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Hier, für dich. (Here, for you.)

An dem Tag, an dem die beiden Freunde Franziska und Cédric eine Schutzehe eingehen wollen, kommt es aufgrund Franziskas Verspätung zu Komplikationen im Standesamt und die beiden werden sowohl was ihr Auftreten als Paar, als auch was ihre Entscheidung anbelangt überraschend herausgefordert.

Credits

Cast:

Valéry Valère – Cederic

Amanda Mincewicz – Franziska

Bettina Ratschew – die Beamtin

Mario Klischies – Bräutigam

Siyaka Keitamansaringsama – Bijan

Leon Schröder – Leon

Drehbuch (Credit):

Olivia Requat

Camera:

Gisela Günther

Editing:

Laura Hölzel

Producer:

Anna Werner

Sound:

Niels Pelz

Music:

Matthias Jahner

Film info

Direction:

Lisa Hürtgen

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

10

Learn to Swim

On one ordinary Sunday morning, Karin took her daughter's racing bicycle to see Wieland in the little runaways' farm he is now living in. Driven by unexplainable longing to her grown up baby that doesn’t want to be found, Karin appears without a notice in her son's new home. All she wants is to see if he has everything he needs and cycle her way back home before sunset, to give her grumpy daughter her stolen bike back. In her mind, Karin is sure of being the most caring, altruistic and well doing mother. Putting everything aside, opening a front with Wielands teenager sister, she is sacrificing her weekend, to take care of her son and fulfil her role as a mother. However, Wieland finds her attempt to please him rather unmindful and invidious. 
 Hit by Wieland’s rejection to her help attempt, Karin drops the reins and lets him lead her slowly through his little world.

Credits

Cast:

Stephanie Petrowitz – Karin

Luca Hennig – Wieland

Drehbuch (Credit):

Gaya von Schwarze

Mirko Rachor

Josephine Oleak

Camera:

Raban Jakob Friedrich

Editing:

Gaya von Schwarze

Producer:

Ibrahim-Utku Erdogan

Leonie Schäfer

Sound:

Anika Danielle Wagner

Music:

Lukas Lonski

Film info

Direction:

Gaya von Schwarze

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2018

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:2.39

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2.39

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

17

 

The build­ing

In eastern Ukraine, in Kharkiv, lies Derzhprom, the state-owned house. Built between 1925 and 1928 in the style of constructivism, it was intended to embody the idea of communism. Although it is one of the largest realized constructivist buildings and a poster child for the 1920s avant-garde movement, it seems almost forgotten. The film Budinok (The House) moves between the classic, observational documentary and the experimental cinema. With very little dialogue, it is rather a poem of moving images. The use of mixed materials - 16 mm, Hi8, HD, 35mm archive material from the 20's and video archive invites you to reflect on how past and present are interconnected and how movement and time are related to the static of architecture. Derzhprom acts as a kind of time machine that travels through time as an absolutely immovable object. The space becomes here the time. Using text panels in the movie forces the connection to the silent movie. Danish Sound artist Felia Gram-Hanssen has composed a piece for the film in the silence of concrete music, consisting only of recorded natural sounds - an idea that goes back to Soviet artists of the 1920s. The sounds follow the rhythm of the building, the inner rhythm of the forms, an idea of Cubist art. The Constructivists asked what is the relationship between life and art, politics and aesthetics. In the film Budinok (The Building) we look at the fragments of a time (like the rag- picker of history) in which a new society seemed possible, fascinated by the choreography of the people moving through the corridors, floors and doors of this giant-time machine, convinced that the History is ultimately about the people who inhabit it.

Credits

Cast:

Camera:

Matilda Mester

Editing:

Matilda Mester

Tatjana Kononenko

Bruno Derksen

Sound:

Tobias Bilz

Jan Pasemann

Music:

Felia Gram-Hanssen

Film info

Direction:

Matilda Mester

Tatjana Kononenko

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:1,78

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,78

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Russian, Ukrainian, German

Version:

OV

Festivals:

23. Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (24.-29.10.2019)

29. Film Festival Cottbus (5.-11.11.2019)

13. Artdocfest (05.-12.12.2019)

Docudays UA (24.04.-10.05.2020)

Open City Documentary Festival (09.-15.09.2020)

Kaunas International Film Festival 2020 (17.-27.09.2020)

IV Kharkiv MeetDocs EUFF (26.-31.10.2020)

8th CinéDOC-Tbilisi (23.-27.04.2020)

OKO International Ethnographic Film Festival (11-18.09.21)

Arkitekturfilm Oslo (21.-24.10.2021)

Runtime:

93 min

 

Chaos

CHAOS is a one-shot fairytale about the devil. What are one jogger, one hobo and two pigs doing in a forest? CHAOS is a story about greed and its consequences. It’s a short that should be seen several times, as it more and more reveals what is lying underneath its form.

Credits

Cast:

Maik Sollbach – Jogger

Atilla Oehner – Räuber

Ali Bulgan – Bandit

Billy Buff – Beelzebub Double

Drehbuch (Credit):

Samuel Auer

Camera:

Lukas Eylandt

Producer:

Samuel Auer

Sound:

Tamás Bohács

Film info

Direction:

Samuel Auer

Genre:

Kurzfilm

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 Digital

Language:

Version:

OV

Runtime:

4

Smile

Nineteen-year-old Mercedes is drifting rather aimlessly through life, except that she has one big dream: to go to the legendary electronic music festival Heimat. There, she is not only searching for friendships and even life-changing experiences. She also wants to meet Boy, a DJ that she has been chatting with on Facebook. The tickets are way too expensive, however, so she has to take her Mum’s credit card to get there. Upon arriving at the festival, she soon finds out that Boy is already at a secret backstage party where he is going to play a surprise gig – one that requires a golden wristband to access. As Boy doesn’t manage to pick her up, Mercedes decides to make it there on her own. She befriends wild child Bella who brags about knowing the woman on the door and duly makes Mercedes pay for her drinks along the way. This works out until Mercedes’ Mum blocks her card and it becomes obvious that Bella is not as well connected as she claims. Frustrated, Mercedes wants to leave Heimat but discovers that her credit card-synced wristband will not let her check out. When a festival employee dressed as a Faun offers her one of the ubiquitous happy pills, Mercedes finally buys into the rules of the game. To reach her end goal, Mercedes has to confront the sinister forces at work beneath the surface of this seemingly utopian world. She has to fight not only for her freedom, but also for her identity.

