Looking Back

Award Winners 2021

Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen
worth 7,000 euros

Toumei na watashi
(Transparent, I am.)
Yuri Muraoka
Japan 2020, 11’ 36’’, colour/black-and-white

Statement:
We see the sea, pictures of the sky taken in backlight, and hear the narrator tells us about a failed suicide attempt. What follows is a personal story about life, its difficulties and its beauty. A story that is told by pulling out all the cinematic registers, using different animation techniques, found footage and still images. By doing this she creates a nonlinear narrative making space for the viewers and their interpretations and imagination. The filmmaker dives into her own history, both in terms of imagery as well as storyline. It feels like a moment of reflection, a visual artists’ statement in which she turns inward. The film celebrates life and celebrates film, the result is stunning and – like life – incredibly rich.

Principal Prize
worth 3,000 euros

8’28’’
Su Zhong
China 2021, 8’28’’, colour

Statement:
A continuous shot with no end or beginning and that seemingly catches us in a random moment. It shows us, in 8 minutes and 28 seconds, how violence is interconnected with machines, technology, and labour. With humour, which is always close to despair, the filmmaker mixes both Western and Eastern mythologies and depicts them as future leaders of a humanless world, with only industrialised mechanical movement. Making a film like this, coming out of the guts, directly onto the screen after a very long and patient digital work is a huge accomplishment. Thank you, Su Zhong, for reminding us that even before the pandemic we could already make a film about a world full of violence and despair.

Special Mentions

More Woman, More Cry
Anne Haugsgjerd
Norway 2021, 24’, colour/black-and-white

Sensory Overload
Ganza Moise
Rwanda 2020, 6’56’’, colour

Statement:
More Woman, More Cry by Anne Haugsgjerd is a stunning film that captures the beauty and fragility of life. With vivid clarity, great imagination, and sly humour, Haugsgjerd provides thought-provoking reflections on family, art, ageing, and the fluidity of time in a humorous and poetic way. Without embarrassment, but full of doubts, the film shows an emancipated filmmaker contemplating her life and asking the question: What next? At the other end of this spectrum, the jury sees Sensory Overload, a poetic film by Ganza Moise, that takes a poem by Natacha Muzira as its guide. A seemingly featherweight film with an existential underlayer, in which time, form and space run into each other, in a search for a way out of reality, not through destruction, but through the poetry of life.

Prize of the Jury of the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia
worth 5,000 euros

A terra de não retorno
(The Earth of no Return)
Patrick Mendes
Portugal 2020, 20’, colour

Statement:
In an indeterminate time, women wash clothes by the river, a stone ear becomes porous. Out of the blue, a motionless body falls headfirst into the riverbed. The screams of the working undead pierce the mysterious silence. This work positions ’’film as ritual” in the style of magical realism. The blazing fire forges new eyes that let us see the beauty of an analogue mystery of tears, earth, light and shadow. The unsettling absence of dialogue sharpens our senses to the highest alertness, only to sweep us out of earthly hell with ’’heavy metal”. You are invited to join the order of cinema.

Special Mentions

Divided by Law
Katie Davies, Emma Agusita
United Kingdom 2021, 26’11’’, colour/black-and-white

Statement:
’’I miss you.” Analogue black-and-white images show chats of anonymous lovers which are supposed to serve as testimonies of a valid partnership for the British government. ’’Hostile Environment Policy’’ is the name of the UK Home Office's attempt to make immigration into Great Britain as unbearable as humanly possible. This film lets us experience the impact of these drastic measures on binational families and relationships in personal accounts, combined in an unpretentious montage with 16mm film, Google Street View and found footage.

Before the fall there was no fall. Episode 02: surfaces
Anna Dasović
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Netherlands 2020, 20’1’’, colour

Statement:
In her haunting film Before the fall there was no fall. Episode 02: surfaces, Anna Dasović recounts how traces of history manifest themselves in places where cruel contemporary history was written, how the fading graffiti of terror evoke a mural of testimonies of genocide, and how even small businessmen profit from war. In addition, she masterfully combines archive material and authentic found footage to ask the question: What remains?

The International Critics’ Prize (FIPRESCI Prize)

{if your bait can sing the wild one will come} Like Shadows Through Leaves
Lucy Davis
Singapore/Finland 2021, 27’52’’, colour

Statement:
The film offers an artistic and investigative exploration resulting in a fascinating perceptive experience. While creating a cinematic atmosphere, it reflects on urban and eco-social transformations from human and more-than-human relationships. In this way, {if your bait can sing the wild one will come} Like Shadows Through Leaves allows us to think of cinema as an aesthetic tool that questions, resists, and reimagines the relationships between culture and climate change.

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
worth 1,500 euros

Zoom sur le cirque
Dominique Margot
Switzerland 2020, 14’26’’, colour

Statement:
A clown is grimacing into the webcam from his living room; an aerialist is trying to stay in shape on her balcony; a circus director is suffering from the cold in his caravan because he cannot afford the heating costs: Zoom sur le cirque brings together the social, political and aesthetical aspects of the current Corona pandemic in an accurate yet heart-wrenching way: the human desire or even the human need to laugh even in times of crisis; the hardship suffered by artists and people engaged in the cultural sector who are threatened by losing their means of existence; the art of improvisation that the circus as well as Zoom require equally and therefore the technical and social possibility of decreasing the distance by means of humour.

Special Mention

nga’i nang
(Home)
Ngima Gelu Sherpa
Nepal 2020, 20’10’’, colour

Statement:
nga’i nang is a film about a son who returns to his family home in Nepal to say farewell to his dying dad. The son films these last days, the passing and the death of his father which appear just as simple and natural in the everyday life of this poor farmer family as the tiny things that usually happen to them. Even though all this is sad, this is the order of life. While the film is very modest, it tells its story in a distanced but very personal and emotional way. Similar to the way the mother, who escapes to religious rituals, experiences mourning internally and in silence and similar to the son, who, after leaving his Home and his lonely mother behind again, will later reminisce alone on the beach of the ocean on another continent. Even though all this is sad, this is the order of life.

ZONTA Prize
worth 1,000 euros
for a female filmmaker in the International or German Competition

OCTAVIA’S VISIONS
Zara Zandieh
Germany 2020, 17’36’’, colour

Statement:
In the beginning was the work of a great futurist writer, which the filmmaker translates into a many-layered, poetic and pioneering film experience that resonates for a long time.

Grand Online Prize of the City of Oberhausen
worth 5,000 euros

Kalsubai
Yudhajit Basu
India 2020, 19’54’’, colour/black-and-white

Statement:
For creating a dialog between past and present through its lyrical ethnography; and for exploring with a gentle distance a remarkable mythology empowering non-traditional ways for women to live.

Principal Online Prize
worth 2,000 euros

Trampa de luz
(Light Trap)
Pablo Marín
Argentina 2021, 8’30’’, colour/black-and-white

Statement:
For giving us a breath of fresh air and allowing us to rediscover nature; and for showing its light and its wonders through the photochemical materiality of celluloid, continuing to explore the possibilities of analogue methods.

e-flux Prize
worth 3,000 euros
For an exceptional film and video work which reshapes the poetic and electric potential of moving images in the age of planetary circulation of information.

Un très long temps d’exposition
Chloé Galibert-Laîné
France 2020, 7’, colour/black-and-white

Statement:
For its astute and poetic exploration of time, recording technologies, and erasure of workers and Indigenous identity from a perspective both personal and critical; and for uniting these expressive themes through compact and modest means.

Online Prize of the Jury of the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia
worth 3,000 euros

Un très long temps d’exposition
Chloé Galibert-Laîné
France 2020, 7’, colour/black-and-white

Statement:
It is only logical that the film awarded by us renounces sound, since it is an exploration of the conditions of visibility. Un très long temps d´exposition discovers, layers and combines images and narratives from global and personal history. Chloé Galibert-Laîné’s both analytical and personal composition of chains of visual motifs reveals the political and ideological dimensions of technological imaging methods and questions media visibility as the ultimate legitimization and proof of existence.

Special Mention

The___________World
Peixuan Ouyang
USA 2020, 17’56’’, colour

Statement:
The unlimited availability of the world, just a click away – and yet the shabby papier mâché models of famous monuments in a small amusement park ignite quite original ideas of freedom and the future. Our Special Mention goes to a film which shows us the ephemeral stuff that dreams are made of, and those strangenesses that even global digital communication can’t abolish.

Online Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Minnen
(Memories)
Kristin Johannessen
Sweden 2020, 13’32’’, colour/black-and-white

Statement:
How do you remember how you used to be in the past? Minnen is an authentic documentary where we look back on the filmmaker's mental illness as she soberly traces her life. Animated sequences display what was in her mind at that particular time of her life. With original footage of her youth added to a recent interview with her own parents, Kristin Johannessen shows, through accurate memories, the difficulties of being different, of raising a child you can’t always understand but never want to leave behind. Minnen talks about the hope of recovery that must be held on to when facing sickness.

Special Mentions

Kalsubai
Yudhajit Basu
India 2020, 19’54’’, colour/black-and-white

Statement:
Kalsubai explores the history of the goddess Kalsu and her meaning for the women of Bari. The film relies on strong visual and acoustic images that neither explain nor falsify. The almost photographic compositions and their expressive simplicity make the film accessible to everyone and invite you to reflect on your own cultural influences and to question them.

Cântec de leagăn
(Cradle)
Paul Mureșan
Romania 2020, 4’, colour/black-and-white

Statement:
Unfortunately, even today, many families are hiding dark secrets. The animated short film Cântec de leagăn investigates the innermost depths of a family devastated by domestic violence and alcoholism. In such a climate of terror, we see life still existing with a mother taking care of her new-born, trying to protect him and his big brother from being bullied. The animation technique reflects the different states of mind of the characters perfectly and raise our awareness of the difficulties every family could struggle with at one time and must overcome. Particularly effective is the way in which the song ’’Cântec de leagăn” – a traditional Romanian lullaby performed by Maria Tanase – Is grafted onto the animation.

