Pictoplasma Animation Festival

Since its inception in 2004, each spring Pictoplasma transforms Berlin into an international meeting point for a diverse scene of artists and creatives, trailblazing the face of tomorrow’s visual culture. The central conference brings together 900+ key players on a global scale and features 20+ lectures by forward-thinking creatives. The accompanying animation festival showcases cutting edge short films, focussing on fresh character-driven visuals and narratives, with most of the filmmakers present in Q&A rounds.

A second annual conference takes place later each year in New York, attracting 500+ professional attendees and acting as a unique place for the US scene to network.

Awards & Prizes

No awards, just greatness!

Rules & Terms


Pictoplasma’s aim is to promote outstanding ANIMATION at its festivals, conferences, events, and other non-profit cultural activities.

For this purpose the artist/license holder grants Pictoplasma the non-exclusive public and non-public exhibition right to present the work in the animation festival screening program, at selected conference/festival locations and the online conference broadcasts –streamed exclusively for registered remote conference attendees (as a one time live stream only, no download or VoD, not public).

The artist/license holder's right to their work remains completely unaffected, especially the right to distribute or otherwise make use of it. Pictoplasma solely asks for the right to include the material in its own curated animation programs. Pictoplasma is committed to clearly indicate which artists are responsible for the films presented (give credit – see above).

Submission of the material grants Pictoplasma the right to show up to 10% of the running time of the production for promotional purposes to be used for media coverage of the festival (both before and after).