Revolvo

Anette (55) and Carla (70) have known each other for years. Their rebellious nature and their special sense of humour connects the two self-conﬁdent women. They have always been swimming against tide and even today they are still committed to their values. In the 1980s they fought loud and visible as radical feminists. Years have passed and since society has only changed in slow motion, Carla and Anette decided to modify their strategies by using their criminal energy with a breeze of fun and rage. Today’s shift to the right and that society pushes them to the edge not only as women but also because of their age does not stop them. Undaunted they are using their supposed invisibility to do what many would not dare to do.

Credits

Cast:

Eva Medus Gühne – Anette

Helga Seebacher – Carla

Paul Frielinghaus – Anton Gauser

Sigrid Grajek – Polizistin

Marion Brasch – Nachrichtensprecherin

Sara Fazilat – Nachrichtensprecherin

Script:

Francy Fabritz

Camera:

Antonia Lange

Producer:

Sara Fazilat

Sound:

Weiju Shen

Andreas Otto

Music:

Zeina Azouqah

Szenenbild:

Simone Wildt

Maske:

Ondria North

Licht:

Nina Reichmann

Sarah Vetter

Film info

Direction:

Francy Fabritz

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:

5.1

Language:

German with english or french subtitles

Version:

OV

Festivals:

53. Internationale Hofer Filmtage (22.-27.10.201)

35. Interfilm Kurzfilmfestival Berlin (19.-24.11.2019)

2. Berlin Lesbian Non-Binary Filmfest (07.-08.12.2019)

11. Filmfestival in der Westtorhalle (27.-28.12.2019)

Berlin Feminist Film Week (05.-09.03.2020)

Shortcutz Berlin (11.03.2020)

26th International Short Film Week Regensburg (11.-18.03.2020)

Filmfest Weiterstadt (12.-17.08.2020)

KUNSTGRIFF ROLLE (30.08.2020)

49. Lubuskie Filmsommer (30.08.-06.0.2020)

14th River Film Festival (01.-15.09.2020)

Brussels Short Film Festival (02.-12.09.2020)

Festival de Cine Alemán 2020 (10.-16.09.2020)

16. achtung berlin - new berlin film award (16.-20.09.2020)

7. Randfilmfest Kassel (17.-20.09.2020)

Queer Lisboa 24 - International Queer Film Festival (18.-26.09.2020)

4th Visionär Film Festival (21.-28.09.2020)

Queer Film Festival Oldenburg / RollenWechsel (25.09.2020)

30th Oslo/Fusion Int'l Film Festival (25.09.-02.10.2020)

33rd annual Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival (02.-10.10.2020)

13. filmzeitkaufbeuren (05.-11.10.2020)

27. queerfilm festival Bremen (06.-11.10.2020)

25. Festival du Cinéma Allemand (07.-13.10.2020)

36. Warsaw Film Festival (9.-18.10.2020)

SoundTrack_Cologne 17 (14.-17.10.2020)

FILMETS Badalona Film Festival 2020 (16.-25.10.2020)

Chinese film festival, Baturu Cultural Film (16.-25.10.2020)

27. PRIDE PICTURES | QUEER FILM FESTIVAL (19.-25.10.2020)

31. Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg (20.-25.10.2020)

23. Pink Apple (20.10.-15.12.2020)

24. QUEER Filmfest Weiterstadt 2020 (21.10.-04.11.2020)

QueerFilmFest Rostock (22.-24.10.2020)

9. QUEER-Streifen Filmfestival (22.-28.10.2020)

35. MIX COPENHAGEN Film Festival (23.10.-01.11.2020)

32nd Cineffable Festival (24.-31.10.2020)

20. Filmfest FrauenWelten (28.10.-04.11.2020)

21st QFF Mezipatra (05.-20.11.2020)

Ecuador Feminist Film Festival (11.-13.11.2020)

German Currents Los Angeles (13.-16.11.2020)

24. PÖFF - Black Nights Filmfestival in Tallin (13.-19.11.2020)

QueerScope Online Filmfestival (17.-27.12.2020)

14. LGBT film festival in Toulouse Des Images Aux Mots (29.01.-07.02.2021)

Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand (31.01.-08.02.2021)

CINEVERSATIL, International Short Film Festival on Diversity- Argentina (02.-06.03.2021)

Tampere Film Festival (10.-14.03.2021)

24th Amsterdam LGBTQ Film Festival (11.-21.03.2021)

22. Schweinfurter Kurzfilmtage (01.-07.04.2021)

6. Filmfest Bremen (14.-18.04.2021)

16th IMMAGINARIA International Film Festival (16.-18.04.2021)

16. Courts Mais Trash International Film Festival (21.-28.04.2021)

21. Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival (28.04.-09.05.2021)