Prize of the German Competition
worth 4,000 euros

Proll!
Adrian Figueroa
Germany 2021, 30’, colour

Statement:
A film about the ones at the bottom. The low-paid, the stressed, the overlooked. The outstanding camera follows them closely, often intimately; we feel the pressure, see the sweat and the fear. And yet the protagonists remain at a distance from the viewer. The film does not manufacture sentimental commonalities where there are none. A film about the loneliness of our time.

3sat Emerging Talent Prize
worth 2,500 euros
In addition the award includes a buying option on the awarded work to be broadcast on 3sat.

Genosse Tito, ich erbe
(Comrade Tito, I Inherit)
Olga Kosanović
Austria, Germany 2021, 27’, colour

Statement:
A summer in the countryside, the interplay of daily chores in the house and garden and casual reflections about how best to stage the idyll. In front of and behind the camera, the filmmaker looks for answers to how we should deal with our political and material heritage. But neither the conversations with her family nor memories re-discovered on the Internet, nightly tales or the unanswered letters to her über-father help. A local inspection and an analysis of the present day.

Special Mention

Shine and Frustration
Shira Orion
Germany 2020, 4’ 10’’, colour/black-and-white

Statement:
Excessive demands, letting go, experiencing everything at once and having to learn everything anew time and again; a relentless juxtaposition, no discernible patterns – life with its open ends as a cinematic principle.

Prize of the German Online Competition
worth 2,500 euros

(Steve) Temple
Tanita Olbrich
Germany/USA 2020, 6’3’’, colour

Statement:
Come along on a tour through a mysterious world, located somewhere between the 1980s and a utopian idea, between industrial chimneys and Jurassic Parks. Playful, honest and sensual, the director invites you into her admirably personal cosmos full of music and freedom.

Special Mention

Levantado do Chão
(Raised from the Ground)
Melissa Dullius, Gustavo Jahn
Brazil/Germany 2020, 11’11’’, black-and-white

Statement:
In a situation where we are all forced to become flâneurs, the beauty of this somnambulistic stroll, shot on analogue material, is comforting beyond time and constraints.

Prize of the NRW Competition
worth 1,000 euros, sponsored by the SAE Institute Cologne and Bochum

LYDIA
Christian Becker
Germany 2021, 21’10’’, colour/black-and-white

Statement:
Do we succumb to the charm of the material or is it the multi-faceted story of a class, a life, or a relationship – parts of which even seem familiar? A story in which we find ourselves? In-between, the courage of the black screen. We experience a subtle cinematic sense of verbal and visual narrative. We learn about the value of fulfilling work in human life – that, too, seems familiar. Time and again, the outside invades the private sphere: documentary television images of the war in Yugoslavia and burning buildings – we almost forgot how long ago right-wing violence resurfaced in the German Republic. In the beginning we hear the pulse of life, followed by fast and hard cuts of portraits of a man and woman in 1970s aesthetics. The couple grows older and we take part in their leftist liberal bourgeois life, but also in processes of change, interspersed with red light, radiation therapy and introspections, self-questioning caused by a serious illness. A narrative film about life is distinguished here, a touchingly revealing portrait, drawn so intimately, so excitingly, as an existential story that happens at all times and that in the end leaves many questions open for us, the audience, and thus continues in our minds.

Promotional Prize of the NRW Competition
worth 500 euros, sponsored by the SAE Institute Cologne and Bochum

Trübes Wasser
(Troubled Water)
Elena Wiener
Germany 2020, 9’54’’, colour/black-and-white

Statement:
The protagonist of this film suffers – her suffering is individual and personal. But it would also be visible to others, this suffering, and she therefore avoids the public. It forces her into quarantine (quarantine – the very mention of this word shows that the film describes current conditions and evokes very contemporary associations). In this quarantine, this isolation, her suffering spreads from the outside to the inside – and becomes terrible fear – and fear, as we all know, can literally eat you up. We, the audience, literally feel the pain. The award-winning film is – an animation. An animation in which simple lines are wrapped in a meaningful colour dramaturgy. An animation into which motivic live film snippets are mixed. An animation which, in combination with an atmospheric sound and music concept, creates psychological thrills and emotionality. An animation that is convincing both in terms of narrative and dramaturgy and in terms of formal aesthetics.

Special Mention

Hoch Sitzen
(Highly Perched)
Oliver Gather
Germany 2021, 24’37’’, colour/black-and-white

Statement:
We want to give a Special Mention to a film that operates at the intersection between research and documentation. Right at the beginning, the starting point and perspective of this observation is revealed. We then gradually experience a whole cultural cosmos in strict order: traditions, gender roles, songs. We learn of a special language, that objectifies, legitimizes and exaggerates. And we come to understand the point of view involved. This film is about nothing less than the act of killing. About the decisions of life and death when hunting – completely without need. The starting and ending point of this illuminating dense description is a sculpture: two raised hides facing each other.

Prize of the WDR Westart Audience Jury
worth 750 euros, sponsored by WDR Westart

Bis zum letzten Tropfen
(To the Last Drop)
Simon Schnellmann
Germany 2020, 5’46’’, black-and-white

Statement:
A blackly humorous look at the bitter struggle against a deadly disease. It’s about life and death, about brokenness. It’s about weakness, strength, courage and coping with setbacks. And: it’s about hope. Black-and-white lines, no words. An urgent subject, lightly packaged. We find the way the filmmaker tells of existential things like cancer, chemotherapy and the fight for survival with wit and intensity absolutely worthy of an award.

1st German Muvi Prize
worth 2,000 euros, sponsored by the SAE Institute Cologne and Bochum

Junge Milliardäre (UWE)
UWE
Germany 2020, 4’42’’, colour

Statement:
Junge Milliardäre by UWE is an elegant work that smashes, no holds barred, into our supposedly safe routines of perception and classification. We are shown a wobbly deepfake of Elon Mask singing seductively to himself, with ease and routine, on a kind of stage in front of a mirror; a multifaceted game with vanity, identity, longing and thus, of course, pop par excellence. In connection with the music and song, multiple cracks and shifts in the meaning of the images are generated and the question arises as to who is the author here and who is the singer. The obvious glitches, the brittleness of the deepfake make it even more beautiful: the viewer is first fascinated and then increasingly insecure. With great astuteness, in the guise of technical skill, all other filmic means shine through in this enchanting work: collage, suspense, the loving eye, wit and perhaps even a little horror. A brilliant work that’s grounded as firmly in the history of cinema and the world as it is pointing towards the future.

2nd German MuVi Prize
worth 1,000 euros, sponsored by the SAE Institute Cologne and Bochum

The Source of the Absolute Knowledge (Jaakko Eino Kalevi)
Christine Gensheimer
Germany 2021, 4’52’’, colour

Statement:
The Source of the Absolute Knowledge by Christine Gensheimer won us over with its playful and delicate animation style, which produced memorable images. Through metaphors from pop culture, internet culture and art history, analogue meets digital, pixels meet dabs of paint, Dalí meets emojis. Using collages of changing and merging settings, this video brilliantly combines form and content: The resource of knowledge in our computer age consists of fragmentary pieces of information that require composition by a user. Gensheimer combines image and sound with ease. In an unusually playful way she makes humans meet machines, and only the retro-aesthetics remind us that this relationship was once less light-hearted.

Special Mention

Rasenmäher in E-Moll (beißpony)
Stephanie Müller, Klaus Erika Dietl
Germany 2021, 14’59’’, colour

German MuVi Audience Award
chosen by online vote and worth 500 euros, sponsored by the SAE Institute Cologne and Bochum

NOAH (Christian Löffler)
Mishka Kornai
Germany, Canada, UK 2020, 3’47’’, colour

1st International MuVi Prize
worth 2,000 euros

Hungry Baby (Kim Gordon)
Clara Balzary
USA 2021, 5’41’’, colour

Statement:
For us, Hungry Baby is the quintessence of a music video. Director Clara Balzary did a masterful job directing this video on the raw and vibrant song by Kim Gordon. It is daring in its directorial simplicity, and how vulnerability is expressed by the excellence of the actress Coco Gordon-Moore’s dance, showing us both rage and the joy and comfort of music as a liberating force. Balzary chose to set the scene in a desolate parking lot that very much breathes the feeling of angst at the onset of Corona and its commodification of every day experience. The narrative construct of a male aggressor at the beginning unfolds into a juxtaposition of survival in which the female takes over and leaves us with a life affirming feeling at the end, as the music blasts us out of a restrictive reality.

2nd International MuVi Prize
worth 1,000 euros

Traitors (Benefits)
Kingsley Hall
UK 2020, 4’27’’, colour

Statement:
Traitors by Kingsley hall is one of the most political films in this section, convincing in its simplicity and evidence. Few means are sufficient for the production to communicate a feeling of anxiety and powerlessness to the viewers. Using the stylistic device of affirmation, Kingsley Hall takes up the (often right-wing) criticism of Brexit’s opponents, the so-called ’’snowflakes”: While in terms of content the criticism is passively-aggressively accepted, it is rejected on the level of form. Delivered as a rant, initially as direct sound and accompanied by the protagonist’s ever-darker expression, it finally culminates in a painful slow-motion scream. Kingsley Hall has found a trenchant form for a social mood. Traitors effectively expresses what plays a role not just in political discussions of Brexit but in the politicised and emotionally charged online debate culture in general: despair in the face of the seeming irresolvability of prevailing polarisations.

Special Mention

Station Three (Quartet Diminished)
Pooya Razi
Iran 2021, 2’45’’, colour/black-and-white

Statement:
We as a jury wanted to honour the creative eye and personal process of independent makers taking risks over technical highlights. Our Special Mention goes to Station Three (Quartet Diminished) by Iranian director Pooya Razi. He uses stop motion technique using self-made constructions of coloured pencil structures and 3D Zoetrope trying to shed light on the functioning of systems versus the individual. We honour the way in which creativity unfolds despite collective socio-political circumstances, and the ongoing excellence of creative input by the music of Quartet Diminished.

