Medusa

After a failed date, Merve seeks her friends company in a neighbourhood hairdresser's salon. Her friends try to cheer her up and share their own strange experiences with men. Her mood worsens and she loses herself in thoughts of the gorgon Medusa and her unfortunate fate. An argument breaks out between the friends about whether Merve's single life is her own fault.

Credits

Cast:

Alina Sokhna M’Baye-Merve

Lika Bari-Medusa

Marta López Matoses-Bea

Alina Vimbai Strähler-Nana

Amina Nahid Eisner-Ruby

Script:

Arina Chernova

Camera:

Louis Reiss

Editing:

Robert Franz

Producer:

Daniel Ruprech

Sound:

Johannes Tuchelt

Music:

Johannes Tuchelt

Film info

Direction:

Arina Chernova

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3/1.85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3/1.85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

17.3 min

Music Appreciation

Johann, a heavy metal singer, is lost and roams through what seems to be a completely empty city at night. An unexpected encounter with Maria Sonnenschein, a music appreciation teacher, and other surreal events might help him not only find his way, but also discover what brought him to that bizarre world.

Credits

Cast:

Johannes Scheidweiler – Johann

Nora Jensen – Maria Sonnenschein

Sophie DeFrenne – Totes Mädchen

Script:

Lucas Milhomem

Camera:

Luis Hartmann

Producer:

Rike Lange

Editing:

Nuno Martini

Film info

Direction:

Lucas Milhomem

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

17.23 min

KRZYK

As bacteriologist Lena (38) drives past a burning car, she hears a scream of a dying woman. Lena does not tell her boyfriend how much the incident distresses her, just as she does not talk about the stillbirth she recently had. Instead, she throws herself into her work, intrudes into the life of the deceased, begins an affair with the widower and gradually takes on the role of mother to their son. Her persistent insomnia causes her to lose control between dreams and reality. Finally she accepts the help of a whisperer and then finds her own way to cope with her loss.

Credits

Cast:

Gina Henkel – Lena

Anton Weil – Jakob

Pawel Delag – Victor

Wiktoria Gorodecka – Vera

Natalia Mateo – Nina

Marek Pys – Miroslaw

Script:

Ewa Wikieł

Halina Joanna Rasinski

Camera:

Konstantin Minnich

Editing:

Natalia Jachec

Producer:

Ibrahim-Utku Erdogan

Music:

Hannah von Hübbenet

Film info

Direction:

Ewa Wikieł

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2.39

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2.39

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, Polish, English

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

81 min

Keine Macht für Niemand

Glam-Girl Juliane makes her punky husband fit into the social expectations.

Credits

Script:

Marcus Hanisch

Prodromos Antoniadis

Judith Mauthe

Camera:

Jasper Techel

Editing:

Marcus Hanisch

Producer:

Marcus Hanisch

Ibrahim-Utku Erdogan

Daria Wichmann

Film info

Direction:

Marcus Hanisch

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

11 min

The Birthday Party

December 1999. I remember that, amidst the Millenium Bug anxiety, I went to the birthday of Enrico, a kid who lived with his family in an old and isolated farmhouse.

Credits

Cast:

Nicola Cannarella – Francesco

Matthias Tormen – Enrico

Denis Fasolo – Lucio

Elia Luciani – Loretta

Luisa Trigilla – Großmutter

Livio Pacella – Amos

Script:

Francesco Sossai

Camera:

Giulia Schelhas

Editing:

Francesco Sossai

Producer:

Cecilia Trautvetter

François Pierre Clavel

Sound:

Sebastian Pablo Poloni

Artiom Constantinov

Film info

Direction:

Francesco Sossai

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany/France/Italy

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Italian

Version:

OmU

Festivals:

Quinzaine at 76. Festival de Cannes (16.-27.05.2023)

31st Curtas Vila do Conde IFF (08.-16.07.2023)

26. Guanajuato International Film Festival (20.-31.07.2023)

29th Sarajevo Film Festival (11.-19.08.2023)

