The 29th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film is heading into the weekend on Saturday, May 7! One of the highlights is the award ceremony for the Tricks for Kids Award at TREFFPUNKT ROTEBÜHLPLATZ at 17:30 CET. The prize for the best animated short film for children, worth € 4,000, is donated by Studio 100 Media. The winning film will be chosen by a children’s jury. In addition, this year for the first time there will be a prize for the audience favourite of the Tricks for Kids competition, donated by L-Bank Baden-Württemberg. The prize is endowed with € 1,500. Children and their families can vote in the Tricks for Kids programme at OnlineFestival.ITFS.de in the ONLINE+ section by giving each short film a star rating. The Tricks for Kids children’s film festival was put together by curator Iris Loos (vhs stuttgart “Treffpunkt Kinder”) and funded in the impulse programme “Kultur nach Corona” of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts.
Another highlight is the In Persona – Music & Animation Special: Jochen Kuhn (20:00, Hospitalhof), with Jochen Kuhn and Daniel Kothenschulte, who, in real life a film critic at the Frankfurter Rundschau and film curator, sits down at the piano, chats with the philosophical-ironic everyday surrealist Kuhn and intones the master’s cinematic works live.
A highlight in the ONLINE PRO section is the meeting of Signe Baumane and Bill Plympton in the Online Talk: Secrets of Indie Animators Revealed. The two animators talk about their careers, show clips from their upcoming films and reveal the secrets of producing independent animated films.
On Saturday, ITFS invites – together with Paul Lange & Co. and SHIMANO – its visitors to the big bike Saturday from 12:00, a free check-up of bikes at the Shimano professional workshop tent. The open-air stage and LED wall will feature special guests – including Nadine Berneis, ambassador for the Jedermann Race of the Tour of Germany, which will take place in Stuttgart again this year, and Eva Adam, bicycle representative of the City of Stuttgart – and an exciting film programme all about cycling. At the programme Music & Animation: Il. Logik World – FARIDOG (19:00) – based on the prog rock of the 1970s and with animations and film footage by Renaud Armanet and Flavie Darchen of tigoboANIMATION – musicians will create a synaesthetic experience that will celebrate its premiere at the ITFS. Highlights of the film programme are the feature film “The Ogglies – Welcome to Smelliville” at 15:00 and the feature film “Triplets of Belleville” at 20:15.
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Films in competitions
The competition programmes can be watched on site and also online at https://onlinefestival.itfs.de/en/onlineplus from May 2 to 15.
- Tricks for Kids 4 (14:00, TREFFPUNKT ROTEBÜHLPLATZ): e.g. Lost Brain (Isabelle Favez / Switzerland), Maman Pleut des Cordes (Hugo De Faucompret / France) and The Bridge of the City (Klym Klymchuk / Ukraine)
- Young Animation 4 (19:00, Gloria 2): e.g. When the Moon was Gibbous (Erika Grace Strada / Denmark), Au revoir Jérôme! (Adam Sillard, Chloé Farr, Gabrielle Selnet / France) and Blood (Ousmane Cisse / France)
- International Competition 5 (21:00, Gloria 1): e.g. The Monkey (Lorenzo Degl’Innocenti, Xoxé Zapata / Portugal, Spain), Steakhouse (Špela Cadež / France, Germany, Slovenia) and HYSTERESIS (Robert Seidel / Germany)
- Trickstar Nature (21:30, Gloria 2)
The filmmaker talks of the International Competition and Young Animation will take place at Café le Théatre starting at 12:00, moderated by Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck (Berlin) and Franka Sachse (Kassel).
Supporting programmes and workshops
- Workshop Talk: VR Animation Film – Studio Lavamachine (10:00, Cinema)
- Workshop Body Involvement in Animation (10:00, Institut Français), with Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo
- School Presentation – Hochschule Luzern meets Cartoon Network (13:30, Gloria 1)
- Film & Presentation: MACH DICH STARK – Animation im Prozess! Versteckte Helden (14:00, Gloria 2), Speaker: Anna Levinson (monströös), Kim Hartmann (MACH DICH STARK)
- Workshop tigoboANIMATIONstudios – Part 2 (14:30, Institut Français)
- School Presentation: Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart (15:00, Cinema)
- In Persona: Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo 2 – Ex Aequo (15:00, Cinema)
- Film & Presentation: Foundation Förderverein ITFS (15:30, Gloria 2), Association for the Promotion of Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film
- In Persona: Thomas Renoldner 2 – Carte Blanche (15:30, Delphi Arthaus Kino)
- Film & Presentation: Haus für Film und Medien Stuttgart (17:00, Gloria 2)
- Best of Animation 4 (17:00, Gloria 1), curated by Mark Shapiro
- In Persona – Music & Animation Special: Jochen Kuhn 3 (20:00, Hospitalhof), with Jochen Kuhn and Daniel Kothenschulte live at the piano
- Night of Shame (20:00, Contained @ Container City), the alternative film show that celebrates filmakers’ worst
- Cult Night – Animation of the Extreme (23:30, Gloria 1)
Offers to join in – Workshops by Tricks for Kids and GameZone Kids
Children and young people can get active themselves at the workshops at Jugendhaus Mitte, TREFFPUNKT ROTEBÜHLPLATZ and Institut Français. Whether it’s animated film or sound design workshops, Minetest Creative Time (as part of GameZone Kids) or the Children’s Animated Film Academy (in cooperation with Kindermedienland) – here everyone can let off steam creatively. All workshops and registration at https://www.itfs.de/en/programme/familykids/.
As part of “MACH DICH STARK – Die Initiative für Kinder im Südwesten“, two workshops are offered. At the Institut Français, the kids will produce an animated film against child poverty, exclusion and inequality at the two-day workshop of the animation studio Tigobo from France. At the free all-day “MACH DICH STARK Superhero*ine Games Workshop“, participants build their first game level with the game engine Unity and together with the team from Spellgarden Games. The basis for this is Liane, Max and Tamara from the short film “Hidden Heroes“, which celebrated its premiere on Schlossplatz at the ITFS Open Air and is now available online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfpL9Ws7zM.
ONLINE & ITFS VR HUB
In the ITFS live stream on https://onlinefestival.itfs.de/livestream/, two highlights are „Best of Trickstar Nature Award 2021“ (17:20) and the feature film “Rocks in my Pockets“ (20:15). The complete ITFS Live Stream programme: https://onlinefestival.itfs.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ITFS22_LiveStream_Samstag.pdf
Highlights in the virtual world of the ITFS VR HUB are the Avatar Workshop with Ronald Wong Ho Hip (South Africa) at 15:00, the Get-together (17:00) and at 22:00, the DJ Set by Michael Fakesch, who is responsible for the sound of the ITFS 2022 trailer “Black is Back!”. In the ONLINE PRO section, the School Presentation of the Communication University of China will take place at 14:00.
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