Sleeping Messenger

An elderly woman tries to communicate with her deceased husband in an unusual way. She goes into a hospital and seeks out a young coma patient, whom she hopes can reach her husband in the afterworld.

Credits

Cast:

Friedel Grützmacher

Fabian Haslinger

Duncan Macaulay

Jaqueline Macaulay

Lena Schmidtke

Script:

Sebastian Ladwig

Florinda Frisardi

Camera:

Constantin Campean

Editing:

Marian Marx

Producer:

Margarita Amineva

Sound:

Max Hachemeister

Film info

Direction:

Florinda Frisardi

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

DFFB in Zusammenarbeit mit Arte/SWR

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Festivals:

Runtime:

5 min

THE UNCERTAINTY OF ABRAHAM

The young student of music composition Alexej (27) is taking on a new job working for the once famous composer Serguei Tovalski (74), who sends him out into the city to collect sounds. The walk through the old and new Berlin lead Alexej to an unexpected encounter with his environment, which he had long gone consciously perceived. When he begins to realize what the work of Tovalski actually means, he makes a painful experience that is questioning himself and his previous goals. The Uncertainty of Abraham explores in a dream-like aesthetic the relationship between art and reality and provides even further the question wether you are the inventor and creator of the world or just its tool. A flm that invites us to perceive the world with Alexej and to listen to the sounds that surround us.

Credits

Film info

Direction:

Tonio Hecker

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

29 min

CATARACT

A cataract, a clouding of the lens in the eye which leads to a decrease in vision, is one of the conditions affecting the film’s protagonist. But it also stands here as a further reaching, entropic (the tendency for all matter and energy in the universe to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity) metaphor for our external, diminishing, view of children, who rest and live so distantly from our zealously rattling society. It grants us a fleeting glance. A calmly floating observation by the swiftly tarnishing and congealing cinematic eye through the Pavlovsk orphanage for mentally and physically handicapped children.

Credits

Cast:

Vadim Bujniewicz

Script:

Alexander Palucki

Camera:

Alexander Palucki

Editing:

Daniel Latzel

Producer:

Alexander Palucki

Sound:

Alexander Palucki

Kseniia Palutskaia

Music:

Adam Byczkowski

Dawid Szczęsny

Film info

Direction:

Alexander Palucki

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby Digital

Language:

Russian

Version:

OV

Runtime:

31 min

Moonjump

Major Luna jumps towards the moon. In a swimming pool she acts out her dreams to float weightlessly in space.

Credits

Film info

Direction:

Lasse Holdhus

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

DFFB in Zusammenarbeit mit Arte/SWR

Production:

2018

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

5.18 min

Continent

Between clouds, Google and parliament seats: along remote locations the camera measures a topography of the continent. A collage of Europe in search of an overview.

Credits

Script:

Jörg Daniel

Camera:

Jörg Daniel

Editing:

Jörg Daniel

Producer:

Jörg Daniel

Sound:

Jörg Daniel

Film info

Direction:

Jörg Daniel

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

30 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

Englisch

Version:

OV

Runtime:

30.39 Minuten

PRINCE ALFRED

Prince Alfred misses school because he sleeps too long. So he kills time at home until he reluctantly decides to ride into town after all.

Credits

Cast:

Enrico Csonka

Delphine Pinkowski

Heiko Pinkowski

Ernestine Tzavaras

Daniel Kuhn

Jonathan C. Sloane

Script:

Mingus Ballhaus

Josa-David Sesink

Camera:

Jide Tom Akinleminu

Editing:

Mingus Ballhaus

Wolfgang Gessat

Producer:

Dennis Thiele

Sound:

Jan Pasemann

Mingus Ballhaus

Music:

Johannes Zins

Norman Sommer

Film info

Direction:

Mingus Ballhaus

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2015

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby Stereo

Language:

german and english

Version:

OV

Runtime:

13 min.

Everything is fine with us

Marielena is in her late 60s. Today she is going to move out of her house – a reminder of a time long foregone. Marielena’s son Martin is glad that he can finally sell the house.

Credits

Cast:

Renate Serwotke

Mirco Reseg

Marie Gruber

Anne von Keller

Vincent Grages

Script:

Henrietta Langholz

Camera:

Alexander Haßkerl

Editing:

Henrietta Langholz

Producer:

Alexander Haßkerl

Henrietta Langholz

Sound:

Tobias Rüther

Tondesign:

Mira Kempf

Maske:

Friederike Harder

Film info

Direction:

Henrietta Langholz

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2015

Shooting format:

35mm

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

Cinemascope

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Festivals:

57. Nordische Filmtage Lübeck (04.-08.11.2015)

15. Flensburger Kurzfilmtage (18.-22.11.2015)

Runtime:

14 min.

A FISH SWIMMING UPSIDE DOWN

Andrea, a woman without a past - playful, direct, ethereal, vivacious, honest, unpredictable. Philipp and Martin are father and son – and both love Andrea. Andrea’s presence should fill the gap of the Hanna, the recently deceased wife and mother. A summer of desire follows. But the inner emptiness inside each person begins to seek consolation, commitment and, not least, security. Its aim is to possess. Love is suppressed by fear, and the present disappears under the weight of tomorrow. Three people. One house. They live and behave outside of social norms and then fail because of their all too human needs. All that remains is emptiness and the question of guilt, which cannot be answered.

Credits

Cast:

Nina Schwabe

Theo Trebs

Henning Kober

Anna Manolova

Márton Nagy

Leon Ullrich

Script:

Eliza Petkova

Camera:

Constanze Schmitt

Editing:

Eliza Petkova

Producer:

Konstantin Kann

Sound:

Hannes Marget

Music:

Hannes Marget

Les Voda

Film info

Direction:

Eliza Petkova

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

Arri Amira

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,39

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Festivals:

70. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (20.02.-01.03.2020)

Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival (23.-27.09.2020)

24th Sofia International Film Festival (24.09.-15.10.2020)

55. FILMZ – FESTIVAL DES DEUTSCHEN KINOS (05.-14.11.2020)

Runtime:

103 min.

Lacrymosa

LILITH (15) is waiting for an audition, her violin is lying in her lap. This is her opportunity for a scholarship, the first step into a career as a musician. Around her are other nervous young musicians, the room is filled with the cacophony of various string instruments. Lillith's boyfriend MARCO (16) tries to reassure her. Marco does not belong in this world, but makes all the effort to be the support his girlfriend needs. Finally, it is Lilith's turn. She appears before the jury and plays. Mozart’s Lacrymosa. Her recital is practiced and precise like a clockwork. But that's not enough. The CHAIRWOMAN (58) preaches an uncompromising life for the arts and is surrounded by that very same aura, at least in the eyes of a 15-year-old. She explains to Lilith that technical perfection and talent are not everything. Her performance lacked the necessary emotionality. She played a piece from a requiem, but would leave no emotional impression whatsoever. Lilith makes it to the next round, but if she wants the scholarship, she will have to fix that flaw. When she comes out the door again and looks at Marco’s good-natured, curious face, she knows what to do. The two have to break up.

Credits

Cast:

Delovan Moustafa

Yuri Völsch

Marie-Lou Sellem

Script:

Sebastian Ladwig

Camera:

Giulia Schelhas

Editing:

Sebastian Lempe

Producer:

Lucas Thiem

Elisabeth Köller

Tondesign:

Niklas Kammertöns

Music:

Artiom Constantinov

Kameraassistenz:

Konstantin Kann

Film info

Direction:

Gian Suhner

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

5.2 min.