Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg

2–7 June 2026

SAVE THE DATE +++ 43. Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg +++ June 1–6, 2027 +++ SAVE THE DATE +++ 43. Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg +++ June 1–6, 2027 +++ SAVE THE DATE +++ 43. Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg +++ June 1–6, 2027 +++

Stay with us!

All news directly and without detours in your inbox or social media feed:

Newsletter Instagram

Award Winners 2026

On Saturday, June 6, 2026, the 42nd Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg and the 28th Young Short Film Festival Hamburg Mo&Friese celebrated outstanding short filmmaking at their annual award ceremony. In the presence of filmmakers, industry professionals, and festival guests, prizes totaling €18,500 were awarded, honoring the creativity, diversity, and artistic strength of the short film format.

Program booklet 2026 is online!

You can now find the program booklet to browse through (German language) – as well as the full program and timetable online! Also our ticket shop is open now! Get! Your! Tickets! <3

Ticket shop Catalogue (PDF)
Program booklet PDF (German) Pick-up locations in Hamburg

Accreditation 2026

Accreditation for film professionals, industry representatives, students & media is now open! Get access to all film programs and industry events – with special reduced rates available for students.

Accreditation

Awareness

Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg and Young Short Film Festival Hamburg Mo&Friese are spaces for exchange, communication, and diversity. That is why our top priority is to create a safer space for our audience and team.

Together with Act Aware e. V., we have developed an awareness concept to ensure that everyone involved in the festival experiences and cultivates respectful, appreciative interaction with one another. In addition to our Value Statement and our Code of Conduct, it also includes specific actions and support structures on site, including information on awareness contact persons and contact options. At the Festival Center Post and all external venues you will find posters with the most important awareness-information.

Awareness contact:

awareness@shortfilm.com

Awareness concept (German) Value Statement (EN)

Kurz im Turtur

We want our short films on the dancefloor! That’s why — just ahead of the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg — we’re inviting you to a shared film night at Turtur in Wilhelmsburg. Expect a short film program where cinema, music and questions about our city melt into one another: Who shapes the city? And how is it changing?

Short films. Loud. On a club sound system.

SHORT IN TURTUR
Wednesday, May 20, 7 p.m.
Turtur Bar & Club
Entry: 5 €

Treatment & Pitching Workshop

Are you a film student looking for support in developing a treatment or refining your pitch? Perfect! As part of this years' Film School Day on June 4, we’re offering two workshops designed to help you sharpen your current project!

In “Treat it!”, you’ll work with Luc-Carolin Ziemann to further develop your idea into a treatment. In “Pitch, Please!”, Norma Giannetta will help you prepare your project for presentation to industry professionals.

Find all further information, deadlines and dates here:

Treat it! Pitch, Please!

Host a filmmaker!

Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg is a collective encounter that lives and grows through the people participating. One option to do so? Host one (or more) of our lovely filmmakers!

If you live in Hamburg and have a spare bed or couch to offer for a couple of days in June, we’d love to hear from you! We care about creating a good match for everyone involved, so feel free to reach out and share any preferences or needs (dates, languages, FLINTA only, etc.). We’ll do our best to take them into account. As a thank you, you’ll receive free tickets to our programs – and our heartfelt gratitude.

💌 guest@shortfilm.com

Your flat is tiny but your friend’s is not? Feel free to share our instagram post with everyone who might be interested! Thank you.

International Competition 2026

36 hand-picked contemporary films capturing today’s world in a short but all the more powerful form. And we can’t wait for you to explore our International Competition films in the cinema with us!

German Competition 2026

The German Competition is here! Featuring 25 outstanding short films from here and now. Ranging between the political and the personal, between the experimental and the documentary – with forms as diverse as the artists behind them.

Triple Axel Competition 2026

275 submissions. 9 selection committee members. 23 films chosen: The Triple Axel Competition comes packed with numbers — because in 2026 it revolves around the theme “3”! Our fantastic selection committee has chosen short films (from amateurs to professionals), each no longer than three minutes. And it is precisely this brevity that makes the Triple Axel so fascinating: within a single program, you dive into a wide variety of minds, worlds, and scenes. One, two, THREE — let’s go!

Festivaltrailer 2026

In our this year's festival trailer "Opera", Eva Giolo explores the subjective experience of listening as it unfolds through repetition and duration. Through intimate portrayals of the filmmaker’s friends immersed in acts of listening, the camera captures subtle shifts in expression and perception – quite beautifully on 16mm.

We are excited to share this trailer with you in all participating cinemas soon – and at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, 2–7 June, 2026.

You like it? Eva will also present and discuss five of her films from 2019–2024 at the festival. More updates on the program coming soon.

Save the Date: 42nd Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg

When was the last time you listened to someone – and changed your opinion as a result? Who do you enjoy listening to? And who do you listen to far too rarely?

From June 2–7, 2026, the 42nd Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg wants to push back against contemporary dynamics of hyper-accelerated media consumption and cancel culture. Instead, we create a space for questioning, enduring, and negotiating – a cinematic credo of empathy. Together with you and this years’ festival motto »Listening«.

Fair Festival Award 2026

Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg is once again among Germany’s film festivals with the fairest working conditions! During the Berlin International Film Festival, we were honored for the third time with the Fair Festival Award – presented by the AG Festivalarbeit within ver.di at the AG Kurzfilm reception. We are very pleased about the recognition and the great company alongside: abgedreht! – Hamburg’s junger Film , Braunschweig International Film Festival, Duisburger Filmwoche / doxs! documentaries for children and young people, exground filmfest Wiesbaden, Human Rights Film Festival Berlin, and NEISSE NYSA NISA FILM FESTIVAL.

More News

Looking for older news? You can find them here.

Legal Notice Data privacy Partners Terms and Conditions News Archive
Newsletter
InstagramFacebookYoutube
Festival Visit Program Timetable Industry Team
SEARCH
ENG / DE
KurzFilmfestival
Hamburg
Menu
SEARCH
Festival Visit Program Timetable Industry Team Legal Notice Data privacy Partners Terms and Conditions News Archive
Newsletter
Instagram
Facebook
Youtube

  • No results