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The Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film is a film festival in Stuttgart, Germany. It is the largest festival for animated film and one of the biggest around the world. The Festival presents a full, up-to-date spectrum of animated filmmaking and its intersections with visual effects, architecture, art, design, music and games. The ITFS offers a platform to directors, production companies and distributors where they can showcase their films and transmedia projects to an interested, broad audience and numerous industry representatives.

Since 2006, Stuttgart's "Gloria" and "Metropol" city cinemas have been used as showcases. Ludwigsburg has also been used as another festival venue since 2006. Since 2011, animated short and feature films are shown on the Schlossplatz on a large LED wall from noon onwards. Since 2012, around 80,000 viewers have been coming to Stuttgart every year to see around 1,000 films at the Open Air and in Stuttgart's city cinemas. The GameZone has the interfaces between animation and computer games on the theme. 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 trade event for animation, effects, games and transmedia.

International Competition
The International Competition is the Festival’s centrepiece, featuring animated shorts of high artistic quality produced in the previous year. An international jury composed of outstanding personalities from the animation scene awards the following prizes:


 * Grand Prix
 * Lotte Reiniger Promotion Award for Animated Film
 * SWR Audience Award

Young Animation
The Young Animation competition screens the best films by students of international film and art schools.


 * Young Animation Award
 * The FANtastic Award: The prize is donated by the  Animation Family, the most faithful fans of ITFS.

Tricks for Kids
The children’s film festival Tricks for Kids presents entertaining and excellent animated films and series for children.


 * Award for the best children’s animated film

AniMovie
The AniMovie competition screens a selection of internationally outstanding, animated feature films. The Animovie Award is the prize for the best animated feature film.

Trickstar Business Award
The prize recognises innovative business models in the animation industry.

Germanys Next Animation Talent
Pitching competitionfor a German children’s series project with international potential.

Animated Games Award Germany
Award for an animation-based computer game from Germany with the best visual design and aesthetics.

German Animation Screenplay Award
This award aims to promote excellent German screenplays for feature-length animated films.

German Voice Actor Award
The award for the best German-language voice artist in a feature-length animated film.

Winner
Grand Prix


 * 2007 La memoria dei cani from Simone Massi, Italy
 * 2008 Franz Kafka Inaka Isha from Kōji Yamamura, Japan
 * 2009 Muto from Blu, Italy


 * 2010 A family portrait from Joseph Pierce, United Kingdom
 * 2011 The External Worl from David O’Reilly, Germany
 * 2012 Posledny Autobus (The last bus) from Martin Snopek und Ivana Lauĉiková, Slovakia
 * 2013 Oh Willy … from Emma de Swaef and Marc James Roels, Belgium, France, Netherlands
 * Jury 2013: Daniel Kothenschulte, Mihai Mitrică, Marie Paccou, Barry Purves, Jakob Schuh
 * 2014: Through the Hawthorn… from Anna Benner, Pia Borg, Gemma Burditt, United Kingdom
 * Jury 2014: Fadi Abdelnour, Mariola Brillowska, Paul Bush, Rao Heidmets, Tsvika Oren
 * 2015: Le sens du toucher from Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo, France
 * Jury 2015: Anna Solanas, Bobby de Groot, Gilles Ciment, Yasmeen Fanari, Mari-Liis Rebane
 * 2016: Kaputt from Alexander Lahl and Volker Schlecht, Germany
 * Jury 2016: Cav Bøgelund, Spela Cadez, Rocío Ayuso, Jalal Maghout and Till Penzek
 * 2017: Figury niemozliwe i inne historie II (Impossible Figures and Other Stories II) from Marta Pajek, Poland
 * Jury 2017: Ann Marie Fleming, Katrin Magnitz, Joanna Priestley, Daniel Šuljić, Theodore Ushev


 * 2018: Cat Days from Jon Frickey, Germany/Japan
 * Jury 2018: Alexandre Espigares, Ivan Maximov, Monica Menez, Olga Pärn, Chad VanGaalen
 * 2019: Bloeistraat 11 from Nienke Deutz, Belgium/Netherlands
 * Jury 2019: Ulu Braun, Erik van Drunen, KongKee, Christina Lima, Maya Yonesho