German Competition

Ab in die Zukunft

written & directed by the young Film-Team (2007) (Cooperation Darßer Naturfilmfestivals and Medienwerkstatt Wismar)

DE · 2020 · 8 min

Festival 2021

Two girls want to save a beech and unintentionally travel into the future - where they make a terrible discovery ...

PLAYLIST 2 DE

all eyes on you

directed by Michaela Kobsa-Mark (1992), Roman Brauch (1994), Sebastian Ganschow (1994), Stefan Erschig (1994)

DE · 2021 · 34 min

Festival 2021

Documentation on surveillance in public spaces, police violence and racism

PLAYLIST 2 DE

Alone

written by Amechi Oji | directed by Amechi Oji (2007), Jakob Bey (2005)

DE · 2021 · 6 min

Festival 2021

Alone in a new town, Luke has to watch his new friend commit suicide. Or was that just a vision?

recommended for ages 12 and up

PLAYLIST 5 DE

Altes Zeug

written & directed by Georg Tabeling (1999)

DE · 2020 · 6 min

Festival 2021

You don´t know what´s lurking in your attic...

PLAYLIST 3 DE

Amputierte Arschbacken

written & directed by Claudia Tuyết Scheffel (1995)

DE · 2020 · 29 min

Festival 2021

Grandpa Liem loses at poker. Mortima is a vampire. Long meets a dragon.

PLAYLIST 9 DE

Anatomie eines Weltverständnisses

written by Alexander Fischer, Lorenzo Schicho | directed by Alexander Fischer (Peskador) (1993)

DE · 2020 · 3 min

Festival 2021

Mr. Bulge did not water the orchid from Mr. Belly. In order to escape responsibility, he spins a confusing web of lies and conspiracy theories, in which he eventually gets caught.

PLAYLIST 9 DE

Angsthase

written & directed by Ben Moore (2003)

DE · 2021 · 12 min

Festival 2021

When Sven suddenly sees an opportunity, he grabs the chance to prove himself once and for all and finally be accepted by his brother.

recommended for ages 12 and up

PLAYLIST 8 DE

Another Roadtrip

written & directed by Ella Knorz (2000)

DE · 2020 · 12 min

Festival 2021

The year 1984. Iris and Alexander are two young aesthetes who drive into nowhere with a stolen car, an analog camera and an uncomfortable mattress.

PLAYLIST 8 DE

Bandsalat

written & directed by Tanja Hurrle (1998)

DE · 2020 · 17 min

Festival 2021

In the kitchen, chaos. In bed, Mom who has had another breakdown. Lou immediately knows that her 16th birthday is ruined.

PLAYLIST 9 DE

Bauchgefühl

written & directed by Lilli Hildebrandt (2000)

DE · 2021 · 14 min

Festival 2021

17-year-old Conni takes a pregnancy test. Suddenly her life is turned upside down. Suffocated by the expectations of her boyfriend, her friends and her mother, Conni begins to question everything.

recommended for ages 12 and up

PLAYLIST10 DE

Becky's weightloss-palace

written & directed by Bela Brillowska (2004)

DE · 2020 · 8 min

Festival 2021

"I was annoyed by the dreary documentaries about anorectic women, in which everything was so distorted and dramatic."

PLAYLIST 4 DE

Berühr'mich

written & directed by Hendrik Ströhle (1997)

DE · 2020 · 28 min

Festival 2021

The documentary "touch me" portrays a special relationship between love and service.

recommended for ages 12 and up

PLAYLIST 4 DE

Boys don't cry

written & directed by Madita Rutten (1996)

DE · 2021 · 17 min

Festival 2021

Seventeen year old Luca doesn’t feel like a real girl at all. As she wins a meet and greet with her Idol, the Popstar Felix West, she tries to change everything about herself.

PLAYLIST 6 DE

Catsitter

written & directed by Lukas Becker (1995)

DE · 2021 · 21 min

Festival 2021

A catsitter visits a mysterious client's home and finds that the cat she is supposed to feed is not the animal she was expecting.

