OpenEyes Filmfest Marburg
The OpenEyes Filmfest Marburg is a 5-day open-air short film festival that takes place every July in Marburg . The supporting association is the socio-cultural center Café Trauma. The festival shows the latest national and international short films in audience competition and also offers special platforms for independent, local or marginal short films that rarely find their way into cinemas and television programs.
Visitors choose their favorites from the festival films using voting cards. The audience award is awarded in four categories:
- motion pictures
- documentary
- Experimental film / music video
- Animation film.
Over five days, around 90–110 short films will be shown in the competition at three venues, selected from around 1,000 entries per year (as of 2018). The so-called 'garage cinema' also offers an open screen for spontaneous submissions. The films are seen by around 1200-2000 visitors each year.
Café Trauma started the OpenEyes Filmfest in 1994, initially under the name Mittelhessisches Amateur Filmfest . Initially, short films from the region and selected feature films were shown in the courtyard of the Amöneburg castle ruins . In 1996, for the first time, a program was selected from the entries to the festival and the festival was given its current name. From 2007 to 2009 it took place in the New Botanical Garden in Marburg. Since 2010 the festival has been taking place on the grounds of the g-Werk cultural center , the non-commercial trauma cinema located there, open air in the TraumaGarten and the rooms of the theater next to the tower (TNT) .
Award winners
Over the years, the categories in which the audience awards are awarded have changed. From 1994 to 1999 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners were chosen. From 2010 there were the categories of university and non-university film. Since 2011, the audience has rated the short films according to the categories feature film, experimental film / music video, animation film and documentary film.
2011
| motion pictures | Animation film | documentary | Experimental film | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st place | Armadingen by Philipp Käßbohrer | Duck, Death and Tulip by Matthias Brun | Teheran Kitchen by Pola Beck | In Rockland: a fragment by F. Balzer, S. Greiner, R. Hofmann, L. Lassonczyk |
| 2nd place | From tomorrow by Raphael Wellner and Stefan Elsenbruch | The relationship of Christian Höllner | Carmen by Vanessa Gräfingholt | Who Lynched the Guy by L. Johna, A. Krauss, L. Losensky, S. Hamann |
| 3rd place | Rausch from Verena Jahnke | Branch with a load by Falk Schuster | Odeon: El Tiempo Suspendido by Jo Gnarell | Amsterdam by Sönke Held |
2012
| motion pictures | Animation film | documentary | Experimental film | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st place | Dicen by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa and La Lavadora by Ana Aurora Rodríguez and Andrea Correa Quiroz | Duo de Volailles, sauce chasseur by Pascale Helquet | Harmonious - 10 vocal excursions by Lena Giovanazzi and Daniel Büche | If I hadn't been born by Hendrik Schäfer |
| 2nd place | Basement by Erwin Häcker | Bob from Jacob Frey and Harry Fast | L'equip petit by Dani Resines and Roger Gómez | Tungu by Marc Rühl |
| 3rd place | Picnic by Gerado Herrero and Sin Palabras by Bel Armenteros | Pirate Pals by Marius Frietzek | Saba-Rost by Monika Grassl | Rasumowsky by Andreas Kessler |
2013
| motion pictures | Animation film | documentary | Experimental film | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st place | Level Three by Nathan Hill | Luminaris by Juan Pablo Zaramella | Beige by Sylvie Hohlbaum | Momentum by Boris Seewald |
| 2nd place | Felix by Anselm Bauer | From Dad To Son by Nils Knoblich | Portraits de voyages by Bastien Dubois | 6th sense, 3rd eye, 2nd face by Jan Riesenbeck |
| 3rd place | Spaghetti for two by Betina Dubler, Matthias Rosenberger | The Hopper by Alex Brüel Flagstad | The Mongolian girl with the bag full of happiness by Tatjana Kleut | 2011 12 30 by Leontine Arvidsson |
2014
| motion pictures | Animation film | documentary | Experimental film / music video | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st place | The late bird by Sascha Vredenburg | High Wool by Nicolai Maderthoner and Moritz Mugler | Finistère by Daniel Andreas Sager | Night Light by Noha Choukrallah |
| 2nd place | The funeral of Harald Kramer by Marc Schlegel | food - piece with a view by Peter Böving | Peter Rist, Michael Schwarz's idealist | MeTube by Daniel Moshel |
| 3rd place | Sweet sea air by Thomas Hessmann, Stefan Siebert | Padre of Santiago 'Bou' Grasso | Their skin was their only sin by András B. Vágvölgyi and Bubeníček from Dieu Hao Do | Best Part - Vivant & IRIZZ by Julius Schultheiß |
2015
| motion pictures | Animation film | documentary | Experimental film / music video | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st place | Sadakat by Ilker Çatak | Road trip by Xaver Xylophon | Born to be mild by Andy Oxley | Dead fish from Berlin by Marcel Back |
| 2nd place | Nuvola by Giulio Mastromauro | The Present by Jacob Frey | Boulevard's end by Nora Fingscheidt | Hubris by Arjan Brentjes |
| 3rd place | Snow in Rio by Manuel Vogel | Beach flags by Sarah Saidan | A bit of normality from Thomas Toth and Michael Schaff | The quick guide how to get famous in five minutes. How to get somewhere sometimes by Dennis Stormer and Some entropy in your tea by Alex Anikina |
2016
| motion pictures | Animation film | documentary | Experimental film / music video | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1.
