Mini Film Festival is the longest running short film festival in Malaysia annually held by the Cinematography Programme, Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts, University Malaysia Sarawak.
The festival is taking place for the 17th time with the theme
IN TIME OF CRISIS.
Message from the festival Announcement
As a means of creative expression that draws heavily from reality, portraying scenarios that reflect the everyday struggles and aspirations of the lives of viewers, film plays an important role as a medium of entertainment, information and education and as a catalyst for social change. This is even truer with the impacts brought by the enduring pandemic changing the political-socio-economic dynamics worldwide. The role of filmmakers in interpreting, documenting and discerning the dynamics and changes happening in time of crisis is undoubtedly needed. Thus, with the theme of this year's 17th Mini Film Festival IN TIME OF CRISIS, let's explore the infinite possibilities of inspirations that films could bring to us.
From Germany we welcome Maike Mia Höhne as part of the Mini Film Fest jury in 2021.
Mini Film Fest jury
Maike Mia Höhne is a German film director, film curator and professor of film at UE Europe. She is a mother of two children and lives and works in Hamburg.
From 1994 to 1999 she studied visual communication, specialising in film at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and in Havana, Cuba.
Since 2001 she has worked as a freelance author, lecturer, curator, producer, photographer and director. For ARTE she produces the magazine KURZSCHLUSS with Lilli Thalgott. Her films are distributed by Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst and Kurzfilmagentur Hamburg. From 2007 to 2019 she was the curator and head of the short film section Berlinale Shorts at the Berlinale. She has worked as a programmer, moderator and juror for international festivals, film funding bodies and institutes for more than 20 years. In 2019 she took over the artistic direction at the Short Film Festival Hamburg. She is a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg.
Alongside with other programme highlights, we are delighted that the
KURZ.FILM.TOUR is part of this years screening programme.
Short Films are exciting, innovative, entertaining and full of surprises. The German Short Film Award is the most important award, endowed with the highest amount of money given to short films in Germany. It has been awarded since 1956 to outstanding short film productions. Since 1998 the nominees and award winners are touring German cinemas every year.
The KURZ.FILM.TOUR selection is available in Malaysia on 22 July from 6pm to midnight on VIMEO. The password is: KurzFilmTour*KL22072021#
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