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7:00 PM-8:30 PM, EST
SHORT EXPORT - Made in Germany
Filmvorführung|Kurzfilmtag 2025 | German short film favorites
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Goethe-Institut Ottawa, Ottawa
- Language Original versions with French subtitles.
- Price Free of charge.
KURZFILMTAG (engl. Short Film Day) - A Celebration of Short Film for Everyone and Germany's largest event dedicated to short films. It always takes place around the shortest day of the year, December 21 and brings short films into the mainstream. It highlights the creative diversity of this often overlooked format – and also reaches people who otherwise rarely come into contact with short films. The idea for KURZFILMTAG originated in France. Since 2012, KURZFILMTAG has also been held in Germany, coordinated by AG Kurzfilm – Bundesverband Deutscher Kurzfilm (German Short Film Association).
We are taking this year's KURZFILMTAG as an opportunity to present the popular short film program SHORT EXPORT - Made in Germany together with the Alliance Française Ottawa:
SHORT EXPORT - MADE IN GERMANY celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2025 - two decades full of unusual insights into the multi-facetted world of the German short film! This year's program throws a light on a wide spectrum of themes and forms of expression. The themes explored include the conflicting poles of freedom and responsibility, societal norms and personal boundaries, and the power of change.
These six carefully selected films - from over 440 entries to the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival - tell us about the experiences of young mothers and show us bizarre and contemplative moments from the perspective of a Google Street View car. In addition, the films explore the political and emotional meaning of the term 'home', and trace an ark from the optimism of the 1990s to the constraints of modern bureaucracy. At the same time humorous, contemplative and innovative, the program shows the entire gamut of artistic and societal discourse in German short-filmmaking.
The premiere of the 20th edition, entitled Coup de cœur du court métrage allemand, took place on February 3 as part of the 47th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. The project is a German-French collaboration between AG Kurzfilm, German Films, the Goethe-Institut Lyon, Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg, and the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.
The project is a Franco-German cooperation between AG Kurzfilm - German Short Film Association, German Films, Goethe-Institut Lyon, Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg and Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.
We are taking this year's KURZFILMTAG as an opportunity to present the popular short film program SHORT EXPORT - Made in Germany together with the Alliance Française Ottawa:
SHORT EXPORT - MADE IN GERMANY celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2025 - two decades full of unusual insights into the multi-facetted world of the German short film! This year's program throws a light on a wide spectrum of themes and forms of expression. The themes explored include the conflicting poles of freedom and responsibility, societal norms and personal boundaries, and the power of change.
These six carefully selected films - from over 440 entries to the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival - tell us about the experiences of young mothers and show us bizarre and contemplative moments from the perspective of a Google Street View car. In addition, the films explore the political and emotional meaning of the term 'home', and trace an ark from the optimism of the 1990s to the constraints of modern bureaucracy. At the same time humorous, contemplative and innovative, the program shows the entire gamut of artistic and societal discourse in German short-filmmaking.
The premiere of the 20th edition, entitled Coup de cœur du court métrage allemand, took place on February 3 as part of the 47th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. The project is a German-French collaboration between AG Kurzfilm, German Films, the Goethe-Institut Lyon, Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg, and the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.
The project is a Franco-German cooperation between AG Kurzfilm - German Short Film Association, German Films, Goethe-Institut Lyon, Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg and Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.
FILMS
NINE DAYS IN AUGUST
Neun Tage im August
Ella Knorz| fiction | 17'
Summer vacation: Lea is 18 and pregnant. While she goes out partying and negotiates her relationships, Lea has to navigate the bureaucracy of getting an abortion.
ACCIDENTAL ANIMALS
Leila Fatima Keita, Felix Klee | experimental, documentary | 10'
While the Google Street View car attempts to capture the world with precision, animals cross its path, creating absurd and thought-provoking moments.
MOTHER IS A NATURAL SINNER
Boris Hadžija, Hoda Taheri | fiction | 15'
Hoda, an Iranian refugee in Germany, lives with her boyfriend Hadi. An unexpected pregnancy leads her to question common beliefs about gender roles in a relationship and challenge current social norms regarding female bodies and motherhood.
SKY LIKE SILK. FULL OF ORANGES
Himmel wie Seide. Voller Orangen
Betina Kuntzsch | animation, documentary | 10'
In the spring of 1990—between the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification—the first citizens of what was still the GDR fly to Mallorca. Mallorca is a place of longing for many East Germans, known from the colorful postcards sent by their relatives in the West. Suddenly, everything seems possible.
An animated documentary film, a collage of postcards, vacation photos, and documents.
AT HOME I FEEL LIKE LEAVING
Simon Maria Kubiena | fiction | 20'
A young woman returns to her remote home village after her father disappears in the forest. Torn between her responsibility for her infantile husband and her longing for closeness and lightheartedness, she drifts through the day.
TUNNELS
Seraina Nyikos, Simon Ostermann| documentary, experimental | 9'
Rocco is a subway driver in Berlin. But that's only half the story. TUNNELS is a surprising, life-affirming, and challenging experimental documentary film from the city we love and about which everyone has an opinion.
Neun Tage im August
Ella Knorz| fiction | 17'
Summer vacation: Lea is 18 and pregnant. While she goes out partying and negotiates her relationships, Lea has to navigate the bureaucracy of getting an abortion.
ACCIDENTAL ANIMALS
Leila Fatima Keita, Felix Klee | experimental, documentary | 10'
While the Google Street View car attempts to capture the world with precision, animals cross its path, creating absurd and thought-provoking moments.
MOTHER IS A NATURAL SINNER
Boris Hadžija, Hoda Taheri | fiction | 15'
Hoda, an Iranian refugee in Germany, lives with her boyfriend Hadi. An unexpected pregnancy leads her to question common beliefs about gender roles in a relationship and challenge current social norms regarding female bodies and motherhood.
SKY LIKE SILK. FULL OF ORANGES
Himmel wie Seide. Voller Orangen
Betina Kuntzsch | animation, documentary | 10'
In the spring of 1990—between the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification—the first citizens of what was still the GDR fly to Mallorca. Mallorca is a place of longing for many East Germans, known from the colorful postcards sent by their relatives in the West. Suddenly, everything seems possible.
An animated documentary film, a collage of postcards, vacation photos, and documents.
AT HOME I FEEL LIKE LEAVING
Simon Maria Kubiena | fiction | 20'
A young woman returns to her remote home village after her father disappears in the forest. Torn between her responsibility for her infantile husband and her longing for closeness and lightheartedness, she drifts through the day.
TUNNELS
Seraina Nyikos, Simon Ostermann| documentary, experimental | 9'
Rocco is a subway driver in Berlin. But that's only half the story. TUNNELS is a surprising, life-affirming, and challenging experimental documentary film from the city we love and about which everyone has an opinion.
Location
Goethe-Institut Ottawa
in the form of a local corporation
352 MacLaren Street
Ottawa K2P 0M6
Kanada
in the form of a local corporation
352 MacLaren Street
Ottawa K2P 0M6
Kanada
