programme catalogue 2012
The Catalogue
Our catalogue contains hundreds of hours of festival success, award winning content and never seen before footage. We combine high quality programmes of independent film makers and ambitious storytelling. All documentaries, animations, feature and short films will meet the demands of a sophisticated broadcaster or web/TV channel.
economy & business
health
future & postapocalyptic
religion
family story
children & teens
art & music
trans gender & homosexuality
contemporary
relationships
culture & politics
Content
Short Documentaries Profession Lobbyist - Dealing With Power / Beruf Lobbyist - Vom Umgang mit Macht
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Siccors & Glue
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Thato
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The Shoe of God
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XX to XY fighting to be Jake
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LONG DOCUMENTARIES Asyl
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Between Heaven And Earth/ Zwischen Himmel und Erde
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C.O.B. - Civilians On The Battlefield
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Dead Silence/ Schweigen ist Silber
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Devil Hides in Doubt / Sollbruchstelle
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Gangster Project
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Ladies of Fortune/ Gl端ckritterinnen Looking after Number One / Peter Zadek inszeniert Peer Gynt
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Scissors and Glue SENEGALLEMAND A German Senegalese Relationship
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My Father. My Uncle. / Mein Vater. Mein Onkel.
The Other Side Of Istanbul / Das andere Istanbul
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economy & business
health
future & postapocalyptic
religion
family story
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children & teens
contemporary
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art & music
relationships
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trans gender & homosexuality
culture & politics
Content
Short Films Adems Son / Adems Sohn Adrian and the Wolf/ Adrian und der Wolf Alle Tage
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Backyard / Hinterhof
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Between Walls / Intre Ziduri
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Black Out
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Border Waves / Uferwellen
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Cowboy
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Birthday/ Geburtstag
Business as usual
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Day 26/ Tag 26
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Detour / Aplinkkelis
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Escape!/ Abhaun!
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Fahrtwind
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Firn
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Freistoß
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At the Lake/ Am See
Beginners!/ Anfänger!
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Hartes Brot Häschen in der Grube
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Hunting Grounds / Jagdgründe
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Lenny
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Manolo
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Minutes to go
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My Father Is Sleeping/ Mein Vater schläft
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Namus
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Over the seven mountains and far away / Hinter den sieben Bergen
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Purple Sunrise
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Quite possible that I can fly / Gut möglich dass ich fliegen kann
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Sparrows/ Spatzen
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Tango
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The Other Day in Eden/ Gestern in Eden
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economy & business
health
future & postapocalyptic
religion
art & music
trans gender & homosexuality
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Sweetness
The Date
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Our War/ Nasza Wojna
The Boy Who Wouldn't Kill
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Strange / Fremd
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Miki´s Ballad / Mikis Ballade
Opposite of Comfort / Gegenüber von Trost
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Love of the Loveless / Liebe der Lieblosen
Marisol
family story
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John Lee and Me
children & teens
Jessi
contemporary
relationships
culture & politics
Content
The Tear/ Riss The Wedding / Hochzeit What's Left / Was bleibt
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Lonf Films Atumn Dream
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Dr. Ketel
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Headshots
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Molly's Way
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Signs and Traces/ Spuren und Zeichen
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Slowplay/ Wo es wehtut
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economy & business
health
future & postapocalyptic
religion
family story
children & teens
art & music
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Wunderlich Privat You know the park is filled with flowers / Weisst du eigentlich dass ganz viele Blumen bl端hen im park
trans gender & homosexuality
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Wigald Wolfchild / Das Wolfskind
contemporary
relationships
culture & politics
Content
Short Documentaries
Profession Lobbyist – Dealing With Power / Beruf Lobbyist – Vom Umgang mit Macht Directed By Oliver Göbel technical Information documentary / Germany / 2009 / 45 min. / HD / 16:9 / color / dolby st / German with English ST
Synopsis Political decisions are massively influenced by lobbyists. That's nothing new. But within the last years lobbyism has become a presentable profession. In this documantary lobbyists are let to explain themselves how they actually work,how they succeed, how much power is really given to them, how they legitimize their work and where the limits of their power are or should be. Watching these lobbyists you will also experience the power of their rhetorics on your own.
Scissors & Glue Directed By Helmut Schuster technical Information documentary / USA, Germany / 2010 / HD / 16:9 / color / stereo / German and English with English ST
Synopsis „Scissors and Glue: The Miami Project“ explores art in real time in the vibrant city of Miami. This documentary film takes an intimate look at a young city with an old soul. it examines the way in which artistic expression and exhibition relates to and also influen- ces community development. Scissors and Glue dares to ask, ”Which is more powerful, culture’s influence on art Festivals and Awards
or art’s influence on culture and what is the responsibility of art in urban
✶ 2010 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
society?”
Thato Directed By Teboho Edkins technical Information documentary / Lesotho / 2011 / 27 min. / HDV / digi beta / 16:9 / color / stereo / English and Lesotho with German ST
Festivals and Awards ✶ 20. International Film Festival Innsbruck ✶ 39. Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca
Synopsis
✶ 34. Festival de Cinéma de Douarnenez
I have known Thato all my life. When their first child died, she found out
✶ Les Etats Généraux du Documentaire de Lussas 2011
that she and her husband were HIV positive. She invited me to be with her
✶ 5. Int. People's Film Festival “ânûû-rû âboro”
as her second child was born. (Teboho Edkins)
The Shoe of God / Der Schuh Gottes Directed By Renata Borowczak technical Information documentary / Germany / 2004 / 20 min. / DV / color / Polish OV with German ST
Synopsis This film is a portrait about the uncommon life of one of the most talented modern polish sculptors –Stanislaw Zagajewski. The eighty years old, selfeducated artist lives nowadays in a totally ruined house among his pieces of work and his twelve dogs. Even though he owns a museum where he exhibits his work and his name has reached international importance in the Art scene, he refuses to enjoy the advantages of it. Money is for him merely an abstract. Zagajewski’s work reaches the Mystics, being an artist living entirely for and Festivals and Awards
through his work. The old man seems to be permanently living in a parallel
✶ Int. Kurzfilmfestival ToniCorti (Italy) 2004
or untouchable dimension.
XX to XY fighting to be Jake Directed By Emily Atef technical Information documentary / Germany / 2002 / 20 min. / DV / beta SP / color / stereo / English Festivals and Awards ✶ International Women Film Fest. Feminale Köln 2002 ✶ Pearlen Film Festival 2002 Hannover ✶ Pinkpanorama Festival 2003 Luzern ✶ Nederlands Transgender Film Festival 2003 Amsterdam
✶ Novo Mesto International Short Film Festival SNIFF (Slovenia) 2004
✶ FreiburgLesbentag 2003 Freiburg
✶ Fantasy Film Festival, Brüssel
✶ OUTFEST Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2003 Los Angeles ✶ International Gender Film Festival 2003 Bombay ✶ Image Out 2003 Rochester, New York ✶ Rehoboth International FF 2003 Rehoboth, Delaware ✶ Seattle G&L 2003 Seattle, Washington ✶ Reel Affirmations 2003, Washington DC
Synopsis
✶ Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest 2003
XX to XY is a documentary about Jake, who was born female but since his
*nominated for „Goldenen Schluessel“
early childhood felt there had been a genetic mistake: he was a boy. XX
✶ Out OK 2003, Oklahoma
to XY is an intimate portrait using (interviews, music, animations) about a
✶ Santa Barbara Lesbian & Gay, 2003, Santa Barbara
persons courage to stand up against society, the medical system, mother
✶ Minneapolis/St-Paul LGBT FF, 2003, Minneapolis, MN
nature and his own fears and fight to change his sexual gender however
✶ Queer Zagreb Film Festival 2004, Zagreb
difficult and whatever the consequences, to become the man he has always
✶ Turin International G& LFilm Festival 2004,Turin
thought he should have been born as.
Long Documentaries
Asyl Directed By Emily Atef, Oleg Assadulin, Hanna Doose, Réka Kincses, Katja Sambeth, David Sieveking technical Information documentary / Germany / 2005 / 60 min. / DV Cam/ Digi Beta / color / dolby sr / German with English ST
Synopsis Asylum was produced in a master class with Tony Gatlif. The film tells in six linked episodes the fates of Africans / Russians / Pakistanis / Chechens Festivals and Awards
/ Kurds. They all got stuck in a Berlin home for asylum seekers hoping for a
✶ Türkei Filmtage in Nürnberg 2006
resisdence permit.
Between Heaven And Earth / Zwischen Himmel und Erde Directed By Hanna Doose technical Information documentary / Germany / 2008 / 91 min. / DV / digi beta / 16:9 / color / dolby sr / German, Russian with English ST
Synopsis Actually Salina and Albert are pretty normal teenagers living in Berlin. But what makes a difference between them and others is not only the fact, that their childhood friends and relatives are not alive anymore and that they had to flee their home country. What makes a difference are the dreams. How can you dream of the future, if you don´t even know what tomorrow will Festivals and Awards
bring. It is seven years ago, that the family S. escaped from the war in their
✶ Festival International du Documentaire de Marseille, 2008
country Chechnia to come to Germany. Seven years of uncertainty, seven
✶ Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, 2008
years of hope to be accepted as political refugees and to get a permission to
✶ Almaty International Film Festival Shaken's Stars
stay, that would make it possible to start working again and to finally built
*ausgezeichnet mit dem Sozialpreis der Jury, 2009
up a normal life.
C.O.B. - Civilians On The Battlefield Directed By Teresina Mosciatello technical Information documentary / Germany / 2006 / 86 min. / 35mm / 1:1.85 / color / German
Synopsis „C.O.B“ tells the story of four Germans – two men and two women – who are all around 30 and work as „war extras“ for the U.S. Army at a combat Festivals and Awards
training center in the Bavarian forest. For a few weeks, they play-act at
✶ Monterrey International Film Festival 2006
being Arabian terrorists and simulate worst-case scenarios, on German ter-
✶ 11. Split Film Festival, Croatia 2006
ritory. What reasons and motivations did the four protagonists have for their
✶ Rio De Janeiro International Short Film Festival, 2006
decision to work for the U.S. Army? How did it change their lives? Can you
✶ International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, 2006
be for peace and yet work for war? These discrepancies between thoughts
✶ Kassel Documentary Film & Videofest, 2006
and actions form an essential part of the film.
