Fantoche International Animation Film Festival 2026

Category

ANIMATION & FILM FESTIVALS

Dates

01/09/2026 - 06/09/2026

City

Baden, Switzerland

Telephone

+41 56 290 14 44

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Website

http://fantoche.ch

Edition

Final submission deadline

2026-05-03

Submission/Registration Fee

Event Description

Fantoche is Switzerland’s most prestigious animated film festival and is one of the leading events for the medium in the world. It takes place every year in September over the course of six days in the Swiss town of Baden. The festival, which benefits from broad media coverage, attracts both industry professionals and the general public – over 25,500 ticket sales were recorded in 2015.

Fantoche is an officially accredited festival for both the Academy Awards® and BAFTA, qualifying selected films for consideration.

2026 Call for Entries

The competitions are open to any audiovisual animation, created frame by frame, with a maximum running time of 40 and completed after the 31st of December 2024.

Categories:

International Competition:
The main criterion for film selection is innovation. Fantoche’s “International Competition” principally offers a forum for animated films which veer away from conventions of the genre in terms of aesthetics, content or technique, which scrutinize them skillfully or which are audacious enough to turn them on their head.
Swiss Competition:
The selection criteria for the “Swiss Competition” correspond to those of the “International Competition”: We want to see new trends, fresh talents and interesting experiments, alongside established auteur films and animation.
Kids Film Competition:
Every year, Fantoche screens current animated film productions for kids and young people in two programmes of short films for the age groups 4 to 7 and 8 to 12. Since 2009 the films have been judged by a children’s jury and by the younger members of the public.

Awards & Prizes: