Across

Maditha is witness of an accident in the flat next to hers. The short encounter with her neighbor doesn't let her go. She wants to find out more about the accident- again and again she rings at the doorbell of her neighbor and makes a research on burning wounds. Her engagement in her neighborhood doesn’t resound in a community, it is an isolation. Through the constant observation of the neighbors flat that remains closed to her, her perception becomes distorted. The phantasy of Maditha grows through the distance and she starts to drift away from reality.

Credits

Cast:

Gina Henkel

Sandra Nedeleff

Script:

Viviane Petrescu

Camera:

Nina Reichmann

Editing:

Alan Zejer

Producer:

Charlotte Kennel

Viviane Petrescu

Sound:

Jaime Guijarro-Bustamante

Music:

Yu-Chun Huang

Film info

Direction:

Viviane Petrescu

Ewa Wikieł

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

DFFB in Zusammenarbeit mit Arte/SWR

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

5 min

Waiting

Feeling isolated by smartphone technology, a man expresses his deep concerns of being ghosted by his dream girl.

Credits

Cast:

Lasse Holdhus

Script:

Lasse Holdhus

Camera:

Alexander Brack

Editing:

Lasse Holdhus

Producer:

Lisa Roling

Sound:

Timo Bénit

Film info

Direction:

Lasse Holdhus

Genre:

Kurzfilm

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:

4:3

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

Norwegian with german or english subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

8.16 min

Papa bear

Martin is a lucky guy who lies to almost everybody: his clients, mistresses and even his woman who’s highly pregnant. Martin deals with design furniture (fake and real one) with success. But one day he receives a letter from the tax office and his world starts to tremble. The salvation seems to be a easy: Martin founds in internet the famous Papa Bear - an original and very rare armchair! It belongs to the old lady who moves to the retirement house. Martin’s way of thinking is very simple: buy cheaply, sell for much more. But in this case he encounters a real problem: the old lady can sell everything but not this object! Martin doesn't give up. With a help of his faithful companion Tomasso he tries to get the armchair and then pay all his debts and reconquer the love of his woman. As a lucky guy he knows very well: the winner takes it all!

Credits

Film info

Direction:

Michal Ostatkiewicz

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

German/ Englisch / Polish / Russian

Version:

OV

Runtime:

22 min

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.