Schlagwort-Archive: Germany

What’s left (Was bleibt)

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Screening: Saturday, June 20, 23:00 ( BEST OF GERMANY II)

whats-left

Country of Origin: Germany
Year of Production: 2007
Duration: 17′
Category: Fiction

Director: David Nawrath
Screenplay: David Nawrath
Cinematographer: Markus Koob
Editor: David Nawrath
Producer: Susanne Mann, Paul Zischler
Cast: Maximilian Köster, Andrej Kaminsky, Nora von Waldstätten, Wiebke Frost, Alexander Flache, Markus von Lingen, Siggi Pawellek, Helmut Michel

Synopsis: After a long period of time a father and a son spend their day together, to attend the funeral of the grandmother. The sad occasion Der traurige Anlass birgt allerhand Konfliktpotential: Zunächst muss der Sohn angemessen gekleidet werden, doch Opas alter Anzug vermag nicht zu begeistern, und ein Kaufhausbesuch entwickelt sich schwierig. Trotz aller Differenzen ist am Ende aber etwas anders geworden.

Festivals & Awards: Nominierung für den Deutschen Kurzfilmpreis 2009

Weblink: www.kurzfilmpreisunterwegs.org/index.php?c=filme&film=10

Cosmic Station

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Screening: Saturday, June 20, 23:00 Uhr (BEST OF GERMANY II)

cosmic-station

Country of Origin: Germany
Year of Production: 2008
Duration: 30′
Category: Documentary

Director: Bettina Timm
Screenplay: Bettina Timm
Cinematographer: Alexander Riedel
Editor: Bettina Timm
Producer: Philip Vogt
Music: Daniel Kluge, Edouard Stork

Synopsis: In 1943 a cosmic ray research station was set up on the top of Mount Aragaz in Armenia. During the 1980s the team of scientists here embarked upon an ambitious research project which, due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, was never completed. Today the vast and considerably run-down complex located at an altitude of 3,500 metres is home to only six people, including two women who clean and cook for the group. This intimate and sensitive film uses long shots and masterful compositions to capture the total isolation of this surviving relic of the Soviet space programme.

Festivals & Preise: Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis in Gold in der Kategorie Dokumentarfilme mit einer Laufzeit bis 30 Minuten, Visions Du Réel, Nyon, Oberhausen, Karlovy Vary, FIDMarseille, Dok Leipzig, Vancouver, Golden Apricot, Armenien.

Weblink: www.kurzfilmpreisunterwegs.org/index.php?c=filme&film=6

Honey Trap (Honigfalle)

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Screening: Sunday, June 15, 19:00 (GIRLFRIENDS)

Honigfalle

Country of Origin: Germany
Year of Production: 2006
Duration: 16’21“
Category: Fiction

Director: Kim Neumann
Screenplay: Kim Neumann, Ulrich Jaschek
Cinematographer: Roland Fritzenschaft
Editor: Heike M. Stumm
Music: Ossy Pfeiffer
Producer: Kim Neumann
Cast: Wolf Bachofner, Moritz Duerr, Marcel Metten, Yvonne Werner-Mees

Synopsis: Guenter Frentzke is in imprisonment on remand for some weeks now. He is accused to have brutally killed a child. The police don’t have any precise evidence and so the justice’ hands are tied. In a few days they will have to free him…

Festivals & Awards: Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney Germany 2007, Shortmoves Festival Halle/Saale Germany 2007, Biberacher Filmfestspiele Germany 2007

Silence (Stille)

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Screening: Sunday, June 15, 19:00 (GIRLFRIENDS)

silence

Country of Origin: France/Germany
Year of Production: 2006
Duration: 10’19“
Category: Fiction

Director: Corinna Thamm
Screenplay: Corinna Thamm
Cinematographer: Sonia Charoki, Jeremy Forni
Editor: Corinna Thamm
Music: Michael Bunn
Cast: Martin Boulou, Alexandra Boye, Chantal Dehaene, Laure Hunot, Francois Mueller, Philippe Vidal

Synopsis: After his father’s death, Tristan returns to his parental house. Back in the place, where his father once sexually abused his sister, he understands that the time has come to break the silence.

