Film festivals in Austria
The film festivals in Austria show a diverse and differentiated picture in terms of program orientation and international importance. Since the 1990s in particular, numerous new film festivals have been founded in Austria , so that their number has risen to over thirty individual events.
The international Viennale in Vienna is the largest of these . The others mostly have a specialization that relates to the film genre , the production countries or a certain topic.
When it comes to financing Austrian film festivals, public subsidies are important, as they supplement the sources of income through sponsorship from the private sector and own income.
Programming and history
overview
The oldest and largest film festival in Austria is the Viennale in Vienna, founded in 1960 . This only international film festival in Austria accredited by the FIAPF film producers' association was attended by 91,000 people in 2007.
The most important festival for domestic productions is the Diagonale , which has been held annually in Graz since 1998 (previously in Salzburg ). The Austrian Film Days in Wels were a predecessor of the Diagonale .
Another major film festival in Austria is Crossing Europe in Linz , specializing in European filmmaking.
EU XXL - forum and festival for european film in Krems and Vienna also specializes in European films (and is also highly endowed) .
The LET'S CEE Film Festival presents productions from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) including the Caucasus region and Turkey. However, the organizers of LET'S CEE canceled the seventh edition of their festival planned for May 2019 due to the discriminatory funding by the City of Vienna and the Federal Chancellery.
The International Film Festival Innsbruck focuses on films from Africa , Asia , Latin America and Eastern Europe . The SüdFILMfest in Amstetten has a comparable focus . The Jewish Film Festival Vienna ( known as the Jewish Film Week until 2007 ) shows current films from Israel as well as productions from other countries that deal with the subject of Judaism , including historical programs. French-language films are shown at the Festival du film francophone in Vienna.
The Heimatfilmfestival in Freistadt focuses on a specific film genre . There are three festivals for mountain films in Austria: the Graz Mountain and Adventure Film Festival, the St. Anton am Arlberg Film Festival and the Salzburg Mountain Film Festival . The Bicycle Film Festival in Vienna is dedicated to films on the subject of bicycles.
Tricky Women in Vienna, on the other hand, is the world's first festival for animated films by women. In addition to an international competition, the program includes retrospectives, workshops and the Connecting Animation forum .
In 1982 HOSI Vienna organized the first small gay / lesbian film festival with the Schikaneder cinema in Margaretenstraße. From 1987 to 1990, as well as 1993 and 1994, she organized the two- to four-week gay film festival, first with the movie in Schönbrunner Strasse and again from 1990 with the Schikaneder , which was one of the largest of its kind in the world.
The slumbering of the lesbian and gay film festival and the discovery of New Queer Cinema led to the establishment of the DV8-Film association , which in 1994 trans-X. Organized a cinematic identity tour in the film casino . The festival has been called identities since 1996 and until 2001 (omitting the year 2000) took place three times as a Viennale Special , independent in terms of content and organization, but within the budget there. From 2003 the film festival was independent and was funded by the City of Vienna and the federal government. The only queer Austrian film festival at the time developed into the second largest international film event in Vienna and played two to four (2007) cinemas. It was discontinued in 2017.
In the area of short film is VIS Vienna shorts (with international program orientation), the largest and most important festival. The oldest short film festival in Austria is the Alpinale in Nenzing (with primarily a European program). Other short film festivals are the small Hans Bach short film festival in Andelsbuch , the "Long Night of Short Films" in the Kammgarn culture workshop in Hard , the national K3 Film Festival in Villach and Young, short and ambitious in Vienna. There is also the Trigital Film Festival in Graz - for short films that deal with different forms of reality - and the Debútnale in Linz, at which first films are shown.
The fullframe festival in Vienna shows films and video works that are otherwise more likely to be seen in a museum context or in galleries.
At the children and youth festivals, there are those that show films by children and young people and those that specialize in films for children and young people. The first group includes the wienervideo & filmtage, the Klappe in Salzburg, YOUKI in Wels and the International Youth Film Festival Tyrol . The international youth film festival in Tyrol shows films by children, but also by film students. The second group is represented by the International Children's Film Festival Vienna and GAFFA - International Film Festival for Young People, also in Vienna.
The International Festival of Nations in Ebensee is the second oldest film festival in Austria and the most important in the field of non-commercial film ( amateur film ). The Golden Dolphin Festival in Engerwitzdorf has a similar focus . The Snowboard & Ski Amateur Film Festival Film Up in Innsbruck already bears its specialization in its name. For no- and low-budget films, there is no coal in Vienna. Finally, the Vienna Underdog Film Festival shows every film that is submitted.
