Call for Entries: 41st Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg share
We’re excited to announce that submissions are now open for the 41st Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg and the Junges Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg Mo&Friese! You can find all further information about the submission here.
The festival will take place from June 3 to June 8, 2025. Mark your calendars for the next edition and celebrate with us.
The missionary had one, companies claim it and heroes and heroines are on it for ages: a mission. For our Triple Axel Competition 2025, we are particularly interested in that version of mission that seems impossible.
The missionary had one, companies claim it and heroes and heroines are on it for ages: a mission. For our Triple Axel Competition 2025, we are particularly interested in that version of mission that seems impossible.
Of course, Tom Cruises action movies come to mind immediately, but doesn't everyone - and many train stations as well - have a mission that is perhaps programmed to fail? We are also happy to see cryptic interpretations, so brainstorm ideas and make films for our Triple Axel 2025: as always, the aim is to make a film on the given topic ("Mission Impossible") in no more than three minutes. Whoever achieves this will be in the running for the audience prize (1,000 euros) on a legendary night at the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg. You can submit your mission to us from November. Looking forward, happy failure!
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 40th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg!
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 40th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg!
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Jury: Manuel Abramovich, Aboozar Amini, Flóra Anna Buda, Lucía Salas, Greta Snider
HAMBURG SHORT FILM AWARD (3.000€): Kim Torres: The Moon Will Contain Us
Jury Statement: "We would like to award the main prize to a film that creates a true collaboration. Two generations meet, and by doing a film they form a community. This community decides to trace a memory, which could be also a memory of the future. By exploring sensitively a place and the ways everyone has to walk through it, and the details of this relationship, this film creates its own ways to do films, one that is imaginative, affective, and shared."
DEFRAMED AWARD (2.000€): Jonelle Twum: I Think of Silences When I Think of You
Jury Statement: "A unique perspective on migration that is rarely seen on cinema. Using the archive vividly, this film reclaims home movies and family movies in a way that is both joyful and though-provoking. We want to give the Deframed award to this film which, with very few elements (a fragment of the past and a few images from the present) creates a whole affective universe."
HAMBURG SHORT FILM CANDIDATE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS:
Sara Kontar: 3350 KM
Jury Statement: "There are some people amongst us who only have music left to connect with their fading memories. What they do is to look for those lost words, those melodies that can give a sense of home. We would like to award the European Film Academy nomination to 3350 km by Sara Kontar."
SPECIAL MENTION:
Zuza Banasińska: Grandmamauntsistercat
Jury Statement: "A film in which 1 + 1 is not 2 but three: a feminist perspective of the archive, which doesn’t use images, but has a conversation with them to create an idea of what places people occupied in them, and what places they can occupy now. Recovering pieces of East-European heritage, this film creates room for thoughts about the past and the present. We would like to give a special mention to Grandmamauntsistercat, by Zuza Banasińska."
GERMAN COMPETITION
Jury: Toby Ashraf, Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck, Gerald Weber
JURY AWARD (2.000 €): Eva Könnemann: That's All from Me
Jury Statement: "Eva Könnemann skillfully interweaves reality and fiction, combines video letters with crowded long shots and goes to unexpected places to find answers to her question: How do you remain an artist once you have become a mother? With its subtle humor and precise sense of timing, the film develops a unique magic and puts a smile on your face while the wild geese fly into the sky."
SPECIAL MENTION Miranda Siegel: Ignore Your True Feelings at Your Own Peril
Jury Statement: “Before we hear the sound of convenient elevator music, Miranda Siegel throws up. She continues to do so every day and documents this inconvenient truth even during her stay in the psychiatric ward. Her severe struggle against her own body is juxtaposed with her dry sense of humor in this smart and stunning video journal that makes visible what is otherwise hidden – from society or from oneself. Kudos to her courage, frankness and irony in solving this and other puzzles."
TRIPLE AXEL COMPETITION (1.000€):
Olaf Held: Spätsommer 91
The Audience Award is supported by the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung.
ARTE AWARD:
José Luis Jiménez Gómez: The Reign of Antoine
The competition spanning ARTE Short Film Award consists of the purchase of one film (up to 6,000 euros) and its subsequent screening in the »Kurzschluss« programme by ARTE, the Franco-German cultural TV channel.
AUDIENCE AWARD (1500€):
Franzis Kabisch: getty abortions
Der Publikumspreis, dotiert mit 1.500 Euro, geht wettbewerbsübergreifend an einen Film aus dem Internationalen oder Deutschen Wettbewerb.
MO&FRIESE AWARDS:
Friese-Award: The Mystery of Missing Socks – Oskar Lehemaa, special mention: Semiotics of the Home – Hsin-Yu Chen/Jessi Ali Lin Mo-Award: The Creators – Madeleine Homan, special mention: Circle – Yumi Joung Neon-Award: Bubbling – Che-ming Chang, special mention: Papillon – Florence Miailhe Nomination ECFA Short Film Award: Yuck! – Loïc Espuche, special mention: Death to the Bikini! – Justine Gauthi
The POST Playground becomes Hamburg's most beautiful movie theater! For the first time, we are presenting two short film programs in our large mainhall. The Triple Axel Open Air (Friday, 10 pm) and the Open Air: Paws and Claws (Saturday, 10:15 pm) are moving into the Playground. Nobody has to freeze and we can make ourselves comfortable in Hamburg's first indoor Open Air! All tickets remain valid.
The following artists decided to withdraw their films from the festival and join the call issued by “Strike German” in solidarity with the Palestinian People. We respect their decision and we have decided not to replace withdrawn films. We very much hope that we will have the chance to show their works in the future.
Ever Since, I Have Been Flying by Aylin Gökmen
Neo Nahda by May Ziadé
We Need New Names by Onyeka Igwe
The Catalog of the 40th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg share
Kick-Off-Event, May 31, 2024, 6 pm Pavillon der freien Künste, Rentzelstraße 36-40, 20146 Hamburg
We're joining forces! Seven festivals, taking place between June and October 2024, are uniting their efforts, with a great focus on contemporary art and both local and international networking: Altonale, Blurred Edges, fluctoplasma, Fringify - Independent Arts Festival Hamburg, Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Live Art Festival Kampnagel and Stimme X.The goal is to enhance the visibility and relevance of the arts in the city, exchange experiences, and explore ways to support each other in a sustainable and solidarity-based manner.
To kick off this collaboration and symbolize our unity, we are organizing a get-together with the festivals and all interested parties, and will inaugurate the Pavilion of the Independent Arts on Rentzelstraße. The pavilion will serve as both the festival center for Fringify and a meeting and event venue for the independent scene. The festivals will present their diverse programs before we toast together and conclude the evening with music. Drinks will be provided. The festival season can begin – come celebrate with us!
Free Admission.
The Jury Award in the German Competition, endowed with 2,000 euros, is awarded by a three-member jury. The Jury 2024 is:
The Jury Award in the German Competition, endowed with 2,000 euros, is awarded by a three-member jury. The Jury 2024 is:
Toby Ashraf works as a curator, moderator and film critic. He has written for taz, Sissy and numerous other publications and moderates film and literature talks for the Berlinale and the international literature festival berlin, among others. In 2015 he won the Siegfried Kracauer Prize for Best Film Criticism. In 2014, he founded the Berlin Art Film Festival, which he curated and directed independently until 2018. Toby Ashraf has curated film series for the Goethe Institutes of North America and Calcutta, among others, and was part of the advisory selection committee of the Panorama section of the Berlinale in 2022. In 2023 he was artistic co-director of the FIRST STEPS Awards.
Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck works as a filmmaker, videoartist and film curator, and creates videoprojections for theater, opera, dance and music concerts as well as video installations for exhibitions and museums. She teaches at art schools and has been working for film festivals as a programmer, presenter (Berlinale Shorts, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Filmwinter Stuttgart, Pictoplasma) and member of the jury for more than 25 years. She co-runs the shorts/ salon, and since 2019 she is head of Berlinale Shorts, the official competition for short films at the Berlinale.
Gerald Weber studied history, geography, philosophy and film studies in Vienna and Barcelona. He is a founding member of »Projektor: Diskussionsforum Film und Neue Medien« and was co-organizer of the international symposium »film[SUBJECT] theory« (1996). Since 1997 he has been working for sixpackfilm in the distribution of Austrian documentary, short and experimental films. As part of sixpackfilm, he has organized numerous film-related events and presentations of Austrian and international film and video art in Austria and abroad. Weber also gives lectures, moderates film talks and works as a curator and journalist.
In the International Competition, a five-member jury awards the Hamburg Short Film Award, endowed with 3,000 euros, and the Deframed Award, endowed with 2,000 euros, to a film that deals with reality in a poetic, formal, analytical and unconventional way, ignoring all rules in a forward-looking way. It also awards the Hamburg candidate for the "European Short Film" award category of the European Film Academy. The Jury 2024 is:
In the International Competition, a five-member jury awards the Hamburg Short Film Award, endowed with 3,000 euros, and the Deframed Award, endowed with 2,000 euros, to a film that deals with reality in a poetic, formal, analytical and unconventional way, ignoring all rules in a forward-looking way. It also awards the Hamburg candidate for the "European Short Film" award category of the European Film Academy. The Jury 2024 is:
Manuel Abramovich is a filmmaker and artist born in Buenos Aires in 1987 and based in Berlin. His work explores different ways of staging intimacy. His films have been awarded worldwide, among them Blue Boy (Berlinale Silver Bear and Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2019), Soldier (Berlinale 2017), and Pornomelancolia (Best Cinematography at San Sebastian). He was a member of the Berlinale Talents Selection Committee in 2019 and 2020 and is a member of the Deutsche Filmakademie. Besides his work as a director, he is a film mentor and a teacher at several film schools and universities. Since 2021, he has been directing »DIP: Documentary, Intimacy, and Staging«, a one-year online program for international artists and filmmakers. He is currently finishing his fifth feature film Croma.
Aboozar Amini trained as a visual artist at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and received his Master of Fine Arts in filmmaking from London Film School. He is an alumnus of IDFA Academy, Berlinale Talent Campus, Cannes Cinéfondation La Résidence and a fellow at Akademie der Künste in Berlin. His works include video art, documentaries, and fiction aimed at orchestrating and transcending the facades of reality in order to creep under its lingering surface, inviting us to explore a heightened, nuanced perception of the world.
Flóra Anna Buda was born and raised in an artistic environment in the outskirts of Budapest. Her studies in fashion, her love for drawing and interest in storytelling led her to animation. Her MOME graduation film called Entropia premiered at the 69th Berlinale and won the 33th Teddy Award. She became an intern at Miyu Productions where later she made her first professional film 27. The film had its premiere at Festival de Cannes where it won the Palme d’Or for short films and went on to win the Crystal du Court Métrage at Annecy Festival. Currently, she is developing new projects. One of her main goals is to keep searching for new ways of creating diverse universes, telling honest stories and finding a way to create an artistic project out of her recent interest, with an open mind.
Lucía Salas is an Argentinian writer, programmer, and filmmaker based in Spain. She is a co-editor of the film magazine La vida útil, programmer at Punto de Vista and Woche der Kritik, teacher in the curatorial studies program at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola. She collaborated with Con Los Ojos Abiertos, Jugend ohne Film, Viennale, IFFR’s Critic’s Choice, DocumentaMadrid, DocLisboa, Margenes, among others. She has co-directed the non-fiction feature Implantación (2016) and several short films together with LaSiberia Cine. She studied Image and Sound Design at the University of Buenos Aires, has an MA in Aesthetics and Politics from CalArts (thanks to a Fulbright scholarship) and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Communications program in the cinema department at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Greta Snider has made films since discovering the art form at Antioch College in Ohio, and promptly moved to San Francisco to join a thriving low-budget experimental film scene, where she continues to make, screen, and teach about cinema. In her work, Snider utilizes a combination of original and archival material to create nonfiction art cinema of a personal nature. Her single screen films on 16mm lean heavily on the creative use of montage, interweaving the personal and historical in a number of short essay films. Her stereoscopic performances and installations take the materiality of film and family photos, to reshape themes of memory, loss, and personal histories in a more intimate, affective experience. She has screened in museums throughout the world, and also in bars, alleyways, and once, at an all-night international rave party in a penthouse in Tokyo’s district Shibuya. Snider teaches experimental filmmaking at San Francisco State University, where she is faculty advisor to The Archive Project.
"I can't see a thing!" – From light breezes to thunderstorms, our trailer reflects what “cloudy” can look like – and how it can obscure our vision. Thanks to NEOZOON for daring to head with us into the unknown!
