Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney

Located in the north-western corner of Germany close to the UNESCO Wadden Sea World Heritage at the North Sea, the International Filmfest Emden-Norderney is a true festival for the public with an enthusiastic audience for true-to life and story-driven films. The festival’s main focus is on current films from north-western Europe with an extra section for "New British & Irish cinema" accompanied by acclaimed International highlights, portraits, short films as well as children's and family's films. A large part of the films in competition is made up of German premieres, with the festival providing German subtitles for numerous films. More than 100 films are being presented on 7 screens, 2 of them on "our" festival island Norderney. Prize money totalling over € 55,000 will be awarded over the course of the festival, the winners of 6 competitions are being chosen by audience's vote. Over the years the IFF Emden-Norderney has not only become a show case for productions from the UK, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and German-speaking countries, it has also developed into a well-adopted, heartwarming festival and has acquired an exceptionally good reputation among visitors and the industry. 24.000 visitors attended the festival in 2017 and according to our guests the uniqueness of the festival is mainly due to its warm, very personal atmosphere and a particular closeness between film makers and their enthusiastic audiences. The International Filmfest Emden-Norderney was founded in 1990 and takes place every year in June. +++ PLEASE READ THE RULES & GUIDELINES BEFORE SUBMITTING. +++