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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
© 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
[/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
[/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
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
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
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
The Palm Springs International ShortFest celebrates its 25th anniversary this year – the festival in California has become the most important short film festival in North America. Palm Springs is also an important industry meeting point with its affiliated sections ShortFest Forum and ShortFest Market.
Traditionally Palm Springs is also a good place for German short films – every year a number of German short films are invited to the competitions. Read More
On 4 June 2019, the Swedish Film Institute and Sveriges Television presented to the public the joint funding programme “2121” – the “largest short film initiative in Swedish film history”…. Read More
The IDFA – the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam – takes place annually in November and is one of the most important festivals for documentary film worldwide. With 3400 trade… Read More
For the official Cannes Competition, the 2019 Selection Commission has selected eleven short films from 4240 submissions with a running time between 7 and 15 minutes. These included nine… Read More
In January 2018 the Holland Animation Filmfestival Utrecht (HAFF) announced that the board of the HAFF Foundation had decided to fundamentally reform the festival and that the previous director, Gerben… Read More
At the beginning of April, the office of the Short Film Conference (SFC) announced the results of the elections to the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors consists of… Read More
The Lithuanian Film Centre (Lietuvos kino centras)[1] has approved almost € 3 million for 42 film projects in its first financial period. These include two short fictional film projects, two… Read More
The LaCinetek video-on-demand platform has been established in France since 2015. The non-profit organization specializes in film history classics that are not offered on other streaming platforms, including numerous short… Read More
Senior Curator and Vimeo programmer from the USA, Jeffrey Bowers; MUBI’s Director of Acquisitions, Vanja Kaludjercic from Croatia; and Koyo Kouoh, founding artistic director of RAW Material Company from Senegal,… Read More
The European Film Academy awarded the 31st European Film Awards on 15.12.2018 in Seville. The awards ceremony in 23 categories and a film gala for the public took place shortly… Read More
From 2019, under the direction of the Danish Film Institute, the entire Danish silent film heritage will be researched, restored and made digitally public. One focus of the project is the processing and communication of film history from the beginnings of cinema to the time of sound film as a ‘living film archive’. This includes an online platform with films and documents for educational institutions, film series in cinemas and a new silent film festival in organised by Cinematek of Copenhagen. Read More