MuVi International Audience Award
chosen by online vote and worth 500 euros

Portadoras queer: el doble y la repetición (Ascii.Disko)
Ana Laura Aláez
USA, Japan, Spain 2020, 15’39’’, colour/black-and-white

Prize of the Children’s Jury
worth 1,000 euros, sponsored by Wirtschaftsbetriebe Oberhausen (WBO)

Kiki la plume
Julie Rembauville, Nicolas Bianco-Levrin
France 2020, 5’47’’, colour

Statement:
We thought the animation in this film was very beautiful. We also liked the music. The end was a bit sad, we thought, because the bird didn’t fly back to the woman. Still, it was a happy ending for the bird.

Promotional Prize
worth 1,000 euros, sponsored by Energieversorgung Oberhausen AG (evo)

In Search of Chok Chok
Dayoon Kim
South Korea 2020, 20’, colour

Statement:
We liked the fact that this film was about friendship. The idea that the girl found a snail and became friends with it was brilliant. It was funny when the girls set out apples to make the snail return. We liked it that they set the snails free at the end so they could stay with their friends.

Special Mention

Alyaska
Oxana Kuvaldina
Russia 2020, 7’6’’, colour

Statement:
We liked the music in this film very much. And the polar lights that could change. We also found it nice that the Husky found a friend at the end.

Prize of the Youth Jury
worth 1,000 euros, sponsored by the Rotary Club Oberhausen

Dọlápọ̀ Is Fine
Ethosheia Hylton
UK 2020, 15’, colour

Statement:
Our winning film expressed very strongly that one doesn’t have to twist and bend and can take one’s own decisions. But it also shows clearly: This doesn’t apply to everyone under the same conditions. Racism can also be hidden in well-meant advice – the young woman in the film showed us that you don’t have to assimilate at all costs. This short film really brings that everyday situation for anyone affected by racism home to us, the audience.

Special Mention

Material Bodies
Dorothy Allen-Pickard
UK 2020, 4’22’’, colour

Statement:
We want to distinguish an extraordinary film with an important message: many things can be normal! We don’t need pity! We really liked the choreographies – they make us understand in a few minutes that a prosthesis is more than just a replacement or a deficit.

ECFA Short Film Award
(The award consists of a nomination for the ECFA Short Film Award 2022.)

Shower Boys
Christian Zetterberg
Sweden 2021, 9’20’’, colour

Statement:
The ECFA Short Film Jury decided to give their award to a film with a daring story about different aspects of masculinity. Through the nuanced script, the outstanding acting and editing the film reflects the complexity of growing up as a boy and freely exploring your emotions and desires. The main characters are being taught that they can be either “man or mouse”, but the story of the film gradually deconstructs this kind of stereotypes.

Certificates of the Ecumenical Jury
In connection with a recommendation to Matthias Film and Katholisches Filmwerk to buy the films for their educational work.

Nova
Luca Meisters
Netherlands 2020, 10’39’’, colour

Statement:
About looking and finding for love and the difficulty of dealing with it. 14-year-old Nova takes on responsibility for her little sister and in this process goes on a journey to discover her feelings. Nova is a film that was perfectly staged and wonderfully photographed. The script works without pathos and heavy content and yet does not remain on the surface. A coherent and profound film at the same time.

Dalía
Brúsi Ólason
Iceland 2020, 16’11’’, colour

Statement:
An atmosphere of uncertainty determines a young boy’s weekend-visit at his father. Here, at this remote farm in the sparse and impressive landscape of Iceland begins a rough path of mutual approximation for both. The injury of tthe horse Dalía triggers a decisive change of the relationship of father and son. A film that treats the topic of taking farewell from different perspectives in a quiet and impressive way.

Competition Selection 2021

By countries

Argentina
Las Credenciales, Manuel Ferrari, 2020, 19'06'', International Online Competition
Las Sombras, Paulo Pécora, 2020, 18'02'', International Online Competition
Trampa de luz, Pablo Marín, 2021, 8'30'', International Online Competition

Argentina/Japan
Café de Kinema, Sol Miraglia, 2020, 9'00'', International Competition

Austria
All the Stops, Josef Dabernig, 2020, 15'38'', International Competition
copia de la copia (de la copia), Rafal Morusiewicz, 2020, 23'13'', International Online Competition
O, Paul Wenninger, 2021, 5'36'', International Competition

Belgium
Elong E'nabe, Niels Devlieghere, 2020, 14'00'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
I Like It When You’re Gone (Tom Rosenthal), Ada Güvenir, 2020, 03'06'', MuVi International Award
Oasielles, Nathalie Rossetti, 2020, 7'30'', International Online Competition

Belgium/France
L'ours qui avala une mouche, Pascale Hecquet, 2020, 7'24'', Children's and Youth Film Competition

Bosnia and Herzegovina/Netherlands
Before the fall there was no fall. Episode 02: Surfaces,Anna Dasovic, 2020, 20'01'', International Competition

Brasil
Belos Carnavais, Thiago B. Mendonça, 2020, 16'39'', International Online Competition

Brasil/Algeria
Eu espero o dia da nossa independência, Bruna Carvalho Almeida/Brunna Laboissière, 2021, 19'20'', International Competition

Brazil/Germany
Levantado do Chão, Melissa Dullius/Gustavo Jahn, 2020, 11'11'', German Online Competition

Canada
20-20, Karen Trask, 2021, 1'50'', International Competition
Skinned, Mike Hoolboom, 2020, 8'35'', International Competition

China
8'28'', Su Zhong, 2021, 8'28'', International Competition
危桥(Dangerous Bridge), Aixing Wang, 2020, 33'24'', International Online Competition
我伪装起来了，就在你面前 (I’m Disguised, Right in front of You), Zhu Changquan, 2020, 10'00'', International Online Competition

China/USA
我是一群人2 (I Am the People_2), Xiaofei Li, 2020, 23'46'', International Competition

Colombia
La Cumbre, Felipe Lopez Gomez, 2021, 8'14'', International Online Competition
Niebla, Leonardo Romero Zarza, 2020, 10'26'', Children's and Youth Film Competition

Croatia
Dear Aki, Nina Kurtela, 2021, 14'40'', International Online Competition
Split, Renata Poljak, 2021, 11'11'', International Competition

Cyprus
ΜεσογειακόΤοπίο (Mediterranean Landscape), Christiana Ioannou, 2020, 6'04'', International Online Competition

Czech Republic
Pole Žin (Fields of Žinas), Marie Lukáčová/Anna Remecova, 2020, 8'49'', International Online Competition
Slavnostní problem, Alžběta Bačíková, 2020, 14'33'', International Competition
Vevnitř, Viktorie Štěpánová, 2020, 5'40'', Children's and Youth Film Competition

Denmark
B Plots, Freja Sofie Kirk, 2020, 6'36'', International Competition

Finland
Kansanradio - Runonlaulajien maa, Virpi Suutari, 2021, 26'47'', International Competition

Finland/Norway
Suodji, Marja Helander, 2020, 5'00'', International Online Competition

France
ABIKOU (Joan Bagés), Alexandra Bouge, 2021, 6'38'', MuVi International Award
Dix ans, Clélia Schaeffer, 2020, 15'00'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Kaolin, Corentin Lemetayer Le Brize, 2020, 22'19'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Kiki la plume, Julie Rembauville/Nicolas Bianco-Levrin, 2020, 5'47'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
La Chamade, Emma Séméria, 2020, 9'26'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Latitude du printemps, Sylvain Cuvillier/Chloé Bourdic/Théophile Coursimault/Noémie Halberstam/Maŷlis Mosny/Zijing Ye, 2020, 7'25'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Lupin, Helene Ducrocq, 2020, 11'11'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Nonbinary, Jeanne L'Homer, 2020, 5'52'', International Competition, Children's and Youth Film Competition
Ourse, Nicolas Birkenstock, 2020, 27'23'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Ton français est parfait, Julie Daravan Chea, 2020, 04'19'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Trona Pinnacles, Mathilde Parquet, 2020, 13'20'', France, Children's and Youth Film Competition
Un très long temps d'exposition, Chloé Galibert-Laîné, 7'00'', 2020, International Online Competition

France/China
He An, 2020, Weijia Ma, 2020, 14'50'', Children's and Youth Film Competition

France/Mexico/USA
A Jurist for Nothing (A. F. Jones), Lana Z Caplan, 2020, 5'04'', MuVi International Award

France/Switzerland
Un caillou dans la chaussure, Eric Montchaud, 2020, 11'28'', Children's and Youth Film Competition

France/UK
Footnote to a Season, Julia Dogra-Brazell, 2020, 5'21'', International Online Competition

