The 2023 Berlin Short Film Festival ran Aug 5-6 at the Babylon Cinema in Downtown Berlin.
https://babylonberlin.eu/
Award Winners 2023
Best Short Film
Born in Crisis by LJ Spannagl
Best Short Documentary
Together Against Parkinson’s by Rabeah Rahimi Rabeah
Best Sci-Fi Short Film
Out of Time by Alexandre Weber Martins
Best Horror Short Film
The Locket by Alec Asten
Best LGBT Short Film
DogFriend by Maissa Lihedheb
Best Experimental Short Film
With Love L. by Max Fritzsching, Chari Krause
Best Student Short Film
Limastraße by Aliza Yanes
Best Short Feature
Hauskeeper by Matthias Freier
Best Animated Short Film
Two One Two by Shira Avni
Best Short Short Film
Glow by Thanh-Long Vo
Best Music Video
Flexxen by Anastasia Basina
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2023 Screenings
August 5th
18:00: Shorts (buy tickets here)
Glow by Thanh-Long Vo
Balanced – Guardians of Weather and Earth by Carolina Buchholz
All The Rest Is Noise by Barnabas Wilhelm
Calling Me by Kerine Jean-Pierre
Upsidedown by Razan Ghalayini
Bittersweet by Phil Choi
Noen by Bernhard Østebø
2bad by Vanessa Riecke, Dominik Kremerskothen
onemoretime by Julenka Werkmeister
Fully Furnished by Annaleen Frage, Aaron J.J. Schmidt
Slaughterhouse by Chance Fuerstinger
Cornerboy by Kai Kurve
Limastraße by Aliza Yanes
20:00: Shorts Block (buy tickets here)
Cornerboy by Kai Kurve
The Locket by Alec Asten
Out of Time by Alexandre Weber Martins
Blanket by Derek Brueckner
To My Dying Mother by Johanna von Salmuth
I Am What You Imagine by Matthew Modine
In Somnie by Caro Bruchmann
Findings by Kristina Schippling
Limastraße by Aliza Yanes
With Love L. by Max Fritzsching, Chari Krause
Hauskeeper by Matthias Freier
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August 6th
18:00: Shorts (buy tickets here)
Le Jardin des Délices by Genevieve Marie Dale, Dean G. Mang-Wooley
Yar (Friend) by Fran Menchon
Back To You by Matthias Bollwerk
Quiet Water by Jules Hamdadou
The Visit by Katharina Sporrer
Pale Blue Dot by Dimitar (Mitko) Stafidov
DogFriend by Maissa Lihedheb
Flexxen by Anastasia Basina
Two One Two by Shira Avni
Secret Santa by Charif Ounis
Still Up There by Joe Loftus
Together Against Parkinson’s by Rabeah Rahimi Rabeah
No Kidding by Hans Hennig
Born in Crisis by LJ Spannagl
20:00: Shorts Block (buy tickets here)
Born In Crisis by Leo Jasper Spannagel
I Want To Be Anna Netrebko! by Monica Parii
Freie Nächte by Oliver Adam Kusio
No Kidding by Hans Henning Borgelt
The Kiki House of Vase by Syrus Sadvandi
Beyond The Soil by Jaime Jacobsen, Eric Forbes
The Sounds Of Berlin by Spyridon Arvanitakis
Der Schlossgärtner by Tom Schlansky
Riding The Hype Train by Florian Handschuh
Together Against Parkinson’s by Rabeah Rahimi Rabeah
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Winter 2023
The Winter 2023 Berlin Short Film Festival ran in January 2023.
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Award Winners Winter 2023
Best Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
Racket by Zoe Eisenberg
Best Short Film: Jury Award
How To Live Here by Alisha Doody
Best Short Film: Audience Award
Letting Poetry In by Roisin Buckley
Best Short Film: Spirit of Berlin Award
Thoughts About Art by Oliver Zech, Jonathan Louis Mohr
Best Short Documentary: Festival Director’s Award
The Art Of Sustaining by Kim Johnson
Best Short Documentary: Jury Award
Trailrunning in Bavaria (Oberland) by Marco Nissen
Best Short Documentary: Audience Award
Doing It For Love: Collaborative Creative Dance; Stories from
Creative Communities in a Global Pandemic by Israel Seoane
Best Short Documentary: Spirit of Berlin Award
48.000 Names by Roel Swierenga
Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
Empress ClawScream by Stephen T Lally
Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Jury Award
New Air by Leo Lee
Best Sci-Fi Short Film: Audience Award
Skyline District by Valtti Hyvärinen
Best Horror Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
Flappy by Darcy Conlan
Best Horror Short Film: Jury Award
Fruiting Bodies by David Daniel
Best Horror Short Film: Audience Award
Touch by Justin Burquist
Best Fantasy Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
Tendrils by Kate Matheson
Best LGBT Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
Slow Burn Summer by Marco Maldera
Best LGBT Short Film: Jury Award
My Lovers Are a Collection of Books I’ll Never Get Back by Jess Coles
Best LGBT Short Film: Audience Award
The Perfect First Date by Christopher J Hall
Best LGBT Short Film: Spirit of Berlin Award
Freedom Is An Action by Anna Stoeva
Best Experimental Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
At Water’s Edge by Sean Dorsey
Best Experimental Short Film: Jury Award
Afuera by Florian Hoffmeier, Mariana Torres
Best Experimental Short Film: Audience Award
Valley Fever Dream by Andy Moore
Best Experimental Short Film: Spirit of Berlin Award
SP.A.CE case Collective “Arrival 2.0” by Javier Ubell,
Tobias Mertke, Nina Aufderheide, Luzie Nehls-Neuhaus
Best Student Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
The Portrait by Razzaaq Boykin
Best Student Short Film: Jury Award
Tendrils by Kate Matheson
Best Student Short Film: Audience Award
No Uniform Day by Yunqu Wang
Best Short Feature: Festival Director’s Award
Runaways by Brandon Oelofse
Best Short Feature: Jury Award
Isola by Aymone G
Best Short Feature: Audience Award
Morse Code (Pilot) by Travis Nicholson
Best Short Feature: Spirit of Berlin Award
On Track by Hanna Plass
Best Animated Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
Suddenly by Nic Gregory
Best Animated Short Film: Jury Award
Stages Of Lost Freedom by Kamran S Rosen
Best Animated Short Film: Audience Award
Robots Don’t Tell Jokes by Kelli Caldwell
Best Short Short Film: Festival Director’s Award
Food From Ah Lan by Peter CS Lee, Kaitlyn Lee
Best Short Short Film: Jury Award
Closing Doors by Cynthia Zhou, Po Chun Chen
Best Short Short Film: Audience Award
The Lost Bornean Rainbow Toad | #TRIBESPIRIT by Gary Chan
Best Short Short Film: Spirit of Berlin Award
Connected Through Cypher by Loubna Doudouh
Best Music Video: Festival Director’s Award
Glitter Electron by Chihiro Sato, Takaaki Numa, E
Best Music Video: Jury Award
Do Anything by Lorenz Killer
Best Music Video: Audience Award
Kogershin by Malik Zenger
Best Music Video: Spirit of Berlin Award
WTCHSONG by Lina Bembe
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SCREENING SCHEDULE 2023
Berlin Short Film Festival will run on Eventive, January 26th-31st.