Dead Silence / Schweigen ist Silber Directed By Florian Aigner technical Information documentary / Germany / 2007 / 78 min. / DV Cam / digi beta / 4:3 / color / stereo / German, French with English ST
Festivals and Awards ✶ Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken 2007 ✶ achtung berlin - new berlin film award 2007 ✶ Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein - Augenweide 2007 *Special Mention ✶ Filmfest Wismar 2007 ✶ Valladolid International Film Festival 2007 ✶ Nordische Filmtage Lübeck 2007 ✶ Int. Filmtage Fomula Mundi Schwäbisch Hall 2007 ✶ Festival du Cinema Allemand Nantes 2007
Synopsis
*Audience Prize
In occupied Paris a female German Soldier gives birth to a child without
✶ Guangzhou Int. Documentary Film Festival 2007
anybody telling about it. She gives the child up for adoption. But the father,
✶ Hamburger Dokumentarfilmwoche 2008
a french officer, takes the child in. Sixty years later the events are revealed.
Devil Hides in Doubt / Sollbruchstelle Directed By Eva Stotz technical Information documentary / Germany / 2008 / 61 min. / S16mm / DigiBeta / 1:1.78 / color / Stereo / German with English ST
Synopsis There is Franz, suing the company that has made him redundant after 40 years. Then, for nine months, he holds out in an empty office with nothing Festivals and Awards
to do. There is Stephan who, for eight days and nights, sits on a chair that
✶ 2008 Weltpremiere, 39ième édition Visions du Réel Nyon
is part of a giant billboard. Selling yourself is sometimes the quickest way
*Special Mention Visions du Réel
to pay your debts. There is Saskia, the high school graduate, learning how
✶ 2008 46. Viennale, Vienna international Filmfestival 2008
to put together the perfect application. There is Gunnar who is being taught
✶ 2008 51th Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival Leipzig
that perceiving your own body as trademark is the key to success. Franz
✶ 2008 TIDF Taiwan International Documentary Festival
finally wins his lawsuit only to realise he has lost all the same.
✶ 2008 GLOBAL COMPACT FESTIVAL Poznan
This is a film about the emotional push and pull of work, its demands and
✶ 2009 PLANETE DOC REVIEW FF Warschau
absurdities, and the struggle for fulfilment.
Gangster Project Directed By Teboho Edkins technical Information documentary / Germany, South Africa / 2011 / 60 min. / color / Africaans, English
Synopsis In Cape Town, South Africa, one of the world's most violent and unequal societies, a young white film student sets out with his cameraman, leaving the comfort of his protected neighbourhood. He wants to make a Gangster Film, with real gangsters. After a lengthy search for a suitably 'cinematic' character, he finds the perfect gang and settles into their everyday rhythm. The reality soon catches up and the claustrophobic gangster life doesn’t exactly fit to the expectations. 20 year after the first democratic election, South Africa remains a deeply divided society, one in which dialogue and understanding seem impossible, out of reach. Festivals and Awards ✶ 22. Marseille International Film Festival
It is a film between fiction and reality, where real truths are revealed and
✶ 34. Festival de Cinéma de Douarnenez
fiction stops being fiction, and when it stops mattering.
Looking after Number One / Peter Zadek inszeniert Peer Gynt Directed By Alexander Nanau technical Information documentary / Germany / 2005 / 87 min. / DV / 35 mm / 4:3 / color / Mono / German with English ST
Synopsis The movie is a very direct view into the rehearsal room, where the theatre director Peter Zadek and his actors are just about to invent the staging of Peer Gynt and accompanies the dramatic process until the first night. The theme of Hendrik Ibsen’s play “being oneself” is as well part of the fight between Zadek and his actors for authenticity in acting. There are no interviews explaining Zadek’s working methods but just the diFestivals and Awards
rect view on the situation between the directors and actors. The viewer gets
✶ 24. Filmfest München, 2006
the possibility to understand the process of their work and to experience the
✶ RuhrTriennale, 2006
result of it while coming into being.
My Father. My Uncle. / Mein Vater. Mein Onkel. Directed By Christoph Heller technical Information documentary / Germany / 2009 / 80 min. / HDV / Digi Beta / HDCam / 16:9 / color / dolby sr / German, Arabic, English and English ST
Synopsis Festivals and Awards
A moving documentary, chronicling the story of 26-year old, Iraq-born
✶ Zurich Film Festival (International Competition)
Sinan, who was adopted at birth by his uncle Farouq and his German wife
✶ Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival Leipzig (DOK Leipzig)
Brunhilde. Following the couple’s split a few years later, he was taken by
✶ Dubai International Film Festival
his mother to Darmstadt, Germany, where he has lived ever since. In ‘My
✶ Unabhängiges Filmfest Osnabrück
Father, My Uncle’, we watch as Sinan prepares to meet his original family,
✶ FILMZ - Festival des deutschen Kinos Mainz
now exiled from Iraq and based in Sharjah, UAE. Knowing little about his
✶ Documentary Edge Film Festival Neuseeland
Arabic origins or culture, Sinan views the impending meeting with trepida-
✶ Achtung Berlin! new berlin Film Award
tion.
✶ London International Film Festival ✶ Babelsberger Medienpreise
However, while the reunion brings a complex tangle of emotions to the
*nominated
surface, the experience proves to be an enriching and insightful experience
✶ Gold Panda Awards
for all concerned, as their respective cultures and ideologies are shared and
*nominated
debated.
SENEGALLEMAND A German Senegalese Relationship Directed By David Sieveking technical Information documentary / Germany / 2007 / 86 min. / digi beta / color / German, Wolof/French, English ST
Synopsis 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 incoFestivals and Awards
herent globalized world. How did this love between two different galaxies
âœś Cinema Babylon Berlin, 2007
evolve and why did it break up? Is their child capable of unifying the two
âœś 3. Internationale Filmtage Fomular Mundi, 2007
worlds or is it going to be the innocent victim...
The Other Side Of Istanbul / Das andere Istanbul Directed By Döndü Kilic technical Information documentary / Germany / 2008 / / 90 min. / HDV / HD Cam / 16:9 / color / dolby st / Turkish, English, Flemish with German ST
Festivals and Awards ✶ Berlinale, Panorama 2008 ✶ 14. Athens International Film Festival ✶ 25. Festival de Cine de Bogota ✶ 29. International Cinematographers Filmfestival „Manaki Brothers“
Synopsis
✶ Pink Panorama – LesBiSchwules Filmfest Luzern 2008
The Other Side of Istanbul” offers never-before-seen insight into the
✶ 8. The Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
diversity of the gay experience in Turkey and the difficulties of homosexual
✶ 32. MOSTRA International Film Festival Sao Paulo
self-discovery in a predominately homophobic society where “other” sexual
✶ 20. QueerFilmFestival Esslingen
orientations are hidden, repressed, or met with hostility. The film explores
✶ Tüpisch Türkisch, Köln 2008
how the members of Turkey’sLGBT community defend their rights more con-
✶ 12. Queersicht in Bern
fidently as the accessibility of information via new media expands, as they
✶ Culturescape Zürich 2008
adopt more Western lifestyles and attitudes, and as the debate over Turkish
✶ 3. Lens Politica film and media art festival, Helsinki
admission to the European Union grows fiercer. Istanbul is a city of stories,
✶ 32. Göteborg Int. Filmfestival
just when you think you know them all, you get a glimpse of “The Other
✶ Q!Film Festival Indonesien, Bandung-Yogiyakarta-Jakarta
Side of Istanbul.
Short Films
Adems Son / Adems Sohn Directed By Hakan Savan Mican technical Information fiction / Germany / 2008 / 30 min. / S16mm / Digi Beta / 1:2.35 / color / dolby st / German, Turkish with English ST
Festivals and Awards ✶ 2008 Filmfestival Deutschland/Türkei Nürnberg ✶ 2008 Kurzsüchtig (Kurzfilmfestival Leipzig)
Synopsis
✶ 2008 2. Berliner Kurzfilmrolle
Ali wants to talk to his father about the past. But his sin has separated him
✶ 2008 International Film Schools Festival/Rencontres Henri
from his family with no return. A story about guilt, atonement und the pain
Langlois-Poitier (France)
coursed by an irreversible act – the murder of the sister.
Adrian and the Wolf / Adrian und der Wolf Directed By Sylvie Lazzarini technical Information fiction / Germany / 1999 / 10 min. / 16mm / 1:1.37 / color / Magnetton / German with English ST Festivals and Awards ✶ Festival Internazionale del Film Locarno, 1999 ✶ Cinéma tout écran, Genf 1999:
✶ Cinema Jove Valencia, 2000
*Action Light -Preis
✶ Int. Kurzfilmfestival Montecatini, 2000
✶ Filmfestival Münster 1999
✶ Festival Premier Plans d´Angers, 2001
*WDR-Förderpreis
✶ FFA-Short Tigers Award, 2001
✶ Interfilm Festival Berlin 1999
✶ Intl. Festival of Filmschools Huy, Belgien, 2001
✶ Solothurner Filmtage 2000
✶ Festival des Dt. Films Los Angeles / Export Union, 2001
✶ Fimfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken 2000
✶ Clapstick– 1st Intl. Student Film Festival of India, 2002
✶ Festival Premiers Plans Angers, 2000
✶ "Berlin & Beyond" San Francisco, 13. Januar 2002
✶ Illumination Helsinki, 2000
✶ Mediterranean Festival of New Filmmakers Larissa, 2002
✶ Turin International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2000 ✶ Int. Studentenfilmfestival „Sehsüchte“ Potsdam, 2000 ✶ Int. Student Film Festival Tel Aviv, 2000
Synopsis
✶ Int. Filmfest Emden, 2000
Adrian is a young actor. Having a dinner with his parents he confronts them
✶ Int. Hamburger Kurzfilmtage, 2000
with the news he’s HIV positiv. Their anyway tense relationship is going to
✶ Int. Festival der Filmhochschulen München, 2000
escape.
