71st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 29 April – 4 May 2025
The 27th MuVi Award is now online
Twelve clips are ready for votes for the Audience Award
More international than ever: Twelve German music video productions were selected for the 27th MuVi Award of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. To participate, the candidates must be German productions, independent of where they were shot or who the performers are. And so this year’s MuVi Award is unusually international, with clips shot in Japan or South Korea, among others. The Award goes to the directors for the best visualisation of a piece of music. All videos are now online to collect votes for the Audience Award.
The musical styles range from electronic music to tuba sounds, from Chris Imler to Saeko Killy. Visually, the clips cover a spectrum from a slow boat ride to animated collages, from analogue robot worlds to AI-generated images. Surreal dream worlds, flying sneakers, a slightly different K-Pop girl group, pigeons and troll armies – with their fascinating creative approaches, the clips push the boundaries of the music video format.
All nominated clips are online from 3 April to 3 May to collect votes for the MuVi Online Audience Award, on muvipreis.de and the websites of the MuVi partners. All internet users are invited to help their favourite win the 500 euros that come with the Award. The MuVi Award Ceremony will take place on Saturday, 3 May 2025, at the 71st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
Vote here: https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/festival/muvi-online/
The nominees
BIEST (Janik Giger), Stefan Panhans, Germany 2025
Digo no con esperanza (F.V. te llaman por teléfono), Francisca Villela, Germany/Chile 2024
Dream In Dream (Saeko Killy), Christine Gensheimer, Germany 2024
Gesamtklärwerk Germany (MEESE x Hell), Andreas Loff, Germany 2025
grathwohlbildhübschklang (Carl Ludwig Hübsch), Nikolaus Grathwohl, Germany 2025
K-BOB STAR (Cardi B), Hansol Kim, Germany/South Korea 2024
Könnt ihr noch? (Deichkind), Timo Schierhorn/UWE, Germany 2024
looking @ ghosts (die hunde), Jeremias Heppeler, Germany/Japan, 2024
Mkoum (Jeano Elong), Peter Ott, Germany 2024
Quand le grenier aura pris feu (Anadol & Marie Klock), Utku Önal, Germany/France, 2025
The internet will break my heart (Chris Imler), Markus S Fiedler, Germany 2024
Vernacular Dreamscapes: Nocturnal Dream Disposal (Black To Comm), Marc Richter aka Neue Deutsche Kunst, Germany 2024
The MuVi Partners 2025
3sat, 3sat.de
ByteFM, www.byte.fm
kaput – Magazin für Insolvenz und Pop, kaput-mag.com
kultur.west, www.kulturwest.de
netpoint media, www.netpoint-media.de
Oberhausen, 3 April 2025
Press contact: Sabine Niewalda, phone +49 (0)208 825-3073, niewalda(at)kurzfilmtage.de