Festival of Animation Berlin 2025

Festival Description:

The Festival of Animation Berlin (FAB) is the first film festival dedicated to animation films in Germany's capital city of Berlin. The festival's focus is on artistic animation of all kinds – from traditional Cartoon, Stop Motion, CGI, Cross-Media-Experiments to 360° film. 

2025 Call for Entries

(entries open on 15 March 2025; the festival is on sabbatical during 2024)

Any animated film including combinations of live action and animation completed after May 1st 2023 may participate. Only completed films qualify for the selection. For participation in the short film competition categories, productions up to a running length of 15 minutes are admitted.

The following competition categories are open for submission:

• International Animation Film: Animated shorts by international artists
• German Animation Film: Animated shorts made by animators based in Germany
• New Talents: Animated shorts made by students
• Commissioned Animation: Animated shorts with commercial background
• Pink Panda: Animated shorts suitable for children and teens. TV series for children can be submitted to the children’s film competition. Please do not submit more than two episodes per series.
• Animated feature film: Animated films over 45 min made by international animation artists.

Any borderline questions or the assignment to other categories that may arise shall be decided by festival management. 

• Festival Regulations and Entry form via FilmFreeway
• Deadline: 15 April 2025 (early), 15 May 2025 (regular)

2020 Coverage

• Awards

2019 Coverage

• Winners 2019