Uppsala International Short Film Festival

The Uppsala International Short Film Festival (Swedish: Uppsala Internation Ella Kortfilmfestival ) is a 1982 based International Film Festival for short films, which takes place annually in October in the Swedish city of Uppsala.

History

The Uppsala International Short Film Festival, one of the oldest film festivals in Sweden, was launched by a group led by Lars Hedenstedt. The first edition of the festival opened on 1 September 1982 with a screening of the film The arrival of a train at the station in La Ciotat by the Lumière brothers. There around 60 short films, mainly from Sweden and Denmark, before about 1000 viewers were shown. Already in the next edition of the festival in 1983, short films from the People's Republic of China and Czechoslovakia were added to the program for the first time. Uppsala made ​​from now on a name to present to the west hardly ever to be seen films from beyond the Iron Curtain. 1984, the festival was first held in October. Since 1985, a separate children's film festival is part of the program and until 1992 also now feature films were shown. The festival of 1993 ended with a financial debacle, which is why only 50 films were shown in 1994. While the number of films shown but otherwise grew steadily, the Festival also won international recognition increasingly. In 1997, the Uppsala International Short Film Festival has been recognized as the only film festival in the Nordic countries by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Since 2000 there is a close cooperation with the Swedish Film Institute. Short films shown at the festival come from Sweden in the selection for the national film award Guldbagge, which is awarded by the Film Institute. In Uppsala in 2004 was to see a special program of the Lesbian Gay Film Festival Hamburg.

Winners of the Uppsala Grand Prix

The Uppsala Grand Prix is the main prize of the festival and has been awarded since 1999.