The Stuttgart Worldwide Competition of Animated Movie (ITFS), which returns to Stuttgart April 25-30, has revealed its alternatives for this yr’s AniMovie, the worldwide feature-length movie competitors the place movies vie for an opportunity to win the coveted Trickster Award.
The AniMovie competitors consists of movies for youngsters and adults. As well as, ITFS reveals feature-length films within the supporting program (AniMovie Particular), which this yr consists of a number of German debuts and a world premiere.
Many administrators have introduced their intent to attend the premieres and screenings. Right here’s a movie breakdown:
AniMovie – Worldwide Function-Size Movie Competitors
Friday, April 28, 6:30 pm, Gloria 1
German premiere:
Charlotte – directed by Eric Warin and Tahir Rana (Canada 2022)
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a younger German-Jewish artist who comes of age on the eve of the Second World Warfare and defies unimaginable odds to create a timeless masterpiece.
The unique English model voice solid consists of Keira Knightley, Brenda Blethyn, and Jim Broadbent. As well as, Salomon’s autobiographical life work, a set of drawings, texts, and scenic notes, is at the moment on show on the Lenbachhaus Munich.
Tahir Rana will probably be current in Stuttgart.
Wednesday, April 26, 6:30 pm, Gloria 1
German premiere:
Titina – directed by Kajsa Naess (Norway 2022)
Based mostly on the true adventures of the canine Titina, who gained the hearts of Europeans within the Nineteen Twenties.
Italian airship engineer Umberto Nobile enjoys a quiet life together with his beloved canine Titina, who charmed him into rescuing her from the streets of Rome. Sooner or later, Norwegian explorer famous person Roald Amundsen contacts him and orders an airship to beat the North Pole. Nobile seizes the chance to go down in historical past. He brings Titina alongside, and the unlikely trio units out on an expedition to the final undiscovered place on Earth. Their quest is profitable, however the two males quarrel over the glory within the aftermath.
Kajsa Naess will probably be current for the German premiere in Stuttgart. Naess introduced the movie within the Work in Progress collection at ITFS 2022.
April 27, 6:30 pm, Gloria 1
Nayola – directed by José Miguel Ribeiro (Portugal, Belgium, France, Netherlands 2022)
Angola. Three generations of girls in a 25-year-long civil conflict: Lelena (the grandmother), Nayola (the daughter), and Yara (the granddaughter). Previous and current interlace. Nayola searches for her lacking husband on the peak of the conflict. A long time later, the nation is lastly at peace, however Nayola has not returned. Yara has grow to be a rebellious teenager and a subversive rap singer. Lelena tries to include her for worry of the police coming to arrest her. Then, one night time, a masked intruder breaks into their home—an encounter like nothing they may have imagined.
With Nayola, Ribeiro realized the primary Portuguese animated function movie, which gained the prize for greatest animated function movie on the Guadalajara Worldwide Movie Competition and the viewers award on the São Paulo Worldwide Movie Competition 2022.
AniMovie Youngsters – Function-length Movies in Competitors for Youngsters
Thursday, April 27, 4:00 pm, Gloria 1
German premiere:
Three Robbers and a Lion (People og røvere i Kardemomme) – directed by Rasmus A. Sivertsen (Norway 2021)
Really helpful for ages six and older, dwell German narration.
The movie relies on a widely known Norwegian youngsters’s guide and incorporates a fusion of miniature buildings with CGI-animated characters.
Chaos guidelines the on a regular basis lifetime of the three troublemakers Casper, Jasper, and Jonathan – at residence too. The trio lives with a lion, and so they’re in determined want of a housekeeper – in order that they devise a plan to kidnap Aunt Sophie, who is legendary as a home goddess. Nevertheless, her administration expertise are even higher than her housekeeping: She bosses the robbers round and has them do the work. Little by little, the three understand they’re in a lure. The one resolution is to do away with Sophie by returning her to city.
Rasmus A. Sivertsen will probably be current for the German premiere in Stuttgart.
