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

Let the bell ring

LET THE BELL RING follows boxing prodigy MALCOLM (23) on his way to the Golden Gloves Championships, the ticket to the world of pro-boxing. When he almost loses his first fight, his dreams are suddenly questioned. Malcolm's coach JESSIE (43), still mourning his own shattered boxing career, fears to fail a second time. They intensify the training drastically, almost heading towards a path of destruction. It becomes clear that talent, passion and even hard work sometimes are not enough to succeed. It’s the family around you - nobody can make it alone. In LET THE BELL RING the classical story of a boxer’s dream becomes a generation’s tale about first and last hopes, set against the backdrop of Los Angeles. It´s about lonely roads that cross each other and creating something out of nothing.

Credits

Producer:

Eva Kemme

Tobias N. Siebert

Ansgar Frerich

Camera:

Max Preiss

Editing:

Anne Jünemann

Film info

Direction:

Christin Freitag

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Basis Berlin Filmproduction

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

English

Version:

OV

Runtime:

90

The Boy in the Chequered Shirt

He suddenly appeared. During lunch break he always stands alone in the school yard. Vera watches him with secret fascination.

Credits

Cast:

Pola Skrzypczyk – Vera

Lorenz Willkomm – Maxim

Emmi Lou Brettschneider – Freundin Ella

Luise Schmidt – Freundin Linda

Fee de Wolff – Freundin Sophie

Script:

Aleksandra Odić

Camera:

Katharina Wahl

Editing:

Branka Pavlović

Producer:

Ibrahim-Utku Erdogan

Sound:

Anika Wangard

Music:

Misha Cvijović

Film info

Direction:

Aleksandra Odić

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

DFFB in Zusammenarbeit mit Arte/SWR

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby Digital 5.1.

Language:

Deutsch

Version:

OV

Runtime:

5

Them

Marie, her father and her little brother live in an underground bunker hidden deep in the woods. The world as we knew it no longer exists. When the father accidentally shoots a stranger while on a hunt, he sees himself faced with only two options. At home, Marie tends to the wounds of the unconscious man. While the father distrusts the stranger, Marie is drawn to him. For her, the bunker feels not like a home but a prison from which she yearns to break free. Can this stranger be her long awaited hope? But when three marauders invade the bunker, Marie is not sure what or who her new friend really is.

Credits

Cast:

Emma Bading – Marie

Jürg Plüss – Henry

Linus Jahn – Jakob

David Bredin – Grohmann

Merle Wasmuth – Luna

Gerdy Zint – Bulliger

Michel Haebler – Menner

Script:

Marc Vogel

Camera:

Holger Jungnickel

Editing:

Janina Kaltenböck

Producer:

Patrick Schorn

Sound:

Marc Reinkober

Music:

Sebastian Pille

Martin Rott

Film info

Direction:

Tim Dünschede

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,39

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

30