Credits

Cast:

Mercedes Müller – Mercedes

Hanna Hilsdorf – Bella

Mehmet Sözer – Boy

Christoph Bach – Zylinder

Julia Dietze – Heidi

Gigi Spelsberg – Isis

Drehbuch (Credit):

Silke Eggert

Steffen Köhn

Prodromos Antoniadis

Camera:

Mario Krause

Editing:

Andrea Pek

Leonardo Franke

Producer:

René Frotscher

Sound:

Lorenz Fischer

Music:

Johannes Klingebiel

Film info

Direction:

Steffen Köhn

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel

Mafilm

Production:

2018

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German/English with German or English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

81

Jiyan

The only connection for Hayat to her past life is her nightmares. In Berlin she and her husband Harun living in the uncle’s house and his wife does not agree with this situation because Hayat is Kurdish. After a while Harun finds an illegal Job in a building site and the baby is born. The Baby brings a unique connection between the women. One day the answer is coming about the refugee status of them but Harun disappeared….

Credits

Cast:

Halima Ilter – Hayat

Füsun Demirel – Gülsüm

Baran Sükrü Babacan – Harun

Nizam Namidar – Irfan

Drehbuch (Credit):

Süheyla Schwenk

Camera:

Florian Wurzer

Editing:

Süheyla Schwenk

Producer:

Sara Fazilat

Roxana Richters

Sound:

Philipp Olbrich

Music:

Berivan Ciya

Deniz Mahir Kartal

Film info

Direction:

Süheyla Schwenk

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Turkish, Kurdish, Deutsch subtitles available in: German, English

Version:

OV

Festivals:

34. Entrevues Belfort, festival international du film (18.-25.11.2019)

41. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis (20.-26.01.2020)

2. PyeongChang International Peace Film Festival (18.-23.06.2020)

66th Taormina International Film Fest (11.-29.07.2020)

33. Festival DER NEUE HEIMATFILM in Freistadt (26.-30.08.2020)

49. Lubuskie Filmsommer (30.08.-.06.09.2020)

16. achtung berlin - new berlin film award (16.-20.09.2020 - cancelled)

17. Neiße Film Festival (24.-27.09.20)

Kurdisches Filmfestival Berlin (08.-14.10.2020)

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

Umeå Europeiska Filmfestival (25.-29.11.2020)

Kurdish Film Days Leipzig (04.-05.12.2020)

16th ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival (09.-11.04.2021)

50th Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival (21.-25.07.2021)

Duhok International Film Festival (11.-18.11.2021)

Kurdische Filmtage (17.-19.03.2022)

Runtime:

71

 

Mem­o­ries of a miss­ing girl

In a small village, a mother searches for her missing daughter. She encounters a boy, who might know more about the girl’s disappearance than he admits.

Credits

Cast:

Maria Hengge

Pascal Saschowa

Drehbuch (Credit):

Florinda Frisardi

Camera:

Nicola Medvecka

Editing:

Anna-Lena Laura Engelhardt

Florinda Frisardi

Producer:

Daria Wichmann

Sound:

Music:

LEI

Film info

Direction:

Florinda Frisardi

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2018

Shooting format:

16mm

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:

10

The Oth­ers

A man can fly, yet is condemned for it. He is required to fit in, to surrender, to change. Ultimately, he’s faced with the decision to either assert himself or to submit.

Credits

Cast:

Márton Nagy

Drehbuch (Credit):

Eliza Petkova

Camera:

Konstantin Kann

Editing:

Eliza Petkova

Producer:

Konstantin Kann

Eliza Petkova

Sound:

Hannes Marget

Music:

Hannes Marget

Film info

Direction:

Eliza Petkova

Genre:

Experimentalfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

REKA films

Production:

2018

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

2:1

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

2:1

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

11

Sort Sol

Once upon a time ... in the year of 2083: Nate lives in an efficient but dreary future in which people have become nothing more than work machines for Cormick Inc. Mysterious calls pull Nate out of his comfort zone and start haunting him. As he, bit by bit, is cast out of society, his frightening visions take over and bring him back to a world he has forgotten.

Credits

Cast:

Arno Frisch – Nate Paz

Wera Bunge – Erzählerin (Sprechrolle)

Jacqueline Macaulay – Computerstimme (Sprechrolle)

Anton Hetzel – Waldgeist

Drehbuch (Credit):

Rico Mahel

Camera:

Jakob Krüger

Editing:

Rico Mahel

Producer:

Jana Kreissl

Tondesign:

Jonathan Ritzel

Music:

Joscha Grunewald

Film info

Direction:

Rico Mahel

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2018

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,39

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,39

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German/English with German or English subtitles

Version:

OV

Festivals:

XXV Edição do Festival Caminhos do Cinema Português (22.-30.11.2019)

2ANNAS Riga IFF (10.-16.02.2020)

Runtime:

30