The wedding anniversary

It's wedding anniversary. While Xenia, the wife of the scrap yard owner Gustav, sits in front of the television and waits for her husband to make her happy, a young man is shot by three gangsters not far from the scrap yard. Xenia realizes that she is waiting in vain and rises from her TV chair to leave Gustav. The goal: "Australia", "Adventure". But she doesn't get any further than to the scrap yard gate, where the three gangsters meet her with a flat tire. When Xenia discovers the body in the trunk of her car, a completely different adventure begins for her than she had imagined. A short trip to her possibilities and thus to herself.

Credits

Cast:

Rike Eckerman

Frank Jacob

Marko Lakobrija

Alexander Czerwinski

Kristian Kiehling

Aart Steinmann

Sylvia Mayer

Script:

Theresa Bergner

Camera:

Rocío Díaz Freire

Editing:

Alexander Weiz

Producer:

Kristian Kiehling

Sound:

Marco Damke

Film info

Direction:

Theresa Bergner

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,39

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

24 min.

Ratio

Thaddeuz, a young occupational therapist, tries to show some categories of shape and colour to a young girl named Buse. She is not interested in these games and he begins to questioning himself about it. After work, he visits Yuna, a woman which is working in an institution where adults pay to get treaten like children. He risks his comfortzone with the nearly blind Yuna, to practicing to keep eyecontact and makes her the gift of an eyetest and a pair of glasses. So now that she can see him. Then he is with Buse again and tries to meet her without categories. To stand that nothing with her, and finding a lot in it.

Credits

Cast:

Márton Nagy

Buse Uslu

Jasmin Halama

Script:

Julia Ketelhut

Mireya Heider de Jahnsen

Camera:

Rocío Díaz Freire

Editing:

Anna-Lena Laura Engelhardt

Producer:

Leonie Schäfer

Ibrahim-Utku Erdogan

Sound:

Malthe Bjørn Jensen

Tondesign:

Malthe Bjørn Jensen

Music:

Ralf Schwieters

Film info

Direction:

Julia Ketelhut

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1 Dolby Surround

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

21 min.

ANNA KONDA — Female Fight Club

‚Anna Konda’ empowers female. Head of the FFCB - Female Fight Club Berlin and notorious female fighter herself, she pushes her girls’ to build inner strength and courage against all social norms through combat. She is a wanted specialist for a certain kind of job in the Berlin underground.

Credits

Cast:

Camera:

Konstantin Minnich

Editing:

Felix Schmerbeck

Sound:

Alexander Eckhardt

SYNDRONE Music

Film info

Direction:

Till Gerstenberger

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

2K DCP

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

Cinemascope

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

11 min.

Sebastian Jumping Fences

Sebastian grows up in Hanover. Being the son of a single mother, he learns to be self-reliant at a very young age. As a teenager he falls in love with Betty. Through her, he gets to know a different family structure, which has a great appeal on him. But soon tensions arise between him and the two worlds surrounding him. As a young man, he poses the question as to what remains of childhood dreams when one becomes an adult. The film tracks a young person through three different periods of his life, being on the journey of finding himself.

Credits

Cast:

Joseph Peschko – Sebastian

Finn Freyer – Sebastian als Kind

Ambar de la Horra – Mutter

Frederieke Morgenroth – Elisabeth

Andreas Sigrist – Egon

Script:

Ceylan Ataman-Checa

Camera:

Albrecht von Grünhagen

Editing:

Ceylan Ataman-Checa

Producer:

Simona Kostova

Jörg Daniel

Övünç Güvenışık

Ceylan Ataman-Checa

Sound:

Wanja Hüffell

Grigorij Kravchenko

Michael Müller

Katina Topalidis

Film info

Direction:

Ceylan Ataman-Checa

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Deustchland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2020

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Deutsch mit englischen Untertiteln

Version:

OV

Festivals:

(22.01.-02.02.2020)

Runtime:

69 min

In Germany

Ouakam and Semah want to go play football, which is harder done than said. When they do finally arrive at the beach the two get into a fight over Ouakam’s selfish way to play the ball. After the game their team gets talking about the Germans that live in the neighborhood. Rumor has it that they have an incredible swimming pool - so they all try to check it out. When only two finally get the chance to jump in it’s on Ouakam to decide if he takes his best friend with him or not.

