The Los Gurkos Short Film Festival is an Austrian film festival. It was created in 2005 and takes place every year in Innsbruck, Austria.[1][2] The main focus of the festival is on the short film competition, which provides a possibility for local and international filmmakers to present their craft. At the same time, the festival promotes the genre of the short in Innsbruck and Tyrol.[3] The Los Gurkos Short Film Festival regularly works together with the International Film Festival Innsbruck and the Rejected Film Festival.
The Los Gurkos Short Film Festival is an open festival and does therefore not require entries to comply with a certain theme, but only with the technical guidelines. On November 9, 2013, the festival will take place for the ninth time at the PMK in Innsbruck. After the approximately ten best entries have been shown, an expert panel chooses the three winning shorts.[4][5] The festival award has symbolic value: the Golden Cucumber (after dice in 2010, cucumber plants in 2011 and graffiti in 2012).
Winners of the goldene Gurke (golden cucumber)
| Year | Film/Country | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Neger Regen (1s place/ex aequo, AT) | Alexandra Bachlechner and Georg Simbetti |
| 2008 | Solitary soul (1st place/ex aequo, AT) | Clemens Wirth |
| 2008 | Kharm´s Traum (3rd place, AT) | Peter Chiochetti |
| 2009 | 8 Kompositionen (1st place, AT) | Katharina Cibulka[6] |
| 2009 | The Devil’s Ride (2nd place, AT) | Bernhard Dengg[7] |
| 2009 | Inkognito (3rd place, AT) | Viktor Kössl[8] |
| 2010 | Macro Kingdom (non-narrative, AT) | Clemens Wirth |
| 2010 | Ménage a trois (narrative, AT) | Matteo Sanders |
| 2011 | Das schöne Leben (AT) | Tobias Pichler |
| 2011 | Der Angriff (AT) | Harald Schwarzmann |
| 2011 | Les Fleurs du mal (AT) | Marco Trenkwalder |
| 2012 | Volkspark (1st place, GER) | TEAM MOBTIK |
| 2012 | St. Martin (2nd place, GER) | Clemens Purner |
| 2012 | Milonga (3rd place, ITA) | Marco Calvise |
| 2013 | Doors (1st place, AT) | Tobias Pichler |
| 2013 | LusTiger (2nd place, AT/CH) | Stefan Holaus |
| 2013 | Postcard from Mars (3rd place, AT) | Peter Chiochetti |
Bands which have performed at the Los Gurkos Film Festival
| Festival edition | Band |
|---|---|
| 2008 | Duo505 |
| 2009 | Borko, It's a Musical, Sin Fang |
| 2010 | Mambo Kurt, Bensh |
| 2011 | B.Fleischmann |
| 2012 | Masha Qrella, Joasihno |
| 2013 | Zeta Primes, Saroos |
References
- ^ slashcam.de http://www.slashcam.de/kalender/A-Los-Gurkos-Short-Film-Festival-2012-760.html "Festival"
- ^ los gurkos website http://www.losgurkos.com/"Festival page"
- ^ Provinnsbruck http://www.provinnsbruck.at/content/los-gurkos-kurzfilmfestival "Los Gurkos Kurzfilmfestival"
- ^ Film.at http://www.film.at/los_gurkos_kurzfilmwettbewerb "Los Gurkos Kurzfilmwettbewerb"
- ^ Ö1 [1] "Kurzfilmwettbewerb // A Los Gurkos Short Film Festival"
- ^ IFFI. "Film archive". Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ^ IFFI. "Film archive". Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ^ IFFI. "Film archive". Retrieved 16 September 2013.