Berlin Short Film Festival Explained

Berlin Short Film Festival
Location:	Berlin, Germany
Founded:	2014
Language:	International
Website:	Official Website

Berlin Short Film Festival is a film festival with a special emphasis on independent short films, which annually takes place in Berlin, Germany. It screens German and international short films with a runtime under 50 minutes and awards them in various categories.^[1]

About

The festival was founded in 2014 and takes place at historic Babylon cinema in Berlin^[2] The selection of the festival is international, and it awards films in eight categories.^[3] Many international filmmakers attend the event, and foreign language films are usually screened with English subtitles due to the international audience.^[4]

Winners

2019

• Best Short Film: Coming Up For Air (Director: Jeroen Hoogaars)
• Best Short Documentary: Interior Motives (Director: Natalie Shirinian)
• Best Short Short Film: Dance of the Dead (Director: Scarlet Sykes Hesterman)
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Full Circle (Director: Willem van Egmond)
• Best Horror Short Film: #YouToo (Directors: Björn Pinxten, Jenne Decleir)
• Best Experimental Short Film: Artistes Burlesques (Director: John Bickerton)
• Best Comedy Short Film: Guilty Pleasure (Directors: Yannik Leibacher, René Müller)
• Best LGBT Short Film: With Reason and With Heart (Director: Inge Theunissen)
• Best Animated Short Film: Two Balloons (Director: Mark C. Smith)
• Best Short Feature: 1969–2019 (Director: Ira Schneider)
• Best Music Video: Midnight Dancer (Director: Dan Przygoda)

2018

• Best Short Film: Bournonville Today (Director: Signe Roderik)
• Best Short Documentary: Vanishing History (Director: Daud Khattak)
• Best Short Short Film: Fortnite: Gasoline, Official Video (Directors: Sven D., Philipp Primus)
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Saturn Voyager (Directors: Iuri Araújo, Guilherme Araújo)
• Best Horror Short Film: Quiver (Director: Shayna Connelly)
• Best Experimental Short Film: War For Lizards (Director: Farshad Bagheri)
• Best Comedy Short Film: State Of Emergency (Director: Tarek Roehlinger)
• Best LGBT Short Film: MMF (Director: Leonard Garner)
• Best Animated Short Film: Tall Juan: Cuidacoches (Director: Dante Zaballa)
• Best Short Feature: The Peculiar Abilities Of Mr Mahler (Director: Paul Philipp)
• Best Music Video: Metamorphosen (Director: Katharina Ziemkus)

2017

• Best Short Film: Southern Edge of The Cloud (Director: Ching Yan Alon Chan)
• Best Short Documentary: The Voice of a Million Times One (Director: Marijn Poels)
• Best Short Short Film: Breakfast of Champions (Director: Beraat Gökkuş)
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: A Magician (Director: Max Blustin)
• Best Horror Short Film: The Black Bull Incident, Episode One: Pretty Rough Around Closing (Directors: Rob Wright, Si Wright)
• Best Experimental Short Film: The Charlotte Russe with the Medal of the Wobbling Bubble in its Palm Trilogy (Director: Ira Schneider)
• Best Comedy Short Film: The Cowboy (Director: Jack Hansen)
• Best Music Video: Stop Us (Director: This is Felo)

2016

• Best Short Film: Nothing Escapes My Eyes (Director: David Krippendorff)
• Best Short Documentary: Born of Stone (Director: Emilio Bellu)
• Best Short Short Film: The Peacock (Director: Wenquian Gao)
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: The Last Journey of the Enigmatic Paul WR (Director: Romain Quirot)
• Best Horror Short Film: How To Be A Villain (Director: Helen O'Hanlon)
• Best Experimental Short Film: Artistic Dictatorship (Director: Gor Aroevic)
• Best Comedy Short Film: Tre Tosser (Three Fools) (Directors: Snobar Avani, Peter Hausner)
• Best Music Video: Lamentation (Director: Kirk Kelley)

2015

• Best Short Film: Endangered Species (Director: Ira Schneider)
• Best Short Documentary: Above & Below: Galapagos National Park (Directors: Florian Fischer, Michael Kugler)
• Best Short Short Film: Clairvoyance (Director: Hiroki Yokoyama)
• Best Sci-Fi Short Film: The Long Slow Flight of the Ashbot (Director: Colin West McDonald)
• Best Horror Short Film: The Graveyard Shift (Director: Peter Feysa)
• Best Experimental Short Film: conform! (Directors: Alexander Bobenko, Charles Gunn)
• Best Comedy Short Film: The Critic (Director: Alexander Tuschinski)
• Best Music Video: IceTruckFuckHardcore (Directors: Johannes Lohmann, Christoph Hertel)

2014

• Best Short Film: Too Bad (Director: Lorenzo Berghella)
• Best German Short Film: Roughtown (Director: Gabriele Heberling)
• Best Short Documentary: Shakespeare’s Intermission (Director: Diana Nilles)
• Best Sci-Fi/Horror Short Film: O (Director: July Allard)
• Best Experimental Short Film: Frollein Frappe (Director: Vanessa Aab)
• Best Short Short Film: Interior (Director: Immanuel Esser)
• Best Music Video: Seduction (Director: Parker Ellerman)

External links

• • IMDB: Page of the festival
• Official Facebook-Site of the festival.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Camilla Egan: Berlin Short Film Festival. Published in Exberliner Magazine.. 2015-07-07.
2. Web site: Kaltblut Magazine: Article about the festival. 2015-07-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20150708190353/http://www.kaltblut-magazine.com/berlin-short-film-festival/. 2015-07-08. dead.
3. Web site: Fritz Magazine: Note about the Festival. 2015-07-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20150708150355/http://www.fritz.de/events/kalender/2015/07/event5785.html. 2015-07-08. dead.
4. Web site: Ask Helmut: Article about the Festival. 2015-07-08.