Credits

Cast:

Mohamed Saliou Bangoura – Ouakam

Semah Bangoura – Semah

Aguibou Ben Bangoura – Trainer and Shoeshine boy

Naby Laye Keita – Crocodile Boy

Alseny Sylla – Lookout Boy

Akoi Gabriel Zoumanigui – Ouakam’s Brother

Yamoussa Sylla – Ouakam’s Other Friend

Alhassane Touré – Sneaky Twin, sneaky other Twin

Script:

Christoph Mushayija Rath

Philipp Sewing

Camera:

Malte Siepen

Editing:

Annika Mayer

Producer:

Philipp Sewing

Film info

Direction:

Christoph Mushayija Rath

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany and Guinea

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Susu with german, english or french subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

15 min

Flimsy walls

FLIMSY WALLS tells the story of Marta (28), who wakes up the morning after a casual love night and realizes that she has been left alone in the unknown apartment. Uncertain and disenchanted at the same time, she starts to explore the rooms of a young man she doesn’t even know. Realizing that she negated her own true expectations, she suddenly crosses private boundaries to overcome her own emotional limits.

Credits

Cast:

Julia Schneider – Marta

Script:

Elena Zurbuch

Camera:

Felix Schuster

Oberbeleuchter:

Ben Rahf

Editing:

Adrienne Hudson

Producer:

Grischa Sautter

Elena Zurbuch

Sound:

Vadim Mühlberg

Film info

Direction:

Gaya von Schwarze

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

ARTE

Südwestrundfunk (SWR)

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,75

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,75

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German with english subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

5 min

Leoniden

The stargazer Mark (35) lives with his wheelchair-bound mother (65) in a Berlin GDR-looking apartment. His life is monotonous and aimless until one day Mark escapes this routine of his everyday life.

Credits

Cast:

Eugen Knecht – Marik

Alla Serhiiko – Mutter

Nikolay Prozorovskiy-Remennikov – Junge

Daria Pushkina – Junge Mutter

Peter Marty – Hans

Swetlana Feller – Verkäuferin

Script:

Nicola Medvecka

Anastasia Gorokhova

Camera:

Alexander Brack

Editing:

Nicola Medvecka

Sound:

Vadim Mühlberg

Film info

Direction:

Nicola Medvecka

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

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

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Russian with german or english subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

14 min

Land of Glory

A school somewhere in Hungary. An ordinary literature class with unextraordinary, indifferent students. It feels like a normal day, except that the Hungarian Prime Minister is about to visit. The school secretary, the mastermind of the ceremony, tries to keep everything under control, especially the celebratory cake, which doesn’t fit in the fridge. While the cooks struggle to fix the problem, a 17-year-old Márti, who is supposed to greet the Prime Minister on stage, hesitantly prepares her little rebellion.

Credits

Cast:

Hanna Angelus – Márti

Nóra Rainer-Micsinyei – Cilike

Zsuzsa Faragó – Emmi

Péter Janklovics – Principal Takáts

Script:

Borbála Nagy

Judit Anna Bánházi

Producer:

Margarita Amineva

Camera:

Moritz Friese

Editing:

László Dunai

Film info

Direction:

Borbála Nagy

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

2:1

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

2:1

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Hungarian with german or english subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

27 min

Erika‘s madness

In one long shot the film introduces us to four characters who make each other depend on one another on an emotional and personal level. We observe the main character, the actress Erika- her body reacts fragile to her surrounding not attempting to build up closeness to her former doctor, maid and husband. She has no trust and disclaims that she is sick. She tries to convince herself she is still the great diva and actress everyone knows from theatre. Yet, we can only sense her former extensiveness and hard work. We do not see her as an actress anymore, but furthermore, she lets us have a gaze in her private room- the camera manages to show Erika’s bed- where the actress lounges as on theatre stage. She raises with pleasure very slowly giving her maid harsh instructions. Erika does not divines that people free themselves from her attitude. The main character hiding under a blond shiny wig will spend her last ten minutes in her house. Trapped in isolation the characters find themselves in miscommunication and the range between distance and intimacy. Furthermore, the attempt to overcome the hierarchy fails. We ask ourselve what attaches others to Erika. Why do they try to make Erika depend on them, building up certain structures where Erika should fit in, at the same time untighten the dependant relationship.The illusion between theatre and reality leads to madness.

Credits

Cast:

Julia Bremermann – Erika

Sylvia Schwarz – Ärztin

Robert Mika – Viktor

Julia Hiemer – Julika

Script:

Antonia Walther

Camera:

Katharina Wahl

Producer:

Antonia Walther

Katharina Wahl

Alexander Wolff

Kostüm (Credit):

Antonia Walther

Sound:

Andrej Schmitt

Film info

Direction:

Antonia Walther

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

stereo

Language:

German with english subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

11 min