LOVE ONLY WORKS IN FICTION, PLEASE DON’T TRY AT HOME

It's been three days that Kim, the clown, has left Earth to explore long distance relationships in their final stages, when she discovers that the whole universe is fake.

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Cast:

Magdalena Jacob – Kim

Milena Arne Schedle – Astro-Clown

Pia Seifferth – Mira

Script:

Magdalena Jacob

Camera:

Lena Maria Thiemann

Editing:

Raffaéllo Lupperger

Producer:

Sabrina Holzapfel

Sound:

Moritz Geiser

Music:

Ivo Thiemann

Film info

Direction:

Magdalena Jacob

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2024

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German, English with German and English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

12.46 min

about them

Kesse (they/them) loves nothing more than May (she/her) and skateboarding. Everything changes when Kesse accidentally pushes May's annoying little brother Pepe off a wall to his death. Excluded from the skate crew, Kesse tried to navigate back to everyday life while May and her mother Sheila grieve and cut off contact. Kesse finds themself caught between the guilt that needs to go somewhere and the fear of no longer belonging.

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Cast:

Pascale Numan – Kesse

Sira-Anna Faal – May

Lea Meny – Fanni

Melika Nazari – Marine

Marine Bourdais – Kati

Ludwig Schubert – Isaac

Melika Foroutan – Sheila

Max Hubacher – Quirin

Lasse Berg – Pepe

Script:

Saskia Benter Ortega

Music:

Moritz Krämer

Camera:

Greta Isabella Conte

Editing:

Evelyn Rack

Szenenbild:

Olga Gredig

Paul Schille

Kostüm (Credit):

Wiebke Christin Lebus

Maske:

Paula Greulich

Sound:

Camilo Garcia Castro

Moritz Zuchantke

Tondesign:

Duc Anh Nguyen

Casting:

Karl Schirnhofer

Producer:

Maritza Grass

Jost Hering

Film info

Direction:

Moritz Krämer

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Jost Hering Filme in Ko-Produktion mit Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin, Carousel Film, Moritz Krämer, ZDF

Production:

2024

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,66

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,66

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German, English

Version:

OV

Runtime:

100 min

THE CALL

THE CALL transfers Jean Cocteau's stage play “La Voix humaine” into the present day and poses the question of why we still often derive our self-worth from the success of relationships in a painfully intense way. Clara, on the phone with her ex-partner Ari, struggles with tormenting suicidal fantasies. She knows that it hasn't been about him for a long time. But why can't she find a way out of the crisis? Clara's nightmarish journey leads through images full of dramatic lighting effects, surreal musical passages and moments of bitter humor. Finally, a quiet moment of female solidarity shows the way out: in the bathroom mirror, she meets the protagonist from Cocteau's original and together they achieve what was impossible for 100 years: they hang up.

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Cast:

Hannah Plaß – Clara

Andreas Tobias – Ari

Julia Bremermann – Cocteau Woman

Script:

Sascha Jakubenko

Alexnader Ullmann

Camera:

Leo Wolters

Editing:

Alexnader Ullmann

Producer:

Alexnader Ullmann

Tondesign:

Arla Rosenthal

Music:

Nora Beyer

Film info

Direction:

dominikus

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2025

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

English with German subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

18 min

RUNNING IS MY LUCK

A group of refugees is hiding in a truck in order to cross the border without documents. When they realize they are going in the wrong direction, they throw cargo out of the truck. Eventually the truck driver stops, followed by a woman driving behind him. Briefly, the three parties come face to face.

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Cast:

Mudar Ramadan

Wael Alkhatib

Yazan Melhem

Hussen Ibraheem

Konstantin Frank

Meri Koivisto

Olga Herschel

Kosta Kaplan

Script:

Sophia Feulner

Camera:

Masha Biller

Editing:

Guy Cohavi

Ron Rothschild

Producer:

Yusuf Çelik

Antonia Schöndienst

Sound:

Astrid Hohle Hansen

Music:

Ron Rothschild

Kosta Kaplan

Lian Zac

Film info

Direction:

Ron Rothschild

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2024

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Arabic, English, German, Russian with German and Englisch subtitles

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

13.10 min

Neighbour to distant Lights

In an abandoned prison, three women seek refuge from an unknown disaster. The catastrophe remains unknown, its presence represented through the sounds coming from outside. As the film begins, one of the women leaves the building, leaving us to follow the life of the remaining two as they grapple with the persistent terror in their shelter. Throughout, we witness their attempts to come to terms with their precarious lives in this detached space. Amidst their struggle the woman, who left, returns with a fatal wound. Her death compels one of the women to confront the intolerable state of uncertainty. She decides to leave, and we alongside her, leave the building for the very first time.

