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It’s a crim­i­nal waste to give this film a post­pro­duc­tion

While playing a role in his son’s film via skype, the director's father starts questioning his son’s integrity and filmmaking skills.

Credits

Cast:

Mitra Kia – Mutter

Hassan Fesharaki – Hassan

Tina Kadkhodayan – Tina

Sadaf Javdani – Sadaf

Rahi Sinaki – Rahi

Sohrab Yazdanmehr – Sohrab

Roozbeh Tazhibi – Roozbeh

Sara Faezypour – Sara

Script:

Moritz Friese

Camera:

Moritz Friese

Editing:

Moritz Friese

Producer:

Moritz Friese

Sound:

Josha Eickel

Moritz Friese

Luise Hauschild

Music:

Rahi Sinaki

Film info

Direction:

Moritz Friese

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany, Iran

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Farsi, German; Subtitles available in German, English

Version:

OV

Runtime:

20

IT’S A CRIMINAL WASTE TO GIVE THIS FILM A POSTPRODUCTION

Credits

Film info

Genre:

fictional

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Language:

Version:

OV

Lucky Fel­low

"Lucky fellow" is a brief portrait of the Berlin-based artist Kolja Kugler, who builds sculptures and robots out of trash.

Credits

Cast:

Nicolai Kugler – Kolja

Script:

Samuel Auer

Camera:

Tobias Gaede

Editing:

Tobias Gaede

Producer:

Tobias Gaede

Sound:

Tobias Gaede

Music:

Kolja Kugler

Film info

Direction:

Samuel Auer

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2017

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:

5

His­to­ria Mag­is­tra Vitae

Historia magistra vitae is a fragment of a memory on a flight. The flight of Dara Mayer, a ethnic German Croatian, who fled from the Croatian War in 1991 to Germany. Historia magistra vitae, History, Teacher of Life, so the film portraits the circle of history mirrored in a personal story. The collective memory forgets faster then the personal and still, in the end, the only thing thats left are fragments, which need to be put in new contexts.

Credits

Cast:

Dara Mayer – Voice-Over

Script:

Tamara Erbe

Camera:

Tamara Erbe

Editing:

Tamara Erbe

Producer:

Tamara Erbe

Sound:

Ibrahim-Utku Erdogan

Giovanni Zeitz

Frank Behnke

Film info

Direction:

Tamara Erbe

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany, Croatia

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Goethe Institut

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, subtitles available in German, Italian, Englisch

Version:

OV

Runtime:

5

Flat Desires

All the glory of the #www in less than 5 minutes. #seriouslynofilter

Credits

Editing:

Senem Göcmen

Camera:

Senem Göcmen

Film info

Direction:

Senem Göcmen

Genre:

Experimentalfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

stumm

Language:

Version:

OV

Runtime:

4

Exit

EXIT is a film about two women who left the ultra-orthodox community. One is Heidi Moses, daughter of the chairman of United Torah Judaism party. Heidi grew up in the ultra-orthodox neighbourhood Bnei Brak and was forced to marry at the age of 17. Always wanting to escape the religious life, she had the courage to get a divorce when she was 24 years old and managed to take her two kids with her. Today she is a lesbian living a secular life in Tel Aviv and fighting for women’s rights especially within the ultra-orthodox community. Heidi meets Sarah. She grew up in the U.S. and turned religious at the age of 18 when she met her future husband and moved to Israel. They had six children and lived a very strong dedicated religious life until she felt that she was living the wrong life. She got a divorce at a Rabbinical court in 2012. Since then she is fighting to see her children more than once a week and outside the rabbinical day care center. The film portrays the two women who are very different but have one thing in common: having to deal with the consequences from leaving the ultra-orthodox community.

Credits

Cast:

Henja Murray

Sarah Murray

Heidi Moses

Judah Moses

Camera:

Daniel Binsted

Producer:

Markus Kaatsch

Dana Gal

Editing:

Katharina Woll

Sound:

Kfir Shay

Tondesign:

Christoph Kozik

Film info

Direction:

Katharina Woll

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Israel, Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Tel Aviv University

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

English, Hebrew, Yiddish, English Subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

