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.

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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.

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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?

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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

Rondo

A carefree weekend at the Baltic Sea with her boyfriend, Lars, turns into a déjà vu experience for Zoé, propelling her back to another time: To a weekend where she had already been at the very same place with someone she had loved before. Like a traitor to her present relationship, Zoé secretly follows the trails of her memory, which she had painfully tried to forget. Rondo is a cinematic poem, which circles like a musical round dance and ends where it began.

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Cast:

Luise Wolfram – Zoé

Paul Boche – Robert

Lucas Englander – Lars

Script:

Katharina Rivilis

Camera:

Giulia Schelhas

Steadicam:

Konstantin Kann

Tondesign:

Benjamin Krbetschek

Maximilian Wolf-Salari

Sebastian Pablo Poloni

Sound:

Sebastian Pablo Poloni

Tonmischung:

Jan Pasemann

Editing:

Katharina Rivilis

Producer:

Katharina Rivilis

Musiker:

Markéta Janoušková

Film info

Direction:

Katharina Rivilis

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1 SR / Stereo (2.0)

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

29 min

A simple event

Borko wants to send 500 euros to his family in Serbia. At the bank counter he notices that his money is missing. Few moments after, an older Turkish gentelmen named Baris, is depositing cash. Borko believes it is his money, but when the security man doesn't buy his story and lets Baris go, Borko decides to follow him. Later in a bar, Borko watches Baris hit the jackpot on a slot machine with "his" money. In the men's WC, he finally decides to confront the older man.

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Cast:

Ivan Marković

Achmed Kornaz

Gencay Koca

Marc Schmal

Renata Britvec

Jörn Christian Odenbach

Kadrie Devrish

Script:

Boris Hadžija

Producer:

Maximilian Feldkamp

Camera:

Katharina Schelling

Co-Autor:

Gordon Dohle

Editing:

Boris Hadžija

Marian Marx

Film info

Direction:

Boris Hadžija

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:

1:1,66

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby

Language:

German, Turkish, Serbian, Russian with German and English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

7 min

Overview Effect

Ida is back on earth after 244 days on the International Space Station. She spends her first days with her partner Lutz in his country house. There Ida discovers nature, everyday life and her relationship with Lutz anew.

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Cast:

Anne Tismer – Ida

Chrstian Harting – Lutz

Script:

Luis Schubert

Constantin Guyonnet

Camera:

Rocío Díaz Freire

Editing:

Luis Schubert

Sound:

Cosimo Flohr

Music:

Hualun

Film info

Direction:

Luis Schubert

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

21 min

KLICK

School trip to the Inner German border? Lame! Sina, Lolo and Yassi secretly make off. Their destination: a nearby lake. In between: a former military area. For fun, they begin to imagine the dangers lurking there. Suddenly, one of them steps on something that triggers a click. A landmine? No way.

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Cast:

Lila Redlich – Lolo

Vladyslava Vorobiova – Yassi

Rokhaya Müller – Sina

Script:

Luis Schubert

Sarah Fischer

Camera:

Konstantin Kann

Producer:

Jeremy Wesner

Tondesign:

Vadim Muehlberg

Film info

Direction:

Luis Schubert

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

Arri Amira

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby Surround 5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

6 min

First Work of Mercy

Alpha has finally reached Europe. After a long and difficult journey, the young refugee, hungry and exhausted, glimpses a small village’s bell tower. A hope soon dashed. Alpha wanders through the rural village in search of help, but no one seems to see or hear him. His only company are the pangs of hunger and a cat...

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Cast:

Benny Opoku-Arthur – Alpha

Adolfo Assor – Kurt

Susann Mertz – Manuela

Script:

Flavio Yuri Rigamonti

Marina Ghersinich

Camera:

Anselm Belser

Producer:

Marina Ghersinich

Produktionsleitung:

Mortimer-Gregor Cerny

Maske:

Michelle Mosler

Kostüm (Credit):

Tatiana Bastos

Emilia Patrignani

Kostümassistenz:

Sarah Claudia Seini

Szenenbild:

Tatiana Bastos

Szenenbildassistenz:

Philomena Köbele

Raina Todoroff

Sound:

Sven Jensen-Brakelmann

Licht:

Anna Ilin

Elias Fritz

Bühne:

Tarik Kocyilmaz

Produktionsassistenz:

Maximilian Rohde

Alejandro Tafur Fernandez

Regieassistenz:

Marina Ghersinich

Editing:

Flavio Yuri Rigamonti

Schnittassistenz:

Nina Chaib Cavalcanti

Tondesign:

Gregor Arnold

Tonmischung:

Alexandre Leser

Titeldesign:

Cedric Gottet

Herstellungsleitung:

Myriam Eichler

Film info

Direction:

Flavio Yuri Rigamonti

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

DFFB in co-production with Deutsche Filmakademie Produktion (DFA) - Funded by German Federal Foreign Office

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Language:

German and English with English and German subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

11 min

City Penguin

A very hot afternoon in Berlin; schools are closed. Two sisters, Malin and Sophia, are stuck in their stuffy apartment constantly on the verge of boredom. While Sophia does not want to be disturbed reading, her little sister tries to get her attention by telling her that she has forgotten her toy penguin Pomito at school. The two of them invent possible scenarios for the penguin and send him on a journey that takes him through the empty school building and on an accidental trip on the garbage truck, which finally brings him to the real penguins at the zoo.

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Cast:

Bianca Bösche – Bianca

Lika Bösche – Lika

Anna Bösche – Mother

Heinz Jürgen Kuhne – Janitor

Olivia Molino – Olivia

David Molino – David

Script:

Florinda Frisardi

Camera:

Faraz Fesharaki

Editing:

Florinda Frisardi

Producer:

Daria Wichmann

Cecilia Trautvetter

Sound:

Jonas Lechenmayr

Anna Magdalino

Music:

Haraldur Thrastarson

Film info

Direction:

Florinda Frisardi

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

DFA Produktion GmbH in co-production with German Film and Television Academy Berlin - Funded by German Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

16 mm und 35 mm

Screening format:

10:19

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German and Italian with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

10 min