Programm

Events

Festival Day 1

Expanded Media Exhibition

Opening and Artist Meet and Greet

Wednesday, 14.1., 5:30 — 7:00 pm

Kunstbezirk

FITZ! Theater animierter Formen

Wagnerstraße 26

Exhibition

Kostenlos

39. Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media

Festival Day 1

Opening

Short Films International Competition

Opening Gala & International Short Film Competition 1

Wednesday, 14.1., 7:30 — 9:30 pm

Saal 1

Festival Day 1

Performance

Your Trash for drums, electronics, and video

Performance as part of the opening event

Wednesday, 14.1., 7:30 — 9:30 pm

Saal 1

Kostenlos

Festival Day 2

Children and Youth Programme

Pure Magic!

Short film programme for grades 1 and up

Thursday, 15.1., 9:00 — 10:00 am

Saal 2

Children and Youth

Festival Day 2

Special Filmprogramme

MIX MIX

Thursday, 15.1., 3:00 — 5:00 pm

Saal 1

Festival Day 2

Talents' Encounters

Rahmenprogramm

Special Filmprogramme

Talents' Encounters: Welcome & Aperitif

Thursday, 15.1., 5:30 — 6:00 pm

Saal 1

Kostenlos

Festival Day 2

Talents' Encounters

Special Filmprogramme

Talents’ Encounters

Film Screening Featuring Works by Students from ABK, Filmakademie BW, HdM, and Merz Akademie

Thursday, 15.1., 6:00 — 8:00 pm

Saal 1

Kostenlos

Festival Day 2

Awards

Buggles Award

Cooperation Programmes

Buggles Award 2026

Music Video Award of the Federal State of Baden- Württemberg with Awards Ceremony

Thursday, 15.1., 7:30 — 10:00 pm

Kinothek Stuttgart-Obertürkheim

Festival Day 2

Short Films International Competition

International Short Film Competition 2

Thursday, 15.1., 8:30 — 10:30 pm

Saal 2

Festival Day 3

Children and Youth Programme

Lights Out, Let’s Roll!

A short film trip for children ages 4 and up

Friday, 16.1., 10:00 — 10:45 am

Saal 2

Children and Youth

Festival Day 3

Talents' Encounters

Rahmenprogramm

Workshop

Cinema for everyone! Accessible Film (Part 1)

Masterclass for students and interested parties with the KLAPPE AUF! team and Matthias Nagel

Friday, 16.1., 1:00 — 6:00 pm

Saal 3

Kostenlos

Festival Day 3

Talents' Encounters

Talk

Presentation

The first few minutes – Every film has a beginning, one way or another!

Masterclass for students and interested parties with Duc-Thi Bui

Friday, 16.1., 3:00 — 5:00 pm

Foyer FITZ! / tri-bühne

Kostenlos

Festival Day 3

Short Films International Competition

International Short Film Competition 3

Friday, 16.1., 3:00 — 5:00 pm

Saal 1

Festival Day 3

Exhibition

Workshops & Talks

... as annoying as necessary ...

Artist Meet & Greet

Friday, 16.1., 4:00 — 5:00 pm

Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart, Galerie b

Exhibition

Kostenlos

Festival Day 3

Children and Youth Programme

Sight & Sound

Musical art videos from 1920 – 2025 for students class 11 and up

Friday, 16.1., 4:00 — 5:30 pm

Saal 2

for youths

Festival Day 3

Expanded Media Exhibition

Guided Tour

Friday, 16.1., 5:00 — 7:00 pm

Kunstbezirk

FITZ! Theater animierter Formen

Wagnerstraße 26

Exhibition

Kostenlos

Festival Day 3

SCHEISSE | GOLD

Rahmenprogramm

Special Filmprogramme

Field Notes of the Planetary

Digging in the Dirt

Friday, 16.1., 5:30 — 7:00 pm

Saal 1

Festival Day 3

Rahmenprogramm

Workshop

LET'S PLAY

Get together, warm-up exercises, games, and food

Friday, 16.1., 6:00 — 8:00 pm

FITZ! Studio

Kostenlos

Festival Day 3

Exhibition

Workshops & Talks

Synchronised Collapse

Artist Talk

Friday, 16.1., 6:00 — 7:30 pm

Kunstraum 34

Exhibition

Kostenlos

Festival Day 3

Talents' Encounters

Rahmenprogramm

Networking/Speedmeeting

With experts from production, screenwriting, curation, distribution - for students, filmmakers, and professionals

Friday, 16.1., 6:00 — 7:00 pm

Foyer FITZ! / tri-bühne

Kostenlos

Festival Day 3

2 Minutes Short Film Award

2 Minutes Short Film Competition

Friday, 16.1., 8:30 — 10:30 pm

Saal 1

Festival Day 3

SCHEISSE | GOLD

Rahmenprogramm

Special Filmprogramme

Traces of Transformation

Short Film Programme

Friday, 16.1., 8:30 — 10:30 pm

Saal 2

Festival Day 3

Rahmenprogramm

Workshops & Talks

Artist Talk with Chi Him Chik

Friday, 16.1., 9:00 — 10:00 pm

Saal 3

Kostenlos

Festival Day 3

Performance

不明體_實 - unknown(0)

