This year we once again bring you a rich variety of interesting short fiction films from several countries from around the world. Shortlisted Indian films will compete for the Patton Award for the Best Indian Film and the Kalpanirjhar Award for the Second Best Indian Film.
The international short fiction film festival organised jointly by the Kalpanirjhar Foundation and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata is one of the oldest and one of the most well-known short film festivals in the country, it has been an active platform to showcase some of the best short films from India and abroad.
This year the festival includes two German film programmes curated by Ulrich Wegenast and another programme from the Hamburg Short Film festival curated by Maike Mia Höhne.
The festival is open to all on a first come first served basis till seats are full.
This festival is supported Caring Minds.
CURATORS
© Ulrich Wegenast
Ulrich Wegenast, born 1966 in Stuttgart, is the dean at the Peter Behrens School of Arts, Faculty of Design, at Hochschule Düsseldorf. Since 2012 he has been the honorary professor at the Babelsberg Film University "Konrad Wolf". He was the founding member of Wand 5 and Stuttgart Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media - a festival for experimental film and media art. From 1993 to 2005 has was curator for the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) and the European Shortfilm Biennale. Ulrich has also been the managing director of Film & Media Festival Association which runs the ITFS and Raumwelten - Platform for Scenography, Architecture, and Media in Ludwigsburg. He developed the experimental film section for the Munich Filmfest in 2002. From 2003 to 2004 Ulrich has worked as a consultant for the Frankfurt Schirn Kunsthalle and for the ‘documenta’ jubilee exhibition. From 2005 to 2013, he was a member of the advisory board of the Goethe Institute (Film, TV, Radio), and was a member of the jury of the German Short Film Award. Wegenast also works as producer for short films, commercials and media installations for Badische Kunsthalle, City of Fellbach, Goethe Center Harare, L-Bank Baden-Wuerttemberg and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
© Maike Mia Höhne
Maike Mia Höhne studied visual communication at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Havana as well as the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. After staying in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she completed her post-graduate studies at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg with a focus on film. She works as a curator and juror for several institutions and festivals worldwide and is involved in film funding on a regional and national level. From 2007 to 2019 she was head of Berlinale Shorts of the Berlin International Filmfestival. Höhne is a professor for film at the University of Applied Sciences Europe in Hamburg. She also teaches Filmtheorie and making at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Since March 2019, she has been the artistic director of the Hamburg Short Film Festival and has made several films herself.
ABOUT HAMBURG SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg)
The Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg is one of the most renowned and important European short film festivals. Since 1986, more than 400 films have been screened each year. The festival brings together cinema, exhibition, performative works, concerts and discourse. It shows films that react to the world in loud and sparkling, quiet and poetic, wild and calm ways. This way, selected programmes present the whole range of courageous, experimental and artistic films. Film makers, industry and audiences celebrate the short form together.
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