Dust on our Hearts

Kathi (Stephanie Stremler) wants to make it as an actress in Berlin. However, her slow quirky manner doesn't go down well in this line of business. She is the opposite of her controlled mother Chris (Susanne Lothar), a successful “life coach” undermining Kathi's attempts at independence. When Kathi has to give up her 4-year-old son for a short while, Chris seizes the moment and takes her daughter's child away. Furthermore, Kathi's father Wolfgang (Michael Kind) suddenly appears because he wants to win back his ex, Chris. Kathi is immediately caught in the middle of her parents. Wolfgang reminds the family of their past until mother and daughter can no longer suppress their conflict. Finally, Kathi manages to confront her mother.

Credits

Cast:

Birge Schade

Daniel Krauss

Oskar Bökelmann

Luis August Kurecki

Florian Loycke

Anett Heilfort

Jana Hampel

Susanne Lothar

Stephanie Stremler

Michael Kind

Script:

Hanna Doose

Producer:

Ben von Dobeneck

David Keitsch

Camera:

Markus Zucker

Editing:

André Nier

Ausstattung:

Uli Friedrichs

Kostüm (Credit):

Petra Neumeister

Music:

Florian Loycke

Stephanie Stremler

Film info

Direction:

Hanna Doose

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Team ZuckerDoose

Production:

2012

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby Stereo

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

91

Heimspiel

Yusuf is an Underground train driver in Berlin, who has become the victim of routine. Just as he takes the air he breathes for granted, his loving wife’s existence is simply a given for him. One day he comes home and she isn’t there. Without her care, closeness and comfort, his habitual existence is knocked off balance.

Credits

Cast:

Margarita Breitkreiz

Yusuf Ziya

Script:

Saša Orešković

Camera:

Saša Orešković

Merle Jothe

Producer:

Thorsten Rittschläger

Saša Orešković

Editing:

Saša Orešković

Sound:

Dirk Homann

Film info

Direction:

Saša Orešković

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin GmbH in Ko-Produktion mit dem Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb)

Production:

2014

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

29

Festivities

Helga and Kurt. We are amidst family, and a special one indeed. Before Christmas Eve, the two grandparents prepare for their family to come and visit them, and they do so in a very unique way. As the day comes closer, the arrangements become increasingly complicated. Small things turn into great ordeals. Decorating the Christmas tree can be one of the biggest challenges you may ever encounter. At its core, this is a kind and warmhearted portrayal of two marvelous people and the amazing strength of character of the old age, with a very humorous touch.

Credits

Cast:

Helga Freitag

Kurt Boldt

Script:

Hanna Mayser

Christin Freitag

Camera:

Hanna Mayser

Producer:

Friederike Sophie Steinbeck

Editing:

Hanna Mayser

Christin Freitag

Film info

Direction:

Christin Freitag

Hanna Mayser

Genre:

documentary

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:

22 min

Vanatoare

Lidia grows pigeons and lives a mundane existence with a husband and two children. Denisa has a boyfriend that needs new sneakers. Vanesa dreams of finding a boyfriend with green eyes. Three different women share a workplace and voice their daily concerns to each other in conversations. You might think they are secretaries, who enjoy chatting about the banalities of life and have their daily coffee break together. Just a normal life, only that they are prostitutes in order to survive. The daily routine ends in a humiliating confrontation with the police and some ice-cream.

Credits

Cast:

Corina Moise

Iulia Lumanare

Iulia Ciochina

Sergiu Costache

Dragos Olaru

Script:

Xandra Popescu

Alexandra Balteanu

Camera:

Matan Radin

Producer:

Stanislav Danylyshyn

Editing:

Antonella Sarubbi

Sound:

Tobias Mahlstedt

Film info

Direction:

Alexandra Balteanu

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2016

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Romanian

Version:

OV

Runtime:

75 minutes

Reported Missing

Credits

Cast:

ANDRÉ M. HENNICKE

LUZIE AHRENS

SYLVANA KRAPPATSCH

Jenny Schily

SANDRA BORGMANN

Script:

Jan Speckenbach

Melanie Rohde

Camera:

Jenny-Lou Ziegel

Producer:

Sol Bondy

Editing:

Wiebke Grundler

Sound:

Ginetta Fassio

Music:

Matthias Petsche

Film info

Direction:

Jan Speckenbach

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

JUNIFILM

ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2012

Shooting format:

16 mm

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby SR-D

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

86

Wild Game

Thomas just can’t leave his girlfriend Gerlinde – even if he already has fallen in love with Anne. His best friend Anton just can’t introduce his boyfriend Bernd to his stuffy parents Christoph and Sabine. And they just can’t talk to each other generally. But one day, after a wild party night for Anton’s birthday, they all come together in a small country home, somewhere near Berlin – and everything will change forever.

Credits

Cast:

Justin Mühlenhardt

Rosalie Thomass

Philipp Lind

André Kaczmarczyk

Amelie Kiefer

Leslie Malton

Herbert Knaup

Daniel Zillmann

Lore Richter

Heiko Pinkowski

Script:

Daniel Bickermann

Camera:

Nicolai Wolf

Producer:

Max Conradt

Editing:

Diana Matous

Sound:

Lukas Lücke

Music:

Florian Burgmayr

Hans Kröll

Film info

Direction:

Maria-Anna Rimpfl

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin GmbH in Ko-Produktion mit dem Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb)

Production:

2013

Shooting format:

HD, DCP

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

25

Chiralia

Where lies that ineffable line that separates our past from our future? CHIRALIA is a film about the perplexing vastness of our experience as we drift in the imperceptible streams of time. The disappearance of a child triggers an emotional wave that propagates through space and time, across generations, vibrating between memory and imagination, and carrying our fears and wishes down a spiral towards that place where all the questions that we cannot formulate live.

Credits

Cast:

Lenio Amory Einbeck

Stefan Bürgi

Julia Becker

Michael Krabbe

Monika Hetterle

Script:

Santiago Gil

David Möhring

Camera:

Carmen Treichl

Producer:

France Orsenne

Editing:

Santiago Gil

Carmen Treichl

Sound:

Sven Mühlender

Film info

Direction:

Santiago Gil

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2012

Shooting format:

1:2 4K Red MX RAW

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1 : 2.35 (sphärisch)

Sound format:

Dolby SR

Language:

Germany

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

26

Grimm

A strange silence descends onto the large reading room. We are very close to the people studying as we sink into the numerous small worlds, experience micro moments and become witnesses to whispered thoughts. We see people who daydream, read, chat, and mark texts, and every one of them leaves an acoustic footprint onto the building. This collage of people studying, whispered thoughts and scientific texts becomes steadily more impenetrable and louder, until suddenly the stream of noise stops. The lights in the reading room go out abruptly and it becomes night. Yet the thoughts of the day still remain...

Credits

Cast:

Nora Koreuber

Hilkia Holland

Script:

Josa-David Sesink

Günther Franke

Camera:

Philipp Baben der Erde

Producer:

Barbara Linke

Editing:

Günther Franke

Sound:

Günther Franke

Tobias Rüther

Film info

Direction:

Günther Franke

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2013

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9 anam

Sound format:

Dolby SR

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

5

Youkali

Kenny (31) arrived from Sri Lanka, having come to Germany to further his career as a musician. He rents a spare room from Rola. Rola (80) lives alone on the outskirts of Berlin, where she sometimes needs to protect herself by carrying a gun. In living together these two different individuals find that life is not merely dependent on personal security, instead discovering the possibility that our dreams may define our true reality.

Credits

Cast:

Kenebert Stanley

Rola Radsey

Tatiana Novikova

Ulices Flores

Jean Denis Römer

Harry Piehl

Komet Bernhard

Script:

Oswaldo Diaz Medina

Camera:

Paul Rohlfs

Producer:

Tara Biere

Editing:

Laia Prat

Sound:

Julian Cropp

Film info

Direction:

Oswaldo Diaz Medina

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2016

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby Digital 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

73 Minuten