Germany
27 SCHRITTE, Andrea Schramm, 2021, 21'12'', German Competition
Annäherung, Sonya Schönberger, 2020, 7'52'', German Online Competition
Aus Aktuellem Anlass,Johannes Klais/Florian Pawliczek, 2020, 14'00'', NRW Competition
Bis zum letzten Tropfen, Simon Schnellmann, 2020, 5'46'', NRW Competition
Cutting Edges,Céline Berger, 2020, 14'30'', German Competition
Die klaffende Wunde,Jovana Reisinger, 2020, 5'00'', German Competition
Doom Cruise, Hannah Stragholz/Simon Steinhorst, 2021, 16'45'', NRW Competition
Doors of Reception,Bjørn Melhus, 2021, 2'30'', German Competition
Du bist doch kein Kind mehr,Mira Partecke/Annika Kuhl, 2020, 20'52'', German Competition
Es geht um Müll, Lisa Meier, 2020, 3'53'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Ewig Gast, Maximilian Karakatsanis, 2020, 8'45'', German Online Competition
Fanuks: I Want To Sing Like Ella (Der Plan), Duc-Thi Bui/Marc Engenhart, 2021, 5'30'', German MuVi Award
feminism is a browser_materialisation, Charlotte Eifler, 2020, 11'50'', German Competition
Forever Corona (Oliver Polak, Erobique), Kay Otto, 2020, 3'41'', German MuVi Award
Haare Zu Gold (Hans Unstern), Hans Unstern, 2020, 9'19'', German MuVi Award
Hoch Sitzen, Oliver Gather, 2021, 24'22'', NRW Competition
Im gelben Licht, Simon Rupieper, 2020, 7'28'', German Competition
Junge Milliardäre (UWE), UWE, 2020, 4'42'', German MuVi Award
La Bâche, Volker Köster/Frédérique Laffont, 2020, 4'00'', NRW Competition
Like You Really Mean It, Ale Bachlechner, 2020, 12'45'', NRW Competition
LYDIA, Christian Becker, 2021, 21'10'', NRW Competition
Misty Picture, Christoph Girardet/Matthias Müller, 2021, 16'32'', International Competition, German Competition
Mood, Sonia Freiya Knop, 2020, 6'46'', German Competition
Mrs Yamahas Summer Tune (Richard von der Schulenburg), Katharina Duve/Timo Schierhorn, 2020, 4'21'', German MuVi Award
My Mother’s Hair, Zeynep Sıla Demircioğlu, 2020, 3'39'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
OCTAVIA’S VISIONS, Zara Zandieh, 2020, 17'36'', German Competition
Out of Control (DJ Hell), Stacie Ant, 2020, 3'42'', German MuVi Award
Pointilist (Kröter), Jo Zahn, 2021, 5'58'', German MuVi Award
Proll!, Adrian Figueroa, 2021, 30'00'', German Competition
Rasenmäher in E-Moll (beißpony),Stephanie Müller/Klaus Erika Dietl, 2021, 14'59'', German MuVi Award
Safe Space, Mirelle Borra, 2020, 10'01'', German Online Competition
SALIDAS, Michael Fetter Nathansky, 2021, 10'18'', German Online Competition
Seasons/Patterns, James Edmonds, 2020, 10'00'', German Competition
Second, André Martins, 2020, 30'49'', German Competition
Shine and Frustration, Shira Orion, 2020, 4'10'', German Competition
Subjekträume, Katharina Voß, 2020, 28'40'', German Online Competition
The Pure and the Damned (Oneohtrix Point Never), Oliver Pietsch, 2021, 4'43'', German MuVi Award
The Source of the Absolute Knowledge (Jaakko Eino Kalevi),Christine Gensheimer, 2021, 4'52'', German MuVi Award
Top Down Memory, Daniel Theiler, 2020, 12'20'', German Online Competition
Tricks for Transformation, Rainer Knepperges, 2020, 9'26'', NRW Competition
Trübes Wasser, Elena Wiener, 2020, 9'54'', NRW Competition
Verwundene Fäden / MπερδεμένεςΚλοστές, Deborah Jeromin, 2020, 40'44'', German Online Competition
Voices and Shells, Maya Schweizer, 2020, 18'10'', German Competition
Was wahrscheinlich passiert wäre, wäre ich nicht zuhause geblieben, Willy Hans, 2020, 21'07'', German Online Competition
weg von hier, Jan Thierhoff, 2021, 28'30'', NRW Competition
X, Mareike Wegener, 2020, 28'40'', German Competition

Germany/Austria
Genosse Tito, ich erbe, Olga Kosanović, 2021, 27'00'', German Competition

Germany/Canada/UK
NOAH (Christian Löffler), Mishka Kornai, 2020, 3'47'', German MuVi Award

Germany/Colombia
Fronteras Visibles (versión discursiva), Christian Diaz Orejarena, 2021, 16'17'', German Competition

Germany/Netherlands
Lana Kaiser, Philipp Gufler, 2020, 13'17'', German Competition

Germany/Portugal
Mansa, Mariana Bártolo, 2021, 22'40'', NRW Competition

Germany/Spain
re:Biber #4 (ThereAreNoMoreFourSeasons), Klöfkorn Gavois, 2021, 7'00'', German MuVi Award

Germany/Turkey
Centauress, Deniz Şimşek, 2020, 8'15'', erman Online Competition
Hundsstern steigt ab, Aykan Safoğlu, 2021, 12'00'', German Competition

Germany/UK
Disjointed, Clara Helbig, 2020, 10'48'', German Online Competition

Germany/USA
(Steve) Temple, Tanita Olbrich, 2020, 6'03'', German Online Competition
Erik/Prince Is Dead - A Fever Dream Letter Scape (Thies Mynther & Jakob S. Boeskov), Thies Mynther/Jakob S. Boeskov, 2020, 12'28'', MuVi International Award
Erosion Project (Dan Su), Dan Su, 2020, 7'08'', MuVi International Award
Phantasmagoria, 1945, Karl Nussbaum, 2020, 11'08'', International Competition

Hungary
Széphercegnő (Princess Beauty), Szabó Eszter, 2020, 2'30'', International Online Competition

Iceland
Dalía, Brúsi Ólason, 2020, 16'11'', Children's and Youth Film Competition

India
Are You Alright (Sofia Ashraf), Sapan Taneja, 2020, 4'01'', MuVi International Award
Kalsubai, Yudhajit Basu, 2020, 19'54'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Paanchika, Ankit Kothari, 2020, 14'07'', Children's and Youth Film Competition

Indonesia
Berlabuh, Haris Yuliyanto, 2020, 14'49'', International Online Competition

Iran
+x+=+, Niyaz Saghari, 2020, 6'54'', International Online Competition
De-collage, Erphaneh Sadeghzadeh, 2020, 15'22'', International Competition
Leo, Moein Rooholamini, 2020, 5'00'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Station Three (Quartet Diminished), Pooya Razi, 2021, 2'45'', MuVi International Award

Ireland
A Hero’s Death (Fontaines D.C.), Hugh Mulhern, 2020, 5'10'', MuVi International Award

Israel
בדמותה (In Her Image), Yael Solomonovich, 2020, 9'11'', International Competition

Italy
mille cipressi (a thousand cypresses), Luca Ferri, 2021, 13'52'', International Competition

Japan
Birthday, Yuka Sato, 2020, 8'40'', International Online Competition
Kokoni ite, Rika Mayumi, 2020, 1'53'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Self Surgery, Hikari Wajima, 2020, 5'23'', International Competition
フレンド (Friend), Gan Wang, 2020, 2'57'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
細胞とガラス (Cells and Glass), Yuki Hayashi, 2020, 9'10'', International Competition
透明な私(Transparent, I am.), Yuri Muraoka, 2020, 11'36'', International Competition

Lithuania
Ieva, Vytautas Plukas/Domas Petronis, 2021, 13'57'', International Online Competition

Luxembourg
Meng Hoer, Max Jacoby, 2021, 3'00'', Children's and Youth Film Competition

Nepal
ངའིནང (Home), Ngima Gelu Sherpa, 2020, 20'10'', International Competition

Netherlands
Een man in het licht van zijn schaduw (A Man in the Light of His Shadow), Bernard Lier, 2021, 7'24'', International Competition
Nova, Luca Meisters, 2020, 10'39'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
The One (Sandra Hüller), Leopold Emmen (Nanouk Leopold and Daan Emmen), 2020, 2'24'', MuVi International Award
The Spirit Is Willing But The Flesh Is Furry, Valentina Gal, 2020, 10'37'', International Competition

Netherlands/South Korea
The Other Garden; Joel’s Garden, Go-Eun Im, 2021, 11'40'', International Online Competition

New Zealand
Across the Face of the Moon, Rangituhia Hollis, 2020, 10'33'', International Competition
Only Yesterday, Sione Monu, 2020, 8'09'', International Online Competition

Norway
3xShapes of Home, Elisabeth Brun, 2020, 7'00'', International Online Competition
More Woman, More Cry, Anne Haugsgjerd, 2021, 24'00'', International Competition

Norway/Sweden
Elveleie, Sylvelin Maakestad, 2020, 14'40'', Children's and Youth Film Competition

Norway/UK
See What I See, Sam Williams, 2020, 9'01'', International Competition

Phillipines
Count, Adjani Arumpac, 2020, 12'57'', International Competition
Random People, Arden Rod Condez, 2020, 6'36'', International Competition
Rumi X Phantasm, Khavn, 2020, 10'02'', International Online Competition

Poland
Zieleń, Karolina Kajetanowicz, 2021, 8'15'', International Competition

Portugal
A terra de não retorno, Patrick Mendes, 2020, 20'00'', International Competition

Portugal/USA/Australia
Tracing Utopia, Catarina de Sousa/Nick Tyson, 2021, 26'08'', International Online Competition, Children's and Youth Film Competition

Romania
A Fish on a Ladder, Ioana Pasarin, 2020, 2'33'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Candy Can, Anton Octavian, 2020, 9'15'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Cântec de leagăn, Paul Mureșan, 2020, 4'00'', International Online Competition

Russia
Alyaska, Oxana Kuvaldina, 2020, 7'06'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
God Beloi Luni, Maxim Pechersky, 21'21'', International Competition
Meetings. Episode 1, Pavel Serdyukov, 20'15'', International Competition
Состязательнаяинфраструктура (Adversarial Infrastructure), Anna Engelhardt, 2020, 9'46'', International Online Competition

Rwanda
Sensory Overload, Ganza Moise, 2020, 6'56'', International Competition

Senegal
Tang Jër, Selly Raby Kane, 2020, 13'37'', International Competition

Singapore/Finland
{if your bait can sing the wild one will come} Like Shadows Through Leaves,Lucy Davis, 2021, 27'52'', International Competition

South Africa
The Town, Lindiwe Makgalemele, 2020, 15'00'', International Competition

