Film programme

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.

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.

Filmstill WIAOI 4 Marwa Arsanios — Filmstill „Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part 4: Reverse Shot“, Marwa Arsanios, DE/LB 2022, 35’

Filmstill A Bundle Of Silences Sofa Gallis Muriente — Filmstill „Un Montón de Silencios / A Bundle of Silences“, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, PR 2025, 24’

Filmstill Bouchra Meriem Bennani Orian Barki — Filmstill „Bouchra“, Meriem Bennani & Orian Barki, US/IT/MA 2025, 83’

Filmstill The Memory Of Butterflies Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski — Filmstill „La Memoria de las Mariposas / The Memory of Butterflies“, Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski, PE/PT 2025, 77’

Filmstill Next Life Tenzin Phuntsog — Filmstill „Next Life“, Tenzin Phuntsog, US/MX 2025, 73’

Filmstill Sharp Objects Taufiqurrahman Kifu Hattie Wade — Filmstill „Sharp Objects“, Taufiqurrahman Kifu & Hattie Wade, ID/NL 2025, 16

Filmstill Warnungen An die Ferne Zukunft Juliane Jaschnow Stefanie Schroeder — Filmstill „Warnungen an die ferne Zukunft / Warnings to the Distant Future“, Juliane Jaschnow & Stefanie Schroeder, DE 2025, 19’

Filmstill Pressing Stephanie Barber — Filmstill „pressing“, Stephanie Barber, US 2025, 3'

Filmstill PINKTONED Mike Stoltz — Filmstill „PINKTONED“, Mike Stoltz, US 2026, 11'

Filmstill Two Festivals In Grenoble Ateyyat Al Abnoudi — Filmstill „Deux festivals à Grenoble / Two Festivals in Grenoble“, Ateyyat al-Abnoudi, FR 1974, 29'

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.

Ausstellung Bianca Baldi EMAF 39 — „Hear her calendar system a year of thirteen months“, Bianca Baldi, 2025, 19’, Videoinstallation

Ausstellung Bethan Hughes EMAF 39 — „Built to Order I“, Bethan Hughes, 2026, 18’, Skulptur, Sound und Videoinstallation

Ausstellung Robin Koetzle EMAF 39 — „Sehen wer wir sein (s/w)ollten“, Robin Kötzle, 2025, 483’, 2-channel video installation

Ausstellung Alternative Monument Collective EMAF 39 — „Alternatives Denkmal für Deutschland (ADfD)“, Alternative Monument collective, 2025, Augmented Reality Installation

Ausstellung Sarah Reva Mohr EMAF 39 — „sensational view, tired screams“, Sarah Reva Mohr, 2025, 21’, 3-channel video installation, steel, acrylic glass, clay

Ausstellung Yalda Afsah EMAF 39 — „Jarramplas“, Yalda Afsah, 2024, 15’, Videoinstallation

Talks & Workshops

Internationally renowned scientists, artists, and experts from various disciplines speak as part of the talks. In their contributions—lectures, panels, or lecture performances—they develop and discuss diverse perspectives on the festival’s theme, which changes annually.

EMAF Performance Danielle Brathwaite Shirley

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.