Shorts – Trinational Film festival of the university of applied Sciences offenburg
May 9 – 12 2023 at FORUM Offenburg
Showing. Hoping. Wishing. Worrying:
Welcome to SHORTS 2023!
Making the world we live in tangible and, beyond that, bringing a utopia or even dystopia to life: Film can do that. Showing. Hoping. Wishing. Worrying. This is exactly what the student films at our trinational film festival SHORTS report on in a variety of forms. Not least because of recent socio-political developments, SHORTS 2023 presents a new focus of the festival: The “documentary view” of past, present and future of our society and our planet, focused in documentaries, reports and features of the student filmmakers. It wants to sharpen our vision and hearing for the challenges of the time and invite discourse – another step of SHORTS to a film festival that establishes a stage and a forum here in Offenburg for young filmmakers attitudes and messages: Nothing is more exciting than art in the making!
We are looking forward to a great festival with you!
showings
Tue may 9
7 pm – Theater 1 – Opening – Competition 1 – Hunters and Gatherers
Title | Length | Country | Category |
Action! | 1 Min | GER | Short film |
Erich, 37, sucht Wohnung | 10 Min | GER | Short film |
Tribes | 4 Min | FRA | Animation film |
Sortez les monstres | 20 Min | FRA | Short film |
Homo Vitrum | 15 Min | GER | Short film |
Zwischenstopp | 4 Min | GER | Short film |
Xanh | 12 Min | GER | Animation film |
9 pm – Theater 1 – Competition 2 – Escapes and Cries for Help
Title | Length | Country | Category |
Love Cruiser | 6 Min | GER | Short film |
Lockpickers | 17 Min | GER | Mid-length film |
heimweh | 7 Min | GER | Short film |
98M3 | 5 Min | FRA | Animation film |
Blaupause | 19 Min | GER | Short film |
Lost and Found | 18 Min | GER | Short film |
WARUM BEGEHT HELEN KOCH SCHWEREN KRAFTWAGENDIEBSTAHL? | 22 Min | GER | Short film |
WED May 10
5 pm – Theater 1 – Competition 3 – Role Plays
Title | Length | Country | Category |
Mach’s Licht aus! | 11 Min | GER | Short film |
Dinner mit Jill | 9 Min | GER | Short film |
FRANKY | 12 Min | GER | Short film |
Synchronie Passagère | 8 Min | FRA | Animation film |
NOWhere (to be found) | 44 Min | GER | Mid-length film |
5 pm – Theater 8 – Doku 1 – Working and Living
Title | Length | Country | Category |
Jeunesse | 4 Min | FRA | Documentary |
Hutgefühle | 13 Min | GER | Documentary |
Ich bin wie Butter auf zu wenig Brot | 15 Min | GER | Documentary |
Ein Leben auf See | 53 Min | GER | Documentary |
7 pm – Theater 1 – Competition 4 – Virtual Reality
Title | Length | Country | Category |
JONI (25, MALE), 3KM AWAY, LIKES TO SWIM | 12 Min | GER | Short film |
Talponi | 15 Min | CH | Short film |
*(In)Visible Night | 11 Min | GER | Short film |
Apocalypse Dog | 8 Min | FRA | Animation film |
MACULA | 8 Min | FRA | Animation film |
SIMULATION MÉTRO BOULOT DODO | 3 Min | FRA | Short film |
Digital Investigations | 25 Min | GER | Short film |
7.30 pm – Theater 8 – Doku 2 – The Other
Title | Length | Country | Category |
Außer Männer hatten wir nichts zu verlieren | 30 Min | GER | Documentary |
Das Beste in der Musik | 8 Min | GER | Documentary |
Atide | 11 Min | GER | Documentary |
ENDO-ME//triose | 10 Min | CH | Documentary |
Driving Force | 30 Min | GER | Documentary |
9 pm – Theater 1 – Competition 5 – Run for your life!
Title | Length | Country | Category |
180°C | 3 Min | GER | Animation film |
No More Mr. Bag Guy | 6 Min | GER | Animation film |
EONIA | 4 Min | GER | Animation film |
Ça Décale | 5 Min | FRA | Animation film |
Wir Zwei | 4 Min | GER | Animation film |
Territory | 10 Min | GER | Short film |
Advena | 12 Min | GER | Short film |
Morgenblau | 27 Min | GER | Mid-length film |
9.30 pm – Theater 8 – Out of Competition
Title | Length | Country | Category |
Innerer Kongo | 31 Min | GER | Documentary |
From 11.30 pm – Concert – The Necronautics – Kessel Offenburg
Thu may 11
5 pm – Theater 1 – Competition 6 – Father and Son
Title | Length | Country | Category |
Du bout des doigts | 16 Min | FRA | Short film |
Oscar | 4 Min | FRA | Animation film |
Allen Zweifeln zum Trotz | 15 Min | GER | Short film |
Seuls | 11 Min | FRA | Short film |
BABYBOY | 48 Min | GER | Mid-length film |
5 pm – Theater 8 – Doku 3 – Skinning and Postures
Titles | Length | Country | Category |
State of Anxiety. Oder die Angst, dass andere einen scheiße finden | 22 Min | GER | Documentary |
Studium, Du hast Dich verändert. | 14 Min | GER | Documentary |
Lieber Woanders | 27 Min | GER | Documentary |
bordering the sacred | 9 Min | GER | Documentary |
I Feel Perfect | 7 Min | FRA | Documentary |
Insulaires | 15 Min | FRA | Documentary |
7 pm – Theater 1 – Competition 7 – Searching and Finding
Title | Length | Country | Category |
Comeback | 9 Min | GER | Short film |
80 Euro | 15 Min | GER | Short film |
Neuanfang | 17 Min | GER | Short film |
Le Cri du Silence | 7 Min | FRA | Animation film |
Wichser im Sand | 2 Min | GER | Animation film |
SHYNE | 6 Min | FRA | Animation film |
Volver al Sur | 15 Min | GER | Short film |
7 pm – Theater 8 – Doku 4 – The Way
Title | Length | Country | Category |
Perros | 21 Min | CH | Dokumentarfilm |
Schweben | 10 Min | GER | Documentary |
Des Vaters Schweigen | 18 Min | GER | Documentary |
Das zieh ich an, wenn ich tot bin. | 20 Min | GER | Documentary |
9 pm – Theater 1 – Competition 8 – Waiting. Time. Death.
Title | Length | Country | Category |
For The Record | 5 Min | GER | Animation film |
In seiner Gnade | 12 Min | GER | Animation film |
Der Tote | 24 Min | CH | Short film |
Jolly Rogers | 49 Min | GER | Mid-length film |
Fr 12. Mai
4.30 pm – Theater 8 – Letzter Abend, Lukas Nathrath, Long film, Framework Program
7 pm – Theater 1 – Awards Ceremony & Winning Films
shorts Films 2023
prices

1000€
Short film
up to 25 minutes

1000€
Mid-length film
up tp 25 minutes

1000€
Documentary
without length limitation

1000€
Animation film
without length limitation

1000€
Best Cinematography
across all categories

1000€
Best Sound
across all categories

1000€
Special Price
of the Jury
across all categories

1000€
Freedom Price of
Offenburg City
across all categories

1000€
Reader Price of the
Mittelbadischen Presse
across all categories

1000€
Price of HS Offenburg
across all categories for a produktion from HS Offenburg

100€
Audience Award
per competition block
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