German Competition

Annabelles Anker

Martin-Oliver Czaja

DE · 2015 · 30 min ·

Festival 2015

Fatherlessness and a lone mother are not the way to Happiness. These are the thoughts of 18-year-old Annabelle, who spends her time rather with writing a blog. Her best friend Sophie follows her posts permanently and quickly realizes that Annabelle has to struggle with an even greater desire: The one of great love.

Blue Blue Sky

Bigna Tomschin

DE · 2014 · DCP · 9 min

Festival 2015

Shortly before the summer vacation Maria ceased to speak. Her father also did not say much. He just preferred to dispose glass to the glass container. Most everyone is on vacation, at the beach or so, and Maria spends the time secretly in her deceased grand mother’s house and ponders about death and a house that will no longer belong to anybody.

Chernobyl: The Last Lament

Jan Fabi

DE · 2015 · Video-File · 10 min ·

Festival 2015

As in the night of the 26th of April 1986 one of the worst ecological catastrophes of the 20th century hit the Ukrainian city Chernobyl, Maria Patrovna and Hanna Zavorotnya were living life as usual. What they did not know at this time was that their life just then drastically changed. In June 2014 I had the unique opportunity to travel into the exclusion zone of Chernobyl, to visit the former flagship city of the Soviet Union.

Das Millionengrab

Die Schülerinnen und Schüler der Stadtteilschule Winterhude

DE · 2015 · DCP · 23 min

Festival 2015

Corruption. Power. Love. Explosions. The detectives Wronski and Pfaff investigate against Germany’s cleverest criminal organization – and against traitors within their own ranks.

DEAF ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

J. Hendel, A. Neumann, M. Henseler, M. Tümen, S. Pößiger

DE · 2014 · 7 min

Festival 2015

A party for non-hearing impaired and hearing impaired ends in a zombie apocalypse, that suddenly broke out worldwide. But why some of the party guests transform into zombies, although they were not bitten? Which heroes will save the world?

Der gekerbte Raum aus Stein gegen ein Ideal aus Glas

Brenda Lien

DE · 2015 · 14 min ·

Festival 2015

The masses stand, parked on the edge of a bottomless pit, and do not look down. Still no drop has fell yet, no one has to react now. Come on, we stuff wax in our ears and close our eyes, than, nothing will happen to us. Then the clouds rip open. Based on the poem „Sturmflutkommando“ by Slam-Poetin Josefine Berkholz.

Die Nachtigall

Konrad Simon

DE · 2014 · DV · 3 min

Festival 2015

A music video based on the fairytale “The Nightingale” by Hans Christian Andersen with the music „The Nightingale“ by Ugis Praulins.

Diese eine Nacht

Alexander Conrads

DE · 2014 · Blu-ray · 10 min ·

Festival 2015

As he took her to his hotel room, he was expecting no more than a one-night-stand. But in that seemingly safe hotel room that, what started superficial, turned to something like real closeness. Both became clear in mind, that they had nothing to lose. But then the night is over.

DOT

Tali Barde

DE · 2014 · DCP · 27 min

Festival 2015

A man is suddenly ripped out of his daily life. While crossing a red pedestrian traffic light he gets hit by a pickup trunk. 5 days after this fatal car accident he wakes up under the shower, uninjured, except for 11 strange lines on his wrist. He slips, breaks his neck on the edge of the bathtub and suddenly sees an unfamiliar lift – with one line less on his arm. A fight for his life through and against time begins.

ENDLICH !

Paul Scholten

DE · 2014 · DVD · 21 min

Festival 2015

Death belongs to life and nevertheless the human being suppresses thoughts about his own dying. This documentation shows three persons that describe their private or professional relationship to the subject of death.

Groeten uit Hindeloopen

Florian Maubach

DE · 2014 · DCP · 3 min ·

Festival 2015

A regular evening walk through Hindeloopen am Ijsselmeer. From the –Buren-- over the dyke, in the harbor, past the windows without curtains, over the big bridge, back to the dyke, to play with the sheep and the wind, to watch the sun dipping into a sea of insects.

Home

Lennart Kleinschmidt

DE · 2014 · Video-File · 10 min

Festival 2015

Earth suffers from pollution of the environment and the international community has started the evacuation of the planet. As many people as possible are to move to a space station. Including Simon, who alone takes care of his age-demented grandmother. She has to find the strength to say good by to her dear living quarters.

IceTruckFuckHardcore

Christoph Hertel, Johannes Lohmann

DE · 2014 · DVD · 8 min

Festival 2015

What is the secret of Buck’s Killer Ice Cream? It has to be the ingredients. With his IceTruck Buck drives through the countryside, to make children’s eyes shine and to make women happy. A horror shocker in tasteful country atmosphere and good old B-movie aesthetics.

