Sarah Snook Picture ‘Memoir of a Snail’, Terry Gilliam Set For Annecy With ‘Transformers One’, ‘Despicable Me 4’, ‘Inside Out 2’ & ‘Moana 2’ Sneak Previews – Full Lineup

The Annecy International Animation Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its 2024 edition, running from June 9 to 15. (scroll down for full list of titles and events)

Highlights announced on Thursday include Terry Gilliam as guest of honor to receive an Honorary Cristal and give a masterclass. He joins previously announced honorary guest Wes Anderson.

The main Competition and the Contrechamps sections will showcase 23 new animated features.

Features in the main competition include Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius’ first ever animated feature The Most Precious of Cargoes, which will also open the festival.

The drama follows the fate of baby boy who is thrown from an Auschwitz-bound train by his French-Jewish father. The picture will world premiere first in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

Other Cannes films in Annecy’s main competition include Un Certain Regard selection Flowby Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis and Ghost Cat Anzu by Japan’s Yoko Kuno, which will play in Directors’ Fortnight.

In a sign of the strength of Japan’s creative animation sector, three other titles from the territory are also in the running for the festival’s Cristal for Best Film: Shinnosuke Yakuwa’s Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window, Yoshiyuki Momose’s The Imaginary and Naoko Yamada’s The Colors Within.

Further competition highlights include Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail, featuring Sarah Snook voicing the young misfit protagonist.

Award-winning Swiss animation director Claude Barras will also compete with Savages, his first animated feature since his Golden Globe, Bafta and Oscar-nominated 2016 film My Life As a Zucchini.

Set in Borneo, on the edge of the tropical forest, the stop-motion animated feature follows the emotional journey of a girl, her father and a rescued baby orangutan.

The popular lakeside animation festival welcomed 15,820 badge-holders from 102 territories in 2023, which represented a 19% increase on 2022.

It is a must-attend event for established professionals, budding animators and students for its offering of screenings, Work-in-Progress and Making Of Presentations, Studio Previews and First Looks as well as the market and