International Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart

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The International Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart - Festival of Animated Film ( ITFS ) has been a festival for animated films that has been taking place since 1982. It is the largest event of its kind in Germany and one of the largest worldwide. The ITFS is organized by the Stuttgarter Film- und Medienfestival gGmbH, the artistic director is Ulrich Wegenast , the commercial and organizational director is Dieter Krauss . The festival started every two years, in 2005 it was decided to organize the festival annually due to higher funding.

About the festival

The spectrum ranges from classic cartoons to artistic cartoons to full-length 3D computer animation films as well as real-time and flash animations. As part of the promotion of young talent, which is an important cornerstone of the festival, a competition for students has been announced. Thus, many of the films shown come from film and art schools.

The large open-air cinema on Stuttgart's Schlossplatz.

The Stuttgart city center cinemas “Gloria” and “Metropol” have been used as screening venues since 2006. At the same time, there will be an open-air cinema on Stuttgart's Schlossplatz . Also Ludwigsburg is used as an additional festival venue since of 2006. In 2011, animated short and long films were shown on a large LED wall on Schlossplatz from noon. Since 2012, around 80,000 viewers have come to Stuttgart every year to see around 1,000 films at the open air and in Stuttgart's city center cinemas. The GameZone is about the interfaces between animation and computer games and took place in 2018 - for the 25th anniversary of the festival - for the first time in addition to the art museum in the "Lichtwolke" pavilion in front of the courtyard of the New Palace, which is held annually by the Film- und Medienfestival gGmbH for the Raumwelten Congress is being set up in Ludwigsburg.

During the festival, the "Animation Production Days" take place as a business platform for the international animation industry. The ITFS also works closely with FMX , the Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Immersive Media, Europe's largest specialist event for animation, effects, games and transmedia.

In 2020, ITFS had to be canceled for the first time due to the corona pandemic. The festival took place online as OnlineFestival.ITFS.de during the same festival period. More than 200 competition films of the current year could be viewed on demand after registration. Talks, masterclasses, film screenings as well as the opening and award ceremony took place in the free live stream from May 5 to 10, 2020.

Competitions & Prizes

International competition

Artistically outstanding short animation films are shown here.

  • Grand Prix of the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film
  • Lotte Reiniger sponsorship award for animation film
  • SWR audience award

Young animation

Students from international film and art schools present their work.

  • Award for the best student film
  • The FANtastic price

Tricks for kids

Competition for challenging children's cartoons and series for children. Accompanied by live programs and hands-on activities.

  • Award for the best animated short film for children

AniMovie

Audience award. Entertaining and unconventional international animated feature films are available.

Trickstar Professional Awards

Prices for innovative business models in the animation sector.

  • Trickstar Business Award
  • Germany's Next Animation Talent
  • Animated Games Award Germany: Award for the computer game from Germany with the best visual design and aesthetics.

Animation Comedy - German animation speaker award

Prize for the best German-speaking speaker in a full-length animated film.

Crazy Horse Session - 48H Animation Jam

International teams animate a short film in 48 hours

winner

International competition

Grand Prix

  • 2018: Cat Days by Jon Frickey, Germany / Japan
    • Jury: Alexandre Espigares, Ivan Maximov, Monica Menez, Olga Pärn, Chad VanGaalen
  • 2019: Bloeistraat 11 by Nienke Deutz, Belgium / Netherlands
    • Jury: Ulu Braun, Erik van Drunen, KongKee, Christina Lima, Maya Yonesho
  • 2020: "Acid Rain" by Tomek Popakul, Poland
    • Jury: Jon Frickey, Waltraud Grausgruber, Ben Mitchell, Cécile Noesser, Gerben Schermer

Lotte Reiniger sponsorship award for animation film

  • 2018: Enough by Anna Mantzaris, UK
    • Jury 2018: Alexandre Espigares, Ivan Maximov, Monica Menez, Olga Pärn, Chad VanGaalen
  • 2019: Animals from Tue Sanggard, Denmark
    • Jury 2019: Ulu Braun, Erik van Drunen, KongKee, Christina Lima, Maya Yonesho
  • 2020: Kujiranoyu ("Bath House of Whales") by Mizuki Kiyama, Japan
    • Jury: Jon Frickey, Waltraud Grausgruber, Ben Mitchell, Cécile Noesser, Gerben Schermer

SWR audience award

year 1st Prize 2nd prize 3rd prize
1996 Quest from Tyron Montgomery and Thomas Stellmach Killing Heinz by Stefan Eling
1998 Death and the Mother by Ruth Lingford The Devil Went Down to Georgia by Mike Johnson Wheel of Life by Vera Neubauer
2000 Tony's Playstation by Stefan Eling
2002 Father and Daughter by Michael Dudok de Wit Kövek ( Stones ) by Ferenc Cakó Hessi James by Johannes Weiland
2004 In-Saeng ( The Life ) by JunKi Kim Instinct from Rao Heidmets Post Card from Anna Matysik
2006 Ego Sum Alpha et Omega by Jan-Peter Meier Kutoja - The Last Knit by Laura Neuvonen Heartstopper by David Lea
2007 Migration Assistée by Pauline Pinson
2008 Isabelle au bois dormant by Claude Cloutier
2009 Skhizein by Jérémy Clapin
2010 Sinna Mann ( "Angry Man" ) by Anita Killi
2011 The Lost Thing by Andrew Ruhemann and Shaun Tan
2012 Atlas by Aike Arndt
2013 Junkyard by Hisko Hulsing
2014 Mr Hublot by Alexandre Espigares and Laurent Witz
2015 One of a Kind by Rok Predin
2016 Panic! by Joost Lieuwma, Daan Velsink
2017 Our Wonderful Nature - The Common Chameleon by Tomer Eshed
2018 Negative Space by Ru Kuwahata, Max Porter
2019 Mind my mind by Floor Adams
2020 Uzi by Dina Velikovskaya

