Netflix captivated audiences at Annecy Film Festival with their highly-anticipated slate of animated movies and tv series announcements. They offered exclusive sneak peeks and global first looks for thrilling titles such as In Your Dreams, Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85, KPop Demon Hunters and Long Story Short. The streaming giant has also acquired the celebrated French animated series Samuel.
Netflix Gets Animated At Annecy
Annecy, France; Thursday, June 12, 2025 – Netflix lit up the prestigious Annecy Film Festival once again, thrilling audiences with a preview of its bold slate of highly anticipated animated movies and shows.
Throughout the festival, award-winning filmmakers and creators, like Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Alex Woo, Genndy Tartakovsky and more, pulled back the curtain to reveal exclusive clips and sneak peeks of Netflix’s upcoming animated slate – giving festivalgoers an early taste of the magic to come! Highlights include:
Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85
Showrunner Eric Robles teased, behind closed doors, a world exclusive of the highly anticipated Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85 animated series. Welcoming us back to Hawkins in the stark winter of 1985, the epic new show sees the original characters fighting new monsters and unraveling a paranormal mystery terrorizing their town. Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85 features a cutting-edge animation style by Flying Bark.
Robles said: “We’re beyond excited to unveil this years-long secret project. The animated series will present a captivating new mystery, deeply rooted in the Stranger Things universe. It will propel beloved characters into an adventure that will stretch the limits of action, suspense, and horror, perfectly suited for animation.”
In Your Dreams
Emmy® Award-winner and first-time feature director, Alex Woo, production designer Steven Pilcher and VFX supervisor Nicola Lavender enchanted audiences with extensive footage from In Your Dreams. Woo also debuted the teaser trailer a few hours before its global debut. The film releases on Netflix on November 14.
Woo said of his first Annecy experience: “I’ve always felt that making a film is like cooking a really special meal for your friends: you pick the best ingredients, pull out your favorite recipes, and set the table with your best china. Being at Annecy and serving up a little amuse-bouche of In Your Dreams has been such a joy—and I can’t wait to share the full meal with you all soon!”
IN YOUR DREAMS
Release date: November 14, 2025
Logline: In Your Dreams is a comedy adventure that follows Stevie and her brother Elliot as they journey into the absurd landscape of their own dreams. If the siblings can withstand a snarky stuffed giraffe, zombie breakfast foods, and the queen of nightmares, the Sandman will grant them their ultimate dream come true…the perfect family.
Director: Alex Woo
Co-Director: Erik Benson
Produced by: Timothy Hahn, p.g.a., Gregg Taylor, p.g.a.
Screenplay by: Erik Benson and Alex Woo
Story by: Alex Woo and Stanley Moore
KPop Demon Hunters
Head of Netflix Animation Studios Hannah Minghella spotlighted never before seen clips from the upcoming features slate including KPop Demon Hunters (Coming June 20th).
KPOP DEMON HUNTERS
Release date: June 20, 2025
Logline: When they aren’t selling out stadiums, Kpop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey use their secret identities as badass demon hunters to protect their fans from an ever-present supernatural threat. Together, they must face their biggest enemy yet – an irresistible rival boy band of demons in disguise.
Directors: Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans
Produced by: Michelle L.M. Wong, p.g.a.
Screenplay by: Danya Jimenez & Hannah McMechan and Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans
Story by: Maggie Kang
Cast: Arden Cho, Ahn Hyo-seop, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo, Yunjin Kim, Joel Kim Booster, Liza Koshy, with Daniel Dae Kim, Ken Jeong and Byung Hun Lee
Animation Studio: Sony Pictures Animation
THE TWITS
Phil Johnston’s new animated film inspired by Roald Dahl’s The Twits (coming this Fall).
THE TWITS
Release date: Fall 2025
Logline: Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the meanest, smelliest, nastiest people in the world who also happen to own and operate the most disgusting, most dangerous, most idiotic amusement park in the world, Twitlandia. But when the Twits rise to power in their town, two brave orphans and a family of magical animals are forced to become as tricky as the Twits in order to save the city. A hysterically funny, wild ride of a film (chock-full of the Twits’ beloved tricks–from the Wormy Spaghetti to the Dreaded Shrinks), The Twits is also a story for our times, about the never-ending battle between cruelty and empathy.
Director: Phil Johnston
Co-Directors: Katie Shanahan, Todd Kunjan Demong
Produced by: Phil Johnston, Maggie Malone, Daisy May West
Writers: Phil Johnston, Meg Favreau
Cast: Margo Martindale, Johnny Vegas, with Natalie Portman and Emilia Clarke
Animation Studio: Jellyfish Pictures
POOKOO
Along with Skydance Animation’s Pookoo premiering in 2026.
POOKOO
Release date: Coming 2026
Logline: When two natural sworn enemies of The Valley, a small woodland creature and a majestic bird, magically trade places, they must set off on an adventure of a lifetime to save their home.
