Expansion of the festival program to 25 film evenings
additional dates in Mainz and Frankfurt-Höchst
Telling interesting, exciting and original stories in just a few minutes is much more difficult than one might imagine. So it is all the more amazing how many successful, surprising, fascinating short films are made year after year. And it is these shorts that the short film festival Shorts at Moonlight is now offering an extensive platform for the eleventh time, with steadily increasing audience interest. From July 16 to August 17, numerous national short films will be presented to visitors at selected locations in the Rhine-Main region, with a special focus on filmmakers from the region. The atmospheric venues include the Höchster Schloss in Frankfurt, the Alte Wasserschloss in Hofheim and the Kurfürstliche Schloss in Mainz:
With almost 12,000 visitors, Germany's most popular open-air short film festival closed last year with a record attendance. All 19 film evenings were completely sold out!
Preparations are already in full swing for this year's festival. The festival kicks off at Höchster Schloss on July 16, 2014, and due to the great response last year, the program has been expanded to a total of 25 film evenings. There are five additional dates in Mainz and a further screening in Frankfurt-Höchst.
Once again this year, the audience can cast their vote and, as the festival jury, choose their favourite films, which will finally be shown as "The Best" on the last evening in Höchst, Hofheim and Mainz. The most popular audience films of the overall programme as well as the film favourites of past years ("Evergreens") will be shown by Shorts at Moonlight at the end of the festival - in the fifth programme block in Mainz.
The 2014 dates: Frankfurt-Höchst (Höchster Schloss): 16 - 20 July and 23 - 27 July 2014 Hofheim am Taunus (Altes Wasserschloss): 30 July. - August 03, 2014 Mainz (Kurfürstliches Schloss): August 06 - 10 and August 13 - 17, 2014
Admission is from 7:30 p.m. on each occasion, with film screenings beginning after dark.
Shorts at Moonlight, Germany's most popular open air short film festival, has been attracting short film enthusiasts to the Rhine-Main area for 12 years. Unchanged admission price - festival pass with admission guarantee
The festival pass costs unchanged 20 euros and entitles you to admission on all days, the day ticket is available for eight euros. If you want to be on the safe side and don't want to hear "sold out" at the box office, you can already secure your festival pass at www.kurzfilmfestival.de.
About Shorts at Moonlight e.V.:
Shorts at Moonlight e.V. was founded in 2003 as a non-profit association based in Hofheim am Taunus. The aim of the association's work is to present German short films in particular to a broad public. Since 2003, Shorts at Moonlight e.V. has been organising the open air short film festival of the same name every year from mid-July to mid-August in the most beautiful castles and parks in the Rhine-Main region. Shorts at Moonlight has meanwhile developed into the largest open air short film festival in Germany and is sistered with the largest Indian film festival (IFFI Goa) and the short film festival in São Paulo, Brazil. As founder and honorary director of Shorts at Moonlight, Gudrun Winter was presented with the Hessian Order of Merit on Ribbon by Minister of State Axel Wintermeyer last year
Quelle: Sebastian Betzold + www.kurzfilmfestival.de/