South Korea
Walking on the Chairs, Jeamin Cha, 10'58'', International Competition
찾아라달팽이! (In Search of Chok Chok), Dayoon Kim, 20'00'', Children's and Youth Film Competition

Spain
Azkorri árnyéka alatt, Eszter Katalin, 2020, 17'00'', International Online Competition
Forastera, Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, 2020, 19'51'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Hemen. Gaur. Berriz, Aitor Gametxo Zabala, 2020, 9'22'', International Online Competition

Sweden
Iso ylimäärä, Magnus Fredriksson, 2021, 14'27'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Minnen, Kristin Johannessen, 2020, 13'32'', International Online Competition
Nattåget, Jerry Carlsson, 2020, 14'34'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Shower Boys, Christian Zetterberg, 2021, 09'20'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Untitled Abisko, Sophie Vuković, 2020, 19'16'', International Competition

Switzerland
À l'ancienne, Yasmine Bahechar, 2020, 19'47'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
La Promenade sous les arbres (Walk Under the Trees), Nathan Clement, 2020, 18'49'', International Online Competition
Zoom sur le cirque (Zoom on Circus), Dominique Margot, 2020, 14'26'', International Competition

Taiwan
蟲戲 (The Frolic), Yi-Han Jhao, 2020, 4'34'', Children's and Youth Film Competition

UK
Before We Collide, Gregor Petrikovic/Guy Gooch, 2021, 1'13'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Covid Messages, John Smith, 2020, 22'26'', International Competition
DID U CUM YET / I’M NOT GONNA CUM (Blackhaine, Richie Culver), William Markarian-Martin/Blackhaine, 2021, 4'00'', MuVi International Award
Divided by Law, Katie Davies/Emma Agusita, 2021, 26'11'', International Competition
Dọlápọ̀ Is Fine, Ethosheia Hylton, 2020, 15'00'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Material Bodies, Dorothy Allen-Pickard, 2020, 4'22'', Children's and Youth Film Competition
Surge, Sebastian Buerkner, 2020, 4'37'', International Online Competition
The Light of Day, Alex Eisenberg/Anne Bean, 2020, 19'06'', International Online Competition
Traitors (Benefits), Kingsley Hall, 2020, 04'27'', MuVi International Award
TRIFORIUM, Jayne Parker, 2021, 7'22'', International Competition

USA
Dos hombres atentos, Joserraúl Ortiz, 2020, 20'10'', International Online Competition
Girl Is Presence, Lynne Sachs/Anne Lesley Selcer, 2020, 4'00'', International Online Competition
Hungry Baby (Kim Gordon), Clara Balzary, 2021, 05'41'', MuVi International Award
my favorite software is being here, Alison Nguyen, 2020, 19'47'', International Online Competition
No Concept (Matmos), M.C. Schmidt, 2020, 9'58'', MuVi International Award
Nuevo Rico, Kristian Mercado, 2020, 16'07'', International Online Competition
SON CHANT, Vivian Ostrovsky, 2020, 12'46'', International Online Competition
The___________World, Peixuan Ouyang, 2020, 17'56'', International Online Competition

USA/Japan/Spain
Portadoras queer: el doble y la repetición (Ascii.Disko), Ana Laura Aláez, 2020, 15'39'', MuVi International Award

By sections

International Competition

{if your bait can sing the wild one will come} Like Shadows Through Leaves,Lucy Davis, 2021, 27'52'', Singapore/Finland
20-20, Karen Trask, 2021, 1'50'', Canada
8'28'', Su Zhong, 2021, 8'28'', China
A terra de não retorno, Patrick Mendes, 2020, 20'00'', Portugal
Across the Face of the Moon, Rangituhia Hollis, 2020, 10'33'', New Zealand
All the Stops, Josef Dabernig, 2020, 15'38'', Austria
B Plots, Freja Sofie Kirk, 2020, 6'36'', Denmark
Before the fall there was no fall. Episode 02: Surfaces, Anna Dasovic, 2020, 20'01'', Bosnia and Herzegovina/Netherlands
Café de Kinema, Sol Miraglia, 2020, 9'00'', Argentina/Japan
Count, Adjani Arumpac, 2020, 12'57'', Philippines
Covid Messages, John Smith, 2020, 22'26'', UK
De-collage, Erphaneh Sadeghzadeh, 2020, 15'22'', Iran
Divided by Law, Katie Davies/Emma Agusita, 2021, 26'11'', UK
Een man in het licht van zijn schaduw, Bernard Lier, 2021, 7'24'', Netherlands
Eu espero o dia da nossa independência, Bruna Carvalho Almeida/Brunna Laboissière, 2021, 20'40'', Brasil/Algeria
God Beloi Luni, Maxim Pechersky, 21'21'', Russia
Kansanradio - Runonlaulajien maa, Virpi Suutari, 2021, 26'47'', Finland
Meetings. Episode 1, Pavel Serdyukov, 20'15'', Russia
mille cipressi (a thousand cypresses), Luca Ferri, 2021, 13'52'', Italy
Misty Picture, Christoph Girardet/Matthias Müller, 2021, 16'32'', Germany
More Woman, More Cry, Anne Haugsgjerd, 2021, 24'00'', Norway
Nonbinary, Jeanne L'Homer, 2020, 5'52'', France
O, Paul Wenninger, 2021, 5'36'', Austria
Phantasmagoria, 1945, Karl Nussbaum, 2020, 11'08'', Germany/USA
Random People, Arden Rod Condez, 2020, 6'36'', Philippines
See What I See, Sam Williams, 2020, 9'01'', Norway/UK
Self Surgery, Hikari Wajima, 2020, 5'23'', Japan
Sensory Overload, Ganza Moise, 2020, 6'56'', Rwanda
Skinned, Mike Hoolboom, 2020, 8'35'', Canada
Slavnostní problem, Alžběta Bačíková, 2020, 14'33'', Czech Republic
Split, Renata Poljak, 2021, 11'11'', Croatia
Tang Jër, Selly Raby Kane, 2020, 13'37'', Senegal
The Spirit Is Willing But The Flesh Is Furry, Valentina Gal, 2020, 10'37'', Netherlands
The Town, Lindiwe Makgalemele, 2020, 15'00'', South Africa
TRIFORIUM, Jayne Parker, 2021, 7'22'', UK
Untitled Abisko, Sophie Vuković, 2020, 19'16'', Sweden
Walking on the Chairs, Jeamin Cha, 10'58'', South Korea
Zieleń, Karolina Kajetanowicz, 2021, 8'15'', Poland
Zoom sur le cirque, Dominique Margot, 2020, 14'26'', Switzerland
בדמותה (In Her Image), Yael Solomonovich, 2020, 9'11'', Israel
ངའིནང (Home), Ngima Gelu Sherpa, 2020, 20'10'', Nepal
我是一群人2 (I Am the People_2), Xiaofei Li, 2020, 23'46'', China/USA
細胞とガラス (Cells and Glass), Yuki Hayashi, 2020, 9'10'', Japan
透明な私 (Transparent, I am.), Yuri Muraoka, 2020, 11'36'', Japan

International Online Competition

+x+=+, Niyaz Saghari, 2020, 6'54'', Iran
3xShapes of Home, Elisabeth Brun, 2020, 7'00'', Norway
Azkorri árnyéka alatt, Eszter Katalin, 2020, 17'00'', Spain
Belos Carnavais, Thiago B. Mendonça, 2020, 16'39'', Brazil
Berlabuh, Haris Yuliyanto, 2020, 14'49'', Indonesia
Birthday, Yuka Sato, 2020, 8'40'', Japan
Cântec de leagăn, Paul Mureșan, 2020, 4'00'', Romania
copia de la copia (de la copia), Rafal Morusiewicz, 2020, 23'13'', Austria
Dear Aki, Nina Kurtela, 2021, 14'40'', Croatia
Dos hombres atentos, Joserraúl Ortiz, 2020, 20'10'', USA
Footnote to a Season, Julia Dogra-Brazell, 2020, 5'21'', France/UK
Girl Is Presence, Lynne Sachs/Anne Lesley Selcer, 2020, 4'00'', USA
Hemen. Gaur. Berriz, Aitor Gametxo Zabala, 2020, 9'22'', Spain
Ieva, Vytautas Plukas/Domas Petronis, 2021, 13'57'', Lithuania
Kalsubai, Yudhajit Basu, 2020, 19'54'', India
La Cumbre, Felipe Lopez Gomez, 2021, 8'14'', Colombia
La Promenade sous les arbres, Nathan Clement, 2020, 18'49'', Switzerland
Las Credenciales, Manuel Ferrari, 2020, 19'06'', Argentina
Las Sombras, Paulo Pécora, 2020, 18'02'', Argentina
Minnen, Kristin Johannessen, 2020, 13'32'', Sweden
my favorite software is being here, Alison Nguyen, 2020, 19'47'', USA
Nuevo Rico, Kristian Mercado, 2020, 16'07'', USA
Oasielles, Nathalie Rossetti, 2020, 7'30'', Belgium
Only Yesterday, Sione Monu, 2020, 8'09'', New Zealand
Pole Žin (Fields of Žinas), Marie Lukáčová/Anna Remecova, 2020, 8'49'', Czech Republic
Rumi X Phantasm, Khavn, 2020, 10'02'', Philippines
SON CHANT, Vivian Ostrovsky, 2020, 12'46'', USA
Suodji, Marja Helander, 2020, 5'00'', Finland/Norway
Surge, Sebastian Buerkner, 2020, 4'40'', UK
Széphercegnő (Princess Beauty), Szabó Eszter, 2020, 2'30'', Hungary
The Light of Day, Alex Eisenberg/Anne Bean, 2020, 19'06'', UK
The Other Garden; Joel’s Garden, Go-Eun Im, 2021, 11'40'', Netherlands/South Korea
The___________World, Peixuan Ouyang, 2020, 17'56'', USA/China
Tracing Utopia, Catarina de Sousa/Nick Tyson, 2021, 26'08'', Portugal/USA/Australia
Trampa de luz, Pablo Marín, 2021, 8'30'', Argentina
Un très long temps d'exposition (A very long exposure time), Chloé Galibert-Laîné, 2020, 7'00'', France
ΜεσογειακόΤοπίο (Mediterranean Landscape), Christiana Ioannou, 2020, 6'04'', Cyprus
Состязательнаяинфраструктура (Adversarial Infrastructure), Anna Engelhardt, 2020, 9'46'', Russia
危桥 (Dangerous Bridge), Aixing Wang, 2020, 33'24'', China
我伪装起来了，就在你面前 (I’m Disguised, Right in front of You), Zhu Changquan, 2020, 10'00'', China

