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19th FullDome Festival

May 15-18, 2025

Herzlichen Glückwunsch den Gewinnern vom FullDome Festival 2025!

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

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.

Über uns

Das Jena FullDome Festival, gegründet 2007, bietet eine offene Plattform, um immersive Medien, elektronische Kunst, Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und die Erforschung von Spaß und Zukunft in der Kuppel zu präsentieren und zu feiern.

Wir laden Medienkünstler, Planetariumsmenschen, Wissenschafts- und Musikvisualisierer, interdisziplinäre Forscher, Dome VJs, 360°-Performer, Raumklangschaffende und Pioniere immersiver Technologien aus der ganzen Welt ein, ihre Arbeiten zu zeigen und ihre Ideen zu teilen, live und in Surround, jenseits des Paradigmas des flachen Bildschirms.

Das Jenaer FullDome Festival schließt sich mit Partnerfestivals auf drei Kontinenten zu einer Gemeinschaft internationaler Fulldome Festivals zusammen. 2021 war das erste Jahr, in dem sich vier Festivals auf drei Kontinenten die #BestOfEarth-Auswahl in ihren Veranstaltungsorten teilten, wobei 19 Fulldome-Filme für die BestOfEarth Awards nominiert wurden. Die Geschichte dieser Gemeinschaft wird fortgesetzt. Das nächste BestOfEarth-Festival ist für das Jahr 2023 geplant.

Unsere internationale Community umfasst Menschen aus:
Argentinien, Australien, Österreich, Weißrussland, Belgien, Brasilien, Kanada, Chile, China, Kolumbien, Tschechische Republik, Dänemark, Ägypten, Äthiopien, Finnland, Frankreich, Deutschland, Ghana, Griechenland, Ungarn, Indien, Indonesien, Iran, Italien, Japan, Jordanien, Kasachstan, Kenia, Kosovo, Lettland, Mexiko, Niederlande, Nepal, Neuseeland, Philippinen, Polen, Portugal, Rumänien, Russland, Serbien, Südkorea, Spanien, Sri Lanka, Schweden, Schweiz, Taiwan, Thailand, Türkei, Vereinigtes Königreich, Wales, Ukraine, USA