Once There Was A King

„Once There Was A King“ tells the paradoxical story of a young man who sets out from province and leaves friends, he hasn’t even found yet, because he’s shy and timid. Its his last night in the small town. He wants to bid farewell and for the first time, a couple of young people seem to notice him, they even seem to know him. There is a careful tenderness in the contact, and the promise of friendship shines out. This doesn’t change his decision to leave the small town, but we feel the play of his thoughts. A sadness, that is joined by hope.

Credits

Cast:

Jakob Grebert

Djellil Badaoui

Jette Netzband

René Lange

Inga-Lisa Nuck

Mathias Nebel

Script:

Katharina Wyss

Camera:

Tom Akinleminu

Editing:

Wolfgang Gessat

Katharina Wyss

Producer:

Anna de Paoli

Sound:

Magnus Pflüger

Music:

Conrad Oleak

Film info

Direction:

Katharina Wyss

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

ARTE

Production:

2008

Shooting format:

HDV

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

6

If I was a tree

After many years a woman travels with her parents to Israel to face her past and memories. Having a jewish father who is denying to be a jew and a mother who always has suffered from being not enough accepted as a jew she´s questioning herself where she actually belongs to.

Credits

Script:

Simona Feldman

Camera:

Patrick Jasim

2nd Unit Kamera:

Simona Feldman

Editing:

Tami Liberman

Simona Feldman

Producer:

Simona Feldman

Sound:

Sebastian Morsch

Film info

Direction:

Simona Feldman

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Israel

Production Company:

Tel Aviv University, Film & Television Dep

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2014

Shooting format:

HD

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German, Russian, Hebrew with engl. subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

26

Asta Upset

The film is set in a modern day ‘Berlin Republic’ liberated from all irrelevancies. It’s about artistic production, the creative industries and above all film and cinema – a political manifesto in feature film format. It centres on Asta, tough, hardened by theory and immaculately styled right down to the emblems on her leather jacket, with current art scene jargon flowing elegantly from her lips. She’s no hippie broad, but rather a modern-day warrior, verbally sparring with legendary actress Hannelore Hoger, her ‘film mother’, about her hobby of urban gardening. After the relentless competition between curators over the funding for her exhibition ‘The Cinema! The Art’, for which Hannelore Hoger even whispers inaudible recommendations into the ear of the German President, Asta ultimately plumps for international backing from an Indian friend. He luckily happens to be with her out in the country when she bumps into her arch-enemy Ms Top Cultural Department Brass, a meeting with farreaching consequences. The film is an entertaining dissection of the current state of the cultural industry, for which ‘left-wing’ and ‘right-wing’ are relevant, yet oddly obsolete categories. (Text: Dorothee Wenner, Berlinale Forum)

Credits

Cast:

Sarah Ralfs

Pushpendra Singh

Hannelore Hoger

Barbara Heynen

Franz Friedrich

Kerstin Grassmann

Script:

Max Linz

Camera:

Carlos Andrés López

Producer:

Maximilian Haslberger

Editing:

Max Linz

René Frölke

Sound:

Jaime Bustamante

Music:

Tamer Fahri Özgönenc

Film info

Direction:

Max Linz

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Amerika Film

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

RBB

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Production:

2014

Shooting format:

HD

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German and English

Version:

OV

Runtime:

84

Wolfchild

After loosing his friend in a violent attack, Christian a young man in Berlin is confronted with his past. He has a son, but never met him. Will the loss he just experienced make him understand the opportunity of being a father?

Credits

Cast:

Jörg Malchow

Marie Ernestine Worch

Paul Wargenau

Selim Cinar

Feryat Toprakli

Script:

Roberto Anjari-Rossi

Camera:

Raphael Beinder

Editing:

Kathrin Hembus

Producer:

Nora C. Ehrmann

Sound:

Robert Wriedt

Film info

Direction:

Roberto Anjari-Rossi

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2009

Shooting format:

S16 mm

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby SR

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

25

Safe Space

The film tells the love story of the refugee Patrick and Sara from Berlin, who are fighting together for refugee rights in Berlin. When harmless advance turns into a sexual assault, the group is forced to rethink their aims and the private love story grows to an unwanted public dimension.

Credits

Cast:

Maelle Giovanetti

Gorges Ocloo

Thelma Buabeng

Franziska Wulf

Viola Neumann

Sven Taddicken

Script:

Zora Rux

Christian Brecht

Camera:

Ágnes Pákozdi

Producer:

Fred Burle

Editing:

Nina Caspers

Sound:

Tobias Rüther

Film info

Direction:

Zora Rux

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2014

Shooting format:

Super 16mm

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German and English

Version:

OV

Runtime:

13

Jewish Girls are easy

It's the first night of Passover and Tova can't find her brother Sol who is suppose to bring the brisket. To make matters worse Colin, that mornings one night stand, thinks the hickey on her breast is actually the Virgin Mary and won't leave her side. Will Tova be able find Sol, shake Colin and save Passover?!

Credits

Cast:

Lucia Brizzi

Kieran Mulcare

Al Roffe

Jessika Williams

Cathy Curtin

Jillian Lindig

Script:

Charlotte Glynn

Mark SW

Camera:

Max Lakner

Producer:

Anna Guddat

Editing:

Charlotte Glynn

Film info

Direction:

Charlotte Glynn

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

USA

Production Company:

Jacktar Films

Production:

2013

Shooting format:

HD

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1.85

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

English

Version:

OV

Runtime:

13

It must have been Love but it´s over now

The year the snow won’t fall in December, Madonna will bear her third child and an asteroid named “Apophis” will get horribly close to earth, still flying by and giving the humankind another chance. One day early spring two young women will meet each other in Berlin, the capital of Germany to spend the evening together and on the next day in a shopping centre packed with people called “Alexa” to blow themselves up with explosives attached to their bodies and thus commit the biggest terrorist act that Germany has seen so far – the last evening is the film.

Credits

Cast:

Stefanie Tiedtke

Lydia Fischer

Script:

Alexandre Koberidze

Camera:

Ágnes Pákozdi

Editing:

Alexandre Koberidze

Film info

Direction:

Alexandre Koberidze

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2012

Shooting format:

HD

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

stereo

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

28

Gabriel´s Horn

A young couple faced a difficult decision.

Credits

Cast:

Nora abdel-Maksoud

Tamer Arslan

Script:

Hakan Savas Mican

Nora Gielke

Camera:

Sebastian Lempe

Producer:

Stanislav Danylyshyn

Editing:

Hakan Savas Mican

Sound:

Caspar Sachsse

Film info

Direction:

Hakan Savas Mican

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

ARTE

Production:

2012

Shooting format:

HD

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

stereo

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

5

Darwin

DARWIN is an electrifing revenge driven story about Darwin and his father, an old Boxer that killed his wife 15 years ago in a rage. When Darwin gets to know that his father returned from prison, he sees his chance to settle his account with the past. As fighting is the only thing both men have shared, it willl as well be the way of Darwin`s vengeance. In this cat and mouse game Darwin will soon come to a point where he has to choose between right and wrong and decide how far he wants to go to come undone with the past and recreate the future.

Credits

Cast:

Paul Wollin

Michael Deffert

Lilian Mazbouh

Script:

Josefine Scheffler

Camera:

Lydia Richter

Producer:

Sabine Schmidt

Sound:

Anna Yamamoto

Music:

Leon Engler

Universal Music

Film info

Direction:

Josefine Scheffler

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2013

Shooting format:

4K Red MX

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

Dolby digital

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

23