Festivals

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...