San Francisco's 25th Berlin & Beyond Film Festival (25.-30.05.2021)

CINEVERSATIL, International Short Film Festival on Diversity- Argentina (01.06.2021)

15th XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin (11.-15.08.2021)

17th CinéPride Festival (21.08.2021)

QUEER Mais Trash in Brussels (08.10.2021)

PROUD! Filmfestival (9.-16.10.2021)

Zefestival (09.-23.10.2021)

33. QueerFilmFestivals Esslingen (11.-17.11.2021)

Kurzfilmfestival „Mach mal halblang!“ (26.11.-05.12.2021)

23. Schweinfurter Kurzfilmtage (14.-16.04.2022)

Festival de films LGBT+ - Orléans- France (17.-19.09.2022)

interfilm Berlin 38th International Short Film Festival Berlin (15.-20.11.2022)

Dortmunder Tresen Filmfestival (29.05.-02.06.2023)

OFFline Film Festival (11.-15.10.2023)

PERLEN - Queer Film Festival Hannover (03.-05.06.2024)

Runtime:

8

Liebesbrief

Ein dickes attraktives Mädchen versumpft in ihrem überdigitalisierten Single-Appartment. Nonstop sendet sie Herzchen und Küsse an ihr Love Interest im Chat. Bis ein Stromausfall sie von der Außenwelt abschneidet. Und dazu zwingt, einen analogen Liebesbrief zu schreiben.

Credits

Cast:

Lisa Brand – Loona

Bardo Böhlefeld – Larry

Script:

Marcus Hanisch

Camera:

Jasper Techel

Editing:

Jannis Greff

Producer:

Maximilian Becht

Sound:

Moritz Drath

Music:

Moritz Drath

Film info

Direction:

Marcus Hanisch

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:2,35

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,35

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Version:

OV

Runtime:

6

Große Erwartungen

Wie würde die Welt aussehen, wenn nicht wir Erwachsene, sondern unsere Kinder einen ganz normalen Tag unseres Arbeitslebens bewältigen müssten? In dieser lustigen und doch fragwürdigen Welt ist manches zu groß für kleine Schultern – aber vielleicht könnten die Großen von den Kleinen noch etwas lernen...

Credits

Cast:

Lasse Pauli – Apfel Junge

Lilith Dulgeris – Coffee to go Mädchen

Mirza Eren – Ehemann

Yannick Hinrichs – Mahler

Bennet Pauli – Buisness Junge

Lotte Togler – Buisness Mädchen

Azra Aktas – Buisness Mädchen

Caspar Togler – Passant

Liselotte Bonn – Buisness Mädchen

Elias Siegmann – Buisness Junge

Bo Zachriat – Buisness Junge

Baselius Göze – Buisness Junge

Josephine Krabbe – Buisness Mädchen

Script:

Sara Summa

Camera:

Editing:

Sara Summa

Producer:

Roxana Richters

Sound:

Ben Roessler

Music:

Ben Roessler

Film info

Direction:

Sara Summa

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Deutschland

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

Deutsch mit Englischen Untertiteln

Version:

OV

Runtime:

4

Another world

Technology is on the rise, nature is disappearing. “Another World” addresses concerns about environmental problems and the growth of technology. What influence does technological progress have on our world? Individual scenes show possible scenarios and give viewers food for thought.

Credits

Film info

Direction:

Florinda Frisardi

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

16mm

Screening format:

1:2,39

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:2,39

Sound format:

Dolby 5,1

Language:

Version:

OV

Runtime:

4

Träume von Räumen

Tucked away from the hustle and bustle of new arrivals and mass tourists in Berlin Mitte, and only a stone’s throw away from the great Volksbühne theatre, there is an architectural ensemble, the ‘Kleine Bremer Höhe’ — its red brick houses almost untouched by time. Since 1989 the collective housing estate for workers, built during the German Empire, has served as a refuge to artists, punks and senior citizens. To the occasional random visitor the quiet courtyard with its dreamy linden trees presents itself as an enchanted garden right off the busy life of Torstrasse. A tracking shot past the trash cans by the entrance reveals an orderless space in which the few remaining tenants cross paths and linger to daydream and converse. ‘What does it mean to inhabit a space?’, asks filmmaker and resident Matthias Lintner at the beginning of the film. The answer lies in the affectionate portraits of his neighbours. The director closely watches and listens to his house mates, who have built a world of their own, and refuses to focus on the outside world. Ideas on vacantness and void appear as a subversive act against the utopia of the well-ordered spaces and echo the thoughts of writer Georges Perec — his quotes adding an essay-like layer.

