Kasseler DocFest

About

The cozy "Filmladen" movie theater houses this strongly content-oriented festival which, thanks to its dual focuses on documentary film and new media, is able to showcase a broad spectrum of international visual art. The festival is an annual rendezvous for interdisciplinary exchange and, through the industry conference "interfiction", draws a professional audience from all areas of the new media and visual arts to the same city in which Germany´s biggest art exhibition, the "documenta", takes place every five years.

Program

• International Film Section (documentary film);
• International Video Section (documentary film, video art);
• Monitoring (exhibition of international media installation);
• Interfiction (conference with focus on Internet);
• Live Visuals (audiovisual performances and VJ-art).

Awards

Prize money totalling 12 000 € as well as a production grant will be awarded to participating authors and artists.

• Golden Key 5.000 € divided in 2,500 € for the best documentary short film up to 65 minutes and 2,500 € for the best documentary feature film of more than 66 minutes
• Golden Hercules – Regional competition: €3500
• Golden Cube – Exhibition Monitoring: €3500
• junges dokfest: A38-Production-Grant Kassel-Halle: the grant includes up to 8000 € for living and travelling expenses for a residence up to two months

Rules

• Productions of the years 2022 or 2023.
• No length restriction.

Documents and Other Requisite Items

• Fill out entry form on-line;
• To be complete, each application must include a short synopsis, a biography and a filmography in the form of a hard copy.
• The work must be submitted as a link for streaming (not limited in time) via a video platform for the preselection process.

Audio language: original

Subtitles language: English or German

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement

Jury and Organizers

Festival Directors — Kati Michalk, Gerhard Wissner