Animation Is Film Festival Unveils 2024 Lineup Including ‘The Colors Within,’ ‘Memoir of a Snail’

The Animation Is Film Festival has announced its 2024 lineup, with films including “The Colors Within,” “The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie” and “Memoir of a Snail.”

The seventh edition of the annual festival runs through the weekend of Oct. 18-20 with three major features each day, along with filmmaker master classes, extended showings and plenty of premieres. The festival is held at the TCL Chinese Theatres in Hollywood.

The festival opens on Oct.18 with the North American premiere of the melodic and bold feature from the Japanese animation studio Science Saru, “The Colors Within,” directed by acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Naoko Yamada, known for “A Silent Voice.”

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On Oct. 19, the centerpiece will be the North American premiere of Warner Bros. Animation’s “The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie,” directed by award-winning filmmaker Pete Browngardt. The film is distributed by Ketchup entertainment.

The festival will conclude Oct. 20 with the Los Angeles premiere of IFC Films’ “Memoir of a Snail,” directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam Elliot, who also won this year’s Cristal Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, AIF’s co-founder.

In between the three major features, the festival will screen Annecy Prize-winning films like “Flow” and “Sultana’s Dream,” along with the short film “Percebes.”

Additionally, the event will include filmmaker panels for “Inside Out 2,” “Moana 2,” “Transformers One,” “The Wild Robot,” and “An Almost Christmas Story.”

Also screening are the U.S. premiere of Netflix’s “Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain,” the North American premiere of the documentary “Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature,” a work in progress peek at “Yoppaman” and a 15th-anniversary screening of Takeshi Koike’s “Redline.”

“Through seven editions, Animation is Film has become a rendez-vous not to be missed for animation lovers and Annecy is proud of our continuing partnership. This year, audiences will find an incredible selection that celebrates the best of cinema and we are especially proud of our short films program within AIF, ‘Best of Annecy WIA,’ which will give theater-goers the opportunity to watch, among others, ‘Percebes’ by Alexandra Ramires and Laura Gonçalves, the recipient of our Cristal Award for a short film earlier this year,” said Marcel Jean, artistic director and Mickael Marin, CEO, of Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

Tickets for the event are available now at AnimationIsFilm.com.