Selected films 2024: International Competition share
27, Flóra Anna Buda, France, 2023 (Out of Competition) 3350 KM, Sara Kontar, Arab Republic Syria/France, 2023 Avaler la poussière (Swallowing Dust), Achille Bocquier, France, 2023 Boléro, Nans Laborde-Jourdàa, France/Italy, 2023 Bye Bye, Bowser, Jasmin Baumgartner, Austria, 2023
27, Flóra Anna Buda, France, 2023 (Out of Competition) 3350 KM, Sara Kontar, Arab Republic Syria/France, 2023 Avaler la poussière (Swallowing Dust), Achille Bocquier, France, 2023 Boléro, Nans Laborde-Jourdàa, France/Italy, 2023 Bye Bye, Bowser, Jasmin Baumgartner, Austria, 2023
Doris & Bettan - Marbella Mayhem, Ellen Ekman, Sweden, 2023 DUCK, Rachel Maclean, United Kingdom, 2024 Este es el diario no tan secreto de Raquel (This Is Raquel's Not-so-secret Diary), Raquel Agea Ramos, Spain, 2023 El Reinado de Antoine (The Reign of Antoine), José Luis Jiménez Gómez, Kuba, 2023 getty abortions, Franzis Kabisch, Germany/Austria, 2023 Grandmamauntsistercat, Zuza Banasińska, Polen/Netherlands, 2024 I look into the mirror and repeat to myself, Giselle Lin, Singapur, 2023 I think of silences when I think of you, Jonelle Twum, Sweden, 2023 In Praise of Slowness, Hicham Gardaf, United Kingdom/Italy, 2023 Kinderfilm, Total Refusal, Austria, 2023 krahët e punëtorëve (Workers' Wings), Ilir Hasanaj, Kosovo, 2024 Neo Nahda, May Ziadé, Lebanon/UK, 2023 (withdrawn) O Gün Bu Gündür, Uçuyorum (Ever Since, I Have Been Flying), Aylin Gökmen, Switzerland, 2023 (withdrawn) Preoperational Model, Philip Ullman, Netherlands, 2024 Qareen ki sargoshi (Whispers of a Qareen), Maaria Sayed, India, 2024 Radije bih bila kamen (I Would Rather Be a Stone), Ana Hušman, Croatia, 2024 Shrooms, Jorge Jácome, Portugal, 2023 Slimane, Carlos Pereira, Germany, 2023 Solo la Luna Comprenderá (The Moon Will Contain Us), Kim Torres, Costa Rica/USA, 2023 Sombras Nada Más (Nothing But Shadows), Kathy Mitrani, Columbia/USA, 2023 Songs of Love and Hate, Saurav Ghimire, Nepal/Belgium, 2024 Tako Tsubo, Fanny Sorgo & Eva Pedroza, Austria/Germany, 2024 The Interior Frontier, Justin Clifford Rhody, USA, 2023 The Porn Selector, Lou Fauroux, France, 2024 the river that never ends, JT Trinidad, Philippines, 2022 The Wool Aliens, Julia Parks, United Kingdom, 2023 Va Saraye Setamkaaran Bad Manzalgaahist (And How Miserable is the Home of Evil), Saleh Kashefi, Switzerland, 2023 What Else Grows On The Palm Of Your Hand?, Dhiaa Biya, Belgium/ Morocco, 2023 You can't get what you want but you can get me, Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh, Netherlands, 2023 Zarafet ve Şiddet Arasında (Between Delicate and Violent), Şirin Bahar Demirel, Netherlands/Turkiye, 2023 Харалтіда (Kharaltida), Vasyl Lyah, Ukraine, 2024 休息一下 (Break no.1 & Break no.2), Lei Lei, People’s Republic of China , 2024 บัวบ้า (Crazy Lotus), Naween Noppakun, Thailand, 2024 مست دل (Mast-del), Maryam Tafakory, United Kingdom/Iran, 2023 피크닉 (PICNIC), Kawon Lee, South Korea, 2023
Blue, Woman, Dress, Jinhyun Kim, Germany/South Korea, 2023 Club Bunker, M + M, Germany, 2023 COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE, Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany, 2024 Curro, Yalda Afsah, Germany, 2024 Das feine Zirpen einer Dunkelziffer (Silent chirping of invisible Digits), Vera Sebert, Germany, 2023
Blue, Woman, Dress, Jinhyun Kim, Germany/South Korea, 2023 Club Bunker, M + M, Germany, 2023 COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE, Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany, 2024 Curro, Yalda Afsah, Germany, 2024 Das feine Zirpen einer Dunkelziffer (Silent chirping of invisible Digits), Vera Sebert, Germany, 2023
detours while speaking of monsters (detours while speaking of monsters), Deniz Şimşek, 2024 Eine einzelne Tat (A Single Incident), Constanze Wolpers, Germany, 2023 En el Mismísimo Momento (At that very moment), Federico Luis Tachella, Rita Pauls, Argentina/Germany, 2023 fühlst du dich angesprochen? (Does this apply to you?), Evelyn Deller & Selena Knoop, Germany, 2023 GAZE IN BATTLE, Ayla Pierrot Arendt, Germany, 2023 Gestern, Ich Denke An Morgen (Yesterday, Thinking About Tomorrow), Tom Otte, Germany, 2023 Gezielt Mittelalterliche Überlegungen (The Bear Within), Finn Ole Weigt & Paula Milena Weise, Germany, 2024 Ich hab dich tanzen sehn (I saw you were dancing), Sarah Pech, Austria/Germany, 2024 Ignore Your True Feelings at Your Own Peril, Miranda Siegel, Germany, 2024 Il compleanno di Enrico (The Birthday Party), Francesco Sossai, Germany, 2023 Pacific Vein, Ulu Braun, Germany, 2024 Pirouette, Ann Oren, Germany, 2024 Stille Nacht (Silent Night), Philipp Schaeffer, Jonathan Schaller, Germany, 2024 Stadtmuseum / Мой Рай (City Museum / My Paradise), Boris Dewjatkin, Germany, 2023 That's All From Me, Eva Könnemann, Germany, 2024 What fog?, Philip Widmann, Germany, 2024 X or Y or Z, Mirelle Borra, Germany, 2023
Filmstill: COMPASSION AND INCONVENIENCE, Vika Kirchenbauer
0.1 g, Raymond Hoepflinger, Switzerland, 2023 6 minutes/km, Catherine Boivin, Canada, 2023 Amongst the Roots & Veins, Nikolai Azariah, United Kingdom, 2024 bath salts, Murat Haschu, Germany, 2024 Das Salz des Lebens (Salt of Life), Sebastian Vetter, Germany, 2024
0.1 g, Raymond Hoepflinger, Switzerland, 2023 6 minutes/km, Catherine Boivin, Canada, 2023 Amongst the Roots & Veins, Nikolai Azariah, United Kingdom, 2024 bath salts, Murat Haschu, Germany, 2024 Das Salz des Lebens (Salt of Life), Sebastian Vetter, Germany, 2024
Das Salzsäckchen (The Salt Bag), Thomas Range, Germany, 2024 Entropy, Julia Münstermann, Germany, 2024 Grottenschlicht (Plain as a pit), Dorit Kiesewetter & Carsten Knoop, Germany, 2024 High Sierra, Michael Cedlind, Sweden, 2023 Knetmann Sad and Salty, Jule Carlotta Hermann, Germany 2024 Midnight Egg, Holga Rosen, Germany, 2024 Salt Eats Film, Dagie Brundert, USA, 2019 Salty Bliss, Mia Baden, Germany, 2024 Salz is’ genuch (Enough Salt), Holger Mohaupt, Germany, 2024 Salzmedley (Salt Medley), Stefan Möckel, Germany, 2024 Spätsommer 91 (Late Summer 91), Olaf Held, Germany, 2024 Suppenkasper (Soup lad), Kalle Anker, Germany, 2024 The Bonny Moorhen, Jonathan Farr, United Kingdom, 2023 The Male Gaze Recipe, Alma Weber & Joey Arand, Germany, 2024 Vier Ecken Salz (Four Corners of Salt), Lars Florian Walklang, Germany, 2024 Vom Sehen im Salz. Oder: Zehn Strategien, in einer Unendlichkeit der eigenen Endlichkeit ins Auge zu blicken (Of Seeing in Salt. Or: Ten strategies to face the own finitude in an infinity) Philipp Hartmann, Germany, 2024 Wacholder (Juniper), Andreas H. Drescher, Germany, 2024 Water Nation, Kim Spierenburg, Netherlands 2023
Our anniversary motto is "Cloudy". We focus on the nebulous, ever changing structures and various societal weather conditions. We look at ambiguities, taking in consideration the global political situation, and explore what impairs our view. With the help of filmic positions, we seek a way through these ambiguities and make visible what is hidden behind the cloud cover.
Addressing the effect of the war in Gaza on the national cultural scene share
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.
We take a clear stance against all forms of group-related misanthropy, such as ableism, ageism, anti-Muslim hatred, anti-Semitism*, discrimination of LGBTQIA+ individuals, classism, racism and sexism, as well as against all forms of physical and verbal violence. Creating and maintaining conditions that foster these principles requires ongoing, shared efforts and proactive, self-reflective behaviour from everyone involved in the festival. Texts such as the present one are no substitute for this essential work, though they do offer the opportunity to take a conscious position both internally and externally.
Our scene is diverse. Our actions as political beings can take on different forms, whether loud and explicit, or in the background and implicit. We respect the decision of all those who have opted to suspend their co-operation with German institutions in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We join the unconditional demand for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages.
We want to preserve Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg as a place that reflects the diversity of artistic perspectives and attitudes, so that we can continue to share different experiences with one another.
This text was formulated on the basis of the Code of Ethics of the European Media Art Festival (EMAF). We endorse the words of our colleagues and would like to thank them for laying this groundwork.
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg x Sparclub: Feminism Solidarity share
„Guten Abend, meine sehr verehrten Damen und Herren. Bevor wir Ihnen aus Grenoble die Europameisterschaften im Eiskunstlauf übertragen, gestatten Sie mir einige Hinweise zur Emanzipation der Frau."
– Christiane Gehner: Programmhinweise, 1970
Erst Filme, dann tanzen: Zur Einstimmung auf den feministischen Kampftag zeigen wir Filme, die den Kampf für Gleichberechtigung spiegeln. Dazu legt m_vonderaue elegant und nicht zu schnell und basslastig auf. Tanz, Ansage, Körper – Feminism solidarity!
We are open! Submit your short film for the 40th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg! For the International and German Competition as well as for Mo & Friese dedicated to young audiences, all genres with a maximum length of 30 minutes and not older than two years (January 2022) are accepted. We also call for submissions for the festival's Triple Axel Competition. This year's topic is: Salt.
The festival will take place from June 4 to June 9, 2024. Mark your calendars for the anniversary edition and celebrate with us 40 years short films!
Music and the City - Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg meets Sparclub @ Slot share
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg x Sparclub @ Slot: Music and the City
Der Sparclub und das Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg laden ein zu einem besonderen Club-Film-Abend. Das Festival bringt ein Kurzfilm-Programm mit in den Slot Keller, in dem Film, Musik und die Frage nach dem wem und wie der Stadt zusammenschmelzen. Wir bewegen uns tanzend, diskutierend, fließend und surreal durch die ewige Stadtentwicklung: kurze Filme in laut auf der Clubanlage – I want my Shortfilm Festival on the dancefloor.
Donnerstag 7.12.2023, 20:00 Uhr
Filmprogramm Start: 20:30 Uhr, danach gibt’s Musik vom Kurzfilm Festival Team
Into the near queer future: India Week Hamburg share
Friday, November 24, 8 pm, Lichtmeß
As part of India Week and in collaboration with Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Bangalore-based curator Mithila Hegde presents a queer film program that breaks the boundaries of the binary system. Hegde focuses on artists whose protest and activism is soft and often overlooked. An eclectic mix of films - original and accessible, powerful and empathetic, experimental and accessible, poignant and heartwarming. In the presence of the curator! Supported by the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media.
10th India Week Hamburg will take place from November 20 to 26, 2023. With around 70 events, it provides exciting insights into the contemporary culture and society of the Indian subcontinent.
"Ilsebill salted" - Günter Grass once came up with this award-winning beginning to a novel. And now it's your turn: Three minutes of film with salt, please! For our Triple Axel, the competition in which you have to make a film on a given theme in no more than three minutes. Whoever manages to do that will enter the race for the audience prize (1000 euros) on a legendary night at the Short Film Festival Hamburg.
Salt is such a prominent player in idioms and language games, we can already guess how you will translate "salt" into film language: We look forward to salt shaker ballets or salt shaker thrillers, the salt on your skins, in soups and wounds ... Right? Surprise us and submit your salt film to us starting in November. In this sense: Axel and salt - God bless!
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 39th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg!
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 39th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg!
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Jury: Nawar Al Qassimi, Patrick Holzapfel, Adina Pintilie, Emilie Poirier, Yulia Serdyukova
HAMBURG SHORT FILM AWARD (3.000€): Enrique Pedráza-Botero, Faye Tsakas - Alpha Kings
Jury Statement: "We would like to give the main award ex aequo to a film that depicts emptiness without artifice in a very new contemporary setting. The filmmakers are bringing us into the world of online financial domination without judgment while maintaining a healthy and critical distance from their protagonists. Through online videos, live streams and hand-held camera moments, themes like sexuality, hyper masculinity, erotic labor, power dynamics and gender performativity are addressed in a very agile and delicate way. The Best Short Film of the competition goes to Alpha Kings : an observational film that skilfully presents the dichotomy between the Masters and their subs in their transactional relationship and the loneliness in the everyday life of some American teenagers."
Karla Crnčević - Wild Flowers
Jury Statement: "We would like to give the main award ex aequo to a film that touched us with a dialogue between a daughter and a father about a video he recorded thirty years ago documenting the traces of war at the family’s house. What seems rather simple at first sight opens up different layers of memories, both personal and collective, as well as a longing for family and home, all overlapping like the petals of the eponymous flower. In a time in which the violence and scars of wars seem to swallow every hope, the film makes us realize that the appearance of beautiful flowers growing out of ruins on an old videotape can mean the world."
DEFRAMED AWARD (2.000€): Douwe Dijkstra - Neighbour Abdi
Jury Statement: "We would like to give the Deframed award to Neighbour Abdi, a film that presents a harsh reality in a unique and unconventional way. In this film, producer Douwe and Abdi work together to recreate scenes from Abdi’s hometown of Mogadishu. The film takes us from the studio to the ruined city showing us the process of making, collaboration, memory and trust between the two individuals. An omnipresent green screen appears and disappears as we move through the film; a reminder of the trauma that we carry with us as individuals."
HAMBURG SHORT FILM CANDIDATE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS:
Joseph Wilson - I can see the sun but I can’t feel it yet
Jury Statement: "In the spirit of Hamburg Short Film Festival's core curatorial concept - to acknowledge and support unconventional and thought-provoking works, which challenge the boundaries of cinema as a medium, our nomination for the European Film Awards goes to a conceptual and performative tour de force, an irreverent celebration of freedom - both the freedom to decide over our bodies, identities and loves, and that of cinema as the language of our deepest longings and shadows. Shifting unpredictably, and sensuously, between memory and dream, pain and breathtaking beauty, incisive satire and raging poetry, the film is a wild and life-affirming tribute to the queer body’s power and beauty. To paraphrase the filmmaker “a monument to youth and love within us”. The European Film Academies Short film nominee is “I Can See The Sun, But I cannot feel it yet”, by Joseph Wilson."
SPECIAL MENTION:
Shuli Huang - Will you look at me
Jury Statement: "There are many different ways to deal with prejudices and the wounds they cause. This film shows how oppressive systems hurt all sides of this vicious circle. While a son turns to his mother in search of recognition and acceptance, healing is hardly possible, but shared pain and mutual compassion create a space where love persists against all odds. The special mention of the competition goes to a film that explores the complexities of family connections in a way that is both strikingly intimate – and universally human: Will You Look At Me by Shuli Huang."
GERMAN COMPETITION
Jury: Clara Helbig, Dani Rosenberg, Ulrich Ziemons
JURY AWARD (2.000 €): Rita Macedo - Farewell recording for an observer of an unknown time and place
Jury Statement: "Set in the liminal wetland space between the real and the virtual, this film is a highly inventive sci-fi eco-dystopia. Touching on planetary collapse and the outsourcing of intelligence, the director zooms into urgent issues of the now and sculpts an equally seductive and menacing vision that functions as a warning at crossroads."
SPECIAL MENTION Camille Tricaud, Franziska Unger - Slow down the fall
Jury Statement: “This intimate drama, virtuously staged against the backdrop of an imposing landscape, questions the sacrifices we are prepared to make for personal success – whether in life or in sports. A cinematic tour de force, that at its core is a search for truth."
TRIPLE AXEL COMPETITION (1.000€):
Simon Ellis - The Terminator
The Audience Award is supported by the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung.
ARTE AWARD:
Moe Myat May Zarchi - The Altar
The competition spanning ARTE Short Film Award consists of the purchase of one film (up to 6,000 euros) and its subsequent screening in the »Kurzschluss« programme by ARTE, the Franco-German cultural TV channel.
AUDIENCE AWARD (1500€):
Fariba Haidari - Leila
The Audience Award is awarded to a film from the International or the German Competition.
MO&FRIESE AWARDS:
Friese-Award: Marjolaine Perreten – Pebble Hill , lobende Erwähnung: Anne-Sophie Gousset – To be sisters Mo-Award: Samy Sidali – P.D.O., lobende Erwähnung: Andrew Brand – Buzz Neon-Award: Justine Martin – Oasis, lobende Erwähnung: Kantarama Gahigiri – Terra Mater Nomination ECFA Short Film Award: Nathan Clement – The truth about Alvert, the last Dodo
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„Mehr Licht” ("More light") Goethe said on his deathbed. As an artist and scientist, the longing for more light drove him throughout his life. Not only during the Romantic period, but throughout the ages, pharaohs and astronomers, philosophers and physicists, priests and painters have sought methods of understanding light and becoming powerful with it. Cultural history is rich in myths and legends, theories and inventions. They are all about the essence of light, as it is part of our experience and consciousness.
Light is all-embracing and touches all areas of human life. The philosophers of antiquity were the first to systematically include light in their theories. For almost 1000 years, the Platonic doctrine, which primarily emphasized the spiritual-internal dimension of light, was the basis for all subsequent lighting concepts - from optics to architecture to philosophy. With the beginning of the modern era, it was displaced and thus light was deprived of its spiritual reference point. This break marks a decisive moment in the history of light and is the basis for our understanding of it today.
Exhibition opening, text by Melike Bilir
„Mehr Licht” ("More light") Goethe said on his deathbed. As an artist and scientist, the longing for more light drove him throughout his life. Not only during the Romantic period, but throughout the ages, pharaohs and astronomers, philosophers and physicists, priests and painters have sought methods of understanding light and becoming powerful with it. Cultural history is rich in myths and legends, theories and inventions. They are all about the essence of light, as it is part of our experience and consciousness.
Light is all-embracing and touches all areas of human life. The philosophers of antiquity were the first to systematically include light in their theories. For almost 1000 years, the Platonic doctrine, which primarily emphasized the spiritual-internal dimension of light, was the basis for all subsequent lighting concepts - from optics to architecture to philosophy. With the beginning of the modern era, it was displaced and thus light was deprived of its spiritual reference point. This break marks a decisive moment in the history of light and is the basis for our understanding of it today.
In the 21st century, the character of light is being discussed anew. Light shapes life and thus culture. Electric light is the basis of our modern economic and social system. The significance and effect of artificial light on people, aesthetics and space is up for debate.
And this is where Luftwerk comes in: Luftwerk (Petra Bachmaier & Sean Gallero) explore light, color and perception in their installations. Since their founding in 2007, Luftwerk has created an extensive body of work ranging from site-specific installations to experimental projects. Petra Bachmaier, holds a Master of Arts from the HfbK in Hamburg and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago (SAIC). Sean Gallero, studied art and humanities at Lehman College in New York. He continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute Chicago (SAIC), where he began his collaboration with Bachmaier in 2000.
Light and color are the most important elements in Luftwerk's work. Their interest is in the power of light as a crucial element of vision, whose dynamic relationship to color perception is explored. Through the use of various modalities - such as projection of videos, shadow casting, among others - they integrate light into each project to explore its fleeting and changing nature. Essentially, Luftwerk creates visual atmospheres through the use of light and manipulates the viewer's attention with vibrant colors to create intriguing experiences. Petra and Sean describe that in every Luftwerk project, color is the key and light is the core. The combination of light and color adds a dynamic layer to their work that changes the audience's perception.
