Back to the west

In between capitalism's high-rises, fast food chains and tourist folklorism lays a former cross point between East and West Berlin: Checkpoint Charlie. Here one can buy a piece of the Berlin wall, a GDR flag or pay to get their photo taken next to a fake American and GDR soldier. That is the job of Maxim, wearing a costume of a GDR border soldier. The absurdity of this scenario is clearly eating on him and to take a breath, to have a cigarette, he escapes across the street - the former border between East and West Berlin and today’s border of legal districts Kreuzberg, where he can pursue his job, and Mitte in which his trade is illegal. He seeks shelter next to an American fast food temple, when MAGDALENA - a worker from there - argues that she is also wearing a (fast food) uniform to get the money she needs for a living, so he should simply accept it.

Credits

Cast:

Christian Schneeweiß

Katja Plodzistaya

Marios Gavrilis

Script:

Esther Preußler

Camera:

Anselm Belser

Editing:

Facundo N. Sanchez

Boris Hadžija

Producer:

Marina Hildegard

Ljuba Ghersinich

Sound:

Sebastian Pablo Poloni

Music:

Goran Bregović

Film info

Direction:

Boris Hadžija

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

ARTE

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German, Englisch with german or english subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

5 min

Rushes

Early morning in the Bavarian woods. Christoph, suffering from a severe hang-over, sits next to his mother on a high seat. While she is aiming at a deer, Christoph tries to make up his mind. He’s had the plan to come out to her, but this really doesn’t seem like the best time. He checks his breath, screws up his courage and tries to tell her – simultaneously she fires a shot. Everything goes wrong and if that wasn’t enough, his boyfriend is about to arrive.

Credits

Cast:

Til Schindler – Christoph

Cristin König – Monika

Harald Geil – Arthur

Beratung:

Andreas Kouba

Camera:

Raban Jakob Friedrich

Editing:

Simon Adegbenro

Producer:

Elisabeth Köller

Sound:

Mladjan Matavulj

Film info

Direction:

Clara Zoë My-Linh von Arnim

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

ARTE

Production:

2019

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:

OV

Runtime:

6

Badabum

In the cotton candy fairytale of the voracity of profit the protagonist is faced with an intuitive sensation of doubt. She opens herself to her own ability for self-liberation.

Credits

Cast:

Anne Düe

Merten Schrödter

Script:

Bobby M. Klein

Nadja Rothkirch

Camera:

Bobby M. Klein

Editing:

Bobby M. Klein

Producer:

Nadja Rothkirch

Set Design:

Iva Ivanova

Kostüm (Credit):

Iva Ivanova

Film info

Direction:

Bobby M. Klein

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

no dialgue

Version:

OV

Runtime:

5 min

Day X

June 17th 1953, Frida’s 8th birthday, was to be a celebration, but instead tanks are rolling through the streets of East-Berlin. Frida and her mother are waiting for the birthday guests, but they won't come today. Nor does her father return from the demonstration, and Frida’s mother slowly begins to lose control. Outside, protests turn into a political revolt and the revolt is brutally crushed.

Credits

Cast:

Ninel Skrzypczyk – Frida

Katharina Rivilis – Greta

Jan Pohl – Heinrich

Nikolay Sidorenko – Soldat

Script:

Katharina Rivilis

Samuel Chalela Puccini

Camera:

Giulia Schelhas

Editing:

Guillaume Guerry

Music:

Henning Fuchs

Sound:

Hans-Christian Paul

Maske:

Cornelia Palitzsch

Kostüm (Credit):

Kaya Kürten

Szenenbild:

Tatiana Bastos

Producer:

Cecilia Trautvetter

Film info

Direction:

Katharina Rivilis

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,39

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,39

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German with english, spanish or french subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

20 min

Nightfall

A long truck is cutting its way through the darkness. Trucker Ray decides that it`s going to be his last ride, when a solitary voice out of the radio is holding him back. Just then he drives by a blood covered girl wandering down the street. Lost as he is, she is strolling through the darkness and so he decides to take her with him. But when he discovers that Ingrid is tracing a trail of destruction and has nothing to lose he starts to hope that she is the one to set him free. But is he ready to leave his past behind and be free?

