Archives: Films

Insur­gente

The film "Insurgente" accompanies the FARC-EP fighters through the Colombian peace process and from war to uncertain civilian life. The FARC was founded in 1964 and was the oldest guerrilla in the Western Hemisphere. The peace treaty ended a 52-year civil war, but the reasons for it were not affected.

Credits

Camera:

Tonio Hecker

Producer:

Patrick Schorn

Editing:

Tonio Hecker

Sound:

Gaston Ibarroule

Film info

Direction:

Tonio Hecker

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Friendship Films GmbH

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Spanish with german or english subtitles

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

179 min

Say You Love Me

Former ice-skating champion BIANCA (40) devotedly trains her prodigy son MALIK (13) for an upcoming competition. Sensing that Bianca is fantasizing of leaving him, Malik punishes his mother by provoking an accident with his choreographer SERGEI (25). Trapped in their very own cycle of violence, mother and son are staggering between intimate tenderness and a brutal distance, challenging the boundaries of their unconditional love.

Credits

Cast:

Tinka Fürst – Bianca

Arthur Wolfgang Mai – Malik

Joti Polizoakis – Sergei

Camera:

Antonia Lange

Script:

Marijana Verhoef

Producer:

Elena Zurbuch

Editing:

Jil Lange

Music:

Jared Meier-Klodt

Film info

Direction:

Kirsten Brandt

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

15 min

Luchado­ras

The film is an intimate portrait of three courageous female wrestlers (Luchadoras) from Ciudad Juarez. Despite being surrounded by machismo they redefine the image of women in Mexico. The short statured Mini Serinita’s dream is to become a full time Luchadora and leave the factory work that disenfranchises so many women for good. Lady Candy can see the U.S Border from her house. Her daughters were taken to the US, but due to visa regulations she cannot cross the border to see them. Baby Star is a young single mother with a Lucha Libre childhood past. She is looking to make a comeback. With Mexican passion they present a new image of what it means to be a woman in Mexico.

Credits

Cast:

Lady Candy

Mini Sirenita

Baby Star

Script:

Patrick Jasim

Paola Calvo

Phillip Kaminiak

Producer:

Phillip Kaminiak

Camera:

Patrick Jasim

Music:

Lonski & Classen

Editing:

Ginés Olivares

Sound:

Jan Passeman

Film info

Direction:

Paola Calvo

Patrick Jasim

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany and Mexico

Production Company:

TUMULT Film GmbH in Koproduktion mit Sutor Kolonko e.K.

Production:

2021

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

30 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby Surround and Stereo

Language:

Spanish with English, German and Spanish subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

92 min

Excal­ibur City

EXCALIBUR CITY tells the story of Vio and Bluebell, two Vietnamese sisters on their journey to reunite with their mother in Germany. On their way the sisters fall into the clutches of the Vietnamese mafia in Czech Republic. They manage to escape, but on the run from the „Wolf Men“ they loose their father and have to make it through the forest by themselves. The tale of this extraordinary sisterhood is told through the sometimes dreaming eyes of the younger sister Bluebell.

Credits

Cast:

Linh Nguyen – Vio

Hoai Ansary Phan – Bluebell

Ardian Hartono – Hung

Yvonne Jung Hee Bormann – Mutter

Paul Jumin Hoffmann – Vater

Script:

Sebastian Ladwig

Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim

Camera:

Nina Reichmann

Editing:

Raffaéllo Lupperger

Producer:

Janna Fodor

Leonie Schäfer

Daria Wichmann

Sound:

Malte Audick

Music:

Caroline Siegers

Film info

Direction:

Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2022

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German and Vietnamese with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

42 min

If on a winter’s night two trav­el­ers

As Francesco and his six-year-old daughter Elisa drive through the Berlin night, they make a special encounter. Together with the severe policeman who stops their old and broken car, they embark on a magical journey through the darkness in search of intangible ghosts. Unexpected sympathies develop from this experience, even though the spirits around them never quite disappear.

Credits

Cast:

Holly Heene

Robin Summa

Moritz Berg

Script:

Sara Summa

Jacob Hauptmann

Camera:

Moritz Friese

Producer:

Daria Wichmann

Cecilia Trautvetter

Sound:

Jonas Lechenmayr

Editing:

Sara Summa

Music:

Ben Roessler

Film info

Direction:

Sara Summa

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

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

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,66

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,66

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German and Italian

Version:

OV

Runtime:

17 min

The­o­rie und Prax­is

A woman sits between two chairs. She tries to get up, to get started with everything - but her chairs are either too comfortable or don't want to let her go, thus messing everything up.

Credits

Cast:

Leonie Minor

Arthur Minor

Script:

Leonie Minor

Camera:

Faraz Fesharaki

Editing:

Andreas Wodraschke

Producer:

Leonie Minor

Sound:

Clemens Nürnberger

Film info

Direction:

Leonie Minor

Genre:

Animation

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,66

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,66

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

no dialogue

Version:

OV

Festivals:

Runtime:

7 min

Fri­da

The encounter between the young nurse and her seriously ill patient Frida, who is the same age, on the borderline between professional distance and the desire for closeness.

Credits

Cast:

Vicky Krieps

Aenne Schwarz

Script:

Aleksandra Odić

Camera:

Albrecht von Grünhagen

Producer:

Stanislav Danylyshyn

Music:

Micha Kaplan

Sound:

Alberto Sanchez

Editing:

Andrea Schönherr

Film info

Direction:

Aleksandra Odić

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

22 min

Hero

In the middle of the night Arne (17) gets an unexpected visitor. His parents had a fight and his father, who has Parkinson in the developed stage, is looking for a refuge in Arne’s room. When Arne confronts his mother about what is going on, she surprises him with a request. She wants him to drive his father on a mysterious date. Overwhelmed by the situation Arne senses there is more to it than he is being told. He wants to refuse but his mother insists. The family’s happiness depends on it.

Credits

Cast:

Arne Kertezs

Milton Welsh

Carolina Vera

Script:

Marijana Verhoef

Max Kern

Camera:

Leyla Hoppe

Producer:

Rike Lange

Editing:

Marina Palma

Sound:

Meik-René Enderlein

Music:

Paquita Maria

Film info

Direction:

Max Kern

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin GmbH in Ko-Produktion mit Arte und SWR

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

5 min

I got to go to Juchitán

As an examination of matriarchal structures in Mexico, I GOT TO GO TO JUCHITÁN originates from the desire to portray the reality of a society structured differently to the accepted norm. 
The film observes three women in their everyday life, Adelina 70, Martina 40 and Adela 20. They work in a bistro at the famous market that is the economic heart of the town of Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico. The women cook, trade, look after their elders, get lovesick and know how to party. Fish, meat and corn from the region are delivered by the men, who support these loud and cheerfully dressed women who have the say. But capitalism and machismo are also ever present in Juchitán, making for a field of tension.

Credits

Cast:

Adelina Santiago

Adela San Diago Sanches

Martina Castillo Martinez

Script:

Sonja Aufderklamm

Camera:

Sonja Aufderklamm

Editing:

Hannah Schwegel

Producer:

Julia Bruton

Sound:

Raquel Belver

Music:

Thomas Hohl

Film info

Direction:

Sonja Aufderklamm

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

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

Sinnema Animation Studio

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Spanish uad Zapotekian with German subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

80 min