space |
The bathtub
by Tim Ellrich |
Trial & Error
by Antje Heyn |
Globaleyes
by Jeff Coons |
Freedom & Independence
by Bjørn Melhus |
|
2.
space |
The ballad by Ella Plummhoff
by Barbara Kronenberg |
Viaje A Pies (Travel By Feet)
by Khris Cembe |
Break in
by Mikel Aristregi & José Bautista |
Ostrannenia
by Alex Anikina |
|
3.
space |
Samira
by Charlotte A. Rolfes |
We Can't Live Without Cosmos
by Konstantin Bronzit |
Thoughts overwhelming
by Oliver Völkel |
Metube 2: August Sings Carmina Burana
by Daniel Moshel |
2017
| motion pictures | Animation film | documentary | Experimental film / music video | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1.
space |
Watu Wote | |
Our Wonderful Nature -
The Common Chameleon by Tomer Eshed |
Artist From Below | Artists From Below
by Jana Papenbroock |
The Most Exciting Thing
by Eva Muennich |
|
2.
space |
Last call Lenny
by Julien Lasseur |
A Villa With Pine Trees | The Pine Tree Villa
by Jan Koester |
Nobody Dies Here
by Simon Panay |
Mikveh
by Adrian Garcia Gomez |
|
3.
space |
[Out Of Fra] me (Out Of Frame)
by Sophie Linnenbaum |
Made in Spain
by Coke Riobóo |
Berta
by Julius Dommer |
Parasite
by Mauricio Sanhueza |
2018
| motion pictures | Animation film | documentary | Experimental film / music video | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st place | Off The Hook by Pat Howl Kostyszyn | L'aria del Moscerino by Lukas von Berg | Tracing Addai by Esther Niemeier | The Empty Shadow by Linda Weidmann |
| 2nd place | Regarde by Charles Grammare | Pulled by Jonatan Schwenk | Elsewhere by Adrian Figueroa | , [, Unum,], by David Gesslbauer & Michael Lange |
| 3rd place | Haram by Mahir Yildiz | Sand by Arjan Brentjes | Into The Dawn by José Antonio Jiménez Esquivel | Unfollow by Marcel Izquierdo Torres |
2019
| motion pictures | Animation film | documentary | Experimental film / music video | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st place | Haar Naam Was by Helena Dalemans | The Death Of The Filmmaker by Cornelius Koch and Nuit Chérie by Lia Bertels | CSL by Christoph Schwarz | Flower sausage from Roland Cremerius |
| 2nd place | La Famille Dakota by Toni Hilgersson | Como Y Porque Se Ha Esfumado Don Jose by Moshe Ben-Avraham | Doppelganger by Michaela Taschenk | A Year Along The Geostationary Orbit by Felix Dierich and La Via Divina by Ilaria Di Carlo |
| 3rd place | Living With The Never-Mind by Konstantin Enste | Inanimate by Lucia Bulgheroni | Brocki by Ronja Hemm | The Blue Crane 2.0 by Marlen Frieß |