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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

What do we see when we look at the sky?

It’s love at first sight when Lisa and Giorgi meet by chance on a street in the Georgian city of Kutaisi. Love strikes them so suddenly, they even forget to ask each other’s names. Before continuing on their way, they agree to meet the next day. Little do they know that an evil eye casts its spell on them. Will they manage to meet again? And if they do, will they know who they are? Life goes on as usual in their hometown, street dogs stray, the soccer world cup begins and a film crew on its quest to find true love might be what they need.

Credits

Cast:

Ani Karseladze – Lisa

Giorgi Bochorishvili – Giorgi

Oliko Barbakadze – Lisa

Giorgi Ambroladze – Giorgi

Vakhtang Panchulidze – Café owner

Sofio Tchanishvili – Maya

Irine Chelidze – Nino

Script:

Alexandre Koberidze

Camera:

Faraz Fesharaki

Editing:

Alexandre Koberidze

Producer:

Mariam Shatberashvili

Tondesign:

Giorgi Koberidze

Music:

Giorgi Koberidze

Szenenbild:

Maka Jebirashvili

Kostüm (Credit):

Nino Zautashvili

Maske:

Lana Amoeva

Tonmischung:

Alexandre Leser

Regieassistenz:

Tamuna Shubitidze

Redaktion:

Verena Veihl (rbb)

Film info

Direction:

Alexandre Koberidze

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie in Koproduktion mit Sakdoc Film, New Matter Films und dem rbb, gefördert von Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg und Georgian National Film Center

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

16mm / Digital

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,66

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Georgian with German/English subtitles

Version:

OV

Festivals:

Berlinale - Wettbewerb 2021

Runtime:

150 min

Tariks Play

Can you choose your gender or behave the way you feel, or do you have to accept what society expects of you? Ayse likes to play soccer with boys, she is in love with another girl and she likes to call herself Tarik instead of Ayse. She has managed to establish herself and achieve her goals, now she has to lead a double life because she comes from conservative circles. When she gets her period, she realizes once again what kind of dilemma she's currently facing.

Credits

Cast:

Mavi Bosse – Tarik/Ayse

Alexandra Dzewas – Julia

Script:

Süheyla Schwenk

Camera:

Claudia Schröder

Editing:

Süheyla Schwenk

Producer:

Tamara Erbe

Sound:

Felix Schmidt

Music:

Baris Cakir

Film info

Direction:

Süheyla Schwenk

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

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

Production:

2021

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

Blind Spots

An international film crew in the first overtime hour, shortly before sunrise. The hired intimacy coordinator interrupts the filming of a sex scene due to an unarranged move by the actor, which the director has secretly instructed. A conflict arises. The sun threatens to rise. How will the last take be shot?

Credits

Cast:

Julia Effertz – Donna, the intimacy coordinator

Leon Ullrich – Luc, the director

Sarina Radomski – Lara, the directing assistant

Lia von Blarer – Marjeta, the actress

Etienne Bissuel – Etienne, the actor

Stéphanie Meth – Agnès, the DOP

Kumar Muniandy – Kumar, the soundman

Hans Brückner – Reinhold, Gaffer

Boris Hadžija – Boris, the costume designer

Yoav Rolef – Vincent, the 1st AC

Lukas Wesslowski – Yuri, the intern

Shisha Rainbow – Shisha, the make-up artist

Aminata Cisse – Aminata, light department

Jan Philip Runge – Jan, light department

Eddy Shore – Eddy, the driver

Script:

Luis Schubert

Camera:

Giulia Schelhas

Editing:

Luis Schubert

Producer:

Luis Schubert

Tondesign:

Cosimo Flohr

Film info

Direction:

Luis Schubert

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Arri Amira

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9 and 1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby Surround 5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

9 min