Tumbling Blossoms

On a cozy TV evening, a light suddenly illuminates. Stina is sucked into the past when her mother spits out a white blossom. Stina feels her way through a maze of white curtains and encounters an amused group of soldiers. When a girl sets the table under special observation of a soldier, Stina has to watch the soldier whispering somehing inaudible into the ear of the 12 - year old. While his wife looks away, suddenly it is Stina's hand that pulls a coin from his pants pocket. Back in the labyrinth of curtains, a flower is torn from her private parts with a silent scream. Back in the living room, her mother calms her down and both of them look at a sea of blossoms.

Credits

Cast:

Klara Contzen – Stina

Michaela Winterstein – Mutter

Romi Dörlitz – Mädchen

Julian Keck – Hauptsoldat

Katrine Eichberger – Mittäterin

Autor:

Sorina Gajewski

Camera:

Hanife Scheele

Producer:

Sorina Gajewski

Theresa Collmann

Editing:

Sorina Gajewski

Sound:

Lucas Castillo

Film info

Direction:

Sorina Gajewski

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, Spanish

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

09.00 min

Shilshul

A man and a woman live the comfortable life they built together. In a seemingly peaceful lunch, one truth bursts out and threatens to break it all up - she is tired of him. Surrounded by the best of everything, she finally spits it out. She insults him. The double meaning of her strange insult becomes tragic as he tries to interpret it in a more optimistic way. Instinctively, he gives up his pride for peace, but this only intensifies his wife's contempt. And so he squirms until he has no choice but to lock himself in the toilet. A comic experimental film, based on “During Lunchtime" - a short story written by Hanoch Levin.

Credits

Cast:

Christian Harting

Orit Nahmias

Autor:

Gaya von Schwarze

Camera:

Ben Rahf

Editing:

Julia Ketelhut

Producer:

Gaya von Schwarze

Ben Rahf

Film info

Direction:

Gaya von Schwarze

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Hebrew

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

15.39 min

On mothers and daughters

NINA (32) lives a self-determined life as an actress and mother in Amsterdam. For the funeral of her grandmother MARIE, she returns to her hometown in the Ruhr area, where she is confronted with the mindsets and customs of her past. In the midst of it all, stands Nina's mother KONNIE (58), who tries to hide her own grief behind the planning of Maries funeral - or rather avoid the question of how to come to terms with a mother, whose appreciation she had sorely missed all her life. For the first time, Nina takes an interest in her mother's feelings - but time is running out until the eulogy. As Nina struggles with an offer to play a character on „the dream ship“, the funeral festivities keep shifting - And there are still 60 pounds of plums in the kitchen that need to be pitted! With each new cancellation of her return flight, Nina starts to shift her perspective. At the end, she gets closer to her mother than ever before. So why not take a turn on“ the dream ship"? Granny Marie always loved watching it.

Credits

Cast:

Friederike Becht

Marion Ottschick

Peer Martiny

Jasmina Music

Aleksandra Corovic

Stefanie Meier

Adi Hrustemovic

Oliver Möller

Friedmann Eckert

Bruno Kirchhof

Drehbuch (Credit):

Tanja Egen

Esther Preußler

Camera:

Claudia Schröder

Producer:

Tanja Egen

Annika Pacyna

Film info

Direction:

Tanja Egen

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin in Ko-Produktion mit ZDF Das Kleine Fernsehspiel

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, Dutch

Version:

OV

Festivals:

Berlinale Perspektive Deutsches Kino (16.-26.02.2023)

19. achtung berlin Filmfestival (12.-19.04.2023)

Filmfestspiele Heimat Europa (11.-26.08.2023)

17. Fünf Seen Filmfestival (22.-30.08.2023)

Festival Der Neue Heimatfilm (23.-27.08.2023)

FILMZ – Festival des deutschen Kinos (02.-12.11.2023)

Zuhause Filmfestival Bernau (27.-29.09.2024)

Runtime:

84 min

Talk to me

Karo (28) is freshly separated and is struggling with the non-existing relationship with her father. When her mother MICHAELA (50) wants to go on vacation with her to Rügen, Karo suspects there is again some failed love affair behind it. What begins as a spontaneous trip quickly turns out to be a journey into the past of two women who couldn’t be more different: Michaela wants distraction, Karo wants some peace and quite. Arriving in the hotel, they meet the recently divorced JOCHEN (60) and his teenage daughter MARIE (16). Michaela uses him as a holiday flirt, but for Karo he could be the answer to all her questions and longings, while Marie is the mirror of a youth she never had. Mother and daughter quickly realize that the absent father has left a void that is bigger and more painful than they thought. Old sores are reopened and they both try to heal in their own way and free themselves from the roles they were forced into.

