28. and 29. Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart 2021/22

2026-07-22

Established in 1982, the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart (ITFS) is one of the world‘s most important events in the field of animated film in all its facets, with interfaces to visual effects, architecture, art, design, music, science, games, et al. Every year it attracts more than 80,000 visitors and professionals from all over the world with the best and highest quality animations and interactive works to Stuttgart. ITFS is an Oscar-qualifying festival that offers directors, production and distribution companies, talents, and all other industry representatives from the fields of animation and games a platform to showcase their films, interactive and transmedia works as well as VR and AR projects to an interested broad audience and numerous representatives of the industry. At the heart of the festival are the competitions and film programmes at Innenstadtkinos. Every year up to 70,000 EUR in prize money are awarded by international juries of experts in twelve competition categories. The FMX - Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Immersive Media and Animation Production Days (APD), the most important German co-production and financing market for animation, take place at the same time. Thanks to the special combination of film festival, trade congress and financing market, the events have developed into a unique platform for the financing and development of animation projects and attract up to 6,000 professional visitors to Stuttgart every year. ITFS 2020 and 2021 had to take place as online-only editions, reaching additional, new audiences in the process. But a festival like the ITFS is brought to live by personal, face-to face encounters. We are therefore planning a hybrid version for 2022 that combines cinema screenings and games exhibitions with digital applications and experiences in virtual space. The ITFS Festival editions are supplemented by various year long activities such as ITFS Animation Tour and ITFS Animation Special.

Germany

2025-12-15