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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

Luchadoras

The film is an intimate portrait of three courageous female wrestlers (Luchadoras) from Ciudad Juarez. Despite being surrounded by machismo they redefine the image of women in Mexico. The short statured Mini Serinita’s dream is to become a full time Luchadora and leave the factory work that disenfranchises so many women for good. Lady Candy can see the U.S Border from her house. Her daughters were taken to the US, but due to visa regulations she cannot cross the border to see them. Baby Star is a young single mother with a Lucha Libre childhood past. She is looking to make a comeback. With Mexican passion they present a new image of what it means to be a woman in Mexico.

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Cast:

Lady Candy

Mini Sirenita

Baby Star

Script:

Patrick Jasim

Paola Calvo

Phillip Kaminiak

Producer:

Phillip Kaminiak

Camera:

Patrick Jasim

Music:

Lonski & Classen

Editing:

Ginés Olivares

Sound:

Jan Passeman

Film info

Direction:

Paola Calvo

Patrick Jasim

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany and Mexico

Production Company:

TUMULT Film GmbH in Koproduktion mit Sutor Kolonko e.K.

Production:

2021

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

30 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby Surround and Stereo

Language:

Spanish with English, German and Spanish subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

92 min

Excalibur City

EXCALIBUR CITY tells the story of Vio and Bluebell, two Vietnamese sisters on their journey to reunite with their mother in Germany. On their way the sisters fall into the clutches of the Vietnamese mafia in Czech Republic. They manage to escape, but on the run from the „Wolf Men“ they loose their father and have to make it through the forest by themselves. The tale of this extraordinary sisterhood is told through the sometimes dreaming eyes of the younger sister Bluebell.

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Cast:

Linh Nguyen – Vio

Hoai Ansary Phan – Bluebell

Ardian Hartono – Hung

Yvonne Jung Hee Bormann – Mutter

Paul Jumin Hoffmann – Vater

Script:

Sebastian Ladwig

Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim

Camera:

Nina Reichmann

Editing:

Raffaéllo Lupperger

Producer:

Janna Fodor

Leonie Schäfer

Daria Wichmann

Sound:

Malte Audick

Music:

Caroline Siegers

Film info

Direction:

Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German and Vietnamese with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

42 min

If on a winter’s night two travelers

As Francesco and his six-year-old daughter Elisa drive through the Berlin night, they make a special encounter. Together with the severe policeman who stops their old and broken car, they embark on a magical journey through the darkness in search of intangible ghosts. Unexpected sympathies develop from this experience, even though the spirits around them never quite disappear.

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Cast:

Holly Heene

Robin Summa

Moritz Berg

Script:

Sara Summa

Jacob Hauptmann

Camera:

Moritz Friese

Producer:

Daria Wichmann

Cecilia Trautvetter

Sound:

Jonas Lechenmayr

Editing:

Sara Summa

Music:

Ben Roessler

Film info

Direction:

Sara Summa

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

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

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,66

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,66

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German and Italian

Version:

OV

Runtime:

17 min