The International Short Film Festival ContraVision is an annual film festival held in Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany

Germany

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, devoted to short film, student film, animation, experimental film and documentary films. The screened films range from the no-budget scene and amateurs to commercial productions. The festival has no genre restrictions but a limitation of film length up to 30 minutes. The winners of the competition are selected by the audience.
Established in 1993, the Film Festival ContraVision is organised by the German registered association Contra Medienwerkstatt.
The festival takes place in the arthouse cinema "Blow Up

Blowup

Blowup is a 1966 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, his first English-language film.It tells of a British photographer's accidental involvement with a murder, inspired by Julio Cortázar's short story, "Las babas del diablo" or "The Devil's Drool" , translated also as Blow-Up, and by the life...

" since 1995. The cinema is specialized in the film pool of the formerly state film monopoly in the German Democratic Republic

German Democratic Republic

The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...

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