Archives: Films

A Hunger Artist

In this adaption of the Franz Kafka story with the same title, a streamer fasts for 40 days in front of a large online audience. Thousands follow and comment on his life in his 24/7 livestream. He gets in-stream support from his manager, who happens to be an avantgarde ASMR artist. For no particular reason the interest in his performance suddenly disappears, as he starts a new round of fasting. With less and less audience the streamer is looking for a new management and continues to fast nonetheless. When he is left completely alone he breaks his old fasting records by far, but unnoticed by anyone. Just before his death a last viewer appears and the streamer reveals why he had to fast.

Credits

Cast:

Jens Winter – Hungerkünstler

Ilonka Petruschka – Managerin D

Script:

Oskar Zoche

Lukas Wesslowski

Camera:

Karl Neubart

Editing:

Oskar Zoche

Moritz Geiser

Producer:

Maximilian Feldkamp

Sound:

Niaz Faridani-Rad

Film info

Direction:

Oskar Zoche

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

16mm & digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

English

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

27 min

Memo

Guille, a young Venezuelan immigrant, is a bartender in Berlin. On a lonely night at the bar he is surprised by the appearance of Memo, his brother, whom he hasn’t talked to in a long time. While skeptic at first, Guille goes along with his brother’s wish to have some rum, listen to music and hang out. As the night progresses, Memo tells Guille about a mysterious encounter he had with their dead mother, and a gift she left for him. Guille, who took care of their dying mother while Memo was absent, calls Memo on his lies and carelessness and puts an end to the night. After Memo leaves, Guille finds something left on the counter by his brother, a gift which will trigger his true reconciliation with his brother, and with their home.

Credits

Cast:

Felice Audrines

Miguel Dagger

Hartmut Rüger

Milagros Dìaz

Script:

Nelson Algomeda

Camera:

Selma von Polheim Gravesen

Editing:

Víctor Pequeño

Producer:

Elisabeth Hoschek

Sound:

Thorsten Hoppe

Music:

Louay Kanawati

Film info

Direction:

Nelson Algomeda

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Spanish, German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

18 min

Encoun­ters

Berlin, during the first wave of the Co-Vid 19 pandemic. The city, their inhabitants. Different migration stories: Viktorija and Zaid. They meet on a park, she unemployed, he employed as a delivery bike driver. A day in their lives. Berlin's precariousness, the precariousness of the migrant community. The fear in the houses of those who wait and the work on the body of those who work. At the end of the day, the only thing left to do is to eat and to dance. A short film made between friends, remembering moments we lived in this time, what our eyes have seen.

Credits

Cast:

Viktorija Eitutyté

Zaid

Script:

Froilán Urzagasti Montero

Camera:

Esra Tanriverdi

Editing:

David Gomez Alzarte

Producer:

Sinan Özarslan

Sound:

Magdalena Jacob

Music:

Jorge Villaseca

Film info

Direction:

Froilán Urzagasti Montero

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

English, German and Lithuanian

Version:

OV

Runtime:

24 min

Erden

It’s 2120 and the existence of our home planet “Earth 0” is threatened by perilous magnetic storms. As the surviving citizens make efforts to preserve their nature in shielded camps, radiant clouds cast uncanny shadows upon the earth’s surface. Soulmigration to an exoplanet seems the only escape left to evade the complete extermination of humankind.

Credits

Cast:

Barbara Krebs

Christopher Reinhardt

Script:

Celina Schmidt

Camera:

Luis Hartmann

Editing:

Celina Schmidt

Producer:

Elisabeth Hoschek

Sound:

Nils Plambeck

Music:

Lee Francis Chapman

Film info

Direction:

Celina Schmidt

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

15 min

Domes­tic Ani­mal

Wannsee: a rich island of idyllic peace, just next to the economic capital of Europe. Between the green gardens and the slow traffic of fancy cars, next to the tranquillity of the lake and inside a modern villa, lives Billie Leibbrandt. Georg’s six-figures-salary, a clever son attending the best schools, an englishspeaking Au-Pair able of taking care of his needs, a small gallery where she can expose the art she likes: Billie loves her life and has never questioned it. One day, a summer morning like every other one, the woman finds a strip of blood in the kitchen, which leads to Athena, the family dog.

