Over the Year
Before and after the Festival
The ITFS lasts six days, but we also bring the world of animation to you throughout the year – in Stuttgart, the Länd and worldwide.
For Film Fans
Animation Special
We regularly offer Animation Specials especially for animation fans in the Stuttgart region: Best-of programmes, specially curated films for the German National Holiday or Short Film Day. Always up-to-date and in co-operation with other cultural institutions. We publish current dates in our News section.
For Professionals
Animation Lounge
Together with MFG Filmförderung and the Animation Media Creators Region Stuttgart (AMCRS), we invite you around four times a year to the Animation Lounge. Animation professionals will give an insight into current projects, techniques and finished films. Afterwards, the film industry from the Ländle meets at the monthly Jour Fixe. A great opportunity for networking. Find out more on the MFG-Website.
In the Region and worldwide
Animation Tour
Every spring, the world of animated film gathers in Stuttgart for the International Festival of Animated Film. Then, in autumn, a selection of the best films of the festival travels around the world. The three programmes BEST OF ITFS, BEST OF TRICKS FOR KIDS and BEST OF TRICKSTAR NATURE are on tour for one year, presenting the award-winning films from the short film competitions and the most stunning films of the ITFS for adults, children and young people.
BEST OF ITFS 2025
Outstanding films usually either tell the really extraordinary stories or they examine small, specific everyday scenes. Their creators have the courage to open up and explore new grounds – whether they’re dealing with their own family history or pioneering new animation techniques and visual worlds. Who has ever seen refuse bags dancing? Or an entire film painted on toilet paper? BEST OF ITFS presents this and more – including the award-winning films from the International Competition, the Student Competition and the Trickstar Nature Award 2025.
BEST OF TRICKS FOR KIDS 2025
Our children’s jury made their choice, and the best short films of the ITFS 2025 are going on a grand tour with BEST OF TRICKS FOR KIDS. Why are the birds in Paris all dressed up so fancy? And can the little hummingbird save family sloth? Join us on a cinematic journey around the world: a family holiday at the beach, a monster in the swimming pool or pigs in a monastery – there’s so much to experience here.
To enable children worldwide to enjoy the programme, all films are without dialogue and suitable for all ages.
BEST OF TRICKSTAR NATURE 2025
What happens if rays take over the world? What if the glaciers melt and the sea levels rise? What if the world suffocates in smog and plastic waste? How does a society change when natural resources are no longer sufficient for everyone? Do we retreat and resign ourselves to defeat, or do we take radical action to save the world after all?
This year’s BEST OF TRICKSTAR NATURE programme shows us that we still have options.
Interested in presenting the tour programmes?
We lend the three programmes free of charge. Period of availability: between October after the festival and September of the following year. Cinemas, cultural event organisers and other non-profit organisations that would like to show the programme as part of a public event are entitled to borrow the films.