On the way to an appointment, Oliver — a successful portfolio manager — gets into a devastating crash on the highway. He wakes up from the tragedy as a paraplegic — forced to undergo months of rehab to prepare for life in a wheelchair. As he attempts to escape his ‘handicap prison’ with bad WiFi, […]
The Berlin Short Film Festival has been running to great critical and audience acclaim for three years. The international short films exhibited annually at BSFF never fails to attract a great number of film professionals and the general public. All BSFF films have been chosen for their outstanding quality and are vying for awards in […]
No other form of cinematic art is as open, experimental, fast, courageous, abstract, hard, discursive or reactive as the short film. At the same time, it has to be incredibly disciplined. Its art lies in its focus – on single pictures, takes, tracking shots or dialogues. It never has enough time and it only has […]
On 28 February 1962, at the 8th West German Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, 26 West German filmmakers proclaimed the Oberhausen Manifesto. This moment marked a milestone in the development of German cinema – never before, and never again, would a break with existing production conditions be demanded, and induced, with such vehemence. With a […]
The festival will take place from May 5 – 10, 2016.
CineMerit Award Rupert Everett (Actor) Jean-Jacques Annaud (Director) ARRI/OSRAM Award HORSE MONEY Producer: Abel Ribeiro Chaves Director: Pedro Costa Special Mention: RED AMNESIA Producer: Liu Xuan Director: Xiaoshuai Wang CineVision Award SLEEPING GIANT Director: Andrew Cividino German Cinema New Talent Award Director: Visar Morina (BABAI) Screenplay: Visar Morina (BABAI) Actor: Val Maloku, Astrit Kabashi (BABAI) […]
179 current films from 54 countries are screening at FILMFEST MÜNCHEN, including 39 world premieres. Among them are many new discoveries and envelope-pushers which defy categorization. But there are also a host of big names and major hits, which guarantee movie suspense. A brief overview: Many films at FILMFEST MÜNCHEN come to us straight from […]
2012 Hot Docs Screening Times: Sat, Apr 28 9:00 PM TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 Sun, Apr 29 4:14 PM Cumberland 2 For more info on the film click here
