Eulenspiegeleien Comedy Festival
Closing date: 14th January 2011
Festival date: 21-23 January 2011
No fee / up to 20 minutes / comedy
similar arrangements each year
The festival for comic and satirical movies up to 20 minutes long, based
its name on the mischievous trickster called Till Eulenspiegel - the same
one celebrated in Richard Strauss's tone poem of that name. You might roughly
translate it as "eggs from the playful owl" and hence their logo. The festival
is held in the Pentahotel in the centre of Berlin-Köpenick, a commuter
town just outside Berlin.
The event is organised by the FiVia Moviemakers Club. Even the rules and
forms are funny. They prefer films not more than 3 years old and up to 20
minutes long, but explain: "Of course, when the quality is extremely high,
the organisers can change the rules ! "
There is a pre-selection process and then the films picked for presentation
will be judged in public by an independent jury. There is no entry fee but
if you want your tape back you must enclose international post vouchers.
The festival starts at 7pm Friday and finishes at midday Sunday. They
permit VHS, S-VHS or Mini-DV in SD and HD but add - "DVD/BluRay only allowed
where you can bring your own player guaranteed to play your DVD !" [Your
webmaster's advice is to ignore this and send a DVD ... it avoids many of
the tv format problems.]
Though this popular event attracts a sophisticated crowd who usually have
good English, the language of the festival is German. Your entry should not
depend on English puns. If you wish to attend you'll be made very welcome
indeed, but should have some knowledge of German to follow all the jokes
in the films and the announcements. Be ready for dressing-up, dancing and
lots of good humour.
Website:
www.fivia.de
(click Eulenspiegeleien in the menu on the left.)
E-mail:
eulenspiegeleien@arcor.de |
