Independent Days

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The Independent Days | Internationales Filmfest (short form: IDIF ) is a film festival for independent films as well as for low- and no-budget films . It has taken place in Karlsruhe every spring since 1999 .

history

The Independent Days emerged from the film workshop of the working group for culture and communication at the University of Karlsruhe and was initiated in 1998 as a film festival . The first Independent Days took place in 1999 in the ballroom of the student house on the campus of the University of Karlsruhe , initially as a student event. In 2003, the Independent Days left the university campus and found a new venue in the Tempel Kulturzentrum, supplemented in 2004 by a 35mm program in the film theater “Die Kurb”.

In 2006 the association of the same name was founded by Michael Nagenborg, Oliver Langewitz and Thomas Wendt. The Independent Days e. V. and the Filmboard Karlsruhe e. V. have been organizing a multi-day program every year since then, which is made up of low and no budget films by professional filmmakers and film students as well as free, non-competitive film blocks. In 2009 the eleventh Independent Days took part in the Karlsruhe Festival with open air performances of four short film programs .

The Karlsruhe Artistic Cinema Schauburg has been the venue for the nominated films since 2007 . Oliver Langewitz has been the festival director since 2008.

The Independent Days are a full member of the AG Kurzfilm . They are included in the German Films short film festival list. In 2017 they received an EFFE label from the European Festivals Association , making them one of the most outstanding European festivals.

Competitions and Prizes

Only films that cost less than 2,500 euros per minute are admitted to the competition for low-budget productions, and for no-budget productions less than 100 euros per minute of running time. Both short and long films can be submitted.

Numerous film prizes are awarded at the annual film festival . In 2018, prizes worth a total of 10,000 euros were awarded in eleven categories. Expert juries made up of film and media professionals decide on the prizes in ten categories, as well as the “Golden ID” audience award from the city of Karlsruhe, endowed with 1,500 euros. The “Film Prize of the Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Karlsruhe ” is endowed with 2,500 euros, the “Georg Fricker Film Prize” for the best Eastern European short film production with 1,500 euros and the “Best Short Shortfilm” by the Badische Neuesten Nachrichten with 500 euros. Further prizes are the “Newbie Award” for the best first work, the “Indie Award” for the best independently produced full-length feature film, the “Roncalli Forum Film Prize” for interreligious dialogue and the “Female Award” for the best female directorial work. The price structure has been reformed several times since the first film festival.

Filmmakers like Dave Lojek , Nico Sommer , Felix Stienz and Sobo Swobodnik have been among the winners of the previous festival editions .

DVD publications

Some of the festival entries appeared as DVD compilations on the Karlsruhe label Bohemia Filmkunst, which was co-founded by Oliver Langewitz . The first two DVDs were released in 2004 ( We can do everything. Except Hollywood and Seven Short ones, please! ), And the third in 2007 ( length is not everything! ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Call of the Independent Film Festival - Karlsruhe , blog of the Berlin Film Working Group , November 24, 2006
  2. ↑ Interview | Independent Days - Film Festival 2012 , Interview by Sofie Neu with Oliver Langewitz, Kavantgarde Magazine - Art & Culture from Karlsruhe at a glance!
  3. ^ A b c Matthias Kehle, Kirsten Bohlig: City Talks from Karlsruhe , Gmeiner, Meßkirch 2015, ISBN 978-3-8392-1713-9 , p. 139; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ "Independent Days" Open Air: short films at the "Fest" , ka-news , June 24, 2009
  5. ↑ Film Board Karlsruhe e. V. / Independent Days | Internationales Filmfest , AG Kurzfilm
  6. ↑ Short Film Festival List German Films , German Films , PDF, p. 22, accessed on October 2, 2018
  7. ↑ Independent Days receive EFFE label , Independent Days, accessed on October 2, 2018
  8. ↑ Independent Days | International Filmfest , Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe (EFFE) , accessed October 2, 2018
  9. ↑ General Terms and Conditions for Film Submissions , Independent Days, accessed on October 2, 2018
  10. ↑ a b Film Awards , Independent Days, accessed on October 2, 2018
  11. ↑ Andreas Jüttner: Karlsruhe "Independent Days": Cinematic strategies against sadness , Badische Latest Nachrichten , April 16, 2018
  12. ^ Film Prize of the Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Karlsruhe , Kulturpreise.de , accessed on October 3, 2018
  13. ↑ Our products ( Memento of February 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), publications of the Bohemia Filmkunst label .
  14. ↑ Stefan Mader: Length is not everything! - Independent Days Vol. 03 (Germany 2007) , film magazine Manifest