In der Galerie

Kai Sitter

DE · 2014 · Video-File · 15 min

Festival 2015

Different people and destinies run in to each other at the opening of an art exhibit and come for a short time in contact to another.--:--? Thalall, the temporary manager of the art-gallery, Willem and his dominant mother and Zeynep, a beautiful, psychic labile young woman, always living in fear that her ex-boyfriend is still perusing her.

In einer Nacht

Leo Merkel

DE · 2014 · DVD · 11 min

Festival 2015

Totally drunk, Marias boyfriend stumbles through the door and tells her cheerfully about an affaire. She is stunned. But the night reveals more surprises and Maria realizes that to do the right thing is more difficult than she expected.

José Del Caribe

Thomas Eberhard

DE · 2014 · Video-File · 24 min

Festival 2015

José grew up in the slum of the Columbian city Medellín. He suffers under the harassment and brutality of his stepfather. In order to prove his manhood and to free himself from his stepfather, he decides to take revenge.

Metamorphose

Bastian Betz

DE · 2014 · 1 min ·

Festival 2015

About the dreams and yearnings of homeless.

Okay.

Sonderpreis

Lotta Schwerk

DE · 2014 · Video-File · 3 min ·

Festival 2015

It’s summer in Berlin and there’s tension in the air. A rainbow of feelings, a dream of love. Sitting on the roof, heart pouring out, keeping a cool head and be rescued by the best friend. Melli is in love with Carla.

Rattenkönig

Matthias Wissmann

DE · 2015 · DCP · 47 min

Festival 2015

What happens when an angry big city crook has to abide to village rules? The petty criminal Ortwin blew a simple job and hides out of fear of his boss Erik at a camping ground by Lake Constance. There he waits for a package with his savings that his cousin Denis is supposed to send from home. This simple plan gets complicated when Ortwin has to deal with the local bureaucracy and quirky campers.

So Weit

Philipp Sander

DE · 2015 · Video-File · 19 min

Festival 2015

What would you do if you wake up every morning on the same day? You cannot remember anything from last night, you have a hangover and just to make things worse, you have only one hour of time.

sry bsy

Verena Westphal

DE · 2014 · 3 min ·

Festival 2015

An absurd, black humor 2D-animation film about obsession, restrictions and estrangement, which shows the paradox of modern self-understanding.

Tarek Chalabi

Finn-Halvar Peters, Paulo M. Liux, Miklas Hoffmann

DE · 2014 · Video-File · 6 min

Festival 2015

An 18-year old man depicts why he left his homeland Syria and fled to Germany. He explains the reasons for his escape and learns quickly that bureaucracy here is different than he had imagined.

The Vagbonds - Forever

Linda Verweyen, Anna Sinkemat, Lorenz Hochhut

DE · 2014 · DV · 5 min

Festival 2015

Forever. Forever. Two words that promise us enormous security and confidence. An idiom that gives us high hopes. But how long is forever? As youths we only have a vague idea, but hope in our personal FOREVER. The song of the vagabonds show with melody and poetry what FOREVER can mean. And reveals: it’s really me. Forever.

Höschen

Thomas Bünger

DE · 2014 · DVD · 6 min ·

Festival 2015

A lonely parking lot, in a car, a man and a woman, who hardly know each other. One is afraid he will be fired from his job, the other notices that she does not know her boy friend as well as she assumed. With provocative questions he tries to get her to break out of her shell.

Watched

Richard Forstmann

DE · 2014 · Video-File · 3 min

Festival 2015

Always and everywhere, continually guarded. On the quest of a way out the path leads high.

Woe is me

Alma Weber

DE · 2014 · DCP · 2 min

Festival 2015

The youth of a woman – a long way with many obstacles. Flowing blood. Other people and external influences stand in her way and afflict her until she finally collapses. At the end it depends upon her, to free herself and to start over again.

Zuhause

Deutscher Nachwuchsfilmpreis 2015

Friedrich Tiedtke

DE · 2014 · DCP · 20 min ·

Festival 2015

After a traumatic experience he young student Clara flees to her parents in the country. Once there she had to suppress her pain, in order to participate on the Christmas-season harmony.

Candy Flaws

Maxine Metzger

DE · 2015 · DVD · 3 min ·

Festival 2015

In her seemingly flawless world, a doll has to find out that too much of a good thing can in fact be rather bad.

