Where is my tent?

Somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Northern Pakistan: I find myself back in a village named Balakot. Never heard of it? Me neither. It has been devastated by an earthquake two years earlier. So, why am I here? I try to find a tent which I miss. I have donated it for the survivors, through the support of the German Red Cross. But where is it and how can I miss it, actually? Being partly German and partly Indian, I've started this journey with a friend to trace the tent. However, now the search runs into a dead end and it seems I have lost the tent forever. As we reside with the people here at site – who have lost so much due to the earthquake– we discover the deeper meanings of loss, life and (re-)connecting.

Credits

Cast:

Zubin Zethna

Alexander Wadouh

Bakht Nawaz

Saeed Uz-Zamaan

Niaz Mammad

Noor Zamaan

Camera:

Zouzou

Alexander Wadouh

Renata Borowczak

Markus Zucker

Katja Fedulova

Producer:

Zubin Zethna

Editing:

Zouzou

Sound:

Alexander Wadouh

Zouzou

Music:

Ek Safar

Film info

Direction:

Zubin Zethna

Genre:

fictional

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 & 2.0

Language:

Version:

OV

Runtime:

110

Shoes from Trieste

A fleeting memory of an old woman looking back at her youth brings about a moment of elegance in times of the after-war misery. In recent years I have been extensively researching my home region, the countryside in western Slovenia. There I was collecting stories, people, places to feed my imagination as well as to reach with them vivid images and memories from my childhood. During these searches several different people told me the same story about their dancing shoes. Having been working on land from their early age, local feasts were the most awaited social events for young people from remote parts of the region. In order to keep their only non-working shoes clean for the dance, they were willing to walk for several hours barefoot or with their wooden working clogs to reach the dance floor. It seems, a simple pair of shoes made it possible for people to change their perspective and appreciation of themselves. This short film is an attempt to jump to another time to recreate there a small emotional journey and show with it the ordinary life thorugh a microscope glass and to hopefully touch with it its core – the human dignity.

Credits

Cast:

Dora Ciccon

Luisa Tomasetig

Adrijana Peresin

Goran Kaličanin

Marija Gilda Primosig

Marko Kaličanin Celinšek

Script:

Gregor Božič

Marina Gumzi

Camera:

Christoph Greiner

Producer:

Marina Gumzi

Stanislav Danylyshyn

Editing:

Gregor Božič

Jonathan Rubin

Sound:

Matthias Kaatsch

Music:

Chatchatur Kanajan

Film info

Direction:

Gregor Božič

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2014

Shooting format:

Super 35 mm

Screening format:

1:1,66

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,66

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Slovenian, English subtitles available

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

11

On trembling

This short is about a woman's shaking hands, which give a hint to her extremely sensitive, fragile & unarmed soul. It's also a story of a bond between a mother and her deaf child. After an afternoon in the bewildered parks the journey leads to a shopping mall. Suddenly, the little one disappears. A clear seizure of separation occurs. It leaves the woman in overwhelming fright, and us with her. Her fright develops into a psychotic search. A retrieval that discharges in a horrific yet unclear conclusion. An unique and shivering being on display: A young woman's trembling voyage into an emotional abyss.

Credits

Cast:

Margarita Breitkreiz – Mutter

Havvanur Mutlu – Agafja

Julia Schimberg – Fräulein

Stella Lindler – Frau in Boutique

Script:

Alexander Palucki

Camera:

Richard Marx

Editing:

Alexander Palucki

Producer:

Romana Janik

Sound:

Fabiern Loucheur

Music:

Adam Byczkowski

Film info

Direction:

Alexander Palucki

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2012

Shooting format:

Super 16mm

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

20

It’s Dark in the City

A Film Noir with a magical twist, where an innocent man comes to lose his heart. All because of a dame and a criminal who loved her.

Credits

Cast:

UnsJordi Vilches

Eszter Tompa

Gunnar Haberland

Script:

Anna Avramenko

Camera:

Richard Marx

Producer:

Anna Avramenko

Sound:

Patrick Pilz

Editing:

Anna Avramenko

Film info

Direction:

Anna Avramenko

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2013

Shooting format:

35mm

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

No Dialogues, Credits: English / German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

13

Babushka, where are the guests?

"I know, for German standards, I'm a really bad beer drawer. But I give my best.” Fatima passionately works in Berlin's “Café Zoo” for 10 years now, and brings some Senegalese hospitality in this genuine German bar. The place has become her second home and her colleges - most of them immigrants as well - are the replacement for her family she left back in Africa. “Two or three days off, that's too much for me!” she announces convincingly. Only on a quiet working day, she becomes impatient. A portrait of an energetic women, inspired by Alain Cavalier.