Alle Tage Directed By Jasco Viefhues technical Information fiction / Germany / 2007 / 19 min. / Beta SP / 4:3 / color / Mono / German with English ST
Synopsis Summer. A peaceful and quite town in Brandenburg. Two men and a woman pass the time cutting the grass, sunbathing and playing Golf. However, the facade is deceiving. They are all terrorists in disguise waiting for their next mission (order) - which comes earlier than expected‌..
At the Lake / Am See Directed By Ulrike von Ribbeck technical Information fiction / Germany / 2002 / 10 min. / 35mm / 16mm / 1:1.66 / color / dolby sr / German with English ST Festivals and Awards ✶ Max-Ophuels-Preis2002 ✶ Intl. Short Film Festival Hamburg, 2002 *FFA Short Tiger Award 2002 *Student Camera Award - Festival of Film Schools Munich 2002
✶ Cinéma au Feminin Bordeaux, 2003
✶ BUSTER Copenhagen Intern. Children's Film Festival short cuts cologne 2002
✶ European Short Film Festival Ludwigsburg, 2003
*Audience Award, FilmZ Mainz, 2002
✶ Entrevues Film Festival Belfort 2003
✶ Intl. Film Festival for Families, Children and Youth Sandnes, 2002
✶ Intl. Film Festival ETIUDA Krakau
✶ Intl. Short Film Week Regensburg, 2002
✶ Augsburger Kurzfilmwochenende 2003
*Award of the La FEMIS Student Jury, Amiens Intl. Short Film Festival, 2002
✶ Filmfestival Münster 2003
*Award for Best Short Film, Gijon Intl. Film Festival, 2002
✶ Kurzfilmtage Bamberg, 2004
✶ ZINEBI Short Film Festival Bilbao, 2002
✶ Alpe Adria Cinema - Trieste Film Festival
✶ Leuven Kort Short Film Festival, 2002
*Award for the Best Short Film
✶ Camerimage Festival Lodz, 2002
✶ 23. Internationales Filmfestival in Warschau 2007
✶ Taipei Intl. Student Film Festival, 2003 ✶ Cinéfondation Competition Cannes, 2003 ✶ COURT 18 Intl. Short Film Festival Paris, 2003
Synopsis
✶ Intl. Festival of Benicassim, 2003
Even in a segregate family, it’s possible to survive boyhood. But what do you
✶ Odense Int. Film Festival, 2003
do if there is an accident?
Backyard / Hinterhof Directed By Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu technical Information fiction / Germany / 2010 / 15 min. / 35mm / 1:1.85 / color / dolby stereo / Russian with German, English ST
Festivals and Awards ✶ International Filmfestival Cannes - next Generation 2010 ✶ 12. Festival of German Films in Madrid
Synopsis
✶ 44. Hof International Film Festival
The 40-year-old Russian immigrant Clarisse lives alone in Berlin. She
✶ 23. Exground Filmfestival Wiesbaden
tries to escape her loneliness by fantasizing about Kiril, who lives with his
✶ 26. Warsaw Film Festival
beautiful younger girlfriend Lena in the flat above hers. For that reason she
✶ 40. Molodist Film Festival Kiev
can’t help but take part of their lives. One day Lena stands in front of her
✶ 16. Cinema Tous Ecrans Geneva
door – with a farewell letter for Kiril. When Clarissa gives Kiril the letter, his
✶ 52. Int. Doc. and Short Film Festival Bilbao
world seems to fall apart. Clarissa comforts Kiril, being near to him is like
✶ 05. Helsinki Short Cuts Film Festival
a dream come true for her. But Kiril asks for Clarissa to arrange a meeting
✶ 23. Filmfest Dresden
with his ex-girlfriend. Clarissa makes a momentous decision.
✶ Istria - Motovun Filmfestival
Beginners! / Anfänger! Directed By Nicolas Wackerbarth technical Information fiction / Germany / 2004 / 28 min. / Mini DV / beta sp / 16:9 / color / German with English ST
Festivals and Awards ✶ Int. Studentenfilmfestival Sehsüchte Potsdam 2004 ✶ Golden Chest Bulgaria 2004 ✶ MedFilm Festival in Rom 2004 *Special Prize der Jury ✶ Rencontres Internationales Henri Langlois, Poitiers 2005 ✶ Turin International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2005 * 1. Preis ✶ Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2005 *Best Short Film ✶ Istanbul Film Festival 2006 ✶ London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2006
Synopsis
✶ Oslo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2006
"Hey, man, it itches like hell! David slept here last night. First he tried to
✶ New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2006
come on to me… then he gave himself a wank on my mattress! Now, it’s
✶ Internationales KurzFilmFestival Hamburg 2007
full of fleas! My cock itches like hell! Damned pervert! I got red dots on my
Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival 2007
cock, man! Red dots! When I catch this guy, I’ll cut my name in his face!"
13. Internationales Studentenfilmfestival Filmakademie Wien 2007
Robert’s best friend thirsts for revenge. Together they try to find David, that
18. Lesbisch-Schwule Filmtage Hamburg
faggot!
Between Walls / Intre Ziduri Directed By Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu technical Information fiction / Germany / 2007 / 15 min. / digi beta / !:1.85 / color / dolby sr / Moldavian with English, German ST
Festivals and Awards ✶ Bilbao, December 07 ✶ Trieste, January 08 ✶ Tampere, March 08 ✶ Bucharest, April 08 ✶ Futureshorts, London, May 08
Synopsis
✶ Tiff Romania, June 08
The film tells the story of illegal workers from Moldova on a building site
✶ Motovun Croatia, July 08
in Berlin. They are permanently afraid of German authorities, but are also
✶ 22nd Leeds Int. Film Festival, November 08
rubbed by their own compatriot, who is the middleman, between them and
✶ 38. Festival de Cine Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, November 08
the German construction supervisor. The situation gets out of control, when
✶ 14. International Short Film Festival Leuven, Belgium, December 08
Igor, the main character needs more money and a dangerous game begins…
Birthday / Geburtstag Directed By Lawrence Tooley technical Information fiction / Germany / 2006 / 14 min. / DV CAM / digi beta / B&W / dolby sr / German with English ST
Synopsis Two people meet in a park. They know each other well, or do they? Juri Festivals and Awards
wants to take Sasha out for the day, go shopping and have some fun, but
✶ Mecal Barcelona 2006
first he has to get some money. After he leaves her sitting in a café, nothing
✶ ISFF Hamburg 2007
goes according to plan.
Black Out Directed By Maximilian Erlenwein technical Information fiction / Germany / 2004 / 30 min. / 35mm / 1:1.85 / color / dolby st / German with English ST Festivals and Awards
✶ Monterrey International Film Festival, Mexiko, 2006
✶ Berlinale – Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2005
*Best Short Film
✶ Int. Student Film Festival ”Sehsuechte”, Potsdam (Gemany) 2005
✶ Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist 2006
✶ Interfilm Berlin,
✶ Open shorts Lüchow 2006 (Germany)
*Best German Short Film
✶ Mecal int. Shortfilm Festival, Barcelona 2006
✶ Brest Film Festival 2005
✶ Signals Filmfestival Colchester UK 2006
✶ FilmZ Mainz (Germany) 2005
✶ 27. Short Festival Lyon France 2006
✶ Festival der Filmhochschulen (München) 2005
✶ Kolkata Film Festival 2006
✶ Foyle Film Festival 2005
✶ Shorts Film Festival, Russland 2006
✶ Camerimage 2005
✶ 32. Badalona International Film Festival, 2006
✶ Sleepwalkers Student Film Festival Tallinn 2005
✶ Internationales Filmfestival Lyon 2006
✶ Bamberger Short Film Days 2006
✶ Flickerfest Australien 2007
✶ Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2006
✶ FutureShortWorld London 2007
*Prize of the German Film Critics 2006 ✶ Granada International Film Festival 2006
Synopsis
✶ Cinema Corto in Bra Festival 2006
Blackout is the story of a fatal lack of bonds. Throughout the film, guitarist
✶ Worldwide Short Film Festival Toronto 2006
Tom Schulze is the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of Berlin’s night scene. When
✶ Cinema Jove Filmfest, Barcelona, 2006
the sensitive musician is intoxicated he turns into a brutal thug who ruins
✶ 36. lubuskie lato filmowe, 2006 (Polen)
relationships and lives – including his own.
Border Waves / Uferwellen Directed By Stefan Lengauer technical Information ficiton / Germany / 2008 / 23 min. / HDCam / 1:1.85 / color / dolby sr / German with English ST
Synopsis After an unsucsessfull suicide attempt and a longer stay in a clinic a young man has finished his therapy and his sister is coming togehter with her boyfreind to pick him up. They want him to stay with them, although they didn’t have much contact in the years before. His sister hopes to give him a Festivals and Awards
new perspective and place in his life. Their journey together turns out to be
âœś 20. Bamberger Kurzfilmtage 2010
quite emotional and harder than imagined for all of them.
Business as usual Directed By Tom Zenker technical Information fiction / Germany / 4.40 min. / 35mm / 1:1.85 / color / dolby sr / no dialogue
Festivals and Awards
Synopsis
✶ Filmfest Dresden, 2003
Downtown Area. Clerks, businesspeople and a bum grubbing in the garbage.
✶ Intl. Student Film Festival Sehsüchte Potsdam, 2003
A bored security man behind monitors controls everything...
✶ Tirana Film Festival, 2003 ✶ Intl. Festival der Filmhochschulen München, 2003
Two older businessmen meet in an unconventional way, and they begin a
✶ Camerimage Festival Lodz, 2003
fight. People passing by don’t notice the action. One of the businessmen
✶ Max-Ophüls-Preis Saarbrücken, 2004
goes to the ground. All remains of the clash are removed in routine. Busi-
✶ Manchester International Short Film Festival, 2006
ness goes on as usual, ready for a next encounter.
