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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

Danc­ing Alone

Will my four siblings and I be able to build healthy relationships with others after years filled with hate and violence, if neither our parents nor their parents were able to do so? One day in summer my sister Ilknur comes home late from the public swimming pool. My mother Beyhan confronts her and starts beating her up. Ilknur pulls herself away and runs out of the kitchen. Mother grabs something at random and throws it after her child – her husband's offspring. Ilknur is hit in the back. She winces. Then a tinkling sound. A sharp knife falls to the ground. Ilknurs back gapes open and her lungs are visible. A sight I will never forget: A pink cluster of quivering corn sized pellets. When I am 12 years old I decide to go into a home and leave my previous life as the only one of my four siblings. My parents are finally getting a divorce in 1994. My father Mehmet is convicted for battery and rape a few years later. He goes to prison and is deported back to Turkey in 2001. The entire time my father is trying to maintain contact to his children, from prison as well as from Turkey. Today my siblings and I are adults and mother is a caring grandmother. She smothers my sister's children with tenderness. My sister has always stayed close to my mother. I now understand: You can't go anywhere without taking your past with you.

Credits

Cast:

Familie Pilavci

Script:

Biene Pilavci

Camera:

Armin Dierolf

Editing:

Biene Pilavci

Producer:

Max Milhahn

Sound:

Daniel Schulte

Film info

Direction:

Birnur Pilavci

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Telekult Film- und Medienproduktion GmbH

Production:

2012

Shooting format:

Dvc Pro HD

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German, Turkish

Version:

OV

Runtime:

98

Thieves

Benny and Franz are thieves. The brothers steal jeans in shopping centers and boutique stores. Their routine involves a scam in which Benny, the younger of the two, has to play the ungrateful role of the decoy. When they encounter an overstrung shop assistant, it becomes clear to Franz that Benny's not going to let himself be pushed around very much longer.

Credits

Cast:

Max Woelky

Dennis Kamitz

Script:

Florian Plumeyer

Lauro Cress

Camera:

Albrecht von Grünhagen

Editing:

Bruno Derksen

Lauro Cress

Producer:

Cécile Tollu-Polonowski

Clara von Fürstenberg

Sound:

Eric Lehmann

Music:

“Fire Arrow” von Thomas Azier

Film info

Direction:

Lauro Cress

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

ARTE

Production:

2013

Shooting format:

35mm

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

48 kHz/ 24 Bit

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

7

Free Les­son

A group of children notices a small animal. One of the children decides to kill it by using a certain method. This is the start of a test of courage which ends in a schoolyard-tragedy.

Credits

Cast:

Milena Haußmann

Cora Holl

Keti Goncharova

Jade Cysewski

Max Zabinski

Script:

Ilinca Florian

Camera:

Patrick Jasim

Editing:

Ilinca Florian

Producer:

Clemens Köstlin

Sound:

Benjamin Kalisch

Tondesign:

Julian Cropp

Szenenbild:

Maria Fechner

Kostüm (Credit):

Elena Gaus

Film info

Direction:

Ilinca Florian

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2012

Shooting format:

Red One

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German with english subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

5