Land of Joy

In between the Alps and the Venice Lagoon, Veneto is one of the wealthiest industrial areas in Europe, but it hasn't always been this way. Forty years ago the locals were poor farm workers. They had to emigrate to Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium to earn their living. Through their hard work they made Veneto what it is today, despite the last global downturn: one of the most affluent Italian regions. The focus of the film is deliberately on the native inhabitants of Veneto, on their history, their point of view, and on their distrust for foreigners. The Northern League, the strongest political party in Veneto is claiming for independence from Italy. It expresses obsessive fear and rage against foreigners and, on this basis, would want to recreate the sense of community in a globalized world. The camera captures the distinctive features of people’s faces, the tension in their words and moments of silence and reflection. Through amusing and grotesque encounters with a motley bunch of characters: from a Pakistani man who is hopelessly looking for a job, to an over-excited rat poison manufacturer; from an old man growing onions between warehouses to a housewife who loves new gadgets, a diverse vision emerges and the atmosphere of the places comes alive in its true spirit. Among factories, gardens and party meetings, empty rituals and grossness, the film takes us on a ride along a landscape which is also an inner landscape; of both comic and tragic characters, who are struggling through the mechanism of work and money, or just lingering in a withered past.

Credits

Script:

Laura Lazzarin

Camera:

Kai Miedendorp

Editing:

Marco Fantacuzzi

Producer:

Gregor Hutz

Sound:

Sylvia Grabe

Joanna Piechotta

Film info

Direction:

Laura Lazzarin

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2011

Shooting format:

S 16mm

Screening format:

1:1,66

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,66

Sound format:

stereo

Language:

Italian

Version:

OV

Runtime:

78

Breaking Through

Visiting room in a Berlin correctional facility for women. The convict Vicky is breaking up the relationship with her longtime boyfriend Wolf. When Wolf refuses to accept that and stirs trouble with the officers he is kicked out on the street. Out there he sees only one chance to save his relationship...

Credits

Cast:

Gerdy Zint – Wolf

Henrike von Kuick – Vicky

Carola Sigg – Vollzugsbeamter Sigg

Christoph Wermke – Vollzugsbeamter Wermke

Ulrike Lodwig – Inhaftierte Ulrike

Emma Rosa Simon – Inhaftierte Emil

Script:

Florian Dietrich

Birgit Maiwald

Producer:

Louise von Johnston

Camera:

Luciano Cervio

Music:

Sic(k)reation

Film info

Direction:

Florian Dietrich

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2012

Shooting format:

Arri Alexa

Screening format:

1:1,78

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,78

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

9

Coming Home

Jo (11) is a slowpoke. When she misses her bus (again) she calls her big brother Robert to pick her up as usual. Instead, his girlfriend Caro comes. An accident on the way home changes Jo’s life forever. Three months later. Broken bones have healed. Jo is tired of talking about Caro’s death. She starts a new hobby, ice hockey: new physicality, new friendships, a place where she’s unknown. But her brother is the one who has to pick her up from training. On the repeated ride home, Jo and Robert are forced to deal with each other again.

Credits

Cast:

Mia Plappert

Alexander Martschewski

Cynthia Cosima

Cedric Schiemenz

Beata Lehmann

Carsten Voigt

Stefan Kriekhaus

Berliner Eisbären Juniormanschaft

Script:

Magdalena Grazewicz

Camera:

Raphael Beinder

Editing:

Lorna Hoefler Steffan

Producer:

Friederike Sophie Steinbeck

Sound:

Maurizius Staerkle-Drux

Film info

Direction:

Micah Magee

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

RBB

Production:

2012

Shooting format:

35mm

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

Dolby SR

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

24

P

Two creatures, one identity: To unburden himself from his feeling of guilt, scientist "P" transfers a traumatic memory to an android robot girl. Meanwhile the Robot starts to remember Details of P’s life, that P has already forgotten. A surreal stream of consciousness that contains memories, conversations and the most important question of all: Who am I?

Credits

Cast:

Robert Mika

Ella-Maria Gollmer

Script:

Anna-Lena Theobald

Marcus Hanisch

Camera:

Sarah Yona Zweig

Producer:

Anna-Lena Theobald

Kostüm (Credit):

Lisa Oberländer

Szenenbild:

Sophie Fetten

Alice Hoffmann

Sound:

Benjamin Kalisch

Johannes Greisle

Editing:

Felix Schaal

Jannis Greff

Music:

Erik Petzold

Till Gerloff

Tondesign:

Karl Gerhardt

1. Kameraassistenz:

Film info

Direction:

Marcus Hanisch

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

Arri Raw 2k

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

19

Panihida

In a small village in the Republic of Moldavia, an old woman dies, leaving her son Petru and her granddaughter Anisoara behind. According to their tradition, the whole village mourns and bids farewell. After the death watch during a stormy night they make their way to the cemetary. The old men carry the heavy coffin over stony paths up to the sacred hill. The sun is high and the way seems endless, but against the thirst there is wine and against the grief there is singing. So in this landscape of paradisal beauty, joy mixes with sorrow and in the end, life stands above death.

