22 May 2018Fantoche Swiss Industry Night is now open for all animated commissioned films produced after March 31, 2017.
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21 May 2018Send us your best GIF until June 24, 2018! Fantoche takes the small animations to the big screen!
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25 January 2018Swiss voters decided against No Billag.
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21 September 2017The winning films from the Fantoche-Festival 2017 are touring Switzerland and Europe.
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10 September 2017"The Burden" by Niki Lindroth von Bahr wins "Best Film" and "Airport" by Michaela Müller wins "Best Swiss" – congrats to
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9 September 2017We are eager to hear your opinion – share it with us!
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6 September 2017No more tickets for pre-sale? Find all information on last tickets and sold out programmes.
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14 August 2017Sign up now for the Recruiting-Table!
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3 August 2017The complete festival programme and the new festival trailer made by Delia Hess are online!
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12 July 2017Would you like to volunteer for Fantoche 2017? Support the festival personally and sign up now.
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4 July 2017The selection team has chosen: 81 animated short films will compete for the favor of the jury and the audience from 5 September 2017 onwards.
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17 May 2017Last call: extended deadline until 27 June. Fantoche takes the small animations to the big screen!
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1 April 2017Fantoche visits the Comix-Festival Fumetto in Lucerne and presents a varicoloured film programme of animated worlds from 6 to 9 April 2017.
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16 March 2017Fantoche calls up innovative, courageous, and creative filmmakers to submit their new films by 25 May 2017.
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8 March 2017Young and many ideas? Fantoche is looking for teens' favourite web animations.
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24 February 2017Enjoy three fantastic award winning short films via the internet.
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24 January 2017French-Swiss stop motion feature film «My Life as a Zucchini» by Claude Barras has won many important awards worldwide and is nominated for the Oscars – Fantoch
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28 September 2016Fantoche will be on tour with two different programmes in Switzerland and other countries.
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11 September 2016”Before Love” by Russian Igor Kovalyov as ”Best Film” in the International Competition.
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8 September 2016No more tickets for pre-sale? Find all information on last tickets and sold out programmes.
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1 September 2016Fantoche will host more than 200 filmmakers this year. They will offer exclusive insights into their work to the festival audiences.
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29 August 2016This year's festival programme contains innovative animation art from all around the world. The festival trailer is made by Georges Schwizgebel!
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17 August 2016Innovative animation technology, social criticism or light entertainment – Fantoche illustrates the impressive spectrum of current international productions in
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3 August 2016The Industry Day takes place on 9th of September 2016 in Baden. It is the new interdisciplinary expert conference and national networking platform.
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28 June 2016A total of 1,394 film submissions from 79 countries, 81 of which are from Switzerland. The selection 2016 for the three film competitions is completed.
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24 May 2016Send us your best GIF! Fantoche takes the small animations to the big screen!
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14 April 2016Beguile and bewitch - Fantoche shows animation films on the theme "Seduce Me!" at the International Comix Festival Fumetto in Lucerne (21-24.4.2016).
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3 March 2016The International Competition 2016 is open: Submit your new animated short films by 31 May 2016!
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24 November 2015Advent season – Fantoche recommends to enjoy wonderful animated shorts in the cosy cinema.
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15 September 2015During the festival, time passed so fast, but luckily, we kept many great memories in the festival video 2015.
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6 September 2015In collaboration with HSLU, Fantoche asked filmmakers during the festival to share their creativity in 24 prepared frames.
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6 September 2015The winners of all the awards in the three competitions are announced and the anniversary edition of Fantoche is history.
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2 September 2015Fantoche is celebrating its 20-year anniversary and giving itself the biggest gift of all: 20 feature films screened in Baden, including 17 modern and three his
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2 September 2015For its anniversary, Fantoche sends the audience out to explore the streets of Baden with the urban game "X-Giranimation".
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1 September 2015Finally: Starting today and for the next six days, Baden will be the place to be and meet for all animation-aficionados.
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27 August 2015The anniversary app offers a special highlight: The «Magic-Eye»-function makes film-stills move!
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14 August 2015Fantoche is proud to be hosting the exclusive premiere of the new feature film "Inside Out" from Pixar / Disney in German-speaking Switzerland.
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13 August 2015Swiss filmmaker Cécile Brun got a scholarship for her animation-project "Weiterleben" thanks to FOCAL and Fantoche.
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5 August 2015The complete festival programme and the new festival trailer made by Nils Hedinger are online!
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26 June 2015Fantoche is presenting partner at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival and shows the animated feature film "On the White Planet" from
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25 June 20151,371 film submissions from 73 countries, 76 films from Switzerland – these are impressive figures and the perfect way to celebrate the festival’s 20th annivers
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11 May 2015Fantoche wants the best animated GIFs for a special programme.
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15 April 2015Fantoche is proud on the emerging Swiss talent Nils Hedinger (director of the award-winning film «Timber») who will create the new festival trailer!
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4 March 2015The international competition 2015 is closed: Fantoche is looking for new animated shortfilms from all over the world.
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3 December 2014Fantoche festival director Annette Schindler is jury member at the Grand OFF – World Independent Film Awards in Warsaw, Poland.
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24 October 2014Three short film programmes of the Fantoche focus «What’s going on, Japan?» are on tour with CULTURESCAPES.
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22 October 2014The search is on for robots, video animation, sound collages and games.
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22 September 2014Video of the workshop "Hokuspokus Verschwindibus".
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12 September 2014The best are going on tour!
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12 September 2014Film-makers can tell stories without uttering a single word...
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8 September 2014The 12th edition of the International Festival for Animation Film has been a great success.
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6 September 2014With the focus on ‘What’s going on, Japan?’ Fantoche is diving into the fascinating culture of Asian animation.
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6 September 2014Fantoche has always set about building bridges with related artforms and animation applications in other communication and entertainment media.
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6 September 2014The Kino Orient will be hosting two programmes on the theme of 'War and Peace'.
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5 September 201425 years have come and gone since we came to know and love the wolf Loulou, brought to life on the page by the unmistakable Grégoire Solotareff.
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5 September 2014Digital micro animations are experiencing a real renaissance, even though the GIF was invented back in 1987.
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3 September 2014Armed conflicts and how people deal with them occupy many film-makers as subject matter for their independent films, as metaphors in promotional films or in pro
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14 August 2014Fantoche will be exploring the art of combining traditional crafts with the very latest technology in the programme "Animation goes Multimedia".
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7 August 2014Fantoche has good cause to be proud: it will be exclusively holding Switzerland's first screening of the latest sensation from the Laika Studio.
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31 July 2014Fantoche has a new festival trailer thanks to Michael Frei, the winner of Best Swiss 2013!
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27 June 2014Thank you dear filmmakers! 1298 film entries from 73 countries and 91 films from Switzerland.
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27 June 2014The second main topic in this year's festival is the conflict of war and peace.
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26 June 2014The incredible 'Akira' from Katsuhiro Otomo (JP 1988) in our Carte Blanche at NIFFF.
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