call for entries: kurzfilm festival hamburg
Know before you apply
- Short filmmakers with recent work
- Filmmakers with films under 30 minutes
- Children's and youth film directors
- Films must be produced after January 2026
- Total prizes worth €15,500
- Triple Axel requires three-minute POP-themed film
Films of all genres with a maximum running time of 30 minutes and not older than January 2026 can be submitted submitted via Shortfilmdepot and Filmfreeway to our International Competition and German Competition. For the Junges Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg Mo&Friese and the Triple Axel Competition, we accept films produced after January 2025.
Films for the Triple Axel Competition must not exceed three minutes and need to deal with the theme "POP“. POP is a bubble about to burst, a chart-topping earworm, popcorn jumping in the pan, an idea that suddenly pops into your head. Loud and glossy or tiny and quiet – take it literally, take it sideways, just make it pop! In this competition, it's a matter of getting a spin on a given theme in no more than three minutes. Whoever manages to do this goes into the race for the audience's prize and 1.000 € in a legendary night.