Festival's Type:
Original Children’s / Young People’s Film Festivals
Film Festivals with section for Children’s / Young People’s Films
Awards allocatedCountry:
Film Festivals with section for Children’s / Young People’s Films
- Anibar Animation Festival, Peja
- Anima – Brussels International Animation Film Festival, Brussels
- Animafest - World Festival of Animated Film, Zagreb
- Biennale of Animation Bratislava (BAB), Bratislava
- Buster - Copenhagen International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Copenhagen
- Cannes Cinema: Ecrans Juniors, Cannes
- Cartoon Club – International Festival of Animation Cinema and Comics, Rimini
- Chania Film Festival Edu, Chania, Crete
- Children and Youth Film Festival Just Film, Tallinn
- Cinanima – International Animated Film Festival of Espinho, Espinho
- Cinemagic - International Film & Television Festival for Children and Young People, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Corti a Ponte International Short Film festival – BY 3.20 section, Ponte San Nicolò (Padova)
- Docpoint / Dokkino, 21 cities all over Finland
- DOK Leipzig – International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Leipzig
- Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh
- Espoo Ciné Junior Film Festival, Espoo
- Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, Baden
- Fest – New Directors | New Films Festival, Espinho
- Festival Augenblick, Strasbourg
- Festival de Cinéma d'Alès Itinerances, Alès
- Festival Internacional du Premier Film, Annonay
- Festival international de Cinéma du grain à démoudre, Gonfreville l'Orcher (Normandie)
- Festival International du Film de Cannes, Cannes
- Festival International du Film de La Rochelle, La Rochelle
- Filmfest Dresden - International Festival for Animation and Short Films, Dresden
- Filmfest Hamburg, Children's and Youth Film Festival "Michel", Hamburg
- Filmfest München - CineKindl, Munich
- FilmFestival Cottbus (Festival des Osteuropäischen Films), Cottbus
- Filmkorte, Flensburg
- FIPADOC International Documentary Festival, Biarritz
- Free Zone Film Festival, Beograd, Nis, Novii Sad, Kragujevac
- Gijón Int. Film Festival, Gijón, Asturias
- IndieJunior, Lisboa
- Int. Short Film Festival Hamburg; Children's Film Festival "Mo & Friese", Hamburg
- Interfilm Short Film Festival: KuKi & Teen Screen - Short Films for Children and Young People, Berlin
- International Documentary Film Festival Munich, DOK.education, München
- International Festival of Animated Films (ITFS), Section "Tricks for Kids" , Stuttgart
- International Filmfestival Berlin, Generation, Berlin
- International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Mannheim & Heidelberg
- International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen
- Internationales Filmfest Emden Aurich Norderney, Emden Aurich Norderney
- Internationales Filmwochenende Würzburg, Würzburg
- Internationales Frauen* Film Fest Dortmund+Köln, Cologne & Dortmund & online
- Kinofest Lünen, Lünen
- Locarno Film Festival: Locarno Kids, Locarno
- London International Film Festival, London
- Luxembourg City Film Festival, Luxembourg
- Milano Film Fest, Milano
- Molodist Film Festival, Kyiv
- New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw
- Nordic Filmdays Luebeck/ Section Films for Children & Young People, Luebeck
- Odense International Film Festival, Odense
- Pula Film Festival, Children's and Youth Film Programms, Pula
- Reykjavik International Film Festival, Reykjavik
- Riga International Film Festival, Riga
- Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajewo
- Sevilla International Film Festival, Sevilla
- The Norwegian International Filmfestival / "Cinemagi", Haugesund
- Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival, Thessaloniki
- Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki
- Transilvania International Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu, Mures
- Unabhängiges FilmFest / Independent FilmFest, Osnabrück
- Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Uppsala
- Your Cinema - International Competition Program for children and youth audience, as part of International Festival of Cinematographic Debuts "Spirit Of Fire", Khanty-Mansiysk and other cities in the district of UGRA (Siberia)
- Zagreb Film Festival, Zagreb
- Zurich Film Festival, Zürich, Switzerland
International Festival of Animated Films (ITFS), Section "Tricks for Kids"
Stuttgart, Germany
05/05/2026 - 10/05/2026 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Rhythm: annual, next Festival afterwards (probably): April/May 2027
Competitive Children's Film Section
Director/s: Richter, Annegret / Mozer, Heike
Prizes: Several awards, one especially for children's films (2004: 4.000 Euros)
Deadline for film entries: 15/11/2025 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Programs: Animations
Festival's guests: Directors, Producers, Distributors, Others
Festival's recognition: international
Media coverage: international
Special Events: In 2018: 25th anniversary of the festival!
Notes/description: Special section with animation films for children.
Contact:
Film- & Medienfestival GmbH
Stephanstr. 33
D-70173 Stuttgart
Germany
Phone: ++49-711-925460
Internet: www.itfs.de