Performance by Chi Him Chik

Friday, 16.1., 10:30 — 11:00 pm

Saal 3

Kostenlos

Festival Day 3

SCHEISSE | GOLD

Performance

Holy Shit Spektakel

Friday, 16.1., 11:00 pm — Saturday, 17.1., 2:00 am

Saal 2

Kostenlos

Festival Day 3

SCHEISSE | GOLD

Performance

SO & CO Arschetypen present: Midnight ExCREMEent ritual

Friday, 16.1., 11:59 pm — Saturday, 17.1., 12:30 am

Foyer FITZ! / tri-bühne

Kostenlos

Festival Day 4

Rahmenprogramm

Workshop

Cooperation Programmes

LET'S PLAY

Team 1: My Rules, My Game

Saturday, 17.1., 10:00 am — 5:00 pm

Foyer FITZ! / tri-bühne

Kostenlos

Festival Day 4

Workshop

Media Space

Let’s Pretend It’s 1996… or 2056

A workshop with Olia Lialina on reclaiming your corner of the web

Saturday, 17.1., 11:00 am — 4:00 pm

Gedok-Galerie

Kostenlos

Festival Day 4

Talents' Encounters

Rahmenprogramm

Workshop

Cinema for everyone! Accessible Film (Part 2)

Masterclass for students and interested parties with the KLAPPE AUF! team and Matthias Nagel

Saturday, 17.1., 12:00 — 5:00 pm

Foyer FITZ! / tri-bühne

Kostenlos

Festival Day 4

Workshop

Children and Youth Programme

Noise Box

Making a Noise Box out of wood for electro-acoustic amplification of quiet sounds

Saturday, 17.1., 2:00 — 4:30 pm

Saal 2

Kostenlos

for youths

Festival Day 4

Expanded Media Exhibition

Guided Tour

Saturday, 17.1., 2:00 — 4:00 pm

Kunstbezirk

FITZ! Theater animierter Formen

Wagnerstraße 26

Exhibition

Kostenlos

Festival Day 4

Exhibition

Inklusive Angebote

Children and Youth Programme

Cooperation Programmes

KLAPPOMAT in residence!

Saturday, 17.1., 2:00 — 10:00 pm

Kleines Foyer

Kostenlos

Children and Youth

Festival Day 4

Workshop

Children and Youth Programme

Open Workshop: 16mm Film

Saturday, 17.1., 2:30 — 4:30 pm

Foyer FITZ! / tri-bühne

Kostenlos

Children and Youth

Festival Day 4

Workshop

Children and Youth Programme

Overhead projector animations

Saturday, 17.1., 2:30 — 4:30 pm

Foyer FITZ! / tri-bühne

Kostenlos

Children and Youth

Festival Day 4

Short Films International Competition

International Short Film Competition 4

Saturday, 17.1., 3:30 — 5:00 pm

Saal 1

Festival Day 4

Media Space

Exhibition

Workshops & Talks

Naked Web

Artist Talk

Saturday, 17.1., 4:30 — 5:30 pm

Gedok-Galerie

Exhibition

Kostenlos

Festival Day 4

Exhibition

Cooperation Programmes

Iya Tundé, la Mère est revenue

Screening

Saturday, 17.1., 5:00 — 6:00 pm

ifa-Galerie

Exhibition

Kostenlos

Festival Day 4

Rahmenprogramm

Workshop

Children and Youth Programme

Noise & Film – fully expanded

Saturday, 17.1., 5:00 — 5:45 pm

Saal 2

Kostenlos

Children and Youth

Festival Day 4

Short Films International Competition

International Short Film Competition 5

Saturday, 17.1., 5:30 — 7:30 pm

Saal 1

Festival Day 4

Rahmenprogramm

Workshop

Children and Youth Programme

LET'S PLAY

Game Change!

Saturday, 17.1., 5:45 — 6:00 pm

Saal 2

Kostenlos

Children and Youth

Festival Day 4

Rahmenprogramm

Performance

DIsINCARNATE

Saturday, 17.1., 7:30 — 8:00 pm

Saal 3

Kostenlos

Festival Day 4

Rahmenprogramm

Performance

Mould

Saturday, 17.1., 8:30 — 9:00 pm

Saal 3

Kostenlos

Festival Day 4

Short Films International Competition

International Short Film Competition 6

Saturday, 17.1., 9:30 — 11:00 pm

Saal 1

Festival Day 4

Rahmenprogramm

Performance

Sternenshow – Wild Sounds out of Stuttgarts Narrowness

Saturday, 17.1., 11:00 pm — Sunday, 18.1., 2:00 am

Saal 2

Kostenlos

Festival Day 5

Rahmenprogramm

Cooperation Programmes

Breakfast, Analogue!

