The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen runs one of the world’s most notable,  largest and oldest short film archives.

The  collection now holds more than 1800 titles, including a large number of unique copies and works by renowned filmmakers such as Kenneth Anger,  Santiago  Álvarez, Maya Deren, Claude Goretta, Werner Herzog, Takahiko Iimura,  Romuald Karmakar, Alexander Kluge, Jan Lenica,  George Lucas, Toshio Matsumoto, Matthias Müller, Roman Polanski, Alain Resnais, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Jan Švankmajer, István Szabó and Alain Tanner.

For a list of all archive titles, please take a look at our archive database.

We have also prepared seven ready-made programmes of the most interesting works for you:

International Competition 2011 (Video) 

German Competition 2011 (Video) 

German MuVi Award 2011 (Video) 

Artist Film & Video 2011 (Video) 

Surreal / Political (35mm)

Migration (Video)

Children's and Youth Film Competition 2010/2011

The detailed conditions will be given to the borrower with the contract or upon request.

Contact: Carsten Spicher