Cowboy Directed By Till Kleinert technical Information fiction / Germany / 2008 / 32 min. / S16mm / 35mm /1:1.85 / color / German with English ST Festivals and Awards ✶ Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis, Saarbrücken 2008 ✶ Verzaubert – Internationales Queer Film Festival ✶ Achtung Berlin 2008
✶ 20. QueerFilmFestival Esslingen
✶ 20. NewFest – The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film
✶ 11. Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival
Festival 2008
✶ Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2008
*Audience Prize Best Short Film
✶ Internationales Kurzfilmfestival der Filmhochschulen München 2008
✶ Wendland Shorts 2008
✶ Estoril – European Film Festival 2008
✶ International Fantastic Film Fest. of Porto Alegre/Brasilien – Fantaspoa 2008
✶ Int. Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography 2008
✶ Fantasy Filmfest München, Frankfurt, Köln, Berlin 2008
✶ 12. Pink Film Days – International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Amsterdam
✶ 32. Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt 2008
✶ 19. Melbourne Queer Film Festival
✶ 12. Queer Lisboa – Festival Internacional de Cinema Gai i Lèsbic Lisboa 2008
✶ 10. Seoul LGBT Film Festival
✶ Iris Preis, Cardiff 2008 ✶ 10. Outtakes Dallas LGBT Film Festival
Synopsis
✶ Lesbisch-Schwule Filmtage Hamburg 2008
City dweller Christian who is working for a real estate agent comes to a
✶ 5. Court Métrange Rennes – Festival européen Du Court métrage Insolite
deserted village. There he meets country lad Cowboy, who is repairing his
et fantastique
harvester.They spend the day together – they spend the night together.
✶ 6. Ravenna Nightmare Film Fest
When harvest starts at dawn the village shows its real face and the two men
✶ 12. Schwul-lesbischen Filmwoche Weiterstadt
have to pay a terrible price in order to leave the place.
Day 26 / Tag 26 Directed By Andreas Samland technical Information fiction / Germany / 2002 / 18 min. / 35mm / 1:1.85 / color / dolby sr / German with English ST Festivals and Awards ✶ Max-Ophuels-Preis Saarbruecken 2003 ✶ Tampere Intern. Short Film Festival ✶ Brussels Intern. Festival of Fantasy Film – Preis für den Besten Kurzfilm ✶ Brooklyn Intl. Film Festival - Preis für den Besten Kurzfilm & Hauptpreis des Festivals
✶ Landshut Film Festival 2004 *1. Jury Preis
✶ Brazilian Student Film Festival - Artistic Contribution Award
✶ Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival 2004
✶ Grimstad Film Festival, Norwegen
*2. Prize International Competition
✶ Arcipelago Film Festival, Italien
✶ Young Collection, Bremen
✶ COURT 18 Paris, Intl. Studentenfilmfestival ✶ Cinema Jove Valencia, Spanien ✶ Fantastik Film Fest Sweden ✶ FIDEC- Intl. Festival of Film Schools Huy, Belgium ✶ Intl. Student Film Festival Belgrad , YU ✶ Utopiales Nantes, France ✶ Brief Encounters International Short Film Festival Bristol, UK
Synopsis
✶ Int. Selection of Best Short Films / Bratislava Intl. Film Festival, CZ
Nach der Katastrophe: Zwei Überlebende in ABC-Schutzanzügen sind auf
✶ Entrevues Film Festival Belfort
der Suche nach weiteren Überlebenden, als ihnen auf einer verlassenen
✶ Int´l Festival of Film Schools Munich
Landstraße das Benzin ausgeht.
Detour / Aplinkkelis Directed By Lawrence Tooley technical Information ficiton / Germany / 2009 / 36 min. / S16mm / Digi Beta / 1:1.85 / color / dolby / stereo / German, Lithuanian with English ST
Synopsis Arturas, a Lithuanian farmer, has come to Germany with some colleagues to check out new tractors. After beeing forgotten by his travel group at a gas station, without money and documents, he decides go home by foot. A jouney towards unpredictability, aside our modern world.
Escape! / Abhaun!
✶ Festival der Filmhochschule München 2004 ✶ Festival de Cinema Independent Barcelona „Film School Section
Directed By Christoph Wermke
L´Alternativa“ 2004 ✶ Nominierung für den Deutschen Kurzfilmpreis 2004 ✶ Filmfest Lünen 2004
technical Information
✶ Camerimage in Lodz (World Panorama) 2004
fiction / Germany / 2004 / 10 min. / 35mm / 1:1.37 / B&W / dolby sr /
✶ Zinebi Intern. Kurzfilm- und Dokumentarfilmfestival in Bilbao 2004
German with English ST
✶ Bamberger Kurzfilmtage 2005 ✶ Max-Ophuels-Preis Saarbrücken 2005
Festivals and Awards
✶ Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival - Filmmarkt 2005
✶ Filmfest Dresden 2004
✶ International Film Festival Rotterdam 2005
*Bester Spielfilm
✶ Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival 2005
✶ Young Collection Bremen 28, 2004
✶ Filmfestival der Filmakademie Wien 2005
✶ Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg 2004
✶ “Achtung Berlin” New Berlin Film Award 2005
*Jameson Short Film Award
✶ Young Guns film festival (Singapore) 2005
✶ Filmförderungsanstalt FFA
✶ Rhode Island International Film Festival 2005
* Short Tiger Award 2004
✶ Europäische Kurzfilmbiennale Ludwigsburg 2005
✶ Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt 2004
✶ Iraq Short Film Festival 2005
✶ International Film Festival Edingburgh 2004
✶ Great Shorts 2006
✶ Internationales Kurzfilmfestival "Tinklai" Vilnius, "Best of" deutscher
✶ 21. Filmfestival Cottbus
Kurzfilme ✶ Fresh Film Festival Karlovy Vary 2004 ✶ Flensburger Kurzfilmtage 2004 ✶ Movie Explosion Berlin 2004 ✶ Exground Filmfestival Wiesbaden 2004 ✶ FBW-Prädikat „wertvoll“ August 2004
Synopsis
✶ Unabhängiges Filmfest Osnabrück 2004
The backwaters of Eastern Germany. Stagnation, unemployment, rural exo-
✶ Internationales Filmfestival „Bunter Hund“ (München) 2004
dus. Nico has found a job in West Germany. He is waiting for the bus.
Fahrtwind
✶ Deutsche Filmwoche von German Films in Madrid 2005 ✶ Short at moonlight 2005
Directed By
✶ Tout Ecran – Genf 2005
Philipp Wolf
✶ Lüchow Filmfestival 2005 ✶ Filmzeit Kaufbeuren, 2008
technical Information fiction / Germany / 2004 / 12 min. / 35mm / 1:1.85 / color / German with English ST Festivals and Awards ✶ Prädikat “wertvoll” August 2004 ✶ Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2004 ✶ Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg 2004 ✶ Int. Kurzfilmfestival Court 18 Paris 2004 ✶ Fresh Film Fest, Karlovy Vary 2004 ✶ Flensburger Kurzfilmtage 2004 ✶ Manaki Brothers Camera Festival Bitola (Makedonien) 2004 ✶ Unabhängiges Filmfest Osnabrück 2004 ✶ Young Collection 29 Bremen 2004
Synopsis
✶ International Student Film Festival Belgrad 2004
Eine junge Frau ist alleine mit dem Zug unterwegs. Es ist nacht, sie legt
✶ Festival der Filmhochschulen München 2004
sich auf die ausziehbaren Sitze in ihrem Abteil und hat bereits geschlafen,
✶ International Film festival „Etiuda” in Cracow (Poland) 2004
als zwei Fremde, ein Mann und eine Frau, ihr Abteil betreten.
✶ Camerimage in Lodz (Competition) 2004
Der Zug rauscht weiter durch die Nacht. Die junge Frau und die beiden
✶ Festival Premier Plans d´Angers 2005
Fremden scheinen zu schlafen. Doch plötzlich beginnt der Mann, vorsichtig
✶ Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival 2005
die ihm unbekannte Protagonistin zu berühren...
✶ Rencontres Internationales Henri Langlois, Poitiers 2005
Der Film erzählt eine Reise in der Nacht. Ein aussergewöhnliches, flüch-
✶ Int. Kurzfilmfestival ALMERÍA EN CORTO (Almeria, Spanien) 2005
tiges Erlebnis unter Fremden, das existenzielle Fragen berührt, in einem
✶ IV Open St.Petersburg Student Film Festival 2005 *Best study
Raum, der sich in gewisser Weise ausserhalb der Realität befindet.
FIRN Directed By Axel Koenzen technical Information fiction / Germany / 2006 / 38 min. / 35mm / 1:1.66 / color / German with English ST
Festivals and Awards ✶ Cannes, Cinéfondation 2006 ✶ Hofer Filmtage 2006 ✶ Internationales Filmfestival Frankfurt 2006 ✶ Film School Festival Bologna 2006 ✶ Camerimage Polen 2006 ✶ Camerimage, International Festival on the Art of Cinematography, Lodz 2006
Synopsis
✶ Bronze Tadpole
„An attempted suicided, camouflaged to look like murder“ – Rainer, 21, to-
✶ 2. University Film Festival Seoul, Korea 2006
gether with his father, Georg, 43, goes on vacation in the Austrian Alps. The
✶ Achtung Berlin! Kurzfilmfestival 2007
loneliness of the mountain landscape triggers an old smouldering conflict
✶ 55. Trento Filmfestival 2007
between the two. Rainer uses an incident on the glacier, to give the im-
✶ Filmfestival Wien 2007
pression of a fatal accident. His father is left, with the knowledge of having
✶ Internationales Bergfilm-Festival Tegernsee Oktober 2007
been responsible to an extent. In the meantime, Rainer frees himself out of
✶ Filmzeit Kaufbeuren, 2008
the crevasse and uses his disappearance to revenge himself on his father.
FREISTOSS Directed By Teresina Moscatiello technical Information ficiton / Germany / 2003 / 15 min. / 35mm / 1:1.66 / color / dolby sr / German with English ST
Festivals and Awards ✶ Sehsuechte Student Film Festival Potsdam, 2003 ✶ Medfilm Festival Rome, 2003
Synopsis
✶ Int. Student Film Festival Tel Aviv 2004
A drama about a young impulsive football fan from East Berlin, who will get
✶ Lucca Short Film Festival 2004
a chance during the day to break out of his everyday life.
