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

My little rabbit

Hannah, a young girl on the autistic spectrum, visits her father and his pregnant fiancée on Easter holidays. They meet for the first time at the family cottage in the forest. She has many special needs, rituals, games and her father gladly plays according to her rules. The girl tries to make the woman play by them too.

Credits

Cast:

Hannah Gabo – Hannah

Susann Mertz – Laura

Wolfgang Krewe – Georg

Camera:

Felix Schuster

Producer:

Sabrina Holzapfel

Drehbuch (Credit):

Ira Sliusar

Sabrina Holzapfel

Sound:

Laura Wagner

Editing:

Sabrina Holzapfel

Ira Sliusar

Film info

Direction:

Ira Sliusar

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,39

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,39

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Festivals:

Concordia Film Festival (05.-07.05.2023)

ClujShorts 2023 (26.-28.05.2023)

FILMZ – Festival des deutschen Kinos (02.-12.11.2023)

17. Int. Film Festival Hannover up and coming (22.-26.11.2023)

INTERNATIONAL TOUR FILM FESTIVAL (02.-06.10.2024)

Runtime:

14 min

COR

2091. In einer von Effizienz getriebenen Megastadt, ermächtigt eine disruptive Begegnung “II / IKI” dazu, die Suche nach ihrer Identität zu beginnen.

Credits

Cast:

Julia Strowski – II

Lorenz Hideyoshi – I

Jasmin Hielscher – III

Sophie Weikert – Dr. Beck

Mai Suzuki – Dr. Nozomi

Koray Diler – Can

Autor:

Louis Legge

Kilian Pohl

Sinan Özarslan

Camera:

Magoo Sophie Meyer

Producer:

Sinan Özarslan

Alexander Ullmann

Film info

Direction:

Kilian Pohl

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2023

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Language:

Deutsch, Japanisch

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

21 min

Torpor

With the death of her brother, Asra loses access to the world around her and to her actual sense of self. Lost, Asra drifts aimlessly around the mundane remnants of her life. Only the encounter with her sister-in-law opens the hermetical seal against the outside world. The two women become each other's gateway to a past in which they come together to grieve. Together, they can take a step out of the obliterative isolation that afflicts body and mind in mourning.

Credits

Cast:

Tümay Kılınçel – Asra

Helena Abay – Zübeyde

Script:

Edda Reimann

Camera:

Maayane Bouhnik

Producer:

Sinan Özarslan

Sound:

Larissa Kirschk

Film info

Direction:

Edda Reimann

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2023

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Turkish

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

20 min

Ladida

We get to know our protagonist Amalia in the comfort of her apartment: a sacred playground where she spends hours forgetting about time. She begins to form a bond with a cat who becomes a usual guest. Less so with the cat’s owner, her neighbor, who anticipates Amalia to be a more active participant in her own life. Through the unexpected pregnancy of Cat, their different ways of approaching life clash. This film is about longing or not longing, and the question if we all need to have something to wish for.

Credits

Cast:

Lila Randale – Amalia

Constantin von der Decken – Der Nachbar

Valerie Schönian – Die beste Freundin

Sebastian Natto – Der Kollege

Drehbuch (Credit):

Livia Valensise

Akira Kawasaki

Camera:

Leo Wolters

Editing:

Raffaéllo Lupperger

Producer:

Clara Puhlmann

Carlotta Cornehl

Film info

Direction:

Akira Kawasaki

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

19.52 min

Everything I had…

For years, we try to envision what a city is and how it should be, spending time asking ourselves if everything fits optimally into our simple routines. A city, a big city, the city of our dreams, it finds itself in an undefinable status of ongoing construction. What effect does the design of this dream city have on our minds? From Berlin, Germany, in Europe, where hope still exists for a better future…

Credits

Cast:

Jasmina al Zihairi

Drehbuch (Credit):

Juan Rmzv

Anastasia Gorokhova

Michael Andres

Camera:

Ekaterina Mostovaia

Producer:

Cecilia Trautvetter

Juan Rmzv

Film info

Direction:

Juan Rmzv

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:1,66

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,66

Sound format:

Stereo 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

13.24 min

Evil Thoughts

The secluded life of the bitter Ulrike and her mysterious son Sigi is disturbed by the appearance of a young outsider. Agatha shows up at the door one evening, without any luggage and with soaking wet hair. After the police fail to intervene, Ulrike grudgingly lets her spend the night. While she goes to work during the day, Agatha and Sigi circle each other in the secluded house. Until Agatha precisely places her finger in the wound that has tied Sigi to the house and to his mother for so long. Agatha disappears as suddenly as she came, leaving Sigi and Ulrike to fend for themselves.

Credits

Cast:

Christiane Ziehl – Ulrike

Patrick Güldenberg – Sigi

Emilia von Heiseler – Agatha

Autor:

Ina Lene Dinse

Camera:

Leo Wolters

Editing:

Sanhah Lee

Producer:

Alexander Ullmann

Janna Fodor

Sound:

Roman Pogorzelski

Film info

Direction:

Vladlena Savenkova

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:

18.3 min