"I am looking forward to introducing this selection from the German competition of the Oberhausen Festival 2012. Although it is the German competition, the program includes two films by directors from Toronto: “Plan B” by Jasmine Ellis, and my film “Item Number”. And we’ll both be in attendance.
One of the many good things about the Oberhausen festival is that their programming, although having an International vs. a German competition, doesn’t treat these categories too seriously. There are plenty of non-German productions in the German competition, and vice versa, and the festival is quite happy to
expand the notion of what a German film could be. Nationality is a fleeting fictitious thing. Films themselves know that and transgress and morph fixed notions of nationality, and I wish more festivals would follow up on that.
I’m thrilled that my Canadian/Indian production will have it’s North American premiere in a German program!
As a vanity addition, I asked Jutta to include the music video “Star Escalator”, which won the first German music video competition in Oberhausen in 1999. It was co-directed by Michel Klöfkorn and me while we were in film school, and was
shot in a suburb of Frankfurt that I lived in as a teenager… how could this get more emo!"
Oliver Husain
(photo from Star Escalator, dir. Michel Klöfkorn + Oliver Husain, Germany 1998, 4min., Music: Sensorama, Winner of the MuVi Competition at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival 1999.)
Sunday, March 10:
GOETHE FILMS: Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2012 - The German Competition
Tuesday, March 12:
GOETHE FILMS: Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2012 - The International Competition
At TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 4
6:30pm each (doors open 6:10pm)
Tickets $10 per night, $5 with OCAD U student card!
Day-of sales at the TIFF Box Office
Open to audiences 18+ 
