NIGHT ENCHANTMENTS

Somewhere in the future and at an unknown time, an older woman finishes her workday at a bar and is now ready to go to rest. The manager, a controlling younger boss, finds a tricky way for the humanoid waitress, to stay late for services until now never discussed or arranged. Once again, the spell turns against the sorcerer and the law of the power and strength will be applied in a battle between the old and the new, the conservative and the transgressor.

Credits

Cast:

Eva Medusa Gühne – Robot

Frederik von Lüttichau – Bar Manager

Amelie Henning – AI Voice

Script:

Paulo Menezes

Rafael Sousa

Camera:

Hannes Schulze

Editing:

Lorenzo Petracchi

Producer:

Marina Ghersinich

Paulo Menezes

Sound:

Lejan Samuelson

Music:

Nico Pavlovic

Film info

Direction:

Paulo Menezes

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2024

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

2:1

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

2:1

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

15 min

Garnelius

2007: Karl (17) lives with his single father Werner (62) in a cramped flat in an East Berlin apartment block. His little brother David (8) is in a sheltered housing group. Karl feels overwhelmed in his contact with him, because David looks to Karl for what Werner can no longer provide as a father. What "Ossi" Werner has achieved and what Karl plans to achieve is discussed heatedly by the guests on Werner's birthday. Shortly afterwards, something unexpected happens: Karl lays an egg. He tries with all his might to keep the hatching creature alive.

Credits

Cast:

Emil von Schönfels – Karl

Peter Koburg – Werner

Otto Karl Herzog – David

Script:

Julia Ketelhut

Camera:

Rocío Díaz Freire

Editing:

Iva Puljar-Matic

Producer:

Melvyn Zeyns

Jonas Nemela

Sound:

Andre Goeters

Tondesign:

Vadim Mühlberg

Music:

Ralf Schwieters

Gustav Tier

Film info

Direction:

Julia Ketelhut

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2024

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

49 min

Abode of Dawn

Where do you go when the world feels overwhelming and just plain wrong? Can you escape and start anew? The documentary "Abode of Dawn" focuses on a group of people trying to build a utopian society in the Siberian Taiga. Since the 1990s, they have been following a man who sees himself as Christ reborn: Vissarion. You can find his portrait in every house in the Abode of Dawn and yet he seems to be more of a means for channelling the longings of many of the residents. Their lives rotate around Vissarion like planets around the sun, though they hardly ever meet him. The film does not ask: Is Vissarion truly the Son of God? Instead, it poses the question: Are the people here happier than they were before?

Credits

Producer:

Kristina Shtubert

Camera:

Hanna Mayser

Ekaterina Smolina

Anton Petrov

Sound:

Ekaterina Smolina

Anton Petrov

Editing:

Dietmar Kraus

Calle Overweg

Adrienne Hudson

Tonmeister:

Sasha Valent

Tondesign:

Sasha Valent

Tonmischung:

Alex Leser

Grading:

Dirk Meier

Film info

Direction:

Kristina Shtubert

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin GmbH in Ko-Produktion mit Kristina Shtubert und dem Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Russian, German and English with German and English subtitles

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

105 min

Center

A day at the Sony Center complex in Berlin. Two people meet in a chiropractor’s waiting room. They are both tired. Meanwhile the building is under permanent construction.

Credits

Cast:

Asia Skupinska

Huub Kooijman

Jonathan Baer

Becket Mingwen

Producer:

Dmitry Kochetov

Script:

Niklas Buescher

Freya de l'Isle

Camera:

Mascha Biller

Editing:

Niklas Buescher

Production Design:

Niklas Buescher

Tondesign:

Christian Obermaier

Film info

Direction:

Niklas Buescher

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, English

Version:

OV

Runtime:

20 min

Sentimental Stories

A girl waits for her boyfriend, a worker in the harbour. In the locker room a worker confides in his colleague about his unhappy marriage. But there's more to their relationship than advice giving. At the end of his shift a young man takes a shower in the washroom of the port and hurries to meet his girlfriend in the cantine. It's his last day on the job. One moment they seem hopeful and in love, the next she’s being ghosted. Baffled, she goes looking for him in the port. Violetta, the owner of the cantine is a hard worker nostalgic of a life she never had. She employs her niece, a radical pacifist whose life strategy is to lay low. Intersecting, their stories create a parallax view of heartbreak and desire, disappointment and hope.

