2024 Annecy International Animation Film Festival

The 2024 Annecy International Animation Film Festival took place from 9 to 15 June 2024, in Annecy, France. Michel Hazanavicius drama film The Most Precious of Cargoes, adapted from the novel of the same name by Jean-Claude Grumberg, will serve as the opening film.

Australian film Memoir of a Snail, directed by Adam Elliot, won the Cristal Award for Best Feature Film while Spanish film Sultana's Dream, directed by Isabel Herguera, won the Contrechamp Grand Prix.

Background
The complete lineup was announced on 25 April 2024, also announcing the special presentations of several upcoming big studio films such as Inside Out 2, Moana 2 and Despicable Me 4, as well as previews and/or early looks for films including Transformers One, The Wild Robot, Zack Snyder's Twilight of the Gods, and the upcoming untitled Wallace and Gromit film.

A new non-competitive section was revealed titled Annecy Presents, with the intention of screening "never-before seen films of all genres and background for all audiences".

Four honored special guests were announced: British filmmaker Terry Gilliam will receive the Festival Honorary Cristal for his lifetime achievements, French director and actor Alain Chabat will present his animated series Astérix and Obélix, The Big Fight, and both Portuguese animator Regina Pessoa and American filmmaker Wes Anderson will present masterclasses at the festival.

Pessoa was selected as this edition's signal artists as a part of the edition's spolight on Portuguese animation and dance. She also designed the official poster for this editions. According to her, the poster depicts a swimmer and dancer who represents "the balance between grace and power in the face of adversity", also taking inspiration from the Portuguese music genre Fado as well as the Lake Annecy waters and the Portuguese ocean.

Sections
The films selected for each section are as follows:

Awards
The following awards were presented:

Feature Films

 * Cristal for Best Feature Film: Memoir of a Snail by Adam Elliot
 * Jury Award: Flow by Gints Zilbalodis
 * Paul Grimault Award: Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window by Shinnouske Yakuwa
 * Contrechamp Grand Prix: Sultana's Dream by Isabel Herguera
 * Contrechamp Jury Award: Living Large by Kristina Dufková
 * Gan Foundation Award for Distribution: Flow by Gints Zilbalodis
 * Audience Award: Flow by Gints Zilbalodis

Short Films

 * Cristal for Best Short Film: Percebes by Alexandra Ramires & Laura Gonçalves
 * Jury Award: The Car That Came Back from the Sea by Jadwiga Kowalska
 * Alexeïeff Parker Award: Beautiful Men by Nicolas Keppens
 * Jean-Luc Xiberras Award for a First Film: [S] by Mario Radev
 * Off-Limits Award: Glass House by Boris Labbé
 * Audience Award: Hurikán by Jan Saska

TV and Commisionned Films

 * Cristal for Best TV Production: The Drifting Guitar by Sophie Roze
 * Jury Award for a TV Series: My Life in Versailles: "Versailles Ghost" by Clémence Madeleine-Perdrillat, Nathaniel H'Limi
 * Jury Award for a TV Special: Lola et le Piano à bruits by Augusto Zanovello
 * Cristal for Best Commissioned Film: Pictoplasma "Opener 2023" by Will Anderson
 * Jury Award for a Commissioned Film: TED-Ed: "How Did South African Apartheid Happen, and How Did It Finally End?" by Aya Marzouk
 * Audience Award: The Drifting Guitar by Sophie Roze

Graduation Films

 * Cristal for Best Graduation Film: Carrotica by Daniel Sterlin-Altman
 * Jury Award: Pubert Jimbob by Quirijin Dees
 * Lotte Reiniger Award: Maatitel by Govinda Sao

VR

 * Cristal for Best VR Work: Gargoyle Doyle by Ethan Shaftel

Special Prizes

 * City of Annecy Award: The Meatseller by Margherita Giusti
 * André Martin Award for Best French Short Film: Butterfly by Florence Miailhe
 * Best Original Music Award for a Short Film: Joko by Izabela Plucinska
 * Best Original Music Award for a Feature Film: Flow by Gints Zilbalodis
 * Young Audience Award: Hello Summer by Martin Smatana & Veronika Zacharová
 * CANAL+ Junior Jury Award: Noodles au Naturel by Matteo Salanave Piazza
 * Festivals Connexion Award: Beautiful Men by Nicolas Keppens
 * Festivals Connexion VR Award: Emperor by Marion Burger & Ilan Cohen
 * France TV Award for a Short Film: The Car That Came Back from the Sea by Jadwiga Kowalska