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Blue eyes and col­or­ful my dress

Summer in a Bulgarian town. On the lookout for friends to play, three-year-old Zhana goes through the streets of the neighborhood, connecting to any kid, cat or neighbor she meets. Her character unfolds spontaneously before the viewer's eyes as she hops from one encounter into another.

Credits

Cast:

Zhana Henkes u.a.

Script:

Polina Gumiela

Camera:

Polina Gumiela

Editing:

Polina Gumiela

Producer:

Polina Gumiela

Sound:

Polina Gumiela

Film info

Direction:

Polina Gumiela

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,75

Sound format:

Mono

Language:

Bulgarian

Version:

OV

Runtime:

54 min.

Baby Bitch­ka

Sasha, 23. She's been out roaming berlin streets day and night. All she wants is to forget: her past, her ex, life and herself. She drinks without rest. She'd like to drop dead. This is when she meets Alex, 60. He drinks to forget as well. Both connect their philosophy of life and their refusal to participate in the world's circus. But Sasha leads another fight: against people's perceptions of and their projections onto her. What starts as a fast-paced game ends in a trip of self-hatred and despair.

Credits

Cast:

Romina Küper

Michael Thomas

Script:

Anna Maria Rożnowska

Tamara Erbe

Camera:

Malte Siepen

Editing:

Anna Maria Rożnowska

Levent Süzen

Tamara Erbe

Producer:

Tamara Erbe

Sound:

Hans-Christian Paul

Music:

Fatima Yamaha

Alex Cameron

Mogwai

Blümchen

Tilman Brejora

Film info

Direction:

Anna Maria Rożnowska

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:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

german and english

Version:

OV

Runtime:

62 Minuten

A MEMORI

Antoni, 32, lives together with his girlfriend Sofie in Berlin. His sense of time and orientation are deteriorating. As time is running out and his confusion turns for the worse, Antoni is forced to make an irreversible decision.

Credits

Cast:

Max Thommes

Milena Straube

Script:

Job Antoni

Camera:

Ben Rahf

Editing:

Job Antoni

Maria Gans

Producer:

Jonas Nemela

Sound:

Alexander Reisenauer

Film info

Direction:

Job Antoni

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

13 min.

Mold

Two lost souls shut up inside an apartment. Nothing good lays before them or behind them. Between them, all the sadness of the lack of communication. Attempts at closeness and spurts of beauty sink in a sea of meanness where everything rots. As does the fridge, from inside which we witness their defeat.

Credits

Cast:

Lara Feith

Lukas Walcher

Script:

Adriano Theill

Camera:

Gisela Günther

Editing:

Adriano Theill

Producer:

Adriano Theill

Daniel Minkov

Sound:

Gaya von Schwarze

Film info

Direction:

Adriano Theill

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:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

8 min.

SCHOOL SHOOTING! TOMORROW OR THE DAY AFTER

The day begins comfortably for Principal Michael Korth. The student newspaper interviews him for the category "Person of the Month". But in the course of the interview he is confronted with a graffiti that was discovered in the hallways. It announces a school shooting for tomorrow or the day after. The students, his secretary, the Parent Representative and the local press all want to know how Michael Korth will handle this slightly confusing threat. Everybody has an opinion – Michael Korth does not. When even the police does not offer a solution to his dilemma, Michael Korth finally has to make his own decision.

Credits

Cast:

Michael Halberstadt

Sophie Halberstadt

Laurin Kaiser

Susanne Prinz

Michael Tietz

Kirstin Warnke

Matthias Thönnissen

Stella Hinrichs

Script:

Henning Wagner

Camera:

Antonia Lange

Producer:

Grischa Sautter

Bianca  Gleissinger

Henning Wagner

Editing:

Henning Wagner

Sound:

Patrick Düren

Vadim Mühlberg

Music:

Haraldur Thrastarson

Film info

Direction:

Henning Wagner

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,39

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Festivals:

Dortmunder Tresen Filmfestival (29.05.-02.06.2023)

Runtime:

16 min.

