StopTrik International Film Festival 2026

Festival Description:

StopTrik International Film Festival is a festival and community that celebrates the amazing film art of stop-motion animation. The festival appreciates the works made in traditional techniques of three-dimensional handmade animation, but also cares 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 jury that decides on the festival's Grand Prix. The festival shows the Competition and Panorama programs in Slovenia and, whenever possible, we support the authors' participation in the Festival. The festival also caters to 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, and late-night events.

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StopTrik Call for Entries

2027 StopTrik Festival call for entries - Currently not open. Submission details will be reported here when announced by the festival.

(2026 Archive)

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. length 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 17 July 2026

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