The EMAF screens experimental and artists’ films from around the world and is interested in forms that move along disciplinary peripheries or between film and performance, document and experiment. Short and long, digital and analogue films that relate to social and political reality in an exploratory and questioning way find their place here. At the same time, the EMAF is open to works that test new forms of cinematic presentation. Our aim is to make cinema a space for encounter and exchange: a space for projections beyond the status quo.
EMAF’s film programmes are developed in collaboration with international curators, artists and theorists who, as members of the programming team, select the contributions for competition and feature film programmes, or are invited to develop their own thematic programmes and series.
Filmstill „Variações sobre como cultivar uma cidade / Variations on How to Farm a City“, Mónica Martins Nunes in künstlerischer Zusammenarbeit mit Deniz Şimşek, PT/DE 2024, 29'Filmstill „The Snow to Fall“, Else/Xun Zhang, UK 2024,8'Filmstill „Die Unvorzeigbarkeit dessen, was nie hätte geschehen sollen/The Impossibility of Showing What Should Never Have Happened“, Silke Schönfeld, DE 2025, 25'Filmstill „Suspicions About The Hidden Realities of Air“, Sam Drake, US 2025, 9'Filmstill „Colorful Colorado Nails“, Monica Panzarino, US 2024, 7'Filmstill „Cerro Saturno“, Miguel Hilari, BO/US 2022, 12'Filmstill „掩门 Ajar“, Kanthy Peng, CN 2024, 15'Filmstill „La impresion de una guerra/ The Imprint of a War“, Camilo Restrepo, CO/FR 2015, 26'Filmstill „The Unchanging Sea“, Luisa Greenfield DE 2025, 9'Filmstill „Yrupẽ“, Candela Sotos, ES 2025, 79'
Exhibition
Each year, the EMAF exhibition presents contemporary works by the most important and ambitious international and German media artists of the moment. It thus always focuses on current developments in digital culture and technologies and critical reflection on them.
The central venue for the exhibition, which brings together very diverse genres of media art, is the Kunsthalle Osnabrück.
„The Storm“, Karolina Breguła, 2024, 14'20", 5-Kanal Videoinstallation„Land before Last“, Benedikt Terwiel in collaboration with ANOHNI, 2024, 17'58", 1-Kanal Video und Soundinstallation„Radicals in between Trees und Dicks“ Agil Abdullayev, 2024, 36', 3-Kanal Videoinstallation„Illustrating the Request for Privacy“ Flo Kasearu, 2020, 99', 1-Kanal Videoprojektion, Tribüne„SK Adjusters“, Hannah Hallermann, 2024, Skulptur, hydrogeformtes Metall„Record of the Termite Landscape“, Doplgenger, 2024, 17', 2-Kanal Videoinstallation„RAPTURE II - PORTAL“ Alisa Berger, 2024, 19', VR Experience„Grammar of calculated ambiguity“, Gabriela Löffel, 2024, 76', 1-Kanal Videoinstallation mit Audiointervention
Talks
The talks are given by internationally renowned scientists, artists, and experts from various disciplines.
In their contributions – lectures, panel discussions or lecture performances – they develop and discuss different perspectives on the annually changing festival theme.
Campus
The festival section EMAF Campus is also offering a platform to classes and specialist groups from European academies and universities.
The students present their work in captivating film programmes and a wide range of exhibitions.
The students’ contributions can be discovered not only in the festival cinemas, but also at various locations in the city centre of Osnabrück.
„Ensemble. A live event with film and performance“, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, 2025. Eva Volmerson„Ensemble. A live event with film and performance“, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, 2025. Sandra Marins„Ensemble. A live event with film and performance“, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, 2025. Eddie Choo Wen Yi„So wie die Sonne die Spuren des Regens löscht/ Like the Sun Erasing the Traces of Rain“, Merivan Kiliç, HBK Braunschweig, 2023„Boys Never Liked Me“, Tom Brück, HBK Braunschweig, 2024„It will be a very difficult conversation“, Academy of Art in Szczecin, 2025, Anastazja Stanczyk„It will be a very difficult conversation“, Academy of Art in Szczecin, 2025, Marcella Poroszanka„Basement Breakout“, Árpád Horváth, Leon Seeger, Oliver Snopko & Jan Steinkamp, Hochschule Osnabrück, 2025„I’m Not Paranoid“, Jasmin Chamkhi, 2024-2025. Universität Osnabrück, Zeitbasierte Kunst„Behörde für Alltagszeugnisse“, Jona Bundschuh, Jana Eggert, Mari Hungermann, Lena Köhler, Alicia Priebe, Mariella Priebe, Mariella Rusch & Fritzi Wagner. Musik- und Kunstschule Osnabrück
