EFM Animation Days (12 - 14 Feb 2026)
As this is the first edition, all Works-in-Progress are curated in collaboration with our partnering institutions; therefore, external submissions cannot be accepted this year.
Please check back for regular updates.
A detailed programme schedule will be released in January and published in the >EFM Event Schedule.
The EFM Animation Days is a new initiative connecting international animation professionals across genres, formats, and sectors of the film industry.
Over three days, the programme brings together leading creatives, top-tier producers, studios, buyers, financiers, and other key animation-industry professionals to drive business and creative development. It offers a prime opportunity to forge new partnerships, explore emerging production tools, and stay at the forefront of technical progress while engaging in high-level collaboration and networking:
- • Curated project showcases to discover hand-picked Works-in-Progress
- • Pitch sessions connecting creatives & producers with potential buyers, financiers and co-producers
- • Talks & case studies with with leading industry voices
- • Workshops and expert-led sessions on animation and cross-IP
- • Tailored networking and consultation sessions to build professional connections
- and more.
The EFM Animation Days provide a platform for cross-sector collaboration and dialogue, bringing together the international animation community and strengthening cross-genre connections during the upcoming EFM. Market Badge required.
Annecy Animation Showcase EFM
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Market partners with the European Film Market in a landmark collaboration. The two leading film festivals and markets are joining forces to debut a curated showcase highlighting animated works-in-progress at various stages of production, designed to attract sales agents, distributors, and festival recognition. The showcase offers an exclusive preview of tomorrow’s most promising animated features.
Contact
Manu Guddait & Klaus Rasmussen (ext.)
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Annecy Animation Showcase EFM 2026: Projects
English Title: A Door to the Woods
Synopsis: Two young Poles split by war—Antek hiding in Breslau and Wiktor surviving a gulag —are reunited decades later through Jola, Antek’s granddaughter, whose creative future Wiktor helps unlock.
Director: Jola Kudela
Writer: Aga Lesiewicz
Genre: Historical Drama
Artistic technique: 2D, 3D, Rotoscope
Expected release date: 2028
Production companies: Opus Film, Les Films Du Poisson Rouge, PFX
Countries of production: Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium
Contact:
Original Title: Granny is a Tree!
Synopsis: Granny Onion has taken one last eternal after-lunch nap. Her granddaughter Jane decides to fulfill her last wish against her mother’s decision. She’ll set off on a wild escape to the edge of the tangible world, alongside her granny’s facetious ghost.
Director: Hugo de Faucompret
Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Modern tale
Artistic technique: 2D, hand-painted backgrounds
Expected release date: 2028
Production companies: Laïdak Films, Dandelooo, Doghouse
Countries of production: France, Luxembourg
Contact:
Original Title: MouMoush – The King of Plastic
Synopsis: The summer vacation of two curious teenage siblings from Paris takes an unexpected turn in Transylvania, into a time-travel adventure where they find themselves fighting MouMoush – the King of Plastic, a powerful man aiming for world domination.
Director: Milorad Krstic
Genre: Fantasy Adventure
Artistic technique: 2D, 3D
Expected release date: 2028
Production companies: Mumus Production LLC
Country of production: Hungary
Email of the main contact: Radmila Roczkov,
Original Title: Pesta
Synopsis: Norway, 1349: A Catholic noble girl falls for a heathen outlaw who awakens forbidden desire she was raised to fear. When her lover is sentenced to death, the only way to save him is to embrace the Black Death incarnated: Pesta
Director: Hanne Berkaak
Genre: Romantic Horror
Artistic technique: 2D
Expected release date: 2028, 2029
Production companies: Mikrofilm, Knudsen Pictures
Countries of production: Norway, Germany, France
Email of the main contact: Tonje Skar Reiersen,
Original Title: Zako
Synopsis: Zako – that’s how the Germans called the Armenian painter Sargis Mangasaryan, who endured the hell of concentration camps. Zako survived by drawing portraits of his tormentors. In 1956, he visits a Picasso exhibition and is stunned as he stands before the great master’s iconic work: Guernica. Zako realizes how much he had missed in his own art. Though his talent saved his life, it was stifled first by war and then by the Soviet dictatorship.
Director: Tigran Arakelyan
Genre: Historical Drama
Artistic technique: 3D
Expected release date: 2028, 2029
Production companies: OnOff Studio, Sacrebleu Productions, Broom Films
Countries of production: Armenia, France, Lithuania
Email of the main contact: Susanna Khachatryan,
Since 1960, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival celebrates the richness and diversity of global animation in all its many forms. Organised by CITIA, it is now the second largest film festival in France and the third largest in the world, and is today recognised as a global benchmark for animation film.
In 2026, this international reach will take on a whole new dimension with an extraordinary year-round venue: the Cité internationale du cinéma d'animation. The grand opening will take place in June, during the next Festival.
Annecy Animation Showcase EFM in partnership with:
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