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Annecy Festival Winners 2026

Feature film winners from the Annecy animation festival 2026 — 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

The Violinist
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2D computer animation3D computer animation

Ervin Han, Raúl García · 2026 · Singapore, Spain, Italy · 114 min

  • AnnecyAnnecy International Animation Film FestivalThe world's largest dedicated animation festival, held each June in Annecy, France.

A reporter investigating an elderly violinist uncovers a story of childhood friendship, music and separation during the Japanese occupation of Singapore.

Sweeping and bittersweet, carrying music across decades of war, lost intimacy and memory with a polished historical grandeur.

Jury Award · Audience Award · Gan Foundation Award for Distribution

Iron Boy
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Drawing on paper2D computer animation

Louis Clichy · 2026 · France, Belgium · 89 min

  • AnnecyAnnecy International Animation Film FestivalThe world's largest dedicated animation festival, held each June in Annecy, France.

A ten-year-old boy expected to inherit his family's farm begins collapsing without warning and discovers music after being fitted with a corset.

Tender, grounded and quietly liberating, moving from bodily constraint and rural expectation toward music, friendship and a widening sense of possibility.

Paul Grimault Award

Decorado
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drawing on paper2D computer animation

Alberto Vázquez · 2026 · Spain · 95 min

  • AnnecyAnnecy International Animation Film FestivalThe world's largest dedicated animation festival, held each June in Annecy, France.

An unemployed mouse begins to suspect that his city is an artificial construction controlled by a powerful corporation and devises a plan to escape.

Bleak, surreal and darkly comic, with oppressive urban spaces, nervous energy and a growing sense that reality itself is closing in.

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Contrechamp

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

Contrechamp Grand Prix

Blaise
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2D ComputerCut-outs

Dimitri Planchon, Jean-Paul Guigue · 2026 · France · 83 min

  • AnnecyAnnecy International Animation Film FestivalThe world's largest dedicated animation festival, held each June in Annecy, France.

The Sauvage family is desperate to be loved. Carole knows her employees hate her and is determined to win them over at any cost. Jacques has never worked a day in his life and does not feel respected. Their sixteen-year-old introverted son Blaise always goes along with everyone — until he meets Joséphine and politely embarks on a revolutionary, violent, and completely impromptu crusade.

Dry French absurd comedy about a family that wants to be liked and a teenager who agrees to everything until he suddenly does not.

Contrechamp Jury Award

A New Dawn
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2D computer animation

Yoshitoshi Shinomiya · 2026 · Japan, France · 75 min

  • AnnecyAnnecy International Animation Film FestivalThe 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.

Young Keitaro lives in an abandoned fireworks factory that is about to be demolished. Before it disappears, he sets out with his brother and a childhood friend to launch the final firework left behind by his late father.

A luminous and wistful farewell to a disappearing place, where grief, memory and renewal glow against a changing landscape.

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