23

Dear Me

“Dear Me” is a portrait documentary about people in various lifesituations, who wrote to themselves the letter they have always wished to receive. Aspirations, hopes and dreams become visible in a reality that is often quite differently. “Write yourself the letter which you always wished to receive.” After spreading the word, director Luise Makarov received over a hundred letters. In DEAR ME Luise Makarov is portraying people in various life situations, who wrote to themselves this letter. In their words she discovers aspirations, hopes and dreams, that are becoming visible in a reality that is often quite differently. Anne is a young mother, who found herself in a struggle after giving birth to her daughter Gilda. Before she became a mother she was an independent woman just starting to establish herself as an artist. But since Gilda is born, she put her life on hold, traveling with her husbands job instead and feeling very stuck with her own life. Renate is an old lady, who has written herself a letter from her mother. Her mother is dead now, but Renate is still suffering to cope with a remark her mother made when she was still a teenager. Andre is a typical Berlin-artist: without money, living just for his art. Things are starting to turn for him, when he gets a big chance to be a curator. But despite money problems he is suffering as well from a missed chance to bond with the girl he loves. Detlef lives a withdrawn life. During the day he goes to church, but at night he is challenging himself by touring through different Karaoke Joints in Berlin. He is over 60 now, but wrote himself a letter from Anita, a girl who rejected him when he was just 17 years old.

Credits

Script:

Luise Makarov

Camera:

Luise Makarov

Producer:

Jonas Rothlaender

Sound:

Julian Cropp

Film info

Direction:

Luise Makarov

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg und Jonas Rothlaender

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German/English with german/english subtitles available

Version:

OV

Runtime:

102

Ent­fal­tung

Ute Strub ist 83 Jahre alt. Eine zierliche, sich geschmeidig bewegende Frau. Sie ist ausgebildete Krankengymnastin und Pädagogin und immer noch als Dozentin tätig. Menschen, die sich mit der Pikler-Pädagogik beschäftigen, kennen sie gut. Ute Strub hatte bereits in den 70er Jahren die ungarische Kinderärztin Emmi Pikler kennengelernt und war von deren Werk so angetan, dass sie sich unermüdlich für die Verbreitung des PiklerAnsatzes in Deutschland und in vielen anderen Ländern einsetzte. Sie war die Herausgeberin der Bücher von Emmi Pikler in Deutschland und engagierte sich vielfältig für das Wohl der Kinder und der, sich um sie kümmernden Erwachsenen . Ute Strub gründete 2010 in Berlin das Strandgut - einen Spielraum ohne herkömmliche Spielzeuge, in dem die Kinder in ihrem Sinne frei spielen dürfen. Die außergewöhnliche und zugleich einfache Gestaltung dieses Ortes zeigt neue Wege, wie man den Forschungsdrang und das selbstständige Spielen der Kinder begleiten und unterstützen kann. Ute Strub ist der Ansicht, dass das Spielen ein besonderes Merkmal des Menschseins ist. Beim Spielen sei der Mensch ganz bei der Sache, im Hier und Jetzt. Und wenn man im Hier und Jetzt ist, dürfe Freude, Kreativität und echte Lebendigkeit entstehen, genau wie bei Kindern, die von Natur aus daran interessiert sind, was sie gerade tun. Die Lust zu spielen gehe leider oft während den Schuljahren verloren. Was Ute in ihren Seminaren tut ist, die Erwachsenen dazu zu ermutigen, ihren Spieltrieb wieder zu wecken. Der Film ist ein einfühlsames Portrait, das die Persönlichkeit Ute Strubs vorstellt und ihr Lebenswerk durch das Spielen der Kinder und Erwachsenen erzählt. Die Möglichkeit, sich zu entfalten, ist bei Menschen immer vorhanden, sie müssen nur dafür bereit sein. Ute Strub kann das aus eigener Erfahrung bestätigen.

Credits

Script:

Laura Lazzarin

Camera:

Nicole Borchert

Merle Jothe

Producer:

Johanna Bergel

Martina Knapheide

Sound:

Laura Lazzarin

Tondesign:

Sebastian Morsch

Editing:

Elena Weihe

Film info

Direction:

Laura Lazzarin

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

68 minutes

Detour

A young woman meets on her escape with a child the delivery man Bruno (Lars Rudolph), who takes the two on his way to Berlin. She secretly took the boy on a trip, in order to force her boyfriend and father of the child, to admit to their relationship. Bruno senses her outcastness in life and presumes to the idea, that she could be somebody, who understands him. At a rest stop, he tries clumsily to get closer to Alma but she rebuffs him. In doing so, she unwittingly injures him in such a way that he drops all his inhibitions. Whereas Bruno until now was acting covertly in the hope of establishing contact, he now wants to take for himself what has been denied him.

Credits

Cast:

Luise Heyer

Lars Rudolph

Alex Brendemühl

Script:

Nina Vukovic

Benjamin Talsik

Producer:

Benjamin Talsik

Music:

Leonard Petersen

Film info

Direction:

Nina Vukovic

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Siamanto GmbH

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

Kai Ziarkowski

Language:

German, English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

82