Festivals & Awards: „La corrida audiovisuelle“ Toulouse France 2007

The Golden Nazi Vampire of Absam: Part II – The Secret of Kottlitz Castle (Der Goldene Nazivampir von Absam 2 – Das Geheimnis von Schloss Kottlitz)

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Screenings: Wednesday, June 18, 19:00 (BOYFRIENDS)

Standfoto - Der Goldene Nazivampir von Absam 2

Country of Origin: Germany
Year of Production: 2008
Duration: 45’41“
Category: Fiction

Director: Lasse Nolte
Screenplay: Lasse Nolte
Cinematographer: David Emmenlauer
Editor: Lasse Nolte
Music: Tuomas Kantelinen, Knorkator, Killing Noise, Leopold Kraus Wellenkapelle
Producer: Martin Blankemeyer, Cornel Schaefer, Robin Schaefer, Christl Catanzaro, Damien Donnelly, Mike Dehghan, Daniel Froehlich
Cast: Daniel Krauss, Goetz Burger, Hendrik Martz, Walter Stapper, Kim Baermann and Oliver Kalkofe

Synopsis: If things were up to General Donovan, then the Military Secret Service of the United States would take care of really important things, of which there are plenty in this Autumn of 1942. Let the Waffen-SS search for Atlantis and dance around Germanic Druid Stones – who believes in the occult of „Wunderwaffen“ or „miracle weapons“ anyway? At least no straightforward American patriot, only pathetic wimps like William Blazkowicz, the only person at the OSS who wears glasses. But then… can you dare risk to ignore explicit warnings? Secretly shot films? Evidence? What is really happening in Kottlitz Castle? Who killed Smokey Savallas? What kind of research is the „Ahnenerbe der SS“ involved in? Who stole Count Dracula’s bones from a crypt in Wallachia? And where’s the connection between a fanatic SS General, underground laboratories full of German scientists, and a huge pit filled with molten gold? Questions, questions… and of all people William Blazkowicz is being smuggled into the Austrian Alps to find answers. But no one could ever imagine in the wildest of dreams what Blazkowicz is going to unearth at Kottlitz Castle…

Festivals & Awards: „Sehsuechte“ Potsdam Germany 2008 (Nominee for Producers Award), Medienhaus Hannover Germany 2008

Weblink: www.muenchner-filmwerkstatt.de/nazivampire.htmhttps://www.youtube.com/nazivampire

The Prisoner Of The Month (Der Häftling Des Monats)

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Screening: Wednesday, June 18, 19:00 (BOYFRIENDS)

Standfoto "Häftling des Monats"

Country of Origin: Germany
Year of Production: 2005
Duration: 23′
Category: Fiction

Director: Mario Dircks
Screenplay: Mario Dircks
Cinematographer: Edwin Krieg
Editor: Uli Schön
Music: Steffen Kaltschmid
Producer: Axel Donath
Cast: Mike Langhans, Johanna Falckner, Benjamin Koller, Daniel Bucher

Synopsis: A young man walks home when he gets stopped and arrested by two policeman. In the cellar of a police station, he is thrown into a dirty cell. After he recovered of the first fright, he assesses that there is also a young girl in this cell. First of all he thinks, she got arrested the same way, but soon he realizes, that she is part of a cruel and inhuman story, that forces the young man to change he’s world picture or to die yet in this night.

Festivals & Awards: Portobello Film Festival UK

Weblink: www.derhaeftlingdesmonats.de

Shift (15 Minuten Wahrheit)

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Screening: Saturday, June 14, 23:00 (BEST OF GERMANY II)

shift

Country of Origin: Germany
Year of Production: 2007
Duration: 18′
Category: Fiction

Director: Nico Zingelmann
Screenplay: Nico Zingelmann
Cinematographer: Felix Poplawsky
Editor: Marco Baumhof
Music: Christopher Bremus
Producers: Birke Birkner, Jean-Young Kwak
Cast: Herbert Knaup, Christoph Bach

Synopsis: 50-year-old Georg Komann and his colleagues surprisingly get laid off by their company, without even any decent severance pay. Knowing that no-one will rehire fifty-years-olds, they need a good plan to avert their personal and financial ruin. Komann risks everything by asking his boss for a meeting that could change his life in any direction – a personal 15 minute meeting.

