Alice Coming Down

Alice is trying to escape the male gaze by tumbling down the rabbit-hole of techno Berlin. Will an underworld presuming to punctuate liberation with pills and powders show little, lost Alice the path that runs away from patriarchy? A dark, psychedelic journey leads Alice to confront her sexuality.

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Cast:

Yiou Penelope Peng – Alice

Giamo Alfredi Röwekamp – Kitty

Alexandra Nicki Murray-Leslie – Mannequin

Theo Taylor – Singing Boy

Preston Chaunsumlit – Caterpillar

Magnus Mariuson – Hatter

Milton Welsh – Hare

Sean Morris Grimm – Gnomes

Sverre Aune – Gnomes (voice)

Script:

Berglind Thrastardottir

Camera:

Alina Albrecht

Editing:

Berglind Thrastardottir

Producer:

Vivien Cahn

Produktionskoordination:

Herta-Cristina Mirea

Sound:

Koenraad Ecker

Music:

Koenraad Ecker

Film info

Direction:

Berglind Thrastardottir

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

English with German subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

20 min

the wedding anniversary

It's a wedding anniversary. While Xenia, the wife of the scrap yard owner Gustav, sits in front of the television and waits for her husband to make her happy, a young man is shot by three gangsters not far from her. Xenia realizes that she is waiting in vain and rises from her TV chair to leave Gustav. The goal: "Australia", "Adventure". But she doesn't get any further than to the gate of the scrap yard, where the three gangsters meet her with a flat tire. When Xenia discovers the body in the trunk of her car, a completely different adventure begins for her than she had imagined. A short trip to her possibilities and thus to herself.

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Cast:

Rike Eckermann – Xenia

Frank Jacob – Gustav

Marko Lakobrija – Michelle

Alexander Czerwinski – Fritz

Kristian Kiehling – Tekka

Aart Steinmann – Autor

Sylvia Mayer – TV Dame

Script:

Theresa Bergner

Aart Steinmann

Camera:

Rocío Díaz Freire

Editing:

Alexander Weiz

Producer:

Kristian Kiehling

Sound:

Marco Damke

Music:

Tallis Scolars

A sei Voci

Film info

Direction:

Theresa Bergner

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Scope

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1: 2,39

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

24 min

Let us forget

Lena’s marriage is challenged, when her husband falls ill. He asks her to help him to die selfdetermined. An unbearable burden or a final proof of love? Although her desperation is rising Lena cheers him. She fosters him, crosses borders. A loving fight between having to let go and wanting to hold on.

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Cast:

Prodromos Antoniadis – Leon

Judith Mauthe – Lena

Script:

Marcus Hanisch

Prodromos Antoniadis

Judith Mauthe

Camera:

Anselm Belser

Editing:

Marcus Hanisch

Producer:

Patrick Schorn

Produktionsassistenz:

Hagen Maximilian Kühl

Maske:

Grete Pfleger

Sound:

Jan Steinke

Tondesign:

Moritz Drath

Tonmischung:

Alexandre Leser

Film info

Direction:

Marcus Hanisch

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

ARRI Raw

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

15 min

Ocean Eyes

When English girl Immy (16) comes to Berlin to play a big concert, she decides to kill two birds with one stone and finally meet her estranged, German father. Christian, whom she barely knows, is anything but what she had expected - an egocentric, carefree actor without any interest in practicing his parental skills. Together they experience an emotionally tense night in Berlin, getting to know each other while struggling to respect each other’s personal boundaries.

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Cast:

Ellie Bindman – Immy

Fabian Busch – Christian

Script:

Nicola Fegg

Camera:

Serge Mattukat

Editing:

Ingrid Lubke

Producer:

Daniel Minkov

Sound:

Manfredi Rignanese

Leon Hanel

Tondesign:

Valentin Link

Film info

Direction:

Nicola Fegg

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German and English with English, German subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

20 min

Turkish Riviera

A video cassette is inserted: A toddler in a paddling pool somewhere on the beach. Parents and grandparents scurry around. Pictures of Senem's first visit to Turkey, so she tells us. This is the beginning of a search for home. Through interviews with her parents and grandparents, the filmmaker takes us through the ups and downs of the life of three generations of Turkish guest workers in Germany. The stories are accompanied by images of everyday life in Turkey. Today the family has returned to their homeland, only Senem has remained in Germany. Where does she belong? Sober reflection meets poetic collage, trying to find peace in the space between here and there.