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Cast:

Hazel Basköy – Sarv

Kinda Zaour – Nakhl

Paria Khazaeli – Bied

Script:

Soheil Aghazadeh

Camera:

Dorothea Pilz

Editing:

Nazgol Kashani

Producer:

Noa Seraphina Schmidt

Sound:

Jeremias Bazata

Film info

Direction:

Soheil Aghazadeh

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2024

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

2:1

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

2:1

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

no dialog

Version:

OV

Runtime:

20 min

Woman In a Bottle

Alpha fails to connect with her new co-workers and secretly masturbates at work to find distraction. After almost being caught by her colleague Beta, she asks him over to dinner. The conversation is awkward and he leaves abruptly. Being disappointed, she masturbates again. Later, while smoking on the balcony, Alpha discovers her neighbor, Gamma, on the balcony across the street. She feels immediately drawn to her. The next day, she inserts a remote-controlled vibrator before going to work. She bumps into Gamma outside of her house and they have a short talk. Over the day she keeps thinking about her while wearing the vibrator. In the evening, she goes back out on her balcony to see Gamma. She starts to masturbate in front of her but stops after a while. They stare into each other’s eyes. For the first time she feels truly seen by another person.

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Cast:

Dai Meng – Alpha

Hermann Müller – Beta

Rahel Tzegai – Gamma

Script:

Baonan Wang

Djuna Delker

Camera:

Pavlina Komonova

Editing:

Shadi Farid

Producer:

Lisa-Marie Lutz

Sound:

Lydia Leerstelle

Music:

George Farid

Film info

Direction:

Baonan Wang

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2024

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

English with German subtitles

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

13 min

Slackers

A slingshot is loaded, the stone flies and the neighbor's window breaks. Ramona and Nico are friends, lazy slackers and fresh out of school. But instead of worrying about their future, they prefer to be carried away by the Berlin summer. When they release a beloved neighbor's bird, they have to flee - into the politically charged world they don't really want to be in. A road trip through Berlin begins - but on foot. On their aimless and half-hearted search for the escaped bird and Ramona’s little brother, they struggle for their friendship, their belief in themselves and unexpectedly stumble into hope giving life stories.

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Cast:

Bella Lochmann – Ramona

Pola Geiger – Nico

Rio Kirchner – Noah

Script:

Sorina Gajewski

Camera:

Hannes Schulze

Producer:

Sabrina Holzapfel

Sound:

Nils Plambeck

Andre Goetters

Artem Funk

Malte Audick

Elisabeth Hoscheck

Tondesign:

Nils Plambeck

Kostüm (Credit):

Berenike Vogt

Szenenbild:

Roberto Andrés

Josua Hesse

Franziska Asch

Phuong Anh Dao Thu

Alexandra Block

Editing:

Raffaello Lupperger

Music:

Lucas Castillo

Film info

Direction:

Sorina Gajewski

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2024

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

75 min

NIGHT ENCHANTMENTS

Somewhere in the future and at an unknown time, an older woman finishes her workday at a bar and is now ready to go to rest. The manager, a controlling younger boss, finds a tricky way for the humanoid waitress, to stay late for services until now never discussed or arranged. Once again, the spell turns against the sorcerer and the law of the power and strength will be applied in a battle between the old and the new, the conservative and the transgressor.

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Cast:

Eva Medusa Gühne – Robot

Frederik von Lüttichau – Bar Manager

Amelie Henning – AI Voice

Script:

Paulo Menezes

Rafael Sousa

Camera:

Hannes Schulze

Editing:

Lorenzo Petracchi

Producer:

Marina Ghersinich

Paulo Menezes

Sound:

Lejan Samuelson

Music:

Nico Pavlovic

Film info

Direction:

Paulo Menezes

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2024

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

2:1

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

2:1

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

15 min

Garnelius

2007: Karl (17) lives with his single father Werner (62) in a cramped flat in an East Berlin apartment block. His little brother David (8) is in a sheltered housing group. Karl feels overwhelmed in his contact with him, because David looks to Karl for what Werner can no longer provide as a father. What "Ossi" Werner has achieved and what Karl plans to achieve is discussed heatedly by the guests on Werner's birthday. Shortly afterwards, something unexpected happens: Karl lays an egg. He tries with all his might to keep the hatching creature alive.

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Cast:

Emil von Schönfels – Karl

Peter Koburg – Werner

Otto Karl Herzog – David

Script:

Julia Ketelhut

Camera:

Rocío Díaz Freire

Editing:

Iva Puljar-Matic

Producer:

Melvyn Zeyns

Jonas Nemela

Sound:

Andre Goeters

Tondesign:

Vadim Mühlberg

Music:

Ralf Schwieters

Gustav Tier

Film info

Direction:

Julia Ketelhut

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2024

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OmU

Runtime:

49 min