The flamboyant ARCO wins the crystal of the feature film at the Annecy 2025 Animation Festival
The film of the French Ugo Bienvenu takes over from a snail.
Some have already been planning it for a few days, the film having quietly flew over the competition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival: ARCO D’UGO Bienvenu leaves with the coveted crystal of the feature film. The story, in 2075, of a 10-year-old girl, Iris, who sees a mysterious boy dressed in a rainbow combination falling from the sky. It’s Arco: it comes from a distant and idyllic future where traveling in time is possible. Iris collects him and will help him by all means to go home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJIJ0WNNT5S
The jury prize returns to the ruffling Chao from Japanese Yasuhiro Aoki, sort of Ponyo on the cliff Under LSD, which takes place in a world where humans and sirens coexist, Stephan, an ordinary office employee meets Chao, a princess of the kingdom of sirens. What will happen to their improbable love story? A film that is not afraid to be strange and to try fairly crazy Character Design experiences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tnudt46b9i
Find below the entire prize list of the Annecy 2025 International Animation Film Festival:
Feature
Feature film crystal – Arco
Realization: Ugo Bienvenu (France)
Jury Prize – Chao
Realization: Yasuhiro Aoki (Japan)
Paul Grimault price – planets
Realization: Momoko Seto (France, Belgium)
Gan Foundation Prize at Diffusion – Olivia and the invisible earthquake
Realization: Irene Iborra Rizo (Spain, France, Belgium, Chile, Switzerland)
Public price – Amélie and metaphysics of tubes
Realization: Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han (France)
Counterchamp
Grand Prix Contrechamp – Endless Cookie
Realization: Seth Scriver, Pete Scriver (Canada)
Jury Prix Contrechamp-Gwang-Jang (The Square)
Realization: Kim Bo-Sol (South Korea)
Short films
Short film crystal – Boots of the night
Realization: Pierre-Luc Granjon (France)
Jury Prize – Beasts
Realization: Michael Granberry (United States)
Alexeïeff Prize – Parker – Sappho
Realization: Rosana Urbes (Brazil)
Off-limits film Prize-Rakugaki (The Graffiti)
Realization: Ryo Orikasa (Japan)
Jean-Luc Xiberras Prize for the first work-Zwermen
Realization: Janneke Swinkels, Tim Frijsinger (Netherlands, Belgium)
Public price – Boots of the night
Realization: Pierre-Luc Granjon (France)
TV movies
Crystal for a TV production – Christo the civilized barbarian “hunting game”
Realization: Shady Safadi (United States)
Jury Prize for a TV series – Lena’s Farm “Volles Nest”
Realization: Elena Walf (Germany)
Jury Prize for a special TV – An Almost Christmas Story
Realization: David Lowery (United States)
Public price – Flipted “major decision”
Realization: Théo Grosjean, Mothy Richard (Belgium, France)
Command films
Crystal for an order film – Ye Kou Si Kuo
Realization: Lola Lefèvre (France)
Jury Prize for an order film – Desi Oon
Realization: Suresh Eriyat (India)
End of studies films
Crystal of the end -of -studies film – Zootrope
Realization: Léna Martinez (France)
Jury Prize – Between the days
Realization: Martin Bonnin (France)
Lotte Reiniger price – q
Realization: Masataka Kihara (Japan)
VR works
Crystal of the best work VR – Fragile Home
Realization: Ondřej Moravec, Victoria Lopukhina (Czech Republic)
