This year in April, a planned film that was never shot served as a pretext for sentencing the Turkish documentary filmmaker and producer Çiğdem Mater to a prison term of… 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
As a commission member of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, I faced a new challenge with the Covid19 lockdown and the decision to hold the festival online and record… Read More
“Every Frame a Painting” is the name of Canadian filmmaker and editor Tony Zhou’s YouTube channel, which has been online since 2014 and engages with the phenomenon of cinema…. Read More
Among many filmmakers, public film funding has a bad reputation. With seemingly incomprehensible funding decisions and major formal barriers, as well as laborious, time-consuming paperwork and mountains of bureaucracy… Read More
Several years have already passed since the “right” funding and support for short film was discussed under this motto during the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. And the answer still… Read More
The most important cinematographic pool from which short film retrospectives are compiled for festivals comes from a bygone era. Over a period lasting several decades, it was standard screening practice… Read More