Frida

The encounter between the young nurse and her seriously ill patient Frida, who is the same age, on the borderline between professional distance and the desire for closeness.

Credits

Cast:

Vicky Krieps

Aenne Schwarz

Script:

Aleksandra Odić

Camera:

Albrecht von Grünhagen

Producer:

Stanislav Danylyshyn

Music:

Micha Kaplan

Sound:

Alberto Sanchez

Editing:

Andrea Schönherr

Film info

Direction:

Aleksandra Odić

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

22 min

Hero

In the middle of the night Arne (17) gets an unexpected visitor. His parents had a fight and his father, who has Parkinson in the developed stage, is looking for a refuge in Arne’s room. When Arne confronts his mother about what is going on, she surprises him with a request. She wants him to drive his father on a mysterious date. Overwhelmed by the situation Arne senses there is more to it than he is being told. He wants to refuse but his mother insists. The family’s happiness depends on it.

Credits

Cast:

Arne Kertezs

Milton Welsh

Carolina Vera

Script:

Marijana Verhoef

Max Kern

Camera:

Leyla Hoppe

Producer:

Rike Lange

Editing:

Marina Palma

Sound:

Meik-René Enderlein

Music:

Paquita Maria

Film info

Direction:

Max Kern

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

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

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

5 min

I got to go to Juchitán

As an examination of matriarchal structures in Mexico, I GOT TO GO TO JUCHITÁN originates from the desire to portray the reality of a society structured differently to the accepted norm.  The film observes three women in their everyday life, Adelina 70, Martina 40 and Adela 20. They work in a bistro at the famous market that is the economic heart of the town of Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico. The women cook, trade, look after their elders, get lovesick and know how to party. Fish, meat and corn from the region are delivered by the men, who support these loud and cheerfully dressed women who have the say. But capitalism and machismo are also ever present in Juchitán, making for a field of tension.

Credits

Cast:

Adelina Santiago

Adela San Diago Sanches

Martina Castillo Martinez

Script:

Sonja Aufderklamm

Camera:

Sonja Aufderklamm

Editing:

Hannah Schwegel

Producer:

Julia Bruton

Sound:

Raquel Belver

Music:

Thomas Hohl

Film info

Direction:

Sonja Aufderklamm

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

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

Sinnema Animation Studio

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Spanish uad Zapotekian with German subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

80 min

Self-criticism of a bourgeois dog

A bourgeois dog confesses how he was transformed from being a filmmaker to being four-legged: Unable to find financing for his film, JULIAN is forced to accept a job as a seasonal farmhand. At a party, however, he makes the young Canadian expat CAMILLE believe that he's going to do research for a communist fairy-tale film and offers her the leading part. To his great surprise, she decides to accompany him, sparking off Julian's lurking romantic fantasies. Thus they arrive at the deceitfully idyllic scene of an exploitative apple plantation. While Julian finds the manual labour agonizing and fears the strange roommates in his humble container home, Camille enthusiastically plunges into the alleged research and makes friends with HONG and SANCHO, two credulous proletarians in pursuit of happiness. For Julian, it's getting more and more difficult to act the communist filmmaker. And what's more, a hot-tempered model worker with American dreams gets in his way, a mute monk with magical powers and a screw loose shows up, the owner of the plantation accidentally gets killed, and an attempted revolution ends up in confusion. At this moment, however, the sparrows in the trees come up with an unexpected plan...

Credits

Cast:

Julian Radlmaier – Julian

Deragh Campbell – Camille

Kyung-Taek Lie – Hong

Beniamin Forti – Sancho

Ilia Korkashvili – Mönch

Script:

Julian Radlmaier

Camera:

Markus Koob

Producer:

Kirill Krasovskiy

Editing:

Julian Radlmaier

Sound:

Kai Ziarkowski

Film info

Direction:

Julian Radlmaier

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Faktura Film in Ko-Produktion mit DFFB und RBB

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,375

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,375

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German and English

Version:

OV

Runtime:

99 min

Tonight, anytime

Due to a misunderstanding Magrit takes part in a group therapy. She would never have gone there on purpose and knows for sure that she doesn't need to. But when she is made to question herself, she realizes something unexpected.

Credits

Cast:

Katharina Bellena – Magrit

Melanie Stahl – Coworker

Sabine Winterfeldt – Therapist

Adrian Dittus – Julius

Beate Malkus – Woman in the group

Philip Kramer – Member of the group

Maximilian Held – Member of the group

Alice Vigni – Member of the group

Jay Lee – Member of the group

Script:

Rocío Díaz Freire

Maximilian Feldkamp

Lukas Wesslowski

Adriano Theill

Camera:

Rocío Díaz Freire

Editing:

Maria Gans

Producer:

Maximilian Feldkamp

Sound:

Vadim Mühlberg

Music:

TRIASSICO

Film info

Direction:

Adriano Theill

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:

Digital

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

5 min

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