What I would also like to point out: despite many innovations, LIGHT drags all this tradition of mysticism and symbolism with it. All the time it had something to represent: Christ, divine inspiration, truth, enlightenment, even socialism. In general, light has always been used primarily to reveal other things. Luftwerk is about light revealing itself as light. The light doesn't symbolize anything else. It is what it is. Freed from traditions, mysticism and symbolism, they treat light as matter - as material.
SCENOGRAPHY OF SPACE
An inspiration for this installation SCENOGRAPHY OF SPACE, which brings together visual art & film, was Hans Richter's film "Rhythmus 21". Hans Richter was an important 20th century German artist and filmmaker known for his avant-garde works. One of his notable films, "Rhythm 21" from 1921 is considered one of the earliest abstract films ever made and has been called a "key film of modernism." In this film, Richter explored the representation of abstract forms, movements, and rhythms. The film consists of trick moving geometric shapes and patterns. Black and white squares appear in fades up and down on the screen. They sometimes appear to move from one side of the frame to the other, sometimes from foreground to background.
Rhythm was shot in black and white and lasts about 3 minutes - as does the installation Scenography of Space, shown here on loop. "Rhythm" had a profound influence on many subsequent artists:ing and filmmakers:ing and, as stated earlier, also served as inspiration for Luftwerk. Luftwerk's artistic practice, with its emphasis on light, color, and choreographed projections, is conceptually related to Richter's exploration of abstract forms and rhythms. Luftwerk's work extends Richter's legacy and bridges the gap between film and visual art. By incorporating light projections and techniques (in Luftwerk's case: motors / fabric panels), they push the boundaries of the medium and develop a unique visual language, expanding the possibilities of film and visual art through their innovative and boundary-breaking approach.
And while we're on the subject of perception, we're also in NOW, our theme of the Hamburg Short Film Festival. An expanded concept of media art also includes the use of light and movement as artistic material. As early as the 1950s, artists of the ZERO group such as Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker were concerned with light as a creative medium. Their concern was to trace painting back to its conditions, namely in particular to light as the underlying element. In doing so, however, they left the technique of painting with paint and canvas and created spatial works that cast shadows or evoked reflections and incorporated movement into their concept. The result was works whose impression changes depending on the viewer's point of view. Heinz Mack does not consider color or other formal components, but their spatial organization and movement as the actual form of artistic work.
Scenografie of Space by Luftwerk also works as a space-related artwork with the integration of a variable viewer perspective. As the:visitor:walks through the space, there is no fixed viewer standpoint that dictates an optimal perspective of perception. Movement and orientation in the space is an intentional element of the visitor experience.
-- Melike Bilir --
SCENOGRAPHY OF SPACE Open Space @ Festival center Post Opened daily from 11 am, guided tour on Friday, 1 pm
Schnappt euch unsere Funkkopfhörer, packt eure Picknickdecken und Kissen aus und schaut mit uns Kurzfilme zwischen Parkbänken und Balkonromantik – das Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg lädt zum Open Air!
Samstag, 3. Juni 2023, 22:15 Uhr
Schnappt euch unsere Funkkopfhörer, packt eure Picknickdecken und Kissen aus und schaut mit uns Kurzfilme zwischen Parkbänken und Balkonromantik – das Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg lädt zum Open Air!
In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Quartiersmanagement von ProQuartier und mit Unterstützung des Bezirksamts Altona zeigen wir am Samstag, den 3. Juni ab 22:15 Uhr im Quartierspark der Mitte Altona ein Kurzfilmprogramm mit Filmen aus dem Stadtteil, übers Zusammenwohnen und dem einen oder anderen Klassiker.
Wer Lust hat, findet Getränke und einen kleinen Happen auf die Hand bei der Blauen Blume. Dort stehen auch Toiletten zur Verfügung.
Die Veranstaltung findet nur bei gutem Wetter statt. Von Änderungen erfahrt ihr an dieser Stelle.
Der Eintritt ist frei. Die Funkkopfhörer werden gegen einen Pfand von 10 Euro pro Stück ausgegeben.
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In the International Competition, a five-member jury awards the Hamburg Short Film Award, endowed with 3,000 euros, and the Deframed Award, endowed with 2,000 euros, to a film that deals with reality in a poetic, formal, analytical and unconventional way, ignoring all rules in a forward-looking way. It also awards the Hamburg candidate for the "European Short Film" award category of the European Film Academy. The Jury 2023 is:
In the International Competition, a five-member jury awards the Hamburg Short Film Award, endowed with 3,000 euros, and the Deframed Award, endowed with 2,000 euros, to a film that deals with reality in a poetic, formal, analytical and unconventional way, ignoring all rules in a forward-looking way. It also awards the Hamburg candidate for the "European Short Film" award category of the European Film Academy. The Jury 2023 is:
Nawar Al Qassimi
As the Vice President of Sharjah Art Foundation, she is responsible for the Foundation’s strategic planning, and strengthening the Foundation’s role as a catalyst and advocate for the arts in Sharjah, UAE; in the region; and around the world. Al Qassimi is a member of the Sharjah Tourism Advisory Committee and was a jury member for the Karama Film Festival in 2020.
Patrick Holzapfel
He works as a writer, film critic and curator. His articles and stories are regularly published in numerous publications in German and English language. He is editor-in-chief of the website Jugend ohne Film. In 2016 he received the Siegfried Kracauer scholarship of the German Film Critic Association. He has curated several retrospectives in Vienna, Berlin, London, and Bern. Currently he is working on his debut novel and a translation of stories told to him by a stone.
Adina Pintilie
She is a filmmaker, visual artist and curator; from 2022, she is also a professor for cinema at the HFBK University of Arts Hamburg. Spanning cinema, installation, performance and virtual reality, her works stand out through a uncompromising exploration of the human psyche and an ongoing questioning of film language conventions. Her feature film Touch Me Not won the Golden Bear at the 2018 Berlinale. Pintilie's visual art project »You Are Another Me – A Cathedral of the Body« has been selected to represent Romania at the 2022 Venice Art Biennial. Her film Don’t Get Me Wrong won the Golden Dove for Best Documentary at Dok Leipzig 2007. She is a member of the European Film Academy.
Emilie Poirier
She has been working in programming at the Montreal Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) since 2017. She is now head of short film and feature film programmer. She is also a member of the preselection committee at Busan International Short Film Festival as well as an independent curator, moderator and writer.
Yulia Serdyukova
She is a documentary film producer, photographer and curator. Member of Freefilmers cinemovement, co-founder of Filma. Feminist Film Festival. In her work and activism, relies on queer feminist approaches.
The Jury Award in the German Competition, endowed with 2,000 euros, is awarded by a three-member jury. The Jury 2023 is:
The Jury Award in the German Competition, endowed with 2,000 euros, is awarded by a three-member jury. The Jury 2023 is:
Clara Helbig
She is a filmmaker and curator and works now as a programmer for the leading arthouse streaming service MUBI. Clara's artistic practice explores the interconnectivity between different actors and life forms on our planet and has been shown internationally at exhibitions and film festivals. In 2021, her short film disjointed won the German Short Film Award in the Documentary category.
Dani Rosenberg
The Death Of Cinema And My Father Too, his debut feature film, was part of the Official Selection in Cannes 2020 and won the Jerusalem Film Festival. His short and medium length films were shown in numerous international festivals including Cannes, Berlinale, HotDocs and IDFA. His comedy-drama series Milk & Honey has been purchased for adaptation in Germany and France. The Vanishing Soldier is his second feature film.
Ulrich Ziemons
He is – together with Ala Younis – co-head of the section Forum Expanded of the Berlin International Film Festival. Since 2006 he has worked as curator and project manager for Arsenal (Institute for Film and Video Art in Berlin) in the scope of Berlinale and in other contexts. From 2014 to 2020 he was a member of the short film selection committee of Dokfest Kassel. He has curated film programs for, among others, Kunstverein Leipzig, Kochi Muziris Biennale, National Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul and Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival. In 2014 he published the book "Aufzeichnungen eines Storm Squatters", a monograph on George Kuchar’s Weather Diary video series.
In addition to 133 competition films, we will also present selected, curatorial programs in the sections "Laboratory of the Present" and "Archive of the Present". This year, we continue our focus on migrant film in Germany that we started in 2022 – and also look at two Yugoslavian filmmakers and their work in and from Germany.
In addition to 133 competition films, we will also present selected, curatorial programs in the sections "Laboratory of the Present" and "Archive of the Present". This year, we continue our focus on migrant film in Germany that we started in 2022 – and also look at two Yugoslavian filmmakers and their work in and from Germany.
>> LABORATORY OF THE PRESENT: THINKING OF GERMANY
"Thinking of Germany at night just puts all thought of sleep to flight." In reference to these lines by Heinrich Heine, which are still used today to comment on problematic political events here, the "Laboratory of the Present" takes a critical look at Germany. A subversive, activist, but also fun attitude connects the five film programs in this section. They encounter the complex German history cinematically with a polyphony of identities and cultures.
The program "Blind in the Right Eye" (curated by Florian Wüst) bundles cinematic reactions to right-wing extremist violence and structural blindness of state institutions to racism and xenophobia. "The Most Beautiful Window in the World" (Florian Wüst) collages various TV excerpts and shows how unconventional, progressive and almost activist mass communication beyond ratings could and can be in the FRG. "Oh Pleasure Up Yours!" (Mara Marxsen) is aware of the complex relationship between gender, pleasure, power and images, but at the same time celebrates pleasure in films and through films. Wild, angry films meet in the program "Everyday Life and Turmoil. Counter-Narratives from the GDR" (Conny Klauß) with pockets of resistance, descriptions of daily life and the exasperation of an exhausted society. And "We need to talk" (Sarnt Utamachote) shows the diversity of migration stories from the Asian continent to Germany and makes clear how the filmmakers position themselves in the stories they tell.
>> ARCHIVE OF THE PRESENT: BACKLIGHT
The “Archive of the Present”, curated by Tobias Hering, focuses on the Yugoslav filmmakers Irena Vrkljan and Želimir Žilnik in two programs.
In the late 1960s, Želimir Žilnik was one of the best-known directors of the "Black Wave" - a series of films that dealt critically with Yugoslav society. In the mid-1970s, he moved to Munich for some time and also put his finger on sore points in the films he made there, addressing xenophobia and structural violence in West German society. In the presence of Žilnik, we will show short films shot in Germany, some of which were long considered lost, but have recently resurfaced in various archives.
Irena Vrkljan was a poet, filmmaker, translator and radio playwright. She lived between Berlin and Zagreb for 50 years, writing and narrating about life between these worlds that did not come together and yet became inseparable. When she began studying directing at the newly founded dffb in Berlin in 1966, she was 36 and already established in Yugoslavia as a television writer and poet. The four films she made at the dffb are explorat
ions of the place by a dowser, stories of "Shadow Berlin," but also critical positionings on the politically turbulent generation to which she belonged.
„The only thing wrong with the present is the bastard doesn’t exist, because the present is the future and the future is the past.“
This year's trailer is by filmmaker and artist Ann Oren. Her films have screened at festivals around the world - including in competition at the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg - and won many awards, including Locarno and Chicago. Ann Orens works feature characters existing in the liminal space. In keeping with the festival motto, the Berlin-based artist asks the question: What does it mean to be in the present? What is "NOW"?
Selected films 2023: International Competition share
45th Parallel, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, UK, 2022 Africans With Mainframes, Kima Hibbert, USA, 2023 Afterlives, Michael Heindl, Austria/Tanzania, 2022 Alpha Kings, Enrique Pedráza Botero/Faye Tsakas, USA, 2022 Amok, Balázs Turai, Hungary/Romania, 2022
45th Parallel, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, UK, 2022 Africans With Mainframes, Kima Hibbert, USA, 2023 Afterlives, Michael Heindl, Austria/Tanzania, 2022 Alpha Kings, Enrique Pedráza Botero/Faye Tsakas, USA, 2022 Amok, Balázs Turai, Hungary/Romania, 2022
Andy et Charlie (Andy and Charlie), Livia Lattanzio, France, 2022 Apostles of Cinema, Cece Mlay/Darragh Amelia/Gertrude Malizana/Jesse Gerard Mpango, United Republic of Tanzania, 2022 Bezuna, Saif Alsaegh, USA, 2023 Bigger on the Inside, Angelo Madsen Minax, USA, 2022 Buurman Abdi (Neighbour Abdi), Douwe Dijkstra, Netherlands, 2022 Chomp It!, Mark Chua/Li Shuen Lam, Singapur, 2023 Dang wo wang xiang ni de shi hou (Will You Look at Me), Shuli Huang, People's Republic of China, 2022 Der Molchkongress (The Newt Congress), Immanuel Esser, Matthias Sahli, Switzerland/ Germany, 2022 Dildotectónica (Dildotectonics), Tomás Paula Marques, Portugal, 2023 Divlje cvijeće (Wild Flowers), Karla Crnčević, Croatia/Spain, 2022 Fala da terra (Voice of the Land), Benjamin de Burca/Bárbara Wagner, Brazil, 2022 I Can See The Sun but I Can't Feel It Yet, Joseph Wilson, UK, 2023 If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move, Kevin Jerome Everson, USA, 2023 Il faut regarder le feu ou brûler dedans (Watch the Fire or Burn Inside it), Caroline Poggi/Jonathan Vinel, France, 2022 Ilanga Alikho (The Sun is Missing), Advik Beni, South Africa, 2022 Mini-Mini-Pokke no Okina Niwa de (In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket), Yoko Yuki, Japan, 2022 Koerkorter (Dog-Apartment), Priit Tender, Estonia, 2022 La herida luminosa (Daydreaming so Vividly about our Spanish Holidays), Christian Avilés, Spain, Leila, Fariba Haidari, Sweden, 2023 Les Sports X-trem, Gio Ventura, France, 2023 Los órganos internos de la Madre Tierra (Mother Earth's Inner Organs), Ana Bravo Pérez, Netherlands, Colombia, 2022 Nå er jeg her, jeg også (Now, I also, am here), Camilla Figenschou, Norway, 2023 On The Birthday of The Wind, Dang Tung Bach, Australia, 2022 Our Pain, Shunsaku Hayashi, Japan, 2023 Pacific Club, Valentin Noujaïm, France, 2023 Pastoral Malaise, Ufuoma Essi, UK, 2022 Repetitions, Morgan Quaintance, UK, 2022 Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories, Anna Vasof, Austria/Greece, 2022 Terra Mater, Kantarama Gahigiri, Ruanda, Switzerland, 2023 Terror Has No Shape, Luis Arnias, USA, 2021 The Altar, Moe Myat May Zarchi, Myanmar, 2022 The Memo, Badlands Film Group, People's Republic of China, 2022 Through a Shimmering Prism, We Made a Way, Rhea Storr, UK/Bahamas, 2021 Un genre de testament (A Kind of Testament), Stephen Vuillemin, France, 2023 Upwards Tide, Daniela Zahlner, Austria, 2022 Wo de peng you (All Tomorrow's Parties), Dalei Zhang, People's Republic of China, 2022 West Lounge, Kevin Jerome Everson, USA, 2023 صوتك بس (Your Voice Only), Rana Wael Matar, Saudi-Arabia, 2023 هاتف صدى Hatef Sada, Anouch Basbous, France, 2021
Anima Overdrive, Andrea Winkler, Stefan Panhans, Germany, 2022 An Uncontacted Tribe, Hanna Noh, Germany, 2022 Can´t Help Myself, Anna Ansone, Latvia/Germany 2022 Der andere Tag (The Other Day), Timo Schierhorn, Germany, 2022 Dos amigos vuelven a casa solos de noche, (Two Friends Walk Home Alone at Night), Marlon Weber, Germany/Argentina, 2023
Anima Overdrive, Andrea Winkler, Stefan Panhans, Germany, 2022 An Uncontacted Tribe, Hanna Noh, Germany, 2022 Can´t Help Myself, Anna Ansone, Latvia/Germany 2022 Der andere Tag (The Other Day), Timo Schierhorn, Germany, 2022 Dos amigos vuelven a casa solos de noche, (Two Friends Walk Home Alone at Night), Marlon Weber, Germany/Argentina, 2023
Drei Bäume sind kein Wald (Three Trees Don't Make a Forest), Leonhard Hofmann, Germany, 2023 Einmal wieder dieser Junge sein (Being That Boy Again), Jan Koester/Lisa Violetta Gaß, Germany 2022 Es gibt keine Angst (Afraid Doesn't Exist), Anna Zett, Germany, 2023 Farewell Recording for an Observer of an Unknown Time and Place, Rita Macedo, Germany, 2023 Fleischwolf, Noah Fritzsche, Germany, 2022 Flut (Flood), Almourad Aldeeb, Germany, 2022 Hochofen II (Blast Furnace No.2), Su Yu Hsin, Germany, 2022 I Am A, Dagie Brundert, Germany, 2022 I Will Take Your Shadow, Ayala Shoshana Guy, Germany, 2022 In Limbo, Gusztáv Hámos/Katja Pratschke, Germany, 2022 Into The Violet Belly, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Germany, 2022 Mut Me Lule, Mona Rizaj, Germany/Austria, 2023 No Animal, Christoph Girardet/Matthias Müller, Germany 2022 Ralentir La Chute (Slow Down The Fall), Franziska Unger/Camille Tricaud, Germany, 2023 Ready for Ransom, Simon Dickel, Germany, 2022 Ring, Tanita Olbrich, Germany, 2023 Speaking Flowers, Conrad Veit/Charlotte Maria Kätzl, Germany, 2023 SSRC, Yalda Afsah, Germany, 2022 Tricky Disco, Sebastian Weise, Germany, 2022
Filmstill: Einmal wieder dieser Junge sein (Being That Boy Again), Jan Koester/Lisa Violetta Gaß
A Night at the Movies, Gabriel Tempea, Austria, 2023 At Night – Mozzie, Alert Carol/Edward Lyon, UK, 2023 Big Monster, Esther Weber, Germany, 2023 Bingo, Teemu Saarinen/Karo von Rutenhjelm, Finland, 2020 Electric Manoevres in the Dark, Vera Geisler/Reinhard Westendorf, Germany, 2023
A Night at the Movies, Gabriel Tempea, Austria, 2023 At Night – Mozzie, Alert Carol/Edward Lyon, UK, 2023 Big Monster, Esther Weber, Germany, 2023 Bingo, Teemu Saarinen/Karo von Rutenhjelm, Finland, 2020 Electric Manoevres in the Dark, Vera Geisler/Reinhard Westendorf, Germany, 2023
Howl by Gogol, Uliana Shalygina, Russian Federation, 2022 La fête est finie (The Party’s Over), Pierre Ives Clouin, France, 2023 Magical Caresses: Sweet Jesus, Lori Malépart-Traversy, Canada, 2022 Mr. Kuddles, Micha Gress, Germany, 2023 Nacht über R32, Felix Dierich, Germany, 2023 Nachtleuchten, Rafaela Range, Germany, 2019 Nachtschwärmer, Claire Walka, Germany, 2023 Night Train, Sofia Gutman, Israel/France, 2022 Prelude, Eginhartz Kanter, Austria, 2022 Proton in der Dunkelrutsche, Dorit Kiesewetter/Carsten Knoop, Germany, 2023 Rêves Party (The Sandman), Amélie Prevot/Marion Christmann, France, 2022 RIP, Morgan Quaintance, UK, 2022 Sleep Tight, Jonas Potthoff/Malte Pell/Tobias Sodeikat, Germany, 2022 Tehran, Masoud Moein Eslam, Iran, 2015 The Evenings Entertainment, Adams Vaicis, Latvia, 2023 The Terminator, Simon Ellis, UK, 2023 Until Dark, Kalle Anker, Germany, 2023 Vergissmeinnicht, Luzie Ilgner, UK, 2022
The motto of the 39th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg is going to be… ⫸ NOW! ⫷
This year‘s edition looks at contemporary urgencies and current issues reflecting the past. It’s all about the present, our actions, here and now! Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg will take place from June 6 to 11. Which raises the question: Why not right NOW?
