Signs and Traces

Friedbert (65) is an actor, who has travelled around the world during his career. He always returned home however in his old mansion, where he makes long walks through the country and has thoughts about preservation and decay. During one of these walks, he meets Werner (55). Werner is retired chemist. With his retirementmoney he was able to buy his little house in the vicinity of Friedbert's mansion. The nihilist Werner and the megalomane Friedbert develop an infantile yet grave bond, that balances between friendship and animosity. When Friedbert tells Werner that he has cancer and only got one a few months to live, their paths of life start to converge.

Credits

Cast:

Hans-Jürgen Schatz

Achim Wolff

Nikola Weisse

Script:

H.T. Henkes

Camera:

Emre Erkmen

Editing:

Lorna Hoefler Steffan

Producer:

H.T. Henkes

Sound:

Magnus Pflüger

Music:

Gurdjieff

Wagner

Film info

Direction:

H.T. Henkes

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2008

Shooting format:

HDV

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby SR

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

94

Beasts

Thirteen-year-old LIA is in love with the fourteen year-old, perfect Adam and actually there is no problem at all. Adam is cute, super intellectual, sporty and is interested only in her. Why, she does not know. Something's very wrong with her, or at least she seems to think so. When Adams parents give the two tickets to their favorite opera and insist that Lias parents come along, troubles begin. Although lovely and warm, Lias parents are animals! Lia is convinced that Adam will separate from her as soon as he finds out. And so Lia just rents new parents. They are perfect just like Adam, or at least she seems to think so.

Credits

Cast:

Greta Bohacek

Maximus Schurk

Lukas Till

Armin Marewski

Pascale Schiller

Nike Fuhrmann

Marco Girnth

Script:

Ines Berwing

Camera:

Albrecht von Grünhagen

Editing:

Silke Botsch

Rebecca Likka

Music:

Nimrod Gilboa

Film info

Direction:

Rebeca Ofek

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:

HDCam

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

22

A night in the car

Two girls wake up at night to the sound of their parents intercourse. To escape this unknown sexuality, they spend the night in a car.

Credits

Cast:

Quila Maaß

Nouma Adler

Anna Grisebach

Urs Jucker

Script:

Marylise Dumont

Camera:

Katharina Diessner

Editing:

Julia Langhof

Sound:

Christian Schossig

Film info

Direction:

Julia Langhof

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

ARTE

Production:

2009

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16.9

Sound format:

Dolby Surround

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

6

Cysts

Cysts is the graduate film from Martin M. Meier, who tells us an almost unbelievable story based on real events. Anja Wendt a young woman observes strange movements in the belly of her mother who lies in coma already for some years. The medical director tries to tranquilize Anja, when he explains that these movements are caused by harmless cysts which can easily be eliminated by an operation. Anja does not totally trust him therefore she undertakes her mother to an ultrasonic testing and finds out that her mother is pregnant. Gradually Anja finds out, that she and her mother are in the hands of a criminal gang who does not stop at nothing.

Credits

Cast:

Anja Schneider

Ulrike Bliefert

Tobias J. Lehmann

Christian–Viktor Keune

Jenny Deimling

Script:

Martin M. Meier

Camera:

Frank Meyer

Editing:

Lawrence Tooley

Martin M. Meier

Producer:

Sumy Vásquez

Music:

Niclas Ramdohr

Film info

Direction:

Martin M. Meier

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2006

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby SR

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

28

Sami

Sami, a twelve year old palestinien boy comes to Berlin in search for his brother. He has an encounter with the rather strange 78 years old Shlomo. Because of a misfortune Sami’s appearance changes from an arabic looking boy to a jewish looking boy. Not having found his brother and suffering under cold weather he breaks down. From then on the old man is looking after him and pretends Sami is his grandson when meeting his friends. It quickly becomes apparent that they need each other to survive.

