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Workshops

European Workshop for Film Criticism #6

The European Network for Film Discourse (The END) and short film magazine Talking Shorts are organising the 6th edition of the European Workshop for Film Criticism: two week-long workshop sessions for aspiring film critics set during film...
Festivals

DokuFest – International Documentary and Short Film Festival

02—10.08.2024
DokuFest is the largest film festival in Kosovo. Recognised as one of the top film and music event in South East Europe, DokuFest is an EFA-nominating festival for short films, as well as a BAFTA-qualifying festival for shorts. In August,...
Vienna Shorts
Discussions

Something Better Change: Film & Activism

with Christoph Schwarz, Gregor Kasper, Delphine Jeanneret
Delphine Jeanneret (Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur) moderates this conversation on how cinematic art serves as a powerful catalyst for shifting public perception and how it has been closely linked with activist causes since its...
Festivals

Drama International Short Film Festival

2—08.09.2024
Drama International Short Film Festival (DISFF) is Greece’s leading short film festival, and the annual meeting place for filmmakers and industry professionals. Based in Drama, Greece the festival runs a six-day schedule in September and...
Workshops

European Workshop for Film Criticism #5

The 5th edition of the European Workshop for Film Criticism occurred during film festivals in Lago, Italy (LFF, July 2024) and Ljubljana, Slovenia (FeKK, August 2024). Both workshop units explored short film criticism and festival...
Workshops

European Workshop for Film Criticism #4

The European Network for Film Discourse (The END) and short film magazine Talking Shorts are organising the 4th edition of the European Workshop for Film Criticism: two week-long workshop sessions for aspiring film critics set during the...
Festivals

Vilnius Short Film Festival

17—23.01.2024
There’s hardly a festival I have better memories of, although the conditions seemed less than ideal: the middle of January, the icy wind whistling through the city’s pretty alleys, while everyone tried to organise their year after the...
Lago Film Fest
Festivals

Lago Film Fest

19—27.07.2024
When a festival advertises itself as a unique and out-of-time experience that you can only understand once you have lived it in person, such a claim may be met with skepticism at first. But my visit to the small village of Revine Lago,...
Workshops

European Workshop for Film Criticism #3

The third European Workshop for Film Criticism happened at Kortfilmfestival Leuven (28.11—03.12.23) and Vilnius Short Film Festival (17—21.01.24). The workshop was tutored by Talking Shorts co-editor Savina Petkova, a Bulgarian film...
Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Discussions

The Future Of Shorts: Leave The Bubble, Unleash The Shorts!

with Cynthia Felando, Anne Gaschütz, Savina Petkova, Laura Walde
Once we step outside the festival bubble, where else do we hear or read anything about short films? Forums that address the short format or individual shorts in depth are limited. Short films are not taught much at universities, and without...
Encounters Film Festival
Discussions

Do You Read Me: The Dissemination Of Film Criticism Across Media

with Sanne Jehoul, Fedor Tot, Anne Gaschütz, Ren Scateni
What is the current state of writing about cinema? How do reviews, articles, and publications influence audience reach nowadays? If film criticism as we used to know it is dying, what about short film criticism? Has it ever been alive? ...
Workshops

European Workshop for Film Criticism #2

The second European Workshop for Film Criticism took place at Lago Film Fest (24—29.07.23) and FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival (14—20.08.23). The workshop was tutored by Leonardo Goi, film critic and columnist at MUBI Notebook...
Workshops

European Workshop for Film Criticism #1

The first European Workshop for Film Criticism consisted of two multi-day workshop sessions during Filmfest Dresden (16—22.04.23) and Vienna Shorts (01—06.06.23). The workshop was tutored by Ricard Brunn, chief editor for...
FeKK - Ljubljana International Short Film Festival
Festivals

FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival

19—24.08.2024
There’s a certain charm exhuming from film festivals helmed by small teams. You can almost smell the love for the art form from miles away; cinephilia is truly at the core of why these people are running from A to B on a daily basis to...
Tampere Film Festival
Festivals

Tampere Film Festival

06.03.24—10.03.24
Tampere Film Festival is an international short film festival that gathers filmmakers, students and film lovers annually in March and is one of the three largest short film festivals in Europe, alongside Clermont-Ferrand (France) and...
Talents and Short Film Market
Discussions

Short Film Criticism, A New Hope?

with Savina Petkova, Laurence Boyce, Niels Putman, Emilia Mazik
An article published in 2004 titled “The Short Film and Critics: Do They Ever Meet?”, written by Laurence Boyce for FIPRESCI, reports the outcomes of a workshop on Short Film and Criticism held at the 50th Internationale Kurzfilmtage...
Talents and Short Film Market
Discussions

DIY Short Film Distribution

with Marija Apcevska, Leonardo Martinelli, Cristina Picchi, Anne Gaschütz
With the rise of submission platforms, short film distribution seems easier today compared to a decade ago. However, this is not quite the case. For many filmmakers, working with professional companies that submit their films to festivals...
London Short Film Festival
Festivals

