Feature film winners from the Annecy animation festival 2025 — official competition and Contrechamp.
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The main feature competition — Cristal, Jury, Audience, distribution, and the Paul Grimault Award.
Cristal for a Feature Film
A boy from a distant future crosses into our time, opening a story about climate, childhood, and connection across worlds.
Sparse and cold, with a sense of longing that contrasts the vibrant yet alien world of the future.
Jury Award
Yasuhiro Aoki · 2025 · Japan · 90 min
In a future where humans and mermaids live together, an ordinary office worker is suddenly proposed to by a mermaid princess.
Bright, exuberant and romantically strange, overflowing with elastic movement, aquatic fantasy and sincere emotional sweetness.
Audience Award
Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han · 2025 · France · 77 min
A small child in Japan awakens to language, family, nature, desire and the overwhelming intensity of discovering the world.
Radiant and sensorial, moving with the astonishment of early childhood through water, gardens, colour and sudden shadows of loss.
Gan Foundation Award for Distribution
Irene Iborra Rizo · 2025 · Spain, France, Belgium, Chile, Switzerland · 70 min
After her family loses its home, a twelve-year-old girl turns instability into imaginative adventures while caring for her younger brother.
Inventive and resilient, using tactile stop-motion energy, neighbourhood warmth and playful fantasy to hold the anxiety of sudden precarity.
Paul Grimault Award
Momoko Seto · 2025 · France / Belgium · 75 min
After a catastrophe, tiny dandelion-like beings travel through strange worlds in search of a new home.
Ethereal and dreamlike, with a slow, drifting pace that balances moments of lightness and tension against a backdrop of vibrant, surreal landscapes.
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Annecy’s Contrechamp sidebar for edgier and newer feature voices.
Contrechamp Grand Prix
Two half-brothers use stories, memories and improvised animation to explore the very different worlds in which they grew up.
Loose, handmade and affectionate, tumbling through family memory with comic digressions, rough textures and a strong sense of lived-in intimacy.
Contrechamp Jury Award
Bo-Sol Kim · 2024 · South Korea · 73 min
A Swedish diplomat in Pyongyang secretly meets a local traffic officer until her sudden disappearance draws him into suspicion and surveillance.
Restrained, lonely and quietly tense, with delicate cel textures holding a romance shaped by secrecy, distance and political fear.
These are the feature titles Resonale tracks from Annecy’s major awards. Open any film for mood, technique, and where it sits in the catalog.
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