Medium length film
A medium-length movie or Medium film is a film whose playing time between that of a short film and a long film is located.
Use of language
The term medium length film in the sense of a separate fictional film genre is hardly widespread in the German-speaking area . The category is also not used in the Anglo-Saxon area, especially in the Hollywood system . The term is mainly used in countries with Romance languages , such as French moyen métrage , Italian mediometraggio and Spanish mediometraje . The French film funding authority CNC defines films with a duration between 30 and 60 minutes as moyen métrage . The Brazilian film funding legislation already categorizes films with a duration of more than 15 and up to 60 minutes as média metragem . German-speaking festivals assume running times of between 20 and 69 minutes for medium-length films.
Film festivals
A well-known film festival for medium- length films is the Hors Pistes experimental film festival in Paris , which is organized by the Center Georges Pompidou in cooperation with the French short film agency Agence du court métrage . The Moyen métrage category was set up there for the first time in 2005 . The Festival du Cinéma de Brive - Rencontres du moyen métrage has also been held in France since 2004 . The La Cabina film festival in Valencia has existed in Spain since 2008 and only shows medium- length films between 30 and 60 minutes. Another festival that (besides short films) also specializes in medium- length films is the Festivalul Internaţional de Scurt şi Mediu Metraj NexT in Bucharest .
Since 2007 there has been a separate competition for medium-length films at the FILMZ Festival of German Cinema in Mainz . In 2008, the Max Ophüls Preis film festival introduced medium-length films as a separate competition category. The default runtime here is between 20 and 69 minutes and 25 and 60 minutes, respectively. The Turin Film Festival also had its own competition for medium- length films in 1986 and 1988.
Forum for medium-length films
In order to give the medium-length format its own platform, the forum for medium-length films was launched in March 2018 . Based in Saarbrücken , he is primarily involved in the implementation of medium-length film formats at TV broadcasters and VoD platforms and their reputation at international film festivals. The chair is the curator Marisa Winter , co-founder of the “medium-length film” section of the Max Ophüls Prize film festival .
Well-known medium-length films
- The Golden Age , directed by Luis Buñuel (France 1930)
- Kiss , directed by Andy Warhol (USA 1963)
- The War Game , directed by Peter Watkins (Great Britain 1965)
- La cabina , directed by Antonio Mercero (Spain 1972)
- Dekalog (film series) , directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski (Poland 1988/1989)
- The Skladanowsky brothers , directed by Wim Wenders (Germany 1995)
literature
- Julius von Harpen ( University of Kiel ): medium length film. In: Hans Jürgen Wulff (Ed.): Lexicon of Filmbegriffe (online project), as of February 18, 2013.
Web links
- Mittellang.com Forum for medium-length films eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Rule 19 (PDF; 37 KB) of the 92nd Oscars Rules of AMPAS , like AFI Fest 2019 Film Submissions of AFI , both accessed in May 2019.
- ↑ a b Festival du cinéma de Brive, rencontres européennes du moyen métrage. CNC homepage, accessed in August 2018.
- ↑ Decree No. 2.228-1 of September 6, 2001 of the Brazilian Presidential Office ( Presidência da República - PR), last amended in 2012, accessed in May 2019.
- ↑ Hors Pistes 2009. Homepage of the Center Pompidou , accessed in August 2018.
- ↑ Quand le cinéma s'aventure Hors Pistes. In: poptronics , March 23, 2008, accessed August 2018.
- ↑ Homepage of the festival , accessed in August 2018.
- ↑ News, press releases, submissions , filmz-mainz.de, accessed on January 27, 2019.
- ^ Filmfestival Max Ophüls Prize , german-films.de, accessed on January 27, 2019.
- ^ Forum for medium length films eV in Saarbrücken. Retrieved January 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Kirsten Becken: Medium-length film - Interview with Marisa Winter - BLOG Poison Berlin. Retrieved January 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Jury Presentation and Awards. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
- ↑ About us - medium length. Retrieved January 11, 2019 .