Hartes Brot
✶ New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2000 ✶ Toronto Worldwide Shortfilm Festival 2000
Directed By
✶ San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2000
Nathalie Percillier
✶ Sydney Film Festival 2000 ✶ Karlovy Vary Student Film Presentation 2000
technical Information
✶ OUTFEST 2000 - 18th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2000
fiction / Germany / 2000 / 7 min. / 35mm / color / German with English ST
✶ Melbourne Int. Film Festival 2000 ✶ Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival 2000 ✶ MONA D´ORO, Lesben Filmfest Berlin 2000 ✶ URSULA, Schwul-Lesbisches Filmfest Hamburg 2000
Festivals and Awards
✶ Festival International du Film d´Amiens 2001
* FIRST STEPS Award 2000 (Kurzfilm)
* Mention spéciale du jury
✶ Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2000, Panorama
✶ Deutscher Kamerapreis Köln 2001
* Panorama Kurzfilmpreis der New York Filmacademy
* Nominierung
✶ Teddy Film Award
✶ Cine Independiente Buenos Aires Argentinien 2001
* Teddy für den besten Kurzfilm
✶ Outfest Los Angeles 2001
✶ Film-Kunst-Fest Schwerin 2000
✶ Mardi Gras Film Festival Queerscreen Sydney 2001
* Förderpreis
✶ FICA 2001 Cinema do Algarve 2001
✶ FFA Förderpreis Short Tiger 2000
✶ Queer.Identities Film Festival Wien 2001
* Erster Preis ✶ Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2000 * Nominierung ✶ Int. Filmschulfestival Helsinki 2000 ✶ Filmfest Dresden 2000 ✶ Int. Studentenfilmfestival „Sehsüchte“ Potsdam 2000
Synopsis
✶ „Next Generation“ – Cannes 2000
Ute has a new job, but loses it after two hours. But this doesn't mean that
✶ International Student Film Festival Tel Aviv 2000
her day at the bread factory is over.A sensitive and funny story about baking
✶ Filmfest Emden 2000
bread, almost a fearytale..."
Häschen in der Grube Directed By Hanna Doose technical Information fiction / Germany / 2004 / 11 min. / S16 / 35mm / 1:1.85 / color / dolby sr / German with English ST Festivals and Awards ✶ Prädikat „wertvoll“ Oktober 2004 ✶ Filmfest Dresden 2004 *Special Mention ✶ Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2004
*3. Preis StadtLandJugend
✶ Court 18 (Paris) 2004
✶ “Achtung Berlin” New Berlin Film Award 2005
✶ Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt 2004
✶ Brooklyn International Film Festival 2005
✶ Kurzfilmrolle Freiluftkino Friedrichshain Berlin 2004
✶ Copenhagen Short Film Festival 2005
✶ Kerry Filmfest 2004
✶ Sousse International Film Festival for Childhood and Youth, (Tunesien)
✶ Lucca Short Film Festival (Italien) 2004
✶ 2006
✶ Unabhängiges Filmfest Osnabrück 2004 ✶ Int. Frauen Filmfestival in Turin, Festival Cinema delle Donne 2004 *2° BEST SHORT EX-AEQUO consisting of a Silver Plate ✶ MedFilm Festival in Rom 2004 ✶ Max-Ophuels-Preis Saarbrücken 2005 *Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Kurzfilmpreis 2005 ✶ International Short Film Festival Lille, 2005
Synopsis
✶ Festival Int. de Cine Mar del Plata (Argentinien), 2005
On this usual day the relationship between the 12 year old Marcus and his
✶ Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival, 2005
father will change forever. And nothing will be usual anymore.
Hunting Grounds / Jagdgründe Directed By Jonas Rothlaender technical Information ficiton / Germany / 2011 / 30 min. / Super 16mm / HD Cam / DigiBeta / 1:1.85 / color / stereo / German with English ST
Synopsis Small business man Hans Rasche takes off from the world. As his company becomes a victim of the economic crisis. But instead of finding silence and isolation, in his old hunting-hut, he runs into his son Felix and his girlfriend. The relationship between father and son, who did not see each other for a long time, seems visibly tense. While Hans wants to be alone, Felix is seeking for attention and acceptance. The forests of east germany constitute a confusing and yet claustrophobic setting for an intimate play that reveals the desperation of a man whose life’s work and self-esteem is Festivals and Awards
broken and who´s is nothing but looking for a way to end his life. Will Felix
✶ 53. Nordische Filmtage Lübeck
see through his fathers façade soon enough to be able to save him?
Jessi Directed By Mariejosephin Schneider technical Information fiction / Germany / 2010 / 30 min. / S16mm / HD Cam / 1:1.85 / color / stereo / German with English ST
Festivals and Awards ✶ 60. Berlinale 2010 ✶ 6. Filmfestival Achtung Berlin ✶ 39. Lubuskie Lato Filmowe/Lubuser Filmsommer ✶ 12. Seoul Int. Youth Film Festival ✶ 20. Message to Man International Film Festival, St. Petersburg ✶ 33. Internationales Kinderfilmfestival LUCAS
Synopsis
✶ 40. Molodist International Filmfestival Kiew
Eleven-year-old Jessi carries responsibility for her mother Rosa, incarcerated
✶ 26. Internationales Kurzfilmfestival - Interfilm Berlin
several months ago, acting as Rosa's sole connection to the outside since
✶ Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2010 – Sonderpreis
Bibi, Jessi's older sister, broke off contact. Jessi lives with a foster family in
✶ 33. Recontres Henri Langlois
the city. On Bibi's Birthday Jessi visits her mother in the corrections facility.
✶ 20. Bamberger Kurzfilmtage
Jessi decides to fight for her family again and tries to reunite them. First
✶ 23. Festival D´Angers - Premier Plans
her plan seems to be successful, but Bibi's life has changed as well.
* Grand Prix du Jury Films d’Escoles Europeens
Jessi must reveal her inner world to the outside to understand that there
✶ Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
is no way for her to pick up her former life. Returning to the comfort of
✶ 17. Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche
childhood is impossible. She has to make her own way, find her place in the
✶ European Film Award
world and in search of someone who can make her "me" a "we".
John Lee and Me Directed By Maximilian Erlenwein technical Information fiction / Germany / 2002 / 14 min. / 35mm / color / dolby st / German with English ST
Festivals and Awards ✶ Sehsüchte Intl. Studentenfilmfestival Potsdam, 2002 ✶ Filmfest Emden, 2002 ✶ Flensburger Kurzfilmtage, 2002 ✶ Intl. Festival der Filmhochschulen München, 2002 * Lobende Erwähnung in der Kategorie „Bestes Drehbuch“ ✶ Filmfest Braunschweig, 2002 *FBW Prädikat „ besonders wertvoll“ Juli 2002 ✶ Kinofest Lünen, 2002 ✶ FilmZ Mainz, 2002 ✶ Augsburger Kurzfilmwochenende, 2002 ✶ Foyle Film Festival 2002 ✶ Kurzfilmtage Bamberg, 2003
Synopsis
✶ Max-Ophüls-Preis Saarbrücken, 2003
Jonas ist young, musician and in love. On his birthday hehe goes out to play
✶ Go East Wiesbaden, 2003
at the "Jazzkeller", an old Jazz bar. He wants to impress himself, all other
✶
Nominierung zum FFA Short Tiger Award 2003
(older) people and of course the women. Will he succeed?
Lenny Directed By Cyril Amon Schaublin technical Information fiction / Germany / 2009 / 17 min. / S16mm / webcam / DigiBeta / 1:1.85 / color / English
Festivals and Awards ✶ Brooklyn International Film Festival 2009 ✶ Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montreal 2009
Synopsis
✶ Internationales Festival der Filmhochschulen München 2009
Two teenagers’ lives are brought together through their internet webcams.
✶ Viennale Vienna International Film Festival 2009
Anton’s desire is awakened after discovering Lenny’s personal video blog on
✶ Torino Film Festival 2009
Youtube. Away from the screen, Anton wanders through the big city, wonde-
✶ Around the World in 14 Films Festival Berlin 2009
ring whether his virtual meeting with Lenny has a place in the real world.
Love of the Loveless / Liebe der Lieblosen Directed By Benjamin Tholen technical Information ficiton / Germany / 2007 / 31 min. / 35mm / color / stereo / German with English ST
Synopsis The film is about two opposing poles of love - the darwinistic rules of a merciless battlefield of attractiveness on the one hand and the hope for a love strong enough to exist beyond these borders on the other. The two main characters, opposite as well in their appearance as in their attitude towards life, seem not to have anything in common except maybe for their loneliness. They meet in a modern fitness resort, as trainer and trainee... The cynical Festivals and Awards
personal trainer Inez turns the pragmaticly naive Ulrich, who is searching
✶ achtung berlin! 2007
for a „true love“ to release him from his sufferings, into a tool of her self-
✶ FilmFestival Münster 2007
hatred. An evening in the hotel`s discotheque leads to the escalation Inez
✶ 45. International Film Festival Gijon, 2007
has been aiming for. So, how much humiliation can Ulrich cope with?
Manolo Directed By Robert Bohrer technical Information ficiton / Germany / 2010 / 18 min. / HD Cam / blue ray / digi beta / 1:1.85 / color / stereo / German with Engl. ST
Festivals and Awards ✶ Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis * Prize in Gold 2010 Best Short Fiction Film ✶ 33. Festival International du Court Metrage Clermont-Ferrand – Soirée ✶ Allemande: Coup de Coeur – Le Court Métrage Allemand 2011 ✶ 17. Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche
Synopsis
✶ 18. Augsburg - Kurzfilmwochenende
His mother wants him out of the house, his cousin wants him out of his way
✶ 16. Linea d’Ombra - Festival Culture Giovani
and Linda, this summer's princess wants something too, if he only knew
✶ 7. achtung berlin - new berlin film award
what. On a sunny afternoon at the pool, 12 year-old Manolo has to face his
✶ 40. Internationales Studentenfilmfestival Sehsüchte
fears: Will he stand up to his big cousin Mike, the notorious splashdive-
✶ 27. Internationales KurzFilmFestival Hamburg
hotshot?