Rot=Grün

Margareta Kosmol

DE · 2014 · DVD · 9 min ·

Festival 2015

About corruption that is present in many countries and makes a normal life for many people almost impossible. Based on an interview with a taxi-driver in Armenia, the problems of the former Soviet country Armenia are depicted. But also the beauty and nature of the country is portrayed.

Die riskante Mission

Jonas August

DE · 2014 · DVD · 22 min

Festival 2015

During a seemingly harmless deployment the FBI-Agent Mike is kidnapped. His colleagues John and Eric try on their own to free him.

Reynke de vos

Deutscher Nachwuchsfilmpreis 2015

Joana Stamer

DE · 2014 · DVD · 11 min ·

Festival 2015

The fox that got away, like the artwork of an artist, like the film of a filmmaker.

In meinem Kopf

Lisann Greiner-Bechert

DE · 2015 · 3 min

Festival 2015

Self-doubt and hate. Virtual communication and love. About the daily use of the new communication media and their everyday consequences, about the theoretical “24-hour standby” and its negative sides.

WULLA WUSSA

Jan Krebs, Christoph Hertel

DE · 2014 · DVD · 7 min

Festival 2015

Frank won tickets for the WULLA WUSSA Festival and goes there with several of his friends. He feels very close to his friends but they do not feel so close to him. That why they were happy when Björn, a new and nice person, joined their gang. Somehow Frank has to prevent this.

Ausweg (ge)Sucht-Lucy

Lea Seiter, Anna-Juie Brüns, Jule Pätzold, Elena Pleve

DE · 2015 · DVD · 2 min

Festival 2015

Lucy is all alone. She hears voices that hassle and scare her. She tries to run away. She seems, however, to be trapped in a maze and the voices get louder and more aggressive.

Darf ich gehen?

Rand Safar, Berivan Erbek, Nguyen Nhu Ngoc, Aman Ayobi, Hossein Ayobi

DE · 2015 · Video-File · 7 min

Festival 2015

A young woman on the run from some war. In her hiding place she remembers how things used to be but war has destroyed everything.

Afuera

Laurentia Genske

DE · 2015 · DCP · 64 min

Festival 2015

Rafael and Yohan could not each be more different. Self-confident and undeterred Rafael fights through life. He is an individualist, who knows what he wants and never looks back. Yohan is a dreaming philosopher. He drifts through life and sees his fortune optimistically. Like many Cubans, both are bound together due to a shared interest: tourism. Often the only source of income and, at the same time, a gate to paradise. This film depicts the hard and rough daily life of two men, who fight for a better life.

Goldener Schnitt

Lilith Marie Queisser

DE · 2015 · 4 min

Festival 2015

A girl leaves her black and white world in order to discover a new, colorful world. Having arrived in a bright and exciting world, she concludes after the first enthusiasm, that not all is gold that glistens and starts her way back.

a film a day

Ilcin Öztürk, Hannah Nieberding

DE · 2015 · DVD · 3 min

Festival 2015

Snow White’s wicked step-mobber gets revenge with a poisonous apple for to many likes.

Urlaub

Teilnehmer der Medienwerkstatt Wismar

DE · 2014 · DVD · 4 min

Festival 2015

When the battery for the mobile phone is empty, it’s aggravating. When you’re addicted to your Smartphone and it craps out in the depth of a forest on the Darß, things get a little adventuresome. Back to the roots? This film was created at the Jugend-Natur-Film-Camp der Medienwerkstatt.

Vogelfrei

Victoria Wandsleb, Paula Kemink

DE · 2014 · DVD · 1 min

Festival 2015

A young woman grows wings. The world around her changes.

Otto der Fresssack

Pauline Jesser, Simon Jäger, Alina Hampe, Lina Terechin

DE · 2014 · DVD · 1 min ·

Festival 2015

Otto remains stuck in the bus because he had too much to eat. He buys at his favorite shop “The doner, the better” and aggravates other passengers so much the bus driver has to throw him out. A clay animation by third grade kids of the Eduard-Spranger-Schule in Reutlingen.

25 fps

Max Schäffer

DE · 2014 · Video-File · 20 min

Festival 2015

Sandra comes fresh from the drama school and does her first film. On the first day she was to do a complicated bondage scene. Sandra quickly recognizes how tense the crewmembers are. This scene becomes much more strenuous than she expected.

Den Regen im Blick

Simon Schneckenburger

DE · 2015 · DCP · 27 min ·

Festival 2015

Felix Sendler runs his life between studying, daily living in a commune and noncommittal contacts. His favorite places are the train station bridges, where no one would take notice of anything, his seemingly familiar room and the balcony. From this point he can observe life and the world without having to participate. Leitmotiv is the song “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” by Friedrich Rückert und Gustav Mahler.

