19th FullDome Festival

May 15-18, 2025

Zeiss Planetarium Jena
The Fulldome Festival Jena celebrates its 19th edition in May 2025 and brings fascinating 360° fulldome shows from all over the world to Jena. As the oldest festival of its kind, it offers a platform for professional and and independent video and media artists who present their work on one of the most innovative stages. Since its foundation in 2007, the Fulldome Festival has been the most important international festival for 360° films and immersive media art. Long before the Sphere opened in Las Vegas, Jena celebrated the potential of the fulldome medium. Today, the Fulldome festival is in no way inferior to the innovation of the Sphere in Las Vegas and offers an equally impressive and immersive experience. The festival program
offers a broad spectrum of 360° films, lectures, presentations, live performances performances, children's films and club culture. The renowned Janus Award will once again honor the best productions, making it a highlight of the festival. “Praise the Dome!”

THE JENA FULLDOME FESTRIVAL - WHO WE ARE
In 2007, a group of committed students and teachers met in the Jena Planetarium to experience their first own works in the new 360-degree medium. The FullDome Festival was born. It is now the oldest, continuously happening fulldome festival.

What are we doing?
With about 800 contributions from 30 nations and close to 10.000 visitors from 2007 till today, the FullDome Festival is most probably the biggest international festival of its kind. Visitors see and evaluate a variety of international fulldome films, they meet professional, student and independent producers and take part in workshops, presentations and expert talks. Festival curators, an international jury and the festival directors evaluate the submitted works and select the most innovative productions for the festival awards.

The FullDome Festival not only offers a comprehensive overview of the state of the medium to the public, it is also the ideal forum for artists and producers to present their shows to a qualified audience. We encourage artistic experiments in the 360-degree dome. It is amazing to see new approaches to the medium at each festival.

Finding kindred spirits, getting inspired by new ideas and starting collaborations are strong points of the annual FullDome Festival.
A core mission of the FullDome Festival has always been to encourage students to stretch the envelope of what’s possible in the dome. Many students who contributed to the festival in previous years are now employed in planetariums and immersive media companies. If you are looking for talent, the Jena Festival is the place to go.

Where are we heading?
The evolution of immersive fulldome media is an opportunity to continuously rethink the festival’s structure and program. How do we best serve the community? How do we match the expectations of producers, planetarium people and the public? The Jena FullDome Festival wants to encourage people from planetariums, fulldome theatres, universities, museums, creative artists, pioneers and vendors to embrace fulldome as an educational tool, as an immersive art form, and as mind-altering experience.