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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, served as the opening film.

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 Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. 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". ==Sections==
Sections
The films selected for each section are as follows: Official competition Feature films Feature Films – Contrechamp Short films Television Films Commissioned Films VR Works Off-Limits Perspectives Young Audiences Graduation Films Out of competition Annecy Presents Screening Events Annecy Classics Midnight Specials ==Awards==
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 Commissioned 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 ==References==
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