Beyond The Forest

As members of a German minority in Romania, the two young brothers Karl and Walle hide out in the snowy Carpathian Mountains to escape the threat of deportation by the Soviets. The greater the fear of being discovered, the more urgent the questions become: Will they find us? And who are we really? When a letter arrives from their father asking them both to return to the city or else he and their mother will be deported, the boys are faced with a momentous decision: Who should they save - their parents or themselves?

Credits

Cast:

Nils Hohenhövel

Florian Geißelmann

Script:

Marijana Verhoef

Camera:

Edoardo Scussel

Editing:

Sebastian Lempe

Producer:

Elena Zurbuch

Music:

Paul Emmerich

Film info

Direction:

Max Kern

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2024

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

2,35:1

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

2,35:1

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby

Language:

German

English

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

29 min

Obey, obey

In most middle schools and high schools in Japan, there are compulsory rules on how a student may wear their hair or dress. This film is a visual guide to what some of these hairstyle regulations may look like.

Credits

Script:

Akira Kawasaki

Producer:

Akira Kawasaki

Editing:

Akira Kawasaki

Sound:

Akira Kawasaki

Music:

Akira Kawasaki

Camera:

Maayane Bouhnik

Film info

Direction:

Akira Kawasaki

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2025

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby

Language:

no dialogue

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

3.56 min

WHAT DID YOU DREAM LAST NIGHT, PARAJANOV?

The webcam witnessed everything: from the very first snow in the city of Isfahan, to Mitra telling her son Faraz stories of her prison time while resting on a bed and Hassan insisting on hearing Faraz's last night dream while presenting him a pile of homegrown persimmons. 10 years of a family being together online in video calls and letters between Isfahan and Berlin.

Credits

Cast:

Mitra Kia

Faraz Fesharaki

Hasan Fesharaki

Rahi Sinaki

Script:

Faraz Fesharaki

Producer:

Luise Hauschild, Ewelina Rosinska & Mariam Shatberashvili

Editing:

Faraz Fesharaki

Camera:

Faraz Fesharaki, Moritz Friese & Shahab Fotouhi

Sound:

Sum-Sum Shen

Film info

Direction:

Faraz Fesharaki

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

New Matter Films

Production:

2023

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby

Language:

Farsi

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

81 min

Towel Dragons

A summer storm interrupts a party and leaves two children to play by themselves in the children’s bedroom. They build their own world out of bed sheets and lose themselves in it. But what happens when the adult world knocks on the door?

Credits

Cast:

Mika Silaban

Noah Loki Weichenhain

Lena Eikenbusch

Pepe Harder

Rouven Magnus

Sophie Roeder

Aart Steinmann

Script:

Sverre Aune, Rocío Díaz Freire & Marie Thönnissen

Camera:

Rocío Díaz Freire

Editing:

Sverre Aune & Astrid Hohle Hansen

Producer:

Lazar Mikov & Ayşe Gül Var

Sound:

Adriano Theill

Film info

Direction:

Sverre Aune

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2023

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

6 min

Show me yours and I’ll show you mine

On a psychiatric ward for young adults, the breakfast situation between the nurse Johannes and his ten patients slowly comes to a head. When patient Mafalda then refuses Johannes the cherry jam he loves, the situation escalates. Who would have thought that there could be more conflict and healing for everyone in the fight over a jam jar than in therapies and tablets, and that healing might be a common cause after all.

