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A let­ter to home

Where is home once you are forced to leave it behind? A lost letter from exile begins to reveal the unspoken pain beneath the cold streets of Berlin.

Credits

Cast:

Script:

Sina Aghazadeh

Camera:

Dorothea Pilz

Editing:

Sina Aghazadeh

Juan Carlos Bautista

Producer:

Sina Aghazadeh

Sound:

Shadi Farid

Elline Graf

Tondesign:

Christian Obermaier

Szenenbild:

Ali Pourahmadian

Music:

Stefan Pinkernell

Kostüm (Credit):

Shirin Javdani

Grading:

Nour Yazbeck

Tonmischung:

Ralf Krause

Film info

Direction:

Sina Aghazadeh

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2026

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, English and Farsi

Version:

OV

Runtime:

14 min.

Pigeon Rev­o­lu­tion

Hong Kong, 2023. Four years after the mass protests, many forms of political expression have vanished under the National Security Law. A former citizen journalist attempts to preserve the traces of a suppressed movement. Between archives and personal memories, he searches for ways to keep the spirit of 2019 alive. At the same time, he rescues and cares for injured street pigeons. As remembrance itself becomes increasingly politicised, the film poses a poignant question: what remains of a movement after it fails? A portrait of a person quietly resisting oblivion.

Credits

Cast:

Anonymous

Camera:

Luis Hartmann

Editing:

Luis Hartmann

Anonymous

Producer:

Noa Seraphina Schmidt

Film info

Direction:

Luis Hartmann

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2026

Shooting format:

16 mm & Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby Soround 5.1

Language:

English

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

29 min.

The plant from the canaries

May, a Korean woman in her early thir:es, finds herself suddenly alone a\er an unexpected breakup. As she drives through sleepless days in Berlin, memories of her youth in Seoul quietly resurface.

Credits

Cast:

Jung Hyeonsu – May

Daria Wichmann – Nadine

Script:

Ruan Lan-Xi

Camera:

Jonathan Steil

Editing:

Ruan Lan-Xi

Producer:

Ruan Lan-Xi

Tondesign:

Nils Plambeck

Music:

Louis Hardin (Moondog) & Ruben Staub

Film info

Direction:

Ruan Lan-Xi

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2025

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Korean, English and German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

66 min.

Two-tailed Lizard

CLARA has been living in Berlin for eight years and doesn't know what to do with her life. LUDOVICA has never le[ her small town in northern Italy; she has a son and a restaurant to run. They used to be friends. They meet again for an aperi&vo, which soon degenerates into a spiral of alcohol, joined by Ludovica's son NOAH, his imaginary friend and an army of tailless lizards. A love leaer to Brianza, with a touch of horror.

Credits

Cast:

Silvia Bertocchi – Ludovica

Anna Romano – Clara

Alessandro Callea – Noah

Roberta Decó – Rada

Script:

Marina Ghersinich & Flavio Yuri Rigamonti

Camera:

Luis Hartmann

Editing:

Lorenzo Petracchi

Producer:

Marina Ghersinich

Sound:

Sebastian Pablo Poloni

Film info

Direction:

Flavio Yuri Rigamonti

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2026

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Italian and German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

19 min.

Le Cose Leg­gere

This is the extraordinary tale of a land without gravity, and the true story of its inhabitants who yearn to continue living there.

Credits

Cast:

Marta Zarelli – Sofia

Pierfrancesco Gallo – Bruno

Viola Dialuce – Viola

Script:

Adriano Theill

Editing:

Adriano Theill

Producer:

Daniel Ruprech

Adriano Theill

Sound:

Manfredi Rignanese

Film info

Direction:

Adriano Theill

Genre:

fictional

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Language:

Italian with German and English Subtitels

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

105

Kos­mopo­liten

Thore brings back not only love from his vacation, but also bed bugs to his girlfriend Alva's shared apartment. Her flatmates advise her to break up with Thore ASAP. Panic and chaos begins.

Credits

Cast:

Şükrü-Can Fener – Thore

Vega Maria Fenske – Alva

Amelie Willberg – Magda

Nikolai Gemel – Friedrich

Rônni Maciel Moreira Soares – Diego

Raafat Mazbouh – Raafat

Script:

Jonathan Deges

Lilian Mazbouh

Camera:

Jonathan Deges

Editing:

Sabrina Rücker

Producer:

Klara Liebig

Sound:

Michael Holz

Music:

Tiff Randol

Film info

Direction:

Lilian Mazbouh

Jonathan Deges

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Language:

German with Englisch and Portuguese Subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

10 min

End of the Cir­cle

In 'End of the Circle', a chamber piece explores the lives of four generations of women in a family, who grapple with the expectations of their role as guardians of men and family - often at the expense of their own dreams and self-fulfillment.

Credits

Cast:

Kara Schröder – Marla

Greta Krämer – Luna

Alva Schäfer – Jade

Elisabeth Niederer – Nelia

Cornelia Werner – Erika

Helga Seebacher – Lilo

Script:

Mareike Danisch

Camera:

Anselm Belser

Editing:

Marc Bühler

Producer:

Mareike Danisch

Sound:

Ludwig Fiedler

Film info

Direction:

Mareike Danisch

Genre:

fictional

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1,85:1

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1.85:1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

98

UNRUHE

There’s been a strange epidemic lately Going amongst the folk, So that many in their madness Began dancing. Which they kept up day and night, Without interruption, Until they fell unconscious. Many have died of it.

Credits

Script:

Carlos Pereira

Camera:

Lena Thiemann

Editing:

Lena Thiemann

Carlos Pereira

Producer:

Carlotta Cornehl

Sound:

Moritz Zuchantke

Tondesign:

Celine Jünger

Music:

Tim Tama

Film info

Direction:

Carlos Pereira

Genre:

Experimentalfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Shooting format:

16mm/Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Language:

Subtitles German/English

Version:

OV

Runtime:

12

Zero-sum game

Following her father’s death, Heloise returns to his company’s headquarters for a callous reading of his will. Her grief turns to anger, and she unleashes an absurd game upon the power-hungry suits.

Credits

Cast:

Mathilda Switala – Heloise

Andreas Anke – The Interim Boss (Oliver Fischer)

Harriet Kracht – The Mother (Marianne)

Gerrit Neuhaus – The Lawyer (Dr. Jünemann)

Barbara Krzoska – The Student (Ilse Becker)

Philipp Lind – The Works Council (Patrick Seibert)

Script:

Philip Müller

Camera:

Regina Wiebe

Editing:

Tobias Kirschner

Producer:

Fabio Giuseppe Fritz

Henry Han Ming Kho

Sound:

Finn Tödte

Music:

Finn Tödte

Film info

Direction:

Philip Müller

Pina Beres

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

13 min