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With Santa retired to the Bahamas, Christmas is now run by Christmas Incorporated, a glossy, corporate empire led by eccentric billionaire Jerri Ronson, who is set on modernising, streamlining and optimising the festive period. Eager to prove herself, Goldie, Jerri’s ambitious elf assistant, is sent from sunny California to shut down the world’s last traditional toy workshop, hidden deep in the rainy British countryside. There, she discovers a chaotic world of handmade toys, misfit elves and unexpected heart, and begins to realise what really makes Christmas special. Now Goldie must decide where she stands before Christmas loses its magic for good.

Michele Bernardi has created a portrait of the dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch (July 27, 1940-2015), inspired by various film and video clips of her in the incessant studio of movement. The animation is rotoscoped and it recapture the almost abstract quality of dance. The soundtrack by Luca D’Alberto enhances the succession of images and recomposes a unique cameo whom the legendary Pina she is.

People with learning disabilities often experience worse physical and mental health. This film is a starting point to address these inequalities.

Planting the Seeds, growing the future. Technology pervades every aspect of our lives: the way we move... the way we work... the way we meet and communicate… how we make love and what we eat... Crops all over the world are grown using increasingly technological methods. It is now possible to grow plants at night and in hostile environments, increasing yields and saving water. Most of these methods are based on... Hydroponics. Since the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the seven Wonders of the Ancient World, technology has allowed man to grow great amounts of food. Abundance of food allows man to explore new frontiers... In January 2016 the first flower has blossomed aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Yet, in pursuing his quest, man also generates huge amounts of increasingly technological waste... Space Waste is already an issue of cosmic concern...

Chloé and Louis are secretly in love with each other. Every word is a move, every sentence is a choreography.

An animated visual interpretation of the song "Autobahn," by German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk. A fast-paced experimental film which proved to be a groundbreaking combination of electronic and manual animation. One of the first films produced specifically for video disk.

COLIN-19 is a 60-second stop motion comedy about a coronavirus microbe. Colin always wanted to travel, but he didn't realise his selfish actions would cause the next plague.

“I know you” is easier said than “I know myself.” Here, someone probes their own fear in a childlike voice and sketchy images. There are certain pieces of evidence, like the shovel used by a young woman to dig a deep hole. And there is that black thing that grabs her soul like a spider. A cautious and curious mutual approach in sometimes concrete, sometimes abstract ink drawings.

Brazil. In a neighborhood like so many others, 4 kids meet to play. The year is 1994, World Cup. The streets are painted and the atmosphere is joyful. It's time to celebrate. Despite the frenzy over the Brazilian team, they do not play football, but a game with their hands. They get their sticks, plastic bottles, a tennis ball and chalk... A TACO or BETS match will start, depending on the region in the country. The place is peculiar, the field is the street, the fans are the people who come and go and there is no referee, which causes a lot of confusion. They play, get hurt, fight, help each other, but the most important thing is to have fun. Here it does not matter differences, prejudice nor contradiction because there is only one condition : friendship and unity".

The following group of films highlights the major environmental problems facing our planet today. In particular they focus on waste, pollution and energy use.

Feeling self conscious about his scrawny appearance, Nick lies to his blind date - Joe - about the way he looks. After being attacked by a werewolf he begins to fantasize about the effects it will have on his body. He leaves for the date, assuming he will become “7ft, hairy and handsome”.

What happens at night under the stones?

Bobby, a young space guardian is finally assigned to an exceptional mission. This clumsy hero is going to have to face his fears in order to avoid catastrophe.

Thud and Blunder learn what not to do while in a coal mine.

In the midst of a social gathering, Bubulle, a small and shy individual looking for a bit of socialisation, inserts himself in the conversation of a group of cool kids. They are talking about the Honeycrisp Apple. Bubulle has never tasted it and goes on a journey to find the Honeycrisp Apple and discover what it’s all about.

Inspired by acts of kindness by the public during the pandemic.

An aging alien and a love-struck grandma find romance, but just as they're about to get groovy, army intervention spoils the fun.

"Adrift" is shot on the arctic island of Spitzbergen and in Norway. It combines time-lapse photography with stop-motion animation of the landscape. Through camera-angles and framing the film gradually dislocates the viewer from a stable base where one loses the sense of scale and grounding.

Heartwood follows Midge, a bratty girl of about twelve years old. Bored and frustrated by her overbearing father, she decides to leave the monotony of the hiking trail to set off on her own adventure into the woods, in which she makes a magical discovery.

Based on a poem by Marie Jacobs, the animated short 55 Socks, by Oscar-winning director Co Hoedeman, pays tribute to the ingenuity of the Dutch people during a dark period of their history - the winter of hunger of 1944-45. It's the closing months of the war in occupied Holland and some women unravel a beautiful bedspread in order to knit 55 socks to barter for food. Reaching back into his childhood memories, Hoedeman has made a simple, poetic film of rare beauty.

