ONSITE 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. AniMovie (11:00, Hospitalhof): My Sunny Maad (Michaela Pavlátová / France, Czech Republic, Slovakia) German premiere AniMovie (13:30, Gloria 1): The Crossing (Florence Miailhe / France, Germany, Czech Republic) Tricks for Kids 2…
ONSITE 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)…
The 29th International Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart (ITFS) starts tomorrow, May 3, bringing together animation enthusiasts from all over the world for a week in the capital of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, until May 8. As of today, May 2, animation fans, film lovers and professionals can already experience the films of the competition International Competition,…
These are dark times. The logic of war, of the military and extermination dominates the public. The Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) is also affected by the war in Ukraine. Our hearts bleed. We are not neutral! We fiercely condemn Russia’s brutal war of aggression against a sovereign state. The inhuman attacks on…
Press release, Stuttgart, April 26, 2022 The programme of the 29th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS), which will take place on-site in Stuttgart and online from May 3 to 8, 2022, was presented to the press representatives at today’s programme presentation. Highlights include the world premiere of “Lille Allan – Den…
More than 700 animation artists from Ukraine and Russia have released a joint statement on the invasion of Ukraine. The translation from Russian in the wording: “We’re convinced that war brings nothing but death, pain and destruction. And nothing can justify it. The animation community of Ukrainian and Russian animation filmmakers is united and…
The film program for the following competitions is confirmed. The links will take you to the film list of the respective competition: International competition (International short film competition) Tricks for Kids (the best animated children’s short film) Young Animation (best student film) The majority of the competition films can be experienced both in the…
Press release, Stuttgart, February 18, 2022 “Black is Back!” is the motto of the first hybrid Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, which will take place from May 3 to 8, 2022. True to this motto, the fundamentals of animation – reduction, simplification, and clarity, but also exaggeration and over-drawing – will be the…
The 29th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (May 03-08, 2022) is planned as a hybrid event. The Festival team benefits from the successful online-only Festivals of the past two pandemic years in combining the return of ITFS to the cinemas and Schlossplatz in Stuttgart in 2022 with further professionalised online programmes. A central component…
Newly developed animation projects in the fields of feature film, TV series, mobile content, game, cross- and transmedia can be submitted for the APD ‘Producer Programme’ until 21 February 2022. All information on project submission Animation Production Days (APDs), a joint venture of ITFS and FMX, is a curated business platform for the European and…
