AS MANY AS NEVER BEFORE:
SHORT FILM DAY
The 5th annual SHORT FILM DAY with 275 events all over Germany took place on 21 December 2016. Watching short films in a school, a vineyard, a pub, a private kitchen, an observatory, even on a hide in the woods – almost every place can become a cinema on the SHORT FILM DAY. For the fifth time, Germans celebrated the “short format” on the shortest day of the year. 275 events were organized in 135 places all over the country – as many as never before. “Of course we are very happy about the new record. It shows that more and more people are aware of the SHORT FILM DAY,” so Jana Cernik, one of the heads of the German Short Film Association (AG Kurzfilm), which coordinates the event. “On December 21st we bring a wide range of the ‘short format’ to the audience. We are aiming at a stronger recognition for short films on this day but also during the rest of the year.”
Well-known actors, filmmakers and film-enthusiasts support the event as ambassadors. This year Sandra Hüller, Iris Berben, Aylin Tezel and Piet Fuchs told in video clips about their personal relationship with short films and the shortest day of the year. The German State Minister for Culture and the Media, Monika Grütters, took on the patronage for the event. The SHORT FILM DAY is celebrated not only in Germany, but in many other countries around the world as well.