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REPORT: Annecy 2025

Cineuropa is covering the Annecy International Animated Film Festival with reviews, interviews and industry news...

REPORT: Annecy 2025

21 articles available in total starting from 05/11/2024. Last article published on 19/06/2025.

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Reinis Kalnaellis • Director of Thelma’s Perfect Birthday

Interview: Reinis Kalnaellis • Director of Thelma’s Perfect Birthday

“Animation has always felt like home”

In the Latvian director’s latest film, a young penguin’s birthday is far from perfect, but it still turns out to be a wonderful adventure all the same  

19/06 | Annecy 2025

Momoko Seto • Director of Dandelion’s Odyssey

Interview: Momoko Seto • Director of Dandelion’s Odyssey

“When you are watching this film, you are no longer human”

Four surprising characters go on a real odyssey in this ambitious, dialogue-free movie that asks the audience to change their perspective  

19/06 | Annecy 2025

Félix Dufour-Laperrière • Director of Death Does Not Exist

Interview: Félix Dufour-Laperrière • Director of Death Does Not Exist

“The qualities and flaws of the film have nothing to do with the budget we worked with – we gave our all”

The rising Québécois director tells us about the complex process that brought his strange and beautiful ecological animation to life  

17/06 | Annecy 2025

Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han • Directors of Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

Interview: Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han • Directors of Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

“Things can be hard, but we find a way forward – we say it to children and to adults”

The directorial duo discuss their adaptation of Amélie Nothomb’s novel recounting her childhood in Japan and describe their approach to dark topics that children can actually handle  

16/06 | Annecy 2025

Arco triumphs at Annecy

Arco triumphs at Annecy

French director Ugo Bienvenu’s first feature has won the Crystal for Best Feature Film, while Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han’s Little Amélie and the Character of Rain scooped the Audience Award  

16/06 | Annecy 2025 | Awards

Irene Iborra • Director of Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake

Interview: Irene Iborra • Director of Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake

“We are never alone; there is always someone we can count on”

The Spanish filmmaker makes her feature film debut with a stop-motion film that uses other techniques, with a personal message to children championing humanist values  

13/06 | Annecy 2025

Marcel Barelli • Director of Mary Anning

Interview: Marcel Barelli • Director of Mary Anning

"Mary Anning exudes a positive energy"

The Swiss director chatted with us about his love of animals, music and unusual characters, a category which definitely includes the protagonist of his film  

13/06 | Annecy 2025

Review: Allah Is Not Obliged

Review: Allah Is Not Obliged

Zaven Najjar delivers a hard-hitting adaptation of Ahmadou Kourouma’s novel about the tribulations of a child soldier sucked into the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone  

13/06 | Annecy 2025

Review: Mary Anning

Review: Mary Anning

In his first feature, Swiss animation director Marcel Barelli portrays a character that’s as interesting as she is mysterious: palaeontologist Mary Anning  

13/06 | Annecy 2025

Review: The Songbirds’ Secret

Review: The Songbirds’ Secret

Antoine Lanciaux delivers a beautiful first feature, depicting a little girl’s summertime investigation into her family’s past with great narrative and visual tenderness  

13/06 | Annecy 2025

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