PLAYLIST 6 DE

Connection

written & directed by Serafima Orlova (1996)

DE · 2021 · 6 min

Festival 2021

A ship moves slowly over waves, through other waves a conversation is going on. The movements can suddenly stop, a connection remains.

PLAYLIST 2 DE

Contagious Loneliness

directed by Carina-Susann Krause (1998), Anna Schorpp (1998), Carla Mietzner (1995)

DE · 2020 · 4 min

Festival 2021

A woman must put aside her desire to be touched. The loss and change of her familiar surroundings push her to her limits.

PLAYLIST 5 DE

Die drei Portraits des Chaos

written & directed by Liselotte Séchet (2003)

DE · 2021 · 12 min

Festival 2021

"For six difficult months I was overwhelmed by study, loneliness and illness. I tried to describe my thoughts through three portraits: my room, my terrace and my skull cave."

PLAYLIST 3 DE

Die Mathematik der Dinge

written & directed by Zoe Hagen (1993)

DE · 2020 · 15 min

Festival 2021

Lena is pregnant and doesn't know whether to abort or not. She begins to set up the nursery, but only with objects that she receives from the classified ads category as a "gift".

PLAYLIST 4 DE

Ein Ozean

written & directed by Paul Scheufler (1998)

DE · 2021 · 19 min

Festival 2021

The trembling begins in the neck when Markus gets closer to the images that have haunted him for 49 years. He wages a daily struggle for survival between the past and the view of the ocean.

recommended for ages 12 and up

PLAYLIST 5 DE

Euphrat

written & directed by Jelena Ilic (1993)

DE · 2020 · 4 min

Festival 2021

“Euphrates” is a poetic testimony by Jabbar Abdullah that remembers an intact Syria. In 2011 he experienced the outbreak of war and escaped until a river led him to his new home.

PLAYLIST 8 DE

Eva

written & directed by Julia Feige (1993)

DE · 2020 · 5 min

Festival 2021

EVA is a feminist short film by and with Julia Feige. It examines codes and dependencies in the fashion world and shows the gradual process of objectification.

PLAYLIST 1 DE

Floating - KUOKO

written & directed by Jasmin Luu (1994)

DE · 2020 · 4 min

Festival 2021

Floating' is about getting lost in the beauty of the moment as an act of self-empowerment.

PLAYLIST 7 DE

FLOKATI

written by Steffen Ludwig | directed by Steffen Ludwig (1996), Luca Backhaus

DE · 2019 · 5 min

Festival 2021

The world is on fire, right in front of our eyes. Do we intervene or do we stay at our screens? A music video about the radiance of stimulus objects.

PLAYLIST 2 DE

Florian forscht-Cookies

written & directed by the young Film-Team (2005/2008) Medienwerkstatt Wismar

DE · 2020 · 5 min

Festival 2021

About internet privacy and what cookies have to do with it.

PLAYLIST 2 DE

FLOW

written & directed by Nathan Engelhardt (1998)

DE · 2021 · 7 min

Festival 2021

Steve tells Georg about his first “drop in” - jumping into the halfpipe on a skateboard. Georg can't let go of the idea of ​​standing up there himself. And then he is actually just before his first “drop in” ...

PLAYLIST10 DE

Furor.

written by Luna Jordan | directed by Luna Jordan (2000), Frida Lindenau (2003)

DE · 2020 · 3 min

Festival 2021

The diary entry of an angry girl. A poetic reflection on gender roles, growing up and one's own psyche.

PLAYLIST 1 DE

Gedanken eines Heuchlers

written & directed by Moritz Licht (1997)

DE · 2020 · 3 min

Festival 2021

Reflection on the zeitgeist, social media and the climate catastrophe. And of course the double standards that we encounter everywhere in life.

PLAYLIST 9 DE

GETESTET - GEIMPFT - GETORTET

directed by Abschlussklassen BL 9a und 9b (2005) der Berufsbildenden Schule Stegen

DE · 2021 · 7 min

Festival 2021

The story of a vaccinated big shot who is allowed to go anywhere without a corona test. A silent film with a pie fight and a group of deaf people.

