You’re counting the days until May? Good news: We’re already starting our Festival Warm Up on April 13 and offer numerous events to entertain you until the ITFS finally starts on May 5! The countdown includes preview screening, workshops, exhibitions and much more to make sure you’re getting prepared to animation in all it’s colours, forms and facets.
Water Brunch and Workshop 
While the kids are creating their own films in workshops their parents can enjoy a Sunday’s brunch.
Sun, March 29 // 11am – 1pm // for kids aged 6 and older // Attendance fee 5,-€
Animation evening for the whole family with “Animals United”
Sat, April 18 // 6pm // free entry // 93 min
Animation Day: Water, Animation and more… 
Film screenings and workshops during the whole day!
Sun, April 19 // 11am – 5:30pm // free entry
The Noise Between the Frames (Büro Achter April) 
Opening: April 15, 7:30pm, Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart
Der zweite Blick (Büro Achter April)
Opening: April 29, 7pm, Ebene 0 (Stuttgart) 
Am Rande der Zeit (Lukas Thiele)
Opening: April 30, 7pm, Projektraum LOTTE in Stuttgart
Presentation: Am Rande der Zeit // The Noise Between the Frames
With Lukas Thiele and Michael Fragstein (Büro Achter April)
April 21, 7pm, Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart
A short film programme will be shown at Waldhorn Rottenburg on April 19 at 2pm in the presence of Andreas Hykade, a well known film maker (Ring of Fire, Tom & the Slice of Bread with Strawberryjam & Honey, 10 kleine Jägermeister).
Matching our this year’s country focus Spain the film “Arrugas” is presented at Kino Museum in Tübingen on April 19 at 6pm. The film, directed by Ingacio Ferreras, has been a ITFS awardee previous year and was nominated for the European Film Award.
Animation Lounge presents lot of information about ITFS 2015 and the supportin
g programme including programme highlights, chosen short films and the GameZone’s concept. The event will take place at Theater Rampe, Stuttgart, on April 20 at 7pm.
Animation Lounge is presented by MFG-Filmförderung in cooperation with Film- und Medienfestival gGmbH every three months within the MFG Jour Fixe.
