Short Film Festival 2014
by Becky Tan
The 30th annual Hamburg International Short Film Festival was June 3-9, 2014.
Parallel was the 16th annual Mo&Friese Children’s short film festival. Our team attended 19 events or categories – a wide-range which gives you an idea of the diversity of the festival:
- Opening Ceremony (SRS)
- International Competition I Switching Off (MH) (BT)
- International Competition 2 Descending Sequences (BT)
- International Competition 8 Incidences of Light (MH)
- German Competition 3 In der Natur des Menschen – Human Nature (MH)
- German Competition 4 Ganz großes Kino – on the Very Big Screen (SRS)
- Sport 2 Kampf - Struggle (BT)
- Galerie: L Vor K: Zeitwidrige Korrespondenz, Internationale Videokunst (MH)
- No Budget 3 Eye Opener (SRS)
- Best of No Budget (BT)
- Flotter Dreier (under three minutes) competition, open air, topic: Doping (SRS)
- Mo&Friese 3 Schief gewickelt - Twisted (4 years and older) (SRS)
- Mo&Friese 6 Aus der Reihe Tanzen - (Boogie to a different drummer) (9 years and older) (SRS)
- Mo&Friese Workshop films (SRS)
- Mo&Friese 2 Gib mir Fünf: Traumtänze - High Five: Dancing Dreams (SRS)
- Mo&Friese Award Ceremony - Best of Mo&Friese (SRS)
- Festival Award Ceremony (SRS) (BT)
- Less Script, More Freedom - Discussion (SRS)
- Karl Nussbaum: Night Blooming Flower - Special Project (SRS)
We saw a total of over 100 (87 for sure) short films in length from one to 45 minutes. A “short” film is anything under an hour.