Credits

Cast:

Gedeon Burkhard – Ray

Carlotta Callsen – Ingrid

Daniela Carolin Bähr – Laura

Phillip Sponbiel – Michael

Anna Hoff – Susie

Script:

Josefine Scheffler

Camera:

Lydia Richter

Editing:

Josefine Scheffler

Producer:

Grischa Sautter

Sound:

Sebastian Pablo Poloni

Music:

UPPM

Film info

Direction:

Josefine Scheffler

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Deustchland

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:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Deutsch mit englischen Untertiteln

Version:

OV

Festivals:

53. Internationale Hofer Filmtage (22.-27.10.2019)

KURZSUECHTIG 2020 - 17. Mitteldeutsches Kurzfilmfestival (19.-23.08.2020)

11th "Camera Action" Film Critics Festival (15.-18.10.2020)

6th SPEKTRUM Świdnica Film Festival (24.-31.10.2020)

Tbilisi Student Filmfestival (03.-06.11.2020)

26. International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima (17.-22.11.2020)

CRASH – 12th International Fantastic Film Festival (09.-13.12.2020)

21. Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival (28.04.-09.05.2021)

16th edition of the Prague Short Film Festival (02.-27.06.2021)

BASTALAVISTA INTERNATIONAL GENRE FILM FESTIVAL (04.-19.12.2021)

Runtime:

30 min

1986

Elena is a student in Minsk, Belarus. She has a passionate but increasingly difficult relationship with her boyfriend Victor. When her father is arrested, she has to continue his illegal business. In order to make deals for him, she repeatedly has to drive into the 'forbidden zone' of Chernobyl. She finds herself attracted by the zone’s deceptive beauty – but her life seems more and more contaminated by a destructive force...

Credits

Cast:

Daria Mureeva – Elena

Evgeni Sngadzhiev – Victor

Vitali Kotovitski – Vater

Helga Filippova – Mutter

Vjacheslav Shakalido – Andrei

Aleksei Filimonov – Ljosha

Aleksei Kravchenko – Geschäftsmann

Camera:

Philipp Baben der Erde

Script:

Lothar Herzog

Editing:

Stefanie Kosik

Lothar Herzog

Producer:

Romana Janik

Music:

Johannes Kaschek

Film info

Direction:

Lothar Herzog

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Deustchland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Russian with german or english subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

77 min

Wochenende

Josef arbeitet in einer anderen Stadt und kommt wie jedes Wochenende zu seiner Familie nach Hause. Freitagnacht outet er sich im Ehebett vor seiner Frau Susanne als homosexuell. Über das restliche Wochenende hinweg wird versucht – vor Susannes Mutter und den zwei Kindern – weiterhin Familie zu spielen, obwohl zunehmend klar wird, dass diese in der gewohnten Form nicht weiter existieren kann.

Credits

Cast:

Fabien Joest Passamonte – Josef

Ina Tempel – Susanne

Klara Höfels – Ines

Oskar von Schoenfels – Franz

Rena Harder – Pia

Jens Haase – Taxifahrer

Script:

Luis Schubert

Camera:

Julian Schmitt

Editing:

Luis Schubert

Producer:

Luise Hauschild

Mariam Shatberashvili

Sound:

Jonas Lechenmayr

Film info

Direction:

Luis Schubert

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Deustchland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

Deutsch mit englischen Untertiteln

Version:

OV

Runtime:

22

Nowhere, maybe here

NOWHERE, MAYBE HERE is about two young women, who realize that their former friendship does not defy their changed circumstances and therefore have to confront themselves with who they turned out to be.

Credits

Cast:

Paula Kroh

Linda Blümchen

Raquel Villar

Claudia Hübschmann

Script:

Naëmi Büchtemann

Camera:

Raban Jakob Friedrich

Editing:

Elena Weihe

Producer:

Mariam Shatberashvili

Luise Hauschild

Sound:

Anika Danielle Wagner

Film info

Direction:

Naëmi Büchtemann

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

Language:

German, English and Portuguese

Version:

OV

Runtime:

16 min

Q: ghostly remote effect

The future. A hi-tech-lab. Scientist P is testing quantum-android Q and takes of on a mission with it into an undiscovered nature. On the trip she discovers a ghostly remote effect between her and the robot. Will she keep control, when nature starts changing?

Credits

Cast:

Effi Rabsilber – P

Lise Risom Olsen – Q

Noemi Besedes – Scientist

Bastian von Bömches – Scientist

Holger Doellmann – Scientist

Script:

Marcus Hanisch

Ariana Berndl

Anna-Lena Theobald

Camera:

Jasper Techel

Producer:

Melissa Dubrin

Sabine Schmidt

Sound:

Sabine Sina Stephan

Music:

Markus Zierhofer

Film info

Direction:

Marcus Hanisch

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2019

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German with english subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

19 min