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

Looking Back Is Grace

Three people were sitting in the cafe when the man enters. Not all saw the donkey, he has staked out. No one could remember what he ordered. Wherever he went, and no one knew. But a short time later, three people are dead “Looking Back is Grace” is a film. A story is told. People can be seen. And an animal also. The animal is somebody’s ride. Because of the rider, people’s lives change. Because of the person who causes these changes, again other people’s lives find an end. Some people’s lives are changed. Some people’s lives are ended. All in rather peculiar ways. “Looking Back is Grace” is a film. In this film, peculiar incidents, which happened some time ago, are shown.

Credits

Cast:

Beniamin Forthi

Anka Baier

Emilio de Marchi

Adriana Altaras

Nana Lou Reschke

Mathias Lintner

Giorgi Koberidze

Script:

Alexandre Koberidze

Editing:

Alexandre Koberidze

Camera:

Marius Flucht

Producer:

Simon Lubinski

Tim Wustrack

Sound:

Jan Pasemann

Film info

Direction:

Alexandre Koberidze

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

ARTE

Production:

2014

Shooting format:

Alexa / 16mm

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16/9

Sound format:

5.1 Surround

Language:

English

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

10

Mine

"A boy comes home at night and finds his mother asleep on the sofa. He believes finally he can be close to her and lies down next to her. But even in her sleep she pushes him away. To catch her warmth, he is looking for other ways."

Credits

Cast:

Geraldine Gaul

Pascal Chiout

Script:

Piotr Reimer

Sebastian Köthe

Camera:

Sebastian Fremder

Editing:

Piotr Reimer

Producer:

Dennis Thiele

Sound:

Dominik Bodammer

Film info

Direction:

Piotr Reimer

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2012

Shooting format:

35mm

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

Dolby SR

Language:

Version:

OV

Runtime:

13

Devil

May ist ein 14-jähriges Mädchen, das bei ihren Großeltern in der deutschen Provinz aufwächst. Hinter der scheinbar idyllischen Fassade bestimmen rigide Strukturen ihren Alltag. An einem heißen Sommertag erwacht aus Langeweile Mays Interesse an dem polnischen Jungen Piotr, der zusammen mit seinem Vater am Haus der Großeltern Handwerksarbeiten verrichtet. May begegnet Piotr zunächst mit Provokation. Er wird zum Katalysator für ihren inneren Druck. Schließlich nähern sich die beiden an. Was zu einem kurzen Moment von Zärtlichkeit führt, endet im Verrat. May is a 14-year-old girl, raised by her grandparents in a provincial German village. Behind a seemingly idyllic facade, rigid structures shape her everyday-life. On a hot summer day, May’s interest in the Polish boy Piotr, who is doing repair work on her grandparents’ house with his father, is sparked by pure boredom. May faces Piotr provocatively at first. Finally, the two get closer. A story that began with a brief moment of tenderness ends with betrayal.

Credits

Cast:

Nicole Mercedes Müller – May

Maciej Bak – Piotr

Ursula Werner – Großmutter

Horst Westphal – Großvater

Wieslaw Zanowicz – Tadeusz

Lilli Eichstädt – Nachbarsmädchen

Script:

Hannes Held

Lisa Bierwirth

Camera:

Markus Koob

Producer:

Silvan Zürcher

Licht:

Jenny-Lou Ziegel

Michael Hinze

Szenenbild:

Karin Betzler

Kostüm (Credit):

Sandra Ernst

Maske:

Elisa Wimmer

Tonmeister:

Marcus Grasekamp

Tondesign:

Kuen-Il Song

Tonmischung:

Kai Tebbel

Editing:

Ninon Liotet

Lisa Bierwirth

Film info

Direction:

Lisa Bierwirth

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2013

Shooting format:

HD (Arri Alexa)

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, Polish

Version:

OV

Runtime:

29

Gated

A successful engineer is driving home in his car, talking to his wife, who is staying with her parents for a few days. He reaches their apartment through a car-lift, and tired sits down to read. Suddenly a man with a gun enters his apartment stating there is a riot going on outside…

Credits

Cast:

Arnd Klawitter

Mark Zak

Script:

Nicole Valadares-Köstler

Camera:

Alexander Haßkerl

Editing:

Ingo J. Biermann

Producer:

Niklas Warnecke

Sound:

Benjamin Kalisch

Titeldesign:

Sascha Blank

Tonmischung:

Alexandre Leser

Music:

Sascha Blank

Film info

Direction:

IJ. Biermann

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

ARTE

Production:

2012

Shooting format:

35mm

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby Digital 5.1

Language:

German, Portuguese

Version:

OV

Runtime:

7

Akio

Inspired by the Japanese phenomenon of the so-called Hikokomori, (literally: pulling inward), whereby young people choose to flee from the pressure of a society brought into line into the total isolation of their own room. They have lost the ability to distinguish public face and true self. In this way Akio (Japanese: Light) withdraws albeit with a specific goal. He wants to free himself from the pressures of the globalized society, from his own fears, and ultimately from the limitations of his own body as well as concepts like space and time. His room capsule transforms itself during his journey through the depths of his consciousness and unfolds with every layer which he goes through until he reaches his true being and is revealed, as light. Akio is not a futuristic scenario, more it is a dreaming melody of a current phenomenon in society as a whole. The film describes this dance, a dance which is essential for all of us, the dance away from the function as our own master and slave ascribed to us in a society that becomes more and more tiresome, and towards the acceptance of the own self, the free individual in an awake and aware world.

Credits

Cast:

Kai-Michael Müller

Script:

Silke Eggert

Camera:

Merle Jothe

Producer:

Gregor Sauter

Sound:

Sean Black

Music:

Wolf Müller

Editing:

Joanna Ashton-Jones

Film info

Direction:

Joanna Ashton-Jones

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

ARTE

UDK Berlin

Production:

2013

Shooting format:

Alexa 2k (ProRess 4444)

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:185

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

no dialogue

Version:

OV

Runtime:

8

Jan´s Body

Thomas comes to Berlin to pick up the ashes of his dead son Jan. He clears out Jan´s apartment - the place of a man whom he had not known for a long time. During their lifetime they never had a close relationship and therefore in the beginning everything appears strange and unknown to Thomas. He starts to follow Jan´s traces and starts to take on his identity, meeting Jan´s acquaintances and begins to understand him while simultaneously discovering something new about himself...

Credits

Cast:

Errol Trotman-Harewood

Michael Kind

Stéphane Lalloz

Script:

Hans Kellet

Camera:

Hendrik Reichel

Editing:

Reinaldo Pinto Almeida

Producer:

Caspar Fischer

Jirka Schaar

Sound:

Caspar Sachsse

Film info

Direction:

Jasco Viefhues

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2012

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

20