On the shortest day of the year and as part of the International Short Film Day, the Audience Short Film Award of the City of Hof 2024 was presented at the Central Kino in Hof.
Viewers were able to choose their favorite film from 62 short films in the program of the 58th Hof International Film Festival during the film festival in the cinema and online on HoF on Demand until 3 November 2024. This year, the choice was made for the film
NO MORE POOL TIME by Jonas Baumann.
NO MORE POOL TIME satirically tells the dilemma of a new pool owner who gets caught in a moral conflict between the feel-good pool promise to his young daughter and his new partner's charity event for a drinking water project in Africa.
Jonas Baumann was born in Marxheim, Bavaria, in 1991 and studied theater and media studies in Bayreuth, followed by a degree in directing at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy. NO MORE POOL TIME is his graduation film from the Film Academy and celebrated its premiere at the 58th Hof International Film Festival.
In addition to the winning film NO MORE POOL TIME, FIRE DRILL by Maximilian Villwock (20 min.) and the documentary WINDGEIST by Ester Miron (46 min.) were among the audience's top three favorite films.
The Audience Short Film Award of the City of Hof, endowed with € 2,500, was presented to the winner Jonas Baumann by the Mayor of Hof, Angela Bier, after the screening of the top 3 short films in the Central Kino. Thorsten Schaumann, Artistic Director of the Film Festival, moderated the event, which was also attended by Peter Nürmberger, Head of the Cultural Department of the City of Hof. The event was supported by the City of Hof, the Central Kino Hof and the “Friends of the Hof International Film Festival” association.
We would like to congratulate the award winner Jonas Baumann!
