Short Film Showcase: Essential Point - They Aren't Full-Length Features
🎉 Get ready to be cine-thrilled, kiddos! 🎉 Mo & Friese Short Film Festival is here to rock your movie world! This badass event is a golden ticket for young cinephiles searching for something more than just popcorn and screen time. 🍿🎥
Ever fancied yourself as a film critic? Become a Mo & Friese Reporter! Just pick three dope shorts, knock up a sweet email at [email protected], and voilà! You'll get exclusive access to films before anyone else, hang with the filmmakers, and drop some wisdom on your pals. Plus, you'll be part of a trio of kids' and youth juries, each awarding a prize for the best film in their age group. The youngest jurors, aged seven to nine, even get to choose a short film for their preschool pals!🎖️
🤯 Unique flicks for both big and small minds 🤯
Based on age, the program gets carved up like a Thanksgiving turkey🦃! From films for the littlest ones aged four to those for teenagers 16 and over, there's a super-precise, age-appropriate selection available. And guess what? They all have one thing in common: they're here to move you deep down in the feels! For the tiniest tots, the beautifully animated seven-minute delight, "The Carp and the Child," is perfectSchm perfect for showing the beauty of feeding fish instead of fishing. Older kids, check out the inspiring 14-minute Colombian feature film, "Akababuru," where Kari learns about the power of laughter and finds her inner strength (aged nine and up). For the older grommets, aged 12 and up, dive into the painful-yet-punk-rock inspiring German documentary, "I Am Wiete," where disability, identity and punk rock intertwine.
🌙 Mo&Friese Late Night! 🌙
Film fanatics aged 16 and over can kick back and enjoy the best international competition highlights at the "Mo & Friese Late Night" on June 5th, starting at 21:30! Grab your tickets online or at participating cinemas – 3001, Abaton, Lola, Zeise, Metropolis, Bürgerhaus Wilhelmsburg, and Post Kaltenkirchener Straße 1-3). The films are moderated so they're easy to follow, and foreign-language shorts for the under-14 crowd are dubbed in German.
🔑 This might tickle your fancy: Exhibition: Oh, how beautiful is... Harburg! 🔑
Of course, there's plenty of fun to be had for grown-ups too, with a parallel program running alongside the festival for the kiddos.
🎥 Hamburg Short Film Festival: 3.-8.6., various times, entry fee: 3.50 € per person, 🌐 program: festival.shortfilm.com, moundfriese.shortfilm.com
This graffiti-style tip comes straight from Plan7, the culture and events supplement in the super-affordable trial subscription of the weekly broadsheet, MOPO (available every Friday at your local newsstand). Essentially, it's a 28-page, culture-packed treasure chest filled with daily cultural tips, foodie finds, and Hamburg explorer's guides, plus interviews, giveaways for events, and more!🤩🎟️
- Prepare to become a film critic and join the Mo & Friese Short Film Festival as a reporter, where you can have exclusive access to films, meet filmmakers, and share your insights with friends.
- The festival offers an age-appropriate selection of unique films for kids and young adults, ranging from the beautifully animated "The Carp and the Child" for tots to the Greek documentary "I Am Wiete" for the older grommets.
- Film fanatics aged 16 and over can attend the "Mo & Friese Late Night" on June 5th, featuring the best international competition highlights, moderated films, and dubbed foreign-language shorts for the under-14 crowd.
- For adults, there's a parallel program running alongside the festival, including the Exhibition: Oh, how beautiful is... Harburg! as a 28-page culture-packed treasure chest filled with daily cultural tips, foodie finds, and Hamburg explorer's guides.
