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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.

Credits

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.

Credits

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.

Credits

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.

Credits

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...

Credits

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.

Credits

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

Nico

NICO (33), German-Persian, emancipated and happy, is the most popular geriatric nurse for her patients. With her best friend ROSA (37), she enjoys the summer in Berlin. A xenophobic attack tears the self-confident NICO from its self-determined everyday life. Waking up in the hospital, she realizes that she doesn't seem to be a part of it after all. Plagued by scraps of memories of the attack, NICO isolates herself more and more. Not only does ROSA lose all relation to her, her patients also do not recognize the - once so happy woman - . Nico knows that it can't go on like this and makes a decision: She gets help from ANDY - the loud karate world champion. NICO allows itself to be motivated in its military way, thereby even regaining self-confidence. Because she is mingling with people again, NICO meets the Macedonian woman RONNY (30) at a fair. RONNY recognizes NICO immediately. Where and why, NICO will understand as the film progresses, and as the film progresses, she will have to ask herself how she deals with the anger and helplessness that the attack has created in her.

Credits

Cast:

Sara Fazilat – Nico

Sara Klimoska – Ronny

Javeh Asefdjah – Rosa

Andreas Marquardt – Andy

Brigitte Kramer – Brigitte

Isidoro Fernandez Mompelier – Fernandez

Sabrina Tannen – Frau Überfall

Producer:

Sara Fazilat

Camera:

Francy Fabritz

Sound:

Andreas Otto

Ye Linlin Cardrage

Olga Nosva

Meik-René Enderlein

Justus Wirth

Matthias Rupp

DingDing Jiang

Anna Rotznowska

Editing:

Eline Gehring

Script:

Sara Fazilat

Francy Fabritz

Eline Gehring

Kostüm (Credit):

Sara Fazilat

Francy Fabritz

Eline Gehring

Ausstattung:

Sara Fazilat

Francy Fabritz

Eline Gehring

Music:

Zeina Azouqah

Doro Bohr

Konstantin Wecker

Casting:

Sara Fazilat

Francy Fabritz

Eline Gehring

Film info

Direction:

Eline Gehring

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie in Ko-Produktion mit Third Culture Kids

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

ProRes4444/422HQ

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

79 min

Jesus, Man­fred!

Manfred has two sons and lives together with his wife Isolde, who has been cheating on him for many years. The head of the family is Manfred`s mother, Frauke Hermann- Mann who is a right-wing populist. Everyone looks disregardful at Manfred who is getting hurt very easily. He has little humour and is a sensitive guy. On Christmas Eve, when the whole family is together, he decides to poison each family member and to enforce happiness: “That way we are all going to be together in heaven.” When they arrive in purgatory they meet the devil who decides between heaven and hell. Meanwhile, Manfred is suffering from more exclusion and Isolde tells him she wishes for a divorce. His mother admits that he won`t inherit the family`s company. Shortly before devil makes his decision, his intern arrives and notices a mistake.

Credits

Cast:

Arno Sudermann – Manfred

Petra Nadolny – Isolde Hermann-Mann

Luise Lunow – Frauke Hermann-Mann

Peter Groeger – Hermann Hermann-Mann

Benjamin Lutzke – Pascal

Luis Krawen – Otto

Charles Lemming – Teufel

Gerald Sommerauer – Praktikant

Script:

Antonia Walther

Gesche Loft

Isabella Kröger

Camera:

Lukas Eylandt

Editing:

Lisa Friedhofen

Producer:

Jana Kreissl

Sound:

Jonathan Ritzel

Film info

Direction:

Antonia Walther

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 and 25 fps fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

13 min

Duc Nguyen

DUC NGUYEN is the story of three Vietnamese-German teenagers hunting for a motorcycle riding phantom bolting over the Berlin Autobahn at night. Biggest admirer and fiercest tracker of this "Ghostrider" is 16 year old Duc, who is fascinated by the recklessness of the mysterious driver. While his two friends spoil his night by making out with each other and not taking the hunt seriously enough, Duc desperately keeps waiting for his idol to appear. But the Ghostrider is nowhere to be seen. Duc finally has the chance to proof his own courage when, after a sheer indefinite period of waiting, the group is entangled in a dangerous occurrence with a sinister taxi driver.

Credits

Cast:

Milo Nguyen – Duc Nguyen

Pham Gia Man Bui – Ly

Peter Nguyen – Trai

Christoph Franken – taxi driver Frank

Script:

Sebastian Ladwig

Camera:

Raban Jakob Friedrich

Editing:

Anna-Lena Laura Engelhardt

Producer:

Lucas Thiem

Janna Fodor

Sound:

Moritz Monorfalvi

Music:

Sebastian Ladwig

Film info

Direction:

Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

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

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

Prores4444 3.2K 1.3x anamorph

Screening format:

DCP 16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1: 2,39

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Digital

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

14 min