The Highlights on Wednesday, May 4

ONSITE The ITFS Open Air cinema on Stuttgart’s Schlossplatz offers a colorful daily program for all film fans. Here, animated short films from the Tricks for Kids competitions of recent years can be seen starting at 12:00, as well as the feature-length film “Latte Igel und der magische Wasserstein” (Latte and the Magic Water Stone)…

The Highlights on Tuesday, May 3

The 29th International Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart (ITFS) starts tomorrow, May 3, bringing together animation enthusiasts from all over the world for a week in the capital of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, until May 8. As of today, May 2, animation fans, film lovers and professionals can already experience the films of the competition International Competition,…

The nominees of the Trickstar Professional Awards

Press release, Stuttgart, April 26, 2022     The programme of the 29th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS), which will take place on-site in Stuttgart and online from May 3 to 8, 2022, was presented to the press representatives at today’s programme presentation. Highlights include the world premiere of “Lille Allan – Den…

Short films in competition

The film program for the following competitions is confirmed. The links will take you to the film list of the respective competition:   International competition (International short film competition) Tricks for Kids (the best animated children’s short film) Young Animation (best student film)   The majority of the competition films can be experienced both in the…

The first programme highlights of ITFS 2022

Press release, Stuttgart, February 18, 2022   “Black is Back!” is the motto of the first hybrid Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, which will take place from May 3 to 8, 2022. True to this motto, the fundamentals of animation – reduction, simplification, and clarity, but also exaggeration and over-drawing – will be the…

ITFS is hybrid for the first time in 2022 – Funding of the ITFS VR Hub by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Cultural Foundation)

The 29th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (May 03-08, 2022) is planned as a hybrid event. The Festival team benefits from the successful online-only Festivals of the past two pandemic years in combining the return of ITFS to the cinemas and Schlossplatz in Stuttgart in 2022 with further professionalised online programmes. A central component…

Call for Projects of Animation Production Days

  Newly developed animation projects in the fields of feature film, TV series, mobile content, game, cross- and transmedia can be submitted for the APD ‘Producer Programme’ until 21 February 2022. All information on project submission   Animation Production Days (APDs), a joint venture of ITFS and FMX, is a curated business platform for the European and…

Call for Entries: Trickstar Business Award 2022

Submission Deadline: March 1, 2022 The Trickstar Business Award is the award for the best innovative and groundbreaking business model for a project or a company in the field of animation with a cash prize of 7,500 €, sponsored by Verband Region Stuttgart. It will be awarded during Animation Production Days (APD) 2022 by the…