Sunday, 18.1., 11:00 am — 12:00 pm

Foyer FITZ! / tri-bühne

Kostenlos

Festival Day 5

Rahmenprogramm

Workshop

Children and Youth Programme

LET'S PLAY

Team 2: Interactive Art Lab

Sunday, 18.1., 11:00 am — 4:00 pm

FITZ! Studio

Kostenlos

Children and Youth

Festival Day 5

Talents' Encounters

Inklusive Angebote

Special Filmprogramme

Butterfahrt - Inclusive Short Film Pearls

Case Studies: Accessible Films

Sunday, 18.1., 11:00 am — 12:00 pm

Saal 1

Kostenlos

Festival Day 5

Workshop

Children and Youth Programme

Open Workshop: 16mm Film

Sunday, 18.1., 12:00 — 2:00 pm

Foyer FITZ! / tri-bühne

Kostenlos

Children and Youth

Festival Day 5

Special Filmprogramme

Godparents Film Programme

Sunday, 18.1., 12:00 — 2:00 pm

Saal 2

Festival Day 5

Workshop

Children and Youth Programme

Overhead projector animations

Sunday, 18.1., 12:00 — 2:00 pm

Foyer FITZ! / tri-bühne

Kostenlos

Children and Youth

Festival Day 5

Exhibition

Inklusive Angebote

Children and Youth Programme

Cooperation Programmes

KLAPPOMAT in residence!

Sunday, 18.1., 12:00 — 5:00 pm

Kleines Foyer

Kostenlos

Children and Youth

Festival Day 5

Short Films International Competition

International Short Film Competition 7

Sunday, 18.1., 1:00 — 3:00 pm

Saal 1

Festival Day 5

Children and Youth Programme

Harvest 2026

Sunday, 18.1., 2:30 — 3:30 pm

Saal 2

Children and Youth

Festival Day 5

Rahmenprogramm

Special Filmprogramme

Ode to June

Filmwinter becomes Summer! With Summer bowle and Dagie Brundert

Sunday, 18.1., 3:30 — 5:00 pm

Saal 2

Festival Day 5

Expanded Media Exhibition

Children and Youth Programme

Guided Tour for Families - Expanded Media Exhibition

Art Education for All, Ages 6 and Up

Sunday, 18.1., 4:00 — 5:00 pm

Kunstbezirk

Wagnerstraße 26

FITZ! Theater animierter Formen

Exhibition

Kostenlos

Children and Youth

Festival Day 5

Rahmenprogramm

Workshop

Children and Youth Programme

LET'S PLAY

Game Fun open to everyone!

Sunday, 18.1., 4:30 — 5:30 pm

Foyer FITZ! / tri-bühne

Kostenlos

Children and Youth

Festival Day 5

Awards

Short Films International Competition

Award Ceremony with screening of award winning works

Sunday, 18.1., 5:30 — 7:30 pm

Saal 1

Festival Day 5

Rahmenprogramm

Performance

Moneygirl

Sunday, 18.1., 7:30 — 10:00 pm

Kostenlos

Festival Day 5

Awards

Short Films International Competition

Award Winners Reel: Award-winning short films

Sunday, 18.1., 8:15 — 10:00 pm

Saal 1

Filmwinter Extended

Exhibition

Retour de Paris Nr. 103 – Ülkü Süngün, ADA. Méditations insulaires

Exhibition Opening

Friday, 30.1., 7:30 — 9:00 pm

Institut francais

Exhibition

Kostenlos

Programm

Events

Opening and Artist Meet and Greet

Performance as part of the opening event

Short film programme for grades 1 and up

Film Screening Featuring Works by Students from ABK, Filmakademie BW, HdM, and Merz Akademie

Music Video Award of the Federal State of Baden- Württemberg with Awards Ceremony

A short film trip for children ages 4 and up

Masterclass for students and interested parties with the KLAPPE AUF! team and Matthias Nagel

Masterclass for students and interested parties with Duc-Thi Bui

Artist Meet & Greet

Musical art videos from 1920 – 2025 for students class 11 and up

Guided Tour

Digging in the Dirt

Get together, warm-up exercises, games, and food

Artist Talk

With experts from production, screenwriting, curation, distribution - for students, filmmakers, and professionals

Short Film Programme

Performance by Chi Him Chik

Team 1: My Rules, My Game

A workshop with Olia Lialina on reclaiming your corner of the web

Masterclass for students and interested parties with the KLAPPE AUF! team and Matthias Nagel

Making a Noise Box out of wood for electro-acoustic amplification of quiet sounds

Guided Tour

Artist Talk

Screening

Game Change!

Team 2: Interactive Art Lab

Case Studies: Accessible Films

Filmwinter becomes Summer! With Summer bowle and Dagie Brundert

Art Education for All, Ages 6 and Up

Game Fun open to everyone!

Exhibition Opening

Masterclass for students and interested parties with Duc-Thi Bui