Here's this years Selection Committee for the German Competition 2023:
Florian Fischer, born 1981 in Tübingen, studied communication design, photography and visual studies. He was a participant in the Werkleitz Media Master Class and Berlinale Talents. In 2017, he was a fellow at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles and currently works as an author and media artist in Leipzig and Hamburg. His film "Umbra" won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlinale 2019 and screened in the German Competition of the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg in the same year.
Nadine Mayer moved from Stuttgart to Hamburg to study for her Master's degree in Culture and Media Management. In 2011 she started working for the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg at the info counter, was responsible for the film market and joined the selection team for the German Competition in 2014. At the same time, she got to know the artist group "A Wall is a Screen", with whom she travels the country to project short films on walls. Her main job also revolves around moving images, most recently as a producer of documentary films for TV.
Here's this years Selection Committee for the German Competition 2023:
Florian Fischer, born 1981 in Tübingen, studied communication design, photography and visual studies. He was a participant in the Werkleitz Media Master Class and Berlinale Talents. In 2017, he was a fellow at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles and currently works as an author and media artist in Leipzig and Hamburg. His film "Umbra" won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlinale 2019 and screened in the German Competition of the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg in the same year.
Nadine Mayer moved from Stuttgart to Hamburg to study for her Master's degree in Culture and Media Management. In 2011 she started working for the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg at the info counter, was responsible for the film market and joined the selection team for the German Competition in 2014. At the same time, she got to know the artist group "A Wall is a Screen", with whom she travels the country to project short films on walls. Her main job also revolves around moving images, most recently as a producer of documentary films for TV.
Stine Wangler studied at Leuphana University in Lüneburg and at Glamorgan University in Wales. She wrote her thesis in cultural studies about short films on the internet. Since 2012 she has been working at the Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg and is responsible for world sales and purchase of licenses for short films. On the side, she occasionally works as a photographer. Since 2013, she has been a viewing member of the German Competition at the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg.
David Kleingers is head of the digital department and strategic development at the DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum. As a film journalist and historian, he has published numerous articles and book chapters on German, European and international cinema. He is also curator of the Maple Movies Festival, dedicated to contemporary Canadian film.
Deniz Şimşek is a filmmaker and media artists living in Berlin. Having studied film in Istanbul at MSFAU, she is currently studying art and media at the UdK Berlin, under Prof. Thomas Arslan. Her works have been shown internationally in exhibitions, art and film festivals, including the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Kasseler Dokfest, European Media Art Festival and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg. Deniz is part of the 5th edition of the Federal Association AG Kurzfilm and German Films’ Emerging Artists program.
Selection Committee International Competition 2023 share
We proudly present: Our selection committee for the 2023 International Competition!
In her artistic films and video works, Vanessa Nica Mueller deals with questions of individual and collective memory, the human being in relation to urban space and nature, as well as with the tension between the familiar and alienation. She studied film and time-based media at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and at the École supérieure d'art Marseille. In addition to realizing and producing her own films, she works as a lecturer in the field of film education. In 2018 she was in Lebanon for an extended film research as part of a grant from the Goethe Institute and in 2021 she was a guest at Urbane Künste Ruhr as Artist in Residence 2021.
Sarnt Utamachote (ษาณฑ์ อุตมโชติ) is a nonbinary filmmaker, curator and co-founder of un.thai.tled, an artist collective from the German Thai diaspora with whom they curated the un.thai.tled Film Festival Berlin and Beyond the kitchen: Stories from the Thai Park. The video installation I Am Not Your Mother (2020) was exhibited at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the short film Soy Sauce (2020) was screened at OutFest Fusion LA, Xposed Berlin and Queer East London 2021, among others.
We proudly present: Our selection committee for the 2023 International Competition!
In her artistic films and video works, Vanessa Nica Mueller deals with questions of individual and collective memory, the human being in relation to urban space and nature, as well as with the tension between the familiar and alienation. She studied film and time-based media at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and at the École supérieure d'art Marseille. In addition to realizing and producing her own films, she works as a lecturer in the field of film education. In 2018 she was in Lebanon for an extended film research as part of a grant from the Goethe Institute and in 2021 she was a guest at Urbane Künste Ruhr as Artist in Residence 2021.
Sarnt Utamachote (ษาณฑ์ อุตมโชติ) is a nonbinary filmmaker, curator and co-founder of un.thai.tled, an artist collective from the German Thai diaspora with whom they curated the un.thai.tled Film Festival Berlin and Beyond the kitchen: Stories from the Thai Park. The video installation I Am Not Your Mother (2020) was exhibited at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the short film Soy Sauce (2020) was screened at OutFest Fusion LA, Xposed Berlin and Queer East London 2021, among others.
Nora Molitor studied Intercultural Communication, Spanish and History. She works for international literature, film and theater projects and festivals, including the Max Ophüls Festival, the Berlin International Literature Festival, the German-French stage festival Perspectives and Berlinale Forum Expanded. Jury activities for the FCDEP (Paris), BIEFF (Bucharest) and Encounters (Bristol). She also supervises the Border Crossers Program of the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Literary Colloquium Berlin. She is co-founder of transdemo e.V., member of LaborBerlin e.V. and curates and coordinates interdisciplinary projects in Berlin's independent scene.
Alejo Franzetti was born in Buenos Aires. He is a member of the selection committee of Berlinale Shorts and of Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg. He graduated in Film-Direction at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires and was Meisterschüler by Thomas Arslan at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. He has made films of different lengths, such as “El contrabajo” (short), “La destrucción del orden vigente” (feature), “Panke” (medium length). His work has been shown at venues such as Torino International Film Festival, Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Festival Márgenes, Entrevues Belfort, Bafici, Anthology Film Archives. He was co-founder and programmer of INVASION, the Argentine film festival in Berlin . He has also engaged in formative projects such as Talents Buenos Aires, Fakultät Null/Interflugs, and Cinema en curs.
Theresa George studied ethnology, political science and journalism at the University of Leipzig and has since been working as a freelance film anthropologist between cultural theory and film (mediation). She teaches Visual Anthropology, works for film festivals (Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Kasseler DokFest…), conceives film series / lectures / installations in diverse collaborations and co-developed numerous film projects. Currently, her main interest lies in filmmaking and film reception in the former GDR of the 1990s, which she intends to deepen by developing the artistic research VIDEO2089.
Sebastian Markt studied history in Vienna and Berlin, worked among other things in art house cinemas and has been working as a film critic for about ten years. He is a founding member of the main association Cinephilie, where he is primarily involved in the field of cultural film education. As a curator and festival programmer, Sebastian Markt is also active for the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg and the junge dokfest Kassel. Since September 2022 Sebastain is the new head of the Generation section of the Berlinale.
Maike Mia Höhne is a German film director, film curator, professor of film, mother of two children. She lives and works in Hamburg. From 2007 to 2019, she played a key role in shaping the profile of the short film section Berlinale Shorts at the Berlin International Film Festival as curator and director. In 2019, she took over as artistic director at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg. Since 2019, she has been a professor at the University of Applied Science Europe at the Hamburg Campus in the Department of Art & Design for the Film program.
Felix Piatkowski, born in Rostock, 15 years in Hamburg studying media culture, working at the Medienzentrum, in the cinema and since 2008 at the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg. Moved to Berlin in 2017 and turned to psychoanalysis, but never turned his back on the short film festival and has now been there for 16 editions.
Anna Feistel studied Literature Art and Media Studies at University of Konstanz and Sapienza Università di Roma. Her passion for short films ignited many years ago organizing a student short film festival in a communal cinema. Since 2016 she has worked in several positions at Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg. She is a member of the selection committee and programme coordinator of Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg.
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg has signed the Green Charter for Film Festivals. With this we commit to fulfill the charter and act on the sustainability of our event.
Das Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg präsentiert zum Kurzfilmtag am 21.12. gleich zwei Winter Open Air Programme.
Zusammen mit der Superbude Hotel & Hostel Altona Paradise präsentieren wir ab 17:00 Uhr ein kuscheliges Winter Open Air für die ganze Familie an der Außenwand der Superbude Altona.
Und im Hof der Fux Kaserne in Hamburg-Altona zeigen wir ab 17:00 Uhr ein Mo&Friese Kinderprogramm und ab 18:30 Uhr kurze Filme für Erwachsene.
Ihr zieht euch warm an und wir bringen kurze Filme und heiße Getränke. Das Ganze bei freiem Eintritt.
Kurzfilm Familien Winter Open Air @ Superbude Altona
Mi, 21. Dezember 17:00 Uhr
Paul-Dessau-Strasse 2, 22761 Hamburg
Kurzfilm Winter Open Air @ fux
Mi, 21. Dezember
17:00 Uhr Mo & Friese Kinderprogramm
18:30 Uhr Kurzfilme für altere Zuschauer*innen
Bodenstedtstr. 16, 22765 Hamburg
Donnerstag, 17. November ab 20 Uhr Hier im Livestream
Mehr als 250 Kurzfilme sind in diesem Jahr im Rennen um den Deutschen Kurzfilmpreis. Wer sich diesmal über die höchste Auszeichnung für das kurze Filmformat freuen kann, wird Kulturstaatsministerin Roth bei der Preisverleihung am 17. November in Hamburg verkünden.
Die Jurys Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis haben zwölf Kurzfilme für eine Auszeichnung mit dem Deutschen Kurzfilmpreis 2022 nominiert: Zu den Nominierten.
Triple Axel Competition 2023 Topic: At night
What crawls out of your camera on the subject of night? The night train or the nightingale, a night porter or night mare? In the dark of night the ghosts come and all cats are gray. The absence of light is the sinister nemesis of the film, which without light gets lost in the black hole. So, night owls, get nocturnal!
► TRIPLE AXEL COMPETITION
All good things come in threes: Three minutes of film. Three spins in the air. The triple Axel is one of the most difficult jumps in figure skating. And for us, it's the competition in which the goal is to get a spin on a given theme done in three minutes or less. Whoever manages to do this will enter the race for the audience prize (1000 euros) in a legendary short night at the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg. Join the Triple Axel, topic for 2023 is: „At Night“.
► DATES
We'll be accepting your three-minute pieces starting in early November. Check our website or subscribe to our newsletter for updates. Deadline for submissions is February 14, 2023. For Triple Axel there are no submission fees. The 39th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg will take place from June 6 to 11, 2023.
Kurz in die Mitte – Kurzfilm Open Air, Samstag, 3. September 2022, 21:00 Uhr, Quartierspark Mitte Altona.
Nachdem das Wetter im Juni leider nicht mitgespielt hat, kommt nun endlich der Nachholtermin für das Kurzfilm Open Air im Quartierspark.
Schnappt euch unsere Funkkopfhörer, packt eure Picknickdecken und Kissen aus und schaut mit uns Kurzfilme zwischen Parkbänken und Balkonromantik – das Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg lädt zum Open Air!
In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Quartiersmanagement von ProQuartier und mit Unterstützung des Bezirksamts Altona zeigen wir am Samstag, den 3. September ab 21:00 Uhr im Quartierspark der Mitte Altona ein Kurzfilmprogramm mit Animationsfilmklassikern, zum Beispiel zeigen wir die gesamte Log Jam und Athleticus Reihe.
Wer Lust hat findet Getränke und einen kleinen Happen auf die Hand bei der Blauen Blume. (Dort stehen auch Toiletten zur Verfügung.)
Die Veranstaltung findet nur bei gutem Wetter statt. Tagesaktuelle Informationen dazu sind auf der Webseite zu finden.
festival.shortfilm.com
Der Eintritt ist frei. Sitzgelegenheiten wie Decken, Stühle u.ä. müssen selber mitgebracht werden.
Die Funkkopfhörer werden gegen einen Pfand von 10 € pro Stück ausgegeben.
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 38th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg!
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Jury: Edwin, Florian Fischer, Andrea Lissoni, Jyoti Mistry, Caroline Monnet
HAMBURG SHORT FILM AWARD (3.000€): Pavel Mozhar - Handbook
Jury Statement: "Political and social violence continues to dominant our lives and screens. The challenge is how to create representations of human atrocities without reproducing the spectacle of violence. Set in a sterile environment of a small room, that replicates the size of a holding cell, the testimony and experiences of incarcerated activists is recounted through a set of sobering instructions of staged physical brutality. This documentary of reenactments pushes the boundaries of the genre by employing a clinical eye on violence. The gaps demand that an audience complete the visual representation in their own imagination and this leaves one with a haunting and chilling feeling that endures long after the film is over. For cinematic excellence and a film that creates a signature language to expose contemporary political and civil violence in society through a manual of instructions for state practice as violence, the winner is: Handbuch by Pavel Mozhar."
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 38th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg!
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Jury: Edwin, Florian Fischer, Andrea Lissoni, Jyoti Mistry, Caroline Monnet
HAMBURG SHORT FILM AWARD (3.000€): Pavel Mozhar - Handbook
Jury Statement: "Political and social violence continues to dominant our lives and screens. The challenge is how to create representations of human atrocities without reproducing the spectacle of violence. Set in a sterile environment of a small room, that replicates the size of a holding cell, the testimony and experiences of incarcerated activists is recounted through a set of sobering instructions of staged physical brutality. This documentary of reenactments pushes the boundaries of the genre by employing a clinical eye on violence. The gaps demand that an audience complete the visual representation in their own imagination and this leaves one with a haunting and chilling feeling that endures long after the film is over. For cinematic excellence and a film that creates a signature language to expose contemporary political and civil violence in society through a manual of instructions for state practice as violence, the winner is: Handbuch by Pavel Mozhar."