Silhouette Film Festival (25.08.-02.09.2023)

42. Vancouver International Film Festival (28.09.-08.10.2023)

52. Montreal Festival du nouveau cinéma (04.-15.10.2023)

Alice nella città IFF (18.-29.10.2023)

27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (03.-19.11.2023)

Brest European Short Film Festival (07.-12.11.2023)

XXIX edition of Caminhos do Cinema Português (10.-18.11.2023)

Leuven International Short Film Festival (24.11.-02.12.2023)

19. Festival del Cortometraggio Mediterraneo "Passaggi d'Autore: intrecci mediterranei" (02.-07.12.2023)

32. Séquence Court Méatrage (06.-10.12.2023)

10th International Uşak Short Film Festival (12.-19.12.2023)

Winter Apricots: Prilep International Film Festival (14.-16.12.2023)

Intervalli Festival Cinema (11.-15.01.2024)

Vilnius International Short Film Festival (17.-23.01.2023)

35. Trieste Film Festival (19.-27.01.2024)

36. Festival Premiers Plans (20.-28.01.2024)

45. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis (22.-28.01.2024)

39th Santa Barbara International Film Festival (07.-17.02.2024)

PLAY - Lisbon International Kids Film Festival (24.02.-03.03.2024)

Watersprite Film Festival (01.-03.03.2024)

KINO ATHENS, International Independent Film Festival (01.-10.03.2024)

30. Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg (07.-17.03.2024)

41st BUFF Film Festival in Malmö (09.-15.03.2024)

XIX edizione di Cortinametraggio (12.-17.03.2024)

24. Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival (13.-18.03.2024)

63. Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias - FICCI - (16.-21.04.2024)

5. Format Court Festival (25.-28.04.2024)

41. Busan International Short Film Festival (25.04.-01.05.2024)

21. Neisse Film Festival (14.-19.05.2024)

River Film Festival Padova (29.05.-16.06.2024)

40. Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg (04.-09.06.2024)

Generation Film Festival Denmark (12.-16.06.2024)

SyncroFilmFest Buenos Aires (13.-16.06.2024)

53. Lubuskie Filmsommer Festival (23.-30.06.2024)

Lanterne Magiche Film Festival (07.-17.07.2024)

11. Bridge Film Festival (09.-13.07.2024)

Edera Film Festival (17.-20.07.2024)

Aegean Film Festival (18.-26.07.2024)

31. European Film Festival Palić (20.-26.07.2024)

Two Riversides Film and Art Festival (27.07.-04.08.2024)

Concorto Film Festival (17.-24.08.2024)

MoliseCinema Filmfestival Italy (06.-11.08.2024)

Filmfestival Kitzbühel (19.-25.08.2024)

35th São Paulo International Short Film Festival (22.08.-01.09.2024)

18. Fünf Seen Filmfestival (fsff) (03.-12.09.2024)

Nòt Film Fest - Santarcangelo di Romagna (06.-11.09.2024)

Bueu’s International Film Festival (06.-21.09.2024)

ArteSettima Festival (19.-22.09.2024)

INCANTO SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (20.-21.09.2024)

22nd edition of Tirana International Film Festival (22.-28.09.2024)

Young Film Fest Prague (25.-29.09.2024)

Torino Underground Cinefest (26.09.-25.10.2024)

Desenzano Filmfestival (27.-29.09.2024)

Blue Danube Film Festival (01.-05.10.2024)

Tramway Film Festival (03.-06.10.2024)

Edimotion | Festival für Filmschnitt und Montagekunst (11.-14.10.2024)

FLIGHT/ Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova (15.-19.10.2024)

Flensburger Kurzfilmtage (13.-17.11.2024)

35. LJUBLJANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (13.-24.11.2024)

43. FILMSCHOOLFEST MUNICH (15.-23.11.2024)

KFFK / Kurzfilmfestival Köln N°18 (19.-24.11.2024)