Credits

Cast:

Bea Brocks

Alexander Gier

Nikola J. Dahlke

Olivia Papoli-Barawati

Christian Harting

Script:

Flavio Yuri Rigamonti

Marina Ghersinich

Camera:

Hanife Koch

Editing:

Flavio Yuri Rigamonti

Producer:

Lorenzo Gandolfo

Marina Ghersinich

Sound:

Alex Feldman

Film info

Direction:

Flavio Yuri Rigamonti

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,39

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,39

Sound format:

3.1

Language:

German and English

Version:

OV

Festivals:

32. FILMKUNSTFEST MV (02.-07.05.2023)

29thVisioni Italiane (13.-19.11.2023)

Runtime:

15 min

Swim­ming Les­son

While Mrs. Jacobs gives swimming lessons to the young caregiver Nadja in her retirement home, the two develop a quiet attraction to each other. Even though the old woman secretly longs for it, she struggles with social values and her own feelings, which deny her this closeness.

Credits

Cast:

Katharina Nesytowa

Friederike Frerichs

Alexander Ullmann

Script:

Lisa Hürtgen

Olivia Requat

Camera:

Gisela Günther

Editing:

Laura Hölzel

Producer:

Lisa Hürtgen

Sound:

Manfredi Rignanese

Music:

Andreas Schmidgen

Film info

Direction:

Lisa Hürtgen

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

9.57 min

Monte Kali

After the sudden collapse of Monte Kali’s core, the miners are swallowed by darkness. Trapped in the silence of the deep earth, they start to remember. One of them is haunted by images far beyond what any prayer can reconcile.

Credits

Cast:

Oli Bigalke

Julia Borchardt

Script:

Jozefien Van der Aelst

Editing:

Jozefien Van der Aelst

Camera:

Edoardo Scussel

Producer:

Johny Venegas

Film info

Direction:

Jozefien Van der Aelst

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Version:

OV

Runtime:

24 min

Fab­rik

Shot entirely in Digital Infrared, FABRIK follows a lone humanoid creature, fighting for survival in a forsaken world – living off oil-spills from self-operating factories. Her quest for oil takes her across the desert and into an unknown world of steam and machines.

Credits

Cast:

Josephine Lange

Lukas Hanus

Script:

Sverre Aune

Rocío Díaz Freire

Camera:

Rocío Díaz Freire

Editing:

Sanhah Lee

Producer:

Lasse Holdhus

Sound:

Shadi Farid

Film info

Direction:

Sverre Aune

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Non

Version:

OV

Festivals:

18th edition of ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival (14.-16.04.2023)

PrevYou (16.-17.06.2023)

Randfilmfest Kassel (15.-18.09.2023)

Crossings Filmfestival (28.09.-01.10.2023)

17. THESS INTERNATIONAL SHORTS (01.-21.10.2023)

Tbilisi International Student Film Festival (10.-15.10.2023)

Berliner Porn Film Festival (24.-29.10.2023)

GRRL HAUS Cinema Festival (29.01.2024)

INTERNATIONAL TOUR FILM FESTIVAL (02.-06.10.2024)

Runtime:

19 min

Liguster

A never-ending line of identical, single-unit houses next to each other, neatly separated by privet hedges – Ligustrum. This world is made for families, consisting of father, mother and child, of course. He’s got the job, she’s got the kids. That’s the way it has always been. Even when GRETA gives birth, not to a human child, but to a regular vacuum cleaner, nothing changes in this world’s beautiful order. Greta may be stunned, but everyone else is thrilled. A vacuum cleaner is very handy! And after all, motherhood is the most important thing for a woman. Plus the household. She’s expected to take care of the little machine just like a normal kid. Greta wants to fit in, to play along, but the more she tries, the more she understands the absurdity of her world, where the norms are suffocating and from which there is no way out.

Credits

Cast:

Sophie Roeder

Roger Bonjour

Script:

Jonas Nemela

Camera:

Hanife Koch

Editing:

Vanessa Heeger

Producer:

Jonas Nemela

Sound:

Andre Goeters

Tondesign:

Thomas Wallmann

Music:

Mark Barden

Film info

Direction:

Jonas Nemela

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin GmbH in Ko-Produktion mit dem Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb)

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Festivals:

23. Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival (22.-27.03.2023)

19. FEST — New Directors | New Films Festival in Espinho (19.-26.06.2023)

PrevYou (16.-17.06.2023)

24. LES UTOPIALES (01.-05.11.2023)

Runtime:

20 min