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
Awards October
Magazine
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
Awards September
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
Awards August
Fünf Seen Filmfestival, Gilching (D) || 31.08.2021 Goldenes Glühwürmchen: EIN OZEAN, Paul Scheufler, D Short Plus Award: ALA KACHUU, Maria Brendle, D VIDEO ART-Preis: ABSENT WOUND, Maryam Tafakory, D … 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
Awards July
Giffoni Film Festival, Salerno (I) || 31.07.2021 Miglior Cortometraggio Elements +3: FLY, Carlos Gómez-Mira Sagrado, ES Miglior Cortometraggio Elements +6: THE SCIENCE OF WISHES, Michelle Bado, Lebanon Miglior Cortometraggio… 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
Awards June 2021
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
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
Norwegian online video art archive handed over to Nasjonalmuseet (Oslo)
In 2012, the organization PNEK (Production Network for Electronic Art) on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Culture launched the pilot project Norsk Videokunstarkivet for archiving Norwegian media art…. 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
Moths, Flickers and Fragments
– Sylvia Schedelbauer
Fragmentary memories act like a common thread, taking us through the works of Sylvia Schedelbauer as they oscillate between experimental and essay-film genres, and which could also be called “filmic… Read More
Film festivals: spatiotemporal expansion leads to distortions in the cinema and festival landscape
At the beginning of the pandemic, when cinemas everywhere were completely closed, film festivals only had the choice between canceling or going online. Since the relaxations for cinemas, i.e. in… Read More
Film Festival Corona Strategies – A Critical Look at Techniques and Formats (Part One)
Since the start of the pandemic, film festivals have admirably sought out and found alternatives in terms of what they offer their audiences, even in the face of losing… Read More
Five questions to Borbála Nagy
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
Free video subtitling for online videos
The creation of subtitles in online videos are a requirement for accessibility and the first step for translations into other languages. As festivals currently cannot be held in cinemas… Read More