Director: Nathan Greno
Produced by: John Lasseter, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Mary Ellen Bauder Andrews for
Skydance Animation
Music by: Siddhartha Khosla
Animation Studio: Skydance Animation
FIXED
The adult animated film Fixed, releasing globally on August 13th, opened to “paw-tastic” reviews following its world premiere. Director Genndy Tartakovsky expressed his excitement by stating “ That. Was. Crazy! What an incredible reception! This is truly one of the reasons that I became an animator, to sit in a theater and watch people laugh and love hand-crafted animation! I’ve always had great experiences in Annecy but this was the most exceptional one.”
FIXED
Release date: August 13, 2025
Logline: From visionary director Genndy Tartakovsky comes Fixed, an adult animated comedy about Bull, an average, all-around good dog who discovers he’s going to be neutered in the morning! As the gravity of this life-altering event sets in, Bull realizes he needs one last adventure with his pack of best friends as these are the last 24 hours with his balls! What could go wrong…?
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Produced by: Michelle Murdocca
Story by: Steve Greenberg and Rich Lufrano and Genndy Tartakovsky and Jon Vitti
Cast: Adam Devine, Idris Elba, Kathryn Hahn, Fred Armisen, Bobby Moynihan, Beck Bennett, Michelle Buteau, and River Gallo
Animation Studio: Sony Pictures Animation
Long Story Short
There’s nothing like Annecy when it comes to celebrating the vast, beautiful universe of animation. I’m honored I get to be a part of it. With all my projects I aspire to create something that will make people laugh, make people cry, and make angry dorks on the internet call me dumb and bad. I achieved all three with BoJack Horseman. With my new show I’m hoping to get at least two. – Raphael Bob-Waksberg
LONG STORY SHORT
Release date: August 22, 2025
Logline: Long Story Short is an animated comedy from the creator of BoJack Horseman about one family, over time. Jumping through the years, we follow the Schwooper siblings from childhood to adulthood and back again, chronicling their triumphs, disappointments, joys, and compromises.
Showrunner/Writer/EP: Raphael Bob-Waksberg
Executive Producers: Noel Bright and Steven A. Cohen for Tornante Television, Corey Campodonico and Alex Bulkley as Co-Executive Producers for ShadowMachine
Cast: Lisa Edelstein, Paul Reiser, Ben Feldman, Abbi Jacobson, Max Greenfield, Angelique Cabral, Nicole Byer, Dave Franco, Michaela Dietz
Animation Studio: ShadowMachine
Writer and producer Raphael Bob-Waksberg conducted a masterclass that gave audiences insight into his career from working on BoJack Horseman and Undone, to his current upcoming adult comedy series, Long Story Short. Set to premiere on Netflix on August 22nd, Bob-Waksberg gave audiences a preview of the first episode at the film festival.
The studio held its inaugural studio focus Netflix Series Animation: Get Ready for What’s Next! led by executive John Derderian (Vice President, Animation Series). The team provided an exclusive look at the upcoming shows from visionary storytellers and studios from around the world including sneak peeks from preschool series Dr. Seuss’s Horton! to adult spectacle Blue Eye Samurai Season 2 and Magic: The Gathering, family spectacle Ghostbusters and Minecraft, and adult comedies Mating Season and Haunted Hotel.
SAMUEL
Derderian announced the celebrated French animated series sensation Samuel from Folivari International will be available on Netflix in the US, Canada, Australia, Spain, India and France. The show is the brainchild of director Émilie Tronche, about a 10-year-old boy living in a small town who keeps a diary documenting his life and originally aired on Arte’s platform, is co-produced by Les Valseurs, Arte and Pikkukala.
SAMUEL
Release date: Coming Soon
Logline: Samuel is 10 years old. He keeps a diary and he has a problem. His problem is that Basil told Tall Julie that Samuel loved her. It’s false, he doesn’t care about Julie. It’s just that she laughed at one of his jokes and he thought it was nice of her. Well, actually Samuel loves Julie but no one should know. Not even Corentin, his best friend. And especially not Dimitri, a guy who runs fast and shows off. And neither Bérénice who is too weird. And neither the teacher, nor her parents, nor the whole world.
Director, Creator and French Voice: Émilie Tronche
Animation Studios: Les Valseurs, Pikkukala
Showrunner and executive producer Ben Hibon gave audiences a sneak peek at concept art for an upcoming series based on the beloved Ghostbusters franchise.
In addition, home crowd favorite Astérix & Obélix: Le Combat des Chef and runaway smash hit Devil May Cry compete in Annecy’s Official TV Films Competition, while Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II – The Ashes of Rage was screened as part of the festival’s Midnight Specials programming, which are held out of competition.
There was also a Work-in-Progress session for Ubisoft’s popular Tom Clancy game franchise Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, a Making of session for Folivari International’s French preschool series 7 Bears, and a Demo session with the DNEG Animation team and last year’s festive classic, That Christmas.
The Annecy Film Festival also hosted exhibitions for the esteemed French titles Arcane and Samuel.
Six years after releasing its first animated feature, Netflix has gone on to receive 11 Oscar® nominations including two wins across animated features and short categories with Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and If Anything Happens I Love You; seven BAFTA nominations including this year’s double BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, plus seven wins at the Annies for fan-favourite juggernaut Arcane.
Note: The information above was sourced from a press release.
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