapukpukav by Carl Joseph Papa (Philippines)
• Life, mainly by Kristina Dufkova (Czech Republic, Slovakia, France)
• Black Butterflies by David Baute (Spain, Panama)
• Our Crazy Love Nelson Botter Jr. (Brazil)
• Pelican Blue László Cák (Hungary)
• Reise der Schatten by Yves Netzhammer (Switzerland)
• Burning Unicorn Nick Johnson (Canada)
• Kitaro’s Birth: The Secret of GeGeGe Go Koga (Japan)
• Glassworker by Usman Riaz (Pakistan)

previews and special screenings

• Despicable Me 4 By Chris Reno and Patrick Delage (USA)
• Silex and the City by Jean-Paul Guigue and Julien Berjeaut (France, Belgium)
• Transformers One by Josh Cooley (USA)
• Ultraman: Rise By Shannon Tindle and John Aoshima (USA)
• On the contrary 2 by Kelsey Mann (USA)
• Buffalo Kids by Juan (Galo) Galocha and Pedro Solı́s (Spain)
• Diplodocus by Wojtek Wawszczyk (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia)
• Extinction of Behnoud Nekuay (Malaysia)
• Fox and rabbit save Mascha Halberstad forest (Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium)
• The Birth of a Big Animal by Camille Almeras, Caroline Atia Lariviere, Ceylan Beyoglu, Haruna Kish, Natalia Chernysheva, Olesya Shchukina (France, Germany).
• Detective Conan: A Million Stars Dollar from Chika Nagaoka (Japan)
• Out of the Nest by Arturo Hernandez and Andrew Gordon (Thailand, China)
• Land of Sand by Yoshihisa Yokoshima (Japan)
• Garfield: A Hero Despite Himself by Mark Dindall (USA)
• Lazy Lane by Tanya Vincent and Richard Cousso (Australia)
• The Worlds Divide by Denver Jackson (Canada)
• Little Panda in Africa Richard Claus and Karsten Kielreich (France, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark)
• Look back Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Japan)
• Perfume of Iraq by Leonard Cohen (France)
• Give it all Yuhei Sakuragi (Japan)
• Blue Lock: Episode Nagi Shunsuke Ishikawa (Japan)

Special programming: Portugal!

Go there! Portuguese animation is in the spotlight this year with the presence of Leonor Silveira, José Miguel Ribeiro and David Dutel as members of the jury and a poster signed by director Regina Pessoa.

On the selection side, the country will be represented by 7 films:

• It shouldn’t rain tomorrow by Maria Trigo Teixeira (short film Perspectives)
• perches Alexandra Ramírez and Laura Gonçalves (L’officielle short film)
• Mont Noir Jean-Baptiste Peltier and Erika Hagundi (L’officiel short film)
• O diary Alice, Diogo Viegas (TV Movie)
• Is now the time to let you go? Yi-Ching Tsai (graduate film)
• be a seed (Ser semilla) Julia Granillo Tostado (graduate film)
• Chanteluv from Regina peso (order film)

But also…

• The first images from the new DreamWorks Animation and Universal Pictures production titled The Wild Robot , directed by Chris Sanders.
• Information on upcoming Netflix releases from Twilight of the Gods to Wallace & Gromit and Arcane

• Exclusive pictures from the Asterix and Obelix series in the presence of the directors Alain Chabat and Fabrizio Joubert
• Master class on the topic of cinema, which he taught Wes Anderson
• The first minutes of the second opus Moana by Walt Disney Animation Studios

The selection and the full program can be found on it website Anesi Festival (from June 9 to 15).