ITFS 2027 Opens for Entries
ITFS 2027 opens five film competitions with November and January deadlines, AI-use disclosure and clearly specified delivery files.
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Berlin Animates: FAB 2025 Full Daily Programme
FAB 2025, 26 to 28 Sept: Berlin screens 132 films, plus hands-on workshops and Japan focus. Here’s the complete schedule.
Berlin’s Animation-Only Festival FAB 2025 Returns: Japan, Stop-Motion, and 132 Films
FAB returns to Berlin in September 2025 with 132 films, Japanese guests, a stop-motion symposium, and six competitions at silent green Kulturquartier and City Kino Wedding.
A Double Life | Animago Afternoon
The Animago winners from the "Special Jury Prize" category strike again: an animated short film that tackles the social issue of gender identity with black humour.
ITFS decision-makers comment on Germany as a centre for animation
Are German animated feature films still internationally competitive when it comes to adult themes? A plea from the people behind the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film.
The VFX Festival 2022 will be hybrid
Emerging talents: Ready for the future of VFXs? The industry event from London is also available online!
Sprite Fright: Blender Open Movie
Blender Studio's free ten-minute horror comedy Sprite Fright sends five visitors into a forest with murderous mushroom sprites.
Sweet Nothing Selected for Sundance
Lucerne animation graduates Joana Fischer and Marie-Christine Kenov take the four-minute Sweet Nothing to Sundance 2022.
Louis’ Shoes: An Autistic Perspective
The five-minute French animated short Louis' Shoes follows an autistic eight-year-old entering a new classroom.
2021 Student Academy Award Winners
Four animated shorts were among the 14 winners of the 2021 Student Academy Awards, selected from 1,404 submitted films.
Festival of Animation Berlin 2021 Presented 186 Projects
Festival of Animation Berlin 2021 combined cinema screenings, online competitions, masterclasses and workshops from 1–3 October.
White Square Festival Extends 2021 Entry Deadline
The White Square International Advertising and Marketing Festival extended its 2021 submission deadline to midnight on 24 May ahead of the June awards.
ITFS 2021 Streams Animation Programme and Awards Live
The Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film streamed family and adult animation programmes, interviews and an awards presentation from 4–9 May 2021.
Animation Production Days 2021 Invites Project Submissions
Animation Production Days 2021 invited animated film, TV, game and cross-media projects in concept or development through 22 February.
Animatics Channel Curates Animated Short Films
Autour de Minuit’s Animatics channel presents animated shorts for adult audiences, including The Death, Dad & Son, Pixels and Logorama.
Edimotion 2020 Announces Editing Award Nominees
The 20th Edimotion festival announced nominees for its feature, documentary and emerging-editor awards.
Animarkt 2020 Pitching Call
Animarkt sought stop-motion shorts in development for its 2020 pitching forum, with an application deadline of 3 August.
White Square Festival 2020 Winners
The online White Square Festival judged 937 entries from 31 countries, awarding two contrasting campaigns with Grand Prix honours.
White Square Festival – The Winners
This year's White Square Festival is over - these are the winners from 2019!
Deauville Green Awards: Deadline for submissions only until 26 April!
Entries for the 2019 Deauville Film Festival, which takes place on 12 and 13 June, can only be submitted until Friday 26 April 2019!
Deadline: White Square Submissions Only Until Friday!
Projects can be submitted to the White Square Festival's 7 main and total of 21 subcategories only until Friday.
White Square – New Submission Deadline on April 5
Extended registration deadline for the White Square Festival in Belarus: creative projects can still be submitted until Friday, April 5.
White Square Submission Deadline Ends in Less Than Two Weeks
In less than two weeks, the submission deadline ends for one of the largest creative festivals in Central and Eastern Europe - White Square.
White Square Festival
The White Square Festival publishes this year's program: the event in Minsk takes place this year from April 17 to 19!
FMX 2018: Trailer and Program
At the end of April, it is time again: FMX 2018 in Stuttgart once again offers an extnesive program for everyone interested. Here are the first trailers and program information!
Entries Can Be Submitted to ITFS Again!
Entries can now once again be submitted for the 23rd edition of the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film.
RealFlow Presentation at the BFX Festival
At Bournemouth University's VFX and animation festival, Next Limit Technologies provided an insight into RealFlow and Maxwell Render.
Animator 2014 – Call for Entries
The festival season is slowly getting underway. This also applies to the International Animated Film Competition in Poland. The submission deadline is March 3.
