[/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
Auszeichnungen Juni 2021
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
„Jeder kann sehen, dass dein Körper high-class ist. Du machst doch was aus dir. Du bist nicht vor dem Fernseher des Lebens gesessen, sondern hast Sport getrieben. Ein toller Bursche!” – eine männliche Stimme aus dem Off begleitet das umherirrende Model Max auf der Suche nach seinem Hotel in einer Stadt, in der ein Männermodelmörder sein Unwesen treibt. Die Videoarbeit „pretty boyz don´t die“ (2016) ist der Beginn der insgesamt vierteiligen Kurzfilmreihe „pretty pretty mad sad“ (2016-18) und die erste filmische Arbeit der Autorin und Filmemacherin 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
Awards April 2021
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (D) || 25.04.2021 EMAF Award: NIGHT FOR DAY, Emily Wardill, UK Dialog-Preis zur Förderung des interkulturellen Austausches: 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD (13… Read More
The Art of Coding – Demos Now UNESCO Cultural Heritage
The demo scene has been around for as long as the personal computer. In the time when computer casings were not yet welded together and it was possible to… Read More
Awards March 2021
Women’s Voices Now Online Festival, Los Angeles (USA) || 31.03.2021 Best Documentary Short: RITU GOES ONLINE, Vrinda Samartha, India Best Social-Change Documentary Short: LUPITA, Monica Wise Robles, Mex /… Read More
Online Aggregators Boom During Pandemic Crisis at Festivals
Long before the pandemic, film festivals already began to outsource tasks they had dealt with internally prior to this and contract work out to external IT service providers. As digitalisation… Read More
Awards February 2021
Preis der deutschen Filmkritik (German Film Critics’ Award) (D) || 22.02.2021 Best Short Film: FOR REASONS UNKNOWN, Tom Otte, D Best Experimental Film: UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS, Vika Kirchenbauer,… Read More
Victor Orozco Ramirez: Documentarist in Animation Skin
Victor Orozco Ramirez is a filmmaker with all his heart and soul. Living in Germany since 2002, the Mexican by birth has been a long-established name in the German… Read More
Film Festival Corona Strategies (part two) – Online Streaming versus Theatre Screenings
Film festivals generally serve two main functions. They showcase new films in a festive setting and facilitate encounters between the industry and the audience. Under pandemic conditions, neither is possible… Read More
Awards January 2021
Premiers Plans, Festival d’Angers (F) || 31.01.2021 Grand Prix Européen: STAYING (Aros Mae), Zillah Bowes, UK Grand Prix français: TRONA PINNACLES, Mathilde Parquet, F Grand Prix films d’ecoles: I WANT… Read More
Awards December 2020
FilmFestival Cottbus – Festival of East European Cinema (D) || 31.12.2020 Main Prize: GREETINGS FROM NIGERIA, Peter Hoferica, Slovakia Special Prize: EGGSHELLS, Slava Doytcheva, BG DOCUMENTA MADRID (ES)… Read More
Awards November 2020
Foyle Film Festival (Northern Ireland) || 29.11.2020 Best Irish Short Film: HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU KID, Michael Lennox, Northern Ireland Best Animated Short Film: KAPAEMAHU, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer &… Read More
