ITFS Animation Special
The ITFS Animation Special brings a piece from the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film to cinemas throughout the year.
ITFS presents: Animated Families
Best-of Programme for the International Animation Day
Mon, 28 October, 6:45 pm
Innenstadtkinos Stuttgart
For the International Animation Day on 28 October we present the most unusual family portraits of festival history. From films about growing-up, a documentary about women’s prisons in the DDR, dysfunctional families to suddenly being a cat. A Best-of Programme of animated films, which have won the Gand Prix at the ITFS during the last 25 years.
Cat Days
ITFS Award Winners
Best-of-Programm at the Etiuda & Anima International Film Festival
Sat, 26 October, 6:00 pm
Paradox Cinema Krakow
It’s going to be diverse: not only the topics, but also the techniques. Stop-motion, 3D-animation, cartoons. Stories about surviving during a war, errors in a digital world or axolotl-eating creatures. During the Etiuda & Anima International Film Festival in Krakow we will present ITFS movies, which have won the Grand Prix, the Lotte Reininger Prize or the audience award during the last 15 years. A programme, that showcases the quality, diversity and possibilities of animated films.
ITFS Animation Tour
From October on the ITFS tours the world with a selection of the best animated films from the preceding festival. With the thhree programmes “Best of ITFS”, “Best of Tricks for Kids” and “Trickstar Nature Award” we will present award-winning films, festival highlights and audience favourites of the previous festival.
All films of the ITFS Animation Tour.
- Arabisches Filmfest, Kino Atelier Tübingen (Vor dem Haagtor 1, 72070 Tübingen)
Sat, 12 October, 1:30 pm Best of Tricks for Kids
To the website - Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, China (No. 74, Beijing West Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P. R. China)
Fri, 25 October, 9:30 am Trickstar Nature Award
Sat, 26 October, 9:00 am Best of Tricks for Kids
Sun, 27 October, 9:00 am Best of ITFS - Zebra Kino Konstanz (Joseph-Belli-Weg 5, 78467 Constance)
Sun, 27 October, 4:00 pm Best of Tricks for Kids
To the website - Cine Teatro Avenida Castelo Branco, Portugal (Av. Gen. Humberto Delgado 99, 6000-081 Castelo Branco, Portugal)
Mon, 14 October, 9:30 pm Trickstar Nature Award
Mon, 21 October, 9:30 pm Best of ITFS - Odeon Cinema Sofia, Bulgaria (Sofia Center, bul. “Patriarh Evtimiy” 1, 1142 Sofia, Bulgaria)
Mo, 28 October, 6:00 pm Best of ITFS
Watch now: FRITZI AND SOPHIE
The series FRITZI AND SOPHIE – A BORDERLESS FRIENDSHIP premiered this spring at the ITFS on the large LED screen at the Open-Air event. Now, just in time for German Unity Day (national holiday), it finally aired on TV and is also online.
The series is based on the animated film FRITZI – A REVOLUTIONARY TALE (2019), which tells the story of the Peaceful Revolution in 1989 in Leipzig from the perspective of a 12-year-old girl. The eight-part TV series delves deeper into everyday life in East Germany and tells the parallel story of Fritzi’s friend Sophie, who flees to the West with her mother to start a new life in the FRG.
By the way: FRITZI AND SOPHIE was entirely produced in Germany! A co-production between Balance Film and TrickStudio Lutterbeck with Studio Filmbilder. The animations were created using motion-capture technology, further processed with the 3D software Blender.