Credits

Cast:

Simon Köslich – Pfleger

Caroline Hellwig – Elise

Anastasija Bräuniger – Mafalda Bergner

Pepe Harder – Herr Rönneken

Tamer Arslan – Herr Bloch

Josepha Hertzog – Frau Rödder

Justin Akatoye – Micha

Giamo Alfredi Röwekamp – Herr Maiani

Rojin Haddad – Frau Siedlaczeck

Freya Kreutzkam – Frau Kempf

Eleftheria Fouki – Frau Cassidas

Michaela Behal – Schwester Moni

Script:

Theresa Bergner

Camera:

Alina Albrecht

Editing:

Andjani Autumn Gatzweiler

Producer:

Lorenzo Gandolfo

Sound:

Meik-René Enderlein

Music:

Abi Wallenstein& Olmo

Film info

Direction:

Theresa Bergner

Genre:

fictional

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:

5.1 Surround

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

30 min

Into Matter

In einer weißen Leere erlebt eine neugeborene Figur verschiedene Verwandlungen der Materie - sie zappelt und bricht zusammen - und symbolisiert in dieser minimalistischen, sinnlichen Metapher eine Reise der Entfremdung und Selbstfindung.

Credits

Cast:

Shar Adams – Person

Script:

Javier Imaginario & Louis Malcolm Reiss Saidou

Camera:

Louis Malcolm Reiss Saidou

Editing:

Javier Imaginario & Louis Malcolm Reiss Saidou

Producer:

Javier Imaginario & Louis Malcolm Reiss Saidou

Music:

David Adeoye

Film info

Direction:

Javier Imaginario

Genre:

Experimentalfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2023

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Language:

keine Dialoge

Version:

OV

Runtime:

9 min

Ex Voto

A journey forced upon her by a shattering blow of fate leads young Isa into a realm where wishing creates realities.

Credits

Cast:

Karina Borodina – Isa

Camille Loup Moltzen – Silas

Arnaud Bourgoin – Onkel

Katharina Bellena – Mutter

Agnieszka Paschke – Jugendamt

Script:

Jozefien Van der Aelst

Camera:

Raban Jakob Friedrich

Editing:

Jozefien Van der Aelst

Producer:

Maximilian Seidel

Sound:

Elias Lenzen

Film info

Direction:

Jozefien Van der Aelst

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2023

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby

Language:

Dutch

French

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

29 min

ECHO

In the shadow of war, a woman desires to be close to her dead husband. In the hope that he may reappear to her, she performs a magically charged ritual borne of memories. But such an enchantment comes at a price: in order to see her beloved's face once more, she is forced to lose him all over again.

Credits

Cast:

Susanne Bredehöft – Frau

Karl Neubart – Mann

Script:

Arina Chernova

Sarah Bekker

Camera:

Ekaterina Mostovaia

Editing:

Robert Franz

Producer:

Arina Chernova

Sarah Bekker

Musikalische Leitung:

Johannes Tuchelt

Film info

Direction:

Arina Chernova

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2023

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby

Language:

no dialogue

Version:

OV

Runtime:

8 min

Phantom Heist

Once upon a time, in a distant land in an unspecified future, there existed a totalitarian system that imposed unrequested and non-negotiable happy lives on its population. A group of resistance fighters, including an almost centenarian ghost, has gone underground. While they await the necessary explosives to bring down this system and restore freedom for people to explore their identities and shape their own lives, they themselves grapple with the challenges that this newfound freedom brings. Profound existential questions disrupt breakfast, and missing plates exacerbate their hunger. Amid their comically complicated coexistence, a resistance against the resistance suddenly emerges. They lose and confuse themselves completely, eventually leading them to their daring attack.

Credits

Cast:

Anton Antoniadis – Taylor

Jakob D`Aprile – Devin Dynamite Arusha

Philipp Gärtner – Buh

Milan Herms – Lovis

Banafshe Hourmazdi – Arin

Leonie Jenning – Cosmo

Jan Koslowski – Arbeiter

Rémi Pradère – Agent

Noël Seiß – Liv

Anaïs Urban – Claude

Script:

Bastian Gascho

Camera:

Anselm Belser

Editing:

Anne Talenta

Producer:

Mariam Shatberashvili

Sound:

Sebastian Dieterle

Music:

Paul Timmich & Dorian Behner

Film info

Direction:

Bastian Gascho

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2024

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,66

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,66

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby

Language:

German

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

91 min