DEFRAMED AWARD (2.000€): Maria Estela Paiso - Ampangabagat Nin Talakba Ha Likol (It's Raining Frogs Outside)
Jury statement: "A contemporary generation is dealing with increased mental health concerns, emotions of entrapment and isolation where socio-political concerns are replaced by identity politics. Using a memorable breath of haptic and tactile images and innovative animation techniques this film is a deeply emotive exploration of feeling trapped by the inner demons of social expectations and one’s own desires. Even though the film offers a dark exploration of isolation, its balance of playful counterpoints is a poetic expression of the vulnerabilities of a young generation. The Deframed Award for an artistic film goes to: Maria Estela Paiso for Ampangabagat Nin Talakba Ha Likol – It’s raining frogs outside."
HAMBURG SHORT FILM CANDIDATE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS:
Leonor Noivo - Madrugada (Dawn)
Jury Statement: "Cycles of labour: invisible labour of women’s work, the cleaning of homes and the endless routines of daily life which are often the unseen, and the unspoken parts of women’s lives that are passed on in generations. How do daughters make peace with their mother’s lives in which they have watched and witnessed the sacrifices mothers make in the name of love and protection? In an exceptionally raw and daring film that combines several genres, this docu-fiction is an exploration of the connections between women, labour, and desires. This intimate portrait of a generation of women unfolds the corrupted transmission of communication of unresolved feelings of loss. The jury selection for the EU award is: Leonor Noivo’s Madrugada - Dawn."
SPECIAL MENTION:
Evgenia Arbugaeva, Maxim Arbugaev - Haulout)
Jury statement: "A radical act of commitment and stunning photography brings us to one of the most urgent socio-political circumstances of our times. The Anthropocene remains the crisis of our epoch but this film neither succumbs to hysteria nor to the commercial manipulation of information of climate change. Instead in an exceptional and deeply affecting observation we are shown directly the vulnerability of nature at the hands of humans. At once lyrical, but profoundly disciplined – this film captures kinship by creating an intense interspecies dialogue that carefully balances the contradiction of being enclosed in a small, confined space with the vastness of nature. In a patient and committed process this film is a testament to cinema’s capacity to take us to far flung places on the globe but which demands our urgent attention because it effects the immediacy of our lives and futures. For a poignant posthumanist film we give special mention to: Haulout by Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev."
GERMAN COMPETITION
Jury: Andreas Fock, Matt Lloyd, Genne Spears
JURY AWARD (2.000 €): Sylvia Schedelbauer - Oh, Butterfly!
Jury statement: "Waves roll under an echoing lament for a lover across the ocean. The jury awards a multi-layered work of exhaustive research that places family history in dialogue with one of the most frequently reproduced works of twentieth century opera. The filmmaker uses archive footage organically to create a vivid and ornate palimpsest, touching on themes of race, Empire, migration and performance. This is a work of both rigour and excess; we applaud the filmmaker’s ambition, sensitivity and mastery of her material. The German Short Film Award goes to Oh, Butterfly! by Sylvia Schedelbauer."
SPECIAL MENTION Mona Keil - Saft
Jury Statement: “To a film that efficiently summarizes a pandemic experience through a haunting, spellbinding and animated internal world. The special mention goes to an intense and well-crafted piece of unforgettable images: Saft by Mona Keil.”
TRIPLE AXEL COMPETITION (1.000€):
Kumaran Herold - Shining
Der Publikumspreis wird von der Hamburgischen Kulturstiftung unterstützt.
ARTE AWARD:
Morgan Quaintance - A Human Certainty
The competition spanning ARTE Short Film Award consists of the purchase of one film (up to 6,000 euros) and its subsequent screening in the »Kurzschluss« programme by ARTE, the Franco-German cultural TV channel.
AUDIENCE AWARD (1500€):
Daniel Aguirre - Pink Rider
The Audience Award is presented with kind support of Play Studios. It is awarded to a film from the International or the German Competition.
MO&FRIESE AWARDS:
Friese Award: Ursula Ulmi – IDODO, special mention: John Croezen – Fantastischer Flugwettkampf Mo Award: Marcel Barelli – In der Natur, special mention: Wassili Franko & Paul Spengemann – Pocket Call Neon Award: Laura Wadha – Born in Damaskus, special mention: Mark Albiston – Datsun Nomination ECFA Short Film Award: Britt Raesh, Luce und der Stein GIB MIR 5! Competition: Frieda Durago – Sei keine Flasche, Filmkids.ch – Le Train, Jessica, Leenay & Fatma – Können Katzen fliegen
"Let's talk money!" 2. Fair Festival Award and Panel Sa 4.6. | 7:30 PM | Post Playground & Livestream
The festival working group of german trade union ver.di presents the Fair Festival Award for the second time. The award honors festivals that offer fair working conditions - anonymously evaluated by the respective festival teams. The aim is to initiate a discussion about the value of festival work and film festivals.
The award ceremony will take place during the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg in the Post Playground and can also be seen here. You can also join an interactive livechat on Vimeo.
In the International Competition, a five-member jury awards the Hamburg Short Film Award, endowed with 3,000 euros, and the Deframed Award, endowed with 2,000 euros, to a film that deals with reality in a poetic, formal, analytical and unconventional way, ignoring all rules in a forward-looking way. It also awards the Hamburg candidate for the "European Short Film" award category of the European Film Academy. The Jury 2022 is:
In the International Competition, a five-member jury awards the Hamburg Short Film Award, endowed with 3,000 euros, and the Deframed Award, endowed with 2,000 euros, to a film that deals with reality in a poetic, formal, analytical and unconventional way, ignoring all rules in a forward-looking way. It also awards the Hamburg candidate for the "European Short Film" award category of the European Film Academy. The Jury 2022 is:
Edwin
He is a filmmaker based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Edwin studied film at the Jakarta Institute of Arts. His short “Kara, the Daughter of a Tree” became the first Indonesian film selected at Director's Fortnight in Cannes in 2005. His feature film debut ”Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly” got a Fipresci Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009. “Postcards from the Zoo”, his second feature, was in competition at Berlinale 2012. His latest project, “Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash” won a Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival 2021.
Florian Fischer
Florian Fischer, born 1981 in Tübingen, studied communication design, photography and image science. He was a participant in the Werkleitz Media Master Class and Berlinale Talents. In 2017, he was a scholarship holder at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles and currently works as an author and media artist in Leipzig and Hamburg. His film "Umbra" won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlinale 2019 and was screened in the German Competition of the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg in the same year.
Andrea Lissoni
Since 2020, he is the Artistic Director of Haus der Kunst, Munich. He was formerly Senior Curator for International Art (Film) at Tate Modern, London, and curator at HangarBicocca, Milan. At Tate he launched and co-curated new exhibition formats, as the 2017 and 2018 Live Exhibition, the collection display and the live programme at the opening of the new building in 2016. His curatorial work is characterized by a focus on transdisciplinarity and subcultures.
Jyoti Mistry
She works with film as an interplay between cinematic traditions and installation art. Her films have screened at festivals including Toronto, Winterthur, Rotterdam and Durban, among others. Jyoti Mistry has been artist in residence at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam and the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and was a member of the International Short Film Jury at the 68th Berlinale. She is currently professor for film at the University of Gothenburg.
Caroline Monnet
Caroline Monnet (Anishinaabe/French) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Montréal. She studied in Sociology and Communication at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and the University of Granada (Spain) before pursuing a career in visual arts and films. Her work has been programmed internationally at TIFF, Sundance, Rotterdam Film Festival, and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, among others. In 2016, she was selected for the Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation residency in Paris.
An overview of all awards of the festival can be found here.
The Jury Award in the German Competition, endowed with 2,000 euros, is awarded by a three-member jury. The Jury 2022 is:
The Jury Award in the German Competition, endowed with 2,000 euros, is awarded by a three-member jury. The Jury 2022 is:
Andreas Fock
He is the founder and director of Filmfest Sundsvall in Northern Sweden. Andreas Fock worked at the Swedish Film Institute for several years with short film related matters; first being in charge of festival distribution for Swedish shorts at the International Department, then being the film commissioner for short films at the Film Funding Department between 2013 and 2016. Although mostly involved with festivals, distribution and funding, he co-wrote the script to the short “Public Gatherings” (dir. Ivana Lalovic, 2021).
Matt Lloyd
Matt Lloyd has worked in film exhibition in Scotland for over twenty years. He was short film programmer of Edinburgh International Film Festival between 2004 and 2008. Matt was director of Inverness Film Festival from 2006 to 2008, and produced two unique festivals in the Scottish Highlands for the Oscar-winning actor Tilda Swinton and filmmaker Mark Cousins. He has directed Glasgow Short Film Festival for eleven years, in which time it has grown from a modest two day event into Scotland’s leading international short film festival.
Genne Speers
Genne Speers is a scholar of the archive, film and art history as well as a practicing archivist, counter archival activist, programmer and arts administrator. Currently the Director of the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC). Founded in 1967, the CFMDC is a distribution centre and de-facto archive for one of the most important collections of analogue, artist made film and queer works in Canada. Speers holds an MA in Film Archiving from the University of East Anglia and is defending her PhD this spring from York University.
An overview of all awards of the festival can be found here.
The Catalog of the 38. Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg share
In cooperation with Kampnagel and the International Short Film Festival Dresden we are showing a special event presenting the short films of Ukrainian directors. It was curated by festival director of the international short film festival Wiz-Art in Lviv Olha Raiter, who is currently staying in Bautzen. Six short films from Ukraine will be shown, reflecting life and everyday life before the war. The donations from this event will directly benefit the filmmakers* in Ukraine.
Short film programme: "In Joy and Sorrow" Thursday, 5 May, 7pm at Kampnagel
In cooperation with Kampnagel and the International Short Film Festival Dresden we are showing a special event presenting the short films of Ukrainian directors. It was curated by festival director of the international short film festival Wiz-Art in Lviv Olha Raiter, who is currently staying in Bautzen. Six short films from Ukraine will be shown, reflecting life and everyday life before the war. The donations from this event will directly benefit the filmmakers* in Ukraine.
Short film programme: "In Joy and Sorrow" Thursday, 5 May, 7pm at Kampnagel
The program shows:
The Surrogate by Stas Santimov, Ukraine, 2020.
A man destroys the nest of an unknown, scary creature. But it's not the scariest creature he'll encounter tonight.
Chacho by Vitalii Havura, Ukraine, 2020
Yanush has grown up in a conservative Romani community in a small Ukrainian town. He is about to get married, exactly what his parents want. But Yanush is gay and in love with another young man, Pasha. Together they decide to sneak away from the wedding and leave town, but can Yanush really do it?
Leopolis Night by Nikon Romanchenko, Ukraine, 2021.
Polia, Solomiia and Mariia are playing at the local theater. After the spectacle, they meet a man and walk together through the city at night. Polia seems to fall in love with him. In the morning he leaves town and they will not see each other again.
Dedicated to the Youth of the World II by Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Himey, Ukraine, 2019.
Yarema and Roman document Cxema, the biggest rave in Ukraine that emerged after the 2013-2014 revolution. The party offered the new generation a chance to reclaim the city, explore it and express themselves. The film was shot at Dovzhenko FilmStudios on April 21, 2018.
In Joy by Maryna Roshchyna, Ukraine, 2018.
Kate is a young, lonely mother. She falls in love with a man, but doesn't have the courage to tell him she has a son. As their relationship quickly develops, the revelation becomes more complicated. She is faced with a choice between her personal life and her responsibility to her son.
Deep Love by Mykyta Lyskov, Ukraine, 2019.
Love story with characters. The tape consists of plot and style independent episodes, which have a unified mood and meaning. The film was shot without words, a funny story meditation on interpersonal relationships is revealed through sounds.
A Vietnamese fairy tale goes like this: the wife of a soldier, at nights when he was at war, would point at the shadow casted on the wall by the oil lamp and told her son that the shadow was his father so that the child can be comforted into sleep. "The image of a shadow on the wall evokes in me something distant and primordial," says director Phạm Ngọc Lân, whom the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg invited to create the trailer for this year's "Echoes From the Near Future" theme. At the same time, the shadow and projection play is reminiscent of the way cinema works: "Similar to the story, cinema releases and incites our imagination through the images that it paints. Perhaps, we – the audience, have always been the children, somehow innocent and thirsting for stories?" asks Lân, who is considered Vietnam's new voice. His short films first celebrate their world premieres at major festivals - including Hamburg - and are shown worldwide.