London Short Film Festival

19—28.01.2024
Big cities can be quite overwhelming. For one, it might be difficult to keep up with your social and cultural calendar since too many exciting events take place every day. If that city happens to be London with its almost nine million...
Concorto Film Festival
Festivals

Concorto Film Festival

17—24.08.2024
There are countless Italian film festivals, and though this is not scientifically proven, a vast majority of them probably will have you sit in white monobloc chairs. Those who’ve enjoyed visiting one such festival will know exactly what...
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
Festivals

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival

02—10.02.2024
The lines are long. Once you enter the Maison de la Culture on the Boulevard François Mitterand, you can already feel the buzz of an eclectic mix of festival-goers, filmmakers, and industry guests. If you’re looking to put up your...
Festivals

International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)

14—24.11.2024
As a leading international documentary institute, IDFA stands firm in enhancing and improving the international documentary climate. Creative documentary films provide insight into society, open eyes, and stimulate critical thinking. IDFA...
Go Short — International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
Festivals

Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen

03—07.04.2024
The Netherlands is a haven for international film festivals. In addition to Rotterdam and Amsterdam, Go Short in Nijmegen—a small town in the east of the country just five kilometers from the German border—has made a name for itself as...
Uppsala Short Film Festival
Festivals

Uppsala Short Film Festival

21—27.10.2024
The first snow of the year. The cinema of Ingmar Bergman’s childhood. Long conversations about films in the festival bar. And rather expensive beer (as everywhere in Sweden), which probably only guests coming from Switzerland and Norway...
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
Discussions

Everything You Never Dared To Ask About Distribution

with Anaïs Colpin, Ben Vandendaele, María Vera, Anne Gaschütz
This panel offers answers to all the questions filmmakers may ask themselves about the distribution of their films. Why work with a distributor and when to contact them? How do we define a distribution strategy? What are the dos and...
Leiden Shorts
Festivals

Leiden Shorts

6—9.06.2024
Leiden Shorts was established in 2009 as a new-born platform for short films and has since grown into one of the most important short film events in the Netherlands. We envision Leiden Shorts as an alternative creative space for national...
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
Festivals

Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg

04—09.06.2024
Hardly any festival has such a legendary reputation as Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg (which, by the way, is one of the reasons why the author of these lines has dedicated himself to the short cinematic form). From the lovingly designed festival...
Glasgow Short Film Festival
Festivals

Glasgow Short Film Festival

20—24.03.2024
Surely the main reason to have the motto “Let Glasgow Flourish” embroidered in the city’s crest must be the existence of its own homonymous short film festival. As the King in the North of the short film festivals of Scotland, Glasgow...
Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Festivals

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

05.11—10.11.2024
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur proves that the most exciting festivals often occur in small towns—probably because not much else happens there year-round. But the festival, near Zurich airport, is not just a local celebrity. Year...
Leuven International Short Film Festival
Festivals

Leuven International Short Film Festival

29.11—07.12.2024
Founded in 1995 as an excuse to showcase the founders' own student shorts, the now EFA-, BAFTA- & Oscar-qualifying festival hasn’t lost its initial goal, always putting young, emerging film talent front and center. Taking place around...
Vienna Shorts
Festivals

Vienna Shorts

28.05—02.06.2024
Do you adore strolling down the streets of a historical, beautiful, and cozy city? And what about dancing until late for six days in a row (you know, technically speaking, it is called “networking”)? If you fancy all that: welcome to...
Filmfest Dresden
Festivals

Filmfest Dresden

16—21.04.2024
Dresden. Cradle of chocolate manufacturing, center of German animation and home of Filmfest Dresden, first held in 1989 (only a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall). If you drive across the Elbe towards Neustadt today, it's hard...
Festivals

Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC)

09—20.10.2024
It's a chilly yet sunny October afternoon, and you are sitting in one of Montréal’s go-to places with Émilie (Poirier) and Dan (Karolewicz), the short film team of Festival du nouveau cinéma, who invited you to their favourite place to...
Talents and Short Film Market
Discussions

Festivals Of The Present, Festivals Of The Future

with Eroll Bilibani, Lars Henrik Gass, Nina Rodrigues Lima, Emilia Mazik
2020 has been a disruptive year for the short film festival ecosystem. The unexpected Covid-19 pandemic in March has forced most organisations to postpone, move online, or cancel long-time scheduled events. Many festival organisers...
Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Discussions

The Path To A Greener Festival

with Daniel Hadenius-Ebner
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. At least in theory. The path to a green festival comes with a lot of requirements. Many of the existing certifications are granted in stages; others are already outdated or designed for businesses or...
Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Discussions

Crunching The Numbers For A Greener Festival

with Sven Schwarz
The transition to a greener festival scene requires substantial investment and long-term planning. The short film industry, in particular, faces considerable challenges in regard to providing the needed capacities. But this investment will...
Filmfest Dresden
Discussions

What’s The Point of A Premiere Status?