The wed­ding anniver­sary

It's wedding anniversary. While Xenia, the wife of the scrap yard owner Gustav, sits in front of the television and waits for her husband to make her happy, a young man is shot by three gangsters not far from the scrap yard. Xenia realizes that she is waiting in vain and rises from her TV chair to leave Gustav. The goal: "Australia", "Adventure". But she doesn't get any further than to the scrap yard gate, where the three gangsters meet her with a flat tire. When Xenia discovers the body in the trunk of her car, a completely different adventure begins for her than she had imagined. A short trip to her possibilities and thus to herself.

Credits

Cast:

Rike Eckerman

Frank Jacob

Marko Lakobrija

Alexander Czerwinski

Kristian Kiehling

Aart Steinmann

Sylvia Mayer

Script:

Theresa Bergner

Camera:

Rocío Díaz Freire

Editing:

Alexander Weiz

Producer:

Kristian Kiehling

Sound:

Marco Damke

Film info

Direction:

Theresa Bergner

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:

1:2,39

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

24 min.

Ratio

Thaddeuz, a young occupational therapist, tries to show some categories of shape and colour to a young girl named Buse. She is not interested in these games and he begins to questioning himself about it. After work, he visits Yuna, a woman which is working in an institution where adults pay to get treaten like children. He risks his comfortzone with the nearly blind Yuna, to practicing to keep eyecontact and makes her the gift of an eyetest and a pair of glasses. So now that she can see him. Then he is with Buse again and tries to meet her without categories. To stand that nothing with her, and finding a lot in it.

Credits

Cast:

Márton Nagy

Buse Uslu

Jasmin Halama

Script:

Julia Ketelhut

Mireya Heider de Jahnsen

Camera:

Rocío Díaz Freire

Editing:

Anna-Lena Laura Engelhardt

Producer:

Leonie Schäfer

Ibrahim-Utku Erdogan

Sound:

Malthe Bjørn Jensen

Tondesign:

Malthe Bjørn Jensen

Music:

Ralf Schwieters

Film info

Direction:

Julia Ketelhut

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

21 min.

ANNA KONDA — Female Fight Club

‚Anna Konda’ empowers female. Head of the FFCB - Female Fight Club Berlin and notorious female fighter herself, she pushes her girls’ to build inner strength and courage against all social norms through combat. She is a wanted specialist for a certain kind of job in the Berlin underground.

Credits

Cast:

Camera:

Konstantin Minnich

Editing:

Felix Schmerbeck

Sound:

Alexander Eckhardt

SYNDRONE Music

Film info

Direction:

Till Gerstenberger

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

2K DCP

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

Cinemascope

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

11 min.

Sebas­t­ian Jump­ing Fences

Sebastian grows up in Hanover. Being the son of a single mother, he learns to be self-reliant at a very young age. As a teenager he falls in love with Betty. Through her, he gets to know a different family structure, which has a great appeal on him. But soon tensions arise between him and the two worlds surrounding him. As a young man, he poses the question as to what remains of childhood dreams when one becomes an adult. The film tracks a young person through three different periods of his life, being on the journey of finding himself.

Credits

Cast:

Joseph Peschko – Sebastian

Finn Freyer – Sebastian als Kind

Ambar de la Horra – Mutter

Frederieke Morgenroth – Elisabeth

Andreas Sigrist – Egon

Script:

Ceylan Ataman-Checa

Camera:

Albrecht von Grünhagen

Editing:

Ceylan Ataman-Checa

Producer:

Simona Kostova

Jörg Daniel

Övünç Güvenışık

Ceylan Ataman-Checa

Sound:

Wanja Hüffell

Grigorij Kravchenko

Michael Müller

Katina Topalidis

Film info

Direction:

Ceylan Ataman-Checa

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Deustchland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Deutsch mit englischen Untertiteln

Version:

OV

Festivals:

(22.01.-02.02.2020)

Runtime:

69 min