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Annecy Festival Winners 2024

Feature film winners from the Annecy animation festival 2024 — official competition and Contrechamp.

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Official competition

The main feature competition — Cristal, Jury, Audience, distribution, and the Paul Grimault Award.

Cristal for a Feature Film

Memoir of a Snail
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claymationstop motion

Adam Elliot · 2024 · Australia · 94 min

in Animation styles

  • Annecy · CristalAnnecy International Animation Film FestivalCristalThe world's largest dedicated animation festival, held each June in Annecy, France.

A woman who collects snails looks back on a life marked by loss, separation, strange attachments, and the search for tenderness.

Slow and contemplative, with a mix of warmth and melancholy, punctuated by moments of quiet humor and a textured, earthy visual style.

Jury Award · Audience Award · Gan Foundation Award for Distribution

Flow
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independent CGIno-dialogue animation

Gints Zilbalodis · 2024 · Latvia, France, Belgium · 85 min

in 9 Movies Like Flow

  • Annecy · Jury AwardAnnecy International Animation Film FestivalJury AwardThe world's largest dedicated animation festival, held each June in Annecy, France.

After a great flood, a solitary cat joins other animals on a drifting boat and travels through a transformed, wordless world.

Languid and surreal, with a mix of muted colors and soft sounds, creating a sense of quiet unease and gentle absurdity.

Paul Grimault Award

Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window
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2D Computer

Shinnosuke Yakuwa · 2023 · Japan · 114 min

  • Annecy · Paul GrimaultAnnecy International Animation Film FestivalPaul GrimaultThe world's largest dedicated animation festival, held each June in Annecy, France.

This engaging series of childhood recollections tells of an unconventional school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. The school had old railroad cars for classrooms and was run by an extraordinary man — its founder and headmaster, Sōsaku Kobayashi — who deeply valued children's independence, and who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity.

Warm wartime childhood memoir — a free-spirited girl and a school that treats curiosity as the curriculum.

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Contrechamp

Annecy’s Contrechamp sidebar for edgier and newer feature voices.

Contrechamp Grand Prix

Sultana's Dream
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2D animation / mixed media

Isabel Herguera · 2023 · Spain, Germany · 86 min

in Non-Disney animated movies

  • Annecy · Contrechamp Grand PrixAnnecy International Animation Film FestivalContrechamp Grand PrixThe world's largest dedicated animation festival, held each June in Annecy, France.
  • BerlinaleBerlin International Film FestivalLeading European festival held each February in Berlin, known for artistic programming and the Golden Bear.
  • TIFFToronto International Film FestivalOne of the largest public film festivals in the world, held each September in Toronto, Canada.

A woman discovers a century-old feminist sci-fi text and travels through dreams, memory and imagined women-led worlds.

Dreamy and surreal, with a blend of warmth and coldness, punctuated by moments of humor and a sense of quiet wonder.

Contrechamp Jury Award

Living Large
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Puppet animation2D animation

Kristina Dufková · 2024 · Czech Republic, Slovakia, France · 79 min

  • Annecy · Contrechamp Jury AwardAnnecy International Animation Film FestivalContrechamp Jury AwardThe world's largest dedicated animation festival, held each June in Annecy, France.

A twelve-year-old boy facing bullying about his weight tries to change himself while navigating family, friendship, food and first love.

Warm, funny and gently awkward, mixing tactile puppet textures with adolescent embarrassment and a generous movement toward self-acceptance.

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