Katharina Huber won the German Short Film Award in the animated film category in 2020 with DER NATÜRLICHE TOD DER MAUS (The Natural Death of a Mouse). Conny Klauß met… Read More
Interview with Katharina Huber
Interview with Borbála Nagy
In 2020, Borbála Nagy won the German Short Film Award in the category of short fiction films up to 30 minutes with PANNÓNIA DICSÉRETE (Land of Glory). Conny Klauß met… Read More
Interview with Arkadij Khaet and Mickey Paatzsch
Arkadij Khaet and Mickey Paatzsch were nominated in 2020 for the German Short Film Award in the category fiction film of more than 10 to 30 minutes with MASEL TOV… Read More
Auszeichnungen Oktober 2021
[/caption] Doclisboa, Lisboa (P) || 31.10.2021 Best Portuguese Short: DISTOPIA, Tiago Afonso, P Portuguese Authors Society Portuguese Competition Jury Award: HALF A LIGHT-YEAR, Leonardo Mouramateus, P Schools Award for Best… Read More
Interview with Vika Kirchenbauer
As a new section within our interview format, we would like to publish Talks’n Topics Talks’n’Topics, conversations with filmmakers in moving image. We start with Vika Kirchenbauer, who was awarded… Read More
Auszeichnungen September
[/caption]Tirana International Film Festival (Albania) || 30.09.2021 Best Short Film: MENARCA, Lillah Halla, BR Best Live Action Short Film: TITAN, Valéry Carnoy, B Best Animation Short Film: HEART OF GOLD,… Read More
Paradigm Shifts in Festival Scene – Cooperations, Programme Exchanges, Networks
Dramatic changes are currently underway in the sense and purpose, as indeed the roles, that festivals assume. And my impression is that almost all the parameters long regarded as self-evident… Read More
Film Festivals as Cultural Contact Zones – Potential for Sector and Cinemas
The text is based on a keynote at the Industry Rendezvous with Dresden-based Film Institutes and the Regional Competition as part of FILMFEST DRESDEN on 15. July 2021. Speaking… Read More
YouTube Shorts – 100 Millionen $ für 60 Sekunden Handyvideos
[/caption]In Reaktion auf die Popularität von Tiktok entwickelte YouTube als neues Format die YouTube Shorts. Wie bei der Konkurrenz sind dies vertikale Videos mit einer Laufzeit von maximal 60 Sekunden,… Read More
20 Jahre Autour-de-Minuit – Jubiläum in schwierigen Zeiten des Umbruchs
[/caption] Autour de Minuit, mit Sitz in Paris, ist eine der wichtigsten Produktions- und Vertriebsfirmen für Kurzfilme in Frankreich. Dieses Jahr feierte das Unternehmen sein zwanzigjähriges Bestehen. Gegründet wurde Autour… Read More
Auszeichnungen Juni 2021
[/caption]Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films (USA) || 28.06.2021 Best of the Festival Award: UNFORGIVABLE, Marlén Viñayo, El Salvador Best Animated Short: STEP INTO THE RIVER, Weijia Ma, CN… Read More
Review of award-winning short films in 2020 – a brief analysis
Ever since 2008 we have published an annual review of the short film prizes awarded the previous year. Now it’s time to look back at the year 2020. Listing… Read More
The gaping wound – Jovana Reisinger’s humoristic exposures of current role inscriptions
“Everyone can see that your body is high-class. You have to make something out of it. Why are you so sad? You haven’t been sitting in front of the TV of life, you have been active. What a guy!” – an off-screen male voice accompanies Max the model as he rambles around looking for a hotel in a city where a male-model killer is up to mischief. The video piece “pretty boyz don’t die” (2016) forms the beginning to the “pretty pretty mad sad” (2016-18) four-part short film series and is the first filmic work by the writer and filmmaker Jovana Reisinger. Read More
Short film festivals put their own history online
In its latest newsletter, interfilm, the organizer of the Berlin International Short Film Festival, announced the expansion and revision of back-looking festival websites. Shortly thereafter, the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg… Read More
Awards May 2021
Fastnet Short Film Festival, Schull (Ireland) || 30.05.2021 Best International Film: UN SŒUR, Delphine Girard, B Best Irish Film: SISTER THIS, Claire Byrne, Ireland Best Irish Language Film: AN GADHAR… Read More
