WTF OFF
About the Programme
WTF OFF is an annual showcase of original, experimental, provocative, shocking and boundary-pushing animated films curated by Sébastien Sperer.
It gives a space for works that don't fit into the traditional categories of the festival – official competition, children's programmes, or mainstream slots – yet still deserve to be seen.
Screened late at night, WTF OFF embraces a "midnight show" atmosphere where the audience expects bold, unusual or subversive animation.
WTF OFF usually presents short films, student work, experimental animation, and sometimes even feature-length projects.
Thematically, the programme often includes irreverent humour, bizarre ideas, uncomfortable or adult content, and generally work that aims to shock, provoke, or deeply engage the viewer.
WTF OFF – Call for Submissions 2026
Does your film refuse to fit into any box? Is it too strange, too bold, too experimental, too uncomfortable for standard festival categories? Does it provoke, disturb, shock, or radically reimagine what animation can be?
WTF OFF is looking for animated films that break rules and push boundaries — short films, student works, experimental animation, and exceptional feature-length projects.
If your film doesn't belong anywhere, it belongs here.
SUBMISSIONS FOR 2026 ARE OPEN UNTIL 21 MARCH 2026.
About Sébastien Sperer
Sébastien Sperer has been a long-time programmer and curator at the Annecy Festival. Since 1999, he has worked in many roles — as a selector, moderator, juror, planner, and programme curator.
In 2017, he created the WTF section and is now doing the programme together with Gala Frécon. The idea was to carve out a special evening slot for films that "don't fit anywhere else," but that are striking, daring and highly original.
His motivation is to showcase animation in all its diversity and to highlight the fact that animation as a medium can do anything — without filters or limitations.
Under his curatorship, WTF has become a space for the boldest voices in contemporary animation.
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