Netflix is heading to Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2025 with multiple projects, including the highly anticipated Stranger Things: Tales From ’85.
NETFLIX RETURNS TO ANNECY FESTIVAL WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF FIRST LOOKS INCLUDING STRANGER THINGS: TALES FROM ‘85, FAMILY TENTPOLE IN YOUR DREAMS, AND ADULT COMEDY FIXED
Netflix returns to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival with a bold, genre-spanning line-up of films, series, and special events.
This follows a standout year for Netflix Animation, with the Oscar-nominated Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl winning two BAFTAs, Arcane earning seven Annie Awards, and Orion and the Dark earning Children and Family Emmys for Best Special Production and Best Writing.
Netflix Heads To Annecy 2025 With Multiple Projects
A full rundown of Netflix’s Annecy activity includes:
- Next on Netflix Animation returns to Théâtre Bonlieu on Wednesday, 11 June. This year’s session will feature exclusive previews of In Your Dreams and Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85. Executive producer Eric Robles will present a world-exclusive first look at the Stranger Things animated series, while director Alex Woo, production designer Steven Pilcher, and VFX supervisor Nicola Lavender will debut never-before-seen footage from their upcoming film In Your Dreams during a special panel.
- The world premiere of Fixed will take place at Annecy on Wednesday, 11 June. The newly acquired adult comedy film from Genndy Tartakovsky (Primal, Hotel Transylvania) brings his signature irreverence and artistry to the big screen.
- A masterclass with Raphael Bob-Waksberg, the creator of BoJack Horseman, follows on Thursday, 12 June. He’ll be joined by the team behind his upcoming adult comedy series, Long Story Short, with audiences getting an early look at an episode ahead of its debut.
- Work-in-Progress and Making of sessions for Ubisoft’s popular Tom Clancy game franchise, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, and Folivari’s French preschool series 7 Bears for a behind-the-scenes look at these titles.
- For the first time, Netflix will host a dedicated Animated Series Studio Focus on Thursday, 12 June, giving audiences an in-depth look at our full animation series slate. From preschool (Dr. Seuss’s Horton!) to adult spectacle (Blue Eye Samurai season 2, Magic: The Gathering), family spectacle (Ghostbusters, Minecraft), and comedy (Haunted Hotel), this session—led by Netflix Animation executives John Derderian (Vice President, Animation Series), Heather Tilert (Director, Kids + Preschool), Billy Wee (Director, Adult Comedy), Dylan Thomas (Director, Adult Spectacle), and Dominique Bazay (Director, Family Spectacle)—will share insights into our creative and production processes behind our animated slate.
- And finally, Netflix titles—Astérix & Obélix: Le Combat des Chefs and Devil May Cry—will compete in Annecy’s Official TV Films Competition.
Netflix Upcoming Projects Details
FIXED
Release date: 13 August 2025
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…?
Cast: Adam Devine, Idris Elba, Kathryn Hahn, Fred Armisen, Bobby Moynihan, Beck Bennett, Michelle Buteau, and River Gallo
IN YOUR DREAMS
Release date: Coming this Fall
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.
Cast: Jolie Hoang-Rappaport, Elias Janssen, Craig Robinson, Simu Liu, Cristin Milioti, Omid Djalili, Gia Carides, SungWon Cho, Zachary Noah Piser
ASTÉRIX & OBÉLIX: LE COMBAT DES CHEFS (ASTÉRIX & OBÉLIX: THE BIG FIGHT)
Release date: 30 April 2025
Rome is desperate to conquer the last independent village in Gaul and the home of Asterix and Obelix. The secret to the Gauls’ battle superiority is a magic potion, but when the potion master loses his memory, the villagers are left to their own devices against the might of Rome.
DEVIL MAY CRY
Release date: S1 on Netflix, S2 Coming Soon
In this animated adaptation of the popular Capcom game and from the vision of Adi Shankar, sinister forces are at play to open the portal between the human and demon realms. In the middle of it all is Dante, an orphaned demon-hunter-for-hire, unaware that the fate of both worlds hangs around his neck.
LONG STORY SHORT
Release date: Coming this year
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.
7 BEARS
Release date: 10 July 2025
Forget the Seven Dwarfs, here come the 7 Bears! So, look out Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and Snow White, because this lovable pack of furballs is putting a fuzzy twist on the fairytales we thought we knew. Based on the acclaimed graphic novels by Emile Bravo, The 7 Bears is brought to animated life by the award-winning animation studio, Folivari.
SPLINTER CELL: DEATHWATCH
Release date: Fall 2025
In this first-ever adaptation of the acclaimed stealth video game Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, legendary agent Sam Fisher is drawn back into the field when a wounded young operative seeks out his help. Produced by Ubisoft, in partnership with Derek Kolstad (John Wick), Sun Creature and Fost.
STRANGER THINGS: TALES FROM ‘85
Release date: Coming Soon
A new, animated series set in the ‘Stranger Things’ universe.
BLUE EYE SAMURAI
Release date: S1 on Netflix, S2 Coming Soon
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