Marisol Directed By Hella Wenders technical Information ficiton / Germany / 2009 / 25 min. / 16:9 / color / tagalog
Festivals and Awards ✶ 24. Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadaljara ✶ Achtung Berlin - New Berlin Film Award 2009
Synopsis
✶ 11. Cinemanila International Film Festival
Marisol, a young Filipina lives and works in Berlin in order to provide money
✶ 6. Globale 2010
for her family back home. When her sister dies from tragic circumstances in
✶ Filmfest Globale Köln 2011
Hongkong she has to realize that her dream to come home soon is destroyed.
Miki´s Ballad / Mikis Ballade Directed By Nina Vukovic technical Information ficiton / Germany / 2008 / 20 min. / S16mm / 35mm /color / 1:1.85 / dolby st / German with English ST
Synopsis Miki´s Ballad sings the song of settling up with the own life: an eldering street crook meets his daughter like a stranger on the street. She tells him that she will get married. He does something unusual: He swears himself to keep the promise he made. Once.
Minutes To Go Directed By Lawrence Tooley technical Information fiction / Germany / 2005 / 10 min. / 35mm / 1:1.85 /dolby sr / English
Festivals and Awards ✶ Max-Ophuels-Preis Saarbrücken 2005 ✶ International Student Film Festival „SehSuechte“ Potsdam (Germany) 2005 ✶ Internationales Hamburger Kurzfilmfestival 2005 ✶ Court 18 Int. Film Festival Paris 2005 ✶ Exground Wiesbaden 2005 ✶ Zwergwerk, Oldenburg 2005
Synopsis
✶ Camerimage Lodz 2005
Stacy and Michael, a young couple, are at home in their department, some-
*Nominierung WAM Filmpreis 2005
where in the USA. Firt their morning routine got crossed by a dispute and
✶ 7. Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival 2006
then by something much bigger...
My Father Is Sleeping / Mein Vater schläft
✶ 30. Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival „Matinée Coup de Foudre - Le Court Métrage Allemand“ ✶ Präsentation der AG Kurzfilm 2008 ✶ 13. Filmfestival „Türkei – Deutschland“ 2008
Directed By
* Prize „Bester Kurzfilm“
Grzegorz Muskala
✶ 20. Internationales Filmfest Dresden 2008 ✶ 12. Internationales Filmfestival Tel Aviv 2008
technical Information
* Prize „Beste Kamera“
fiction / Germany / 2007 / 14 min. / S16 mm / 35mm / 1:1.85 / color /
✶ 36. Huesca Film Festival 2008
dolby digital / German
✶ 2. Wendland Shorts Film Festival 2008 * Prize „Bester Film“
Festivals and Awards ✶ 60. International Film Festival Locarno 2007
✶ 6. Internationales Film Festival TOFIFEST Torun Internationaler Wettbewerb 2008
✶ 36. Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal 2007
✶ 5. Karlovy Vary International Student Film Festival 2008
✶ 41. Internationale Hofer Filmtage 2007
✶ 3. Lola Kenia Screen Festival Nairobi 2008
✶ 13. Cinéma Tout Ecran Genf – Festival International du Film et de la
✶ 12. 1 Reel Film Festival Seattle 2008
Télévision ✶ 21. Internationales Filmfest Braunschweig 2007 ✶ 14. Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche 2007 ✶ 15. Camerimage Lodz – International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography 2007 ✶ Internationaler Studentenfilm Wettbewerb 2007
Synopsis
* Prize „Silberne Kaulquappe“
Summer. Half a day, chosen virtually at random, in the life of 10-year-old
✶ 13. Les Rencontres Internationales de Cinéma à Paris 2007
Mika, who lives in the countryside with his family in reduced circumstan-
✶ Berlin Independent Film Festival „Around the world in 14 films“ 2007
ces. His father is very ill and is unable to handle the daily work on the farm.
✶ 13. Berlin & Beyond Filmfestival San Francisco 2008
Mika’s help is needed. But he is easily distracted by his 6-year-old sister,
✶ 20. Premiers Plans Film Festival Angers Internationaler Studentenfilm
who is still enjoying the carefree days of childhood, regarding the farmyard
Wettbewerb 2007
as her playground.
Namus Directed By Döndü Kilic technical Information ficiton / Germany / 2005 / 14 min. / 35mm / 1:1.85 / B&W / German, Turkish with English ST
Festivals and Awards ✶ Filmfest Dresden 2005 ✶ Internationales Hamburger Kurzfilmfestival 2005 *nominated Short Tiger Award 2005
Synopsis
✶ Kerry Film Festival 2005
Volkan, a Turkish young man, is starting an affair with Linda, a German girl
✶ Foyle Film Festival 2005
rejected and ridiculed by Volkan´s friends. Linda falls in love and she hopes
✶ Filmfestival Türkei/Deutschland 2006
to tie up her Turkish mate by getting pregnant. Volkan however is afraid of
✶ Festival des Films des Femmes, Creteil, 2006
such a responsability. He believes that he is not in love with Linda and he is
✶ Britspotting 2006
afraid of losing his good “reputation” and “honour”, that his family is proud
✶ Filmkunstfest Schwerin 2006
of. He and his friends desperately think about how to provoke an abortion.
✶ Kurzfilmfestival Great Shorts 2006 Berlin
Linda is beaten up and now Volkan has to decide if he still can identify
✶ Filmzeit Kaufbeuren, 2008
himself with the violence his friends have demonstrated...
Opposite of Comfort / Gegenüber von Trost Directed By Laura Lackmann Popescu technical Information fiction / Germany / 2009 / 30 min. / 16mm / Digi Beta / 1:1.85 / color / dolby st / German with English ST
Synopsis Wiebke, in her 30’s, just moved from a small town to Berlin. She is working in an economy office. She dreamed a long time for that chance, but unfortunately she is not happy. She lives very isolated and spends most of her time in her apartment, which is way to big for one person. Wiebke is trying to make friends in her office, but her colleagues are not really interested in Festivals and Awards
her. One day on her way to work, she realized that the closet of her apart-
✶ Achtung Berlin - New Berlin Film Award 2009
ment disappeared.
Our War / Nasza Wojna Directed By Renata Borowczak technical Information fiction / Germany / 2007 / 27 min. / 35mm / 1:1.85 / color / dolby sr / Polish with English ST
Synopsis On account of his position, Father Piotr protects his younger brother from Festivals and Awards
unjust imprisonment in a military prison. But is Pawel still the innocent
âœś 18th International ShortFilm Festival of Cergy Pontoise 2008
boy, he was before he went to Iraq to learn to kill?
Over the seven mountains and far away / Hinter den sieben Bergen Directed By Günther Franke technical Information fiction / Germany / 2011 / 30 min. / HD Cam / 16:9 / color / dolby sr / German with English and Frensh ST
Synopsis Festivals and Awards
At dead of night the boy without a name is seeking his luck. On a crowded
✶ 7. achtung berlin - new berlin film award 2011
party he runs into Jessica and Adriano, they claim to be his friends. They
✶ 14. Guanajuato International Film Festival
leave the club in the basement druggy and get lost in the woods. Somewhe-
✶ 10. St. Petersburg Student Film Festival
re between dreaming and the waking hours, between the magical places
✶ 4. Filmzeit Kaufbeuren
of childhood and the dark vaults of reality the enjoy a love triangle. In a
✶ 14. Filmfestival Münster
world where there seem no boundaries by society. A world behind the seven
✶ 11. Flensburger Filmtage
mountains, where an unquenchable desire arises. But what lasts, when
✶ 49. Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón
happiness collapses? A dark fairy-tale for adults.
Purple Sunrise Directed By Nina Vukovic technical Information ficiton / Germany / 2009 / 15 min. / S16mm / 35mm / 1:1.85 / color / dolby sr / German with English ST
Festivals and Awards
Synopsis
✶ Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis 2009
A boy and a girl approach each other at a party and play the game of who is
✶ Achtung Berlin Film Festival 2009
risking an open commitment to the other one first. What begins light-hear-
✶ Sehsüchte Film Festival 2009
ted has ist downside in the incapability of an emotional commitment by the
✶ FilmKunstFest Schwerin 2009
boy towards the girl after a night spent together… A coming-of-age-film.
Quite possible that I can fly / Gut möglich dass ich fliegen kann Directed By Hanna Doose technical Information fiction / Germany / 2006 / 27 min. / S16mm / 35mm / 1:1.85 / color / dolby sr / German with English ST
Festivals and Awards ✶ Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2006 *Special Mention ✶ Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg 2006
Synopsis
✶ International Short Film Festival Drama 2006
The father of Nora has fallen back into his alcohol addiction. He refuses to
✶ Hull International Short Film Festival 2006
be dried out, the hospital sends him home to die. Nora, unwilling to accept
✶ Interfilm Short Film Festival, Berlin 2006
the death sentence, makes it her mission to keep him away from alcohol.
✶ Exground Filmfest Wiesbaden 2006
The young social worker Jenny joins them and with her unearthly and slow
✶ Filmzeit Kaufbeuren, 2008
nature, she brings the conflict to a boiling point.
Sparrows / Spatzen
✶ KinoMad Filmspaziergang Skopje ✶ 38. Festival International de Cine de Huesca
Directed By
*Premio Dazante
Jan Speckenbach
✶ 4. Nuits Méditerranéennes du Court Métrage * Student Jury Special Prize
technical Information
* Entre-Courts Prize
fiction / Germany / 2009 / 12 min. / digi beta / 35mm / 1:1.85 / color /
✶ 3. Filmzeit Kaufbeuren
dolby digital / German with English ST
✶ 17. Augsburger Kurzfilmwochenende ✶ 30 VGIK Int. Student Festival Moscow
Festivals and Awards
✶ 8. Zoom Festival Barcelona
✶ 61. Cannes Film Festival (Next Generation)
* Zoom Special Short Film Award
✶ 39. Molodist International Film Festival Kiew
✶ 5. OneTake Festival Kroatien
✶ 47. Viennale Int. Film Festival Wien
✶ Kommunales Kino Cottbus - Hochschulkino dffb 2011
✶ 39. Molodist Kiev International Film Festival
✶ 23. Filmfest Dresden
✶ 43. Internationale Hofer Filmtage
✶ Kavalan International Short Film Festival 2011
✶ 23. Internationales Filmfest Braunschweig ✶ 4. Around the World in 14 Films Festival Berlin ✶ 17. Plus Camerimage Film Festival Lodz ✶ 11. International DANTZALDIA Festival ✶ 3. International Student Film Festival Early Melons ✶ 9. Tiburon International Film Festival ✶ 34. Cleveland International Film Festival ✶ 34. Hong Kong International Film Festival ✶ 3. Gulf Film Festival ✶ 6. Filmfestival Achtung Berlin ✶ 41. Nashville Film Festival
Synopsis
✶ 5. Montreal Underground Film Festival MUFF
A man and a woman meet in a bar. They walk through the night without any
✶ 26. Internationales KurzFilmFestival Hamburg
reason. At dawn they separate again. A long take.