Selected films 2022: International Competition share
#31# (appel masqué), Ghyzlène Boukaïla, France/Algeria, 2021 2gether, Kim Ekberg, Sweden, 2022 A Human Certainty, Morgan Quaintance, UK, 2021 Amazon Woman, Anna Vasof, Austria, 2021 Anxious Body, Yoriko Mizushiri, France, 2021 Aromana, Vukan Zarkovic, Serbia/Netherlands, 2022
#31# (appel masqué), Ghyzlène Boukaïla, France/Algeria, 2021 2gether, Kim Ekberg, Sweden, 2022 A Human Certainty, Morgan Quaintance, UK, 2021 Amazon Woman, Anna Vasof, Austria, 2021 Anxious Body, Yoriko Mizushiri, France, 2021 Aromana, Vukan Zarkovic, Serbia/Netherlands, 2022
Au revoir Jérôme!, Adam Sillard/Chloé Farr/Gabrielle Selnet, France, 2022 Ayana, Anouk Meles, Switzerland, 2021 Becoming Male in the Middle Ages, Pedro Neves Marques, Portugal, 2022 Bird in the Peninsula, Atsushi Wada, France/Japan, 2022 Broken, Nan Khin San Win, Myanmar, 2021 Building an Edge, Britany Gunderson, UK, 2021 Dear Darkness, Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Austria, 2021 Displaced, Samir Karahoda, Kosovo, 2021 Fearkingdom, Linn Löffler/Kornel Szilagyi, Germany, 2022 Fruto do Vosso Ventre, Fábio Silva, Portugal, 2021 Golden Jubilee, Suneil Sanzgiri, USA, 2021 Handbuch, Pavel Mozhar, Deutschland, Belarus, 2021 Haulout , Evgenia Arbugaeva/Maxim Arbugaev, UK, 2022 Isn't It A Beautiful World, Joseph Wilson, UK, 2021 It's Raining Frogs Outside, Maria Estela Paiso, Philippines, 2021 Las Picapedreras, Azul Aizenberg, Argentina, 2021 Le Palais Oriental, Liana & Renaud, France, 2021 Madrugada, Leonor Noivo, Portugal, 2021 Moune Ô, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, French Guiana, 2022 نظربازی Nazarbazi, Maryam Tafakory, Iran, 2022 Odorless Blue Flowers Awake Prematurely, Panos Aprahamian, Lebanon, 2021 Parasite Family, Prapat Jiwarangsan, Thailand, 2022 Pervading Animal, Graeme Arnfield, UK, 2021 Virtual Voice, Suzannah Mirghani, Sudan/Qatar,2021 Pink Rider, Daniel Aguirre, Sweden, 2021 Regular, Nata Metlukh, USA, 2022 Starfuckers, Antonio Marziale, USA, 2022 Sycorax, Lois Patiño/Matías Piñeiro, Portugal, 2021 The Demands of Ordinary Devotion, Eva Giolo, Belgium, 2022 The Guy on the Bed, Mike Hoolboom, Canada, 2021 The Lighting, Chihying Musquiqui, Germany/Taiwan/Togo, 2021 under the microscope, Michaela Grill, Austria/Canada, 2021 urban solutions, Arne Hector/Luciana Mazeto/Minze Tummescheit/Vinícius Lopes, Germany, 2022 Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons, Jodie Mack, USA, 2021 Zumindest bin ich draußen gewesen, Jan Soldat, Austria, 2021 كل نجومك على صباطي All of your Stars are but Dust on my Shoes, Haig Aivazian, Lebanon, 2021 醉死梦生 Dreaming, Nelson Yeo, Singapore, 2021
1 Kilo – 3 Euro, Ani Mrelashvili, Germany, 2022 backflip, Nikita Diakur, Germany/France, 2022 Bird in Italian is Uccello, Gernot Wieland, Germany, 2021 Blind Date, Jan Soldat, Germany/Austria, 2022 Briefe an Schewik, Itamar Gov, Germany, 2021 Dead body pose, Ann Oren, Germany, 2022
1 Kilo – 3 Euro, Ani Mrelashvili, Germany, 2022 backflip, Nikita Diakur, Germany/France, 2022 Bird in Italian is Uccello, Gernot Wieland, Germany, 2021 Blind Date, Jan Soldat, Germany/Austria, 2022 Briefe an Schewik, Itamar Gov, Germany, 2021 Dead body pose, Ann Oren, Germany, 2022
Der Tote im Livestream, Christian Bau, Germany, 2022 Die Hüter des Unrats. Eine kurze Geschichte des Abfalls, Susann Maria Hempel, Germany, 2022 Echodrom (Nachts im Bach), Gudrun Krebitz, Germany/Austria, 2022 Eine Hexe in Vorbereitung zur Walpurgisnacht, Helena Aljona Kühn, Germany, 2022 En-countering Cyberfeminism, Malin Kuht, Germany, 2021 Exterior, Kaspar Peters, Germany, 2021 First Work, Then Play, Brenda Lien, Germany, 2022 HOMESICK, Bjørn Melhus, Germany, 2022 Lamarck, Marian Mayland, Germany, 2022 Oh, Butterfly!, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany, 2022 Pocket Call, Paul Spengemann, Germany, 2021 Rüdiger, Philipp Hartmann, Germany, 2022 Saft, Mona Keil, Germany, 2022 Sonne Unter Tage, Alex Gerbaulet/Mareike Bernien, Germany, 2022 Sortes, Mónica Martins Nunes, Germany /Portugal, 2021 Summer Fling, Jasmin Preiß, Germany, 2022 The Capacity for Adequate Anger, Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany, 2021 Unterwegs im Namen der Kaiserin Prequel, Jovana Reisinger, Germany, 2022 Zoon, Jonatan Schwenk, Germany, 2022
Blocks, Adrian Jaffé, Germany, 2022 Boxcar Wizards, Julie Goldstein, USA, 2022 Calor da Gota, Júlia Balista, Brazil, 2022 Cherchez la Femme - Ida Pfeiffer, Julie Gavras/Mathieu Decarli, France, 2021 DAMN IT!, Elena Walf, Germany, 2021 Die Meise der Pinguinin, Carsten Knoop/Dorit Kiesewetter, Germany, 2022
Blocks, Adrian Jaffé, Germany, 2022 Boxcar Wizards, Julie Goldstein, USA, 2022 Calor da Gota, Júlia Balista, Brazil, 2022 Cherchez la Femme - Ida Pfeiffer, Julie Gavras/Mathieu Decarli, France, 2021 DAMN IT!, Elena Walf, Germany, 2021 Die Meise der Pinguinin, Carsten Knoop/Dorit Kiesewetter, Germany, 2022
Es ist genau genug Zeit, Oskar Salomonowitz/Widrich Virgil, Austria, 2021 First Kiss (With A Girl), Clodagh Chapman, UK, 2020 Fishing No.: 1, Andrej Polukord, Lithuania, 2018 Mimi - On Thin Ice, Ipek Köysürenbars, Germany, 2022 Mitch-Match Series #31, Géza M. Tóth, Hungary, 2021 On Very Thin Ice With Smokers!, Edward Lyon, UK, 2022 Polkappen der Erinnerung, Joachim Hofmann, Germany, 2021 Première Garde (First Guard), Arsène Chabrier, France, 2021 Schöner als Zuhause, Marie Pauline Bagh, Germany, 2022 Shining, Kumaran Herold, Germany, 2022 Soapless Soap, Tamar Sharvit, Israel, 2021 Swan Attack, Gary Parker, UK, 2022 The Tales of Nasreddin Hodja - Deadly Danger, Miklós Gerdelics. Hungary, 2021 Thin Ice 3000, Vincent Wittich, Germany, 2022 White Hole, Kalle Anker, Germany, 2022 You Talking' to Me?, Carlo Galbiati, Italy, 2021 房间内外 Inside and Outside the Room, Fengzhou Yang, People’s Republic of China, 2021
Du lebst in Hamburg, hast Lust auf Freikarten für das Festival und zufällig einen Schlafplatz übrig? Super! Wir suchen noch Unterkünfte für unsere Festivalgäste!
Die Gastgeber:innen, die unseren Gästen immer wieder Gästezimmer, Schlafcouchen oder sogar Wohnungen zur Verfügung stellen, sind nicht nur für uns, sondern hauptsächlich für unsere Gäste ausschlaggebend für eine unvergessliche Zeit in Hamburg. Eines der erklärten Ziele des Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg ist es, kulturelle Brücken zu bauen, deshalb ist es uns (in diesem Jahr ganz besonders) eine Herzensangelegenheit, möglichst vielen Filmschaffenden aus Deutschland und der ganzen Welt einen Besuch zu ermöglichen. Dabei sind wir auf die Gastfreundlichkeit der Hamburger:innen angewiesen!
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Sneak peak at the programme 2022
In large parts of the world, what we call "future" is already a tangible reality. Under the motto Echoes from the Near Future, the 38th Short Film Festival Hamburg brings numerous of these perspectives to Hamburg and lets them echo in cinematic spaces. The aim is to identify a common future through constructive, artistic contributions from the present.
Sneak peak at the programme 2022
In large parts of the world, what we call "future" is already a tangible reality. Under the motto Echoes from the Near Future, the 38th Short Film Festival Hamburg brings numerous of these perspectives to Hamburg and lets them echo in cinematic spaces. The aim is to identify a common future through constructive, artistic contributions from the present.
In addition to the three competitions (International Competition, German Competition, Triple Axel) and curated film programs, the festival also presents exhibitions, open airs, discussions and other events. This year, the programs in the Laboratory of the Present section look at three themes: The biggest focus is on a variety of different Asian perspectives, and with five curated programs, sets a clear Asian focus that also runs throughout the festival. Curators include filmmaker Pimpaka Towira (Thailand), Berlin-based Chinese filmmaker and queer activist Popo Fan, and international artist collectives, including the activist group Collective, based in Taiwan. Filmmaker, curator and film curator Mark Toscano, who has been active in the Academy Film Archive for many years, explores the themes of intoxication and ecstasy through an analog film program at the festival. The "Hamburg Positions" negotiate living spaces in Hamburg and beyond, looking in particular at the practice of squatting.
In the Archive of the Present, Tobias Hering devotes himself to migrant film in Germany. Curated by the Indonesian collective Lab Laba Laba (Edwin, Lisabona Rahman and Rizki Lazuardi), the exhibition Open Space will feature installative works that explore different ways of interpreting the concept of "home." In addition to the cinematic and artistic programs, seminars, workshops and discussion events will provide space for current social and professional issues. At the same time, the Forum opens up to the public with moderated thematic discussion rounds.
After two years of pandemic, the festival center in 2022 will finally be the POST at Kaltenkircher Platz in Altona again. In addition to pop-up cinemas indoors and outdoors, the exhibition hall Open Space, festival café, bar and music in the evening, the POST is above all a space for getting to know each other, having fun and engaging in dialogue - and therefore open to all and free of charge. Cinema screenings will take place, as usual, at 3001, B-Movie, filmRaum, Lichtmess, Metropolis and Zeise.
More information about the 38th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg very soon!
We, Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg und Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg, condemn Russia's war of aggression in its entirety, which is contrary to international law, and express our explicit solidarity with Ukraine, its population and all those involved in the cultural sector.
(Short) films have a political impact; we see ourselves as a platform for political discursive exchange that constitutes democratic societies. As a festival, we invite filmmakers from all countries to share their perspectives and stimulate dialogue.
For us, the reaction to the Russian war of aggression cannot be an origin-based boycott of Russian filmmakers. Especially now, isolation or repression are the wrong signal for independent filmmakers, also because they must not be deprived of the opportunity to make oppositional perspectives visible.
We sincerely hope that the cruel war in Ukraine will come to an end as soon as possible.
Here's this years Selection Committee for the German Competition:
Nadine Mayer moved from Stuttgart to Hamburg to study for her Master's degree in Culture and Media Management. In 2011 she started working for the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg at the info counter, was responsible for the film market and joined the selection team for the German Competition in 2014. At the same time, she got to know the artist group "A Wall is a Screen", with whom she travels the country to project short films on walls. Her main job also revolves around moving images, most recently as a producer of documentary films for TV.
Stine Wangler studied at Leuphana University in Lüneburg and at Glamorgan University in Wales. She wrote her thesis in cultural studies about short films on the internet. Since 2012 she has been working at the Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg and is responsible for world sales and purchase of licenses for short films. On the side, she occasionally works as a photographer. Since 2013, she has been a viewing member of the German Competition at the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg.
Here's this years Selection Committee for the German Competition:
Nadine Mayer moved from Stuttgart to Hamburg to study for her Master's degree in Culture and Media Management. In 2011 she started working for the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg at the info counter, was responsible for the film market and joined the selection team for the German Competition in 2014. At the same time, she got to know the artist group "A Wall is a Screen", with whom she travels the country to project short films on walls. Her main job also revolves around moving images, most recently as a producer of documentary films for TV.
Stine Wangler studied at Leuphana University in Lüneburg and at Glamorgan University in Wales. She wrote her thesis in cultural studies about short films on the internet. Since 2012 she has been working at the Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg and is responsible for world sales and purchase of licenses for short films. On the side, she occasionally works as a photographer. Since 2013, she has been a viewing member of the German Competition at the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg.
David Kleingers is head of the digital department and strategic development at the DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum. As a film journalist and historian, he has published numerous articles and book chapters on German, European and international cinema. He is also curator of the Maple Movies Festival, dedicated to contemporary Canadian film.
Deniz Şimşek is a filmmaker and media artists living in Berlin. Having studied film in Istanbul at MSFAU, she is currently studying art and media at the UdK Berlin, under Prof. Thomas Arslan. Her works have been shown internationally in exhibitions, art and film festivals, including the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Kasseler Dokfest, European Media Art Festival and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg. Deniz is part of the 5th edition of the Federal Association AG Kurzfilm and German Films’ Emerging Artists program.
Hanna Schneider is a film and literature scholar. She has been the co project manager of SchulKinoWoche Hamburg since 2013. In the same year, she began working at the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg - initially in the organizational areas of partner communication and fundraising, as well as a screener for the International Competition. Since 2018, she has been the viewing director for the German Competition. She also works as a film mediator, especially for children and young people, and writes film educational texts.
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We proudly present: Our selection committee for the 2022 International Competition!
Sarnt Utamachote (ษาณฑ์ อุตมโชติ) is a nonbinary filmmaker, curator and co-founder of un.thai.tled, an artist collective from the German Thai diaspora with whom they curated the un.thai.tled Film Festival Berlin and Beyond the kitchen: Stories from the Thai Park. The video installation I Am Not Your Mother (2020) was exhibited at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the short film Soy Sauce (2020) was screened at OutFest Fusion LA, Xposed Berlin and Queer East London 2021, among others.
Nora Molitor studied Intercultural Communication, Spanish and History in Saarbrücken and Paris. She works for international literature, film and theater projects and festivals, including the Max Ophüls Festival, the Berlin International Literature Festival, the German-French stage festival Perspectives and Berlinale Forum Expanded. Jury activities for the FCDEP (Paris) and BIEFF (Bucharest). She also supervises the Border Crossers Program of the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Literary Colloquium Berlin. She is co-founder of transdemo e.V., member of LaborBerlin e.V. and curates and coordinates interdisciplinary projects in Berlin's independent scene.
We proudly present: Our selection committee for the 2022 International Competition!
Sarnt Utamachote (ษาณฑ์ อุตมโชติ) is a nonbinary filmmaker, curator and co-founder of un.thai.tled, an artist collective from the German Thai diaspora with whom they curated the un.thai.tled Film Festival Berlin and Beyond the kitchen: Stories from the Thai Park. The video installation I Am Not Your Mother (2020) was exhibited at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the short film Soy Sauce (2020) was screened at OutFest Fusion LA, Xposed Berlin and Queer East London 2021, among others.
Nora Molitor studied Intercultural Communication, Spanish and History in Saarbrücken and Paris. She works for international literature, film and theater projects and festivals, including the Max Ophüls Festival, the Berlin International Literature Festival, the German-French stage festival Perspectives and Berlinale Forum Expanded. Jury activities for the FCDEP (Paris) and BIEFF (Bucharest). She also supervises the Border Crossers Program of the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Literary Colloquium Berlin. She is co-founder of transdemo e.V., member of LaborBerlin e.V. and curates and coordinates interdisciplinary projects in Berlin's independent scene.
Alejo Franzetti was born in Buenos Aires. He is a member of the selection committees of Berlinale Shorts and the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg. He studied Film-Direction at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires and was Meisterschüler by Thomas Arslan at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. He has made films of different lengths, such as "El contrabajo" (short), "La destrucción del orden vigente" (feature), "Panke" (medium length). His work has been shown at venues such as Torino International Film Festival, Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Festival Márgenes, Entrevues Belfort, Bafici, Anthology Film Archives. He has been co-founder and programmer of INVASION, the Argentine film festival in Berlin that helds since 2014.
Marian Freistühler is a filmmaker based in Hamburg, Germany. He studied film at the University of Fine Arts (HFBK) Hamburg and co-founded the production company Ohne Falsch Film whose films were shown at several international festivals. For producing the short documentary ALTURAS (D 2020, 30’), Marian received the German Short Film Award 2020. His bachelor graduation film ISLANDS IN THE CITY (D 2021, 23’) was selected in Clermont-Ferrand and Hof, among others. He has been a programmer at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg since 2020.
Theresa George studied ethnology, political science and journalism at the University of Leipzig (2005-13) and has since been working as a freelance film anthropologist between cultural theory and film (mediation). She teaches Visual Anthropology (HafenCityUniversity, University of Bremen), works for film festivals (Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Kasseler DokFest, 2Rivers Festival), conceives film series / lectures / installations in diverse collaborations and co-developed numerous film projects (e.g. for Helena Wittmann, Philipp Hartmann, Luise Donschen, Adnan Softic). Currently, her main interest lies in filmmaking and film reception in the former GDR of the 1990s, which she intends to deepen by developing the artistic research VIDEO2089.
Sebastian Markt Sebastian Markt studied history and philosophy in Vienna and Berlin. He is the head of programming for Berlinale Generation and part of the programming team for dokfilmwoche Berlin. He writes on film for the publications Sissy, Perlentaucher, Indiekino and Die Zeit, among others. He is a projectionist.
Maike Mia Höhne is a German film director, film curator, professor of film, mother of two children. She lives and works in Hamburg. From 2007 to 2019, she played a key role in shaping the profile of the short film section Berlinale Shorts at the Berlin International Film Festival as curator and director. In 2019, she took over as artistic director at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg. Since 2019, she has been a professor at the University of Applied Science Europe at the Hamburg Campus in the Department of Art & Design for the Film program.
Felix Piatkowski, born in Rostock, 15 years in Hamburg studying media culture, working at the media center, in the cinema and since 2008 at the international short film festival Hamburg. Moved to Berlin in 2017 and turned to psychoanalysis, but never turned his back on Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg and has now been there for 15 editions.
Anna Feistel studied Literature Art and Media Studies at University of Konstanz and Sapienza Università di Roma. Her passion for short films ignited many years ago organizing a student short film festival in a communal cinema. Since 2016 she has worked in several positions at Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg. She is a member of the selection committee and programme coordinator of Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg.
Call for Entries! Topic 2022: On very thin ice
All good things come in threes. Three minutes of film. Three spins in the air. The triple Axel is one of the most difficult jumps in figure skating. And in our competition, it's a matter of getting a spin on a given theme in no more than three minutes. Whoever manages to do this goes into the race for the audience's prize and € 1,000 in a legendary short night. So join in the triple Axel, the theme for 2022 is: On very thin ice.
Steep theses, risky moves, unknown terrain, dangerous societies - we leave it up to you to decide how or where you venture onto very thin ice, but we are counting on your proven associative creativity. The deadline for submitting your three-minute stories on this topic is February 14, 2022. There are no submission fees for the triple Axel competition. You can submit via Shortfilmdepot or Filmfreeway.
Diesen Sommer präsentieren wir eine Vielzahl von Kurzfilm Programmen in Hamburg und anderswo. Hier unsere aktuellen Empfehlungen:
Donnerstag 19. August im Rahmen des Filmraum Open Airs in Eimsbüttel:
Lighthouse Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg: Zurück auf die Leinwand! Aus bekannten Gründen konnte das Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg seine letzten beiden Ausgaben nicht wie gewohnt im Kino – unter anderem normalerweise im Filmraum – präsentieren. Nun aber heißt es: Zurück auf die Leinwand. Beim Filmraum Open Air zeigt das Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg eine Auswahl an Kurzfilmen aus den letzten beiden Jahren die bisher in Hamburg nicht auf der grossen Leinwand zu sehen waren, dort aber hingehören. Es wird international, hamburgisch, laut, leise, bunt, schwarz/weiß und vor allem aber alles andere als langweilig. Denn der Kurzfilm zeigt was geht wenn man über den Tellerrand blickt und ganz unkonformistisch ans Thema Filmemachen ran tritt.
