“The Best of Annecy 2025” arrives at L’Alliance New York as a free, live program that brings the year’s most discussed animated shorts and experiments into a Manhattan room. Drawn from the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the selection functions like a field report on where animation is heading, formally and politically, in 2025. For New York audiences, it’s less a premiere than a transmission: European festival culture translated into a local, communal screening context. One clear takeaway is how animation keeps absorbing documentary strategies without giving up abstraction.