Festival Data:

• Established: 1989
• Genre: General
• Attendance: 20000
• Media Attendance: 70
• Accredited Industry Attendance: 500
• Total Number of Films Submitted: 1700
• Total Number of Films Screened: 96
• Total Screenings: 60
• # of Shorts Screened: 96
• Accreditations: ASIFA

• Competitive
• Online Festival
• Has Panels

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Festival Description:

Filmfest Dresden promotes a film category which is mostly disregarded by cinemas and television. Since its beginning in 1989, Filmfest Dresden has developed into one of the major short film festivals in Germany - and with a total amount of €60,000 into the best funded short film festival across Europe. The festival's programme reflects the diverse aspects of this genre and includes short animated and fiction films as well as documentary and experimental films.

The main sections of the festival are the International and the National Competitions. These are accompanied by various other thematic events. Visitors, the press and film producers also use the festival as a meeting place and to exchange opinions and discuss new ideas. Respective juries award the best films in each festival competition section.

International Competition Awards:

Golden Horseman Animated Film 7.500 Euro

Golden Horseman Short Fiction Film 7.500 Euro

ARTE Short Film Award, towards purchase of a film 6.000 Euro

Golden Horseman - Youth Jury 2.000 Euro

Golden Horseman - Audience 3.000 Euro

Sponsor: Sächsische Zeitung

National Competition Awards:

Golden Horseman Animated Film

3.000 Euro

Sponsor: German Institute for Animated Film

Golden Horseman Short Fiction Film

3.000 Euro

Sponsor: Saxony Film Association/ Mitteldeutscher Film- und Fernsehproduzentenverband

Golden Horseman – Audience

2.000 Euro

Sponsor: MDR Public Broadcaster

Minister of Fine Arts Promotion Award

20.000 Euro

Sponsor: Saxon Ministry of Science and the Fine Arts

Golden Horseman Best Sound(scape) Award

3.000 Euro

Sponsor: Hellerau European Centre of the Arts

(All films participating in the International and National Competitions are eligible for the award)

Exchange Forum „Perspectives for Animated Film“:

Promotion Award

4.000 Euro

Sponsor: DEFA-Stiftung

Short Film Award of the German Film Critics 2009:

The German Film Critics Association (VdFk) awardis the Prize for the best short film on the previous calendar year at Filmfest Dresden. The award is non-monetary.

Film Submissions:

• Call for Entry: http:/ / www.filmfest-dresden.de/ english/ festival/ film+submission/ film+submission.html