Interview with Thea Sparmeier and Jakob Werner
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
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Portrait Nikita Diakur
An Avatar to Combat FakesThe avatar trembles, barely able to stay up on its legs, then it falls over, its arms flailing. “Attempting a backflip is not safe. You can break your neck, or land on your head, or land badly on your wrists. None of that is nice, so my avatar does the trick,” an emotionless voice explains. The voice is that of animation director Nikita Diakur, distorted using voice cloning software. Yet its dry humour does manage to penetrate even through the manipulative software coils. Read More
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Spotlight Anibar: Festival of Possibilities
Travel Notes from Kosovo“What’s your name, where do you come from? Thanks for being here.” During the storyboard exhibition at the Kosovan Anibar Animation Festival, the volunteers eagerly seek out human contact… Read More
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Portrait Jonatan Schwenk
The Story First, Then the AnimationEnraptured, the two-legged creature picks the blissfully smiling axolotl up from the earth and pops it in its mouth. Sheer joy. Doing so, its hands – filigree stick-puppet hands – initially reach out tentatively then greedily for the tasty stop-motion being. In Jonatan Schwenk’s ZOON, over and again we encounter so many nuances and animation techniques, all at the same time. Read More
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Portrait Anne Isensee
Anne Isensee likes getting right to the point. And that in both her works and conversation. With her at times very short films, the animator artist who lives in Berlin has enjoyed success at numerous festivals for years now. In 2017, she achieved an impressive debut with her mere 101-second-long film “Mega Trick” (2017), which garnered the Golden Dove for the Best German Short Film at the DOK Leipzig International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. Read More
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Talks and Topics Interview mit Katharina Huber
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
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News The Obamas produced short animated films for Netflix
Netflix announced June 2 that the Obamas have produced a 10-part series that will stream on the platform beginning on Independence Day, July 4. Titled “We the People” – the… Read More
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Portrait 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
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Talks and Topics Ron Dyens, French Short Film Producer – SACREBLEU
Ron Dyens first became known with his short film “La Flamme”. In 1999, he founded his own production company Sacrebleu Productions. Following numerous festival successes over the last 20 years, since 2019 he has been a member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the much-coveted Oscars each year. Willy Rollé spoke with him about the differences in short film production between France and Germany. Read More
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Short Films online Report 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
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News 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
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News 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
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News Relaunch: HAFFxKLIK Animation Festival (NL) – Call for Entries Open
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