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A Shape Of An Empire — A Cal­i­for­nia Tril­o­gy

Whenever I reflect on the situation of today’s world, whether it concern the society, ecology, economy, culture or civilization, I always end up confronting the moral question: what action is acceptable or responsible? Humans believe that their will is free. This illusionary perception of freedom stems from our consciousness, experience and our indifference to prior natural causes. They are sensible of their desire and unaware of the causes by which their desires are determined. Hence this film piece illustrates the human behavior with ourselves and the relationship to nature in 3 chapters, in the living and life-giving organism of California.

Credits

Cast:

Michael Bates

Paula Rebelo

Genevieve Gearhart

Jordan Waters

Misha Vickroy

Script:

Kai Miedendorp

Camera:

Kai Miedendorp

Editing:

Kai Miedendorp

Kostüm (Credit):

Emily Moran

Maske:

Sara Razack

Film info

Direction:

Kai Miedendorp

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland, USA

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

California Institute of the Arts

Production:

2014

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

English

Version:

OV

Runtime:

36

Abnoc­to

During his nightshift the theatre doorman Oliver M., finds the young girl Elena. On the dark stage a cat- and- mouse game starts. A game of light and shadow.

Credits

Cast:

Christian Wewerka

Lucie Aron

Script:

Ewa Wikieł

Halina Joanna Rasinski

Camera:

Jesse Mazuch

Producer:

Roxana Richters

Sound:

Jaime Bustamante

Film info

Direction:

Ewa Wikieł

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2014

Shooting format:

Alexa

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:23:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

11

Elisa

The film portrays the claustrophobic and extremely painful relationship between nine year old Elisa and her mother. At night, Elisa scratches herself, this drives her mother insane. However rather than to see this as a sign that something is wrong, she demands Elisa to stop. Does the mother's anger provoke further scratching, or is it the other way around? It is impossible to tell. Suffering from the incredible pressure, Elisa finds it impossible to predict the action of her dominant mother. She just feels she should be different than she is. The little family begins to break apart and Elisa's mother awkward attempts to keep their life in order, but it has gotten out of control. An undefinable force is splitting them apart.

Credits

Cast:

Susanne Wuest – Mutter

Anastasia Triller – Elisa und ihre Doppelgänger

Script:

Ines Berwing

Kristina Kean Shtubert

Camera:

Nicola Alice Hens

Producer:

Margarita Amineva

Kristina Kean Shtubert

Nicola Alice Hens

Editing:

Wolfgang Gessat

Adrienne Hudson

Stefanie Kosik

Kristina Kean Shtubert

Sound:

Daniel Engel

Music:

Chatschatur Kanajan

Film info

Direction:

Kristina Kean Shtubert

Genre:

Kurzfilm

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:

5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

16

Pre­dic­tion

A close relative has disappeared in the Syrian war region. Ibrahim, an instrument maker and family man enters a struggle with his feelings of responsibility towards his family back home. The war is thousands of kilo-metres away and yet destroys everything.

Credits

Cast:

Ahmad Faraj

Hani Al-Shami

Inaam Wali

Ahmad Dahawish

Ayham Majid Agha

Script:

Khaled Mzher

Camera:

Alexander Haßkerl

Producer:

Myriam Eichler

Sound:

Fabian Dietrich

Editing:

Khaled Mzher

Beatrice Babin

Film info

Direction:

Khaled Mzher

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2015

Shooting format:

Super 16mm

Screening format:

1:1,66

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,66

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German and Arabic with german, engl. and arab. subtitles

Version:

OmU

Festivals:

61. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (30.4.-5.5.2015)

14th International Film Students Meeting San Sebastian (18.-26.09.2015)

35th FILMSCHOOLFEST MUNICH (15.-21.11.2015)

22. ETIUDA&ANIMA Film Festival (23.-28.11.2015)

Berlin Art Film Festival (10.-13.12.2015)

Caméflex-AFC festival in Paris (09.-10.02.16)

12. Achtung Berlin (13.-20.04.16)

Crossing Europe Filmfestival Linz (20.-25-04.2016)

German language film series at Williams College (03.10.2016)

Carbonia Film Festival (12.-16.10.16)

c13 ARTweeks 2016 (29.10.-20.11.16)

14th International Short & Independent Film Festival Dhaka (03.-10.12.16)

DFFB Filmfestival 2017 (20.-22.01.17)

Runtime:

28

Medea — “Wer­den wir frei sein?”, fragte sie plöt­zlich.

