72nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 28 April – 3 May 2026 Submit now to the competitions of the 72nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Submission fees:
Free submissions
Location:
Oberhausen, Germany
Deadline:
Repeats every day 1 times. Also includes Sun Jan 18 2026.
Applications are now open for the Oberhausen Seminar 2025, an experimental course exploring contemporary artists’ moving image practice in the context of a renowned international film festival. The 2025 Seminar will be led by researcher, writer and curator Galit Eilat.
The 69th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is presenting five shows of works by filmmakers and artists from different generations and countries who work with the short form in very different ways. They come from the arts, experimental or documentary film, their themes are personal, political or historical, they use performances, collages, text or feature film elements, demonstrating the enormous range and versatility of the short form.
69th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 26 April – 1 May 2023 Against Gravity. The Art of Machinima The first extensive overview of experimental machinima at a major film festival
Dates:
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 (All day) to Monday, May 1, 2023 (All day)
The 68th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is opening its first hybrid edition on Saturday, 30 April 2022. In the first part, the Festival is showing the International and German Online Competitions exclusively on the Internet, followed by the official opening ceremony in the Oberhausen cinemas on 4 May. This marks the Festival’s return to the cinema after two online editions due to COVID. For the first time since 2019, Daniel Schranz, Lord Mayor of the City of Oberhausen, will officially welcome the guests in Oberhausen on behalf of the city.
Dates:
Saturday, April 30, 2022 (All day) to Monday, May 9, 2022 (All day)
Submissions for the 2022 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen are now open! The 68th edition will take place from 30 April to 9 May 2022 and is now inviting submissions for its 2022 competitions, both on-site and online. International and German short film productions can now be submitted for the International Competition, the International Online Competition, the German Competition, the German Online Competition, the Children's and Youth Film Competition and the NRW Competition.
The online edition of the 66th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen from 13 to 18 May 2020 has proved far more successful than expected. In total, Internet users in nearly 100 countries watched the festival films on the net. Well over 2,500 festival passes were sold in around 60 countries, over 1,000 trade visitors from almost 70 countries attended the online festival.
The Oberhausen International Short Film Festival is dedicating this year’s Theme programme to “Solidarity as Disruption”: an investigation into how solidarity, a concept that has come into focus with the recent migrations, can be re/defined as a political project and how its methods can be re/activated through the cinema.
