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.

Credits

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.

Credits

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.

Credits

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.

Credits

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)

Credits

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.

Credits

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

L’Arabo e la Santa

Alsha is a travel guide somewhere in Tuscany. One day Hussain disrupts one of her tours. During her break he tells her that he also wants to be a tour guide. Alsha thinks he is a stalker, is irritated by his unfamiliar way of approaching her and avoids him. After a few days she visits him and they start a conversation about their different chances and hopes ...…

Credits

Cast:

Sophia Burtscher

Caner Sunar

Sofia Falsone

Nicole Schneider

Francesco Leprai

Diego Leprai

Silvia Leprai

Andrea Boido

Marta Cardillo

Cecilia Morselli

Juniper Britton

Carmela Solla

Lucia Squarcia

Script:

Gnia Leis

Gerald Sommerauer

Camera:

Francisco MeCe

Editing:

Gerald Sommerauer

Producer:

Gnia Leis

Gerald Sommerauer

Sound:

Vadim Milberg

Film info

Direction:

Gerald Sommerauer

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:

16:10

Sound format:

48Khz/24bit, 6 Kanäle, Kinodynamik-Mischung, 5.1

Language:

English, IItalian; English and German subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

12.20 min

Sounds of Nature

Luisa tries to balance caring for her mother (Eva), who is in a wheelchair, with her work in a dental practice and her personal life. During a walk in the woods they discover that a great distance has already developed between them. Whereas Eva finds comfort and security in the forest, Luisa senses only danger. Misunderstandings accumulate and an overreaction causes Luisa to abandon her mother in the forest. In the end, the forest remains silent while a despairing daughter searches in vain for her mother.

Credits

Cast:

Ulrike Beerbaum

Susanne Lüning

Márton Nagy

Script:

Eliza Petkova

Camera:

Konstantin Kann

Producer:

Eliza Petkova

Konstantin Kann

Editing:

Eliza Petkova

Sound:

Nils Plambeck

Film info

Direction:

Eliza Petkova

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

35mm

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

Dolby Surround 5.1

Language:

German with english subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

14 min

Notes of Berlin

NOTES OF BERLIN is an anthology film. 15 tragic and funny episodes with shifting protagonists guiding us through a day in Berlin. Every episode is inspired by a real note found in the streets of Berlin and posted to the site www.notesofberlin.com, one of Germany's most visited blogs. While the party is still going on in the clubs, the city awakes to a fair dawn as we discover a note attached to a street lantern: “For one minute please just stand here in silence, look at the sky and contemplate how amazing life is.” Only a very drunk young man notices the text and follows its advice. In 15 tragic and funny episodes with shifting protagonists the film paints a mood picture of current time Berlin and is a declaration of love to a city which might have never existed.

Credits

Cast:

Andrea Sawatzki

Tom Lass

Paul Boche

Katja Sallay

Script:

Mariejosephin Schneider

Co-Autor:

Thomas Gerhold

Camera:

Carmen Treichl

Editing:

Inge Schneider

Producer:

Clemens Köstlin

Film info

Direction:

Mariejosephin Schneider

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

DFFB, RBB

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,33

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby

Language:

Deutsch, Türkisch, Bulgarisch, Englisch - Untertitel: Deutsch, Englisch

Version:

OV

Runtime:

105 min