Strange / Fremd Directed By Hakan Savan Mican technical Information fiction / Germany / 2006 / 18 min. / S16mm / 35 mm / 1:1.85 / color / dolby sr / German, Turkish with English ST
Festivals and Awards
Synopsis
✶ Max-Ophüls-Preis Saarbrücken, 2007
The well-regulated, assumed grown-up, world view of German-Turk Adem
✶ Festival Türkei/Deutschland Nürnberg, 2007
is once in a while confused by the visits of his mother Meryem. After many
✶ Ankara, Oktober 2007
years in Germany, Meryem moved back to her former home country Turkey.
✶ Hisar short Film Festival Istanbul, März 08
Mother and son live side by side for a week in Adems apartment. The apart-
✶ IFF Istanbul, April 08
ment belongs to Adem's world. Although Meryem raised him in this apart-
✶ Wendland Shorts, Juni 08
ment, she now doesn't belongs here anymore . Meryem became a stranger
✶ 2. Matalaya International Film Festival
– to her son and to Germany.
Sweetness Directed By Lisa Bierwirth technical Information fiction / Germany / 2011 / 30 min. / Super 16mm / 35mm / HD Cam / color / 1:1.85 / Dolby sr / German, English, English ST
Synopsis Marion and Paul are freshly in love. It's her Brother-in-law's 50th Birthday which Marion takes as an oppurtunity to introduce her new boyfriend to the family on the countryside. Paul, a wordly and wealthy man becomes the unwitting projection screen for every member of her familiy. During the party, vision blurred by alcohol, Marion begins to lose touch with her familiy and her love. She starts to challenge Paul, but fails to sense what ist really Festivals and Awards
going on wunderneath the surface of the normal family business and what
âœś 27. Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Interfilm Berlin
tragic reverberation the sunlight of the next morning will reveal.
Tango Directed By Miriam Bliese technical Information fiction / Germany / 2011 / 28 min. / S16mm / HD Cam / 16:9 / color / dolby sr / German with English ST
Synopsis Jens and Milena are young and looking for the right way to love. They feel that the traditional concept of marriage and fidelity is not appropriate anymore. The families in their environment all seem quite sad: Milena’s brother gave up writing to be there for his family; Jens’ father was cheated on by his wife for years. They don’t want to be like that. Jens and Milena choose freedom. They’re sleeping with other people, either together or each one on his own. And they tell each other about it. They don’t want to lie. But freedom is hard to bear...
The Boy Who Wouldn't Kil Directed By Linus de Paoli technical Information fiction / Germany / 2008 / 30 min. / S16mm / 35mm / 1:2 wide screen / color / dolby digital / German with English ST
Festivals and Awards ✶ 60. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin - Berlinale ✶ 11. Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival ✶ 39. Studentenfilmfestival Sehsüchte
Synopsis
✶ 14. Internationales Weekend of Fear Film Festival
Anjo and his family live on a chicken farm in the postapocalyptic desert
✶ Lagow - Neiße Filmfestival- Lubuskie Lato Filmowe Juni 2010
While his father constantely tries to teach him that killing is a necessity to
✶ SOS - Festival of Performing Arts & Media in Ludwigsburg 2010
survive, Anjo dreams of finding the last remains of civilization in this world
✶ 40. Molodist International Filmfestival Kiew
of violence. After a desert pirate attack, a motorcycle is left behind. Anjo
✶ 10. Int. Science & Fiction Festival Trieste
hides it and decides to go on a quest for fuel - he follows the trail of the
✶ Tours - Mauvais Genre International Film Festival 2010
pirates. A decision that will change his life forever.
The Date Directed By Andreas Samland technical Information Germany / 2006 / 15 min. / 35mm / 1:2.35 / color / German / English / English ST
Synopsis As a young man the german native Michael had an affair with an american woman in New York. Back then they both swore they would meet again in Festivals and Awards
20 years in Central Park. Now 20 years later Michael returns to New York
âœś Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Kurzfilmpreis 2007
and waits at the arranged place. Will she really turn up?
The Other Day in Eden / Gestern in Eden Directed By Jan Speckenbach technical Information Germany / 2008 / 30 min. / 35mm / 1:1.85 / color / dolby sr / German with English ST
Synopsis To take care of his father’s estate, Ulrich Meinert has to go to a trailer park where his father used to live. He finds himself in a camping colony in eastern Germany which stirs up mixed feelings. Although he felt a lot of resentment towards his father, days go by without him taking care of any unsettled business. Instead, he starts to get involved with Anja, takes on Festivals and Awards
one of his father’s old friends and settles into his father’s trailer. Against his
✶ Int. Filmfestspiele Cannes 2008 (Cinefondation)
own wishes, he starts to fill the void his father left behind ...
The Tear / Riss Directed By Birnur Pilavci technical Information fiction / Germany / 2010 / 9 min. / HD / 35mm / 1:1.85 / color / dolby sr / German, English, Spanish, French, Turkish ST
Synopsis Festivals and Awards
It's saturday afternoon. Denise (25) and her boyfriend Frank (25) were
✶ 31. Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis Saarbrücken 2010
shopping and carry their bags home now. The thoughtful Denise denies
✶ 22. Filmfest Dresden 2010
Franks jokes to her. Suddenly Frank remarks a car is coming by. Under the
✶ Berliner Kurzfilmrolle - Freiluftkino Friedrichshain
excuse the car is dangerous he plays Denise' bodyguard and closes her in
✶ 25. Cinema Jove Valencia 2010
his arms. Denise is flattered and Frank proud. Suddenly someone knocks
✶ Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt 2010
at Franks shoulder. It is the driver, a pensioner. As for him he doesn't like
✶ 10. Int.Short Film Festival "Short Moves" 2010
Franks action. Before the young couple know what´s going on they are in
✶ Filmzeit Kaufbeuren 2010
the middle of a stalwart dispute.
The Wedding / Hochzeit Directed By Anika Wangard technical Information fiction / Germany / 2006 / 30 min. / Mini DV / 35mm / 1:1.85 / B&W / dolby sr / German, Russian with English ST
Synopsis 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 Festivals and Awards
the families disappointed behind. But the failure was not in vain: As the
âœś Brest European Short Film Festival, 2007
Russian grandmother dies, the families reunite‌
What's Left / Was bleibt Directed By David Nawrath technical Information fiction / Germany / 2007 / 17 min. / S16mm / 35mm / color / 1:1.85 / dolby sr / German with English ST
Festivals and Awards ✶ 2008 Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg, Deutschlandpremiere, nationaler Wettbewerb ✶ 2008 Nominierung für den Deutschen Kurzfilmpreis 2008 ✶ 2009 Festival du Premier Plans, Special Mention internationaler
Synopsis
Wettbewerb
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them;
*Award for Best Male Actor
sometimes they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde) Mathis is 19 years old. At the
✶ 2009 Nominierung für den Europäischer Filmpreis 2009
dayof his Grandmother ´s burial, Mathis and his father have to spend a day
✶ 2008/09 Kinotournee mit German Films durch ca. 40 deutsche Städte
together after a long time . During that day they get to know each other
✶ 2009 Skena Up Filmfetsival
again. It seems like father and son would come together for a short moment.
Wigald
*2.Preis (Jurypreis der AV Medienzentrale des Erzbistums Bamberg ✶ FIPA International Festival of Audiovisual Programs Biarritz 2007
Directed By
✶ International Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand 2007
Timon Modersohn
✶ International Short Film Festival Lille 2007 ✶ Shorts Attack! Interfilm Berlin 2007
technical Information
✶ 22.Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata Argentinien 2007
ficiton / Germany / 2006 / 11 min. / S16mm / 35mm / 1:1.85 / color /
✶ Tiburon International Film Festival 2007
dolby digital / German with English ST
✶ 8. Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival 2007 ✶ Festival du Court Métrage de Bruxelles 2007
Festivals and Awards
✶ NEFF Vitoria Gasteiz 2007
✶ Max-Ophüls-Preis Saarbrücken 2006
✶ VIS Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Wien 2007
✶ Filmkunstfest Schwerin 2006
✶ 9. Festival des deutschen Films Madrid
*Bester Kurzfilm
✶ 47. Krakau Filmfestival 2007
✶ Achtung Berlin! 2006
✶ 56. International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg 2007
✶ Internationales Kurzfilmfest Hamburg 2006
✶ Worldwide Short Film Festival Toronto 2007
✶ Rüsselsheimer Kurzfilmtage 2006
✶ Capalbio Cinema – International Short Film Festival 2007
✶ Filmfest Emden 2006
✶ 37. Giffoni Filmfestival, Italien 2007
✶ Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt 2006
✶ 22. Odense Film Festival 2007
✶ Oldenburg Filmfestival, 2006
✶ 33. International Seattle Film Festival 2007
✶ 21. Unabhängiges Filmfest Osnabrück 2006
✶ Reel Film Festival Seattle 2007
✶ Uppsala International Short Film Festival 2006
✶ 3.Lüchower Kurzfilmfestival 2007
✶ AFI Fest, Los Angeles 2006
✶ 7. Festival des deutschen Films Buenos Airs 2007
✶ Ourense International Independent Film Festival, Spanien 2006
✶ Nordkapp Festival 2007
✶ Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche 2006
✶ 4. Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes, Santiago de Compostela, 2007
✶ Filmfest Lünen 2006
✶ Internationales Bergfilm-Festival Tegernsee 2007
✶ Exground Filmfest Wiesbaden 2006
✶ 6. St. Petersburg Student Film Festival 2007 Filmzeit Kaufbeuren, 2008
✶ Das Berliner Independet Festival (Around the World in 14 Films) 2007 ✶ 17. Bamberger Kurzfilmtage 2007
Synopsis „This life is just a test! If it wasn’t a test we would have been given further instructions on what to do and where to go.” This short film 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.
