Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg Competition
German Film Festival x KinoFest | 17.10.-03.11.2024

Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg Competition

Runtime 98 min
Rating NC16
Curated by Maike Mia Höhne, Artistic Director, Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg

From this year’s Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, one of the oldest and renowned short film festivals in Europe, comes a selection of four of the best German short films nationwide and the film school scene. Each year, the festival presents over 400 films showcasing the art of the short form, and brings together cinema, performative works, and discourse.

Stadtmuseum
Boris Dewjatkin, Germany

Boris Dewjatkin discovers a museum of the counter-public in Berlin, right in the centre, yet on the fringes of perception. It is only accessible to those interested in subcultural signs and the historical and material skinning of the city.

CLOWN*ESSES
Jana Rothe, Germany

CLOWN*ESSES shows the lives of contemporary female clowns who turn the world upside down beyond learned structures. The clown*esses Gözde and Lokke emancipate themselves from patriarchal structures and representations in search of their very own homeland. An underestimated theatrical art becomes a niche of feminism; a documentary between reality and magic.

Land der Berge (Land of Mountains)
Olga Kosanovic, Austria

An insurance scam and the left thumb of the single father Vladimir find themselves in a low-key tragedy about the kafkaesque barriers of the Austrian immigration law.

getty abortions
Franzis Kabisch, Germany & Austria

What do abortions look like? What kind of images shape our view on them? And where do these images come from? The desktop essay getty abortions examines how German and Austrian media illustrate the topic of abortion, browsing through stock photos, teen magazines and documents of a real abortion experience. It jumps from the early 2000s to the late 19th century, seeks out feminist knowledge and chats with fictional characters. But one question remains: Why does no one look into the camera?