Friday Is the Submission Deadline
Now it is time to step on the gas once again. Friday, 1 March, is the submission deadline for the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film's “Animated Fashion Award”.
RTT Wins Two WorldMediaFestival Awards
RTT receives two WorldMediaFestival awards for its CGI film production of the Mazda Shinari concept vehicle.
Enter the Animatron Film Festival Now
Babelgum Digital Broadcast Network has opened submissions for its Animatron animation and anime awards in online, offline and mobile categories.
Masterclass at the MUNICH INTERNATIONAL short film festival
A special highlight of the MUNICH INTERNATIONAL short film festival is the masterclass at the weekend: this year the festival has been able to win Christopher Vogler as a speaker. Vogler is one of the most important screenwriters and teachers in Hollywood. The masterclass bears the same title as his recognised standard work: "The Writer's Journey". The seminar offers the unique opportunity to experience the renowned screenwriter and script developer in person. In his seminar, Christopher Vogler provides insights into the art of screenwriting. He will demonstrate techniques on how to develop the structure of the plot and the characters. Christopher Vogler has been significantly involved in many major international productions such as KÖNIG DER LÖWEN, THE WRESTLER, P.S. YOUR CAT IS DEAD! and TILL EULENSPIEGEL.
The event will take place on Saturday and Sunday (19 and 20 June 2010 from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm) at the Gloria Palast. Registration at the early bird price of 150 euros is now possible online at www.muc-intl.de, where you will also find a detailed description of the seminar.
26th International Short Film Festival Hamburg
The International Short Film Festival Hamburg is one of the world's most important and successful short-film festivals for the industry and public. From June 1 to 7, around 300 excellent short films from around the world will be shown in the various competitions (International Competition, NoBudget, German Competition, Hamburg Short Film Night and Flotter Dreier) and special programmes (country focus Thailand, Searching and Finding: The Meaning of Life, Thunder & Roar: The Motor Programme, Dirty Diaries and others).
Alongside short films in cinemas, the festival offers other exciting events such as two open-air screenings on a parking deck, a tour through the St. Georg district with mobile projectors, various workshops and seminars for filmmakers, and the legendary party nights in the festival club.
The 12th Mo&Friese Children's Short Film Festival takes place at the same time.
“The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D” at the 1st Munich Surf Festival
The premiere of the world's first 3D surf film, “The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D,” takes place at Forum Kino on June 4, 2010.
Highlights of the Munich International Short Film Festival
This year once again, during cinema week from June 17 to 23 at the Gloria Palast on Stachus, the MUNICH INTERNATIONAL short film festival provides the perfect prelude to the “big” Munich Film Festival that follows from June 25.
26th Hamburg International Short Film Festival
From June 1 to 7, around 300 short films from all over the world will be shown in the various competitions and special programmes.
German Animation Screenplay Award Goes to “Lars Lemming”
Screenwriter Heiko Martens receives EUR 5,000 at the 17th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film
Hamburg International Short Film Festival
From June 1 to 7, numerous excellent short films will once again be shown.
Emerging-Talent Competition eDward – The Young Filmmaker’s Award
eDward is being organised as part of eDIT 13. Filmmaker’s Festival and invites young creatives worldwide up to the age of 30 to enter the competition with a 30-second film.
13th International Commercial Film Festival spotlight
Commercial films as a full evening programme – is that possible? Since 1998, spotlight, the largest commercial-film festival in the German-speaking world, has demonstrated just how well it works. Its thirteenth edition takes place at Mannheim's Rosengarten for the first time on March 5, 2010. On the competition reel: a best-of selection from the current commercial-film year.
By dividing the festival into the spotlight main competition and spotlight STUDENTS competition, it covers both professional spots already broadcast in film and television and the so-called ‘spec spots’ – student works normally never seen outside film schools. A stimulating comparison that often makes professional advertising agencies look rather old... Alongside classic spots, the competition also features new forms of advertising for use on the internet or mobile phones. With enormously clever ‘virals’, small video clips for distribution online, this particularly innovative category ranked very highly with the expert jury and the public last year.
Information & tickets: www.spotlight-festival.de
Date: Friday, March 5, 2010
Start: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Mannheim, CC Rosengarten (Mozartsaal)
Enter and Win!
DIGITAL PRODUCTION is giving away 3 × 2 free tickets to the spotlight Festival. Follow the link below to register. The deadline for entries is February 22, 2010.
Good luck!
Landshut Short Film Festival - new entry record
Around 700 films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland were entered for the preselection of the 11th Landshut Short Film Festival, a new record.