PLAYLIST 7 DE

Girl Who Cried Wolf

directed by Kevin Koch (1995), Emma Holzapfel (2000)

DE · 2021 · 15 min

Festival 2021

Through an unexpected twist, the friendship of five young people is put to the test.

recommended for ages 12 and up

PLAYLIST 7 DE

HYSTERIA

written by Charlot van Heeswijk, Rojan Emrani | directed by Charlot van Heeswijk (1996)

DE · 2021 · 15 min

Festival 2021

After being assaulted in public by a group of boys, the budding love between Daja and Robin is put to a test as they are forced to deal with the aftermath.

recommended for ages 12 and up

PLAYLIST 7 DE

I'mperfect

written & directed by Anouk Segebart (2007)

DE · 2021 · 13 min

Festival 2021

In a future world, all teenagers will be measured by their "degree of perfection" ...

PLAYLIST 5 DE

Intermezzo

written & directed by Kim Lêa Sakkal (1994)

DE · 2021 · 49 min

Festival 2021

Separated by the realities of their day to day lives, the twins Rebecca and Carlo find themselves forced to co-habit and find closure to a chapter in their young lives.

PLAYLIST 8 DE

Jona

written & directed by Jonathan Schaller (1996)

DE · 2019 · 16 min

Festival 2021

"Jona" is a short film about brothers and becoming a man between weird music, an air gun and egg-nog.

recommended for ages 12 and up

PLAYLIST 5 DE

JUST IN CASE

written by Dominik Riemer | directed by Insa Meyer, Céline Ahlbrecht, Alina Saltheim (1994-96)

DE · 2021 · 2 min

Festival 2021

In a fantastic factory, something is divided, melted, shaped, washed, powdered and packaged.

PLAYLIST10 DE

Kaltmiete

written by Marc Philip Ginolas, Leonard Hettich | directed by Marc Philip Ginolas (1997)

DE · 2020 · 17 min

Festival 2021

Out of a housing emergency a young male nurse wants to move in with his old favorite patient. But then everything comes differently.

PLAYLIST 3 DE

Karies

written & directed by Team DREH DEINEN FILM! (2008)

DE · 2020 · 3 min

Festival 2021

David has never brushed his teeth. That's what the dentist wants to change now. The film originated from the idea to the cut in the team.

PLAYLIST 4 DE

Keine Wahrheit mehr

written & directed by Linus Krömer (1998)

DE · 2021 · 15 min

Festival 2021

Three young people run into each other by chance. They don't know each other, but they are connected by their loss of control in a chaotic world that is characterized by constant self-affirmation.

PLAYLIST 7 DE

KNIGHT

written & directed by Sophie Jung (1994)

DE · 2020 · 4 min

Festival 2021

A shy guy, a weird young woman and a female Knight who helps them fall in love with each other - in a quite different way than usual.

PLAYLIST 5 DE

Lieber Papa,deine Tochter

written & directed by Karoline Rößler (1999)

DE · 2021 · 17 min

Festival 2021

This desctop documenatry is based on e-mails and phonecalls, Instagram posts and newspaper articles and the relationship between a daughter and her father, trying to find a consens about gender-neutral language, racism or walking alone at night as a woman.

PLAYLIST 7 DE

Live Action Role Play

written & directed by Johann Schilling (1999)

DE · 2020 · 4 min

Festival 2021

Lotta is a young woman - she has always been. But no one knew that. Not even herself.

PLAYLIST 4 DE

Löwenburg

written & directed by Jonas Thielcke (1996)

DE · 2020 · 15 min

Festival 2021

The story of Samira, who has to take care of her little brother Linus and grows beyond her limits as a man enters the house - told in a one take sequence.

