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NIKOTYNA

Christmas Eve 1981 with Poland under martial law, 15 year old Marta has to spend Christmas with her family by candle light due to the electricity being cut off. In the sombre atmosphere of the family home altercations come to light. Marta leaves the home after a fight with her father. Leaving the family conflict behind her, Marta experiences another kind of conflict in the outside world: the sinister and brutal oppression of martial law out on the streets of Łodz, an experience which will change her life irreversibly.

Credits

Cast:

Paulina Walendziak – Marta

Andrzej Mastalerz – Mariusz

Katarzyna Tarkowska-Żogała – Jolanta

Kuba Borowski – Kazik

Script:

Ewa Wikieł

Producer:

Roxana Richters

Camera:

Jesse Mazuch

Editing:

Alan Zejer

Tondesign:

Jan Stark

Michał Bialik

Music:

Jan Stark

Film info

Direction:

Ewa Wikieł

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

5.1.

Language:

Polnish

Version:

OV

Festivals:

Runtime:

23

Kine­s­ki Zid (Chi­ne­sis­che Mauer)

Bosnia, a summer’s day at the country side 20 years after the latest war.Being the only witness of the secret plan of her favourite aunt Ljilja, little Maja takes a major new step in her life.

Credits

Cast:

Elena Matić – Maja

Tina Keserović – Ljilja

Faketa Salihbegović- Avdagić – Oma Marija

Script:

Aleksandra Odić

Camera:

Katharina Diessner

Producer:

Aleksandra Odić

Natasa Janković

Editing:

Branka Pavlović

Sound:

Ilija Djordjević

Music:

Micha Kaplan

Film info

Direction:

Aleksandra Odić

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1.

Language:

Bosnisch

Version:

OV

Festivals:

Runtime:

36

Sarah Joue Un Loup-Garou

On the stage of her high school drama class 17-year-old Sarah gives it all. When she performs, there is an instant of suspense in which she appears to transform completely into her character. But what lies behind Sarah's radical stage presence? A dark secret she is trying to express, a claustrophobic family environment, the longing for a boyfriend, a friend, someone she can confide in. The more Sarah expresses this desire, the more she ends up alienating the people willing to get close to her. The downfall of an outsider and her incessant struggle to escape solitude.

Credits

Cast:

Loane Balthasar – Sarah

Manuela Biedermann – Monica

Simon Bonvi – Benjamin

Monica Budde – Brau Bieri

Sabine Timoteo – Drama Class Teacher

Michel Voïta – Vater

Annina Walt – Alice

Script:

Josa-David Sesink

Katharina Wyss

Camera:

Armin Dierolf

Editing:

Tania Stöcklin

Producer:

Christophe Marzal

Sound:

Bernhard Zitz

Music:

Conrad Oleak

Film info

Direction:

Katharina Wyss

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Luc Peter-Intermezzo Films

Mnemosyn Films

Charlie Petersmann

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:33

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Language:

Deutsch und Französisch

Version:

OV

Festivals:

Runtime:

86

Nix­en

Two sisters, Nene and Ava, up in the air. When they were young, they sang together. Now there's a child, a job at a restaurant, a boyfriend. And a mother as critical of them as ever. One of them arranges a performance without telling the other. The other one smashes her life to pieces because of a feeling. And suddenly it seems possible and necessary to leave the comfortable bubble of not-daring. Accompanied by an original jazz score, Sirens paints dancerly pictures of keeping close and letting go. A film about symbiotic sister love and irrationality.

Credits

Cast:

Odine Johne – Ava

Lucy Wirth – Nene

Emelie Harbrecht – Sabrina

Roland Bonjour – Alex

Script:

Katinka Narjes

Editing:

Katinka Narjes

Camera:

Carmen Treichl

Producer:

Sabine Schmidt

Sound:

Jonathan Ritzel

Tonmischung:

Alexandre Leser

Music:

Kessler/Schwarz

Kostüm (Credit):

Thekla Onken

Szenenbild:

Daina Kasperowitsch

Film info

Direction:

Katinka Narjes

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Deutschland

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 Surround 5.1

Language:

Deutsch, Englisch

Version:

OV

Festivals:

36. Filmfest München (28.6.-7.7.2018)

Runtime:

82

Hagazus­sa

The cold winter stretches over the Alps of the 15th century. A young goatherd and her mother are living in a remote hut, deep in the mountain woods. As her mother mysteriously falls ill and dies, she is left scarred and traumatized. 20 years pass. Herself a mother now, she slowly begins to discover a dark presence lurking in the old woods. In her psychotic delusion, the borders between reality and nightmare begin to melt into each other, as she is again confronted with the death of her mother and the wicked evil within her own self. Hagazussa is a dark tale of a woman’s struggle with her own sanity. In a time when pagan beliefs of witches spread fear into the minds of the rural folk, the film aims to explore the thin line between ancient beliefs, magic and delusional psychosis.

