Incoming students from foreign universities will take part in a course called International Class that offers English-language teaching modules.

In addition to the full-fledged study courses, the Filmakademie also offers an International Screen Acting Workshop for aspiring young actresses and actors.

[1] In 2010 the prestigious magazine The Hollywood Reporter listed the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg as the only German institution on its ranking of the world's best film schools.

[4] In 2017, the international awards and mentoring platform The Rookies named the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg and its Animationsinstitut the world's Best Visual Effects School and ranked it as No.

Other international awards include a Golden Leopard awarded to Das Verlangen (The Longing, directed by Iain Dilthey) at the Locarno International Film Festival 2002, and an Oscar nomination for Das Rad (Rocks, directed by Chris Stenner, Heidi Wittlinger and Arvid Uibel) in the category "Best Animated Short Film" (2003).