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I got to go to Juchitán

As an examination of matriarchal structures in Mexico, I GOT TO GO TO JUCHITÁN originates from the desire to portray the reality of a society structured differently to the accepted norm. 
The film observes three women in their everyday life, Adelina 70, Martina 40 and Adela 20. They work in a bistro at the famous market that is the economic heart of the town of Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico. The women cook, trade, look after their elders, get lovesick and know how to party. Fish, meat and corn from the region are delivered by the men, who support these loud and cheerfully dressed women who have the say. But capitalism and machismo are also ever present in Juchitán, making for a field of tension.

Credits

Cast:

Adelina Santiago

Adela San Diago Sanches

Martina Castillo Martinez

Script:

Sonja Aufderklamm

Camera:

Sonja Aufderklamm

Editing:

Hannah Schwegel

Producer:

Julia Bruton

Sound:

Raquel Belver

Music:

Thomas Hohl

Film info

Direction:

Sonja Aufderklamm

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

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

Sinnema Animation Studio

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Spanish uad Zapotekian with German subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

80 min

Self-crit­i­­cism of a bour­geois dog

A bourgeois dog confesses how he was transformed from being a filmmaker to being four-legged: Unable to find financing for his film, JULIAN is forced to accept a job as a seasonal farmhand. At a party, however, he makes the young Canadian expat CAMILLE believe that he's going to do research for a communist fairy-tale film and offers her the leading part. To his great surprise, she decides to accompany him, sparking off Julian's lurking romantic fantasies. Thus they arrive at the deceitfully idyllic scene of an exploitative apple plantation. While Julian finds the manual labour agonizing and fears the strange roommates in his humble container home, Camille enthusiastically plunges into the alleged research and makes friends with HONG and SANCHO, two credulous proletarians in pursuit of happiness. For Julian, it's getting more and more difficult to act the communist filmmaker. And what's more, a hot-tempered model worker with American dreams gets in his way, a mute monk with magical powers and a screw loose shows up, the owner of the plantation accidentally gets killed, and an attempted revolution ends up in confusion. At this moment, however, the sparrows in the trees come up with an unexpected plan...

Credits

Cast:

Julian Radlmaier – Julian

Deragh Campbell – Camille

Kyung-Taek Lie – Hong

Beniamin Forti – Sancho

Ilia Korkashvili – Mönch

Script:

Julian Radlmaier

Camera:

Markus Koob

Producer:

Kirill Krasovskiy

Editing:

Julian Radlmaier

Sound:

Kai Ziarkowski

Film info

Direction:

Julian Radlmaier

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Faktura Film in Ko-Produktion mit DFFB und RBB

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,375

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,375

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German and English

Version:

OV

Runtime:

99 min

 

Tonight, any­time

Due to a misunderstanding Magrit takes part in a group therapy. She would never have gone there on purpose and knows for sure that she doesn't need to. But when she is made to question herself, she realizes something unexpected.

Credits

Cast:

Katharina Bellena – Magrit

Melanie Stahl – Coworker

Sabine Winterfeldt – Therapist

Adrian Dittus – Julius

Beate Malkus – Woman in the group

Philip Kramer – Member of the group

Maximilian Held – Member of the group

Alice Vigni – Member of the group

Jay Lee – Member of the group

Script:

Rocío Díaz Freire

Maximilian Feldkamp

Lukas Wesslowski

Adriano Theill

Camera:

Rocío Díaz Freire

Editing:

Maria Gans

Producer:

Maximilian Feldkamp

Sound:

Vadim Mühlberg

Music:

TRIASSICO

Film info

Direction:

Adriano Theill

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin GmbH in Ko-Produktion mit Arte und SWR

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

5 min

Trash Can Tan­go

A backyard somewhere in Germany. In the midst of it, two women throwing garbage bags at each other. What happened? Lilly, a student and keen environmentalist, finds plastic bags in the organic waste. What a bloody scandal! Quickly, she inspects the contents of the bags and finds sesame rings. She puts two and two together: It could only have been the baker, Ayse. Meanwhile, Ayse goes about her duties as a businesswoman and mother. Which means things are always busy. Lilly tries to make Ayse aware of her misconduc. When her plan fails, things escalate.

