StopTrik International Film Festival 2026
Category
ANIMATION & FILM FESTIVALS
Date
10/07/2026 23:59
City
Maribor, Slovenia
Email
Website
Edition
16
Final submission deadline
2026-07-10
Submission/Registration Fee
No
Festival Description:
StopTrik IFF is a festival and community that celebrates the amazing film art of stop-motion animation. We appreciate the works made in traditional techniques of three-dimensional hand-made animation but we are also excited to discover experimental, mixed and hybrid forms. Whether you are a professional, student, or an enthusiast, you are more than welcome to share your films with our Audience – the best and most valuable juror that decides about the festival's Grand Prix. We show the Competition and Panorama programmes in Slovenia and whenever possible, we support the authors' participation in the Festival. Once you're on StopTrik please get ready for marathon-watching of the most brilliant recent and historical stop motion films, several discussions about art, craft, life, politics and whatever you wish to talk about, workshops of stop motion filmmaking, morning urban walks, afternoon vegan lunches, late-night dances, and 24/7 stop motion passion!
2026 Call for Entries
The Festival is looking for stop motion and experimental animated shorts which are fresh in style, innovative in storytelling, outstanding in visual form, playful or dramatic, politically engaged, philosophically contemplative, purely abstract, or simply hilarious. The festival is eager to consider professional productions, student films, music videos and commissioned films as well as the works of enthusiasts without any prior professional training in animation.
Eligibility:
- Max. lenght 30 min
- Made after January 1, 2024.
- Films that only partially use stop motion but mix it with other animation techniques and / or combine with live-action are also eligible for submission.
Categories:
Competitive programmes:
- Stop Motion;
- Borderlands - for experimental works;
- Stop Motion for Children
Non-competitive section:
- Panorama.
All competitive programmes are concluded with audience voting.
- Festival Regulations
- Entry Form
- Deadline: 10 July 2026
2025 Festival Coverage
- StopTrik 2025 Festival Report & Winners
- StopTrik Festival Celebrates Satire and Carnival
- 2025 Animation Selections
2024 Festival Coverage
- Palestinian Animation at StopTrik: An Interview with Ahmad Saleh
- StopTrik 2024 Festival Report
- StopTrik 2024 Festival Awards
- Selection Results and Festival Trailer
2023 Festival Coverage
- StopTrik Report 2023
- 'You're Overreacting: Animation and Censorhsip
- 71 Stop-Motion Shorts for StopTrik Festival 2023
2022 Coverage
2021 Festival Coverage
- Bestia Crowns StopTrik Festival 2021 Winners
- StopTrik Opens Its Doors to Myths
- StopTrik 2021 Produces AniMyths Workshop
- StopTrik 2021: Selection Results
2020 Festival Coverage
- Winners and Laureates of the 10th StopTrik Festival
- 10 Years of StopTrik Festival: The Participants Talk
2019 Festival Coverage:
- Enough, Don't Know What Win 2019 StopTrik Awards
- 58 Stop-Motion and Experimental Shorts for StopTrik Festival
- Full 2019 Schedule
2018 Festival Coverage
- StopTrik Festival Report: Don't Stop The Motion
- 8th Stop Trik Celebrates Cinephilia
- Osbet Parker Workshop: Adventures in Pixillation
- Animation Journalism Workshop with Vassilis Kroustallis at StopTrik 2018
- 51 Films Selected For StopTrik 2018
2017 Festival Coverage
- 2017 Winners
- 7 Animation Guests Interviewed at StopTrik 2017
- Latin American Culture at the 7th StopTrik
2016 Festival Coverage
2015 Festival Coverage
2014 Festival Coverage
2013 Festival Coverage
Event Dates
- From 23/09/2026 00:00 to 27/09/2026 23:59
