Best of International Competition & Best of Animation from Baden-Württemberg – Stuttgart Nacht

Best of International Competition 2018 is a collection of some of the best animated shorts from the International Competition of the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film 2018. The selected films are thoughtful, critical and touching, hilarious, witty and humorous. Every single film reflects the enormous variety of topics, techniques and forms of expression as well as the extraordinary and imaginative creativity that makes the world of animated film so rich and exciting.

Best of Baden Württemberg presents another selection of animated shorts from Baden-Württemberg, ranging from children’s films and series to narrative shorts and experimental music videos. Many of these films were made by students of the “talent factory” Filmakademie BadenWürttemberg including the Student Academy Awards nominated graduation film “Augenblicke”. Another student film was made at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. Over the past 20 years, a flourishing studio scene has been established in the Stuttgart region, in particular. It is represented in this programme by shorts made by Studio FILM BILDER, Studio Soi and Büro Achter April, respectively. Further notable accomplishments are Manuel Kolip’s funny puppet animation “Too close to the animal” and Daniel Bahr’s short “Full Throttle” on Stuttgart’s favourite topic: fine particulate matter.

Stuttgarter Nacht, Bürger- und Medienzentrum Stuttgart