Ablaze

“Gegenlicht” is a 15 minute drama film about a woman’s confrontation with her own family biography. During her own mothers funeral, Lucia, a blind woman in her early 30s, breaks into her childhood home, searching for some way to confront her past. As she searches the house, memories start awaking, taking her deeper and deeper down memory lane - a road leading to only one logical and violent conclusion…

Credits

Cast:

Stefanie Wermeling

Niklas Draeger

Tara Kula

Script:

Marie Thönnissen

Camera:

Elisabeth Börnicke

Editing:

Sverre Aune

Producer:

Charlotte Kennel

Sound:

Tsvetelina Valkova

Tondesign:

Cosimo Flohr

Music:

Johannes Börnicke

Film info

Direction:

Sverre Aune

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Super16 Film

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby Surround 5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

17 min

Post Empire

Sal has the war within him. And he doesn't want anyone to touch his face. He sometimes does dirty and risky jobs for his boss. When he meets the charismatic Sasha, he screws up an important coup and gets a taste of his boss's disturbing violence. Sal goes into hiding. For Sasha's sake, he gets involved in a heady tour de force with her friends Andy and Lucy, which causes Sal to undergo an incredible metamorphosis. Together they get lost in a labyrinth of drugs, sex, fears, violence and disorientation. Delicate and cruel, real and surreal, terrifying and strangely funny, love must be reinvented, real life lies elsewhere. But when his boss's henchmen track down the four, defenseless, at an old farmhouse, a massacre is imminent.

Credits

Cast:

Daniel Strässer – Sal

Annina Walt – Lucy

Susann Mertz – Sasha

Gerdy Zint – Gerdy

Johanna Ingelfinger – Jenny

Malik Adan – Julian

Script:

Günther Franke

Josa-David Sesink

Camera:

Phillip Kaminiak

Editing:

Günther Franke

Maximilian Duwe

Producer:

Simon Lubinski

Christopher Kane

Film info

Direction:

Günther Franke

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin, gefördert durch das Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

HD

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

2048x856

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Festivals:

19. achtung berlin Filmfestival (12.-19.04.2023)

Festival de Cine Fantástico de Sant Boi de Llobregat “FANTBOI” (11.-14.07.2024)

Runtime:

103 min

What do we see when we look at the sky?

It’s love at first sight when Lisa and Giorgi meet by chance on a street in the Georgian city of Kutaisi. Love strikes them so suddenly, they even forget to ask each other’s names. Before continuing on their way, they agree to meet the next day. Little do they know that an evil eye casts its spell on them. Will they manage to meet again? And if they do, will they know who they are? Life goes on as usual in their hometown, street dogs stray, the soccer world cup begins and a film crew on its quest to find true love might be what they need.

Credits

Cast:

Ani Karseladze – Lisa

Giorgi Bochorishvili – Giorgi

Oliko Barbakadze – Lisa

Giorgi Ambroladze – Giorgi

Vakhtang Panchulidze – Café owner

Sofio Tchanishvili – Maya

Irine Chelidze – Nino

Script:

Alexandre Koberidze

Camera:

Faraz Fesharaki

Editing:

Alexandre Koberidze

Producer:

Mariam Shatberashvili

Tondesign:

Giorgi Koberidze

Music:

Giorgi Koberidze

Szenenbild:

Maka Jebirashvili

Kostüm (Credit):

Nino Zautashvili

Maske:

Lana Amoeva

Tonmischung:

Alexandre Leser

Regieassistenz:

Tamuna Shubitidze

Redaktion:

Verena Veihl (rbb)

Film info

Direction:

Alexandre Koberidze

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie in Koproduktion mit Sakdoc Film, New Matter Films und dem rbb, gefördert von Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg und Georgian National Film Center

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

16mm / Digital

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,66

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Georgian with German/English subtitles

Version:

OV

Festivals:

Berlinale - Wettbewerb 2021

Runtime:

150 min

Tariks Play

Can you choose your gender or behave the way you feel, or do you have to accept what society expects of you? Ayse likes to play soccer with boys, she is in love with another girl and she likes to call herself Tarik instead of Ayse. She has managed to establish herself and achieve her goals, now she has to lead a double life because she comes from conservative circles. When she gets her period, she realizes once again what kind of dilemma she's currently facing.

Credits

Cast:

Mavi Bosse – Tarik/Ayse

Alexandra Dzewas – Julia

Script:

Süheyla Schwenk

Camera:

Claudia Schröder

Editing:

Süheyla Schwenk

Producer:

Tamara Erbe

Sound:

Felix Schmidt

Music:

Baris Cakir

Film info

Direction:

Süheyla Schwenk

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:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

5 min

Blind Spots

An international film crew in the first overtime hour, shortly before sunrise. The hired intimacy coordinator interrupts the filming of a sex scene due to an unarranged move by the actor, which the director has secretly instructed. A conflict arises. The sun threatens to rise. How will the last take be shot?

Credits

Cast:

Julia Effertz – Donna, the intimacy coordinator

Leon Ullrich – Luc, the director

Sarina Radomski – Lara, the directing assistant

Lia von Blarer – Marjeta, the actress

Etienne Bissuel – Etienne, the actor

Stéphanie Meth – Agnès, the DOP

Kumar Muniandy – Kumar, the soundman

Hans Brückner – Reinhold, Gaffer

Boris Hadžija – Boris, the costume designer

Yoav Rolef – Vincent, the 1st AC

Lukas Wesslowski – Yuri, the intern

Shisha Rainbow – Shisha, the make-up artist

Aminata Cisse – Aminata, light department

Jan Philip Runge – Jan, light department

Eddy Shore – Eddy, the driver

Script:

Luis Schubert

Camera:

Giulia Schelhas

Editing:

Luis Schubert

Producer:

Luis Schubert

Tondesign:

Cosimo Flohr

Film info

Direction:

Luis Schubert

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Arri Amira

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9 and 1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby Surround 5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

9 min

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