Each year, Aurèle does his best to make the most perfect gift for his parent's birthday.

Viktor is reborn. A tunnel dug into the cliff. A museum of natural history. A crypt. A bar. And Viktor who finds himself in front of shadows, others, and himself...

In a realm beyond the senses, plants interact with surreal cinematography to chart the course of our character: an entity said to embody the life and work of Felisberto Hernández, Uruguayan father of magical realism. Through this journey, we are confronted with an open-ended experience questioning the nature of musicality versus cinematography, entity versus aberration, and self versus space, in a self-referential, blurry, digital and mystical setting.

The Heights depicts the repetitive pilgrimage that hundreds of female porters carry out every day on the borders of Ceuta and Melilla, pondering over the transcendence of the burden, the impossibility of achieving a better life and resignation.

When you kicked that stone against my house I got a we fright and dropped a plate sorry it was an accident and you've marked my wall.

One of Nick Park's earliest works, Archie's Concrete Nightmare was shot on standard 8mm film and submitted to a BBC young animator film competition. The short didn’t win, but it did air on national TV on BBC2 in 1975.

A twisted, spectacular depiction of a face trapped in a dangerous prison of the mind.

The Backyard, a part of the "Hidden Layers of The City" project at Agora Hydro-Québec du Cœur des sciences de l’UQAM

An animated interpretation of Scott Dobson’s comic guide to the Geordie dialect, Larn Yersel’ Geordie, presented in three lessons. With artwork by South Shields animator Sheila Graber and narrated by Scott himself, the film takes a humorous – and at times outrageous – look at Geordie culture and language.

One man, his dog and a trail of broken women. He's filthy and gorgeous, cruel and mean, and irresistible to women with low self-esteem. A satirical and comic portrait of Don Justino, a beautiful, stylish and truly nasty man

Explores subtle modes of refusal through the lens of a Black queer swimmer in a hostile environment.

An animated homage to the “arpilleras”, women that knitted history in Chile during the dictatorship.

The tv/video screen comes alive by a controlled beam of electrons in the cathode ray tube. For 'energie!' an uncontrolled high voltage discharge of approx. 30.000 volts exposes photographic paper which is then arranged in time to create new visual systems of electron organization.

"I am ugly, I am alone, I am bored". In three seconds, everything will change...

‘At the work's core is an experimental approach to the stuff of film and a fiercely political outlook. Dresden Dynamo is an abstract assault on the senses. Eschewing a camera, Rhodes affixed patterned Letratone stickers to the film itself and used filters to create red and blue colours. Stripes, dots and wavy lines surge across the screen, and their forms dictate the accompanying barrage of white noise and atonal bleeps.’ --Ben Luke London Evening Standard 26 January 2012

A one minute animation by Antoine Bieber on the film "Mon Oncle" by Jacques Tati.

Dead Chickens create kinetic monster sculptures where machines “awaken” and organic forms “freeze” into automatons. Their grotesque chimerae—mechanical beings with oversized eyes—blur beauty and ugliness, provoking curiosity, fear, and empathy. Merging artists’ inner visions with cutting-edge tech, they craft surreal artworks that invite reflection and liberating laughter.

How do changes in the brain cause us to see differently? Experience the world through the eyes of people living with a rare form of dementia, affecting how they process objects and tasks around them.

On a tiny island in the Wadden Sea, lonely ex-fisherman Onno lives a quiet life until a cheerful otter named Ontje washes ashore. Despite Onno’s gruff nature, the lively otter melts his heart. As a snowstorm threatens to ruin Christmas—and with Onno’s wife stranded at sea—the unlikely pair must learn that friendship and kindness are the greatest gifts of all.

The characters of this animation are little creatures looking like people without faces, clothes or emotions. They swim between strange islands and discover new lands lighting their way with drifting eyeballs.

A slapstick animation made to entertain young audiences by showing the gags of two little sibling hummingbirds, Lemon and Elderflower. The protagonists, whose wings are too little to be able to fly, can't migrate with the other birds. During the story, the siblings build different inventions, in order to find the right way to take flight.

A mysterious airship attacks the towering city in the sky and only comedian Max Beeza can save the day.

A surrealistic montage set in motion by a tidal wave and incorporating a samurai battle.

Animated short film

The vampire Francisco manages to create his gang, but now he has to settle outstanding debts with his father, the eternal ruler of the real darkness...

Opening of the festival! Annecy will be animated by this crossroads of meetings, often jovial and rich in fruitful exchanges, between passionate festival-goers and authors who will escape together for a week at the Annecy festival. You must quickly reach the Arche which takes all the inhabitants to the Annecy festival.