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71st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 29 April - 4 May 2025

71. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, 29. April - 4. Mai 2025

Tue, 29 Apr 2025
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Lichtburg						Children’s Film Competition 6+								Children’s Film Competition 8+																																		Opening
Gloria				Youth Film Competition 14+ Sold out								Children’s Film Competition 3+																										Award Winners of Other Festivals
Sunset				Children’s Film Competition 10+								Youth Film Competition 12+ Sold out

Wed, 30 Apr 2025
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Schlosserei																																																														Festival Bar - A2iCE & BO3
Lichtburg						Children’s Film Competition 3+								Children’s Film Competition 10+																International Competition 1								Travelling Companions – Omnibus Films in Film History 1												International Competition 2								Dóra Maurer 1
Gloria				Youth Film Competition 12+ Sold out								Children’s Film Competition 6+																			Theme 1: Of Education, Culture and Censorship										Dietrich Schubert 1 Of agitprop, industry & a yearning for the countryside										Theme 2: Interiors										Shiny Toys 1 - Tina Tonagel
Star				Youth Film Competition 16+ Sold out								MuVi 14+ Sold out
Sunset				Children’s Film Competition 8+ Sold out								Theme meets Children's and Youth Cinema 14+
Festival Space Podium										Podium 1: Who Goes Fascist?																										Discussion IC 1																				Discussion IC 2

Thu, 1 May 2025
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Schlosserei																																																														Festival Bar - BORGBORG
Lichtburg														Dietrich Schubert 2 Loud protest & urban outmigration into the uncertain								Travelling Companions – Omnibus Films in Film History 2								International Competition 3								Dietrich Schubert 3 New homeland & rural change												International Competition 4 Sold out								Theme 4: Between Congo and the Ruhr area
Gloria																					The Making of Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah” 1										Theme 3: After Work										Travelling Companions – Omnibus Films in Film History 3										Distant Images, Far-Out Sounds										Shiny Toys 2 - Sculpture
Star																						Children’s Film Competition 8+ Sold out									The Oberhausen Selection Sold out
Sunset																						European Short Film Network (ESFN): Raw Data								Youth Film Competition 12+								Youth Film Competition 14+ Sold out												Distributors’ Collection: Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. Sold out								Distributors’ Collection: sixpackfilm Sold out
Walzenlager																																																		From the Festival’s Film Archive Sold out
Festival Space Podium										Podium 2: The Long Way to the Neighbour																										Discussion IC 3																				Discussion IC 4

Fri, 2 May 2025
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Schlosserei																																																														Festival Bar - Schlammpeitziger (DJ-Set)
Lichtburg						Children’s Film Competition 3+								Children’s Film Competition 6+								International Competition 5								NRW Competition 1								International Competition 6 Sold out												NRW Competition 2								MuVi International
Gloria				Children’s Film Competition 8+								Youth Film Competition 14+									Theme 5: Incompatible Lives										The Making of Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah” 2										Theme 6: Konrad Herrmann – Reconstruction of a Film Poet										Susanna Wallin 1 Structures of the imagination
Sunset				Youth Film Competition 12+								Children’s Film Competition 10+ Sold out										CineZine2: Hollis Frampton Sold out								Travelling Companions – Omnibus Films in Film History 4 Sold out								NRW in Person: Katharina Huber												Distributors’ Collection: EYE Filmmuseum Sold out								Distributors’ Collection: Filmform
Studio																														Spoon Jackson – No Moon: A Visual Album
Walzenlager																																										From the Festival’s Film Distribution								ESFAA Shorts 1								ESFAA Shorts 2
Festival Space Podium										Podium 3: “Ideology machines”																		Discussion IC 5																Discussion IC 6
Verein für aktuelle Kunst																																																														Shiny Toys 3 - Laurent Bigot & Pascal Battus

Sat, 3 May 2025
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Schlosserei																																																														Festival Bar - DJ Hell
Lichtburg														International Competition 7								German Competition 1 Sold out								Theme 7: Art as a Place of Refuge								German Competition 2 Sold out												International Competition 8								MuVi Award Sold out
Gloria												Dóra Maurer 2									What’s Left? 1										Kinemathek im Ruhrgebiet										Dietrich Schubert 4 Found freedom & private obsessions										Theme 8: Change of Platforms
Star																															Children’s Film Competition 10+ Sold out
Sunset																																						Short Takeover Sold out												Youth Film Competition 16+ Sold out
Studio																														Spoon Jackson – No Moon: A Visual Album
Walzenlager																																										Repetition NRW Competition 1								Repetition NRW Competition 2
Festival Space Podium										Podium 4: Aesthetics of Resistance										Discussion IC 7								Discussion GC 1																Discussion GC 2												Discussion IC 8
Verein für aktuelle Kunst																																																																Shiny Toys 4 - Nan Wang & Robert Kroos

Sun, 4 May 2025
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Schlosserei																																																										Festival Bar - Ænnigma
Lichtburg														German Competition 3								International Competition 9								German Competition 4																Award Ceremony
Gloria												Susanna Wallin 2 Subject matter and zones of contact									What’s Left? 2										Theme 9: Reality as a Canvas								The Team Favourites 2025
Star																					Children’s Film Competition 6+ Sold out										MuVi 14+ Sold out								The One Minutes + Q&A
Sunset												Children’s Film Competition 3+										100 Years of FIPRESCI									Travelling Companions – Omnibus Films in Film History 5
Studio																										Spoon Jackson – No Moon: A Visual Album
Walzenlager																										The One Minutes Jr. + Q&A								Filmgeflacker
Festival Space Podium										Podium 5: Critical Proximity, Productive Distance										Discussion GC 3								Discussion IC 9								Discussion GC 4

Mon, 5 May 2025
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Gloria																																																		Award Winners 2025