Sundance Film Festival
The festival takes place annually in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the world's most important platform for independent American and international productions. Many independent filmmakers owe their breakthrough to the festival, including Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, James Wan, Marc Forster and Jim Jarmusch. The festival also brought several films into the public eye, including Saw, The Blair Witch Project, El Mariachi, Clerks, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Napoleon Dynamite, American Splendor, Super Size Me, Donnie Darko and, most recently, Little Miss Sunshine.
Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF)
The 6th Dubai International Film Festival takes place from 9 to 16 December.
DOK Leipzig Presents WORLD PREMIERES
The 52nd edition of DOK Leipzig presents the cinematic results of unique calls for submissions.
eDIT 12th Filmmaker’s Festival and 10th eDward Young Filmmakers Competition
Art and Science of The Moving Image: International speakers demonstrate the latest tricks and trends in filmmaking in the digital age through workshops, presentations and seminars. eDIT is devoted to production, visual effects and development for feature films, documentaries, animation, TV, commercials and the media industry.
For the 10th time, the eDIT Filmmaker's Festival young-talent competition is being held for filmmakers up to the age of 30. The 2009 theme: Dreams. For the anniversary, the prize money was increased - the winners will be honoured at the eDIT opening gala.
eDIT Opening Gala
eDIT 12th Filmmaker's Festival: Opening gala with Chris Lebenzon, Ricardo Aronovich, Hesse Minister-President Roland Koch and Minister Eva Kühne-Hörmann on October 4.
“Pirates” Spot Wins Bitfilm Festival
“Du bist Terrorist” by Alexander Lehmann secured first prize in the “Politicool” category / Award ceremony in Tel Aviv
Bitfilm Festival for Digital Film in Berlin for the First Time
After guest appearances in New York, Tokyo, Barcelona and Paris, Hamburg's Bitfilm Festival presents itself in Berlin for the first time this week.
Bitfilm Festival Shows “Otaku Attack” Special Program from Japan
Japanese short films, music videos, commercials, motion graphics and game intros take center stage at the Hamburg Bitfilm Festival theme evening.
Short Film Festival Shorts at Moonlight
Höchst Castle provides a romantic backdrop for the short film festival.
University Production “67 Degrees North” Wins at SIGMAD Animation Festival
First prize at Madrid film festival goes to students from Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg
eDIT Festival Honours for Chris Lebenzon, ACE
During the opening gala of the 12th eDIT Filmmaker’s Festival, Lebenzon will receive the honorary award on October 4, 2009 in Frankfurt am Main.
Competition for the German Young Film Award Opens
The 10th up-and-coming International Film Festival Hannover invites young filmmakers to enter; each award winner will receive support from an experienced producer.
Strong HFF Presence at the Annecy Animation Festival
The 33rd Annecy International Animation Film Festival, held June 8–13, 2009, announced its competition selection. Fourteen of the 241 animations in the official programme come from Germany, with the HFF Konrad Wolf providing the country’s largest direct and indirect contingent.
Living Games Festival 2009
Following the extremely successful premiere of the Living Games Festival in 2008, the date, motto and the first programme items have now been finalised for this year's new edition
Programme have been set. From 27-30 May 2009, the world's first purely culturally oriented computer and video games festival will take place in the Jahrhunderhalle in Bochum.
The event is modelled on major, renowned film and literature events such as the Berlinale or the Bachmann Festival in Klagenfurt. Under the guiding theme "Games are so much more", representatives from politics, the games industry and academia will gather at the opening on 27 May to discuss the topic together with the
Grimme Prize winner and renowned cultural and media scientist Dieter Gorny, who is also Artistic Director for the "City of Creativity" theme area at the European Capital of Culture RUHR.
2010, to discuss the topic "More than just economic success: The games industry's social responsibility". The opening will take place on Wednesday, 27 May 2009 at 7.30 pm in the Jahrhunderthalle, Victoriastraße 10, 44787 Bochum.
Despite being recognised as an important cultural asset, computer games continue to face criticism from society, education and politics. At the Living Games Festival, this important debate will be given a broad platform. The various, sometimes controversial opinions are to be heard, backgrounds illuminated and debated on an objective basis.
In addition to the various discussions, the festival will provide anyone interested with
Information and background information on the subject of games and culture. The
Festival also sees itself in the role of educator and mediator of the cultural asset "computer games".
Dan Pearlman Media Clips Receive Awards
BMW Welt’s training DVD and Lufthansa’s corporate-design clips each won Silver at the WorldMediaFestival.
