What is the Positively Different Short Film Festival all about?
Gender, sexuality, race, class, ethnicity, religion, able-bodiedness influence our present and future, life prospects and obstructions. Shedding light on life paths of “others” – often through realism and humor and other times through abstraction and experimentation – Positively Different Short Film Festival (PDSFF) aims to act as a reference point for raising awareness with regards to intersectionality and discrimination, providing a safe space for co-creation and networking.
Here is what one of the directors has to say about the festival:
"It was my third time I was invited with one of my films to this festival and I have been to many others but I can truly say it is the best festival experience one could wish for. The focus makes it super special, the films are very diverse, beautiful and interesting, the screening are very well attended and the audience is super interested, hospitality is just on it’s own level and all of that get’s even better year after year. This festival just doesn’t feel like a relative newcomer but like an institution, that is unique and so, so relevant to have. Also the team is beyond lovely. After three years I feel both being part of a movement and a family. 🙂 Thank you so much for your work and this amazing festival!"
– Janis Westphal For the past five years, Positively Different Short Film Festival has been unraveling the topics of diversity, intersectionality, justice. We have worked hard to create a space where we can be safe and brave, and to defend rights and equality, to speak out against discrimination and violence. We have shared our communalities, built resistances and talked of love and revolt.
Coming into its sixth year, PDSFF gets ready for a leap away from the solid ground of our bright or grim realities, in order to open our hearts and minds up to what has yet to come.