Credits

Cast:

Fatima Halbe

Camera:

Nicola Alice Hens

Editing:

Nicola Alice Hens

Sound:

Tom Dittrich

Music:

UPPM

Film info

Direction:

Nicola Alice Hens

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2014

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85 pillarbox

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Festivals:

38. Grenzland-Filmtage (09.-12.04.15)

Runtime:

15

The Strange Little Cat

Siblings Karin and Simon are visiting their parents and their little sister Clara. That evening, other relatives will be joining them for dinner. This sequence of family scenes in a Berlin flat creates a wondrous world of the everyday: Coming and going, conversations, all manner of doings, each movement leading to the next, one word following another. It is a carefully staged chain reaction of actions and sentences. And in between, silent gazes and anecdotes about experiences. Putting the absurdities of daily life on display, the film assembles seemingly unspectacular details and snippets into an exciting choreography of everyday life. "The Strange Little Cat" plays out for the most part in the enclosed area of a family apartment. In this model space, I want to create a condensed universe in which the "thrownness" of an absurd existence glimmers from behind everyday actions and conversations; in which the diffculty of communicating experiences and feelings continually renews the characters’ isolation from one another. The characters are repeatedly compelled to act, simply in order to fll the emptiness of their surroundings. Fleeting moments of mutual understanding, recognition and deep intimacy ficker and reoccur throughout. In these moments, the apartment's pulsing emptiness is stilled, and the scream of the space’s silence recedes. This cycle continues until the mundane choreography of everyday life comes to a halt, and the day comes to an end.

Credits

Cast:

Jenny Schily

Anjorka Strechel

Mia Kasalo

Script:

Ramon Zürcher

Camera:

Alexander Haßkerl

Producer:

Silvan Zürcher

Johanna Bergel

Sound:

Benjamin Kalisch

Music:

Thee More Shallows

Film info

Direction:

Ramon Zürcher

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2013

Shooting format:

HD

Screening format:

1:1,66

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,66

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

72

Beat Beat Beat

Late summer in Berlin. The city is pulsating and friends Fabian, Bene, and Richard are wandering aimlessly through the big urban jungle. Against Fabian's quiet protest, the friends ridicule outsider Jakob. The aggression escalates when one night the boys make their way into Jakob's room and bully Borschwitz lights Jakob's mother's car on fire. Fabian can no longer repress his attachment to Jakob and confronts his friends - perhaps too late.

Credits

Cast:

Johannes Gäde

Tilman Pörzgen

Til Schindler

Jan David Bürger

Philip Gerstner

Script:

Sebastian Köthe

Camera:

Max Preiss

Producer:

Dennis Thiele

Editing:

Gergana Voigt

Sound:

Fabian Lackas

Music:

Kat Kaufmann

Film info

Direction:

Christin Freitag

Genre:

fictional

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:

Alexa und 16mm

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

29

Skinny Love

Hanna and Sebastians journey finds it‘s end somewhere in the countryside. Here they come together for the last time. Silent and close, but parting seems inevitable.

Credits

Cast:

Nina Diedrich – Karla

Michael Müller – Kai

Script:

Janin Halisch

Camera:

Carmen Treichl

Editing:

Jamin Benazzouz

Producer:

Friederike Sophie Steinbeck

Sound:

Simon Müther

David Rusitschka

Silvio Naumann

Film info

Direction:

Janin Halisch

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

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

Production:

2012

Shooting format:

1:2 4K Red

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby Digital 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

20

Interference

On a plane island where a cold wind blows over the paltry landscape and a few mighty concrete buildings rise into the sky, lies the work-colony #191286. Piwonka is one of a handfull of migrant workers who are forced to work here under harsh conditions. Already for months he is seperated from his beloved wife, as a fatal incident at the main drilling-tower occurs. Piwonka is only left with the memory and longing for his wife. Before everything seems to fall apart, she is able to interfere with his dreams, bringing him closer to her.

Credits

Cast:

Erol Nowak – Piwonka

Christoph Krutzler – Novak

Aleksandra Cwen – Lena

Thomas Petruo – Leiter

Dima Tronin – Juri

Janina Batoly – Nadja

Script:

Lukas Feigelfeld

Camera:

Mariel Baqueiro

Editing:

Lukas Feigelfeld

Producer:

Matthias Nerlich

Sound:

Sven Mühlender

Music:

Roly Porter

Film info

Direction:

Lukas Feigelfeld

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Retinafabrik

Production:

2013

Shooting format:

Digital/ Alexa

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Language:

German (+ Russian, Polish)

Version:

OV

Runtime:

46