Oberhausen
1st - 6th May 2008
Oberhausen is one of the major international crossroads for short film, unique in the range of forms and genres it presents to the public, it is particularly well known for its spotlight on experimentation. Oberhausen attracts both cinema operators and gallery owners, artists and distributors, filmmakers and festival representatives, curators and video clip directors.
In the course of more than five decades, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has become one of the world's most respected film events - a place where filmmakers and artists such as Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, David Lynch, Alexander Kluge and Werner Herzog, and more recently Ulrike Ottinger, Romuald Karmakar, Pipilotti Rist, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and François Ozon have presented their first films.
Every year the Festival shows some 400 films and videos in about 60 programmes. About 140 of these are screened in the competitions.
Media partners, ARTE, 3sat, Ki.Ka (the children´s channel of ARD and ZDF) and INTRO have helped the festival to open up new audiences for short films. In their short film programs, ARTE and 3sat have been cooperating with the Festival for years, while in 2001 MTV televised 25 short films from the programmes of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
Submissions - You may submit to any of the following categories:
International Competition
- open to film and video formats with a maximum length of 35 minutes
- awards totalling 24,000 EUR
German Competition
- open to film and video formats with a maximum length of 45 minutes
- awards totalling 7,500 EUR
Children’s and Youth Film Competition
- format and length as for International and German Competitions
- awards totalling 2,000 EUR (conferred by two juries of children and young people)
Submissions open in October. Send a preview on DVD only to Oberhausen, to arrive no later than 1st February 2008 for international entries and 15th February 2008 for German productions, together with all the required documents available on the website.