2024 Full Report and Highlights

After 7 intensive days celebrating and sharing our common passion for animation film in the Festival cinema theatres and at the Mifa, the 2024 Annecy Festival drew to a close on Saturday 15th June with the announcement of all the award winners.

This year’s edition was notably the opportunity to pay tribute to Portugal, the guest country, and to dance, our other major theme. It was also the chance to shine a spotlight on innovation and talents in the field of animation, with the creation of the new XR&Games Area, but also by providing additional Festival screenings. There was a tremendous response to the Festival, with over 17,400 accredited attendees turning out to bring the world’s animation capital to life!

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AWARD WINNERS

At the Closing Ceremony, the Festival awarded its Cristal for a Feature Film to Memoir of a Snail by Adam Elliot. As for Flow by Gints Zilbalodis, it took home no less than 4 prizes! A Japanese film, Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window by Shinnosuke Yakuwa, rounded-off the leading trio with the Paul Grimault Award. For the short films, the Cristal was awarded to Percebes, by Alexandra Ramires and Laura Gonçalves.

The full list of award winners：

https://www.annecyfestival.com/en/the-festival/awards?utm_source=brevo&utm_campaign=Bilan%20Annecy%202024&utm_medium=email

Guests were in for a nice surprise when they could enjoy a world premiere of the first official animated video clip of the song “Les Champs-Élysées” by Joe Dassin, directed by Florent Grattery and produced by Grégory Allain, Studio Caribara Annecy, Groupe Caribara Animation, Sony Music.

KEY FIGURES

Annecy Festival 2024 was also:

1,100 exhibiting companies

400 journalists

330 buyers

5 new countries represented: Isle of Man, Faroe Islands, Oman, Tanzania, Turkmenistan

595 works were available in the Video Library of which 389 are still available for viewing depending on your accreditation type until 31st December 2024.

But also:

1,300 Pass grand public

25,000 spectators at the Open-air screenings on Le Pâquier

More than 600 volunteers

Brand-new XR&Games Area

Annecy Presents

Terry GILLIAM, Regina PESSOA, Pierre HÉBERT, Henry SELICK, Julie GAYET, Jean-Paul GAULTIER, Andy SERKIS, Wes ANDERSON, Olivia RUIZ and Jean-François LAGUIONIE – Photos: ANNECY FESTIVAL/F. Murarotto