Credits

Cast:

Båtsman & Spooky

Koben

Rafael Fortuna

Herr Pieper

Matthias Lintner

Script:

Matthias Lintner

Camera:

Francisco Medina

Matthias Lintner

Matilda Mester

Carlos Andrés López

Christopher Aoun

Editing:

Ginés Olivares

Producer:

Matthias Lintner

Ewelina Rosinska

Sound:

Matthias Lintner

Tondesign:

Joscha Eickel

Music:

Josépha van der Schoot

Hisato Higuchi

Rafael Fortuna

Film info

Direction:

Matthias Lintner

Genre:

documentary

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2018

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

25 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German with English subtitels

Version:

OV

Runtime:

85

Night Owls

"Night Owls" is inspired by Edward Hopper's painting Nighthawks and tells the story of a couple of revelers whose ways cross by chance at an isolated petrol station. Jonathan, a young, naive gas station clerk becomes a voyeur in the boredom of the night and watches Michaela, a mysterious woman, have anonymous sex. "Night Owls" is a dreamy appeal to love and life, a film about the curiosity and the expansion of one's own horizon against all prejudices.

Credits

Cast:

Valentin Erb – Jonathan

Maik Solbach – Michael/a

Script:

Samuel Auer

Camera:

Lukas Eylandt

Editing:

Wiebke Henrich

Producer:

Tamara Erbe

Sound:

Andor Horváth

Film info

Direction:

Samuel Auer

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germanyccc

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2016

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

16:9

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

16:9

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

German, English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

7

Das Melancholische Mädchen (Aren’t you happy?)

A girl roams through the city looking for a place to sleep. Along the way she meets young mothers who celebrate motherhood religiously, goes home with an abstinent existentialist for whom sex is “just another market”, and waits for the end of capitalism in a drag bar. Her attempt to write a book doesn’t make it beyond the first sentence of the second chapter, and she finds no space between art galleries, yoga studios and the beds of strangers. Instead of trying to fit in, she starts regarding her depression as a political issue. Through 15 of the girl’s humorous encounters, AREN’T YOU HAPPY? explores our post-modern society between precarity and self-marketing, serial monogamy and neo-spirituality, disillusionment and the pressure to be happy. Susanne Heinrich’s debut film brings together pop and theory, feminism and humour, and gives you tons of quotes you’ll want to see on advertising billboards in neon letters.

Credits

Camera:

Agnesh Pakozdi

Script:

Susanne Heinrich

Editing:

Susanne Heinrich

Benjamin Mirguet

Production Design:

Jeanne Louet

Miren Oller

Nora Willy

Sound:

Wiebke Köplin

Silvio Naumann

Music:

Mathias Bloech

Moritz Sembritzki

Ausstattung:

Lisa Poethke

Film info

Direction:

Susanne Heinrich

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Essential Films

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

4:3

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

4:3

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

80

Tom Schäfer

Tom Schäfer, in his mid-thirties, is employed in a municipal library. He looks quite nice - a bit dreamy. The birthday of a colleague on this Friday afternoon is a reason for all the staff of the library to meet for a coffee in the staff kitchen. Tom Schäfer is marginalized by his colleagues, nobody seems to want to have something to do with him. Nevertheless, he repeats his suggestion to drink a beer together. Until a colleague says yes. Tom Schäfer patiently waits for him, but in vain. When he understands that he has been forgotten, he makes his way home alone. At home his dog is waiting.

Credits

Cast:

Matthi Faust – Tom Schäfer

Andreas Merker – Karl Ohm

Stefan Ostertag – Friedrich Schönfeld

Paul Schaeffer – Janis Krämer

Susanne Szell – Mona

Lilli Meinhart – Olga

Script:

Isabella Kröger

Camera:

Jasper Techel

Producer:

Clara Gerst

Sound:

Matthias Rohde

Ausstattung:

Genja Leis

Film info

Direction:

Gerald Sommerauer

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

17

Warten auf Linda

The gatekeepers of death are driving inside a speeding car on their way to a pick up job on Earth, but they are running late. Therefore, two dead men inside a burger shop have a few extra moments to spare.

Credits

Cast:

Tristan Pranyko – Guenther

Malte Hermann – Werner

Lea Ostrovskiy – Linda

Ralf Kilauea – Gatekeeper 1

Joerg Odenbach – Gatekeeper 2

Drehbuch (Credit):

Shazad Madon

Editing:

Marian Marx

Camera:

Felix Schuster

Producer:

Anna Werner

Sound:

Torsten Hoppe

Film info

Direction:

Shazad Madon

Genre:

Kurzfilm

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Production:

2018

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1,85

Sound format:

Dolby 5.1

Language:

German, English subtitles

Version:

OV

Runtime:

22