Mudhole

It is dawn in Moddergat, a small coastal village in the Netherlands in the year 2039. There is little time left for the four-headed delegation of the International Climate Tribunal to prepare the human sacrifice that will keep the dangers of climate change at bay. But when the tide is high and the world is watching, the sacrifice asks himself: is it really worth dying for?

Credits

Cast:

Milan Weitenberg

Julia Schellekens

Eline Schellekens

Robert Schellekens

Tineke van Veen

Elisabeth Köller

Lena Heiß

Justin Schellekens

Script:

Job Antoni

Camera:

Felix Schuster

Editing:

Maria Gans

Producer:

Elisabeth Köller

Sound:

Justin Schellekens

Tondesign:

Vadim Muehlberg

Music:

Justin Schellekens

Film info

Direction:

Job Antoni

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,39

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,39

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Dutch

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

25 min

The Sky Is a Square

Chelar is upset. Upset with climate change, upset with the rules of her classmate’s games and upset with the absence of any real connection with nature. So Chelar decides to become a tree. What starts as a spontanious act soon becomes a mind changing example for her friend Solvei and the adults around her.

Credits

Cast:

Helen Luise Höhle

Maïmouna Mbacké

Cito Andresen

Script:

Agnes Maagaard

Camera:

Karl Neubart

Editing:

David Vogel

Producer:

Maximilian Seidel

Sound:

Moritz Geiser

Music:

Frederik Heidemann

Film info

Direction:

Agnes Maagaard

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:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

12 min

Neophyt im Morgenrot

A scientist is on the road to take measurements in a harsh mountain landscape. Always in opposition to his observations, an encounter with a mythical creature changes his perception. He discovers the sensual and subtle of his environment and delves deeper into this experience.

Credits

Cast:

Florian Denk

Taylor Rose

Javier Hernàndes

Script:

Paul Rohlfs

Camera:

Paul Rohlfs

Producer:

Paul Rohlfs

Kostüm (Credit):

Theresa Hoskins

Editing:

Paul Rohlfs

Sound:

Giorgi Korkashvili

Tondesign:

Louis McGuire

Film info

Direction:

Paul Rohlfs

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

30 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1 & 2.0

Language:

Version:

OV

Runtime:

14 min

All we chose to believe in

Disappointed by his life so far, the late thirties Tolga visits his hometown in the Ruhr area and finds himself in the kitchens and living rooms of his shattered family present. He stoically counters the subtle attempts of the others to include him in their own unavoidable life plans. But gradually a feeling of rootedness spreads in him...

Credits

Cast:

Tolgahan Kaftan

Alfred Hartung

Sercan Bilinç Güvenışık

Güneş Arslan

Yadigar Uzun

Alexander Gregor

Ayfer Atay

Script:

Övünç Güvenışık

Camera:

Paul Maximilian Näther

Editing:

Övünç Güvenışık

Producer:

Övünç Güvenışık

Simona Kostova

Ceylan Ataman-Checa

Jörg Daniel

Film info

Direction:

Övünç Güvenışık

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,87

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,87

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, Turkish

Version:

OV

Runtime:

30 min

Broken Base

The young, ambitious Eva came to Vienna from Germany to study architecture there. At the end of her studies, she begins an internship in the office of the influential architect Andreas Hummel. Her everyday life now revolves around designing an art park, and in the process she gets to know the hierarchies of a male-dominated workplace. She observes the dynamics between the architects and gradually becomes part of the subtle power games. As the time elapses in the architecture office, she understands that she should correspond to an image that her environment makes of her: to be a young and available woman. Eva is confronted with the power and scope of this ascription and is forced to define her position clearly.

