The Associate

Where to go if not to work? One morning, on a parking place somewhere in Germany, a man decides not to leave his car, but to flee into the woods. Hunted by the longing to break out and on the search for something real, natural, he starts a fantastic journey through the forest. A surrealistic film of six episodes about a man daring to step out of society to find less of "nature" but more of himself.

Credits

Cast:

Matthias Matz – Der Gesellschafter

Roland Bonjour – Mann im Schilf

Script:

Tanja Egen

Camera:

Katharina Schelling

Editing:

Tanja Egen

Producer:

Katharina Schelling

Jennifer Egen

Sound:

Bernd Biemüller

Music:

Controllar

Film info

Direction:

Tanja Egen

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,39

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,39

Sound format:

Dolby

Language:

German, English and French subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

15

Being You

What do you see? A question asked by the science-fiction therapy session guiding the transformation of Alexander, a middle-aged white man, seeking to cure his identity crisis. Through virtual reality he enters a space where he is faced with his under conscious views of woman. In this non narrative short film the game challenges the spectator to think for him/herself and to join in on its audio visual journey.

Credits

Cast:

Jasmine Alakari

Bernhard Schirr

Leilani Franco

Script:

Jasmine Alakari

Isabella Kröger

Camera:

Konstantin Kann

Editing:

Jasmine Alakari

Oswaldo Diaz Medina

Producer:

Jana Kreissl

Sound:

Frank Behnke

Film info

Direction:

Jasmine Alakari

Genre:

Kurzfilm

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:

Dolby

Language:

English, German subtitled

Version:

OV

Runtime:

11

Asphalt flowers

A bizarre encounter between two misfits trying to fight their loneliness.

Credits

Cast:

Daniel Klausner – Kai

Kim Schnitzer – Peggy

Script:

Borbála Nagy

Camera:

Constantin Campean

Editing:

Borbála Nagy

Sound:

Andor Horváth

Music:

Endre Vazul Mándli

Film info

Direction:

Borbála Nagy

Genre:

Kurzfilm

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

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Festivals:

47. Lubuskie Filmsommer (24.06-01.07.2018)

9th START International Short Film Festival (14.-17.11.2018)

9. Oder-Kurz-Filmspektakel (17.-18.5.2019)

Doclisboa (17.-27.10.19)

Runtime:

18 min

Aufenthalt (Layover)

The setting is an apartment. Two people arrive, exhausted from their journey. In a discussion about their plans for the first evening, the two circle each other. A door is being slammed, a window closed, some clothes are being hung, a suitcase never really gets unpacked. While he wants to stay in and enjoy the temporal comfort of their “home”, she is in a constant state of restlessness. As the night breaks in, the room turns into a temporal and claustrophobic shelter in which mirrors become traps, language capitulates under the weight of bodies, long showers fail to clear heads, clothes won’t match or fit, and as the TV flickers, a couple of people listen to the sound of two black holes merging.

Credits

Cast:

Ina Maria Jaich – Her

Peter Weiss – Him

Script:

Julia Milz

Music:

Devon Bate

Editing:

Julia Milz

Camera:

Marie Klein

Producer:

Clara Gerst

Sound:

Frank Behnke

Film info

Direction:

Julia Milz

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Language:

German, English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

14

The last to see them

Southern Italy, end of summer: the Durati family lives in an isolated house amidst the captivating arid landscape. Both protected and cut off from everything, they are connected to the outside world by a single road that runs all the way up to their olive tree plantation. Today, as they prepare to celebrate the older sister’s impending wedding, time flies in this secluded reality. Dora, Matteo, Renzo and Alice Durati don’t know this is their last day of life.

Credits

Cast:

Barbara Verrastro – Dora Durati

Pasquale Lioi – Matteo Durati

Canio Lancellotti – Renzo Durati

Script:

Sara Summa

Camera:

Katharina Schelling

Editing:

Sara Summa

Producer:

Cecilia Trautvetter

Sound:

Ben Roessler

Fabio Fusillo

Film info

Direction:

Sara Summa

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:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1.

Language:

Italian

Version:

OV

Runtime:

79

Self-criticism of a bourgeois dog

A bourgeois dog confesses how he was transformed from being a filmmaker to being four-legged: Unable to find financing for his film, JULIAN is forced to accept a job as a seasonal farmhand. At a party, however, he makes the young Canadian expat CAMILLE believe that he's going to do research for a communist fairy-tale film and offers her the leading part. To his great surprise, she decides to accompany him, sparking off Julian's lurking romantic fantasies. Thus they arrive at the deceitfully idyllic scene of an exploitative apple plantation. While Julian finds the manual labour agonizing and fears the strange roommates in his humble container home, Camille enthusiastically plunges into the alleged research and makes friends with HONG and SANCHO, two credulous proletarians in pursuit of happiness. For Julian, it's getting more and more difficult to act the communist filmmaker. And what's more, a hot-tempered model worker with American dreams gets in his way, a mute monk with magical powers and a screw loose shows up, the owner of the plantation accidentally gets killed, and an attempted revolution ends up in confusion. At this moment, however, the sparrows in the trees come up with an unexpected plan...

