Back to the Future: FMX 2026 will Honor the Past and Look Ahead

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Back to the Future: FMX 2026 will Honor the Past and Look Ahead

FMX 2025 Key Visual

FMX 2026 will be our 30th edition! A good reason to celebrate as we mark this proud milestone, and another welcome opportunity to honour the past, survey the present and discuss the future of digital media creation.

FMX 2026 is going to be a very special event, featuring brand-new and first-hand tech and innovation, creativity and art, cooperation and diversity - in a world and a media landscape that are changing at breathtaking speed.

FMX 2026 will address this and more under the theme THE ROAD AHEAD, providing an international platform for knowledge exchange, networking, and debates on all aspects of film and media production.

On the road to transformation, FMX 2026 will deliver three jam-packed days on site and one day of exclusive online presentations.

The above key visual ("Bus Buddy": The Key Visual of FMX 2026. © Filmakademie Baden Württemberg) is taken from the FMX 2026 trailer, which will soon be revealed on our online channels.

FMX 2026: THE ROAD AHEAD

“Our task is not to predict the future, but to make it possible.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Film and digital media have blended storytelling and technology since their inception, with engineers providing artists with the tools to bring their ideas to life in ever new ways.

The most recent tool in the box is Artificial Intelligence, triggering the latest in a series of transformations since the advent of the talkies 100 years ago. As with changing global markets and shifting audience behavior, the key is adaptation: the creative industries have a history of constantly reinventing themselves - to be continued.

FMX 2026 will set the stage for people who are shaping the future with their confidence, resilience and creativity in the midst of the ongoing transformation.

FMX imagery through the years: 1994-2011. © Filmakademie Baden Württemberg

A Mirror of Digital Filmmaking History

In 1994, the founding fathers of the Film & Media Exchange recognized the sign of the times: digital imagery had been brought to vivid life in “Jurassic Park” a year earlier, and the first computer-animated feature would hit the world stage in 1995, when “Toy Story” amazed audiences.

Founded by Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg as an event for its students, FMX quickly developed into the global platform it is today. Many of the people who pushed the art and technology of film and media forward over the past three decades have found their way to FMX.

Expertise & Inspiration

In the center of Stuttgart, they shared their expertise and inspiration with an audience of peers and students from around the world. And they continue to do so, kicking off informal discussions and serious networking that reverberate through the international community.

At FMX 2026, we will reflect on the achievements of the past, dive deep into the current state of things, and look at the road ahead.