PLAYLIST 3 DE

MA®CELLO

written & directed by Karo Schluttig

DE · 2020 · 4 min

Festival 2021

A monster is born in a monochrome world of light and shadow. A feeling of intangible discomfort dominates the scene. Damned to be an incapacitated witness, the viewer experiences the horror of a traumatizing kidnapping.

recommended for ages 12 and up

PLAYLIST 9 DE

Match

written & directed by Mira Walesch (2002), Nora Weise (2000)

DE · 2021 · 14 min

Festival 2021

You can also date in times of a pandemic. And make films about it.

PLAYLIST 5 DE

Mona & Parviz

written by Lisa Polster | directed by Kevin Biele (1994)

DE · 2021 · 17 min

Festival 2021

Two employees of the immigration office pay Mona an unannounced visit to check on the marital relationship between her and her husband Parviz. After Mona has to face the officials alone and the mood begins to falter, Parviz appears.

PLAYLIST 8 DE

Moon Girl Moon!

written & directed by Anthony Ewert (1998)

DE · 2020 · 9 min

Festival 2021

A young girl is searching for paradise in an endless universe. The analogy between pain and hope is visualized by using archived film material and typographic art.

PLAYLIST 5 DE

Morgens, Abends, Essen, Trinken

written by Julian Schäfer | directed by Lea Agmon (1998)

DE · 2020 · 20 min

Festival 2021

As if on rails, the young student Alicia slides through her small-town-life - somewhere between fair trade-coffee and cheap wine. Four days, eight strange encounters, and they’re all going to end up with two things: A hangover and a veterinarian.

PLAYLIST10 DE

Obervogelgesang

directed by Ferdinand Ehrhardt (1999), Elias Weinberger (1998)

DE · 2020 · 6 min

Festival 2021

In an S-Bahn, a teenager is confronted with a fresh right-wing extremist tag and a previously suppressed grimace from her home country.

PLAYLIST 6 DE

Oktopus und Muräne

written by Sebastian Husak (1993), Daniel Thomé | directed by Sebastian Husak

DE · 2020 · 40 min

Festival 2021

The formerly best friends Max and Jonas meet again after a long time on the boat of Max' parents. Throughout their childhood they spent many summers there. This year, Jonas bringing his girlfriend Nora along, is only one of the reasons why the days on the boat will be different than expected.

PLAYLIST 6 DE

P

directed by Felix Müller (1997)

DE · 2020 · 6 min

Festival 2021

Alone by himself, P surrenders to his desires, fantasies and his true self. But the curiosity-driven neighbors are increasingly pushing themselves into P's comfort-zone, confronting him with a sudden feeling of shame about his own actions and how they appear to the outside world.

PLAYLIST 9 DE

Perspektiven einer entstehenden Beständigkeit: Kapitel 1: Lehrgut

written by Theo Dassler | directed by Theo Dassler (1997), Valentino Rentz

DE · 2020 · 7 min

Festival 2021

Linus and Marei kissed at a party. On a reverse vending machine they try to get closer to their feelings with metaphors and parables, but mainly talk past each other.

PLAYLIST 3 DE

Perspektiven einer entstehenden Beständigkeit: Kapitel 2: Katzenwäsche

written by Theo Dassler | directed by Theo Dassler (1997), Valentino Rentz

DE · 2020 · 7 min

Festival 2021

How important is it to say 'I love you' in a long-term relationship? Benno is confronted with this question as his partner Sandro philosophizes extensively about Schrödinger's cat.

PLAYLIST 3 DE

Raumtrenner

written & directed by Paul Hordych (2000)

DE · 2020 · 13 min

Festival 2021

Three friends spending a weekend at the lake. Charlie, Niko and Anton. She’s fancying him, he’s fancying her and he’s fancying him. "Everyone knows when something's not right. Everybody does."

PLAYLIST10 DE

Roots

written & directed by Leon Landsberg (1995)

DE · 2021 · 24 min

Festival 2021

Haunted by an inner conflict, a driven artist, along with her gentle and emphatic daughter, returns to her childhood home to finally make peace with herself and her past. Once there, however, she loses herself in a long-forgotten world.

PLAYLIST 3 DE

Sacred Clockworks

written & directed by Moritz Schuchmann (1993)

DE · 2021 · 5 min

Festival 2021

The experimental film Sacred Clockworks reflects religion through photographic animation of their impressive sacral architecture.

