Hamburg International Short Film Festival
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IKFF // Internationales Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
32nd edition
May 31 - Jun 06, 2021
Estimated
Hamburg, Germany
Open Call Open to Public Competitive Market Special Fees
Festival type Real Venue Festival
Types of films Any type
Film length Short
Mission / description
The Hamburg International Short Film Festival is rooted in an environment of independent film makers. In 1985 it took place for the first time. Back then, it still operated under its or…iginal programmatic title “NoBudget”, which was changed into its current name in 1994. The Hamburg International Short Film Festival is one of the most important and successful short film festivals for both industry and audience alike in the world today.
One of the primary concerns of the Hamburg International Short Film Festival is to accentuate the independence of short films as an art form and to create a special environment for them. Furthermore, it aims at the proliferation of short films. One of the reasons of the festival’s success is that it exists as a part of the Hamburg Short Film Agency (KFA). With its departments archive, distribution, sales and festival, the proliferation of short films can be supported and implemented on many levels. full text
Festival website festival.shortfilm.com
Rating Summary
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It's a big festival, but it feels very intimate and grassroots. I felt the films were hit and miss, and there were so many screenings spread out all over the city it was a bit diluted. Most filmmakers ended up just going to the screenings near the festival center so the programs that were far away were not well attended (there were about 10 people in the theater for one of my screenings).
Otherwise, the parties are great with afordable drinks and food and lots of socializing. Mixed corwd from all over Europe and a few from further afield.
Hamburg is beautiful. The festival should be on the list of all shorts filmmakers. The festival is connected to the short film agency Hamburg, which is one of the major distributors for shorts. The quality of the screenings varies from theatre to theatre. Anyhow: also the theatres with crappy technics have a great athmosphere, as most of the venues are in old cinemas or alternative spaces. The range of events around the festival could be improved.
FFL feels responsible for only allowing legitimate and relevant festivals to accept submissions through our platform. Thus we verify the festival's legitimacy and relevance before pushing the call for submissions live. Some festivals are not being allowed to accept submissions at all. For festivals allowed to accept submissions FFL separates among:
VALIDATED FESTIVALS
These festivals fully comply with FFL's festival validation policy. There is no doubt that they are established and/or legitimate events.
NOT VALIDATED FESTIVALS
These festivals don't fully comply with FFL's festival validation policy but appear to be legitimate events. We will leave you to decide whether you should submit to this event or not. We also welcome any feedback about these events. You can report your experience at verification@filmfestivallife.com
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IKFF // Internationales Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
32nd edition
May 31 - Jun 06, 2021
Estimated
Hamburg, Germany
Festival type Real Venue Festival
Types of films Any type
Film length Short
Mission / description
The Hamburg International Short Film Festival is rooted in an environment of independent film makers. In 1985 it took place for the first time. Back then, it still operated under its or…iginal programmatic title “NoBudget”, which was changed into its current name in 1994. The Hamburg International Short Film Festival is one of the most important and successful short film festivals for both industry and audience alike in the world today.
One of the primary concerns of the Hamburg International Short Film Festival is to accentuate the independence of short films as an art form and to create a special environment for them. Furthermore, it aims at the proliferation of short films. One of the reasons of the festival’s success is that it exists as a part of the Hamburg Short Film Agency (KFA). With its departments archive, distribution, sales and festival, the proliferation of short films can be supported and implemented on many levels. full text
Festival website festival.shortfilm.com
Rating Summary
One-on-One
It's a big festival, but it feels very intimate and grassroots. I felt the films were hit and miss, and there were so many screenings spread out all over the city it was a bit diluted. Most filmmakers ended up just going to the screenings near the festival center so the programs that were far away were not well attended (there were about 10 people in the theater for one of my screenings). Otherwise, the parties are great with afordable drinks and food and lots of socializing. Mixed corwd from all over Europe and a few from further afield.
Hamburg is beautiful. The festival should be on the list of all shorts filmmakers. The festival is connected to the short film agency Hamburg, which is one of the major distributors for shorts. The quality of the screenings varies from theatre to theatre. Anyhow: also the theatres with crappy technics have a great athmosphere, as most of the venues are in old cinemas or alternative spaces. The range of events around the festival could be improved.