Tricks for Kids - short film

Young Animation (best newcomer film)

  • 2018: Suction by Jonatan Schwenk, Germany
    • Jury 2018: Laura Almantaitė, Ülo Pikkov, Julius Steinhauser
  • 2019: Sounds good by Sander Joon, Estonia
    • Jury 2019: Franziska Bruckner, Shoko Hara, Max Hattler, Wong Ping
  • 2020: Dcera (Daughter) by Daria Kashcheeva, Czech Republic
    • Jury: Anna Levinson, Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo, Chen Xi

AniMovie (best animated feature film)

  • 2018: Xing Fu Lu Shang (On Happiness Road) from Hsin-Yin Sung, Taiwan
    • Jury 2018: Reinis Kalnaellis, Richard Lutterbeck, Angela Poschet
  • 2019: Mirai No Mirai (Mirai - The Girl from the Future) by Mamoru Hosoda, Japan
    • Jury 2019: Emely Christians, Myrna Gawryn, Gareth Kamp
  • 2020: Le voyage du prince (The prince's voyage) by Jean-François Laguionie, Xavier Picard, France
    • Jury: Liu Jian, Lilian Klages, Fermin Muguruza

German animation script award

German animation speaker award

Animated Games Award Germany

  • 2018: The Inner World - The Last Wind Monk by Tobias Frisch (Headup Games)
  • 2019: Trüberbrook by Florian Köhne (btf ​​GmbH)
  • 2020: Song of Bloom by Philipp Stollenmayer (kamibox eK)

Germany's Next Animation Talent

  • 2018: The Snollies by Jens Opatz and Pia Auteried
  • 2019: July on the Magic Mountain by Elisabeth Jakobi

Trickstar Business Award

  • 2018: House of Broken Hearts from Tünde Vollenbroek, Netherlands
  • 2019: CoboStories from Copenhagen Bombay
  • 2020: Good enough: Burnout Diary by Studio Pupil, Netherlands

Crazy Horse Session - 48h Animation Jam

  • 2010: Beetle & Cheval by Peter Smith and Magnus Møller
  • 2011: Layered by Dane Winn and Constantinos Mavromic Halis, United Kingdom
  • 2012: Trixi Goes to the Moving Pictures by Kristen Campbell and Sitji Chou, Canada
  • 2013: Trixi's Curiosity by Antonio Jesús Busto Algarin and Martin Martínez Garcia, Spain
  • 2014: A Horse Throat by Jenna Marks and David Barlow-Krelina, Canada
  • 2015: PRAFF by Victor Collado and Maria Torregrosa Domenech, Spain
  • 2016: Lea Azar from Marylin Haddad, Lebanon
  • 2017: Trixis new sofa by Islam Mazhar and Ahmad Abdelhameed, Egypt
  • 2018: Untitled by Peter Aoun, Radé Zorkot, Lebanon
  • 2019: Horse from ZiYi Jin, ZiQian Zhao, China

Former prices

International competition

International sponsorship award

Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg

Prize of the City of Stuttgart

Music for animation

Prize for the most innovative film

Award for the funniest film

Lena Weiss animation award for humanity

Tricks for Kids - animation series

  • 2018: National: Animanimals - Sloth by Julia Ocker , Germany
  • 2018: International: Hey Duggee - The Tadpole Badge by Grant Orchard, Great Britain
    • Jury 2018: Fabian Driehorst, Bill Plympton, Jean Thoren

Cartoons for Teens (best animation for teenagers)

Animated Series

  • 2006: Angry Kid: Who Do You Think You Are by Darren Walsh , United Kingdom
  • 2007: Little Princess: I Want My Snail by Edward Foster , United Kingdom
  • 2008: Hairy Scary No.33 by Wolf-Rüdiger Bloss, France / Germany
  • 2009: Histoires comme ça - L'enfant d 'éléphant by Jean-Jacques Prunes, France

Under Commission

  • 2008: Sony Bravia: Play Doh by Darren Walsh and Frank Budgen, United Kingdom
  • 2009: Audi Unboxed by Aaron Duffy and Russell Brooke, United Kingdom
  • 2010: Harmonix 'The Beatles: Rock Band' intro cinematic by Pete Candeland, United Kingdom

Animated Com Award

  • 2018
    • Migros - Finn by Kyra Buschor, Constantin, Paeplow, Ben Liam Jones, United Kingdom

Animated Fashion Award

Online audience award

  • 2010: Ah Pook Is Here by Philip Hunt , United Kingdom / Germany
  • 2011: Muto from Blu, Italy

Amazon Audience Award

  • 2016: Chateau De Sable , France
  • 2017: Asteria, France
  • 2018: Hybrids by Florian Brauch, Matthieu Pujol, Kim Tailhades, Yohan Thireau, Romain Thirion, France

Web links

Commons : Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Otto Waalkes wins the German Animation Speakers Award 2019 , accessed May 4, 2019