The movie interweaves rehearsals for a dance piece, "Medea", with the troubles of a young Georgian refugee on the run from German immigration authorities, Kafka text fragments, and Cherubini's Medea opera, into a story of liberty, egality and the denial of it to those who have been stigmatized as "strangers" from the time of old Corinth until the present.

Credits

Cast:

Natia Bakhtadze – Natia Kandelaki

Letizia Monea – Letizia

Silvana Suarez – Choreografin

Mariam Murusidze – Mariam / Orakel

Juduth Hofmann – Richterin

Christian Ahlers – Politiker

Kristian Wanzl – Sachbearbeiter Rohrbach

Script:

Tatjana Kononenko

Camera:

Jesse Mazuch

Editing:

Tatjana Kononenko

Producer:

Fred Burle

Sound:

Jan Bachmann

Moritz Bachmann

Music:

Luigi Cherubini

Film info

Direction:

Tatjana Kononenko

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2013

Shooting format:

Red One

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

48

Home­work

A young father (27), his twelve year old daughter, one night club, two secrets and a lie that will solve everything.

Credits

Cast:

Tim Kalkhof – VATER

Emma Frieda Brüggler – TOCHTER

Matus I. – KOLLEGE

Camera:

BEN BERNHARD

Editing:

CLAUDIA TROST

Producer:

Annika Pinske

Sound:

MATTHIAS GAUERKE

Music:

MARIA KAMUTZKI

Film info

Direction:

Annika Pinske

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

PENNYBOOTH PRODUCTION GBR in Koproduktion mit der DFFB

Production:

2016

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

7

Boy´s Vil­lage

The ruins of an abandoned children’s holiday camp in South Wales. A young boy secretly approaches an older teenager. The age difference is not the only thing standing between them.

Credits

Cast:

Benjamin Thorne

Andrew McQueen

Hannah-Rose Jones

Script:

Till Kleinert

Camera:

Martin Hanslmayr

Producer:

Anna de Paoli

Berwyn Rowlands

Grant Vidgen

Music:

Conrad Oleak

Film info

Direction:

Till Kleinert

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

GB / Germany

Production:

2011

Shooting format:

S 16mm

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Optical Dolby SR Stereo

Language:

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

25

Shoot­ing

Credits

Cast:

Marina Weis

Lutz Blochberger

Peter Luppa

Camillo Sottolichio

Andreas Thiel

Ingolf Müller-Beck

Felix von Hugo

Script:

Bastian Stojentin

Camera:

Luciano Cervio

Editing:

Leonid Mehlmann

Producer:

Anna K. Guddat

Music:

Justus Sparke

Film info

Direction:

Anton Gonopolski

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2010

Shooting format:

S16mm

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

24

Tan­go

Credits

Cast:

Eva Kessler – Milena

Lüdwig Blochberger – Jens

Paul Faßnacht – Vater

Nicole Ernst – Stefanie

Sascha Gersak – Pawel

Aleksandra Odić – Kassiererin

Camera:

Hendrik Reichel

Producer:

Niklas Hlawatsch

Bernadette Klausberger

Szenenbild:

Kerstin Eichner

Requisite:

Steven Thelen

Kostüm (Credit):

Julia Denzel

Maske:

Heike Dreisch

Nicole Röder

Sound:

Johannes Hampel

Tondesign:

Roman Volkholz

Tonmischung:

Alexandre Leser

Music:

Marian Mentrup

Script:

Anna Montanyà

Regieassistenz:

Saskia Oidtmann

Aufnahmeleitung:

Ali Yurdakan

Licht:

Sebastian Fremder

1. Kameraassistenz:

Moritz Friese

Sven Peukert

Editing:

Miriam Bliese

Vessela Martschewski

Beratung:

Valeska Grisebach

Herstellungsleitung:

Martina Knapheide

Film info

Direction:

Miriam Bliese

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2011

Shooting format:

Super 16mm

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby SR

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

28