The Stranger In Me

Rebecca and Julian are joyfully expecting their first child. But as soon as the baby is delivered, Rebecca feels an inexplicable fear and helplessness in the presence of this tiny being that needs her. She falls into a deep darkness – to the point that she realizes she is becoming a threat to her child.

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Cast:

Susanne Wolff

Johann von Bülow

Maren Kroymann

Hans Diehl

Judith Engel

Herbert Fritsch

Klaus Pohl

Dörte Lyssewski

Brigitte Zeh

Tilla Kratochwill

Markus Lerch

Martina Troschke

Script:

Esther Bernstoff

Emily Atef

Camera:

Henner Besuch

Editing:

Beatrice Babin

Producer:

Nicole Gerhards

Hanneke van der Tas

Music:

Manfred Eicher

Film info

Direction:

Emily Atef

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

ZDF

ARTE

NiKo Film

Production:

2008

Shooting format:

S16 mm

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1.85

Sound format:

Dolby SRD

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

99

The Wedding

For years a German and a Russian family lived side by side in a small town in Brandenburg. Now peace is disturbed by the wedding plans of their first-born children. At first the families are approaching their mutual project involuntarily and bumbling, but after a while unexpected connections emerge. During the last preparations the bride blows the wedding and leaves the families disappointed behind. But the failure was not in vain: As the Russian grandmother dies, the families reunite…

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Cast:

Albert Salgiriev

Raphaela Morgenroth

Violetta Bronner

Holger Richter

Michaela Caspar

Cyril Sjöström

Christoph Leszczynski

Anna Brodskaja-Bomke

Zlatko Maltar

Script:

Lawrence Tooley

Camera:

Cornelius Plache

Editing:

Nina Caspers

Producer:

Alexander Wadouh

Sound:

Boris Laible

Niklas Kammertöns

Film info

Direction:

Anika Wangard

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

RBB

Production:

2006

Shooting format:

Mini DV

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby SR

Language:

German, Russian

Version:

OV

Runtime:

30

Snow

Turquoise tells a fictional childhood memory of Fatih Akin: Dali-like perspective. Never ending plains. Much sky and little land ground. A turquoise woolen thread coming from the horizon is all we see. A woman knits a woolen cap from the thread. Behind her we see her son. The child receives the turquoise knitted cap from his motehr as a present. He goes to play with the other children in the snow. But he looses his woolen cap in the process. Spring arrives, snow melts. Water is eveywhere. The child can't find his cap. Then we see a photo of the boy on a wall. Soon we recognise the woolen thread running from the ball of wool lying on the table. We look in the other direction and find the picture from the begining again. The never ending plains and the woolen thread all the way to horizon.

Credits

Cast:

Santiago Kamphorst

Marcella Kamphorst

Camera:

Merle Jothe

Editing:

Phillip Hahn

Producer:

Ismail Sahin

Holger Sorg

Film info

Direction:

Hakan Savan Mican

Genre:

spot

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Michael Ballhaus Klimaschutz Initiative

Production:

2008

Shooting format:

35mm

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

1

Princess

They'll smack your face if they don't like it. Tomorrow is a bad day: Yvonne is going to prison... The story takes place during the doldrums between Christmas and New Year’s Eve in a typical West German suburb. Christmas lights still adorn the dull apartment blocks, cheap motels and discount markets as premature fireworks echo throughout the industrial wasteland. Eighteen-year-old Katharina, who has resettled from Russia to Germany, spends her time with Yvonne and the rest of the gang. The girls roam through their territory in search of something. They don’t know what for. But it must be something that will change their lives irrevocably.

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Cast:

Irina Potapenko

Henriette Müller

Desirée Jäger

Amina Schichterich

Script:

Birgit Grosskopf

Daniela Hilchenbach

Camera:

Lawrence Tooley

Editing:

Lawrence Tooley

Producer:

Anke Scheib-Krause

Film info

Direction:

Birgit Grosskopf

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Colonia Media Filmproduktion GmbH

Label 131

Production:

2006

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Lichtton (optical sound)

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

82

Father’s Music

The Austrian conductor has directed the East Berlin State Opera for 26 years and had two families – on both sides of the Wall. 16 years after the end of his carrer father and son set out for a journey in order to find out what has stayed „after the music“.

Credits

Cast:

Otmar Suitner

Marita Suitner

Renate Heitzmann

Staatskapelle Berlin

Script:

Igor Heitzmann

Camera:

Rali Raltchev

Hoyte van Hoytema

Editing:

Inge Schneider

Producer:

Jens Körner

Oliver Niemeier

Thomas Riedel

Igor Heitzmann

Sound:

Ulla Kösterke

Ivonne Gärber

Film info

Direction:

Igor Heitzmann

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel

Filmkombinat Nordost Gmbh & Co KG

Production:

2006

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby Digital

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

105

Senegallemand

A Muslim soldier from Senegal and a German sociologist have a six-year-old daughter. Although they live separately, the spilt up family travels to Senegal together. While it is hard for him to get back on track in his homeland she becomes passionate with her ethnological work about female emancipation in Muslim societies. The film reflects about gender roles in an incoherent globalized world. How did this love between two different galaxies evolve and why did it break up? Is their child capable of unifying the two worlds or is it going to be the innocent victim...

Credits

Script:

David Sieveking

Camera:

Adrian Stähli

Editing:

Kathrin Hembus

Film info

Direction:

David Sieveking

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2007

Shooting format:

DV

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Language:

German, French, Wolof

Version:

OV

Runtime:

90

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Scholle

Two colored dock workers are discussing the correct recipe for "Plaice Finkenwerder" while unloading the catch from a fishing boat. At the end, with the recipe still not completly resolved, a passing japanese tourist helps them with the final ingredients.

Credits

Cast:

Eric Boakye

Joseph Gyamfi-Schieler

Script:

Timon Modersohn

Camera:

Raphael Beinder

Editing:

Johannes Hubrich

Producer:

Paul Zischler

Susanne Mann

Sound:

Marko Weichler

Film info

Direction:

Timon Modersohn

Genre:

spot

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Michael Ballhaus Klimaschutz Initiative

Production:

2008

Shooting format:

65mm

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

1

Stop It

Viele Kinder haben schwer erziehbare Eltern. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Drei Generationen in einem Auto. Unterwegs mündet Überforderung in eine Spirale aus Hilflosigkeit und Gewalt. Eine Momentaufnahme der Wechselwirkungen innerhalb einer Familie.

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Cast:

Albina Goriaehyky – Lisa

Selda Kaya – Mutter

Paul Weismann – Opa

Script:

Thomas Gerhold

Franziska Krentzien

Camera:

Emma Rosa Simon

Editing:

Heike Gnida

Producer:

Ricarda Kniesz

Sound:

Johannes Kaschek

Film info

Direction:

Franziska Krentzien

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

ARTE

Production:

2011

Shooting format:

Red One 35mm digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

5

Red

A red dancer paints a black world with an explosion of white emotion.

Credits

Script:

Joanna Ashton-Jones

Editing:

Beatrice Babin

Camera:

Luciano Cervio

Herstellungsleitung:

Martina Knapheide

Casting:

Nadine Milzner

Film info

Direction:

Joanna Ashton-Jones

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2007

Shooting format:

16 mm

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

Version:

OV

Runtime:

4