30th SCHLiNGEL Film Festival from 27 September to 4 October 2025
What began in 1996 as a small film show on the largest cinema screen in the city of Chemnitz has now grown into one of the largest film festivals for young audiences in Europe. In its 30th anniversary edition, the SCHLiNGEL International Film Festival for Children and Young Audiences invited its viewers on a cinematic world tour in the heart of the European Capital of Culture from 27 September to 4 October. With a repertoire of 212 films from 58 countries, the programme in this special year was more extensive than ever before.
Das Festival in Bildern
We have compiled the best festival moments of the 30th SCHLiNGEL for you. Click here and look back on the past festival with all its highlights.
These were the 2025 juries
Once again this year, more than 20 prizes were awarded at the SCHLiNGEL Film Festival, selected in most categories by our various juries. Find out here who was involved in awarding the prizes in the individual juries.
This was the Industry Forum 2025
Also for the 30th International Film Festival for Children and Young Audiences SCHLiNGEL a highlight took place with the INDUSTRY FORUM. In recent years, the event has been able to firmly establish itself as an industry meeting place for the children's and youth film scene for professional audiences.
The Festival on Video
You want to reminisce a little about this year's SCHLiNGEL?
Let the special moments of the festival pass in review.
The highlights of each festival day are now available on our YouTube channel.
Our Festival Films
212 productions from 58 countries - this number of short and long feature films and animated films were part of this years festival - our 30th edition. We have carefully selected these films from over 1,000 submissions in the past months.
Here you can find the festival films of the 30th SCHLiNGEL edition.
SCHLiNGEL Catalog 2025
The exclusive catalog for the 30th SCHLiNGEL can now also be viewed online. Here you can find all relevant info about our jury members, the Industry Forum and the entire film selection screened at our festival (incl. all special programs).
The latest news about SCHLiNGEL
We are also active beyond our own festival period in order to further promote children's and youth film. Among other things, we are travelling with German productions to other international film festivals, be it in India, Japan or Sweden.
We also use the time throughout the year to find suitable films that we want to show on the big screen in Chemnitz in autumn and to regularly exchange ideas with the film and festival industry. Take a look at our year-round activities!
Live dubbing: ‘School of Magical Animals 3’ in Japanese
Beim 32. KINEKO International Film Festival in Tokio präsentierte das SCHLiNGEL Filmfestival nicht nur ein besonderes Erlebnis, auch wurde Festivaldirekor Michael Harbauer ausgezeichnet.
