Outdoor Film Festival -Weiterstadt

CODE: VJF 7.2

Work:

The whole festival is voluntarily organized, every one of our team is working on a volunteer base. Most people who participate use their holiday or take time off from work to be part of the festival.
The volunteers will help build up different areas of the festival such as all food/beverage and sale stands, all kinds of technic (projection and sound), the screens as well as the decorations on the festival areas.
There will be an Area for the screening in the evening (Tännchen), a darkened Circus tent for the daytime and a Camping area on a meadow.
The Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt runs from 14th until 18th August 2025. In these 5 days support is also needed: keep the area clean, sell drinks and food, join the kitchen team and prepare food for guests and staff. Afterwards the participants will also help to re-build the area. The working hours may be sometimes more than 6h and sometimes weekends are also working days, but there will be compensatory time-off. So, you will have your weekend - just on a different day.
During the festival you will also get in touch with the international film makers and German locals. Of course, you will also have time to watch some movies.

Accomodation and food

Your accommodation will be very basic. You, most of the Filmmakers as well as the Team will sleep in tents on the Camping area (open space with meadow), during the festival. Please bring your own sleeping bag and a camping mat with you! The festival has no sleeping Bags and no camping mats. We can only provide tents but no additional equipment. Please have also in mind that the weather in Germany is changing drastically in a short time. Very hot one day and sometimes freezing cold the other night. August can be also a bit stormy, so bring waterproof raincoats or -clothes with you. Generally, August in the south of Germany is the peak summer season. Please bring some sun blocker with you and clothing that works for you to cope with the heat.
Showers and toilets are in a building next to your accommodation (you need your own towels and hygienic products). The festival area is near a forest. There are different typical insects flying around such as bugs, bees and wasps! Food will be provided by the project partner and camp participants will join the kitchen team in a rotation method.
We have typical German mealtimes, that means breakfast is at morning, cold platter with sandwiches, cake and sweets during the day and a warm meal in the evening.
There is an indoor swimming pool nearby, so bring your swimwear with you.

Location and leisure

The city of Weiterstadt offers about 24.000 people a home and is one of the youngest cities in the Rhein-Main-area (measured by the average age of the population). Weiterstadt is located around 20 kilometers south of Frankfurt, has a shopping mall, a train station and direct access to the highway A5.
Weiterstadt is around 9 Km (5 Miles) from the city of Darmstadt. Here you can find a lot of bars, pubs, clubs, museums, culture programs, shopping malls, historical sides and much more.
Darmstadt is very famous for being the headquarters of the ESA (European Space Agency) all the space missions from Europe will be controlled out of Darmstadt. And the artist quarter called Mathildenhöhe is a world cultural heritage.
Local clubs in all districts offer people of all ages lots of possibilities for free-time activities. The castle in Braunshardt and the recreational areas in Weiterstadt and Gräfenhausen are also popular.

Project hosted by

Quote: Woodstock, Wacken, Weiterstadt – the biggest open air short film festival in Germany
Because during hot and sunny summer days, there was no audience inside, the local cinema of Weiterstadt (KoKi) decided to move outside with one of their self-made movies (Pink Floyd in Pompeji), in 1977. The Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt was born. During the years more films had been shown, the festival lasted more and more days, the audience increased, the open-air screen got enlarged, the afternoon presentations got extended, the area was getting bigger. That means a lot more logistics and crew are needed. Therefore, the help of the workcamp volunteers will be very appreciated.
Here you can read more about the festival: https://www.filmfest-weiterstadt.de/en/
What kind of movies to expect, you can see on the fb-page, where Links to some movies from the last years program are posted: https://www.facebook.com/FilmfestWeiterstadt
You can also find new information and get a feeling for the festival on Instagram: @filmfestweiterstadt

Directions to meeting point

You can reach Weiterstadt easily by train. After arriving in Frankfurt/Wiesbaden/Darmstadt you can use googlemaps or the train app called DB or deutsche Bahn App to check your connection going to Weiterstadt. There is even a bus running. After you arrive at the train station in Weiterstadt you can reach the campsite on foot within 15 minutes. Going to the workcamp, please book your connection to Weiterstadt directly, so if there are delays you can take the next best connection to Weiterstadt.

Or you take the Local public transport from Darmstadt.
By using the local public transport (busline W1 and W3) to station "Weiterstadt Hallenbad". The walk to the area is about 10 minutes sketched on the map at the end of the page. You can also use Google-Maps.
Find your individual timetable on rmv.de

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