Internationales Kurz Film Festival Hamburg
Hamburg International Short Film Festival
Established in 1985 as No Budget Short Film Festival the Hamburg ISFF shows about 400 films in 6 competitions and several special programmes. The Hamburg ISFF also presents workshops, open air screenings, excursions and club events. The festival is internationally esteemed as meeting point for filmmakers from all over the world.
24th edition
2008 | 4 - 9 June
Jury Award - International
Puppetboy
Sweden | Jan 2008 | 26:40
Director: Johannes Nyholm
5
François Ode Award - International
Luxembourg | 2007 | 14:40
Director: Govinda van Maele
2
Audience Award - International
United Kingdom | 2007 | 6:00
Director: Osbert Parker
5
Audience Award - International
Puppetboy
Sweden | Jan 2008 | 26:40
Director: Johannes Nyholm
5
Audience Award - No Budget Competition
France | 2007 | 13:58
Director: Neil Beloufa
1
Audience Award - International
Austria | 2007 | 3:57
Directors: Clemens Kogler, Karo Szmit
1
Innovation Award - German Competition
On the Line
Germany | 2007 | 29:45
Director: Reto Caffi
26
Jury Award - German Competition
Germany | 2007 | 9:10
Directors: Fabian Gasmia, Burhan Qurbani
1
Audience Award - German Competition
On the Line
Germany | 2007 | 29:45
Director: Reto Caffi
26
Audience Award - German Competition
Germany | 2008 | 8:56
Directors: Kathrin Albers, Jim Lacy
1
Audience Award - Three Minute Quickie Competition
There Ain't Nothing!
Germany | Jun 2008 | 3:07
Directors: Markus Schaefer, René Schöttler
1
Arte Short Film Award
Romania | 2007 | 15:49
Director: Ciprian Alexandrescu
3
Best Short Documentary
United Kingdom | 2007 | 6:00
Director: George Barber
1
Music in Shorts Award - National
Germany | 2007 | 4:52
Director: Daniel Burghardt
1
Music in Shorts Award - International
Canada | 2007 | 15:00
Director: Karl Lemieux
1
Mo Award - Mo&Friese Children's Festival
Sweden | 2007 | 20:00
Director: Levan Akin
1
Friese Award - Mo&Friese Children's Festival
Russia | 2006 | 18:40
Director: Andrey Sudilovsky
1
High Five! Award - Mo&Friese Children's Festival
Germany | 2008 | 4:00
Director: Milena Glück
1
United Kingdom | 2008 | 9:00
Director: Asitha Ameresekere
A secret unfolds within a family through the eyes of the three people hiding it.
2
Germany | Jul 2007 | 5:25
Director: Ahmet Tas
4 times a week 8 hours a day emigrants sing for an apple&ei.
6
On the Line
Germany | 2007 | 29:45
Director: Reto Caffi
A department store security guard is racked by guilt after not helping the victim of a fight in the subway.
26
United Kingdom | 2007 | 6:00
Director: George Barber
A man arrives in a van by the side of a road. He takes out various pots of paint and starts to throw colour on the road. Understandably, motorists avo...
1
Austria | 2007 | 3:57
Directors: Karo Szmit, Clemens Kogler
Teenager share a basic principle with coffee and the stock exchange: They´re hot for a limited on time ...
1
There Ain't Nothing!
Germany | Jun 2008 | 3:07
Directors: Markus Schaefer, René Schöttler
Nearly no smoke!
1
Puppetboy
Sweden | Jan 2008 | 26:40
Director: Johannes Nyholm
Artist Johannes Nyholm is obsessed working with a claymation series featuring "Puppetboy". We follow him behind the scenes to se what it is all about.
5
Germany | 2008 | 4:00
Director: Milena Glück
Against the wishes of her owner the hoggish dog Baghira breaks out again and again. Her aim: the compost and dung piles in the neighbourhood.
1
The Shooter
Palestine | Oct 2007 | 7:00
Director: Ihab Jadallah
Cinema is not the reflection of the reality, its the reality of the reflection.
Russia | 2006 | 18:40
Director: Andrey Sudilovsky
Stepa, the boy of 8 years secretly persuades his friends Lelia and Minya to travel around the world. Unknown, how will finish this story.
1
Interior. Scara de bloc
Automotive Action Painting (Car Painting)
Rauschen & Brausen I
Passage
The Last Things
Great Travellers
Eene, meene, Miste...
El Takheekh (The Shooter)
Mutt
14
Short film types screened

Fiction / Live action

Animation

Documentary

Experimental

Music video
Competition and rewards

International competition

No cash awards

No screening fees