Short film day in Hof

The audience has chosen their favourite films from 62 short films. The three best short films of the 58th Hof International Film Festival will be presented at the Central Cinema Hof at 5:00 p.m. The filmmakers will be present. They talk to the artistic director of the Film Festival, Thorsten Schaumann, and give insights into their work. Afterwards, the head of the Department of Cultural Affairs, Peter Nürmberger, will present the Audience Short Film Award of the City of Hof 2024, endowed with €2,500, to the winner.

The top three (in alphabetical order):
FIRE DRILL, Director: Maximilian Villwock (20 min., German Short Film Award 2024)
NO MORE POOL TIME, directed by Jonas Baumann (35 min.)
WINDGEIST, Director: Ester Miron (46 min., documentary)

Viewers were able to vote for the award on site during the film festival and online on HoF on Demand until 03.11.2024.

Already on 25.10.2024, the Jury Short Film Award of the City of Hof 2024 (also endowed with €2,500) was awarded to actress and director Emma Bading for her film SHUT UP AND SUFFER. Jury members were Nadeshda Brennicke, Sebastian Höglinger and Michael Orth.

Andreas Fickenscher from Kopf Hof e.V. organizes the screening "Young Filmmakers" at 8:00 p.m. at the Scala Cinema Hof. Seven short films from 58 years of the Hof Film Festival will be shown, some of them with original 35mm film prints. Among them is the curious contemporary document HEINZ BADEWITZ - BILDFÜLLD from 1970, FOTOFINISH by Sönke Wortmann from 1986 and HAUPTSACHE LEHMANN from 2004 by director and Film Festival employee Birgit Lehmann.

Kopf Hof e.V. has been participating since the introduction of the Short Film Day in Germany in 2012 with a self-curated short film programme. For 19 years, the association has been bringing the annually newly assembled short film reel "Augenblicke" to the Scala Film Theatre and organises the short film open-air "Uferflimmern" every summer, in which short films from the entire film history are selected for a specific focus and some are still shown with transportable 35mm projectors.