Credits

Cast:

Artemis Chalkidou

Estelle Widmaier

Jesus Fernandez de Castro

Grego Belau

Leo Da Silva

Ezra Luke

Marie Tragousti

Script:

Xandra Popescu

Camera:

Jonathan Steil

Editing:

Xandra Popescu

Lorna Höffler Steffen

Producer:

Janna Fodor

Sabrina Holzapfel

Grading:

Meg Tomeo

Film info

Direction:

Xandra Popescu

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2023

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Spanish, French, German and Greek

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

20 min

Ms. Lunaris Krx xxiii

A lonely ghost cruise ship circling in the Mediterranean Sea. Its German flag flaps tired in the wind. No one knows how long it has been out there. Or doesn’t want to tell? Filmmaker Karla seems to be the only passenger on board amongst a small crew. Armed with a tiny camcorder she strolls around and visits the entertainment program. In the endless night she meets Cesare, a performer of the show of Mr. Caligari. „The man that has slept for 23 years. Today we awaken him from the dark night of his soul.“

Credits

Cast:

Anne Kulbatzki

Benjamin Radjaipour

Richard Manualpillai

Anton Weil

Script:

Juno Meinecke

Sebastian Ladwig

Camera:

Alexander Brack

Schnittassistenz:

Juno Meinecke

Robert Sieg

Producer:

Daria Wichmann

Juno Meinecke

Sound:

Hans-Christian Paul

Music:

Lukas Darnstädt

Film info

Direction:

Juno Meinecke

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

30 min

For Those Who Love, Leave, and Love Again

Haunted by the shadows of an absent father, Paul restlessly roams the city, encountering characters and situations that force him to face his inner turmoil. Torn between what is visible and what remains hidden, between fleeting connections and deep isolation, his journey reflects the fractured pieces of his identity as he struggles to escape emotional numbness in his search for love.

Credits

Cast:

Hermann Müller – Paul

Rhama Corvalàn Gonzàlez – Mara

Noam Gil Schuster – Britney

Jorge the Obscene

Fion Mutert

Bruno Lima de Mendonça

Sam Peck-Sanders

Leo Silva

Ziad Arnaout

Jenny Fanta

Valeriu Adimei

Carl Tischer

Script:

Paolo Laganà

Camera:

Lena Thiemann

Editing:

Paolo Laganà

Producer:

Livia Valensise

Sound:

Jonathan Lubasch

Tondesign:

Shadi Farid

Film info

Direction:

Paolo Laganà

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2025

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,66

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,66

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

English, German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

18 min

The color of air

Three siblings meet one summer's day to clear out and sell their childhood home. One sister stumbles upon a mysterious photograph of a young man that haunts her to this day. It seems to have been taken outside the house on the day of his fatal accident. As she has no recollection of ever having taken the picture, she tries desperately to trace it. Until she realises that the photographer must have been someone else.

Credits

Cast:

Paul Boche

Bea Brocks

Odine Johne

Hannah Schutsch

Drehbuch (Credit):

Oliver Moser

Linda König

Producer:

Oliver Moser

Linda König

Camera:

Malte Siepen

Schnittassistenz:

Isabella Kohl

Oliver Moser

Tondesign:

Nils Gradlowsky

Tonmischung:

Alexandre Leser

Music:

Matthias Petsche

Film info

Direction:

Oliver Moser

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

DFFB in Ko-Produktion mit Rausch Film und Jost Hering Filme

Production:

2024

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

89 min

Hay un dolor

Die Erinnerung an einen Arbeitstag, Kapitalismus, die Schlange, die sich in den eigenen Schwanz beißt. Es war ein Traum. Wir treffen uns unter Migrantenfreunden, ausgelassen und lachend. Sie erzählt uns eine weitere Erinnerung, es könnte auch ein Traum sein. Menschen aus verschiedenen Orten unterhalten sich am Bahnhof, verschiedene Geschichten fließen wie der Fluss.

Credits

Cast:

Ronny Conde

Jharka Salvador

Jessica Paredes

Kimberley Bernard

Script:

Froilán Urzagasti Montero

Camera:

Leo Wolters

Editing:

Froilán Urzagasti Montero

Producer:

Shanice Quauke

Sound:

Sebastian Erdman

Film info

Direction:

Froilán Urzagasti Montero

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2024

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby

Language:

Spanisch

Englisch

Deutsch

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

40 min