ISFF – International Short Film Festival Detmold

New festival format for 2020

An Opportunity

Due to the unclear situation of this year’s event, we decided to see this challenge as an opportunity for something bigger. Tackling the uncertainty, we will bring this year’s edition as an additional online event, a so-called hybrid festival, to you wherever you are!

Of course, we still stand strong by our commitment to a barrier-free festival and are planning to make the event not only in this regard more interactive than ever utilising digital solutions like never before!

Join us on our journey and see you in October from wherever you want!

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ISFF goes online

Bringing this year’s online edition to your doorstep means more to us then just uploading movies for you to watch. For us, it means to provide you with as close an experience to a live event as possible. We want to continue established parts, like Q&A sessions with the filmmakers, but also include new concepts. Therefore we have plenty of things to think about, sketch, and work out.

Consequently, we would like to share our journey with you and we hope you will enjoy following our attempts to deal with this great challenge so this will be our common success.
See you on the Internet!

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Short films for absolutely everyone. From the very best.

Arthouse close to Rathaus

The ISFF Detmold celebrates high-quality films by up-and-coming innovative filmmakers from all around the globe. Every year, we receive more than 3,000 short film submissions from about 80 countries. The festival focuses on non-commercial short films: Documentary, animated, experimental and feature films.
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Access for everyone

Everyone has the right to participate in cultural life. That is our big why, our mission.
According to this principle, the 16th International Short Film Festival Detmold offers „short films for everyone“. As both the site and selected film-blocks are barrier-free, everyone is able to take part in the art. Feel free to join us!

Barrier-Free

A wide horizon starts at ISFF

Everyone is invited to do networking and exchange ideas with associations and institutions alike, active in the field of inclusion.
In addition to the short films, we’re offering a fine selection of art and music.
This year, the magic happens in Stadthalle Detmold. We’re looking forward to meet you there!

Long live the short film

The short film is a genre of its own.

To up-and-coming filmmakers it opens up the opportunity to generate media reach and visibility and make a name for themselves in the film industry. Well-known directors such as Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese created short films when they first started. By producing short films, even the renowned directors stand the chance to make experiments without being under the pressure of commerical filmmaking.

Filmmakers in the entire world love short films as a means of realizing their ideas and present themselves to a huge audience in the field of film. Among them, there are screenwriter-actors who both come up with the idea and script and do the acting in their own film. There are famous examples such as Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. There are some filmmakers who call themselves screenwriter-actor-directors, which means that they’re also the directors in their own films.

For the short film, which is defined solely by its length, there are no concrete regulations regarding the maximum term.
The limit is often set at thirty minutes. The German Film Subsidies Act provides for this. However, we want it even shorter.

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