German Competition

27 SCHRITTE, Andrea Schramm, 2021, 21'12'', Germany
Cutting Edges,Céline Berger, 2020, 14'30'', Germany
Die klaffende Wunde,Jovana Reisinger, 2020, 5'00'', Germany
Doors of Reception,Bjørn Melhus, 2021, 2'30'', Germany
Du bist doch kein Kind mehr,Mira Partecke/Annika Kuhl, 2020, 20'52'', Germany
feminism is a browser_materialisation, Charlotte Eifler, 2020, 11'50'', Germany
Fronteras Visibles (versión discursiva), Christian Diaz Orejarena, 2021, 16'17'', Germany/Colombia
Genosse Tito, ich erbe, Olga Kosanović, 2021, 27'00'', Germany/Austria
Hundsstern steigt ab, Aykan Safoğlu, 2021, 12'00'', Germany/Turkey
Im gelben Licht, Simon Rupieper, 2020, 7'28'', Germany
Lana Kaiser, Philipp Gufler, 2020, 13'17'', Germany/Netherlands
Misty Picture, Christoph Girardet/Matthias Müller, 2021, 16'32'', Germany
Mood, Sonia Knop, 2020, 6'46'', Germany
OCTAVIA’S VISIONS, Zara Zandieh, 2020, 17'36'', Germany
Proll!, Adrian Figueroa, 2021, 30'00'', Germany
Seasons/Patterns, James Edmonds, 2020, 10'00'', Germany
Second, André Martins, 2020, 30'49'', Germany
Shine and Frustration, Shira Orion, 2020, 4'10'', Germany
Voices and Shells, Maya Schweizer, 2020, 18'21'', Germany
X, Mareike Wegener, 2020, 28'40'', Germany

German Online Competition

(Steve) Temple, Tanita Olbrich, 2020, 6'03'', Germany/USA
Annäherung, Sonya Schönberger, 2020, 7'52'', Germany
Centauress, Deniz Şimşek, 2020, 8'15'', Germany/Turkey
disjointed, Clara Helbig, 2020, 10'48'', Germany/UK
Ewig Gast, Maximilian Karakatsanis, 2020, 8'45'', Germany
Levantado do Chão, Melissa Dullius, Gustavo Jahn, 2020, 11'11'', Brazil/Germany
Safe Space, Mirelle Borra, 2020, 10'01'', Germany
SALIDAS, Michael Fetter Nathansky, 2021, 10'18'', Germany
Subjekträume, Katharina Voß, 2020, 28'40'', Germany
Top Down Memory, Daniel Theiler, 2020, 12'20'', Germany
Verwundene Fäden / MπερδεμένεςΚλοστές, Deborah Jeromin, 2020, 40'44'', Germany
Was wahrscheinlich passiert wäre, wäre ich nicht zuhause geblieben, Willy Hans, 2020, 21'07'', Germany

NRW Competition

Aus Aktuellem Anlass, Johannes Klais/Florian Pawliczek, 2020, 14'00'', Germany
Bis zum letzten Tropfen, Simon Schnellmann, 2020, 5'46'', Germany
Doom Cruise, Hannah Stragholz/Simon Steinhorst, 2021, 16'45'', Germany
Hoch Sitzen, Oliver Gather, 2021, 24'37'', Germany
La Bâche, Volker Köster/Frédérique Laffont, 2020, 4'00'', Germany
Like You Really Mean It, Ale Bachlechner, 2020, 12'45'', Germany
LYDIA, Christian Becker, 2021, 21'10'', Germany
Mansa, Mariana Bártolo, 2021, 22'40'', Germany/Portugal
Tricks for Transformation, Rainer Knepperges, 2020, 9'26'', Germany
Trübes Wasser, Elena Wiener, 2020, 9'54'', Germany
weg von hier, Jan Thierhoff, 2021, 28'30'', Germany

Children's and Youth Film Competition

A Fish on a Ladder, Ioana Pasarin, 2020, 2'33'', Romania
À l'ancienne, Yasmine Bahechar, 2020, 19'47'', Switzerland
Alyaska, Oxana Kuvaldina, 2020, 7'06'', Russia
Before We Collide, Gregor Petrikovic/Guy Gooch, 2021, 1'13'', UK
Candy Can, Anton Octavian, 2020, 9'15'', Romania
Dalía, Brúsi Ólason, 2020, 16'11'', Iceland
Dix ans, Clélia Schaeffer, 2020, 15'00'', France
Dọlápọ̀ Is Fine, Ethosheia Hylton, 2020, 15'00'', UK
Elong E'nabe, Niels Devlieghere, 2020, 14'00'', Belgium
Elveleie, Sylvelin Maakestad, 2020, 14'40'', Norway/Sweden
Es geht um Müll, Lisa Meier, 2020, 3'53'', Germany
Forastera, Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, 2020, 19'51'', Spain
He An, 2020, Weijia Ma, 2020, 14'50'', China/France
Iso ylimäärä, Magnus Fredriksson, 2021, 14'27'', Sweden
Kaolin, Corentin Lemetayer Le Brize, 2020, 22'19'', France
Kiki la plume, Julie Rembauville/Nicolas Bianco-Levrin, 2020, 5'47'', France
Kokoni ite, Rika Mayumi, 2020, 1'53'', Japan
L'ours qui avala une mouche, Pascale Hecquet, 2020, 7'24'', Belgium/France
La Chamade, Emma Séméria, 2020, 9'26'', France
Latitude du printemps, Sylvain Cuvillier/Chloé Bourdic/Théophile Coursimault/Noémie Halberstam/Maŷlis Mosny/Zijing Ye, 2020, 7'25'', France
Leo, Moein Rooholamini, 2020, 5'00'', Iran
Lupin, Helene Ducrocq, 2020, 11'11'', France
Material Bodies, Dorothy Allen-Pickard, 2020, 4'22'', UK
Meng Hoer, Max Jacoby, 2021, 3'00'', Luxembourg
My Mother’s Hair, Zeynep Sıla Demircioğlu, 2020, 3'39'', Germany
Nattåget, Jerry Carlsson, 2020, 14'34'', Sweden
Niebla, Leonardo Romero Zarza, 2020, 10'26'', Colombia
Nonbinary, Jeanne L'Homer, 2020, 5'52'', France
Nova, Luca Meisters, 2020, 10'39'', Netherlands
Ourse, Nicolas Birkenstock, 2020, 27'23'', France
Paanchika, Ankit Kothari, 2020, 14'07'', India
Shower Boys, Christian Zetterberg, 2021, 09'20'', Sweden
Ton français est parfait, Julie Daravan Chea, 2020, 04'19'', France
Tracing Utopia, Catarina de Sousa/Nick Tyson, 2021, 26'08'', Portugal/USA/Australia
Trona Pinnacles, Mathilde Parquet, 2020, 13'20'', France
Un caillou dans la chaussure, Eric Montchaud, 2020, 11'28'', France/Switzerland
Vevnitř, Viktorie Štěpánová, 2020, 5'40'', Czech Republic
フレンド (Friend), Gan Wang, 2020, 2'57'', Japan
蟲戲(The Frolic), Yi-Han Jhao, 2020, 4'34'', Taiwan
찾아라달팽이! (In Search of Chok Chok), Dayoon Kim, 19'57'', South Korea

German MuVi Award

Fanuks: I Want To Sing Like Ella (Der Plan), Duc-Thi Bui/Marc Engenhart, 2021, 5'30'', Germany
Forever Corona (Oliver Polak, Erobique), Kay Otto, 2020, 3'41'', Germany
Haare Zu Gold (Hans Unstern), Hans Unstern, 2020, 9'19'', Germany
Junge Milliardäre (UWE), UWE, 2020, 4'42'', Germany
Mrs Yamahas Summer Tune (Richard von der Schulenburg), Katharina Duve/Timo Schierhorn, 2020, 4'21'', Germany
NOAH (Christian Löffler), Mishka Kornai, 2020, 3'47'', Germany/Canada/UK
Out of Control (DJ Hell), Stacie Ant, 2020, 3'42'', Germany
Pointilist (Kröter), Jo Zahn, 2021, 5'58'', Germany
Rasenmäher in E-Moll (beißpony), Stephanie Müller/Klaus Erika Dietl, 2021, 14'59'', Germany
re:Biber #4 (ThereAreNoMoreFourSeasons), Klöfkorn Gavois, 2021, 7'00'', Germany/Spain
The Pure and the Damned (Oneohtrix Point Never), Oliver Pietsch, 2021, 4'43'', Germany
The Source of the Absolute Knowledge (Jaakko Eino Kalevi), Christine Gensheimer, 2021, 4'52'', Germany

MuVi International Award

A Hero’s Death (Fontaines D.C.), Hugh Mulhern, 2020, 5'10'', Ireland
A Jurist for Nothing (A. F. Jones), Lana Z Caplan, 2020, 5'04'', France/Mexico/USA
ABIKOU (Joan Bagés), Alexandra Bouge, 2021, 6'38'', France
Are You Alright (Sofia Ashraf), Sapan Taneja, 2020, 4'01'', India
DID U CUM YET / I’M NOT GONNA CUM (Blackhaine, Richie Culver), William Markarian-Martin/Blackhaine, 2021, 4'00'', UK
Erik/Prince Is Dead - A Fever Dream Letter Scape (Thies Mynther & Jakob S. Boeskov), Thies Mynther/Jakob S. Boeskov, 2020, 12'28'', Germany/USA
Erosion Project (Dan Su), Dan Su, 2020, 7'08'', Germany/USA
Hungry Baby (Kim Gordon), Clara Balzary, 2021, 05'41'', USA
I Like It When You’re Gone (Tom Rosenthal), Ada Güvenir, 2020, 03'06'', Belgium
No Concept (Matmos), M.C. Schmidt, 2020, 9'58'', USA
Portadoras queer: el doble y la repetición (Ascii.Disko), Ana Laura Aláez, 2020, 15'39'', USA/Japan/Spain
Station Three (Quartet Diminished), Pooya Razi, 2021, 2'45'', Iran
The One (Sandra Hüller), Leopold Emmen (Nanouk Leopold and Daan Emmen), 2020, 2'24'', Netherlands
Traitors (Benefits), Kingsley Hall, 2020, 04'27'', UK

Catalogue

Festivalkatalog 2021

The Festival Catalogue 2021 is available as PDF for download here.