Festivals & Awards: Salento Finibus Terrae International Short Film Festival Italy 2008 (Best Short Film & Best Actor Herbert Knaup), Festival de Cannes France 2008 (Short Film Market), 13th Street NBC Universal Film Festival USA 2008 (Nominee for Shocking Shorts Award), Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand France 2008 (Short Film Market), International Short Film Festival Clergy-Pontoise France 2008 (1st Prize: Communauté d’agglomération de Cergy-Pontoise), FEC European Short Film Festival Reus Spain 2008 (Special Mention), Studio Hamburg Prize for Young Filmmaker 2008 (Best Short Film, Audience Award), Nominee for Best German Short Film Potsdam Germany 2007, Shorts at Moonlight Hofheim Germany 2007 (Skoda – Short Film Prize), German Short Film Prize Bonn Germany 2007 (Nominee for Best German Short Film), Tatort Eifel Daun Germany 2007 (Winner of Short Film Competition), Unlimited Cologne 2007 (Jury Award – Local Competition), International Festival Of Student Film Belgrade Serbia 2007 (Best Fiction Film Award), Kustendorf Film Festival Mokra Gora Serbia 2008 (Nominee for Short Film Competition), Tribeca Film Festival New York USA 2008 (Nominee for Short Film Competition), “Shorts At Moonlight” Germany 2007 (1st Prize, Audience Award), “Tatort Eifel” Germany 2007 (1st Jury Prize), „Unlimited“ 2nd International Film Festival Cologne Germany 2007 (1st Jury Prize), 9th International Student Film Festival Belgrade Serbia 2007 (Best Fiction Film Award), Kinofest Luenen Germany 2007 (Best Short Film, Audience Award), Filmfestival Münster Germany 2007 (Audoence Award), Kurzfilmtage Bamberg Germany 2008, Berlin&Beyond Film Festival San Francisco USA 2008, Filmfest Landshut Germany 2008, Kurzfilmtage Guetersloh Germany 2008, International Short Film Festival Dresden Germany 2008, Oskariada 7. IIFFF Warsaw Poland 2008, Week Of The European Film Panevezys Lithuania 2008, Kurzfilmtage Thalmaessing Germany 2008, International Student Film Festival Tel Aviv Israel 2008, Kurze Nacht der noch kuerzeren Filme Pfaffenhofen Germany 2008, Salento Finibus Terrae International Film Festival Italy 2008, Max-Ophuels-Prize Saarbruecken Germany 2007, „Sehsuechte“ Film Festival Potsdam Germany 2007, Filmfest Emden Germany 2007, European Short Film Biennale Ludwigsburg Germany 2007, Open Eyes Film Fest Marburg Germany 2007, Short Film Festival Luechow Germany 2007, Filmfest Muenster Germany 2007, Kurzfilmfestival Flensburg Germany 2007, „interfilm“ International Short Film Festival Berlin Germany 2007, Kinofest Luenen Germany 2007, Filofest Ljubljana Slovenia 2007, Goethe-Institut Los Angeles USA 2007, FILMZ Festival Of German Film Mainz Germany 2007

Weblink: http://www.kurzfilmtournee.de/shift

The Runt (Der Kloane)

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Screening: Saturday, June 14, 23:00 (BEST OF GERMANY II)

the-runt

Country of Origin: Germany
Year of Production: 2006
Duration: 10′
Category: Animation

Director: Andreas Hykade
Screenplay: Andreas Hykade
Animators: Andreas Hykade, Ralf Bohde
Editors: Andreas Hykade, Ralf Bohde
Music: Ulrich Reuter

Synopsis: „Alright, I’ll give you the runt. But you take care of it, and you kill it in one year,“ my uncle said.

Festivals & Awards: German Short Film Prize Potsdam Germany 2007, Nominee For World Short Film Award 2008 New York USA 2007, International Festival of Animation Arts „Multivision“ St. Petersburg Russia 2007 (Best Story), Kalamazoo Animation Festival International USA 2007 (First Prize For Independent Works), AniFest Prague Czech Republic 2007 (Grand Prix), International Animated Film Festival Annecy France 2007 (FIPRESCI Award), „Anima“ Argentinia 2007 (Grand Jury Price), RICA Wissembourg France 2007 (Grand Prix des Rencontres), 10th Tallinn Black Night Festival Estonia 2006, 8th Animated Dreams Tallinn Estonia 2006 (Wooden Wolf GRAND PRIX), Riofan Brazil 2008, 47th Krakow Film Festival Poland 2007, Platform International Animation Festival USA 2007, Lenolafilmfestival Italy 2007, CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival Canada 2007, „In the Palace“ International Short Film Festival Bulgaria 2007, Kinofest Romania 2007, Aye Aye Filmfestival France 2007, Fantoche – Internationales Festival für Animationsfilm Switzerland 2007, London International Animation Festival UK 2007, 29th International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand France 2007, Slow Film Festival Hungary 2007, 27. Atlantic Film Festival Canada 2007, 8th International Animation Festival Madrid Spain 2007, „Animanima“ International Animation Festival Serbia 2007, Eksjoe Animation Festival Sweden 2007, Milano Film Festival Italy 2007, Akbank Shortfilm Festival Turkey 2007, Animpact Korea 2007, Uppsala International Short Film Festival Sweden 2007, Cinanima International Animated Film Festival Portugal 2007, Valsusa Filmfest Italy 2007, 25th International Young Audience Film Festival ALE KINO Poland 2007, PLATFORMA VIDEO 7 International Film Festival Greece 2007, Kurz und Knapp Switzerland 2007, Aubagne International Film Festival France 2007, „The Magic Lantern“ Film Festival Glasgow UK 2007, „Animabasauri“ Spain 2007, „Anima“ Belgium 2007, Granada International Young Filmmakers Festival Spain 2007, Short Film Festival Landshut Germany 2007, International Film Festival Dresden Germany 2007, International Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart Germany 2007, International Short Film Festival Hamburg Germany 2007, Shorts at Moonlight Hofheim Germany 2007, International Short Film Festival Detmold Germany 2007, Open Air Film Festival Weiterstadt Germany 2007, DokFestival Leipzig Germany 2007, Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival Germany 2007, „zwergWERK“ Short Film Days Oldenburg Germany 2007, Short Film Week Regensburg Germany 2007, Ottawa International Animation Festival Canada 2006, Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya Spain 2006, London Film Festival UK 2006, Bradford Animation Festival UK 2006, Cinematheque Quebequoise Montreal Canada 2006, Tampere 36th Short Film Festival Finland 2006, Brest European Short Film Festival France 2006

