Festival

Linda Chiu-han Lai leads the five-day Oberhausen Seminar

The experimental course examines moving images and contemporary artistic practices in the context of an international film festival. It operates on the boundary between film and art, between festival programming and knowledge production. Artists, filmmakers, curators and academics frim all over the world have until 27 February to apply for the Oberhausen Seminar, which will be led by Hong Kong-based Linda Chiu-han Lai. 

Hong Kong-based transdisciplinary artist, curator and scholar Linda Chiu-han Lai is known for her work in intermedia art and media archaeology and brings her videography, experimental art and pedagogy to the Oberhausen Seminar.

Read more and apply here

This Is Short

Competition programmes on THIS IS SHORT

Our competition programmes can also be found on the THIS IS SHORT streaming platform. In December, THIS IS SHORT has introduced a new subscription model, as fantastic films deserve a life beyond their festival run.
For only €0.99/month (or €9.99/year) you can support short film culture and enjoy curated gems from some of your favourite festivals.

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Distribution

Oberhausen on Tour! For the fourteenth time we will be sending films around the globe.

Cinemas, museums and galleries, festivals or Goethe-Institutes around the world show the films. Current dates can be found on our distribution page.

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Festival

Film submission
for the Muvi Award!
Music videos can still be submitted until 22 February.

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Distribution

Our distribution programme 2024
32 new acquisitions and seven new programmesare are available.

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In memoriam

We are deeply saddened to announce that our colleague Hilke Doering has passed away on 27 November 2025 after a long illness.

She was head of our International Competition since 1995 and, as a member of our festival committee, contributed significantly to our programming. Representing our festival in various international film organisations, she was always passionately committed to defending the interests of the filmmakers. Though she has been fighting her illness for two years, she contributed her ideas and expertise to our festival to the last.

We had all hoped that she would soon be able to resume her work. Now we have lost a wonderful colleague who played a crucial role in shaping our festival over the past three decades. The shock is profound and the whole team will miss her dearly.

If you want to share your memories of Hilke, we have set up a digital condolences book.

To the Condolences Book