Alpinale Short Film Festival

The Alpinale Short Film Festival (German: Alpinale Kurzfilmfestival) is a film festival in Bludenz, Vorarlberg (Austria). The short film festival draws around 1,000 visitors to Bludenz. Every year, about 30 hand-picked international short films are screened. The best films are awarded the Golden Unicorn.[1][2]

Alpinale Short Film Festival
Alpinale Short Film Festival
LocationBludenz, Austria
Founded1985
Directed byManuela Mylonas (since 2008)
Festival dateAugust
LanguageGerman
Websitehttps://alpinale.at

From 1985 to 2002, the festival took place in Bludenz, and from 2003 to 2019 in Nenzing. In 2020, the festival will be held in Bludenz again.[3] The 35th Alpinale will take place between 11th and 15th August 2020.[4]

  • Alpinale Ländle Tour: Every spring, the Alpinale tours through Vorarlberg with favorite short films from the audience and the jury of the past short film festival, and also stops in Switzerland and Vienna. A selected program of audience favorites, as well as short films awarded the Golden Unicorn, will be shown on a big screen.[5]
  • Open air screening
    Vorarlberger Short Film Night: The Short Film Night has taken place every spring since 2010. All submitted Vorarlberg short films will be screened there and simultaneously publicly pre-judged for the festival in summer. The four finalists who compete in the "vorarlberg shorts" category at the Alpinale will be identified on the Vorarlberg Short Film Night.[6][7]
  • OBACHT! Horror Short Film Night: 14 horror themed short films are being screened at the Horror Short Film Night in autumn. The crowd may vote for the best film of the evening.[8]

Notes and references

  1. "Alpinale, Forum Österreichischer Filmfestivals". www.film-festivals.at. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
  2. alpinale. "Veranstaltungen". ALPINALE (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-07.
  3. red, vorarlberg ORF at (2019-10-30). "Alpinale kehrt nach Bludenz zurück". vorarlberg.ORF.at (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  4. "ALPINALE short film festival". FilmFreeway. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
  5. "LÄNDLE TOUR". ALPINALE (in German). 2019-09-13. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
  6. "ALPINALE | IG Kultur". www.igkultur.at. Retrieved 2020-06-07.
  7. alpinale. "Vorarlberger Kurzfilmnacht". ALPINALE (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-07.
  8. alpinale. "OBACHT! Horrorkurzfilmnacht". ALPINALE (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-07.


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