Weblink: http://www.kurzfilmtournee.de/the-runt

Gaining ground (Land gewinnen)

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Screening: Friday, June 13, 23:00 (BEST OF GERMANY I)

gaining-ground

Country of Origin: Germany
Year of Production: 2006
Duration: 20’30“
Category: Fiction

Director: Marc Brummund
Screenplay: Fabian Wiemker
Cinematographer: Bettina Herzner
Editors: Ulf Albert, Magdolna Rokob
Music: Carsten Rocker
Producer: Yildiz Ozcan
Cast: Radik Golovkov, Olga Kolb, Andreas Schust, Hedi Kriegeskotte, Jan Peter Heyne

Synopsis: Andrej and his family have been living in Germany illegally for years. When his son reaches school age, he can´t hide any longer. Mischa´s future is at stake.

Festivals & Awards: International Creativ Award Of The Senate Of Hamburg Germany 2008, Mediterranean Festival of New Filmmakers Larissa Greece 2008 (Second Prize: Silverhorse), 18. Bamberger Kurzfilmtage Germany 2008 (Third Audience Award), 30. International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand France 2008 (Kodak Showcase), 34th Annual Student Academy Awards USA 2007 (Nomination For Student Oscar), Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis Germany 2007 (Best Directing), International Women Film Festival Cologne Germany 2007(Best Cinematography, Special Mention), 57th Berlin International Film Festival Germany 2007 (Best Short Film, Special Mention), Golden Knight International Film Festival Moskau Russia 2007 (Silver Knight XVI), Vilnius Film Shorts Lithuania 2007 (Special Mention), Wendland Short Luechow Germany 2007 (Best Script), 37th International Children Film Festival Giffoni Italy 2007 ( Best Short Film, Special Prize), Nomination for First Steps Award 2007 (Best Short Film), International Competition VGIK International Filmschool Festival Moskau Russia 2007 (Audience Award), Konstanzer Kurzfilmspiele Germany 2007 (Best Short Film), CILECT Prize Competition Bulgaria 2007 (Fifth Prize), „My Europe“ Film Festival Germany 2007 (Audience Award), Nomination for Best German Short Film 2007

Weblink: http://www.kurzfilmtournee.de/gaining-ground

The Ferryman (Der Fährmeister)

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Screening: Friday, June 13, at 23:00 (BEST OF GERMANY I)

the-ferryman

Country of Origin: Germany
Year of Production: 2007
Duration: 15′
Category: Fiction

Director: Joerg Bruhn
Screenplay: Joerg Bruhn
Cinematographer: Franz Rath
Editor: Jessica Ehlebracht
Music: Andre Feldhaus
Producer: Saskia Wegelein
Cast: Guenter Lamprecht, Radik Golovkov, Marie-Christine Friedrich

Synopsis: The countryside at night, a lonely road and a hearse. This is the story of the old ferryman who guides the souls of the deceased from the world of the living to the world of the dead. And of Andrew who is entangled in his memories and his belief that death holds some kind of truth.

Festivals & Awards: Nominee for Best German Short Film Potsdam Germany 2007, International Short Film Festival zwergWERK Oldenburg Germany 2007 (Audience Award), International Vilnius Short Film Festival Lithunia 2008, Filmfest Weiterstadt Germany 2007, Filmfest Eberswalde Germany 2007, Short Film Festival Biberach Germany 2007, Short Film Festival Braunschweig Germany 2007

Weblink: http://www.kurzfilmtournee.de/the-ferryman