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
Program of Berlinale Shorts Announced
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Short Films on Demand – Locarno Shorts Weeks 2021
For the third time, not just since all film festivals went online, the Locarno Film Festival presents its Shorts Weeks. Until the end of February, short films from the program… Read More
Last chance: Before the end of Flashplayer, media artist Timo Kahlen unlocks Net Art animations
As announced in 2017, Adobe will stop distributing and updating its Flash Player at the end of this year. Internet browser vendors are following suit more or less simultaneously,… Read More
New lockdown forces November festivals to cancel, online variations or postponements
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
No short films for young audiences at the 71st Berlinale 2021 – Open letter to the directors of Berlinale
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
Successful prank: short film no. 1 in the American Box Office
YouTubern from Westhampton (Long Island, NY) succeeded in conquering the American box office charts with a short film and for one day became the No. 1 in national sales…. Read More
Videotage Hong Kong publishes manifesto and invites in Content Lab for a “New Normal
The non-profit organisation Videotage in Hong Kong invites people to reflect on the consequences of the pandemic for art and culture and to take action. Against the background of… Read More
Film Festival Survival Pledge – voluntary commitment to loosen guidelines for the online presence of films
The US-American crowdfunding platform Seed&Spark collects on a list binding agreements from film distributors and festivals to waive for a limited period of time guidelines that exclude films that… Read More
We Are One Global Film Festival starts tomorrow on YouTube
The internationally positioned online festival “We are One” yesterday announced the program planning for its streamings from 29 May to 7 June. More than 100 films from 35 countries will… Read More
Croatian short films online for free
The Zagreb Film Festival in cooperation with the Croatian Audiovisual Center has founded the streaming platform croatian.film to make Croatian short film more visible. The bilingual platform offers a… Read More
French film history – temporarily free short films at the “Festival à la Maison
The French production and distribution company mk2 offers a curated selection of films in its own online magazine TROISCOULEURS in the section “Festival à la Maison”, which is available online… Read More
Short film specials in times of Corona
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
Voting for the MuVi Award of the Short Film Festival Oberhausen
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
Oberhausen launches Kurzfilmtage Blog
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
Corona Short Film Festival is looking for entries until April 25
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
International My Darling Quarantine Short Film Festival
The online magazine Talking Shorts is responding spontaneously to the pandemic with an online festival: starting on 16 March, Talking Shorts will present a weekly programme of seven short films… Read More
More and more festivals cancelled because of Corona virus
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
Talking Shorts – New platform for short film
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
Petition from the Pro Short association regarding the Swiss Film Prize for Short Film
The Swiss Short Film Association Pro Short has launched a petition for a renewal of the regulations concerning short film awards within the framework of the Swiss Film Awards. The… Read More
CALL FOR ENTRIES: DOK Short n’ Sweet at DOK Leipzig
For three years the pitching event DOK Short’n’ Sweet has been held within the DOK Industry Section of DOK Leipzig: anyone who is currently developing a new short documentary film… Read More
Odense Festival Streams Short Film Programmes to Cinemas in Neighbouring Cities
Today at the Odense Film Festival in Denmark is the so-called “OFF-Dag”, a day on on which the festival broadcasts short film programmes and a television programme live in cinemas… Read More
Three German short films nominated for student Oscars 2019
In August, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences published the nominations for this year’s Student Academy Awards® – the Student Oscars. Short films from German film schools are… Read More
Filmland-Sachsen – Initiative to convey film programmes to rural regions
In response to the cultural loss caused by the death of cinemas in rural regions in Saxony, the Filmverband Sachsen together with the Saxon State Ministry of Science and Art,… Read More
Complete Works of Kurt Kren and VALIE EXPORT Digitized
Sixpackfilm (Vienna) announced that digitized versions of the films by Kurt Kren and VALIE Export are now available for distribution. The negatives were digitized by the Austrian Film Museum in… Read More
German film festivals found festival association
© Anja Köhne, Kassel At their first meeting on 4 July in Kassel, Germany, more than 60 German film festivals (list below) joined forces to found a film festival… Read More
B3 und THE ARTS+ auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2019
[/caption]Die diesjährige Frankfurter Buchmesse (16.-20. Oktober 2019) stellt die Kultur in den Mittelpunkt des globalen gesellschaftlichen Diskurses. Gemeinsam mit den Vereinten Nationen (UN) und dem Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels startet… Read More
Stiftung imai eröffnet Videolounge im NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
[/caption]Im NRW-Forum Düsseldorf wurde am 18. Juli die Videolounge der Stiftung imai eröffnet. Damit macht das imai (inter media art institute) erstmals ihr einzigartiges Medienkunstarchiv dauerhaft zugänglich. Besucher*innen können… Read More
Disney introduces ‘experimental’ short circuit program and announces VoD release
In June, Walt Disney Animation Studios presented its Short Circuit program with three premieres at the Annecy Festival. According to the company, “The goal of this innovative program is to… Read More
Lumiere VOD database of European films on VoD platforms launched
The beta version of the first directory for European films on VoD services was recently opened in Strasbourg. The new index was created by the European Commission together with the… Read More
Crowdfunding success: saving the grave of Georges Méliès – the forefather of the short fiction film
The French illusionist and film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) was not only the inventor of technical film tricks, but also the founder of later film genres such as fantasy and… Read More