At student film festivals there is the Festival of the Film Academy Vienna and film: riss in Salzburg. While films from the Vienna Film Academy and other international film academies will be shown at the first-mentioned festival , film: riss is nationally and generally geared towards student filmmaking.
In its sideline Local Artists , Crossing Europe is dedicated to local filmmakers. The Upper Austria in Film Festival, one of the smallest film festivals in Austria, does just that.
List of festivals with year of foundation, place and date
| since | Name of the film festival | place | meeting |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival | Vienna | October |
| 1973 | Festival of Nations | Ebensee | June |
| 1977 | Austrian Film Days (until 1996) | Velden, Kapfenberg, Wels | |
| 1985 | Alpine short film festival | Nenzing | August |
| 1986 | Mountain and Adventure Film Festival Graz | Graz | November |
| 1987 | Upper Austria in the film | Linz | November |
| 1988 | Heimatfilmfestival | Free City | August |
| 1989 | International Children's Film Festival Vienna | Vienna | November |
| 1991 | Jewish Film Festival Vienna (until 2007 "Jewish Film Week") | Vienna | November |
| 1991 | Vienna video & film days | Vienna | October |
| 1992 | International Film Festival Innsbruck | innsbruck | June |
| 1993 | Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film | Graz | March |
| 1994 | identities | Vienna | June (biennial) |
| 1995 | Film Festival St. Anton | St. Anton am Arlberg | Aug / Sept |
| 1997 | Film festival of the Vienna Film Academy | Vienna | May (biennial) |
| 1997 | SüdFILMfest | Amstetten | July |
| 1999 | Hans Bach short film festival | Andelsbuch | August |
| 1999 | Festival du film francophone | Vienna | March |
| 1999 | flap | Salzburg | November |
| 1999 | YOUKI - International Youth Media Festival | catfish | November |
| 2001 | GAFFA - International film festival for young people | Vienna | September (biennial) |
| 2001 | film: crack | Salzburg | November |
| 2001 | Tricky Women International Animation Film Festival | Vienna | March |
| 2002 | Film up - Snowboard & Ski Amateur Film Festival | innsbruck | June |
| 2002 | International Youth Film Festival Tyrol | Kundl | June |
| 2003 | Debútnale - Festival of the first videos | Linz | November |
| 2003 | Long night of the short film | Hard | Apr./Nov. (every 1½ years) |
| 2003 | EU XXL - forum and festival of european film | Vienna, Krems | November (biennial) |
| 2004 | Crossing Europe | Linz | April |
| 2004 | WomenFilmDays | Vienna | March |
| 2004 | Trigitale - Trigital Film Festival | Graz | November |
| 2004 | Without coal | Vienna | July |
| 2004 | VIS Vienna shorts | Vienna | May June |
| 2004 | Golden dolphin | Engerwitzdorf | Oct / Nov |
| 2005 | Rating: valuable - Kufstein short film festival | Kufstein | April |
| 2005 | Los Gurkos Short Film Festival | innsbruck | November |
| 2005 | Instant36 The impromptu film festival | Salzburg | October |
| 2006 | Underdog film festival | Vienna | March |
| 2006 | fullframe festival | Vienna | March |
| 2007 | Young short and ambitious | Vienna | December |
| 2007 | Bicycle Film Festival | Vienna | October |
| 2007 | Central American Film Festival | Vienna | March |
| 2007 | K3 Film Festival | Villach | December |
| 2007 | ETHNOCINECA - Ethnographic and Documentary Filmfest Vienna | Vienna | May |
| 2007 | European science film festival | Vienna | November |
| 2008 | this human world - International Human Rights Film Festival | Vienna | Nov / Dec |
| 2009 | Shortynale short film festival | Klosterneuburg | August |
| 2010 | / slash film festival | Vienna | September |
| 2010 | Austrian Film Festival | Vienna | Feb. / Sept. / Oct. |
| 2011 | Rec 'N' Play - THE Tyrolean short film festival | innsbruck | May |
| 2011 | Tyrolean Independent Film Festival | Innsbruck , Tyrol | October |
| 2011 | Transition International Queer & Minorities Film Festival | Vienna | November |
| 2012 | INSTANT36 impromptu film festival | Salzburg | May |
| 2012 | LET'S CEE Film Festival | Vienna | April May |
| 2017 | DIAMETRALE - Film festival for the experimental and the comic | innsbruck | March April |
| 2019 | Vienna Science Film Festival | Vienna | November |
Organizational structures and financing
Big film festivals
The major film festivals in Austria are financed by public subsidies , sponsors and own income, for example from ticket sales.