with Nikita Diakur, Asja Krsmanovic, Julie Rousson, Marija Milovanovic
Submitting films to festivals can prove challenging. And in fact, each filmmaker would like to enter their film everywhere, were it not for the complicated issue with premieres. For filmmakers at the start of their career especially, this...
Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art
Festivals

Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art

14—17.12.2023
Wiz-Art is an annual International Short Film Festival, taking place in Lviv, Ukraine. The festival, which was founded in 2008 by the art collective Wiz-Art, shows more than 150 brand new short films every year. Wiz-Art is a powerful...
Glasgow Short Film Festival
Discussions

Let’s Get Critical!

with Laura Walde, Julian Ross, Marina D. Richter, Enrico Vannucci

This panel explores the current state of short film criticism regarding accessibility and opportunities. Who is doing it, and who is it for? Can the concretisation of a short film canon nurture more public education?
Short Film Conference
Discussions

Other Perspectives

with Katie McCullough, Lasse Linder, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Sergio Fant, Aneta Ozorek
This panel discussion gives you the opportunity to listen to the point-of-view of filmmakers and those that represent them. How are they dealing with postponed festivals, canceled premieres, online screenings, and the lack of human...
Go Short — International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
Discussions

Impact Covid-19 On Film Talent

with Mila Zhluktenko, Erik Glijnis, Marija Milovanovic, Sanne Jehoul
Film festivals have been canceled or are taking place online, cinemas are closed and film production has been suspended. How do you deal with this as a novice player in the film industry? What is the impact on film development? And what is...
Short Film Conference
Discussions

Going Viral

with Daniel Hadenius-Ebner, Luce Grosjean, Rich Warren, Uli Wegenast, Gina Dellabarca
In this online panel talk, Daniel Hadenius-Ebner (Vienna Shorts), Luce Grosjean (Miyu Distribution), Rich Warren (Encounters Film Festival) and Uli Wegenast (Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film) talk about the technical and...
Short Film Conference
Discussions

Reanimating Your Festival

with Anne Gaschütz, Marie-Elaine Riou, Sven Schwarz, Aneta Ozorek
In this online panel talk, Anne Gaschütz (Filmfest Dresden), Marie-Elaine Riou (Festival Regard), and Sven Schwarz (Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg) open up about dealing with unforeseen changes and responsibilities they have come to face trying...
Short Film Conference
Discussions

50/50 by 2020

with Julie Billy, Ivana Kvesic, Agnė Adomėnė, Gina Dellabarca

Panelists discuss the steps that can be taken to ensure the short film industry can lead the way to a better gender balance.

Talents and Short Film Market
Discussions

Great Expectations

with Laura Briand, Ludovica Fonda, Daniel Vadocky, Lendita Zeqiraj, Enrico Vannucci
The relationship between short and feature films has been tricky since the very beginning. Born as ethnographical and documentary clips in 1895, very soon cinema found its fictional language to narrate short stories before developing a new...
Talents and Short Film Market
Discussions

Boosting Your Film Festival

with Anne Gaschütz, Matt Lloyd, Silvia Sandrone, Doris Bauer
Financial planning is one of the most challenging tasks festival organisers must tackle. Public resources and funding opportunities seem to shrink year by year, and, especially in the short film circuit, the absence of major private...
Vienna Shorts
Discussions

Met and Unmet Expectations: Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala

with Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala, Neil Young
The two Austrian directors and screenwriters Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala have made a name for themselves with their genre collaborations. A success with critics and audiences alike, their works—including Kern (2013) and Ich seh, Ich...
Filmfest Dresden
Discussions

Gender Talks

with Steve Bache, Simone Jaikiriuma Paetau, Erica Scoggins, Lili Hartwig

A glance at this year’s competitions tells you that gender is a major theme among filmmakers. Many films explore the subject, whether as sexual self-determination, gender reassignments, or same-sex marriages.

Glasgow Short Film Festival
Discussions

Oska Bright Film Festival: Choose From The Following Options…

with Matthew Hellett, Sandra Alland
This conversation is a rare chance to hear from the front line how festivals and cinemas can open their doors to a broader range of artists and audiences. Matthew Hellett is the head programmer of Oska Bright Film Festival, the world’s...
Talents and Short Film Market
Discussions

The Usual Suspects

with Daniel Hadenius-Ebner, Anne Gaschütz, Massimiliano Nardulli, Rich Warren, Enrico Vannucci
On a lazy afternoon in Spring 2018, a Facebook post penned by Massimiliano Nardulli stormed the usually relatively peaceful social media timeline of many (short) film festival programmers. He wrote: “I’m very troubled by the role of...

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Short films are key to cinematic innovation. Because of their brevity, they allow filmmakers to react to the world around them more instinctively and showcase a stunning range of artistic expressions. As a magazine dedicated to short films, Talking Shorts aims to create a wider discourse about this often-overlooked art form.

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Since 2023, Talking Shorts is the official outlet of The European Network for Film Discourse (The END), which consists of six unique and diverse European film festivals and is funded by the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union. Our work and publications are closely connected to the (European) film festival landscape.

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