Credits

Cast:

Aleksandra Cwen – Albrun

Celina Peter – Albrung jung

Claudia Martini – Mutter

Tanja Petrovsky – Swinda

Script:

Lukas Feigelfeld

Camera:

Mariel Baqueiro

Editing:

Jörg Volkmar

Producer:

Simon Lubinski

Lukas Feigelfeld

Sound:

Niklas Kammertöns

Music:

MMMD

Film info

Direction:

Lukas Feigelfeld

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Deutschland/Österreich

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Retinafabrik

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Deutsch (Österreichisch)

Version:

OV

Festivals:

13. Fantastic Filmfest in Austin (21.-28.09.17)

9. CPH:PIX (28.09.-11.10.17)

61st BFI London Film Festival (04.-15.10.17)

50. SITGES – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia (05.-15.10.17)

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (12.-15.10.17)

(22.-28.01.2018)

Woche der Kritik 2018 (14.-22.02.18)

Fantasy Film Fest Nights (2018)

Denver International Film Festival (1.-12.11.17)

20. Festival de Cine Alemán de Madrid (12.-17.06.2018)

Runtime:

102

4,95

Once upon a time in Berlin there was a yellow hair salon, where you could get a haircut for very little money. A young man wants to try a new style and save some money as well. Unfortunately his master plan doesn't go well and he is going to lose more hair than originally thought...

Credits

Cast:

Timo Bénit – Junger Mann

Wolf Nachbauer – Friseur

Barbara Frey – Babayeva

Script:

Timo Bénit

Camera:

Konstantin Kann

Editing:

Timo Bénit

Producer:

Grischa Sautter

Sound:

Bernd Latzel

Bennet Faust

Music:

Rolf Entgelmeier

Film info

Direction:

Timo Bénit

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2018

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Sourround

Language:

Deutsch

Version:

OV

Festivals:

39. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken (22.-28.01.18)

38th Filmschool Fest Munich (30.08.-2.09.2018)

(18.-24.11.2018)

(17.-24.11.2018)

Runtime:

16

Hanna´s Silence

At the beginning there is the Breaking Up with silence. A yound girl is writing in three cycles of autum about that what happened: In a stoic Household she spends her childhood. After the loss of her beloved mother Hanna has to endure the inexorability of growing up. As she is to suffocate on her silence, she lets the whispering voices out. If there was an epigraph for the film, it would be: „I was born grown up and slowly grew down.“

Credits

Cast:

Christine Sophie Schmidt

Peter Scollin

Miriam Eberhardt

Script:

Nina Vukovic

Camera:

Tom Akinleminu

Editing:

André Nier

Sound:

Robert Wriedt

Music:

Michael Jakumeit

Film info

Direction:

Nina Vukovic

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2007

Shooting format:

S16 mm

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Mono

Language:

Version:

OV

Runtime:

10

Inti­mate Dis­tance

The great promise of internet-based forms of communication is that they help maintain relationships over great geographical distance. Their proliferation and success has, in only a couple of years, fostered new forms of living together, new modes of closeness and intimacy. The collaborative documentary project “Intimate Distance” is a unique experiment for which three transnational families (dispersed between Germany and Russia, Turkey, and Colombia) have recorded their webcam conversations over the course of several months. The resulting film offers a very intimate insight into the fascinating communication rituals, with which people who are separated by migration organize a transnational family life via Skype. “Intimate Distance” is a documentary that evolved without the presence of a director. It is composed solely from the images that its protagonists produce of themselves on a daily basis with the help of digital technology. Thus, the film is a meditation on the potentials and limitations of digitally mediated proximity.

Credits

Script:

Steffen Köhn

Camera:

Axel Hartfiel

Patricia Rendon

Maina Gridina

Producer:

Henrika Kull

Editing:

Leonardo Franke

Sound:

Kristian Rave

Film info

Direction:

Steffen Köhn

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Gefördert von der Nachwuchsförderung Film und neue Medien Rheinland-Pfalz

Production:

2014

Shooting format:

Digital Video (Webcam)

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

English/Spanish/Russian, subtitles available in English, German

Version:

OmU

Festivals:

30. DOK.fest München (07.-17.05.2015)

Runtime:

17

I dreamt that Berlin was burn­ing

After escaping from psychiatry, young Karla is drifting through nocturnal Berlin. She meets old friends and new acquaintants, crosses bridges and climbes on roofs. An inner and outer journey with unknown destination.

Credits

Cast:

Karla Sengteller

Anton Weil

Brigitte Geyer

Script:

Bastian Gascho

Camera:

Anselm Belser

Producer:

Karoline Güldemann

Editing:

Bastian Gascho

Sound:

Tobias Bilz

Music:

Health

Film info

Direction:

Bastian Gascho

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2013

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:1,78

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,78

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

18