Anna Roller is a director and writer from Munich, she already experimented with the camera as a child and teenager. Since 2014 she studied at the University of Television and Film.
With Borjana Gaković Anna Roller talks about her short films PAN (2017) and GÖR (2021), which successfully screened at festivals worldwide and won awards. Read More
Open letter for the support of the festival The Festival du Court Métrage in Clermont-Ferrand, for many players in the international short film industry the most important short film festival… Read More
As an artist, Betina Kuntzsch has developed the genre of video drawing, often combining hand-drawn animations with historical film, photo and archive material to create animated, documentary short films. Betina Kuntzsch talks with Borjana Gaković about her short film HALMASPIEL (Chinese Checkers, 2017) – which tells the story of her mother. Read More
Borjana Gaković talks to Michael Fetter Nathansky about his 2017 short film GABI, his working methods and current projects. Read More
Alison Kuhn is one of Germany’s most interesting young filmmakers – she is a writer, actress and director and has made a name for herself in recent years with multiple… Read More
Thea Sparmeier and Jakob Werner are two of the three directors of the film GLÜCKPFAD (Happy Trail), which premiered at DOK Leipzig in 2021. For Talks’n’Topics, they talk to Sven… Read More
In our new Spotlight section, we will now be reporting at frequent intervals on current developments, festivals and the short film scene in countries that are always somewhat outside of Western perception, but which are worth taking a closer look at for that very reason. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In some communities, there is still an assumption that the short film scene is mainly dominated by up-and-coming filmmakers. The short film section of the Locarno Film Festival, Pardi di domani, is taking the opposite step with a newly announced competition. In the new section “Corti d’autore”, short films by directors who are already internationally known will be invited in the future. Read More
March 1 sees the launch of the professional visitors’ event, the Berlinale’s industry online offer. Until March 5, only trade audiences can view selected competition entries from the various sections… Read More
On November 25, Borbála Nagy was awarded the German Short Film Award 2020 in the category short fiction film with a length of 10 to 30 minutes for her short film LAND OF GLORY. We talked to the director in advance. Read More
November has always been a busy festival month. Due to the Corona pandemic, several spring festivals had also postponed their editions until autumn.
The recent lockdown in Germany and other (European) countries, with the closing of cinemas and the cancellation of all events, now confronts these festivals with the decision to cancel completely, to switch to online versions or to postpone. Read More
Not only has the film festival world turned around itself several times since the spring and still hasn’t come to a standstill. The Corona pandemic has created new festival models and variations in a very short time. At shortfilm.de, Reinhard Wolf has already looked at the development of international film festivals in regular intervals in the four-part article series “Waiting for the Wave”.
Now we would like to give the filmmakers who are directly affected by the situation a chance to have their say. All in all, we examine the topic from various individual perspectives: Read More
In 2021 NO SHORT FILMS will be shown in the GENERATION section of the Berlin International Film Festival. The cancellation of an entire platform for the short form at the Berlinale signifies the failure to address both the audience and industry.
Together with more than 30 international organizations, AG Kurzfilm – German Short Film Association drafted an OPEN LETTER addressed to the festival directors. Read More
updated on 14 July 2020
Festivals have been cancelled or moved to the Internet, film starts have been postponed, and some cinemas are now opening under strict hygiene conditions. Public and also cultural life seemed to stand almost still for a long time. Many initiatives tried to creatively overcome the crisis and also offer short film compilations.
Here we would like to present a small collection of short film offers, which will be continuously updated. We would be happy to take up your suggestions, just send us a short message to info@shortfilm.de. Read More
For many years – and not just since Corona – voting for the traditional MuVi Prize of the Short Film Festival Oberhausen has been taking place online. 255 music videos were submitted for the competition, twelve were selected to face the judgement of the expert jury and the audience. Read More
Die Internationalen Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen sind als Festival wie so viele aktuell ebenfalls direkt von einer Absage betroffen. Bereits früh fiel die Entscheidung, das Festival als Online-Edition stattfinden zu lassen. Seit dem 3. April haben die Kurzfilmtage nun einen Blog gestartet, der zeitnah auf die aktuelle Krise reagieren soll. Der Blog soll auch ein Forum sein, in dem viele Leute zu Wort und viele Themen zur Sprache kommen, Beiträge zu ganz unterschiedlichen Themen sollen stattfinden – mal auf Deutsch, mal auf Englisch. Der Blog möchte den Prozess der Krise ebenso sichtbar machen, wie diejenigen, die von ihr betroffen sind. Read More
In addition to our Corona Specials, we receive new initiatives almost daily that propagate a creative handling of the crisis. Now there is also the first – and as the makers hope – also the only Corona Short Film Festival. Read More
Spring is the high season for (short) film festivals in addition to the autumn months. Due to the Corona pandemic, more and more festivals are now being cancelled or postponed…. Read More
On the occasion of the recently concluded Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Talking Shorts, a new online short film magazine was launched. Talking Shorts is a joint initiative of Filmfest Dresden,… Read More