Destroy Roy

Hanna Seidel

DE · 2014 · 16mm · 9 min

Festival 2015

Roy is a cameraman. And Roy loves Trudie, his old ARRi ST that he always carries with him. He very seldom allows anyone to touch it. Especially his camera assistant Trish continually tries to get close to it. One day during a take Roy moves too quick and fell over. Because the film had to be finished as quick as possible and Roys ankle was heavily sprained, the director gave Trish permission to film with Trudie. The situation escalates and gets bloody.

Die erste Mutter

Mohammad Al Kaddah

DE · 2014 · Video-File · 6 min ·

Festival 2015

“I ask myself: where is the smell of jasmine flowers? Never again will I smell earth again, like your earth, my homeland.”

Ein bisschen Normalität

Thomas Toth, Michael Schaff

DE · 2015 · DCP · 15 min

Festival 2015

A good actor, one asks in the first few seconds and hopes in the following. Then you recognize the genre and struggle with yourself. But it is overwhelmingly intensive, that little bit of normality between Julia and Samuel.

Just kids left alive on the road

Clara Winter

DE · 2014 · 12 min ·

Festival 2015

Two bored middleclass kids decide to turn their backs to their desolate daily life and to leave for an epic hitchhiking trip through Mexico. When they were confronted with hunger and poverty in the name of adventure, it became clear that making films in “third-world” countries is fun so long as one knows he can go back home. An ironic self-criticism.

Like in Africa

Deutscher Nachwuchsfilmpreis 2015

Samuel Hölscher, Melanie Waelde

DE · 2014 · DVD · 14 min

Festival 2015

A little Catholic village, somewhere in southern Germany, and therein an African refugee-family from Gambia. Everyday life between acceptance and ignorance, home and homeless, a new life on borrowed time.

Natan

Simon Marian Hoffmann

DE · 2015 · DVD · 20 min

Festival 2015

The story of a mysterious boy who after years of isolation seeks revenge on his tormentors.

Need

Jan Littelmann

DE · 2015 · Video-File · 9 min

Festival 2015

The 21-year old Luka lives since several years on the street and gets lost in drug-consumption. Only one desire still remains, which gives him no rest.

OUTLANGISH - Skateboarding Against Poverty

Tim Drabandt

DE · 2014 · DCP · 8 min ·

Festival 2015

About a South African project that offers kids from disadvantaged areas in Cape Town an alternative to life on the streets through skating. Skating is a sport that will give them a sense of happiness and togetherness and one that will keep them in positive spirits. Skating unifies young people. It gives them the opportunity to learn a lot about themselves and their environment.

Streng limitiert

Bent Evers

DE · 2015 · Video-File · 16 min

Festival 2015

Moritz needs a new apartment and the housing market is hard fought. Luckily he got a hot tip – the manager of a residential home is a big fan of the successful and classic film "I'll be gone for good", just like Moritz himself. Without hesitation Moritz bought two limited anniversary-editions of the film. Now nothing should stand between him and the new apartment any more.

Sweet Memories

Vanessa Stachel

DE · 2015 · Video-File · 14 min

Festival 2015

A young man tries to remember how he died. While this he lands in a noir film, a Zombie horror film, a science fiction and a Bollywood film. What really happened and why does his thoughts play such games?

Vom Tod gezeichnet.

Finn Mangels

DE · 2015 · Video-File · 5 min

Festival 2015

As long as you can write stories with your life, you should. Has the fear of the end ever been shown visually? No, but … it is not our end.

#noSimulation

Marcus Witte, Philipp Oertel, Jacqueline Fuchs

DE · 2015 · Video-File · 3 min

Festival 2015

A roller coaster ride of emotions, challenges and solutions. Just like the action team in the movies, the HeliSim-Team of the air- and aerospace students live and fight for a real helicopter-simulator at the college.

69 Ways (To Snore)

Rebecca Rehm, Michael Hildebrandt, Marc Schießer

DE · 2014 · DVD · 5 min

Festival 2015

Snoring men. A music video about a problem, women know all too well.

Abseits

Alexander Bambach

DE · 2015 · Video-File · 15 min

Festival 2015

The neighbor Ingrid warns Mother Sonja about the refugees in the local refugee hostel. There has already been some trouble there. Other than Sonja, her husband, Peter, sees this issue much more relaxed. When their son Nils suddenly stand in the door with an injured refugee-child, Nils had to confront the neighbor and Sonja with bare facts.

Alles wird gut

Samantha Thein

DE · 2015 · DVD · 7 min

Festival 2015

Lucy has fears and is left by her overwhelmed mother to cope with them alone. She tries to be strong and to fight against them. But how can she be sure, that her anxiety is with out reason?

