Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg

3–8 June 2025

41st Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg: 3 – 8 June 2025 +++ 41st Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg: 3 – 8 June 2025 +++ 41st Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg: 3 – 8 June 2025 +++

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The program booklet 2025 is online!

You can download the program booklet as pdf to browse through (German only). Find a freshly printed copy in all festival cinemas and at many locations in Hamburg. The full program in English will be online mid-May.

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

Addressing the effect of the war in Gaza on the national cultural scene

Since its inception, we, the team of Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, have seen our festival as a space of artistic freedom and freedom of expression, of critical debate and encounters characterised by mutual respect.

We are publishing this statement as a reaction to a climate which is increasingly marked by division and pressure, particularly within the German cultural sector. This has led to a palpable restriction of agency for institutions and cultural workers. We strongly oppose politically motivated interference by third parties in programming decisions as well as demands for background checks on potential participants.

Welcome a film maker!

Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg is a collective encounter – it lives and grows through everyone participating. One option to do so? Host one (or more) of our lovely film makers! 😍

Triple Axel Competition 2025

Under the 2025 motto „Mission Impossible!“, we asked for your films about failure. And there was a lot of it! Here is the best of impossibilities in a program of 25 films under 3 minutes:

German Competition 2025

With 23 hand-picked films, the German Competition presents a red-hot selection of current national short film. 🔥 More urgent than ever, five programs show very personal views on major universal and social issues - from human and inhuman behaviour, remembering and forgetting to road trips through time and space.

International Competition 2025

The selection committee has chosen – and we love to share! As of now, all films in International Competition 2025 are out and ready to be explored! ❤️‍🔥

Save the date: 41st Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg

Spring is here! And if your feelings aren’t running wild already, we’ve got something to excite you: The 41st Short Film Festival Hamburg will take place from June 3 to 8, 2025! May it be inside the films, within the festival team or between our guests: Love is everywhere! And that's why the motto of this year's festival is "Provocation of Love ”. In a world full of division and uncertainty, love is both infinitely empowering and yet difficult to grasp. Sometimes radical, sometimes tender - but always of the utmost importance for all of us. Join us and explore the power of connection and community! 💖

We're Germany's fairest film festival!

Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg is Germany's film festival with the fairest working conditions! During the Berlinale, the team was honored with the Fair Festival Award. The prize was awarded for the third time by the AG Festivalarbeit in ver.di at the short film reception of the AG Kurzfilm.

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