Annecy Unveils Its 2024 Short Film Lineups

With awards season behind us, it’s time to look forward to the 2024 festival circuit, and Annecy, the world’s oldest and most important animation festival, has announced the short films that will compete at this year’s event in June.

Established figures included among the ranks of this year’s competing filmmakers include three-time Oscar nominee/one-time winner Torill Kove with her latest short Maybe Elephants, Annecy 2021 jury distinction winner Florence Miailhe with Papillon, and 2021 jury award winner Nicolas Keppens with Beautiful Men.

France leads this year’s geographically diverse main competition field with 10 films selected, and Canada is second with a half-dozen titles. Several countries contributed two films to this year’s field, including the U.S., Japan, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Poland, Iran, and Portugal – Annecy’s 2024 featured country. Perhaps surprisingly, the U.K. only has one film in the main short competition.

Annecy will unveil its graduation films, tv films, and commissioned films lineups at the end of March, its vr competition in mid-April, and its feature film competition at the end of April. This year’s Annecy awards ceremony will take place on June 15.

Here are the 67 titles programmed to compete Annecy’s four short film sections this year.

Official Short Films in Competition

[S], Mario Radev (U.K.)

Abzi, Shiva Sadegh Asadi (Iran)

Beautiful Men, Nicolas Keppens (Belgium, France, Netherlands)

Circle, Yumi Joung (South Korea)

Dar Saaye Sarv, Hossein Molayemi, Shirin Sohani (Iran)

Drizzle in Johnson, Ivan Li (Canada)

Etorriko da (eta zure begiak izango ditu) [When It Comes (It Will Have Your Eyes)], Izibene Oñederra (Spain)

Flower Show, Elli Vourinen (Finland)

Free the Chickens, Matus Vizar (Slovakia, Czech Republic)

Gina Kamentsky’s Pinocchio in 70MM, Gina Kamentsky (U.S.)

Hurikán, Jan Saska (Czech Republic, France, Bosnia and Herzegovnia)

In Perpetuum, Birute Sodeikaite (Canada)

Joko, Izabella Plucinska (Poland)

Kaminhu, Marie Vieillevie (France)

Kanskje det var elefanter (Maybe Elephants), Torill Kove (Norway, Canada)

Kawauso, Akihito Izuhara (Japan)

La Voix des Sirènes, Gianluigi Toccafondo (France)

Le Tableau, Michele Lemieux (Canada)

Margarethe 89, Lucas Malbrun (France)

Miserable Miracle, Ryo Orikasa (France, Canada, Japan)

Mont Noir, Jean-Baptiste Peltier, Erika Haglund (France, Portugal)

Moral Support, Vuk Jevremovic (Germany)

Papillon, Florence Miailhe (France)

Percebes, Alexandra Ramires, Laura GonÇalves (Portugal, France)

Plus Douce Est la Nuit, Fabienne Wagenaar (France)

Portret Konia, Witold Giersz (Poland)

Preoperational Model, Philip Ullman (Netherlands)

Retour à Hairy Hill (Return to Hairy Hill), Daniel Gies (Canada)

Shoes and Hooves, Viktoria Traub (Hungary)

Tennis, Oranges, Sean Pecknold (U.S.)

The Car that Came Back from the Sea, Jadwiga Kowalska (Switzerland)

Off Limits

Albums de familles, Moïa Jobin-Paré (Canada)

Au-delà, Patrick Bokanowski (France)

Corpus and the Wandering, Jo Roy (Canada)

Crash-huang.xi.hu.xi, Dale Zhou, Hongxiang Zhou (U.S.)

Das große Baumstück, Claudia Larcher (Austria)

Data Flesh, Felipe Elgueta (Chile)

Glass House, Boris Labbé (France)

Grain Cloud Atmosphere, Martin Moolhuijsen (Italy)

Lines, Martin Schmidt (Germany)

Mémoire entropique, Nicolas Brault (Canada)

O/S, Max Hattler (Hong Kong)

Ombres acoustiques, Patrick Bergeron (Canada)

Perspectives

A Menina e o Pote, Valentina Homem (Brazil)

El cambio de rueda, Begoña Arostegui (Spain)

Elene Dariani, Elene Tavadze (Georgia)

GIGI, Cynthia Calvi (France)

Hanina, by: Yasmin Moll (Egypt)

Hey Dad, Wei Fan Wang (Taiwan)

I Died in Irpin, Anastasiia Falileieva (Czech Republic, Slovakia)

It Shouldn’t Rain Tomorrow, Maria Trigo Teixeira (Portugal)

Last Night, Peter Oti Asamoah (Ghana)

Peun-Ku-Larp, Thanut Rujitanont (Thailand)

Pie dan lo, Kim Yip Tong (Mauritius, France)

Silent Panorama, Nicolas Piret (Belgium)

The Meatseller, Margherita Giusti (Italy)

The Wild-Tempered Clavier, Anna Samo (Germany)

This Is a Story Without a Plan, Cassie Shao (U.S.)

Underground, Yiannis Christoforou (Greece)

Young Audiences

Abri, Julie Daravan Chea (France)

Ahoj leto, Martin Smatana, Veronika Zacharová (Slovakia, Czech Republic, France)

Basha, Paul Anirban (India)

Beurk!, Loïc Espuche (France)

La Boulangerie de Boris, Masa Avramovic (Croatia, France, Switzerland)

Tête en l’air, Rémi Durin (France)

Tuu-Tuu-Til, Veronica Solomon (Germany)

Wing It!, Rik Schutte (Netherlands)