Credits

Cast:

Ahmad Zaher

Heinz Hellmich

Jan-Geerd Buss

Georg Tryphon

Silke Matthias

Yekta Arman

Samir Fuchs

Buddy Elias

Script:

Mehdi Benhadj-Djilali

Camera:

Marian Engel

Editing:

Anja Siemens

Producer:

Sarika Hemi Lakhani

Sound:

Heiko Lohman

Music:

Nils Frahm

Film info

Direction:

Mehdi Benhadj-Djilali

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2008

Shooting format:

HDV

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

35

Wigald

„This life is just a test! If it wasn’t a test we would have been given further instructions on what to do an where to go.” This short film by newcomer Timon Modersohn, depicts the desperation of a young man, Wigald, who only has one last wish – suicide. Wigald is the epitome of a starving poet, whose lack of income to support his passion for verse and general frustration with the world has left him struggling with his inner demons. This film witnesses a succession of attempts to end his life, comically to no avail. As we watch Wigald’s supposedly foolproof suicide attempt, we meet his father who walks in on the operation. However, his father is so wrapped up in his own problems, the main issue being Wigald’s mother wanting to leave him for her golf coach, that he fails to register what he’s interrupted and instead seeks sympathy from his bewildered son! Completely oblivious to Wigald’s current emotional state, he tries to rectify the lost years of communication with his son over a solitary beer. It is during one of his fathers monotonous monologues that we see Wigald collapse. Sadly enough though, even the sight of their only son, fighting for his life is not enough to stop the snide comments and venomous finger pointing of the parents. As parents, they failed to see their unhappiness with each other had lead to the destruction of Wigald’s soul.

Credits

Cast:

Tom Schilling

Manfred Zakapat

Marijam Agischewa

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

Script:

Marek Helsner

Camera:

Sebastian Lempe

Editing:

Christoph Strothjohann

Tom Seil

Producer:

Valentin Greulich

Sound:

Philipp Schäfer

Music:

Element Of Crime

Film info

Direction:

Timon Modersohn

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2006

Shooting format:

S16 mm

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby Digital

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

11

Sarah Goes for a Walk

Two eleven-year-olds killed Sarah’s son Tom ten years ago. During all that time, she hasn’t been able to forgive them. Sarah’s life has lost direction and she hasn’t been able to get herself together since then. The day Sarah gets to know the boys have been released from the Minors’ prison they’d been kept, her remembrances get strong again and she feels forced to do something. Sarah has to go for a walk…

Credits

Cast:

Kathleen Gallego Zapata

Hildegard Schroedter

Hans Uwe Bauer

Joel Eisenblättter

Felix Zierz

Florian Riedel

Konstantin Prochorowski

Victor Jagielski

Lucien Leuchtenberg

Script:

Roberto Anjari-Rossi

Valentin Greulich

Camera:

Sebastian Lempe

Editing:

Beatrice Babin

Roberto Anjari-Rossi

Producer:

Valentin Greulich

Music:

Dorothea Mader

Film info

Direction:

Roberto Anjari-Rossi

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2006

Shooting format:

S16 mm

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby SR

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

20

Made in Germany

A day in Berlin: various people's paths cross, each is closest to himself.

Credits

Cast:

Maria Mägdefrau

Volker J. Ringe

Adolfo Assor

Wolfgang „Teddy“ Klapper

Friederike Callenberg

Kristian Wanzl

Astrid Cohrs

Felipe Luck

Sophie Weikert

David Hannak

Oliver Koch

Markus v. Lingen

Roland Andraschko

Dominik Klingberg

Script:

Janosch Orlowsky

Camera:

Sebastian Lempe

Editing:

Janosch Orlowsky

Wera Uschakowa

Producer:

Janosch Orlowsky

Sound:

Martin Schilling

Music:

Rainer Kühn

Film info

Direction:

Janosch Orlowsky

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2006

Shooting format:

S16 mm

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby SR

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

8

What We Do In America

The legendary director of photography Michael Ballhaus meets the up-and-coming talent camera students of the dffb / Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin. Their goal is shoot a film together as a group but the student-collaboration turns out to be more complicated than expected.

Credits

Camera:

Irma Vecchio

Mehdi Benhadj-Djilali

Editing:

Anja Siemens

Sound:

Magnus Pflüger

Music:

Nils Frahm

Film info

Direction:

Mehdi Benhadj-Djilali

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2008

Shooting format:

DV Cam

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby Stereo

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

45