PLAYLIST 2 DE

Safe Social Media Use for Young Adults

directed by Vincent Sylvain Dintelmann, Sebastian Ganschow (1994)

DE · 2019 · 8 min

Festival 2021

The film tells the story of the influencer Laura in a mixture of styles, that mimic browsing a social media feed.

PLAYLIST 7 DE

STAND-IN

directed by Anna Maria Ebert (1997), Laura Schinzel

DE · 2020 · 8 min

Festival 2021

Lou works as an assistant director on a film shoot. Suddenly, she is needed as a stand-in actor for a rehearsal. While acting, she rediscovers feelings of intimacy and spontaneity that she thought were long lost.

PLAYLIST 5 DE

The Case You

written & directed by Alison Kuhn (1995)

DE · 2020 · 81 min

Festival 2021

I invited five women to spend several days with our team. They are in their twenties, actresses and four years ago they participated in the same audition, in which they experienced systematic abuse of sexual and violent nature. I was one of the contenders as well.

PLAYLIST 1 DE

The Door of Return

directed by Anna Zhukovets (1997), Kokutekeleza Musebeni

DE · 2021 · 30 min

Festival 2021

“The Door of Return” is an Afro-futuristic documentary. A thought experiment.

PLAYLIST 2 DE

The Familiar

written & directed by Julian Quentin (1999)

DE · 2021 · 11 min

Festival 2021

An alien crashes on a virtual planet and experiences a world of rejection and imprisonment.

PLAYLIST 4 DE

THE VOID INSIDE

written & directed by Julian Dieterich (1996)

DE · 2020 · 18 min

Festival 2021

After getting caught in a fight, Vahid needs to sell one of his kidneys to avoid a prison sentence of many years. While waiting for the liberating call from a buyer, a wish for a better life starts to grow within him.

recommended for ages 12 and up

PLAYLIST 4 DE

Thermoplastic Elastomers

written & directed by Karola Pfaffinger (1993)

DE · 2019 · 7 min

Festival 2021

The film is about a woman's everyday life in a bizarre place. It deals with the relationship between human and object and takes up topics of materiality, sexuality and success.

PLAYLIST 4 DE

Überleben

directed by Lara Milena Brose (1993), Kilian Armando Friedrich (1995)

DE · 2021 · 30 min

Festival 2021

Leon doesn't want to go to jail. After years of heroin use, he therefore has to commit to therapy. His father Hans-Joachim doesn't want to die. The artist tries to overcome death and become a Homo Digitalis. After a long break, Leon visits his father in the central german province. It will be the last time they see each other.

recommended for ages 12 and up

PLAYLIST10 DE

Unsere Realität

directed by Stefanie Kinanga (2001), Samah Mustafa (2005)

DE · 2020 · 10 min

Festival 2021

"Five young women tell stories about their everyday reality of being black. They comment racist stories that happen every day in Germany."

PLAYLIST 9 DE

Waidmannsheil

written & directed by Tobias Gaiser (1999)

DE · 2020 · 10 min

Festival 2021

When a huntress lies in wait in the high seat, she observes an argument between two men. But then the situation escalates and the Slayer is suddenly faced with a moral dilemma.

PLAYLIST 7 DE

Whispers

written & directed by Léa Morelli (1995)

DE · 2021 · 7 min

Festival 2021

A body being sculpted, and time passing by.

PLAYLIST 6 DE

Yolk

written & directed by Bianca Scali (1998)

DE · 2020 · 3 min

Festival 2021

11 year-old Bianca decides to quickly pee before going to school. That's where she sees the one expected but unexpected sign that her childhood has ended.

PLAYLIST10 DE

Zucker

written by Safak Sengül | directed by Richard Barthel (2001), Şafak Şengül (1994)

DE · 2021 · 17 min

Festival 2021

A girl comes closer to her neighbor. Power relations develop that poison the delicate approach.

recommended for ages 12 and up

PLAYLIST 9 DE