At the Viennale (Vienna), the Diagonale (Graz) and Crossing Europe (Linz), public funding runs through three levels of the state's political administration. The festivals mentioned receive financial support from the federal government ( Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture ), the state (Province of Styria and Upper Austria ) and the municipalities (City of Vienna, Graz and Linz). Crossing Europe also receives high funding from the Media Plus Program of the European Union .
The main sponsor of all three film festivals is an Austrian mobile network operator. Other supporters include semi-public institutions such as collecting societies .
The Viennale has a differentiated, hierarchical organizational structure with a president ( Eric Pleskow ), a director ( Eva Sangiorgi ) and a manager (Eva Rotter). Behind the Diagonale stands the Forum Austrian Film Association (director: Barbara Pichler) and behind Crossing Europe the Crossing Europe Film Festival according to GmbH (Festival Director: Christine Dollhofer ).
The large film festivals in Austria show a high level of indirect profitability, for example through positive impulses for tourism .
Medium and small film festivals
The most common form of organization of medium-sized and small film festivals is the association . Among other things, this legal form offers advantages when it comes to receiving public funding.
As the organizer, the association can devote itself exclusively to handling the film festival, which is the case, for example, with the EU XXL cultural association promoting European integration for the EU XXL forum and festival for european film.
There are also clubs that are active in other areas besides the festival. Examples of this are the European Video Archive associations at the Festival of Nations, Independent Cinema at VIS Vienna Shorts or the Otto Preminger Institute at the Innsbruck International Film Festival.
The wienXtra association holds a special position as the organizer of the wienervideo & filmtage and GAFFA. wienXtra has been commissioned by the City of Vienna to organize and coordinate several areas of public child and youth work.
Some film festivals are also organized by companies. The company Trinity-Intermedia Ltd. headquartered in London as the organizer of the Trigital Film Festival.
There are also mixed forms and festivals that are organized by several organizers. The film production company Viewfinders and Without Coal - the association for the promotion of independent film and video culture - are behind the festival without coal . The Klappe film festival has four different organizers.
Finally, there are also festivals that are organized by individuals, for example the International Youth Film Festival in Tyrol (organized by Emanuel Altenburger) or the Underdog Filmfest and the Young short and ambitious in Vienna (organized by Markus Giefing).
Many medium-sized and small film festivals receive public funding from the federal states and municipalities as well as from semi-public institutions, which are, however, much less than at the large festivals. For example, film: riss is funded by the state of Salzburg and the city of Salzburg as well as the collecting society for filmmakers, the professional association of the audiovisual and film industry and the Austrian Film Institute .
Most of these film festivals do not receive funding from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture. Exceptions are the Alpinale, the Festival of the Vienna Film Academy, EU XXL, Film: riss, the Jewish Film Festival Vienna, the Innsbruck International Film Festival, the SüdFILMfest, Tricky Women and VIS Vienna Shorts.
Sponsoring by the private sector is rarely equated with financial support. Mostly it is about material sponsorship. In 2005, electronics companies made cameras available to the Without Coal Festival, which were awarded to the festival winners.
The lack of public funding and sponsors is not only reflected in lower budgets; the medium and small film festivals also have a different proportion of voluntary work.
Networks
Some festivals in Austria are represented in international organizations and film festival associations. 22 festivals have been organized in the Forum of Austrian Film Festivals since 2012.
The Viennale is accredited by FIAPF . The International Children's Film Festival Vienna, Tricky Women, the Alpinale and Crossing Europe are members of the European Coordination of Film Festivals (ECFF) , Crossing Europe is also a member of CentEast - The Alliance of Central and Eastern European Film Festivals . The Festival of Nations is part of the EuroShortsFestivalNet (ESFN), VIS Vienna Shorts (formerly Vienna Independent Shorts) is a member of the international Short Film Conference.
The Viennese short film festival VIS Vienna Shorts, which showed a best-of festival program at the Salzburger Klappe and the Vorarlberg Hans Bach Short Film Festival , worked together with film: riss in Salzburg to organize the event, is an example of offensive, albeit event-related, networking names other festivals (including the Viennale and Crossing Europe) as partner festivals.
The same applies to cooperation between film festivals in and outside Austria, for example in the form of film exchange programs.