Living Games Festival 2009 Invites Young Developers to Independent Games Show
Students, school pupils and emerging developers could present their game projects at the Living Games Festival.
Living Games Festival 2009 Programme Announced
The festival programme covered youth protection, the world of games, and games and family from May 28 to 30.
Living Games Festival 2009 in Bochum
The world’s first festival devoted exclusively to the culture of computer and video games took place in Bochum from May 27 to 30, 2009.
16. International Festival of Animated Film
From 5 to 10 May 2009, the people of Stuttgart and guests from all over the world will be celebrating animated film in Stuttgart's city centre cinemas and at the open-air festival on Schlossplatz.
The Moffels Beat Kung Fu Panda
Digitrick’s The Moffels won Best Foreign Animated Series at the 2009 International Cartoon & Animation Festival in Hangzhou.
10th Landshut Short Film Festival Sets Attendance Record
The 10th Landshut Short Film Festival closes with a record 4,000 visitors, more than 170 films, and over 100 filmmakers.
ITFS: Last Call for Entries
German and Eastern European animation producers and directors aged 35 or under can apply for the Robert Bosch Stiftung film prize until March 23.
Comic Style and Psychedelic Art at ITFS ’09
Kota Ezawa, Keiichi Tanaami and regional multimedia artists will present animation-influenced work during ITFS 2009 in Stuttgart.
Stuttgart Festival Features Seven Oscar Nominees
Bolt’s co-director, art director and look-and-lighting director will attend, while WALL-E, Kung Fu Panda and other nominees screen.
ITFS Retrospective: 100 Years of Animated Film
To mark the centenary of German animated film, the 16th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (5–10 May 2009) is presenting an extensive anniversary retrospective. Six program blocks trace the eventful history of this innovative genre, featuring artistically ambitious works, outstanding commercials and cutting-edge 3D animation.
Documentary The Cove Honored at the 2009 Sundance Festival
The documentary The Cove thrilled audiences at the renowned American Sundance Festival and received the Sundance Audience Award. The film documents the work of the Save Japan Dolphins Coalition, which includes the Swiss organization OceanCare.
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival Introduces NRW Competition
State-specific expansion for filmmakers from North Rhine-Westphalia, with €1,500 in prize money and a submission deadline of 16 February 2009.
Berlin Pictoplasma Festival Calls for Entries
Artists can submit high-quality character-design work for festival screenings.
Sundance Film Festival
The festival takes place annually in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the world's most important platform for independent American and international productions. Many independent filmmakers owe their breakthrough to the festival, including Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, James Wan, Marc Forster and Jim Jarmusch. The festival also brought a number of films into the public eye, such as Saw, The Blair Witch Project, El Mariachi, Clerks, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Napoleon Dynamite, American Splendor, Super Size Me, Donnie Darko and, most recently, Little Miss Sunshine.
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film Announces First Preselection Results
Before Christmas, three preselection juries met for the competitions at the 16th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film 2009. Professionals for the International Competition, Young Animation and Tricks for Kids sections report stimulating submissions with original cinematic language and socially relevant themes.
12th eDIT Filmmaker’s Festival Announces 2009 Dates
The 12th eDIT Filmmaker’s Festival will take place in Frankfurt from 4 to 6 October 2009, offering comprehensive information about film production under festival director Sebastian Popp and programmers Tom Atkin and Rolf Krämer.
ITFS Stuttgart: Submission Deadline 1 December
Entries for the 16th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film can be submitted until 1 December.
24th International Short Film Festival Berlin Screens 500 Selected Productions
Eight competition sections, an extensive supporting programme featuring events and parties, and the affiliated KUKI International Short Film Festival for Children and Youth.
11th eDIT Filmmaker’s Festival — Greetings from Hollywood
Minister Silke Lautenschläger presented Academy Award-winning editor Anne V. Coates with the festival’s honorary award. Giuseppe Rotunno received the IMAGO Tribute, while Clint Eastwood, Wolfgang Petersen and Steven Soderbergh sent video messages.
Photokina 2008: Award for MACKEVISION
MACKEVISION receives the ITVA association’s Golden Pyramid
European Cinematographers Federation Calls for Copyright Participation
"Whether copyright or working conditions, we need European standards for cinematographers," urged Nigel Walters, president of the European Federation of Cinematographers IMAGO, during a presentation of the eDIT Filmmaker’s Festival at the Representation of the State of Hesse in Brussels.
