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20th FullDome Festival
July 15-17 2026

SAVE THE DATE & CELEBRATE:
20 Years FullDome Festival / 100 Years Jena Planetarium.
Two anniversaries rolled in one!

 

THE JENA FULLDOME FESTIVAL - WHO WE ARE
In 2007, a group of committed students and teachers met in the Jena Planetarium to show their first own works in the new 360-degree medium. We courageously called it „The First Jena FullDome Festival.“ A legend was born! Now in its 20th year of existence, the FullDome Festival is argueably the oldest, continuously happening event of its kind.

Coincidentally our host, the Zeiss-Planetarium Jena, is the oldest continously operating Planetarium in the world. As the motto goes: 20 is the new 100!

WHAT ARE WE DOING ?
Visitors to the festival see and evaluate 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 offers a comprehensive overview of the state of the medium to the public, it is also a forum and marketplace for artists and producers to present their shows to a qualified audience. We encourage artistic experiments. It is amazing to see new approaches to the medium at each festival, including live concerts and performances, children's films and club culture in the 360-degree dome.

With about 800 contributions from 30 nations and close to 10.000 visitors from 2007 till today, the FullDome Festival is probably the biggest international festival of its kind.

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 new talents 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.

The festival ends with a highlight. The Award-ceremony where the renowned JANUS-Awards will again honor trailblazer productions and acknowledge excellence in immersive fulldome media.

WHERE ARE WE HEADING?
The evolution of immersive fulldome media is an invitation 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.

“Praise the Dome!”

 

★WINNERS OF THE 2025 JANUS-AWARDS★

★Best Fulldome Innovation:
This is Not a Ceremony - Ahnahktsipiitaa (Colin Van Loon)

★Best New Talent:
Reply - Felix Niemeyer

★Best Feature:
Seek - Nancy Baker Cahill, Cosm Studios

★Best Science & Education:
Starry Animals: Mountain, Sea and River Constellations in Colombian Skies - Parque Explora, Planetario de Medellin, Double Dome

★Best Art & Experiment:
Eternal Habitat- Sergey Prokofyev

★Best Fulldome Short:
AnimalArk - David Alejandro Garcia Cruz

★Special Jury Award:
Impossible Space - Rocco Helmchen, Johannes Kraas

★Best Fulldome Audio:
Impossible Space - Rocco Helmchen, Johannes Kraas

★Lifetime Achievement Award:
Jürgen Hellwig

Congratulations!