History
- film still: Cocteau Cento
2004
The first VIS Vienna Independent Shorts was held from June 6th to June 12th in 2004. It resulted from the merger of several student initiatives, which had already organized short film events in Vienna in the previous years. While the opening and the closing night were organized together, the organization of the five days in between was incumbent on the respective initiatives separately. 125 films out of over 300 submitted short films from 21 countries were shown (see submission statistics). The main festival locations were the Viennese art-house cinemas Top Kino, Schikaneder and De France as well as in the courtyard of the Reformed Church near to Hofburg castle.
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2005
The second Vienna Independent Shorts was held from May 22nd to May 28th, 2005. The screening locations of the about 100 short films (with exception of the cinema De France) were the same as in the previous year. 450 films from 40 countries were submitted. With the award "Golden Shorts" an international competition was established. In addition the Kino Kabaret by the international Kino movement in Austria was held during the festival and has been continued in the subsequent years. The organizers of the first festival edition united to the Independent Cinema Association.
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2006
For the third time VIS Vienna Independent Shorts was held from May 21st to May 28th, 2006. Beside locations in Vienna (Top Kino, Reformed Church, OST) parallel events took place in Dornbirn, Graz and Innsbruck. 685 films from 52 countries were submitted. Altogether 216 works were shown, among them also a tribute to Austrian film-maker Mara Mattuschka, the Vienna premiere of The Mozart Minute and a Focus Balkans. Additionally to the Golden Shorts Award there were the diemelange Short Film Award and the DocuZone Austria Short Film Award.
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2007
The fourth edition of VIS Vienna Independent Short took place at Top Kino, Schikaneder, OST and the Reformed Church from May 15th to 20th, 2007. 717 shorts from 51 countries were submitted, 230 were shown. In addition to the international competition a Panorama section with exclusively Austrian short films was held. The tributes were dedicated to Virgil Widrich and Miranda July. Part of the six spezial programs and eleven guest programs were for example a lie down cinema and the Ars Electronica Late Night. Among the awards were the Golden Shorts (for the first time as short film award of the city of Vienna renumerated with 2.000 euros), the 3 Short Film Awards and the ray Audience Award.
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