Festival / Archive
halbbilder-Tour 2005
Halle | Stendal | Bernburg | Dessau | Wernigerode | Halberstadt | Salzwedel | Magdeburg
After the success of the first Short Film Festival – halbbilder in 2004, we decided in 2005 to bring the Short Film to other regions of Saxony-Anhalt and to those people who do not live near a cultural metropolis.
With a selection of the films from the Festival of 2004 the halbbilder – Team toured through eight cities of Saxony-Anhalt. Short Film evenings were organised in each of these cities’ local cinemas. It was our aim to make short films popular among the audience and to show them an alternative way of making films apart from Hollywood Blockbuster movies. Young people were encouraged to grab a camera and make a film for themselves. They were asked to realize their ideas and to eventually hand in their films to the next festival in 2006.
Among others, the winners of the festival of 2004 were part of the selection of short films we brought to eight cities of Saxony-Anhalt. With the selection we tried to find a balance between the different genres and we were eager to present movies from amateurs as well as from experienced film makers. We wanted to show that our focus is not on the technically perfect film but on the film that developed its basic idea in the best way. We ended up with a programme of two and a half hours of film that represented a profile of current short film making.
Winner of the Tour – Award sponsored by the Lotto-Toto Gesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt was the Film “Nasse Zigarren für Berlin” by Stephan Müller. It was the audience of all eight cities that decided which film was to win the Award.
halbbilder 2004
Magdeburg - Studiokino / Moritzhof
The first and only International Short Film Festival – halbbilder premiered in September 2004. Until the Deadline, June 26th, over 260 films from 19 countries had been sent in. The programme that was assembled out of these films contained 81 films - 14 hours of short film. With a programme this huge we were able to entertain over 400 visitors on the 17th and 18th of September. Over 2000 € price money were passed on to the film makers by the jury and the audience itself.
A peak in the supporting programme was a panel discussion concerning the “New Right Wing radicalism”. The movie “NoExit” was screened to give an example for the current situation in Germany. Afterwards, the director and representatives from the police and the youth welfare office discussed new forms of right wing radicalism together with the audience.