Film awards
Numerous film prizes are awarded at the film festivals in Austria . A specialty are awards that are presented at several film festivals around the world. This includes a FIPRESCI award from the international film critics association FIPRESCI at the Viennale.
| Grand Prize | festival | Doping |
|---|---|---|
| Big diagonal price | diagonal | EUR 15,000 |
| Crossing Europe Award - European Competition | Crossing Europe | EUR 10,000 |
| Vienna Film Prize | Viennale | EUR 7,000 |
| Danny Lerner Award (for the best feature film) plus EUR 5,000 in services | LET'S CEE Film Festival | EUR 5,000 |
| Best Movie International - Red Bull Film Up Scholarship | Film up | EUR 5,000 |
| Prize of the State of Tyrol | International Film Festival Innsbruck | EUR 5,000 |
| Award for the best co-production | EU XXL | EUR 5,000 |
| Vienna Short Film Award - Best Austrian Film | VIS Vienna shorts | EUR 5,000 |
| K3 feature film award | K3 Film Festival | EUR 5,000 |
| Grand Prix Graz | International mountain + adventure film festival | EUR 4,500 |
| Tricky Women Prize of the City of Vienna | Tricky women | EUR 4,000 |
| Vienna Short Film Award - Best International Short Feature or Documentary Film | VIS Vienna shorts | EUR 4,000 |
| Urania Award (for the best documentary and short film) | LET'S CEE Film Festival | EUR 2,500 each |
| Film award of the city of Freistadt | Heimatfilmfestival | EUR 2,222 |
| ASIFA Austria Award - Best International Animated or Experimental Film | VIS Vienna shorts | EUR 2,000 |
| Vienna Short Film Award - Young Talent Award | VIS Vienna shorts | EUR 2,000 |
| YOUKI | YOUKI - International Youth Media Festival | EUR 1,500 |
| International jury award | identities | EUR 1,000 |
| Austrian Music Video Award | VIS Vienna shorts | EUR 1,000 |
| Vienna Short Film Award - Best Director | VIS Vienna shorts | EUR 1,000 |
| Big mouth | flap | EUR 800 |
| Golden dolphin | Golden dolphin | EUR 300 |
| Best film | International Youth Film Festival Tyrol | Material prize |
| film: riss Award | film: crack | Material prize |
| Jury Prize | Vienna video & film days | Material prize |
| Golden coal | Without coal | Material prize |
| Golden Bobby | Festival of the Vienna Film Academy | Material prize |
| Cup | Upper Austria in the film | Material prize |
| Best film of the festival | GAFFA - International film festival for young people | undoped |
| Ebenseer bear in gold | Festival of Nations | undoped |
See also
- Cinema and film in Austria - review article
- Film festivals in Belgium and Luxembourg
- Film festivals in Germany
- Film festivals in Oceania
- Film festivals in Switzerland
- Film festivals in the UK
literature
- Christina Giovanazzi: Art sponsoring of film festivals using the example of the Vienna International Film Festival Viennale. Diploma thesis, Vienna 2000.
- Philipp Ikrath: Consumer-oriented marketing policy of Austrian independent film festivals. Diploma thesis, Vienna 2005.
- Michael Meisterhofer: cultural management in the context of film festivals and film education . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2015 ( othes.univie.ac.at [PDF; 3.1 MB ]).
Web links
- Crossing Europe official website
- Diagonal official website
- FrauenFilmTage official website
- Viennale official website
- Vienna Shorts official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ From the HOSI archive - 20 years ago . First gay film festival. In: Homosexuelle Initiative Wien (Ed.): Lambda Nachrichten . tape 29 , no. 6 (November / December). Vienna 2007, p. 21 ( lambdanachrichten.at [PDF; accessed on December 21, 2014]).
- ↑ fan: “identities 2007” shows 115 films. In: Wiener Zeitung. June 7, 2007, accessed December 21, 2014 .
- ↑ The festival. In: identities.at. 2013, accessed December 21, 2014 .
- ↑ ohnekohle.net website
- ↑ centroamerica.at
- ↑ K3 Film Festival official website. Retrieved April 16, 2020 .
- ↑ ethnocineca.at
- ↑ this human world homepage. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Shortynale website
- ^ Tyrolean Independent Official Website
- ↑ LET'S CEE Film Festival Official Website
- ↑ DIAMETRALE - Official website
- ^ Vienna Science Film Festival
- ^ Philipp Ikrath: End-user-oriented marketing policy of Austrian independent film festivals. Diploma thesis, Vienna 2005, p. 63.
- ^ Art report 2008: Report on the art funding of the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture. Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture, Arts Section, Vienna 2006, pp. 63 and 88.
- ^ Forum of Austrian Film Festivals. Retrieved November 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Current members | Short Film Conference. Retrieved November 7, 2017 (American English).
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