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Script:

Senem Göcmen

Camera:

Senem Göcmen

Editing:

Senem Göcmen

Producer:

Tobias Gaede

Sound:

Joscha Eickel

Music:

El Fallah Khaless

Film info

Direction:

Senem Göcmen

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

2.1

Language:

german/ turkish with german, turkish, englich subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

54 min

Tábor

In western Ukraine is located one of the largest Roma settlements in the country - the place is called Tábor. An isolated quarter of the city of Berehove, where live mostly Hungarian speaking Romani people. The film shows one of the days of the celebration of Easter, when the boys water the girls, receiving Easter eggs for this. After the end of the holiday many of them leave the settlement with their entire families and go to roam the country. The film reflects human being in a timeless dimension, brings closer archetypal images: mother, father, child. Depicts the plasticity of the movement of a man and nature in the space, which they are being a part of, creating chaos that contains a balance between different components like light and shadow.

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Cast:

Alexander Lakatosh

Olga Lakatosh

Script:

Stanislav Danylyshyn

Camera:

Jesse Mazuch

Editing:

Viktor Hoffmann

Stanislav Danylyshyn

Producer:

Stanislav Danylyshyn

Olga Geister

Sound:

Hannes Marget

Film info

Direction:

Stanislav Danylyshyn

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

Sony Alpha 7s Full HD

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

Hungarian with english or german subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

45 min

Second thoughts

When Marie’s boyfriend proposes to her in front of his entire family, she doesn't know what to say and flees to the countryside to think it over alone. But her thoughts accompany her. They sit around her in flesh and blood: Her mother pesters her with baby names, exboyfriends climb down trees and a woman in a sari narrates her life in poems. Her would-be fiancé eventually joins her, clashing his own luggage of thoughts with hers. But what if you show your thoughts to each other? How much honesty can a relationship take? In her first feature, director Zora Rux, an apprentice of Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson, tells a surrealistic story of the search for one’s true self in poetic tableaus.

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Cast:

Elisa Plüss

Thomas Fränzel

Lola Klamroth

Sebastian Schneider

Judith van der Werff

Henriette Confurius

Wenka von Mikulicz

Paul Lux

Script:

Zora Rux

Camera:

Jesse Mazuch

Editing:

Zora Rux

Kalle Boman

Martin Herold

Henning Stöve

Producer:

Leonie Minor

Roxana Richters

Fred Burle

Sound:

Robert Hefter

Music:

Ben Rössler

Jonathan Ritzel

Mister Milano

Film info

Direction:

Zora Rux

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

German and English with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

84 min

Light that will have pierced through leaves

Not where, not who, not when, no why. Only the duration of a meal in nature. The reality of a moment. (of the blink of an eye)

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Cast:

ANA BERKENHOFF

REMO TRADJANO

MAIK RIBORT

ELIA LOPES

JENS KRASSNIK

YAEL SOPHIE BELSER

Script:

Anselm Belser

Camera:

Anselm Belser

Editing:

Anselm Belser

Producer:

Anselm Belser

Sound:

Sven Jensen Brakelmann

Music:

Wanja Hüffell

Film info

Direction:

Anselm Belser

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2018

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,66

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Digital

Language:

no dialogue

Version:

OV

Runtime:

10 min

Apnoe

Grey house facades roll by like monstrous walls. Numerous identical windows, creating lines of lights as they pass by steadily. The bike courier Michel pushes through crowded streets of a dystopian city of the future. On behalf of the monopoly Clinair, he delivers oxygen tanks that are now necessary. His shift rushes him through the streets, his gaze, his movement brief and torn, no stagnation in his elaborate meandering stream. He can only linger with the woman from the advertisement video, who promotes grilled chicken on a screen. Accompanied only by a navigational voice in his ear and a radio operator who coordinates Michel’s route and regulates his state of fear, his nightly route leads him deeper and deeper into his subconscious.

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Cast:

Ariel Nil Levy

Robert Hunger Bühler

Anne Müller

Lanxi Ruan

Daniel Vedder

Benjamin Hembus

Claudia Bauer

Ikko Masuda

Mathilda Esche

Ole Holdhus

Script:

Sarah Yona Zweig

Julia Ketelhut

Camera:

Constantin Campean

Editing:

Constantin Campean

Julia Ketelhut

Producer:

Jonas Nemela

Produktionsleitung:

Herta Cristina Mirea

Tonmeister:

Malthe Bjørn Jensen

Tondesign:

Jonathan Ritzel

Music:

Ralf Schwieters

Film info

Direction:

Julia Ketelhut

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby Surround 5.1

Language:

German with english subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

21.20 min