Short-Film Festival Closes with a Natural Spectacle
Shorts at Moonlight, the short-film festival held in castles and parks across the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region, ended after four weeks with record attendance at the SKODA Short Film Award ceremony in Mainz’s Electoral Palace.
Shorts at Moonlight Opens the Short-Film Summer
Shorts at Moonlight is one of Germany’s most popular short-film festivals and takes place every year in the open air at castles and parks throughout the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region.
Call for Entries for transmediale.09
transmediale, the festival for art and digital culture, and club transmediale, devoted to adventurous music and related visual arts, are inviting entries for the transmediale Award and the Vilém Flusser Theory Award.
Cologne Conference 2008 with an Increased Budget
Cologne Conference, the renowned Cologne television and film festival, can expect an increased budget for 2008. The North Rhine-Westphalia state government has announced that it will support the festival significantly more strongly than last year.
Golden WebSpatz for ZDF tivi Online Pages
At the German children’s-media festival “Golden Sparrow” in Gera and Erfurt, the ZDF tivi online pages at http://www.tivi.de received the Golden WebSpatz award.
Instant36: Making Films in 36 Hours
From the announcement of the topic to delivery of the finished film, teams have exactly 36 hours / Today is the last chance to register
Max and Moritz Award for Alan Moore
The jury will present its awards on May 23 as part of the 13th International Comic Salon in Erlangen / Hansrudi Wäscher and Hannes Hegen will also be honoured
Erlangen Hosts 13th International Comic Salon
The festival takes place from 22 to 25 May 2008, including events at the city’s congress center.
Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008
Animation trade fair and presentation of the 7th Tokyo Anime Award.
Dates Set for Cologne Conference 2008
The Cologne television and film festival will run independently for industry professionals and the public from 8 to 13 October 2008.
Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, October 27 to November 2
As a German-Czech collaboration, the “Breathless” call for projects offers filmmakers the opportunity to realise their film ideas and premiere them at the international festivals in Leipzig and Jihlava.
German Children’s Media Festival
From now on, GOLDENER SPATZ will provide an annual overview of German-language and co-produced films, television programmes and online offerings for children under its new name “German Children's Media Festival: Cinema-TV-Online”.
On commission for animated film
The 15th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film runs from May 1 to 6 with a new competition for commissioned animation. With 1700 submissions, it slightly exceeded the previous year's level.
Hobnox Evolution Festival Names Winners
Nine finalists presented their projects to more than 2,000 guests and an industry jury at Berlin’s Hobnox Evolution Festival.
Berlinale Talent Campus 6 Opens
Berlinale Talent Campus 6 opened with 350 participants from around 100 countries and awarded the 2008 Berlin Today Award to Maheen Zia.
18th Lünen Film Festival Concludes With More Visitors
The Lünen Film Festival celebrated its coming of age with an all-round successful festival. Around 7.700 visitors, more than ever before, found their way into the cinemas over the four days of the festival. Particularly popular were the films “The Three Robbers”, “Jacob's Brother” and “We Say You! Darling”, some of which sold out in several screenings, the latter alone meeting nearly 800 enthusiastic spectators at the opening gala.
The prizes of the 18th Lünen Cinema Festival
The prize winners of the 18th Lünen Cinema Festival, which took place from November 15 to 18, 2007, have been decided. The award ceremony took place on November 18, 2007, at Cineworld Lünen.
9th International Film Festival Hannover
The 9th up-and-coming International Film Festival Hannover takes place from November 22.to 25, 2007 at CinemaxX Hannover Nikolaistraße / German Young Film Award 2007
“Paths of the North” at the Munich Film Museum
As part of the "Paths of the North" festival, the Film Museum in Munich presents two rarities of Danish musical film on Thursday, November 15, 2007, at 7:00 p.m.: An animated film about the torment of being creative and the redeeming kiss of the muse, followed by a 1951 musical very popular in Denmark with a quite comparable theme.
XXS – Dortmund Short Film Festival
The Dortmund Short Film Festival is organised by students of the Advertising and Media Academy Marquardt (WAM) in cooperation with the Dortmund Agency and CineStar Dortmund. A selection of 10 short films will be screened from all submissions from German-speaking countries. An expert jury will select the three best short films and award them the "Dortmund Short Film Prize" in bronze, silver and gold, which are endowed with 500, 1,000 and 1,500 euros respectively. The Audience Award will also be presented again this year.
Prizewinners of kurzundschön selected
On October 31 at 8:00 p.m., the 13 best films of the young talent competition
kurzundschön were honored in Cologne. In addition, the juries handed out 10 honorable
mentions to young talents and their films.