Queer Shorts Special „To the dance, beautiful child. Only those who dare, win“, as the folk song OH, KATHARINA goes. The cramped pub of an inn, like the ones that can be found all over the Austrian countryside. The music plays, drunk couples dance sluggishly. In their midst, two women twirl in a circle. At …
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Weibsbilder   This year, Bayerischer Rundfunk will once again be represented at the Landshut Short Film Festival with a special programme. The programme “Wir in Bayern” (Mondays to Fridays from 4.15 to 5.30 pm) presents eight films from the “Weibsbilder” series. The programme is hosted by “Wir in Bayern” presenter Sandra Bouscarrut. “Weibsbilder” – these …
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Honorable mentions of the Jury Kruste Deutschland 2023, 26 Minuten von Jens Kevin Georg, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF We want to give a shout out to a movie because it sends us on a bare ass rollercoaster. Kruste tells of a family in which you have to prove yourself. Fascinating and bizarre, we experience a …
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Dorothee Erpenstein Geschäftsführerin FFF Bayern Dear short film fans, Welcome to the 24th edition of the Landshut Short Film Festival. A diverse program of fascinating, carefully curated short films from many countries awaits us in the next few days. The total of 219 short films that you can experience are diverse, artistically sophisticated and represent …
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Jury #3 Shock Block Johnny Vivash Johnny Vivash is an Irish actor, based in London for the last 25 years. He has performed in features with award winning companies like Dark Rift Films (Book of Monsters, How to Kill Monsters) Crossroads Pictures (Walking Against the Rain), Dark Temple Motion Pictures (Freeze, Artic Edge, Lord of …
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Lesung Germaine Paulus findet am Samstag, 30. April, ab 16 Uhr im Chocolat statt Lesung Germaine Paulus Eintritt frei This Event is in German language Kurz mal weg Frau Paulus liest aus ihrer kommenden Kurzgeschichten-Sammlung. Von Zombies, Punks und diversen Weltuntergängen. Vielleicht reimt sie auch. Die Flöte lässt sie aber in Saarbrücken. Germaine Paulus (*1972) …
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Jury #1 G-A-S Competition DOC Award Comedy Tommy Schwimmer Tommy Schwimmer, born in Vilsbiburg in 1988, has been an actor since he was a child.  The Munich resident became known to a wide audience through the BR TV series “Dahoam is Dahoam”, in which he played the popular character “Florian Brunner” until 2021.  Tommy Schwimmer …
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DOC Block 2 How do you document memories? All around us we hear the laughter of families, children playing and the nearby sound of the sea. Beneath us we feel the warm sand. The bright sun shines above us. We close our eyes. Behind our lids, the world turns THE COLOR RED. We don’t shut …
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Animation Special Animated film is known for its immense innovative power and versatility, which is unmatched in any other area of film.  Halting stop-motion movements lend puppets an exaggerated physicality (THE FAMILY PORTRAIT). AI-generated computer graphics create a hypnotic distortion of reality that seduces humanity into comfortable surrender (THE ARTIFICIAL CONJURING CIRCLE). With a few …
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Shorts for Kids Coming of age requires a lot of courage. Our young film heroes have to learn to deal with defeat and sorrow, to stand up even to their best friends and to bravely investigate greedy environmental evildoers. Fortunately, they find loyal friends on their adventures, be it an alien robot, a cheeky monkey, …
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DOC Block 3 How do you document memories? All around us we hear the laughter of families, children playing and the nearby sound of the sea. Beneath us we feel the warm sand. The bright sun shines above us. We close our eyes. Behind our lids, the world turns THE COLOR RED. We don’t shut …
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DOC Block 1 How do you document memories? All around us we hear the laughter of families, children playing and the nearby sound of the sea. Beneath us we feel the warm sand. The bright sun shines above us. We close our eyes. Behind our lids, the world turns THE COLOR RED. We don’t shut …
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