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“First Things First” aims to showcase the creative process behind the production of diverse debut short films from the inception of the idea to the first festival screening. Guests are invited to informally share their experiences: on their way from one venue to another, or while smoking a cigarette during the break between two screenings.
In this first episode, we tal...
On July 6th 2026, the first and only Afghan cosmonaut, Abdul Ahad Momand, received a state funeral in Kabul. Living in Germany at the time of his death, his body returned to a country still marked by the political turmoil from which he had fled over three decades before. In such timing, Forgotten Spaceman arrives as an unintended obituary. This reflective documentary f...
In this episode of “Short Circuit”, we ask ourselves: how accessible is the film festival ecosystem today? Doris Bauer (Vienna Shorts), filmmaker Julia Mellen, and Djamila Grandits (CineCollective) discuss the barriers, opportunities, and structural changes needed to improve the festival experience for everyone involved.
Developed as part of the
There are certain films that make me realise how much of my own relationship with Cairo now exists through images. I have not been able to return home for years, so the city survives for me in traces: old family videos, phone recordings, photographs, and the footage I carried away with me. Not the Cairo people think they know, but a Cairo pulled from an old phone or forgotten...
Made famous by the now-canonised, then disruptive Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, the statement “uma câmera na mão, uma ideia na cabeça” (A Camera in the Hand, An Idea in the Head) argued for a sense of urgency as the driving force behind filmmaking, and that a filmmaker must not give in to financial constraints. In other words, get out into the world, film what you see, a...