Friday, April 28, 2:00 pm, Gloria 1
Dounia & the Princess of Aleppo (Dounia & la Princesse d’Alep) – directed by Marya Zarif und André Kadi (Canada, France 2022)
Really helpful for ages eight and older, dwell German narration.
In her debut movie, director Marya Zarif tells her story of escape from Aleppo. With just a few nigella seeds tucked in her hand, 6-year-old Dounia leaves Aleppo with the Princess of Aleppo’s assist and travels in direction of a brand new world.
Saturday, April 29, 2:00 pm, Gloria 1
Yuku and the Himalayan Flower (Yuku et la fleur de l’Himalaya) – directed by Arnaud Demuynck, Rémi Durin (Belgium, France 2022)
Really helpful for ages 4 and older, German model
On high of the very best mountains on earth grows a plant that feeds on probably the most good daylight – the Himalayan flower. Yuku, a younger mouse, leaves her household to seek for this flower of everlasting gentle and provides it to her grandmother, who will quickly must observe the little blind mole by means of the twists and turns of the earth. However to succeed, there’s a lengthy journey forward, stuffed with obstacles.
Arnaud Demuynck will probably be current.
AniMovie Particular – Function-length Movies within the Supporting Program
Thursday, April 27, 8:30 pm, Gloria 2
ITFMX Screening:
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – directed by Guillermo del Toro (USA 2022)
In a joint screening, ITFS and FMX – Movie and Media Alternate will present a darker model of the story in regards to the well-known wood boy by Hollywood filmmaker del Toro. Current on the screening will probably be Georgina Haynes, Head of Character Creation on Pinocchio. The movie gained the 2023 Oscar for “Greatest Animated Function.”
Saturday, April 29, 6:30 pm, Gloria 1
World Premiere:
Hölderlins Echo – directed by Hannes Rall, Susanne Marschall (Germany 2023)
One well-known poet and lots of of well-known composers: the work of Friedrich Hölderlin was set to music about 1800 occasions within the twentieth century. Within the historical past of contemporary music, Hölderlin’s poetry has been reworked into avant-garde Liedkunst, which is interpreted globally, particularly in Asia. “Hölderlins Echo” resonates with many voices within the movie’s elaborately designed animations created by a global staff. 4 poetic animated scenes present episodes from Hölderlin’s life and consistently reinterpret the determine of the stressed, loving, ever-breaking, multi-faceted poet by means of the person types of the animation artists.
Hannes Rall and Susanne Marschall will probably be current on the world premiere.
Thursday, April 27, 6:30 pm, Delphi
Teheran Tabu – directed by Ali Soozandeh (Germany, Austria 2017)
Pari, Babak, Sara, and Donya dwell within the Iranian capital Tehran. To earn a residing for herself and her five-year-old son, Pari works as a prostitute and sells her physique to an influential decide, who supposedly helps her lead a greater life. Her neighbor Sara, who ekes out an obedient existence as a housewife beneath her husband and his religious mother and father, additionally desires of a greater life however would a lot fairly return to work. Younger Donya faces an analogous destiny. In just a few days, she’s going to get married. Nonetheless, she agrees to spend the night time with the younger musician Babak and afterward calls for that he pays for an operation to revive her virginity.
Wednesday, April 26, 8:15 pm
The ITFS will even present a movie in regards to the Islamic Revolution in Iran on the free open-air cinema on Schlossplatz:
Persepolis – directed by Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi (France 2007)
Thursday, April 27, 8:00 pm, Cinema
My Love Affair with Marriage – directed by Signe Baumane (Latvia, Luxembourg, USA 2022)
From an early age, songs and fairytales satisfied Zelma that Love would clear up all her issues if she abided by societal expectations of how a woman ought to act. However as she grew older, one thing didn’t appear proper with the idea of affection: the extra she tried to adapt, the extra her physique resisted—a narrative about accepting the internal feminine riot.
Signe Baumane will probably be current for the screening.
The Open-Air program will even function her feature-length movie Rocks in My Pockets
Supply: The Stuttgart Worldwide Competition of Animated Movie
Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.
