Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

Founded in 1954, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is one of the major international crossroads for the short form, unique in the range of forms and genres it presents to the public, and particularly well known for its spotlight on experimentation. In the course of more than five decades, filmmakers and artists ranging from Roman Polanski to Cate Shortland, from George Lucas to Pipilotti Rist, have presented their first works in Oberhausen. The Festival organises five competitions. In addition, Oberhausen is known for its strong line of curated programmes on subjects like early films from before 1918 in “From the Deep” or animal films in “Shooting Animals”. The festival also operates a well-stocked Video Library, a non-commercial short film distribution branch and a unique archive of short films from more than 50 years of festival history.