Closing : 14 January 2009
Festival: 23-25 Jan 2009

This year the timing and arrangements are changing slightly. The festival is a couple of weeks earlier than usual. They are also moving from the outskirts of Berlin-Köpenick to a hotel in the centre of this commuter town just outside Berlin.

The name is a set of puns around "Till Eulenspiegel" (the rascal character celebrated in Richard Strauss's tone-poem) and "fried owl's eggs" - hence the owl logo. You might guess that the festival is devoted to humour and satire.

It is organised by FiVia Club. Even the rules and forms are funny. They prefer films not more than 3 years old and up to 20 minutes long, but explain: "Of course, when the quality is extremely high, the organisers can change the rules ! "

There is a pre-selection process and then the films selected for presentation will be judged in public by an independent jury. There is no entry fee but if you want your tape back you must enclose international post vouchers.

The festival starts at 7pm Friday and finishes at midday Sunday.

They permit VHS, S-VHS or Mini-DV and add - "DVD only allowed where you can bring your own player guaranteed to play your DVD!"

Though this popular event attracts a sophisticated crowd who usually have good English, the language of the festival is German. Your entry should not depend on English puns. If you wish to attend you'll be made very welcome indeed, but should have some knowledge of German to follow all the jokes in the films and the announcements.

In recent years several UK films have done well there including Extinction Event , Dropping Off, The Remote Control and Stripped.

If your German is good go to their website and download the forms ... otherwise download our English versions !

Website: www.videoclub-fivia.de (click Eulenspiegeleien in the menu on the left, then look for the Union Jack and click that.)
E-mail: eulenspiegeleien@arcor.de | Entry Form (English pdf) | Rules (English pdf)