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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) at 15:00 and the feature-length film “Have A Nice Day” – a socially critical thriller showing the hidden side of China – at 20:15. “Hidden Heroes” – this is the title of the animated short film by “MACH DICH STARK – Die Initiative für Kinder im Südwesten“. The film draws attention to the causes and backgrounds of child poverty in an entertaining way and was produced in cooperation with the ITFS. For the world premiere on May 4, 2022 at 19:45., director Anna Levinson from the animation studio monströös and Baden-Württemberg’s Minister of Social Affairs and Integration Manne Lucha will come to the open-air stage and tell how they stand up for children. Immediately after the premiere, the film will be available on the website https://www.itfs.de/machdichstark and in cinemas.


Films in competition

 

The competition programmes can be watched on site and also online at https://onlinefestival.itfs.de/en/onlineplus from May 2 to 15.

  • International Competition 1 (Rep., 11:00, Gloria 1): including Mondo Domino (Suki / France), Deep Water (Anna Dudko / Ukraine) and Varken (Jorn Leeuwerink / Netherlands).
  • AniMovie (13:30, Gloria 1): INU-OH (Masaaki Yuasa / China, Japan)
  • Tricks for Kids 1 (14:00, TREFFPUNKT ROTEBÜHLPLATZ): including BATTERY DADDY (Seung-bae Jeon / South Korea), I’m not afraid! (Marita Mayer / Germany, Norway) and Pip and Posy: Night Pip (Matt Tea / United Kingdom).
  • Young Animation 1 (19:00, Gloria 2): including BusLine35A (Elena Felici / Denmark), Flamenco (Paulo Moreno Scatena / Germany) and Don’t Drop the Goose (Jurie Visagie / South Africa)
  • AniMovie (20:00, Cinema): Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen / Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway), presented by the Haus des Dokumentarfilms
  • International Competition 2 (21:00, Gloria 1): including the Oscar-nominated film Bestia (Hugo Covarrubias / Chile), Noir-Soleil (Marie Larrivé / France) and Your Bad Animals (Amit Cohen, Ido Shapira / Israel).

 

The filmmaker talks of the International Competition and Young Animation will take place at Café le Théatre starting at 12:00.

 

Supporting programmes and workshops

  • Master Class: Meet Ze Artists (10:00, Gloria 2) with Renaud Armanet
  • Workshop Talk: Madame Choi and the Monsters (10:00, Cinema) with Sheree Domingo and Patrick Spät, winners of the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung Comic Book Award 2022
  • Animation around Europe: Romanian Animated Shorts (12:30, Cinema), curated by Mihai Mitrica.
  • In Persona: Marion Rasche 1 (14:00, Gloria 2), in cooperation with the DEFA Foundation
  • Comic Workshop Part 1 (14:00, Jugendhaus Mitte) with Davor Bakara
  • Black is Back! 1 (14:00, Hospitalhof), curated by Ulrich Wegenast
  • XPRMTL Animation (15:00, Cinema), curated by Max Hattler, Giovanna Thiery and Ulrich Wegenast
  • In Persona: Daniel Höpfner (15:30, Delphi Arthaus Kino)
  • AniMovie/Kids (16:00, Gloria 1): Maya the Bee – The Secret Kingdom (Noel Cleary, Alexs Stadermann / Germany, Australia) as preview, presented by Studio 100 and Maya the Bee herself as guest
  • School Presentation: NFTS Retrospective 1 – National Film & Television School Beaconsfield (16:30, Gloria 2), curated by Robert Bradbrook
  • In Persona: Jochen Kuhn 1 (16:30, Hospitalhof)
  • Best of Animation 1 (17:00, Gloria 1), curated by Mark Shapiro
  • Wonderwomen – Women in Animation 1 (19:00, Hospitalhof), curated by Waltraud Grausgruber
  • Studio Presentation & Talk: “The House” by Nexus Studios for Netflix (17:30, Cinema) with Marc James Roels, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Paloma Baeza and Joos Zoetebier
  • Panorama 1 (21:30, Gloria 2).
  • Black is Back! 2 (21:30, Hospitalhof), curated by Ulrich Wegenast

 

At the Trickstar Professional Awards, ITFS will present the Trickstar Business Award, the German Animated Screenplay Award and the Animated Games Award Germany. The awards will be presented at the Trickstar Professional Awards Gala on May 4, 18:30 at the L-Bank Rotunde in Stuttgart. The gala will be held in English and will also be live-streamed on Onlinefestival.ITFS.de in the ONLINE+ section. Presenter Anja Lange will lead through the evening with numerous studio guests. Further information and the nominees

Beforehand, the Animation Production Days conference will take place in the L-Bank Rotunde from 13:45.

 

ONLINE & ITFS VR HUB

Starting at 14:00, the ITFS live stream on https://onlinefestival.itfs.de/livestream/ will bring the Stuttgart Schlossplatz and the open air programme (with individual programme deviations) to the world. One of the highlights is the feature film “Sita Sings the Blues” at 15:00 and the feature film “Idiots and Angels” at 20:15. Highlights in the virtual world of the ITFS VR HUB are the workshop Building VR MetaSpaces with Mozilla Hubs (Raoul Postel / Netherlands, 15:00), the Talk Playing with Animation (Michael Frei / Switzerland, 17:00) and the Get-together (17:00). In the ITFS VR HUB as well as in the ONLINE PRO area, the Animation Production Days Conference and the School Presentation of the National Yunlin University Taiwan can be followed.

 

www.itfs.de/en/ / Tickets for the ITFS are available at www.itfs.de/en/tickets/.

 

The project “ITFS & Raumwelten VR Hub“ is developed as part of “dive in. Programme for Digital Interactions” of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) with funding by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) through the NEUSTART KULTUR programme.