Annecy 2024 Full Report and Highlights

Mifa 11-14 June 2024

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 15^th June with the announcement of all the award winners.

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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!

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 ✨

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 31stDecember 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 Among our guests: