International Short Film Week Regensburg

Germany

festival

The Short Film Week Regensburg was founded in 1994 by the Arbeitskreis Film e.V. and takes place since then in an annual cycle. In the first year it was just a small experiment with one festival cinema. Today with up to four festival cinemas the International Short Film Week Regensburg is not just a firm institution in the cultural life of Regensburg but has become an inconceivable part of the international short film circuit.

While in the beginning there was just one general programme, meanwhile there are five competitions and diverse special programmes, but also workshops, lectures and exhibitions. Still, the German and the International Competition are the main focus of the festival.

Event date

11.03.2020 ⟶ 22.03.2020

International Competition
Open to all genres and production countries. Maximum film length: 30 minutes.

Possible prizes:
– Short Film Award of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation (Main Festival Award, EUR 5,000)
– Short Film Award of the City of Regensburg (EUR 1,000)
– Architecture Film Award (EUR 1,500)
– Cinema Pub Award (Audience Award, EUR 333).

German Competition
Only for productions from Germany. Open to all species. Maximum film length: 30 minutes.

Possible prizes:
– Candis Award (Best Film, EUR 1,500)
– Max Bresele Memorial Award (EUR 500)
– Architecture Film Award (EUR 1,500)
– Cinema Pub Award (Audience Award, EUR 333).

Window to Architecture
Only for films from the EU-countries. Open to all species. Maximum film length: 30 minutes. Only for films that are particularly concerned with the subject of architecture.

Prize: Architecture Film Award (EUR 1,500).

Window to Bavaria
Only for productions from the Free State of Bavaria. Open to all species. Maximum film length: 30 minutes.

Possible prizes:
– FFF Bavaria Award (EUR 1,500)
– Architecture Film Award (EUR 1,500)

Window to the Region
Only for productions from Eastern Bavaria (German postcode ranges starting with: 84, 92, 93 and 94). Open to all species. Maximum film length: 30 minutes.

Possible prizes:
– FFF Bavaria Award (EUR 1,500)
– mittelbayerische.de Award (EUR 500)

Special Programs
Film submissions can be screened in the special programme or in the competition. The special programmes are curated programmes from submissions and/or archive films. Special programmes include, for example, school events, country focus programmes, children’s and youth programmes. The selection is incumbent on the respective curators. The request for a special program also includes a short description of the program.

Event Adress
FilmGalerie im Leeren Beutel, Ostentorkino, Wintergarten
W1-Kulturzentrum
93047 Regensburg
Germany

Admin Adress
Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg
Bertoldstr. 9
93047 Regensburg
Germany

Entry fee: €10

Insa Wiese

(Artistic Director)

Insa Wiese was born in 1978 in the rural part of East Friesland. She studied Arts and German Language and Literature at the University of Oldenburg. There, she discovered her passion for movies and especially for shorts, she implemented her own filmlets and organized together with friends the small short film festival zwergWERK. After having worked several years for the Hamburg International Short Film Festival, she’s working since 2009 as the head of the International Short Film Week Regensburg. Since summer 2016 she is also working for the festival UNDERDOX in Munich. There she is jointly responsible for the short films. She also curates short film programs like Emerging Artists and she is giving lectures at the University in Regensburg and University for Television and Film Munich. Since April 2016 she is in the board of the association of the Bavarian Film Festivals.

Event Adress
FilmGalerie im Leeren Beutel, Ostentorkino, Wintergarten,
W1-Kulturzentrum…
93047 Regensburg, Germany

Admin Adress
Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg
Bertoldstr. 9,
93047 Regensburg, Germany