French animation at the 2022 Annecy International Animation Film Festival

21 French animated shorts (including coproductions) will be presented in the various festival categories, with 6 graduation films on show, as well as 8 TV series special programs, 10 commissioned productions, and 4 VR works.

As for feature films, 7 French productions (including coproductions) feature among the 10 films selected in the Official Competition, while 2 others are included in the Contrechamp Competition. Furthermore, 3 French films will be shown at special screening events.

In addition to the competitive selections (shown below in detail), the festival also includes presentations of French projects currently in development or in production stage (in the Works in Progress sidebar). These French projects, which have backing from at least one French producer, account for the majority of projects to be presented–9 out of the 15 projects selected to be shown. The MIFA pitch sessions show no lack of French projects either, with 3 feature film projects, 3 short film projects, 4 projects for TV series and special programs, and 5 projects for digital experiences to be presented.

"France in Shorts" Initiative

The AFCA, L'Agence du court métrage, AnimFrance, and the SPI, in collaboration with Unifrance and the MIFA, have joined forces to offer French short film production companies accreditation at the 2022 MIFA event at the special rate of €286 (all taxes included). This special rate is part of the "France in Shorts" initiative that aims to support and accompany short film production companies, particularly those who are venturing into the animated film sector, to assist them in developing their animation projects and to facilitate access to the marketplace. You will find the conditions for eligibility in the downloadable document attached to this article.

All the French Productions at Annecy 2022

Feature Films – Official Selection

• Charlotte by Eric Warin and Tahir Rana
• No Dogs or Italians Allowed by Alain Ughetto
• Little Nicholas - Happy as Can Be by Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre
• Nayola by José Miguel Ribeiro
• Blind Willows, Sleeping Woman by Pierre Földes
• The Island by Anca Damian
• Unicorn Wars by Alberto Vázquez

Feature Films – Contrechamp

• Dozens of Norths by Koji Yamamura
• My Grandfather's Demons by Nuno Beato

Feature Films – Screening Events

• Ernest and Célestine : A Journey in Charabia by Julien Chheng and Jean-Christophe Roger
• Pharaon, le Sauvage et la princesse by Michel Ocelot
• My Father's Secrets by Véra Belmont

Short Films – Official Selection

• Anxious Body by Yoriko Mizushiri
• Granny's Sexual Life by Urška Djukić and Émilie Pigeard
• backflip by Nikita Diakur
• Two Sisters by Anna Budanova
• A Story for 2 Trumpets and Amandine Meyer
• La Passante by Hannah Letaïf
• Inglorious Liaisons by Chloé Alliez and Violette Delvoye
• Letter to a Pig by Tal Kantor
• Miracasas by Raphaëlle Stolz and Augusto Zanovello
• Pachyderm by Stéphanie Clément
• Scale by Joseph Pierce
• Steakhouse by Čadež Špela
• Terra Incognita by Adrian Dexter and Pernille Kjaer
• Yugo de Carlos Gómez Salamanca

Short Films – Off-Limits

• Sphères by Anaïs Scheeck-Lauriot
• Very, very tremendously by Guangli Liu

Short Films – Perspectives

• Akplokplobito by Ingrid Agbo
• Blind Spot by Lotfi Achour
• The Blind Writer by Georges Sifianos

Short Films – Young Audiences

• Franzy's Soup-kitchen by Ana Chubinidze
• Luce and the Rock by Britt Raes

Short Films – Graduation Films

• Goodbye Jerome! by Adam Sillard, Gabrielle Selnet and Chloé Farr
• The Uncertain Snow by Marion Boisrond, Marie-Liesse Coumau, Ada Hernaez, Gwendoline Legendre Romane Tisseau
• Maman, il a quoi le chien? by Lola Lefèvre
• Noon by Olivier Brémer
• Omi-Maiko Station by Jean Gégout
• Protostase by Tiberio Suppressa

TV Films

• Cherchez la femme "Ida Pfeiffer" by Julie Gavras, Mathieu Decarli and Olivier Marquezy
• Drôles d’oiseaux by Charlie Belin
• Giuseppe by Isabelle Favez
• Libres ! "Gazon maudit" by Ovidie Raziel and Josselin Ronse
• Louise et la Légende du serpent à plumes by Hefang Wei
• Open Bar "Episode 09" by Frédérick Chaillou
• Partie de Campagne "Episode 106" by Romain Borrel
• Runes "La Grotte de Baligan" by Jean-Louis Vandestoc