Runtime:

16.46 min

Arthur & Diana

Arthur & Diana are brother and sister. The two of them share custody of their father’s old Renault. Still registered in France, the car needs its long expired vehicle inspection certificate to be renewed, so the siblings embark on an absurd trip from Berlin to Paris. For Lupo, Diana’s two-year-old son, this adventure feels like an exciting family holiday. After an encounter with the police, an antagonistic stop at their mother’s place, an overly sensual party, a flat tire, a funeral, and repeated tumultuous car conversations, they will end up all the way down in Italy, with a few more friends and hopes than they had left with. “Arthur&Diana” is an auto fictional experiment, a transeuropean road movie where documentary and constructed reality mingle to build an alternative world.

Credits

Cast:

Lupo Piero Summa – Lupo

Robin Summa – Arthur

Sara Summa – Diana

Livia Antonelli – Zora

Claire Loiseau – Betty

Benjamin Schwinn – Patrick

Ugo Fiore – Mathieu

Herward Dunkel – Onkel Silvio

Karine Revelant – Police Woman

Fatah Boudia – Salesman

Drehbuch (Credit):

Sara Summa

Camera:

Faraz Fesharaki

Editing:

Sara Summa

Producer:

Cecilia Trautvetter

Lisa Roling

Sound:

Nuno Barroso

Film info

Direction:

Sara Summa

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin GmbH in Ko-Produktion mit dem Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb)

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1.57

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1.57

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

French, German, Italian

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

108 min

As if Mother Cried that Night

Sirvan and Hoda, an Iranian couple whose asylum application was rejected in Germany, live in a refugee camp in Berlin. In order to obtain a residence permit, they decide that Hoda should become pregnant by a German man, in order to give both of them the right to stay in Germany. As we pursue this unconventional path of getting a permission to stay, we lose ourselves in the labyrinth of German bureaucracy and remain there with no solution and with the bitter feeling that current laws and structures are deeply qustionable.

Credits

Cast:

Hadi Khanjanpour

Hoda Taheri

Benjamin Kühni

Kirsten Burger

Script:

Magdalena Jacob

Hoda Taheri

Producer:

Julia Rose Gostynski

Camera:

Lena Thiemann

Editing:

Boris Hadžija

Tondesign:

Boris Hadžija

Film info

Direction:

Hoda Taheri

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2023

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Farsi, German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

19 min

Mirage

Sophie is spending a day at the public swimming pool with her family. She is confronted by a shrilling whistle in the large hall and the sight of her mother floating breathless manifests itself as a reality. Soon after, she realizes the false resemblance between the unknown swimmer and her mother. She tries to maintain a sense of normalcy afterwards.

Credits

Cast:

Hanna Binder

Ulrike Johannson

Naomi Joel Sapiro

Jonathan Wirtz

Rebecca Lindauer

Reinhard Pauls

Script:

Salma Salem

Camera:

Esra Tanriverdi

Editing:

Salma Salem

Producer:

Maximilian Feldkamp

Sound:

Nils Plambeck

Music:

Nils Plambeck

Film info

Direction:

Salma Salem

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

17 min

This is the last time I’m doing this

Matthias and Cosmo go to an extended family party and have something to say to his mother Gunde. But next to the hustle and bustle, encroaching aunts and Gunde's dominant behaviour, it doesn't come to that. Instead, they are asked to deliver a cake to family friends on their way home. Shortly thereafter, they are faced with closed doors. While they wait and night falls, they playfully try to get closer. But their unspoken fears and opposing ideas of family and the future collide.

Credits

Cast:

Max Krause

Anne Eigner

Babette Winter

Script:

Sorina Gajewski

Camera:

Hannes Schulze

Editing:

Mirja Gerle

Producer:

Sorina Gajewski

Jeremy Wesner

Sound:

Moritz Zuchantke

Music:

Alex Weber

Film info

Direction:

Sorina Gajewski

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,87

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,87

Sound format:

digital

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

20 min