Trailer 2021

Trailer 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen @ Christian Schön

Press review

Every year there are reports about our festival. Here you can finde a collection of opinions about our festival.

2021

Festival

The strength of this festival is precisely that you come across exciting things utterly unexpectedly, because the programming obeys no algorithm but only the principle of intellectual, aesthetic and political curiosity.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 12 May 2021
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kino/kurzfilmtage-oberhausen-transparent-i-am-ausgezeichnet-17337178.html

The 2021 edition was a model example of a virtual festival.
Cineaste, USA, August 2021
https://www.cineaste.com/fall2021/international-short-film-festival-oberhausen-2021

Even if the offer of this film format [essay films with voiceover monologue] is particularly rich at the moment – Oberhausen is still also rich in magnificent works without words.
Frankfurter Rundschau, 11 May 2021
https://www.fr.de/kultur/tv-kino/oberhausener-kurzfilmtage-die-stunde-der-kinoerzaehler-90529811.html

Thrilling – Oberhausen reflects the pandemic experience and shows political awareness.
epd film, June 2021

Reassured, one realized that the films were still there, that they work and make a difference because they know how to tell something sensually and emphatically, cleverly and lucidly
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 13 May 2021

With the largest selection of short films available online (400 plus), Oberhausen may have set a new threshold for film festivals.
Senses of Cinema, July 2021
https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2021/festival-reports/the-realm-of-the-sensible-and-the-short-film-the-67th-international-short-film-festival-oberhausen/

Smaller festivals, who don’t depend so much on glamour anyway, usually attract a bigger audience than usual when they’re accessible online. This is what we would wish for the 2021 vintage.
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 8 May 2021
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/karl-may-stockhausen-marteria-1.5287857

Of course, one approached the programme, which was as diverse as ever, with the question: What traces has the pandemic left in the latest productions? Roughly speaking: The consequences are clearly visible in some places – but overall, at least in the films selected for Oberhausen in 2021, things went on without masks.
Der Standard, Österreich, 10 May 2021
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000126514726/kurzfilmtage-oberhausen-vielfalt-trotz-pandemie

This year’s online edition […] also drove home the point that, while streaming is far from the “real thing” when it comes to a full festival or a theater experience, there is much that can be done to deliver ambitious, thoughtful, vanguard programming online, and to keep cinephile culture alive.
MUBI Notebook, July 2021
https://mubi.com/de/notebook/posts/state-of-the-festival-international-film-festival-oberhausen-2021

A multi-faceted kaleidoscope of films that addressed a globalized society and challenges by aesthetic and formal means.
Neues Deutschland, 30 April 2021
https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/1151468.kurzfilmtage-oberhausen-ins-nichts-starren.html?sstr=kurzfilmtage

Lyrical, almost contemplative images and silence or subjective, whispering voiceovers left us intensely affected even in the distributed form of monitor projection – maybe because the festival compiled programmes of four to six films which showed up the thread running through its selection.
epd film, June 2021

Short films without boredom.
WAZ, 3 May 2021

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen offers media trauma therapy, solidarity as disruption and a look at colonial film heritage.
die tageszeitung, 30 April 2021
https://taz.de/Kurzfilmtage-Oberhausen-online/!5762996&s=kurzfilmtage/

If there is one impulse shared by the films, it is this: to bear witness!
kultur.west, May 2021
https://www.kulturwest.de/inhalt/die-nebel-der-freiheit/

The programmes are varied, the film genres are in motion – a sign of quality in short film.
Westfälischer Anzeiger, 4 May 2021
https://www.wa.de/kultur/kurzfilmtage-oberhausen-gehen-online-und-bieten-400-filme-90486274.html

The online films keep up with the Oberhausen standards; they are young, experimental, often documentary, never superficially entertaining. And always in search of something new, special, different.
Artechock, 6 May 2021
https://www.artechock.de/film/text/artikel/2021/05_06_kurzfilmtage_oberhausen_dunja_bialas.html

The 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen convinced with the most diverse designs of a fragmented reality.
Neues Deutschland, 30 April 2021
https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/1151468.kurzfilmtage-oberhausen-ins-nichts-starren.html?sstr=kurzfilmtage

In Oberhausen, the Corona crisis is seen as an opportunity and accelerator for new ideas and formats.
Ruhr Nachrichten, 1 May 2021

The team around festival director Lars Henrik Gass has put together attractive film packages for home cinema from the large number of short films submitted and screened.
aufdengrund.com, 17 May 2021
https://aufdengrund.com/2021/05/17/67-oberhausener-kurzfilmtage-filmvielfalt-als-futter-fur-die-seele/

Profiles

Retrospectives of four artists and filmmakers from four countries and three continents who all like to cross borders: between music and film, between art, installation and short film.
WAZ Oberhausen, 27. April 2021

Baloji

Baloji’s oeuvre, to whom a special focus is dedicated, testifies to political relevance, uninhibited creativity and intelligence.
Stadtrevue Köln, May 2021

Melika Bass

Bass is a Chicago-based artist whose films are remarkably (and excitingly) difficult to pigeonhole.
Cineaste, USA, August 2021
https://www.cineaste.com/fall2021/international-short-film-festival-oberhausen-2021

Children’s and Youth Cinema

A reliable starting point – for all age groups – is always Oberhausen’s Children’s and Youth Cinema.
WAZ, 3 May 2021

Sometimes it is almost exhilarating to witness how the films open windows into the world and go on journeys of discovery as playful as they are poetic, as thirsty for life as they are curious, as wide awake as they are thoughtful.
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 28 April 2021

Diverse, challenging and rich in highlights.
kinder-jugend-filmportal.de, 18 May 2021
https://www.kinder-jugend-filmportal.de/festivals/aufmerksame-und-unverstellte-blicke-in-die-welt.html

The only thing educators should not expect from these films is conventional didactics.
WAZ Oberhausen, 5 May 2021

NRW Competition

The variety in this showcase of current film production is enormous.
WAZ Oberhausen, 1. Mai 2021

Dieter Wieland

An overdue homage: Oberhausen discovers the “television journalist” Dieter Wieland and shows twelve of his extraordinary films on their freely accessible online Channel.
filmdienst.de, 6 May 2021
https://www.filmdienst.de/artikel/47720/dieter-wieland-regisseur-im-portraet

Other programmes

Theme

Since the 1990s, a central and successful part of our profile has been the Theme, an extensive programme on annually changing issues.

2021

„Solidarity as Disruption“, curated by Branka Benčić (Croatia) and Aleksandra Sekulić (Serbia), was conceived as our Theme programme 2020 and had to be cancelled due to Corona. In 2021, we presented this programme, which was more topical than ever, online. The programme asks how solidarity can be redefined as a political project through cinematic means. Based on a focus on films from the former Yugoslavia since the 1960s, the curators examine the concept and its history in a broader context, from collective film movements to the aesthetics of workers as political subjects.

The works range from masterpieces of the "Black Wave" such as Želimir Žilnik's Nezaposleni ljudi (The Unemployed) from 1968 to more recent works such as Nika Autor's Obzornik 63 - Vlak senc (Newsreel 63 - The Train of Shadows) from 2017, from Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's Europa 2005-27 Octobre (2006) to Museum Songspiel 20XX (2011) by the Chto Delat collective from St Petersburg.

Profiles

The Oberhausen Profiles are traditionally dedicated to the works of outstanding filmmakers, some of whom have dealt with short films for decades.

2021

Baloji
In 2019, Baloji's Zombies was one of the discoveries in Oberhausen: a visually extravagant dance video that switched effortlessly between glamour, street party and rubbish dump and was awarded the Principal Prize of the International Jury. Better known as a rapper and DJ, Baloji has since created a small but impressive body of short film, which Oberhausen presented in the first ever showcase of his work. Located somewhere between short film and music video, they range from a parody of entertainment television in African dictatorships to a declaration of love for beauty.

Melika Bass
Her film Creature Companion won a Special Mention of the International Jury in 2018, in 2021 Oberhausen presented a selection of works by the multiple award-winning American director and installation artist Melika Bass, a USA Artist nominee in Film for 2021, among others. The selection comprises films from 2008 to 2018. Bass’ works are metaphorical narratives, often carried by silent, repetitive movements, taking a close look at ritualized movements of the human body and often set in the Midwest.

Marie Lukáčová
The works of Czech video artist Marie Lukáčová, co-founder of the feminist group “The Fourth Wave”, are activist and feminist, but at the same time always permeable to utopias, legends and phantasies, interspersed with surreal elements that expose the flaws in the (social) system. In 2020 she won a Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury for Milenina píseň, her new work Pole Žin was selected for our 2021 International Online Competition. After numerous exhibitions in the Czech Republic, Poland and Greece Oberhausen presented, for the first time at a film festival, a selection of her works.