Besuch aus dem All

Valentin Lautz

DE · 2015 · DCP · 4 min

Festival 2015

Everyday in a peaceful village, a woman on the balcony, a cook is hungry, busses, cars, bikes. But out in the universe a space ship is flying directly towards this village and lands one late evening on the marketplace. The people run away and hide. The aliens are surprised and hit the start button of their ghetto blasters.

Das ist kein Hexenwerk

Stefan Müller, Robert Fischer, Stella Bada

DE · 2015 · 2 min ·

Festival 2015

Willa, a young and clumsy witch faces her biggest magic-potion-test. In her witch tower she prepared all the ingredients. Her examiner, an old, deathly boring frog, is not of good will and secretly hopes she will fail.

Der Erste seiner Art

Stefan Weßling

DE · 2015 · Super-8 · 11 min

Festival 2015

In 1943 Major König and his son inspect a super soldier experiment in the castle Aisenblut. When the experiment became independent it lead not only to heavy conflicts with the SS. Father and son also could not laugh their differences away any more.

Der Goldfisch

Maya, Lara, David, Kaveh

DE · 2015 · 4 min

Festival 2015

A boundless wish with fatal consequences.

Die Badewanne

Tim Ellrich

DE · 2015 · DCP · 12 min ·

Festival 2015

Three brothers in a bathtub. That sounds normal, except for the fact, that all three are over 30. The youngest brother Niklas had the idea to reenact a picture from his childhood as a present. On the evening for his mother’s birthday party he discussed this loudly with his brother Georg, who thought the idea was crazy. A fight enflames, at which not only the middle brother becomes the ball between the other two, but where it became clear, how different the brothers have become since then. Filmed as a One Take ---through the perspective of the camera.

Erledigung einer Sache

Dustin Loose

DE · 2014 · DCP · 20 min ·

Festival 2015

In an effort to fulfill the last will of his mother, the young boy JAKOB ADLER is to visit his biological father, whom he has never seen before. He has been locked up in a psychiatric ward for over 25 years because he murdered his brother. Before it comes to this fateful encounter, Jakob would like to consult the doctor in charge, DR. WEISS, in order to reveal the true dimension of this family tragedy.

FREIGEIST

Daryl Aiple

DE · 2015 · DCP · 20 min

Festival 2015

After seven years in prison Michael is on the street again. He spent his time in jail for a bank robbery. Aimless and aggressive Michael drifts through the city and lands at a kiosk. A quarrel starts up, Michael punches the kiosk-owner half to death. He seeks help from his older brother Robert, but gets none, because his brother does not want to be involved in any shit like that.

JA

Lara Jo Pitz, Johannes Rojaner

DE · 2015 · DVD · 9 min

Festival 2015

With good luck we lose ourselves, with bad luck we find each other again. A quest, that lies between the former and the present. A story that is not just a story. A film that not only lets feel, but lets know.

Memories

Lukas Mohl

DE · 2014 · Video-File · 10 min

Festival 2015

In 2030 research is so advanced, that technology built into the human body belongs totally to reality. Cameras as eyes and implants for more efficiency: thanks to the major concern ABM, everyone can enhance his skills according to desire. This film depicts a young man named Shawn. He also carries so-called extensions in his body and leads with them a carefree life, which changes suddenly after an accident.

Rhythmus

Sebastian Husak

DE · 2015 · 16mm · 19 min

Festival 2015

Aaron stands close to getting his high school diploma. It seems that he has everything he needs. But he has the feeling that the people around him, who only show a superficial interest for him, are manipulated. He found a valve to release the pressure of the lack of interest – he goes to a public spot and steals private things of other people. During one of his hunts he meets the runaway-girl Nina, who goes from city to city with her accordion.

Soledad

Pablo Kaes

DE · 2014 · DCP · 13 min

Festival 2015

Jesús lives isolated from his environment. Everything aches due working on a construction site. Normally he only has to take care of himself. But on this day he has to take over the responsibility for his daughter – and that ruins him.

Urbane Befriedigung - Frei nach Kafka

Bundes-Schülerfilm-Preis 2015

Nick Prahle, Luis Viera Heine

DE · 2014 · 5 min ·

Festival 2015

A young man is stuck in a mill wheel, unthankful daily life. He has confined himself. But beyond of his inner loneliness an outside is awaiting him, filled with ecstasy, crowds of people, fun, noise, liberation, power. Satisfaction due to urbanization? Maybe. But with our disentanglement from its crippling reflexivity, only the curse of an idea in your head and a closed window for the girl.