Sophie Linnenbaum, who was born in Nuremberg in 1986, is an observer of small everyday moments and human encounters. Yet her films are not intended to be understood as pure entertainment. Nor do they let themselves be casually consumed and then founder in our memories overflowing with moving images. Read More
Whenever Alex Gerbaulet says the word »I« in her works, she is also always saying »history« and vice versa. Read More
In its latest issue[1] , the short film magazine “Kurzschluss” on Arte focused on the theme of irritations and dedicated itself to the works of the British television and video… Read More
In its service area for short films, UniFrance offers various directories and lists to support the distribution of short films. In addition to festival calendars, there is also a “Catalogue… Read More
Today in our Talks’n’Topics column we introduce Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner. They were nominated for the German Short Film Award in 2020 with their experimental film A DEMONSTRATION and… Read More
K3: Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Villach (A) || 18.12.2021 Short Film Award: SO THAT HUMANITY CAN SURVIVE, Teja Miholic, Slovenia Special Mention: CIVILIZATION, Christoph Schwarz, A Audience Award: HOME IS WHERE… Read More
For his short film with the striking German title of PROLL!, the filmmaker Adrian Figueroa received the German Short Film Award in November 2021: Consisting of a golden metal band set on a base and swirling upwards spiral-like, as tall perhaps as a bottle of champagne. Congratulations!
Adrian Figueroa comes from theatre. Having grown up in Frankfurt am Main, he took drama studies and applied theatre in England, gaining an education that was as theoretical as it was practical. Read More
How film festivals present themselves to viewers on the internet in lieu of, or in combination with, an actual on-site festival is a pressing topic in these days of a… Read More
Entrevues, Belfort (F) || 28.11.2021 Grand Prix: PERCHÉS, Guillaume Lillo, F Prix One+One: LE BOUG DOUG, Théo Jollet, F Prix du Public: AUCUN SIGNAL, Adrien Genoudet, F Foyle… Read More
Deren Ercenk was nominated for the German Short Film Award in 2020 with BERZAH in the category fiction film of more than 10 to 30 minutes. Conny Klauß has met… Read More
At Talks’n’Topics we introduce you to Lucia Margarita Bauer as our next artist. In 2020, she won the special prize of the German Short Film Award for films between 31… Read More
Anne Isensee likes getting right to the point. And that in both her works and conversation. With her at times very short films, the animator artist who lives in Berlin has enjoyed success at numerous festivals for years now. In 2017, she achieved an impressive debut with her mere 101-second-long film “Mega Trick” (2017), which garnered the Golden Dove for the Best German Short Film at the DOK Leipzig International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. Read More
Today on Talks’n’Topics we introduce you to Shoko Hara. In an interview with Conny Klauß, she talks about the possibilities of animated documentaries, toxic relationships and the fascination a convicted… Read More
In 2020, Roxana Reiss won the German Short Film Award in the category of documentaries up to 30 minutes with ALTURAS. Conny Klauß met the director for us. A conversation… Read More
Jannis Alexander Kiefer won the German Short Film Award in the category fiction film up to 10 minutes in 2020 with MEETING. Conny Klauß met the director for us in… Read More
[/caption] Das kleine, aber feine Festival “Experiments in Cinema” in Albuquerque (New Mexico) findet dieses Jahr nicht vor Ort statt und zeigt deshalb ausnahmsweise sein Programm frei zugänglich im… Read More
[/caption] Die Online-Künstlergemeinschaft 6×6 project eröffnet am 11. Mai mit einem Kurzfilm-Screening im Kunstraum Horse & Pony (Berlin-Neukölln) unter dem Namen Xanadu einen neuen Spielort für Videokunst und Kurzfilme. … Read More
[/caption] Derzeit ist auf Video Brasil Online die Bewegtbild-Ausstellung “Unravelling Stories” zu sehen. Thematisch geht es, der feministischen Bildtheorie Griselda Pollock folgend, um konzeptionelle und formale Strategien Geschichte zu hinterfragen,… Read More
[/caption] Am 6. April eröffnete das Internationale Sámi-Film-Institut seine neuen Ton- und Postproduktionsstudios “Duottar” in Guovdageaidnu, im nördlichen Teil von Sápmi, Norwegen. “Duottar” (sám für Tundra) befindet sich… Read More
[/caption] Am 15. März veröffentlichte das Forscherkollektiv Tracking Exposed[1] den von der Mozilla-Foundation finanzierten Bericht “TikTok content restriction in Russia”[2]. Dem Bericht zufolge hat die in vorauseilendem Gehorsam gegenüber dem… Read More
TikTok, the world’s largest social media platform for short films, announced on March 15 to be an official partner of the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival 2022. To… Read More
Since the beginning of Putin’s war of aggression on Ukraine, there has been a very great solidarity with the people in Ukraine worldwide. Extensive relief actions were started immediately and… Read More
The non-commercial agency for Austrian avant-garde and experimental films has been offering an extensive tour program of films by Mara Mattuschka since mid-December. The five feature-length programs also include two… Read More
The video-on-demand platform Festival Scope presents a selection of 7 short films from the Cannes Quinzaine des Réalisateurs 2021. Among the films are: The coming-of-age drama WHEN NIGHT MEETS… Read More
