The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen examines the political film post 9/11 in a big thematic programme.

No issue has been as hotly debated here as that of the political film: the East-West conflict, political activism, German film subsidies – Oberhausen is the place where all the relevant films have been shown and the scandals have erupted. Today political films are experiencing something of a revival, due to various states of emergency, the war in Iraq, increasing globalisation and new/old class conflicts.