Credits

Cast:

Sofia Falsone

Lorenz Klee

Thomas Sommerauer

Sophia Burtscher

Rainer Spechtl

Lea Brückner

Anna Rieser

Antonia Labs

Caner Sunar

Paul Schaeffer

Bernhard Riener

Helmut Mooshammer

Sabrina Tannen

Script:

Isabella Kröger

Producer:

Andrea Bautista

Gerald Sommerauer

Genia Leis

Camera:

Francisco MeCe

Editing:

Janos-Jonatán Loerincz

Art Direction:

Genia Leis

Music:

Andor Sperling

Tonmeister:

Nuno Bautista

Tonmischung:

Matthias Lindner

Film info

Direction:

Gerald Sommerauer

Genia Leis

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

84 min

The Night Alphabet

When we love someone, we create an image of that person. But, when it comes to it, do we project our love onto the image or onto the person? This film portrays a young couple with a newborn child in a foreign city. Incapable of communicating his feelings, Ruben alienates himself by writing in the night alphabet. But, by doing so, he strives further and further away from reality. Meanwhile Diana, his wife, has a fight of her own. Locked up in a small apartment, she has to deal with her baby blues. The immersion in the fictional world that Ruben creates, begins to invade reality, sharpening episodes of psychosis or confusion for Diana. Little by little both finish destroying the ruins of what was left of them.

Credits

Cast:

Adriana Möbius

Eneko Sanz

Johanna Debes

Elio Alfred Sievert

Philipp Gordon Dohle

Script:

Javier Lazo

Gordon Dohle

Camera:

Hanife Koch

Editing:

Agustín Melfi

Producer:

Lorenzo Gandolfo

Marina Ghersinich

Sound:

Alex Acevedo

Film info

Direction:

Javier Lazo

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

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 5.1

Language:

Spanish

Version:

OV

Festivals:

19. achtung berlin Filmfestival (12.-19.04.2023)

Runtime:

14 min

Jessy

The emotionally reserved 13-year-old Jessy can hardly recall what life was like when her father Miro was still around. It's been seven years since he's been sent away to prison. In her protected cocoon, Jessy doesn't let anyone in, anyone except her mother Lilja. The two have a symbiotic relationship which is endangered when Jessy's father returns unexpectedly from prison. Forced to get familiarised with the stranger that has now invaded her territory, Jessy learns how to open up and redefne her own boundaries. A wild teenager named Max who works at the same Garage that Miro used to work at, encourages Jessy to let her guards down and lose control. Jessy fnds herself drifting from one dependent relationship to the next in an attempt to fnd her own self and a sense of Independence.

Credits

Cast:

Pola Geiger

Hannes Wegener

Anca Cipariu

Luis Pintsch

Uwe Preuss

Folker Albrecht

Rainer Sellien

Walter Kreye

Shenia Pitschm

Emmi Lou Brettschneider

Noa Amir

Jana Hampel

Script:

Rebeca Ofek

Beliban zu Stolberg

Camera:

Albrecht von Grünhagen

Producer:

Jana Kreissl

Tobias Gaede

Rebeca Ofek

Sabine Schmidt

Sound:

Jonathan Ritzel

Music:

Clarissa Farran

Film info

Direction:

Rebeca Ofek

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

RBB

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Language:

German and Romanian with english subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

80 min

Insurgente

The film "Insurgente" accompanies the FARC-EP fighters through the Colombian peace process and from war to uncertain civilian life. The FARC was founded in 1964 and was the oldest guerrilla in the Western Hemisphere. The peace treaty ended a 52-year civil war, but the reasons for it were not affected.

Credits

Camera:

Tonio Hecker

Producer:

Patrick Schorn

Editing:

Tonio Hecker

Sound:

Gaston Ibarroule

Film info

Direction:

Tonio Hecker

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Friendship Films GmbH

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Spanish with german or english subtitles

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

179 min

Say You Love Me

Former ice-skating champion BIANCA (40) devotedly trains her prodigy son MALIK (13) for an upcoming competition. Sensing that Bianca is fantasizing of leaving him, Malik punishes his mother by provoking an accident with his choreographer SERGEI (25). Trapped in their very own cycle of violence, mother and son are staggering between intimate tenderness and a brutal distance, challenging the boundaries of their unconditional love.

Credits

Cast:

Tinka Fürst – Bianca

Arthur Wolfgang Mai – Malik

Joti Polizoakis – Sergei

Camera:

Antonia Lange

Script:

Marijana Verhoef

Producer:

Elena Zurbuch

Editing:

Jil Lange

Music:

Jared Meier-Klodt

Film info

Direction:

Kirsten Brandt

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

15 min