Credits

Cast:

Alina Stiegler – Karo

Barbara Philipp – Michaela

Peter Lohmeyer – Jochen

Pearl Graw – Marie

Jonathan Berlin – Alex

Zethphan Smith-Gneist – Victor

Pierre Besson – Vater

Drehbuch (Credit):

Janin Halisch

Camera:

Antonia Lange

Editing:

Jamin Benazzouz

Producer:

Clara Gerst

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Film info

Direction:

Janin Halisch

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin in Ko-Produktion mit Softspot Productions, Achtung Panda! & RBB

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

80 min

Salon Kassem

Mirrored walls expand the 50m2 space of the cellar Salon in one of Bergmannkiez’s side streets. A small refuge room for immigrant men for a short cosmetic treat. Meanwhile a TV running in the corner shows news of their faraway homelands flaming in internal and global wars.

Credits

Camera:

Faraz Fesharaki

Editing:

Khaled Mzher

Producer:

Khaled Mzher

Sound:

Christian Tech

Film info

Direction:

Khaled Mzher

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:1,66

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,66

Sound format:

Dolby Surround 5.1

Language:

Arabic / German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

26 min

The Noise That Colors Make

After the unexpected death of her mother, with whom she never had any real contact, ANNIE (17) comes to Berlin for the first time. There she meets her mother’s partner, BARBARA (43), and accompanies her during the preparation of the funeral. Initially unfamiliar, a fragile connection evolves between the two women. The new surroundings fascinate Anni and her distance gives way to an unexpected curiosity for the city and an interest in the reality of the life that her mother left behind.

Credits

Cast:

Zoë Lazos – Annie

Sheri Hagen – Barbara

Hinnerk Henze – Junger Typ

Script:

Mazlum Demir

Clara Puhlmann

Camera:

Maayane Bouhnik

Editing:

Celine Jünger

Producer:

Clara Puhlmann

Carlotta Cornehl

Sound:

Effy Ceruti

Film info

Direction:

Mazlum Demir

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby Surround 5.1

Language:

English, Greek, German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

18.06 min

Nakskov 1:50

For many years Nakskov was known as one of Denmark’s ‘reddest’ towns. The shipyard and sugar factory defined the town's identity and Nakskov was in many ways an ideal model for a modern town in the welfare state of Denmark. So much so, in fact, that Matilda Mester literal-ly analyses Nakskov as a miniature version of how the relationship between province, politics and proletariat has changed over the years, inspired by the miniature model of the sugar facto-ry that the retired workers enjoy making in their spare time. The result is a loving and attentive local history portrait of a city and the people who have shaped it over the years.

Credits

Script:

Matilda Mester

Camera:

Matilda Mester

Bruno Derksen

Editing:

Matilda Mester

Producer:

Matilda Mester

Maximilian Haslberger

Balthasar Busmann

Sound:

Jan Bachmann

Anna Sofie Hartmann

Henrike Meyer

Fritzi Friedrich

Music:

Felia Gram-Hanssen

Film info

Direction:

Matilda Mester

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Danish

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

90 min

Yugotransport — We are all on the same bus

Thirty years after the Yugoslavian war and fall of communism, men from ex-YU countries find themselves again in the same "bus". They are all seasonal workers on a road towards a better future and prosperity, their new Promised Land - Germany. And just when it seems that on this journey all the hope is gone, the Savior appears to help them all.

Credits

Cast:

Michael Ihnow

Sabrina Novack

Mile Ademović

Tomas Kutinjač

Boris Škorić

Script:

Esther Preußler

Andreas Kouba

Boris Hadžija

Producer:

Maximilian Feldkamp

Camera:

Anselm Belser

Editing:

Branka Pavlović

Music:

Misha Cvijović

Film info

Direction:

Boris Hadžija

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1.77

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1.77

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian - (Serbo-Croatian), German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

22.38 min

An unbearable distance

Encased in the margins of a flat, surrounded by the crying of their new born baby, a young couple hides in separate rooms to pursue their own desires. The birth of the child brought changes that they cannot share with one another. Overwhelmed by the transformation they are going through to become parents, they are trying to find the way to each other again.

Credits

Cast:

Alice Hoffmann

Luis Schubert

Script:

Julia Ketelhut

Camera:

Rocío Díaz Freire

Editing:

Gaya von Schwarze

Sound:

Malthe Bjørn Jensen

Producer:

Julia Ketelhut

Rocío Díaz Freire

Film info

Direction:

Julia Ketelhut

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby Surround 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

17.57 min