VR Works

• Glimpse by Benjamin Cleary and Michael O'Connor
• Goliath: Playing With Reality by Barry Gene Murphy and May Abdalla
• Kidnapping à Vostok by Jean Bouthors
• On the morning You Wake (To the End of the World) by Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Pierre Zandrowicz and Arnaud Colinart

Commissioned Films

• Alima "L'étoffe" by Seydou-Christian Ndiaye and Léo Sattin
• Aline by Wes Anderson
• Head & Shoulders "The Chase" by CRCR
• L'Impératrice "Hématome" by Roxane Lumeret and Jocelyn Charles
• Les Garçons de l'été by Julien Hazebroucq
• Orelsan "La Quête" by Victor Haegelin
• Pink Noise "Bruit Rose" by Ulysse Lefort, Martin Wiklund, and Arthur Lemaître
• Short Cuts "Le Cercle rouge" by Iulia Voitova
• Short Cuts "Prince des ténèbres" by Caroline Cherrier
• Sumo - Jeux Olympiques de Tokyo 2021 by Geoffroy Barbet-Massin

WIP (Works in Progress) – Feature Films

• La plus précieuse des marchandises by Michel Hazanavicius (Ex nihilo – La Classe Américaine – Les Films du Fleuve)
• Linda veut du poulet ! by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach (Dolce Vita Films – Miyu Productions – Palosanto Films)
• Nina et les contes du hérisson by Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli (Parmi Les Lucioles Films – Doghouse Films – Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma)
• The Inventor by Jim Capobianco and Pierre-Luc Granjon (Curiosity Studio – Foliascope – Leo & King)
• They shot the piano player by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal (Fernando Trueba PC – They shot the piano player, AIE, Les Films d'Ici Méditerranée – Submarine – Animanostra Cinema – Audiovisual e Multim)

WIP – TV Series & Special Programs

• Team Nuggets by Michael Hegner and Tor Lubich Fruergaard

WIP – XR projects

• Mamie Lou by Isabelle Andréani (Small Creative – Skill Lab)
• Retour à Canterville by Mathias Chelebourg (Atelier Daruma)
• Wallace & Gromit VR experience by Finbar Hawkins (Atlas V – Aardman Animations – No Ghost– Meta)

MIFA Pitches – Feature Films

• Le Cœur à danser by Pierre Le Couviour and Amine El Ouarti (Vivement Lundi !)
• Happy End by Marie Amachoukeli and Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka (Miyu Productions)
• Le Gardien du Feu by Jeanne Irzenski (Gao Shan Pictures)

MIFA Pitches – Short Films

• Le Chagrin des Tournesols by Léa Krawczyk (Les Astronautes)
• Supersilly by Veronica Martiradonna (Sacrebleu Productions)
• The Day I Smoked a Cigarette with my Father by Robin Vouters and Sameh Morsy (Les Valseurs)

MIFA Pitches – TV Series & Special Programs

• Mission magique à Mexico by Hefang Wei (Kazak Productions)
• Polo sans bobo by Sophie Castagnède (Big Company)
• Papy et Mamy ont fait la révolution by Agnès Patron and Sophie Nivelle-Cardinale (Les Films du Tambour de Soie)
• Les Cogitations de Jupiter by Moumouni Jupiter Sodré (Komadoli studio)

MIFA Pitches – Digital Experiences

• Sunset Motel by Gilles Jobin (Cie Gilles Jobin – Nadasdy Film – Floréal)
• Orbis de Éric Serre (Lucid Realities – Ink Stories – Camera Lucida Productions – Les Fées spéciales)
• La Horde du Contrevent by Morgane Schmitt Giordano (Small Bang – Studio Neb – Studio Manette – Cosmotone)
• Amazing Monster! by Raphaël Penasa (Wowl – Small Creative)
• Melancholia by Stéphane Hueber-Blies and Nicolas Blies (Lucid Realities – a_BAHN)