Credits

Cast:

Julian Radlmaier – Julian

Deragh Campbell – Camille

Kyung-Taek Lie – Hong

Beniamin Forti – Sancho

Ilia Korkashvili – Mönch

Zurab Rtveliasvili – Zurab

Bruno Derksen – Bruno

Anton Gonopolski – Anton

Johanna-Orsini-Rosenberg – Elfriede Gottfried

Mex Schlüpfer – Bauer

Script:

Julian Radlmaier

Camera:

Markus Koob

Editing:

Julian Radlmaier

Producer:

Kirill Krasovskiy

Set Decoration:

Merle Vorwald

Kostüm (Credit):

Natia Bakhtadze

Sara Wendt

Sound:

Kai Ziarkowski

Tondesign:

Christian Obermaier

Tobias Bilz

Produktionsleitung:

Hanna Cramer

Regieassistenz:

Jan Bachmann

Film info

Direction:

Julian Radlmaier

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Faktura Film

RBB

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Nordmedia Mediengesellschaft Bremen / Niedersachsen

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:37,1

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:37,1

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German, English

Version:

OV

Runtime:

99

Everything alright

Alpár has his first working day at the 175 km long border between Hungary and Serbia, where he is supposed to save his country from refugees. While trying to understand the customs of the border guards, he is confronted with the reality he needs to adapt to. A reality in which for the sake of self-protection, strangers from the other side are deprived of their human qualities. In this merciless microcosm he has to leave his humaneness behind.

Credits

Cast:

Benett Vilmányi – Álpar

Ákos Orosz – Laci

Script:

Borbála Nagy

Camera:

Constantin Campean

Editing:

László Dunai

Producer:

Luise Hauschild

Sound:

Tamás Bohács

Tamás Kreiner

Film info

Direction:

Borbála Nagy

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2018

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby Surround 5.1

Language:

Hungarian

Version:

OV

Festivals:

30. Filmfest Dresden (17.-22.04.2018)

Interfilm - 34. Internationales Short Film Festival (19,-25.11.2018)

(6.-10.3.2019)

Runtime:

13

Abdrift

The Captain of a container ship returns home to northern Germany after his latest trip. While his family and friends try to integrate him into the rituals of everyday life, the Captain can’t forget a decision he made during a storm 100 kilometers south of Malta. But all the steps he takes to confront his own failure show him that the world and the people around him are not willing to accept his guilt and its consequences.

Credits

Cast:

André Röhner

Sara Sommerfeld

Christoph Gawenda

Ina Maria Jaich

Dieter Matthes

Josephine Jellinek

Regieassistenz:

Gian Suhner

Script:

Jacob Hauptmann

Gian Suhner

Camera:

Nina Reichmann

Editing:

Gian Suhner

Producer:

Lucas Thiem

Sound:

Elias Müller

Film info

Direction:

Gian Suhner

Genre:

Kurzfilm

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:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Festivals:

40. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis (14.01. - 20.01.2019)

(14.-16.06.2019)

Runtime:

19 min

Thirty

Twenty-four hours with a group of friends on a Friday in October in Berlin’s district of Neukölln. Övünç is suffering from writer’s block, Pascal and Raha split up recently and are trying to stay friends. Kara constantly sublets her flat to keep herself moving. Henner spends the day in a bar and meets a girl by the name of Anja. That evening they celebrate Övünç’s birthday and drift together through the city’s nightlife. The film depicts six young people in their struggle with the daily grind of life in Berlin and the reality of turning thirty.

Credits

Cast:

Övünç Güvenışık – Ovünç

Pascal Houdus – Pascal

Raha Emami Khansari – Raha

Kara Schröder – Kara

Henner Borchers – Henner

Anja Langer – Anja

Script:

Simona Kostova

Camera:

Anselm Belser

Editing:

Simona Kostova

Producer:

Film info

Direction:

Simona Kostova

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, French, English

Version:

OV

Festivals:

48. International Film Festival Rotterdam (23.1.-3.2.2019)

69. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin - Berlinale (07.2.-17.2.2018)

Runtime:

115