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Liebes­brief

Ein dickes attraktives Mädchen versumpft in ihrem überdigitalisierten Single-Appartment. Nonstop sendet sie Herzchen und Küsse an ihr Love Interest im Chat. Bis ein Stromausfall sie von der Außenwelt abschneidet. Und dazu zwingt, einen analogen Liebesbrief zu schreiben.

Credits

Cast:

Lisa Brand – Loona

Bardo Böhlefeld – Larry

Script:

Marcus Hanisch

Camera:

Jasper Techel

Editing:

Jannis Greff

Producer:

Maximilian Becht

Sound:

Moritz Drath

Music:

Moritz Drath

Film info

Direction:

Marcus Hanisch

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Version:

OV

Runtime:

6

Große Erwartun­gen

Wie würde die Welt aussehen, wenn nicht wir Erwachsene, sondern unsere Kinder einen ganz normalen Tag unseres Arbeitslebens bewältigen müssten? In dieser lustigen und doch fragwürdigen Welt ist manches zu groß für kleine Schultern – aber vielleicht könnten die Großen von den Kleinen noch etwas lernen...

Credits

Cast:

Lasse Pauli – Apfel Junge

Lilith Dulgeris – Coffee to go Mädchen

Mirza Eren – Ehemann

Yannick Hinrichs – Mahler

Bennet Pauli – Buisness Junge

Lotte Togler – Buisness Mädchen

Azra Aktas – Buisness Mädchen

Caspar Togler – Passant

Liselotte Bonn – Buisness Mädchen

Elias Siegmann – Buisness Junge

Bo Zachriat – Buisness Junge

Baselius Göze – Buisness Junge

Josephine Krabbe – Buisness Mädchen

Script:

Sara Summa

Camera:

Editing:

Sara Summa

Producer:

Roxana Richters

Sound:

Ben Roessler

Music:

Ben Roessler

Film info

Direction:

Sara Summa

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Deutsch mit Englischen Untertiteln

Version:

OV

Runtime:

4

Anoth­er world

Technology is on the rise, nature is disappearing. “Another World” addresses concerns about environmental problems and the growth of technology. What influence does technological progress have on our world? Individual scenes show possible scenarios and give viewers food for thought.

Credits

Film info

Direction:

Florinda Frisardi

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:2,39

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,39

Sound format:

Dolby 5,1

Language:

Version:

OV

Runtime:

4

 

Träume von Räu­men

Tucked away from the hustle and bustle of new arrivals and mass tourists in Berlin Mitte, and only a stone’s throw away from the great Volksbühne theatre, there is an architectural ensemble, the ‘Kleine Bremer Höhe’ — its red brick houses almost untouched by time. Since 1989 the collective housing estate for workers, built during the German Empire, has served as a refuge to artists, punks and senior citizens. To the occasional random visitor the quiet courtyard with its dreamy linden trees presents itself as an enchanted garden right off the busy life of Torstrasse. A tracking shot past the trash cans by the entrance reveals an orderless space in which the few remaining tenants cross paths and linger to daydream and converse. ‘What does it mean to inhabit a space?’, asks filmmaker and resident Matthias Lintner at the beginning of the film. The answer lies in the affectionate portraits of his neighbours. The director closely watches and listens to his house mates, who have built a world of their own, and refuses to focus on the outside world. Ideas on vacantness and void appear as a subversive act against the utopia of the well-ordered spaces and echo the thoughts of writer Georges Perec — his quotes adding an essay-like layer.

Credits

Cast:

Båtsman & Spooky

Koben

Rafael Fortuna

Herr Pieper

Matthias Lintner

Script:

Matthias Lintner

Camera:

Francisco Medina

Matthias Lintner

Matilda Mester

Carlos Andrés López

Christopher Aoun

Editing:

Ginés Olivares

Producer:

Matthias Lintner

Ewelina Rosinska

Sound:

Matthias Lintner

Tondesign:

Joscha Eickel

Music:

Josépha van der Schoot

Hisato Higuchi

Rafael Fortuna

Film info

Direction:

Matthias Lintner

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2018

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German with English subtitels

Version:

OV

Runtime:

85

 

Night Owls

"Night Owls" is inspired by Edward Hopper's painting Nighthawks and tells the story of a couple of revelers whose ways cross by chance at an isolated petrol station. Jonathan, a young, naive gas station clerk becomes a voyeur in the boredom of the night and watches Michaela, a mysterious woman, have anonymous sex. "Night Owls" is a dreamy appeal to love and life, a film about the curiosity and the expansion of one's own horizon against all prejudices.

