50th Anniversary: Call for Entries to the Competitions

[Sabine Niewalda]

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Sabine Niewalda, Press Office

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Calling for Entries to our 50th Anniversary Festival
The 50th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (April 29th to May 
4th, 2004) calls for submissions to its competitions

“Oberhausen still does more for the cause of short film than most other 
German or even international film festivals”
Jochen Kuhn, filmmaker, Germany

In 2004, the Oberhausen Festival will celebrate its 50th Anniversary, 
including, of course, an extended trip down 50 years of short film history 
and many other specials (more below). However, the presence and future of 
the short format are also in demand in the four competitions. Oberhausen 
invites filmmakers from all over the world to submit their latest films or 
videos. A total of around 140 works will be selected for the International, 
the German and the Children’s and Youth Film Competitions, competing for 
awards worth a total of 32,500 euros.

Deadline for submissions:       January 15th, 2004
Accepted formats:               film: super 8, 16 and 35 mm
                         video: DV, DVCAM, S-VHS, Beta-SP/PAL
Genres:                 all
Length:                 international submissions max. 35 min
Production date:                after January 1st, 2002, for international 
productions
Wettbewerbe:            International, German, International Children’s and
                         Youth Films (age groups 5  16)
Entry forms:            available at www.kurzfilmtage.de as pdf downloads
                         in the 
<http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/ikf/pages/festival/index.php?id=500&lang_id=2>Festival/Entry 
Form section
                         or upon request at the Festival office
                         (info at kurzfilmtage.de)


Half a Century of Short Films at Oberhausen

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Key visual of the 50th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 
designed by BOROS, Wuppertal
A print-quality version of this is available as a jpg-download at 
http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/ikf/pages/festival/index.php?id=159&lang_id=2.


“But it was far from boring.”
Festival résumé in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 11th, 2002

Our anniversary offers festival guests the opportunity to enjoy again, or 
for the first time, the most fascinating short films from 50 years of 
Festival history, including works by Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Agnès 
Varda, Chantal Akermann and many others. It is an opportunity to discover a 
somewhat different festival and its somewhat different history of protest, 
of dissidence, its love affair with small and often overlooked corners of 
filmmaking. Half a century of short films at Oberhausen will also bring a 
big anniversary party with well-known and as-yet-unknown filmmakers, with 
VIPs and friends of the Festival, as well as a ”walk-through short film 
retrospective” in the city of Oberhausen, and many other special events.

Oberhausen, October 13th, 2003

Press contact: Sabine Niewalda
Tel +49 208 825-3073, Fax 825-5413, niewalda at kurzfilmtage.de


Pressebüro | Press Office

50. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, 29. April - 4. Mai 2004
50th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, April 29th - May 4th, 2004

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Grillostr. 34 | 46045 Oberhausen | Germany
Tel +49 (0)208 825-3073 | Fax 825-5413
www.kurzfilmtage.de
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