Filmstart: 21:00 Uhr, Eintritt € 9,- (nur Abendkasse)
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Lighthouse: Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg präsentiert...
Diesen Sommer sind wir bei verschiedenen Veranstaltungen mit einer Auswahl von Kurzfilm Programmen zu Gast. Hier die aktuellsten:
7. August
Lighthouse @ fux Lichtspiele Open Air: Die Stadt von Morgen
Zu Gast bei den fux Lichtspielen in Hamburg-Altona (Bodenstedtstr. 16), Beginn 21:00 Uhr, Tickets nur an der Abendkasse, Kontaktdaten müssen am Einlass angegeben werden.
DIE STADT VON MORGEN
“Architektur war meine Art, meine Ideale auszudrücken:
Einfach zu sein, eine Welt zu schaffen, die allen gleich ist, Menschen optimistisch anzusehen,
dass jeder ein Geschenk hat. Ich will nichts als allgemeines Glück. Warum ist das so schlimm?", fragt Oscar Niemeyer,
einer der größten Architekten und Stadtplaner des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wir blicken auf Orte, die einst als neue, menschenfreundliche Visionen von Stadt geplant waren. Wir schauen auf zweckgerichtete Räumen und ihrer Umnutzung, wirtschaftsfreundlicher Stadtplanung und künstlerischem Widerstand, architektonische Visionen und ihre aktuelle Realität. Ein Kurzfilmprogramm.
Lighthouse: Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg präsentiert...
Diesen Sommer sind wir bei verschiedenen Veranstaltungen mit einer Auswahl von Kurzfilm Programmen zu Gast. Hier die aktuellsten:
7. August
Lighthouse @ fux Lichtspiele Open Air: Die Stadt von Morgen
Zu Gast bei den fux Lichtspielen in Hamburg-Altona (Bodenstedtstr. 16), Beginn 21:00 Uhr, Tickets nur an der Abendkasse, Kontaktdaten müssen am Einlass angegeben werden.
DIE STADT VON MORGEN
“Architektur war meine Art, meine Ideale auszudrücken:
Einfach zu sein, eine Welt zu schaffen, die allen gleich ist, Menschen optimistisch anzusehen,
dass jeder ein Geschenk hat. Ich will nichts als allgemeines Glück. Warum ist das so schlimm?", fragt Oscar Niemeyer,
einer der größten Architekten und Stadtplaner des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wir blicken auf Orte, die einst als neue, menschenfreundliche Visionen von Stadt geplant waren. Wir schauen auf zweckgerichtete Räumen und ihrer Umnutzung, wirtschaftsfreundlicher Stadtplanung und künstlerischem Widerstand, architektonische Visionen und ihre aktuelle Realität. Ein Kurzfilmprogramm.
CITY NORD - JOCHEN BRAUER SEXTETT
Deutschland 1971 | 1:40
Das Jochen-Brauer-Sextett und die City Nord. Die schöne, neue Welt der 1970er Jahre.
DIE DRITTE GENERATION DES WOHLFÜHLENS
Ulrike Hemberger, Karl Hoffmann, Rainer Hällfritzsch | Deutschland 1998 | 11:48
Die Daimler-Benz AG errichtet seit 1994 auf dem Potsdamer Platz in Berlin einen neuen Stadtteil. Der Konzern empfiehlt sich als guter Mitbürger. Man schenkt der Öffentlichkeit einen nagelneuen Potsdamer Platz. Aber wem gehört das Ganze nun wirklich?
FUTURO - A New Stance for Tomorrow
Mika Taanila | Finnland 1998 | 29:00
Ein Dokumentarfilm über unsere kürzlich vergangene Zukunft. Er handelt von den Ideen und Visionen der späten 1960er Jahre, in der Architekten und Designer in Plastik die Lösung für die meisten unserer Probleme sahen.
SCAPE DELUSION
Cora Durmann | Deutschland 2021 | 4:45
Die Suche nach Intimität mit dem urbanen Glasimperium. Die Geburt von Hamburgs höchstem AutoCAD-Phallus.
Als trügerische Versöhnung zeigt »Scape Delusion« die intime Interaktion zwischen Mensch und Architektur, die die Regisseurin als eine maßgebliche Ursache für die Raumentfremdung in der modernen computergezeichneten Stadt begreift. Der Film endet mit der Illusion einer irdischen Geburt des Elbtowers, der kommenden Krone der Hamburger Hafencity.
SERIAL PARALLELS
Max Hattler | Deutschland, Hongkong 2019 | 9:00
Hongkong Stadt der Wohnsiedlungen, die sich dem Horizont entgegenstrecken. Die Umdeutung der für die Stadt charakteristischen Architektur zu parallelen Filmstreifen Serial Parallels. Die Annäherung an Hongkong passiert über die Technik der analogen Fotografie. Das Gestern trifft auf das Heute.
BLACK MOON
Amie Siegel | USA 2010 | 20:00
Als Science-Fiction der Gegenwart ohne Dialoge durchquert Siegels "Black Moon" mehrere Filmtropen - Action, Waffen, einsame Lagerfeuer, das Ende der Welt - und verweigert sich, wie seine Bande bewaffneter Revolutionärinnen, einem festen Genre oder einer Erzählung. Angesiedelt in der post-apokalyptischen Landschaft von abgeschotteten Wohnsiedlungen in Florida und Kalifornien, werden die Häuser und leeren Straßen zu Protagonisten einer stillen Erzählung, einer Dokumentation der jüngsten Vergangenheit.
VACANCY
Matthias Müller | Deutschland 1998 | 15:00
Brasilia, "Hauptstadt der Hoffnung", "die letzte Utopie des 20. Jahrhunderts" (Umberto Eco), wird heute als "Weltkulturerbe der Menschheit" bewahrt. Ein Schauplatz - so alt wie der Filmemacher. Eigene Bilder von 1998 treffen auf Amateurmaterial und Spielfilmsegmente von 1960. "Vacancy" zeigt den utopischen Ort als einen von Menschen verlassenen; allein Wärter und Putzkolonnen bevölkern ihn wie Statisten.
Fair Festival Label für das Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg!
Im Rahmen des Filmfest Dresden vergab die Arbeitsgruppe Festivalarbeit in ver.di zum ersten Mal der Fair Festival Award vergeben. Der Fair Festival Award für das fairste Filmfestival Deutschland geht an unsere Kolleg:innen vom Filmfest Lünen, Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Wir freuen uns sehr, unter den fünf deutschen Festivals zu sein, die nun das Label "Fair Festival" tragen dürfen da sie sich durch ihre "Fairness Performance" in den Kategoriene Vertrag, Arbeitsbedingungen, Kommunikation, Führung, Arbeitsklima, Mitbestimmung, Chancengleichheit, Gleichbehandlung und Entlohnung auszeichnen.
„Das gesamte Team des Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg und wir freuen uns sehr über die Bewertung als "Faires Festival“. Für uns beweist dies, dass die Art und Weise, wie wir an die Festivalarbeit herangehen, richtig ist und wir würden sehr gerne unsere Arbeitsweise und unsere Ideen mit anderen teilen, um Teil einer Bewegung zu sein, in der faire Arbeitsbedingungen in der Filmfestivalwelt zur "Neuen Normalität." werden.“
Sven Schwarz und Maike Mia Hoehne - Leitung Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg Zur vollständigen Presse-Mitteilung geht es hier
The festival is coming to an end and we look back on a successful, exciting and diverse festival week. We would like to thank all filmmakers, participants and the audience for making the first digital edition of the festival a real ONLINE HAPPENING! Also: Thanks to the best team this festival edition was special in many ways and we all had to go a little extra mile but you always went there with an extra smile, thank you all for making this happen!
We look forward to the 38th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg from 31 May to 6 June 2022! And we can’t wait to see you all back in the cinemas and on the dance floor in the POST.
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 37th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg! All award-winning films can now be seen in the programme Preisträger:innen 2021.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
HAMBURG SHORT FILM AWARD (3.000€): Mouaad el Salem - This Day Won't Last
Jury Statement: "A strong, unanimous decision by the jury to award the Hamburg Short Film Award to This Day Won't Last. Mouaad el Salem's film takes us into the hiding places of those who are not visible, whose story does not belong to the official narrative, whose voice whispers but is not the one that speaks. Filmmaking in its most necessary form. This Day Won't Last is an urgent film in style and substance, equally gentle and powerful in its exploration of sexuality and the right of all people to live freely. An ingeniously edited composition, ranging from dreams and metaphors to everyday accounts, reveals historically and systemically repressed feelings as fear in a very immediate way."
DEFRAMED PRIZE (€2,000): Olga Lucovnicova - Nanu Tudor (My Uncle Tudor).
Jury Statement: "Very slowly, almost tenderly and imperceptibly, she pulls the rug out from under our feet. A disturbing piece of family history told with rarely seen directness that sticks. My Uncle Tudor is an unflinching and courageous look into the rarely spoken violence of the family environment. With simple means, this touching film proves that great cinema is possible on a small budget." The Deframed Prize, endowed with 2,000 euros, is awarded by the International Jury to a film that deals with reality in a poetic, formal, analytical and unconventional way, ignoring all rules in a forward-looking way.
HAMBURG SHORT FILM CANDIDATE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS:
Kristin Johannessen - Minnen (Memories)
We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 37th Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg! All award-winning films can now be seen in the programme Preisträger:innen 2021.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
HAMBURG SHORT FILM AWARD (3.000€): Mouaad el Salem - This Day Won't Last
Jury Statement: "A strong, unanimous decision by the jury to award the Hamburg Short Film Award to This Day Won't Last. Mouaad el Salem's film takes us into the hiding places of those who are not visible, whose story does not belong to the official narrative, whose voice whispers but is not the one that speaks. Filmmaking in its most necessary form. This Day Won't Last is an urgent film in style and substance, equally gentle and powerful in its exploration of sexuality and the right of all people to live freely. An ingeniously edited composition, ranging from dreams and metaphors to everyday accounts, reveals historically and systemically repressed feelings as fear in a very immediate way."
DEFRAMED PRIZE (€2,000): Olga Lucovnicova - Nanu Tudor (My Uncle Tudor).
Jury Statement: "Very slowly, almost tenderly and imperceptibly, she pulls the rug out from under our feet. A disturbing piece of family history told with rarely seen directness that sticks. My Uncle Tudor is an unflinching and courageous look into the rarely spoken violence of the family environment. With simple means, this touching film proves that great cinema is possible on a small budget." The Deframed Prize, endowed with 2,000 euros, is awarded by the International Jury to a film that deals with reality in a poetic, formal, analytical and unconventional way, ignoring all rules in a forward-looking way.
HAMBURG SHORT FILM CANDIDATE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS:
Kristin Johannessen - Minnen (Memories)
SPECIAL MENTION:
Special Mention: Léo Bittencourt - Vagalumes (Fireflies)
Jury Statement: "A work of pure cinema. The jury gives Vagalumes a special mention for its mysterious and sensual glimpses into the lives and rhythms of those who live in the shadows."
GERMAN COMPETITION JURY PRIZE (2,000 €): Katharina Huber - The Natural Death of the Mouse
Jury Statement: "Sitting in the cinema and experiencing this film ... that is pure freedom. The director invites us to wander across the screen and right into the thought worlds of her protagonist. Everything is possible, just because it can be thought, said, drawn: Heads roll, dear cats are allowed to purr mischievously, and flowers grow out of our feet! Katharina Huber plays with bravura on the keyboard of the animated short form and gives the viewer a simultaneously personal and self-ironic encounter that also invites us to reflect on our present condition."
Jury German Competition: Zamarin Wahdat, Monika Treut, Florian Weghorn
TRIPLE AXEL COMPETITION (1,000€):
Anna Maria Schmidt - Money the Movie.
The Audience Award is supported by the Hamburg Cultural Foundation.
ARTE AWARD:
Alisha Tejpal - Lata
Jury statement: "Lata is a film of silent observation of everyday gestures that not only have an aesthetic effect but also convey a political message. A door is opened... entry into a universe... a door is closed."
The ARTE Short Film Award consists of the purchase of a film (up to 6,000 euros) by ARTE, the Franco-German cultural broadcaster, and is awarded on an inter-competitive basis. The winning film will be broadcast on ARTE in the short film magazine "Kurzschluss".
AUDIENCE AWARD (1500€):
Güzin Kar - Your Street
The Audience Award is given to a film from the International or the German Competition.
ESA NEW WORLDS PITCHING COMPETITION:
Katarzyna Pajzderska - Hey Galaxy
Denis McCardle - Malik's Mission to Mars
Jury: Alexandra Gramatke, Christoffer Ode, Jan Peters, Iacopo Baroncini
MO&FRIESE KINDER KURZFILM FESTIVAL:
Friese Prize: Géza M. Tóth - Mitch-Match #22, special mention: B-MOLL - Oana Lacroix Mo Prize: Guillaume Lorin - Vanille, special mentions: Paulina Muratore - Small Forest, Henrike Rothe - Here and Loud. Neon Prize: Milou Gevers - Why Didn't You Stay for Me?, special mentions: Katarina Rešek - Sisters, Nata Metlukh - Awkward. Nomination ECFA Short Film Award: Said Hamich, Le Depart GIB MIR 5! Competition: Frieda Dugaro - I Am Me, Milo Gallas - Alone, Moviebande - Herzog's Wbsgdwts-Bad
The first Online Happening of the festival is coming to an end and we are closing the festival week with a digital award ceremony. The Hamburg independent band Estrellas de Carla will set the tone. The Hamburg artist Valentin Alscher has sculpted the ceramic bowls that will be handed over to the winners virtually and filled with prize money by the juries. After the award ceremony, the freshly awarded films can be streamed until Monday, 7 June.
We invite you to the opening on Tuesday, 1 June 2021 at 7pm. Not as usual in the cinema and therefore very different: we rush through films, stand on buckets in the green screen, dance to FeministExperimentalHipHopRnBPop and let Auge Altona beam us through the universe of this year's festival. On board: the festival directors, Maike Mia Höhne and Sven Schwarz, Alexandra Gramatke from the Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg, the Senator for Culture Dr. Carsten Brosda and the Hamburg music collective One Mother.
STREAM:Here you can access the stream of all programmes - or directly via the "Online Streaming" button at the respective programme. The film programmes are only available in Germany.
LIVE HAPPENINGS - TALKS: Here ou can access the live stream of the festival. No registration is necessary for film talks, the Forum conversations. The talks are free of charge, can be accessed worldwide and are only available live at the respective streaming time.
TICKETS: Tickets and information on ticket options are available here. If you want to buy a single ticket: 1. browse here, 2. select the respective film programme, 3. choose between single ticket (1 person) or softa tickets (several persons).
OPEN SPACE: The exhibition is open to visitors: Just go to registration and find more information about the venue here.
GATHER: Here we meet in the virtual festival centre
Who, what, how, why? An insight into this year's programme with Maike Mia Höhne, pirouettes and unplastered walls - come and see, celebrate with us! (German only)
The Catalog of the 37th Film Festival Hamburg is online share
»I hope that money, coolness and competition will have less importance in our life«
Maike Mia Höhne, artistic director of the Short Film Festival Hamburg, in conversation with Flóra Anna Buda
»I hope that money, coolness and competition will have less importance in our life«
Maike Mia Höhne, artistic director of the Short Film Festival Hamburg, in conversation with Flóra Anna Buda
Flóra, what were your first thoughts when we told you our theme for this year and asked you to do the trailer?
The feeling of togetherness. How similarly we are connected to each other, like the atoms in the molecules, our cells in our bodies, the pieces of the universe or the trees in a forest.
What does WE represent for you personally? And for your working process?
When I think about my own stories, I don’t find them unique at all. But I still find it important to talk about them. Because we all are experiencing a lot of similar feelings and life events and it is beautiful to put the focus on that and find ways to connect with each other. When that connection happens, that means WE to me.
I’m an animator and animation is often a team work. When I work on a film it means the world to me. If I manage to find likeminded individuals to build this world together, I feel the same feeling of belonging. And it usually comes with challenges, compromises and conflicts. To me it works similarly like in many other connections in life and it requires you to trust your instincts, your conscious mind and your willingness of understanding.
Pink is the beginning of life and it is very present in your flow. Any influence or just a contingency?