Tickets and streaming here.
2023 Schedule
Shorts 1
Closing Doors by Cynthia Zhou, Po Chun Chen
Biopixels by Kristina Dutton
Double Act by Lotte Thomas
Connected Through Cypher by Loubna Doudouh
My Lovers Are a Collection of Books I’ll Never Get Back by Jess Coles
Racket by Zoe Eisenberg
On Track by Hanna Plass
Runaways by Brandon Oelofse
Shorts 2
Food From Ah Lan by Peter CS Lee, Kaitlyn Lee
Strange Ignition by Owen Silleck
Suddenly by Nic Gregory
A Nap In Fluoroscopy Buses by Lei Lei
The Perfect First Date by Christopher J Hall
Morse Code (Pilot) by Travis Nicholson
Documentary Shorts 1
Speedboat by Tobias James
Letting Poetry In by Roisin Buckley
Trailrunning in Bavaria (Oberland) by Marco Nissen
Doing It For Love: Collaborative Creative Dance; Stories from Creative Communities in a Global Pandemic by Israel Seoane
I Would Like To Thank My Body by Catherine Dulude
The Art Of Sustaining by Kim Johnson
Freedom Is An Action by Anna Stoeva
Experimental Shorts
Stronger Than You Think by Laurent Stine
At Water’s Edge by Sean Dorsey
It Was Day and I Was Thinking About Night by Eva Anerrapsi
An Exercise In Solitude by Beverley Hood
3 Grams Of Democracy by Luka Hollstein, Frankie Doguet, Daniella Ferkova
Intervallo by Ugo Carmeni
Tropical Body – Summer Season by Patricia Azevedo
Valley Fever Dream by Andy Moore
Chinese Laundry by Patricia Zhou
SP.A.CE case Collective “Arrival 2.0” by Javier Ubell, Tobias Mertke, Nina Aufderheide, Luzie Nehls-Neuhaus
Afuera by Florian Hoffmeier, Mariana Torres
Isola by Aymone G
Shorts 3
Robots Don’t Tell Jokes by Kelli Caldwell
The Lost Bornean Rainbow Toad | #TRIBESPIRIT by Gary Chan
Inside A Bar by David Maria Vogel
Sugar Babies by Harry Shaw
Sam by Ryan Thielen, Jen Stafford
The Portrait by Razzaaq Boykin
The People You Meet by Pius Kung
Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Shorts 1
No Strong Enough Memory by Boujenah Joseph
New Air by Leo Lee
Fruiting Bodies by David Daniel
Empress ClawScream by Stephen T Lally
Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Shorts 2
Rip Radley: Lost in the Shatter by Harry Baker
Flappy by Darcy Conlan
Touch by Justin Burquist
Tendrils by Kate Matheson
Skyline District by Valtti Hyvärinen
Documentary Shorts 2
Walking Backwards by Chris Rodriguez, Aleah Chapin
48.000 Names by Roel Swierenga
Leon Johnson & LODGER by R. C. Guida
Eliseo Art Silva: Finding the Wide American Earth by Loren A Roberts, Roberto San Luis
Wild Reconnection by Anna Konieczna, Deqa Ibrahim
Living Loud by Sarah Christina Teale, Carin van der Donk
Shorts 4
How To Live Here by Alisha Doody
The Dark Action by Dustin James Leighton
Slow Burn Summer by Marco Maldera
A Conflict by Alex Jiang
Stages Of Lost Freedom by Kamran S Rosen
Thoughts About Art by Oliver Zech, Jonathan Louis Mohr
No Uniform Day by Yunqu Wang
Cold Water by Philip da Silva
Music Videos
Dreams by Veit Kortenkamp
WTCHSONG by Lina Bembe
3 Tequila Floor (Josiah Siska) by Nathan Meckel, Michael Gomez
Kogershin by Malik Zenger
Bul Dog by Geo Pavlov
Do Anything by Lorenz Killer
Glitter Electron by Chihiro Sato, Takaaki Numa, E
Sajde Tere Liye (Prayers For You!) by Ajinkya Deshmukh
Wish That I Could by Danica Arias Kleinknecht