Salla Tykkä
The Finnish photographer and video artist Salla Tykkä first gained international attention with a trilogy in which she transformed male movie genres into female stories of awakening. Lasso (2000), in which she dissects the Western genre, was selected for the 2002 International Competition in Oberhausen. Tykkä looks back on numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2001 Venice Biennale. Oberhausen has frequently shown her works since then and presented an overview of the works of an artist who expands autobiographical references in her works into analyses of the relationships between male and female characters, between sexuality and emotion.

Distributors

The distribution screenings at Oberhausen are a showcase for international distributors of experimental films, who present new works from their catalogues here. In the online edition in 2020, too, the following distributors each presented a selection of their works.

2021

ARGOS centre for audiovisual arts (Belgium)
Arsenal — Institut für Film und Videokunst e. V. (Germany)
AV-arkki — The Centre for Finnish Media Art (Finland)
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (Canada)
CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand (New Zealand)
EYE Experimental (Netherlands)
Filmform — The Art Film & Video Archive (Sweden)
Light Cone (France)
LUX (Great Britain)
sixpackfilm (Austria)
Video Data Bank (USA)
Vtape (Canada)

Professionals

The Oberhausen Seminar

The Oberhausen Seminar is an experimental course designed to explore contemporary artists' moving image practice in the context of a renowned international film festival. International practitioners from various fields - artists and filmmakers, curators and researchers - will use our Festival as a laboratory to discuss ideas in the curation of contemporary moving image media, the infrastructures which allow them to circulate, and the critical frames used to analyse them.

The seminar has been organised by the Festival since 2014 in cooperation with LUX (London, until 2019) and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (New York).

Oberhausen Seminar 2021

Oberhausen Seminar 2021:
In 2021, our Festival, together with the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (New York), is organising the Oberhausen Seminar for the seventh time. In 2021 the Seminar took place online for the first time.

Seminar 2021 under the lead of Jörg Heiser
Jörg Heiser is an art critic and curator and lives in Berlin. He was editor of the international art magazine frieze for twenty years and continues to write for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and other media and magazines. He is professor and director of the Institut für Kunst im Kontext at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Among other curatorial projects he was co-curator of the Busan Biennial 2018 in South Korea. His books include All of a Sudden. Things that Matter in Contemporary Art (2008) and Double Lives in Art and Pop Music (2019).

Young Audience

Workshops and film education

In addition to the short film programme, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen offers workshops every year for educators as well as for young film enthusiasts and school classes.

Shortscreen – Film education online

"Off to the online seminar!" was the motto in 2021 for the young audience of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. They got to know exciting perspectives on current topics and look intensively at details in the cinematic realisation. An offer in cooperation with the filmothek der jugend NRW.

One topic - two films: Hair, hairstyles, beauty - that can keep you pretty busy. What is beauty anyway, are there standards and who sets them? What expectations can one bow to? What limits do you have to find for yourself? In DOLÁPÒ IS FINE and MY HAIR you get to know two young black women who have to take a special look at these questions.

Short film inclusive: subtitles and workshops for all

It has become a tradition: In its fifth year, all programmes of the Youth Film Competition were equipped with German subtitles for the hearing impaired. The screenings in the 12+, 14+ and 16+ programmes were also accompanied by sign language interpreters. This is made possible by Aktion Mensch - we are happy about this and say thank you!

Workshop: Talking Pictures - Short Film Worlds for Children and Youth
An online workshop that provides space for intensive and playful engagement with an exceptionally beautiful short film from this year's competition programme. Tailored to an inclusive setting and with appropriate methods, the participating pupils were given access to the short film as a special form.

Educators

Short films are more suitable for educational work than almost any other genre. They offer starting points for the most diverse topics, for political education as well as for language teaching and not least for film analysis and the development of media competence. This is why Oberhausen has been organising annual conferences for educators in cooperation with various partner insitutions for more than 25 years. Through cooperation with institutions such as Matthias-Film and Katholisches Filmwerk, our Festival is also involved in the distribution of children's short films. There are also screenings especially for school classes.

Continuing education for religious education

Organised in cooperation with the secretariat of the German Bishops' Conference: Church and Society of the Protestant Church in the Rhineland and Westphalia, this workshop is aimed at religion teachers in particular. Outstanding contributions from the current Children's and Youth Film Competition are viewed together, analysed and discussed with regard to their use in religious education. Every year, Matthias Film and the Katholisches Filmwerk purchase films for educational work under the title "Edition Kurzfilmtage".

Offers for families

In 2021, we were delighted to offer a special online pass for all fans of our Children's and Youth Cinema: more than 60 red-hot short films from all over the world in custom-fit programmes for all age groups, were on show. Families welcome! For kids from three years up to young adults, our wonderful programme offers cause for wide eyes, plenty to talk about and, with the dozen music videos for our 14+ audience, delicacies for the ears as well. The individual programmes were each available for 48 hours. They are perfect for first and also quite unusual film experiences – whether fiction, documentary, MuVi, animation or experimental arrangement.

Workshops on the Weekend: See, Chat, Try One’s Hand

We miss the shared experience in the cinema! What did you like, what didn't you like? What questions and ideas did come up? We met online: to talk, to get inspired and to come up with one or two ideas of our own - inspired by the images and stories we have seen.

Figure out animation
The world of animated film is wonderful and full of surprises. But why do the characters move at all? We want to find out together, with paper and scissors. You will need: a computer, a tablet or smartphone with a camera, paper, crayons or wax crayons and scissors.

Ages six and up

Short film detectives
Many films raise questions. Which ones do you ask yourselves? We'll go on a search together - for snails and drones, alternative endings and the funniest moments. You will need a computer, tablet or smartphone with a camera, paper or cardboard, crayons or wax crayons, scissors and glue.

Ages 10 and up

Kindergarten/Schools

The declared aim of the Festival is to introduce children creatively to topics and to give them a new perspective on their world. For this reason, since its foundation in 1978, the Children’s and Youth cinema has been expanded through media-pedagogical activities, which have become increasingly important in recent years. In various projects, workshops, special programmes and in cooperation with schools in Oberhausen and the city's youth parliament, Oberhausen cultivates direct dialogue with children and young people and promotes an open and productive exchange.

School screenings in all age groups

The programmes of the Children’s and Youth Film Competition were shown during the festival on weekdays in morning events especially for schools. The programmes are carefully tailored, both in terms of content and form, to seven age groups from three to sixteen years old. All programmes were presented by pupils from Oberhausen in a manner appropriate to their age. Filmmakers from all over the world were present during the screenings and answer the questions of the young audience. School classes can register for the screenings from mid-April. We are also happy to provide suggestions on how the films shown can be integrated into lessons.

2021: Free online screenings for schools

Turning necessity into a virtue? As much as we missed the encounters at the Lichtburg Filmpalast, the school screenings online offered many advantages: flexible to use from 5 to 10 May, free of charge, possible in distance learning or face-to-face classes. There are seven programmes, each focussing a specific age group, as they would be shown in the cinema, with recorded introductions and interviews with the filmmakers as well as accompanying materials for preparation and follow-up.

Partner school project

Since 2009, the annually changing partner schools have been actively involved in shaping the programmes of the Children's and Youth Cinema. A secondary school and a primary school from Oberhausen nominate groups of schoolchildren who gain insight into the festival through various tasks.

Two juries of five schoolkids each evaluate the films of the Children's and Youth Film Competition and award the prizes. In a joint project week, pupils from both schools develop the trailer for the Children's and Youth Cinema and produce it together with filmmakers from Oberhausen. And last but not least, after intensive preparation, a group from the secondary school act as moderators of the programmes in the Children's and Youth Film Competition. This also includes moderating the discussions with the international filmmakers present.

The partner schools of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2021 were Königschule and Gesamtschule Osterfeld. If you are interested in working with us as a partner school, please contact us.

Kindergarten programme

Short films are a wonderful way for the very youngest to get to know the cinema as a place and film as a medium. For more than ten years, our Festival has been inviting newcomers to the cinema to take part in a film and interactive programme. Age-appropriate short films of various genres are embedded in an accompanying programme of moderation, questions, movement and games. The programme is open to kindergartens as well as private individuals with children aged 3 and older. The visit was free of charge.

Trailer

By Einar Fehrholz and Simon Mellnich in collaboration with the children of the partner schools 2021:
Königschule: Mariam Kadiri, Elay Kaczmarek, Eylül Cucu, Samuel Mader
Gesamtschule Osterfeld: Aylin Mahmoud, Merle Pajzderski, Angelina Vullo Ze

Festival Space

Talking about films, along with watching films, is part of the DNA of every film festival, and especially of the Short Film Festival. Our Festival Space was the virtual and public, freely accessible meeting place where filmmakers, people interested in short film and the curious could easily meet and get to know each other, and where our supporting programme such as discussions, talks, panels and the Festival Bar took place.

Rooms in the Festival Space

Lobby
Here you arrive and directly choose a room to visit.

Guest Office
The digital guest office is available to answer your questions throughout the festival.

Programmes
Here you can see an overview of the daily events in the Festival Space. Information on the film programmes, on the other hand, can be found in our programme.

Festival Lounge
The Festival Lounge invites you and your friends to talk in a relaxed atmosphere. During the day as an open meeting place and in the evening from 9 pm (CEST) as a festival bar with playlists and live DJ sets.

Stages
Here, for example, our Q&As and panels will be shown - and from 5 May our competition discussions. Viewers can participate and ask questions via the chat function.

Award Ceremony

Award Ceremony of the 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

Award Ceremony of the Children's and Youth Competition

Festival Magazine

THIS IS SHORT

THIS IS SHORT, the joint short film platform of the four festivals of the European Short Film Network ESFN (Kurzfilmtage, Go Short, Vienna Shorts and Short Waves), is open until 30 June to anyone with an Oberhausen festival pass. Hundreds of the best current short films, handpicked by the festivals, await those interested.