I wanted to find a colour that has a cheerful vibe and radiates love. I thought this magenta is quite an exciting and lively colour and could be perfect for highlighting such an important message.
Who is important for you as a role model and why?
Anais Nin, Rihanna, Niki de Saint Phalle and Miranda July. They are truly inspiring strong women with unique voices. They are not afraid of being different and weird, and they have quite divergent minds. They experiment with multiple genres and mediums, they manage to step up for important topics by staying human and reflecting on themselves and on the world in a humorous fashion.
Do you work analog or digitally? Can you describe your workflow?
It is always a bit different. I admire analogue techniques and often use them if I create a drawing, or even with animation sometimes. But, many times I need to work quite quickly, and for that, software programs are good tools. I like to experiment digitally, like in the case of this trailer. My work flow starts with an idea or concept: Then a great confusion comes, followed first by fear, then the good old impostor syndrome. As I start playing with the software, colours, shapes and textures, I end up enjoying it and the fear transforms into excitement. It can lead to this ecstatic feeling that I really like and often end up chasing. And then I go to sleep, wake up and check what I did - and it is rubbish! But then I’m not scared anymore to go into it again and step by step find the way to get the most out of my thoughts from the day before, and find an end result that works.
What are you wishes for the future?
I hope we are going to get closer to each other and I hope that different points of view are going to meet more often and I wish it would bring us a greater understanding of each other. I hope that money, coolness and competition will have less importance in our life and I hope we can manage to focus on the things that brings us closer, instead of judging on the differences.
Al motociclista no le cabe la felicidad en el traje • Gabriel Herrera • Mexico 2021 Amaryllis – A Study • Jayne Parker • Great Britain 2020 Bambirak • Zamarin Wahdat • USA, Germany 2020 Bébé Colère • Jonathan Vinel, Caroline Poggi • France, Italy 2021 Because the Sky is Blue • Wenhua Shi • China, USA 2020 Deine Strasse • Güzin Kar • Switzerland 2020 Die seismische Form • Antoinette Zwirchmayr • Austria 2020 Écoutez le battement de nos images • Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Audrey Jean-Baptiste • France, French Guiana 2021 Erde essen • Laura Weissenberger • Austria 2021 Filles bleues, peur blanche • Lola Halifa-Legrand Halifa-Legrand, Marie Jacotey • France 2020 Flowers blooming in our throats • Eva Giolo • Belgium, Italy 2020
Al motociclista no le cabe la felicidad en el traje • Gabriel Herrera • Mexico 2021 Amaryllis – A Study • Jayne Parker • Great Britain 2020 Bambirak • Zamarin Wahdat • USA, Germany 2020 Bébé Colère • Jonathan Vinel, Caroline Poggi • France, Italy 2021 Because the Sky is Blue • Wenhua Shi • China, USA 2020 Deine Strasse • Güzin Kar • Switzerland 2020 Die seismische Form • Antoinette Zwirchmayr • Austria 2020 Écoutez le battement de nos images • Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Audrey Jean-Baptiste • France, French Guiana 2021 Erde essen • Laura Weissenberger • Austria 2021 Filles bleues, peur blanche • Lola Halifa-Legrand Halifa-Legrand, Marie Jacotey • France 2020 Flowers blooming in our throats • Eva Giolo • Belgium, Italy 2020
For the Sake of Calmness • Newsha Tavakolian • Iran 2020 Giòng Sông Không Nhìn Thấy • Phạm Ngọc Lân • Vietnam 2020 I like Tomorrow • Jennifer Reeder, Nancy Andrews • USA 2021 In the Air Tonight • Andrew Norman Wilson • USA 2020 Lata • Alisha Tejpal • India 2020 Lemongrass Girl • Pom Bunsermvicha • Thailand 2021 Luz De Presença • Diogo Costa Amarante • Portugal 2021 Marriage Story • Jessica Dunn Rovinelli·• USA 2020 Miegamasis rajonas • Vytautas Katkus • Lithuania 2020 Minnen • Kristin Johannessen • Sweden 2020 Mudança • Welket Bungué • Germany, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal 2021 Nanu Tudor • Olga Lucovnicova • Belgium, Hungary, Portugal 2020 Ob Scena • Paloma Orlandini Castro • Argentina 2021 Oceano Mare • Antoinette Zwirchmayr • Austria 2021 Once Upon a Screen: Explosive Paradox • Kevin B. Lee • USA 2020 One Hundred Steps • Barbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca • Germany, France 2021 Pride • Claudrena N. Harold, Kevin Jerome Everson • USA 2021 Surviving You, Always • Morgan Quaintance • Great Britain 2020 Tang Jër • Selly Raby Kane • Senegal 2020 The End of Suffering (a proposal) • Jacqueline Lentzou • Greece 2020 The Hole's Journey • Ghita Skali • Morocco, Netherlands 2020 The Light of Day • Alex Eisenberg, Anne Bean • Great Britain 2020 There must be some kind of way out of here • Rainer Kohlberger • Austria, Germany 2020 Tracing Utopia • Catarina de Sousa, Nick Tyson • Portugal 2021 Two Sons and a River of Blood • Angelo Madsen Minax, Amber Bemak • Mexico, USA 2021 Vadim na progulke • Sasha Svirsky • Russia 2021 Vagalumes • Léo Bittencourt • Brazil 2020 VO • Nicolas Gourault • France 2020 We'll find you when the sun goes black • Anouk De Clercq • Belgium, Norway 2021 هذا اليوم لن يدوم / This day won't last • Mouaad el Salem • Belgium, Tunisia 2020 ថ្ងៃរះក្នុងចិត្ត / Sunrise in My Mind• Danech San • Cambodia 2020
Adrenochrom · Daniel Hopp · Germany 2020 AIVA · Veneta Androva · Bulgaria, Germany 2020 American Express · Häly Heinecker · Germany 2020 ANDERS · Nanna Maria Wibholm · Germany, Denmark 2020 BAB7 · Nizan Kasper · Germany 2020 Biting the dust · NEOZOON · Germany 2021 Centauress · Deniz Şimşek · Germany, Turkey 2020 disjointed · Clara Helbig · Great Britain, Germany 2020 Es wird Schuhe regnen (It Will Rain Shoes) · Mariola Brillowska · Germany 2021 Ewig Gast (Eternal Guest) · Maximilian Karakatsanis · Germany 2020 Das Glitzern im Barbieblut (Glittering Barbieblood) · Ulu Braun · Germany 2021 Der Heinz, der gräbt ein Loch in ein Stück Land · Karsten Krause · Germany 2021 Die klaffende Wunde (The Gaping Wound) · Jovana Reisinger · Germany 2020
Adrenochrom · Daniel Hopp · Germany 2020 AIVA · Veneta Androva · Bulgaria, Germany 2020 American Express · Häly Heinecker · Germany 2020 ANDERS · Nanna Maria Wibholm · Germany, Denmark 2020 BAB7 · Nizan Kasper · Germany 2020 Biting the dust · NEOZOON · Germany 2021 Centauress · Deniz Şimşek · Germany, Turkey 2020 disjointed · Clara Helbig · Great Britain, Germany 2020 Es wird Schuhe regnen (It Will Rain Shoes) · Mariola Brillowska · Germany 2021 Ewig Gast (Eternal Guest) · Maximilian Karakatsanis · Germany 2020 Das Glitzern im Barbieblut (Glittering Barbieblood) · Ulu Braun · Germany 2021 Der Heinz, der gräbt ein Loch in ein Stück Land · Karsten Krause · Germany 2021 Die klaffende Wunde (The Gaping Wound) · Jovana Reisinger · Germany 2020
From the In and Outside · Dyaa Naim · Germany 2021 Lower Ambitions · Irem Schwarz · Germany 2021 Michael Ironside and I · Marian Mayland · Germany 2020 Misty Picture · Matthias Mueller, Christoph Girardet · Germany 2021 Der Natürliche Tod der Maus (The Natural Death of a Mouse) · Katharina Huber · Germany 2020 Nicht die brasilianischen Homosexuellen sind pervers, sondern die Situation, in der sie leben (It Is Not the Brazilian Homosexuals Who Are Perverse but the Situation in Which They Live) · Eduardo Mamede, Paulo Menezes, Leandro Godinho · Germany 2021 Octavia's Visions · Zara Zandieh · Germany 2021 Revolykus · Victor Orozco Ramirez · Germany, Mexico 2020 (Steve) Temple · Tanita Olbrich · Germany, United States 2020 Was wahrscheinlich passiert wäre, wäre ich nicht zuhause geblieben. (What Probably Would Have Happened, If I Hadn't Stayed at Home.) · Willy Hans · Germany 2020 Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part III - Micro Resistencias · Marwa Arsanios · Germany 2020 winterlieb - libawka · Maja Nagel, Julius Günzel · Germany 2020
10-lagige Katastrophe · Tim Bero Kauff · Germany 2021 999 · Vincent Leplat · France 2021 Anatomie eines Weltverständnisses · Alexander Fischer (aka Peskador) · Germany 2020 Armor Man · Alex Glawion · Germany 2020 BENZTOWN · Gottfried Mentor · Germany 2021 Classe Verte (Environment 101) · Lucas Zef, Arsène Chabrier · France 2020 Distance Film · Siegfried A. Fruhauf · Austria 2020 Dollar or Egyptian Pound? · Nadim Suleiman · Egypt 2020 Edge of Doom · Michaela Grill, Sophie Trudeau · Austria, Canada 2020 Fals Che Trennung · Dorit Kiesewetter, Carsten Knoop · Germany 2021 Fire · Gauri Bhonsle · India/USA 2020 Flamenco · Paulo Scatena · Germany 2021
10-lagige Katastrophe · Tim Bero Kauff · Germany 2021 999 · Vincent Leplat · France 2021 Anatomie eines Weltverständnisses · Alexander Fischer (aka Peskador) · Germany 2020 Armor Man · Alex Glawion · Germany 2020 BENZTOWN · Gottfried Mentor · Germany 2021 Classe Verte (Environment 101) · Lucas Zef, Arsène Chabrier · France 2020 Distance Film · Siegfried A. Fruhauf · Austria 2020 Dollar or Egyptian Pound? · Nadim Suleiman · Egypt 2020 Edge of Doom · Michaela Grill, Sophie Trudeau · Austria, Canada 2020 Fals Che Trennung · Dorit Kiesewetter, Carsten Knoop · Germany 2021 Fire · Gauri Bhonsle · India/USA 2020 Flamenco · Paulo Scatena · Germany 2021
FORTEpiano · Ernesto Loaiza · Brazil 2021 Just In Case · Céline Ahlbrecht, Insa Meyer, Alina Saltheim · Germany 2021 Lockdown Anthem · Efstathios Avramidis · Germany 2020 Mad Mask - Fury Roll · Stéphane Berla · France 2020 MITCH-MATCH series #17 · Géza M. Tóth · Hungary 2020 Moai Báhtaretne · Liselotte Wajstedt · Sweden 2020 money the movie · Anna Maria Schmidt · Germany 2021 Pech · Patrick Leppert · Switzerland 2021 Tabu · Olga Kosanovic · Austria 2020 Twice · John Smith · Great Britain 2020 Vieras · Pasi Räsänen · Finland 2020 Whale Power · Felix Klee · Germany 2021 Wirbelwinde auf dem Eis · Kalle Anker · Germany 2021
Filmstill: Forte Piano
Film Selection:
Andrea Schöler
Anna Leimbrinck
Axel Behrens
Berit Wilkes
Silja Ebeling
Tilman Bensiek
Under this title we will publish several times a year curated short film programs from distribution and sales, festival, archive and also presented by guest curators. We start with an online program around dance and music, love, pain and empowerment. #1 Tanzangebot
For German residents we offer an online shorts programme on dance and hope, love and despair. With seven shorts we celebrate the emotional and political power of dance. This programme is supposed to keep up the spirit during endless lockdowns and closed clubs and Operas. Dancing is possible - even at night in the gas station.
Streaming available in German territory from May 20-25
Films:
Reizigers in de Nacht • 09'46 • Ena Sendijarević • The Netherlands 2014 The Burden • 14'10 • Niki Lindroth von Bahr • Sweden 2017 Black Bus Stop • 09'25 • Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold • U.S. 2019 Juck • 17'34 • Olivia Kastebring, Julia Gumpert, Ulrika Bandeira • Sweden 2018 Metube 3 • 10'00 • Daniel Moshel • Austria 2020 Slaves of the Rave • 02'40 • William Garratt • Great Britain 2014 One Night in Tokoriki • 18'00 • Roxana Stroe • Romania 2016
The Hamburg Short Film Festival will take place from 1 June to 7 June. This year’s motto is I AM BECAUSE WE ARE, based on Ubuntu, South Africa’s philosophy of unity. I can only be, really be, when we all are. We, as a society, must ask ourselves the question of solidarity within the small and the big picture. Culture is one of the decisive motors that keeps us, as a society, together. The collective experience of something that is bigger than its individual constituents.
The trailer for the 37th Short Film Festival was animated by the Hungarian artist Flóra Anna Buda and it shines in bright colours and picks up the festival’s motto. More and more circles encounter each other, the flickering becomes a light, a shining beacon. Life goes on! This year will be digital and analogue, together, solidary and filled with the thrill of anticipation of things to come.
The Hamburg Short Film Festival will take place from 1 June to 7 June. This year’s motto is I AM BECAUSE WE ARE, based on Ubuntu, South Africa’s philosophy of unity. I can only be, really be, when we all are. We, as a society, must ask ourselves the question of solidarity within the small and the big picture. Culture is one of the decisive motors that keeps us, as a society, together. The collective experience of something that is bigger than its individual constituents.
The trailer for the 37th Short Film Festival was animated by the Hungarian artist Flóra Anna Buda and it shines in bright colours and picks up the festival’s motto. More and more circles encounter each other, the flickering becomes a light, a shining beacon. Life goes on! This year will be digital and analogue, together, solidary and filled with the thrill of anticipation of things to come.
OUTLOOK
The Contemporary Laboratory is the festival’s space for reflection and discussion, and in 2021, it throws a spotlight on three focal points: The Hamburg Positions are dedicated to cultural spaces and urban development. In film programmes and discussion groups, they ask what sort of structures and concepts are needed to create lasting and visionary places of public spirit. The curator Alex Moussa presents a selection of works from the contemporary African short film scene in Afrotopia – In the Present Sense. The focus is on characters and films who, intricately linked to African narrative traditions, create new ways of telling stories, develop utopias, question forms of solidarity and show spaces of possibilities unknown in Europe. We are creating a catalogue of gestures (for and according to Vilèm Flusser) in Gestimmtheiten – Das Kino und die Gesten (Attunement – Cinema and Gestures). Wipe, tip, shake – these three gesticulations alone, which we perform every day with our cell phones, show how our stock of gestures is constantly evolving. The Open Space, the festival’s exhibition format, will present Akram Zaatari’s installation Dance to the End of Love. The performative works of this contemporary artist, curator and archivist from Lebanon encourage their viewers to keep going on. Let’s dance!
PROGRAMME
Once again, the Hamburg Short Film Festival presents the short form’s state of the art. In three great competitions, the International Competition, the German Competition and the Triple Axel, film makers and artists compete for prizes of a combined value of over 19,000€. In the Contemporary Laboratory, curated film programmes introduce questions, conditions and commentaries on contemporary issues which are then discussed in the forum with guests. Furthermore, there’s the Contemporary Archive, performances, industry events and plenty of additional screenings between flicker, horror and humour. The whole programme and more detailed information will be published in May 2021.
Mo&Friese
The Mo&Friese Children’s Short Film Festival is a part of the Hamburg Short Film Festival and dedicated to young audiences between the age of 4 and 18. The festival show contemporary short films in their international competitions. You can find out more about Mo&Friese here).
Together with the European Space Agency (ESA) we invite screenwriters to submit proposals for short films about European space exploration. So if you have an idea for e.g. an animation film set on the moons of Mars, a documentary about the ExoMars rover or a coming-of-age film about a Martian girl who travels back to Earth to discover her roots, then submit your idea!
Candidates submit their proposal through the application form on this website.
Wir vergeben vom 17. April bis 16. Juni 2023 einen vergüteten Praktikumsplatz in Vollzeit für Auszubildende und Studierende!
Du erhältst Einblick in Planung, Organisation und Durchführung eines internationalen Festivals, insbesondere in den Bereichen:
● Festivalmanagement und Verwaltung
● Inhaltliche Redaktion und Programmplanung
● Veranstaltungsplanung, -aufbau und -durchführung (Open Airs, Festival & Festivalzentrum, Ausstellung)
● Gästemanagement und Kooperationen
Wir freuen uns auf deine Bewerbung bis zum 1. März 2023!
