Minimalen Short Film Festival
21—26.01.2025
Minimalen Short Film Festival is an annual, independent short film event that features new productions from all over the world, as well as focus programmes and retrospectives. Based in the attractive old town of Trondheim, Norway, Minimalen came to life in 1988. Trondheim is the principal city in Trøndelag, the central part of Norway by latitude, and the country’s first capital back in the good old Viking days.
Over the years, Minimalen has refined its primary objective of finding new ways to use film as a medium. This often means independent productions with a free spirit attitude to filmmaking, emphasising images and film language more than words. The ideal filmmaker should be on a constant quest to find a suitable form for each story. Not that they necessarily need to tell a story, but basically, each film should have its own fingerprint, a uniqueness that goes far beyond the constant re-telling of the same storyline.
Minimalen SFF is looking for films that, though not always artistically groundbreaking or technically perfect, have consistency in form and content.
Reading List
Reading List
Square the Circle by Hanna Hovitie
Oyu by Atsushi Hirai
On The Japanese Artist’s Singular Work
Recalling Experiences Through Surfaces and Matter
La Perra by Carla Melo Gampert
Sam Manacsa on Cross My Heart And Hope To Die
A Study of Empathy by Hilke Rönnfeldt
2nd Person by Rita Barbosa
All Tomorrow’s Parties by Zhang Dalei
A Kind of Testament by Stephen Vuillemin
Lake of Fire by Neozoon
Flores del otro Patio by Jorge Cadena
27 by Flóra Anna Buda
Nest by Hlynur Pálmason
Hardly Working by Total Refusal
Reading List
Asterión by Francesco Montagner
Sierra by Sander Joon
On Xerxes’ Throne by Evi Kalogiropoulou
backflip by Nikita Diakur
Cherries by Vytautas Katkus
Will My Parents Come to See Me by Mo Harawe
Staging Death by Jan Soldat
Nest by Hlynur Pálmason
Neighbour Abdi by Douwe Dijkstra
Heaven Reaches Down To Earth by Tebogo Malebogo
Reading List
Heaven Reaches Down To Earth by Tebogo Malebogo
Neon Phantom by Leonardo Martinelli
Deconstructing Realism In The Modern Day
Love, Dad by Diana Cam Van Nguyen
The Human Torch by Risto-Pekka Blom
Maalbeek by Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