Credits

Cast:

Hanh Mai Thi Tran – Lilly

Tilla Kratochwill – Ayse

Sithembile Menck – Silke/Erzählerin

Alexander „Audrey Naline“ Lehnert – Drag Queen

Script:

Senem Göcmen

Camera:

Claudia Schröder

Editing:

Senem Göcmen

Producer:

Tamara Erbe

Sound:

Joscha Eickel

Music:

Joscha Eickel

Senem Göcmen

Film info

Direction:

Senem Göcmen

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin GmbH in Ko-Produktion mit Arte und SWR

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Arri Amira

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

5 min

Oth­er Can­ni­bals

Is it possible to think of nothing? The absence of expression on Fausto’s face as he stands in front of his machine in the factory tells us that it is. When Ivan asks him the same thing it turns out that a thought has crept into his head: an extreme thought, dark, beyond human standards. It is this violent thought that is the origin of the encounter between Fausto and Ivan. In a remote valley eaten away by industrial towns, they are confronted with the impossibility of escape from their everyday existence.

Credits

Cast:

Walter Giroldini – Fausto Ande

Diego Pagotto – Ivan

Script:

Francesco Sossai

Adriano Candiago

Camera:

Giulia Schelhas

Editing:

Ginevra Giacon

Producer:

Cecilia Trautvetter

Sound:

Davide Rizzardi

Manfredi Rignanese

Music:

Davide Rizzardi

Sebastian Pablo Poloni

Film info

Direction:

Francesco Sossai

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Amira (4444 2K)

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Italian with English and German subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

96 min

Songs from the Desert

"Songs from the Desert" is a film journal that documents a summer in Cuxhaven. In the midst of a creative crisis, the filmmaker and her camcorder go on a search for images of her inner life. She meets two men who seem stranded just like her: Ingolf reminisces about his wild youth in the former GDR and tries to call an old friend. Daniel spends his days playing guitar at the nudist beach and dreams about sky gliding in the mountains while on the horizon, cargo ships pass by like giant ghosts. The sea comes and goes and leaves behind a lot of heavy steel against the backdrop of a wet desert.

Credits

Cast:

Ingolf Suchantke

Daniel Neumaier

Camera:

Julia Milz

Editing:

Julia Milz

Producer:

Julia Milz

Tondesign:

Frank Behnke

Music:

Daniel Neumaier

Film info

Direction:

Julia Milz

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

HD

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

58 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:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby Surround 5.1

Language:

Spanish with German and English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

14 min

Ablaze

“Gegenlicht” is a 15 minute drama film about a woman’s confrontation with her own family biography. During her own mothers funeral, Lucia, a blind woman in her early 30s, breaks into her childhood home, searching for some way to confront her past. As she searches the house, memories start awaking, taking her deeper and deeper down memory lane - a road leading to only one logical and violent conclusion…

Credits

Cast:

Stefanie Wermeling

Niklas Draeger

Tara Kula

Script:

Marie Thönnissen

Camera:

Elisabeth Börnicke

Editing:

Sverre Aune

Producer:

Charlotte Kennel

Sound:

Tsvetelina Valkova

Tondesign:

Cosimo Flohr

Music:

Johannes Börnicke

Film info

Direction:

Sverre Aune

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Super16 Film

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby Surround 5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

17 min

Post Empire

Sal has the war within him. And he doesn't want anyone to touch his face. He sometimes does dirty and risky jobs for his boss. When he meets the charismatic Sasha, he screws up an important coup and gets a taste of his boss's disturbing violence. Sal goes into hiding. For Sasha's sake, he gets involved in a heady tour de force with her friends Andy and Lucy, which causes Sal to undergo an incredible metamorphosis. Together they get lost in a labyrinth of drugs, sex, fears, violence and disorientation. Delicate and cruel, real and surreal, terrifying and strangely funny, love must be reinvented, real life lies elsewhere. But when his boss's henchmen track down the four, defenseless, at an old farmhouse, a massacre is imminent.

Credits

Cast:

Daniel Strässer – Sal

Annina Walt – Lucy

Susann Mertz – Sasha

Gerdy Zint – Gerdy

Johanna Ingelfinger – Jenny

Malik Adan – Julian

Script:

Günther Franke

Josa-David Sesink

Camera:

Phillip Kaminiak

Editing:

Günther Franke

Maximilian Duwe

Producer:

Simon Lubinski

Christopher Kane

Film info

Direction:

Günther Franke

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin, gefördert durch das Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

HD

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

2048x856

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Festivals:

19. achtung berlin Filmfestival (12.-19.04.2023)

Festival de Cine Fantástico de Sant Boi de Llobregat “FANTBOI” (11.-14.07.2024)

Runtime:

103 min