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Ricky Gervais, Oscar-winning The Incredibles head Brad Bird and nan Brothers Quay will beryllium guests of nan upcoming Annecy International Film Festival which announced its 2026 lineup connected Tuesday. (scroll down for main title lineups).
They subordinate antecedently announced attendee King of nan Hill and Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge, who will person nan festival’s Honorary Cristal, arsenic good arsenic Laika President and CEO Travis Knight, who will beryllium attendance pinch a typical accumulation devoted to his upcoming film Wildwood.
Billed arsenic nan biggest animation show successful nan world, Annecy welcomed a grounds 18,000 guests successful 2025, much than 6,500 of them animation professionals.
Unfolding from June 21 to 27 successful nan French lakeside municipality of Annecy, nan show is moving somewhat later this twelvemonth owed to nan G7 Summit taking spot earlier successful nan period successful nan comparatively adjacent metropolis of Evian.
Stop-motion maestros nan Brothers Quay, aka Stephen and Timothy Quay, whose activity is beloved by nan likes of Peter Greenaway and Christopher Nolan, are besides being feted pinch nan festival’s Honorary Cristal.
Ricky Gervais will beryllium successful attendance to springiness a masterclass arsenic creator and head of Netflix’s Alley Cats, nan big animation pursuing a group of feral cats who activity companionship while ruminating connected mundane life, accompanied by a sneak peek of nan first 2 episodes.
Bird will return to nan shape arsenic portion of nan yearly Next connected Netflix showcase to talk astir his long-gestated passion task sci-fi detective communicative Ray Gunn, featuring Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Waits successful nan sound cast
In nan aforesaid showcase, showrunners Ben Hibon and Elliott Kalan will unveil a preview of adjacent year’s Ghostbusters series. Other Special Events see an Aardman showcase looking astatine nan studio’s history and early productions.
The U.S. studios will beryllium retired successful force.
Walt Disney Animation Studios will unveil never-before seen footage of Josie Trinidad and Jason Hand’s imagination coming-of-age communicative Hexed featuring Hailee Steinfeld successful nan sound cast.
Pixar will spell down nan scenes of Enrico Casarosa’s upcoming Venice-set communicative Gatto, astir a feline connected nan tally from nan section feline mob bosses, and besides a caller short movie from nan head and Lou Hamou-Lhadj.
Warner Bros. Animation will coming nan first portion of Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall as good arsenic its latest Looney Tunes short Daffy Season and a first look astatine its upcoming The Cat successful nan Hat movie which is owed retired successful November.
Other Special Events see a sneak preview of nan first 2 episodes of The Ghost successful the Shell bid reboot; Joel Crawford and Januel P. Mercado’s Forgotten Island; Duncan Jones’ Rogue Trooper; North by Northwest-inspired Children of Liberty produced by Didier Brunner, and Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie.
Official Selection
Close to 50 animated features will surface successful Official Selection, which kicks disconnected pinch nan antecedently announced opening movie Minions & Monsters.
Out of nan eleven films successful nan main competition, world premieres see The Sunrise File, inspired by Serge and Beate Klarsfeld’s ngo to bring Nazi criminal Klaus Barbie to justice; Alzheimer’s-themed Tangles and World War Two-Singapore-set The Violonist. (scroll down for afloat database and head credits)
China is retired successful unit pinch Chinese $215m container agency hit Nobody and modern communicative Tana astir a young female who leaves Shanghai to beryllium by her father’s bedside successful Inner Mongolia.
A number of nan Annecy Cristal d’Or contenders will person antecedently played successful Cannes including Lucy Lost and Iron Boy which debut successful its Official Selection arsenic good arsenic Viva Carmen! and We Are Aliens which are owed to play successful Directors’ Fortnight and In Waves, which opens Critics’ Week. Further contenders see GKIDS-acquired Decorado astir a rodent successful a midlife crisis.
Another 11 titles will beryllium showcased successful nan Contrechamp title focused connected original and independently-minded fare.
The action opens pinch Taiwanese work Welcome to nan Dollhouse astir YouTuber Princess Maria who sets retired to uncover nan secrets of Madame Dolly, a sorceress who tin move lifeless dolls into quality beings.
The lineup besides includes Beñat Betia and Elio Quiroga’s Winnipeg, Seeds of Hope, astir nan existent of communicative of nan Winnipeg, a cargo vessel chartered by Pablo Neruda successful 1939 to vessel 2,200 refugees from nan Spanish Civil War surviving successful limbo successful France to a caller life successful Chile; Takahashi Wataru’s anime The Obsessed and coming of property communicative Blaise, which debuts successful Cannes Critics’ Week.
Making Of, Market & La Cité Inauguration
Outside of nan Special Events and screening program, different celebrated sidebars see nan Making Of section, which includes heavy dives into 2 caller Adult Swim series: President Curtis, from nan producers of Rick & Morty, and My Two Cars, an animated drama by Dan Licata and Joe Pera.
The previously announced basking summons Work successful Progress lineup will showcase 12 upcoming features, 3 bid and 1 immersive project, pinch nan movies including Baahubali: The Eternal War, Snoopy Unleashed and Steps.
Alongside nan festival, nan International Animation Film Market will people its 41st version pinch much than 975 exhibiting companies arsenic good a programme of talks and showcases. Topics connected nan array see transverse IP exploitation; nan crossover betwixt video-games and nan animation world; nan rising African animation assemblage and nan effect of AI.
In a typical arena this year, nan 2026 version will beryllium instantly preceded by nan opening of nan festival’s caller year-round hub, La Cité internationale du cinéma d’animation.
The public-focused halfway features an animation museum, circumstantial spaces for impermanent exhibitions, a 332-seat cinema , taste and creator acquisition workshops and an creator residency.
The 2026 Feature Competition Lineups
Competition
Viva Carmen!
By Sébastien Laudenbach
(France)
Iron Boy
By Louis Clichy
France, Belgium
Decorado
By Alberto Vazquez
Spain
The Sunrise File
By Rupert Wyatt, Émilie Phuong
France, Luxembourg
In Waves
By Phuong Mai
France, Belgium
Lucy Lost
By Olivier Clert
France
Nobody
By Shui Yu
China
Tana
By Ji Zhao, Ke Er Zhu, Ying Shuang Zhou
China
Tangles
By Leah Nelson
Canada, U.S.
The Violinist
By Ervin Han, Raúl García
Singapore, Spain, Italy
We Are Aliens
By Kohei Kadowaki
Japan, France
Contrechamp Competition
58th
By Carl Joseph
Philippines
A New Dawn
By Yoshitoshi Shinomiya
Japan
Blaise
By Dimitri Planchon, Jean-Paul Guigue
France
O filho da puta
By Érica Maradona, Otto Guerra, Tania Anaya, Sávio Leite
Brazil
Mu Yi and nan Handsome General
By Julien Chheng
France
Pelelui: Guernica of Paradise
By Goro Kuji
Japan
The Orbit of Minor Satellites
By Christopher Sullivan
Japan
Spacetime Chronicles
By Stefano Bertelli
Italy
The Obsessed
By Wataru Takahashi, Yuki Yoshida
Japan
Winnipeg, Seeds of Hope
By Beñat Beitia, Elio Quiroga
Spain, Chile, Argentina
Welcome to Dolly’s House
By Seven Ych, Rady Fu, Tree Muta
Taiwan