Credits

Cast:

Anisoara Morari

Petru Roscovan

Nina Rabus

Valentin Aga

Valeriu Turcano

Script:

Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu

Camera:

Tito Molina

Art Direction:

Nicolae Sliusari

Tondesign:

Niklas Kammertöns

Regieassistenz:

Otilia Babara

Vladimir Balan

Editing:

Tito Molina

Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu

Producer:

Jonas Weydemann

Jakob D. Weydemann

Film info

Direction:

Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany / Moldova

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Weydemann Bros.

Production:

2012

Shooting format:

HD

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Romanian

Version:

OV

Runtime:

61

Kral

Credits

Cast:

Johannes Kienast – Tobi

Nell Pietrzyk – Melli

Björn von der Wellen – Christoph

Karsten Paetz – Karsten

Kai Börner – Anwalt

Erik Schiesko – Anwaltsgehilfe

Script:

Övünç Güvenışık

Ilija Matusko

Camera:

Nicole Borchert

Editing:

Övünç Güvenışık

Producer:

Tara Biere

Karoline Güldemann

Sound:

Sylvia Grabe

Film info

Direction:

Övünç Güvenışık

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2013

Shooting format:

RED

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35 (Cinemascope)

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

17

Kafarnaum

Caro, 28 years, is taking care of her mother with cancer at home and works parttime in a doctor’s office nearby as a nurse. When coming home her work is starting all over again with nursing Helene bit by bit she is torn up between her life and a life for her sick mother. Some days only her fantasy is a comfort, she dances through a whole night but the next day reality is awakening her again. But Helenes health state is getting worse day by day.r.

Credits

Cast:

Simone Geißler

Heidrun Bartholomäus

Can Pestanli

Losa Altenpohl

Hans Morgeneyer

Script:

Jasco Viefhues

Camera:

Hendrik Reichel

Editing:

Reinaldo Pinto Almeida

Producer:

Nora Ehrmann

Sound:

Christian Schossig

Jan Büchsenschuss

Film info

Direction:

Jasco Viefhues

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2010

Shooting format:

Super 16mm

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

23

Tourist

After several years of absence, Sabine returns to her home town near the Baltic Sea - and to her old circle of friends. Though they do much of what they've always done together - spend days at the beach, camp out in the woods, and party - Sabine can't help but feel the group has grown closer and more intimate than ever in the time she has been away. Overwhelmed by the group's playful energy, she struggles to find just how and where she fits into the picture.

Credits

Cast:

Ina Tempel – Sabine

Mara Widmann – Christin

Stefan Ruppe – Peter

Dennis Prinz – Thomas

Benjamin Kramme – Veit

Script:

Christin Freitag

Sebastian Köthe

Camera:

Hanna Mayser

Editing:

Daniela Boch

Producer:

Martin Danisch

Sound:

Adrian Michaelis

Film info

Direction:

Christin Freitag

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2012

Shooting format:

S16mm

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

19

When east suddenly appears to be west

The location of the deserted „Motor Pool Grünau“ in Berlin-Lichtenberg inspired the young director Ki Bun to raise the question: what causes the end of a form of society in an individual – if the new form of society suddenly seems to have no more room for the individual? What happens to a person, whose long-lasting working place does not exist anymore overnight whereby his life-task and social value is questioned – whose existence is suddenly expendable? Finding that one of the most difficult tasks of life is to be anchored in the “here and now” as people are torn between the longing look into the past and the worried look into the future, the filmmaker is mainly interested in the emotional level of a person who is seemingly unable to let the past go and therefore ends up in an identity crisis. The director, who up until now has worked in a scenic way, addresses this subject in fragmentary atmospheric imagery and sound on three different screens in the shape of a video installation, that intentionally offers the viewers their own space for thoughts.

Credits

Script:

Ki Bun

Katharina Diessner

Editing:

Christian Kuss

Sound:

Markus Boehm

Film info

Genre:

Experimentalfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2011

Shooting format:

1:2 4K Red

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby SR

Language:

no dialogue

Version:

OV

Runtime:

15