Wolfchild / Das Wolfskind Directed By Roberto Anjari Ros technical Information fiction / Germany / 2009 / 25 min. / S16mm / 35mm / 16:9 / color / dolby sr / German with English ST Festivals and Awards ✶ 43. Internationale Hofer Filmtage ✶ 6. Filmfestival Achtung Berlin ✶ FBW Prädikat "Wertvoll" ✶ Queeer Lisboa 14 ✶ 7. Reykjavik International Film Festival ✶ 18. Festival Chileno Internacional del Cortomeytraje de Santiago ✶ 23. QueerFilmFestival Esslingen *Special Jury Mention ✶ 21. Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg ✶ 15. LesGaiCineMad ✶ Reeling Film Festival 2010, 29. Chicago Lesbian & Gay Chicago International ✶ Film Festival ✶ 17. Etidua & Anima Film Festival ✶ GRAND OFF World Off Film Awards 2010
Synopsis
✶ 3. QueerFilmFest Rostock
After loosing his friend in a violent attack, Christian a young man in Berlin
✶ Festival de Cine LGBT – El Lugar Sin Limites
is confronted with his past. He has a son, but never met him. Will the loss
✶ 7. Festival Internacional de Cine Lesbico y Gai de Andalucia
he just experienced make him understand the opportunity of being a father?
Wunderlich Privat Directed By Aline Chukwuedo technical Information ficiton / Germany / 2006 / 9 min. / color / S16mm / 35mm / 1:1.66 / German with English ST Festivals and Awards ✶ Max-Ophüls-Preis Saarbrücken 2007 ✶ Next-Generation Cannes, 2007 ✶ Filmfest Landshut 2007
✶ Emergandsee / Berlin 2008
✶ Filmfest Dresden 2007
✶ International Film Festival Sydney 2008
✶ Achtung Berlin! 2007
✶ International Film Festival Torino/Italy 2008
✶ Festival des Films du Monde Montreal 2007
✶ Premiers Plans Film Festival Angers 2008
✶ 18. Lesbisch-Schwule Filmtage Hamburg 2007
✶ Riga Film Days 2008
✶ 19. QueerFilmFestival Esslingen 2007
✶ Pink Apple Zürich 2008
✶ 12. Festival des deutschen Films in Paris 2007
✶ Milan GLBT Film Festival, 2008
✶ 23. Internationales Filmfestival in Warschau 2007
✶ 12th Thai Short Film Fest, 2008
✶ MoMa New Yorck, Kino! 2007, Featuring Kino! Berlin
✶ Lesbisch- Schwule Filmtage Karlsruhe, 2008
✶ 10. Festival des deutschen Films in London 2007 ✶ Filmfest Osnabrück 2007 ✶ Short Shots Cologne 2007 ✶ FBW Prädikat « besonders wertvol“ 2007
Synopsis
✶ Kurzfilmtage Bamberg 2008
Mr. Wunderlich is living of state funding and he has the secret passion of
✶ Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Kurzfilmpreis 2008
wearing sexy dessous. One day the Hartz IV police shows up at his door.
✶ Clermont-Ferrand Soiree Allemande 2008
This becomes his doom.
You know the park is filled with flowers / Weisst du eigentlich dass ganz viele Blumen blühen im park Directed By Lothar Herzog technical Information fiction / Germany / 2011 / 27 min. / HD Cam / digi beta / 1:1.85 / color/ Ltrt / German with English ST
Festivals and Awards ✶ 61. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin - Berlinale
Synopsis
✶ 40. Internationales Studentenfestival Sehsüchte
Lena can’t find stability in her life. Her relationship has become a power
✶ 2. New York International Film Festival
struggle. And Lena's need for love can never be satisfied.
Dr. Ketel Directed By Linus de Paoli technical Information fiction / Germany / 2011 / 80 min. / HD / DCP / 1:1.85 / B&W / dolby digital / German, English OV with German and English ST
Synopsis Berlin’s notorious Neukoelln district. The near future, a time in which the health system has collapsed. A man works in the shadows and without licence as a doctor. He treats people in the streets, stealing medicine from pharmacies. Forced to adopt the role of a shadow, an outlaw, he is conFestivals and Awards
fronted with the question as to whether he really is a doctor. Barely being
✶ 18. Filmfest Oldenburg
able to cope with the situation, he doesn’t notice that an American security
*German Independence Award – Bester Deutscher Film
agent is onto him.
Headshots Directed By Lawrence Tooley technical Information fiction / Germany, Austria / 2010 / 91 min. / HD / 35mm / 1:1.85 / color / dolby sr / German with English ST
Synopsis Festivals and Awards
Trapped in the world of the "young creative class" in Berlin, where life is
✶ 47. Viennale
your career, love is sexual convenience, and happiness measured by degrees
✶ 40. Filmfestival Rotterdam
of cynical detachment, Marianne (Loretta Pflaum), a thirty-something
✶ Miami International Filmfestival 2011
photographer, begins to look at things anew after discovering that she is
✶ Diagonale Graz 2011
pregnant. Soon a hidden world of darkness and disorder, mistrust and lies
✶ 13. Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente
breaks into the open. Told as a web of interlocking anecdotes, Headshots
✶ Filmfest München 2011
charts the course from fragile love to betrayal, from complicity to self an-
✶ 59. Festival de San Sebastian
nihilation, and back through twists that are comical, bitter, ridiculous, and
✶ 18. Filmfest Oldenburg
poignant, in a contemporary Berlin that has never been shown before.
Molly's Way
*Special Mention Director of Photography ✶ Internationales Studentenfilmfestival “Sehsüchte” 2006
Directed By
✶ Internationales Film Festival Eilat 2006 Israel
Emily Atef
✶ New European Filmfestival Vitoria-Gasteiz 2006 ✶ Internationales Film Festival in Seattle 2006
technical Information
✶ Los Angeles Filmfestival 2006
fiction / Germany / 2005 / 84 min. / color
✶ 3. Neisse Festival 2006
IMX / 35 mm / 1:1,85 / dolby sr / English, Polnish
*Bester Spielfilm ✶ Alba regia int. Film Festival 2006 (Ungarn)
Festivals and Awards
✶ ERA New horizons int. Film Festival 2006 (Polen)
✶ Filmfest München 2005
✶ Galway Arts Festival (Irland) 2006
*Förderpreis Deutscher Film für das beste Drehbuch
✶ 31. Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych, Gdynia (Polen)
✶ International Filmfestival „Cinéma Tout Ecran“ in Genf 2005
✶ 23. Festival de Cine de Bogota 2006
*“Prix Tudor“ for Best Actress
✶ Internationales Film Festival Innsbruck 2006 (Österreich)
✶ Filmfest Lünen 2005
✶ Cairo International Film Festival 2006
✶ Ourense International Independent Film Festival (Spanien) 2005
✶ Medfilm Festival Rom 2006 (Italien)
*Best Actress
✶ International Film Fest Bratislave 2006
✶ International Film Festival of Arras (Frankreich) 2005
✶ Deutsch – Polnische Filmwochen 2006 in Zielona Góra
✶ Filmwochenende Würzburg 2006
✶ Dublin Film Festival 2007
*Publikumspreis für den zweitbesten Spielfilm
✶ Bird’s Eye View Film Festival London 2007
✶ Frauenfilm Festival „Sguardi altrove“ in Mailand 2006
✶ Eurocine 27, Brüssel 2007
✶ Mar del Plata International Film Festival in Argentinien 2006
✶ Famufest Prag 2007
*Special Jury Award
✶ 4. Neise Filmfestival 2007
✶ Filmfestival Türkei/Deutschland in Nürnberg 2006
✶ Scanorama 2007 Litauen
*Bester Spielfilm ✶ Crossing Europe Award in Linz (Österreich) 2006 ✶ Valdivia International Film Festival, Chile 2006 *Best Actor (Premio Pudu)
Synopsis On a foggy winter’s morning, the young Irishwoman, Molly (30) is at the train station of Walbrzych. She has come the whole way from Ireland to find Marcin. Marcin, who left her with the memory of one unforgettable night and a postcard from this small town. All that she knows is his first name and that he works in the coal industry. She is convinced that she will find him; her positive, glowing energy and the child in her belly carry her onwards. Soon it becomes clear the search will be more difficult than anticipated. A series of joyous and painful experiences cause Molly to fight for her hope to find this man, to lose it and then find it again but in a way that she never would have expected.
Signs and Traces / Spuren und Zeichen Directed By H.T. Henkes technical Information ficiton / Germany / 2008 / 94 min. / HDV / HD Cam / 16:9 / color / dolby sr / German with English ST
Synopsis 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.
Atumn Dream Directed By Luc Perceval technical Information fiction - theatre movie / Germany / 2010 / 65 min. / DVCAM / 16:9 / b&w / stereo / German with English ST
Synopsis "Atumn Dream" shows the life of a man in some seemingly arbitrary fragFestivals and Awards
ments. The clock ist ticking ceaselessly which explains why MAN is broo-
âœś FIPA 2011
ding over death, lost opportunities, unfulfilled desires and about his fears.
Slowplay / Wo es weh tut Directed By Daniel Krauss technical Information fiction / Germany / 2010 / 84 min. / HD / 16:9 / color / stereo/ German with English ST
Synopsis Two conflictive couples clash on a holiday trip in Kenya. Nick and Ruth: gamblers, addicted, excessive – Ben and Susi: conservative, caring, middle Festivals and Awards
class employees. After a fatal game of poker, friendly gestures quickly turn
✶ 2010 Hell’s Kitchen Film Festival New York
into a feud that it‘s not only about bruised egos but about justifying everyo-
✶ 2010 Int. Film Festival Nairobi
nes lifestyles.
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