At the International Short Film Festival 2018 the Ecumenical Jury awarded its Prize of 1500 € to the Chinese film "Magnificent Obsession". In addition, the Jury highlighted two films by Commendations, "Erh Hao chiu Yi" (On the Waitlist) from Taiwan and "Caterpillarplasty" from Canada. Further, the Jury awarded a Certificate to a film from the Children and Youth Film Competition, "Carlotta's Face" from Germany. It serves as a recommendation to acquire the non-commercial distribution rights by the church film distribution companies in Germany, Matthias Film (Protestant) and Katholisches Filmwerk (kfw).
The Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen went to "Dėmės ir įbrėžimai" (Stains and Scratches) by Deimantas Narkevičius from Latvia, and the Principal Prize to "Hirografo" (Manuscript) by Eva Stefani from Greece. The jury of the international film critics (Fipresci) decided for the Russian film "Gimny Moscovii" (The Hymns of Moscow) by Dimitri Venkov.
The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2018 opened on May 3. The Ecumenical Jury awards its prize to a film of the International Competition and makes a recommendation for a film of the Children and Youth Film Competition. The festival also programs three other festival sections (German Competition, NRW Competition and Competition for Best Music Video MuVi).
In addition to the competitions, the festival offers numerous other programs. Under the title "Leaving the Cinema - Knokke, Hamburg, Oberhausen (1967-1971)", the discussion and film program "Theme" dealt with initiatives for alternative film culture beyond the established cinema system at the end of the 1960s. "Profiles" portrayed individual filmmakers or film institutions. The section "Archives" presented archives dealing with the archiving and restoration of experimental film. This year it included the new series "re-selected", which dealt with the significance and tradition of individual analogue film copies as a testimony to film history. The analogue film was also the issue of the newly designed series "Labs", which presents cultural countermovements to the comprehensive process of digitization.
Link: Festival website