»Kino« is a non-profit organization composed of more than a hundred video and cinema creators from the province of Quebec (Canada). Three years ago, we created Kino ’00, a festive event where freedom-craving filmmakers (called kinoïtes) and their wild and eclectic audience of more than 500 people meet each month for an unpredictable event of video shorts. Documentaries, essays, shorts on current events, art films and animations, our work is created in a spirit of total freedom of content. This summer, our wandering filmmaking community has been invited to bring the Kino ’00 formula to the International Short Film Festival Hamburg, to St. Petersburg’s Festival of Festivals, and also to a special event in Paris.

THE KINO KABARET

The Kino Kabaret is a unique event, taking filmmakers on an amazing adventure. For a brief period of time (usually a couple of days), teams made up of kinoïtes as well as foreign filmmakers commit to produce one short video every day. The videos are written, shot and edited during the day and presented in the evening in a cabaret event.
The Kino Kabaret is hosted by a master of ceremony, and each filmmaker or team is asked to tell the audience a few words about their video before it is shown. The Kino Kabaret transforms the festival into a living cinema laboratory. Each day, the participating filmmakers take to the streets with light shooting gear. They become sound-men, editors, even actors for the movies of the others, while directing their own. Everything is done in a cooperative spirit and each kinoïte has the opportunity to meet these filmmaking marathon-runners.


There is only one rule to obey to make movies in Kino ’00: Do well with nothing, do great with little, and do it now!

For more information on Kino ’00 and to see some films you can go to www.kino00.com

Daily screenings at the FESTIVALCLUB, Harkortstr. 125, 22765 Hamburg, open daily from 10 p.m.!