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Stuttgart Festival Winners 2026

Feature film winners from the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film 2026 — AniMovie Award and jury special mentions.

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AniMovie Competition

ITFS’s feature competition — Best Animated Feature Film and jury special mentions.

AniMovie Award — Best Animated Feature Film

A Story About Fire
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2D animation

Li Wenyu · 2025 · China · 75 min

  • StuttgartStuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS)A major animation festival held each May in Stuttgart, Germany.

The legend of Ran Bi Wa talks about a monkey who was raised by humans. When he sets off to the Holy Mountain to steal fire for humankind, a journey begins from which he will return transformed into a man.

Symbolic Chinese animation mixing poetic drawing and documentary-like realism — a myth of fire, survival, and growing into humanity.

Special Mention

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
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2D computer animation

Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han · 2025 · France · 77 min

in Beautiful animated films

  • AnnecyAnnecy International Animation Film FestivalThe world's largest dedicated animation festival, held each June in Annecy, France.
  • StuttgartStuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS)A major animation festival held each May in Stuttgart, Germany.

A small child in Japan awakens to language, family, nature, desire and the overwhelming intensity of discovering the world.

Radiant and sensorial, moving with the astonishment of early childhood through water, gardens, colour and sudden shadows of loss.

Special Mention

Allah Is Not Obliged
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2D computer animation3D computer animation

Zaven Najjar · 2025 · Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg · 77 min

  • AnnecyAnnecy International Animation Film FestivalThe world's largest dedicated animation festival, held each June in Annecy, France.
  • StuttgartStuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS)A major animation festival held each May in Stuttgart, Germany.

A ten-year-old orphan trying to reach his aunt is drawn into war and forced to move between armed factions as a child soldier.

Harsh, vivid and bitterly ironic, confronting violence through a child's direct voice and a graphic world that never softens its moral confusion.

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