Credits

Cast:

Valentin Erb – Jonathan

Maik Solbach – Michael/a

Script:

Samuel Auer

Camera:

Lukas Eylandt

Editing:

Wiebke Henrich

Producer:

Tamara Erbe

Sound:

Andor Horváth

Film info

Direction:

Samuel Auer

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germanyccc

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2016

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

German, English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

7

Das Melan­cholis­che Mäd­chen (Aren’t you hap­py?)

A girl roams through the city looking for a place to sleep. Along the way she meets young mothers who celebrate motherhood religiously, goes home with an abstinent existentialist for whom sex is “just another market”, and waits for the end of capitalism in a drag bar. Her attempt to write a book doesn’t make it beyond the first sentence of the second chapter, and she finds no space between art galleries, yoga studios and the beds of strangers. Instead of trying to fit in, she starts regarding her depression as a political issue. Through 15 of the girl’s humorous encounters, AREN’T YOU HAPPY? explores our post-modern society between precarity and self-marketing, serial monogamy and neo-spirituality, disillusionment and the pressure to be happy. Susanne Heinrich’s debut film brings together pop and theory, feminism and humour, and gives you tons of quotes you’ll want to see on advertising billboards in neon letters.

Credits

Camera:

Agnesh Pakozdi

Script:

Susanne Heinrich

Editing:

Susanne Heinrich

Benjamin Mirguet

Production Design:

Jeanne Louet

Miren Oller

Nora Willy

Sound:

Wiebke Köplin

Silvio Naumann

Music:

Mathias Bloech

Moritz Sembritzki

Ausstattung:

Lisa Poethke

Film info

Direction:

Susanne Heinrich

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Essential Films

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

80

Tom Schäfer

Tom Schäfer, in his mid-thirties, is employed in a municipal library. He looks quite nice - a bit dreamy. The birthday of a colleague on this Friday afternoon is a reason for all the staff of the library to meet for a coffee in the staff kitchen. Tom Schäfer is marginalized by his colleagues, nobody seems to want to have something to do with him. Nevertheless, he repeats his suggestion to drink a beer together. Until a colleague says yes. Tom Schäfer patiently waits for him, but in vain. When he understands that he has been forgotten, he makes his way home alone. At home his dog is waiting.

Credits

Cast:

Matthi Faust – Tom Schäfer

Andreas Merker – Karl Ohm

Stefan Ostertag – Friedrich Schönfeld

Paul Schaeffer – Janis Krämer

Susanne Szell – Mona

Lilli Meinhart – Olga

Script:

Isabella Kröger

Camera:

Jasper Techel

Producer:

Clara Gerst

Sound:

Matthias Rohde

Ausstattung:

Genja Leis

Film info

Direction:

Gerald Sommerauer

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

17

Warten auf Lin­da

The gatekeepers of death are driving inside a speeding car on their way to a pick up job on Earth, but they are running late. Therefore, two dead men inside a burger shop have a few extra moments to spare.

Credits

Cast:

Tristan Pranyko – Guenther

Malte Hermann – Werner

Lea Ostrovskiy – Linda

Ralf Kilauea – Gatekeeper 1

Joerg Odenbach – Gatekeeper 2

Drehbuch (Credit):

Shazad Madon

Editing:

Marian Marx

Camera:

Felix Schuster

Producer:

Anna Werner

Sound:

Torsten Hoppe

Film info

Direction:

Shazad Madon

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2018

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

22

 

Ich geh jet­zt (I go now)

Paula and Hektor, a couple in the second half of their twenties, are moving into their new flat because they are expecting a child. In the house of her childhood, Paula tries to convince her father to finally let go of her, meanwhile Hektor sneaks away. Back in the city he tracks down an old love affair. He wants to understand: how do you leave without looking back?

Credits

Cast:

Stellan Torrn – Hektor

Kristin Suckow – Paula

Lena Reinhold – Lu

Drehbuch (Credit):

Oliver Moser

Editing:

Oliver Moser

Producer:

Romana Janik

Camera:

Moritz Friese

Music:

Matthias Petsche

Film info

Direction:

Oliver Moser

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

RBB

Production:

2018

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

German, English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

23