German competition

ANTON

Jonas Bongard

DE · 2016 · 13 min

Festival 2017

On the first glance Anton is doing fine, but slowly he begins to recede from his environment.

Der Schatten

Dorian Barbera, Stefanie Kretsch

DE · 2017 · 9 min

Festival 2017

Earth does not rotate any more. On the eternal shadow side a family prepares for the coming end as a stroke of change reaches the entrenched.

Einzimmerwohnung

Lena Fakler

DE · 2016 · 24 min

Festival 2017

A young couple moves into their first mutual apartment. But the desired closeness quickly develops into tight quarters.

Fremde

Jonathan Behr

DE · 2016 · 15 min

Festival 2017

Fara and her older sister Alima are laying together in a bed. Holding tightly together they try to give each other courage to face an unknown threat.

Gespräche mit Günter Gelb

Leonardo Re, Matthias Schuart

DE · 2016 · 4 min

Festival 2017

A talk show from the 60s on the course of escalation.

Marvin und Lena

honorable mention

Tanja Hurrle

DE · 2017 · 7 min

Festival 2017

A documentary about a young man with Down’s syndrome and his best girl-friend.

RESISTANCE

Tin Brendel

DE · 2017 · 5 min

Festival 2017

The story of two journeys through whole Europe with my girlfriend Ariane, embedded in a story of missing time.

Rico

Pascal Rosengardt

DE · 2016 · 2 min

Festival 2017

A little boy rings the doorbell of a family home....

Seven Cigarettes Away from Home

Lucy Betulius

DE · 2017 · 13 min

Festival 2017

Lexa is 16, almost finished with school, and full of ideas fort he future. However, these thoughts are chaotic.

Three Ghosts Slept Here

Leonard Ermel

DE · 2016 · 3 min

Festival 2017

A black line meanders through the hallways, creating spooky images and making objects come to life.

TORONTO

Andreas Boschmann

DE · 2017 · 23 min

Festival 2017

Under a TV-tower, a clique of Russian-German youths dream of a true skyline. Are you leaving or staying? Everything has to be decided now.

TV-Boy

Annabell Koebsel

DE · 2017 · 15 min

Festival 2017

Due to a fateful accident during his childhood, young Tyler’s head melts together with a tube-TV set.

WAS WIR WISSEN

Lotta Schwerk

DE · 2017 · 14 min

Festival 2017

Zoe, Tomke and Bruno want to find out what they mean for each other and themselves.

Arthur - The Stray Dog

Sebastian Fischer, Irina Moroz

DE · 2017 · 4 min

Festival 2017

This is a true story about the encounter between the extreme athlete Mikael and the vagrant Arthur deep in the jungles of Ecuador.

Artist Talk

Deutscher Nachwuchsfilmpreis 2017

Bela Brillowska, Rudi Zylka

DE · 2017 · 7 min

Festival 2017

Artist Talk is a portrait of the artist Korinna Grafos (Bela Brillowska) who lives in Erfurt.

Der Ausflug

Georgia Bauer, Rahel Jung

DE · 2017 · 3 min

Festival 2017

Estrangement, from civilization and nature, is what the strained, helpless and desperate person experiences. Based on an expressionistic poem from Alfred Lichtenstein (1912).

Detailverliebt

honorable mention

Joschua Keßler

DE · 2017 · 12 min

Festival 2017

Jana and Adrian get to know each other at a party. But on the next day worries take over: Who will take the next step? Do we even fit to each other? What if I say or do something wrong?

Die Falle - verführt und gefangen

Nele Taubert

DE · 2017 · 13 min

Festival 2017

A film about the dangers of sect-similar organizations and their manipulation.

different directions

Jasmin Luu

DE · 2016 · 4 min

Festival 2017

A dance film about two characters, who first meet in a surrealistic room and unite through the language of the body.

Eigene WEGe

Jan-Luca Blaß

DE · 2016 · 13 min

Festival 2017

Two stories about two protagonists, who could not be different but still have something in common.

Endzeitstimmung

Max Gleschinski

DE · 2017 · 7 min

Festival 2017

During their daily burglary of a video store, Vincent and Maya begin questioning their friendship.

Invasion of Maple Street

Jonas Dichelle

DE · 2017 · 3 min

Festival 2017

Actually this little street in an American town seems perfectly normal. But then a man with a hat, suit and wristwatch comes. Strange things start happening in the Maple Street.

Kraniche

Paula Marien, Carolin Reschke

DE · 2017 · 1 min

Festival 2017

Cranes on their way to freedom.

L'Aria del Moscerino

Lukas von Berg

DE · 2017 · 4 min

Festival 2017

A tiny fruit fly is ripped out of life with a single stroke. But it defies her death in a unique way.

Mach Sauber - Guaia Guaia

Lisa Zielke

DE · 2016 · 4 min

Festival 2017

A conservative white family is driven out of their home by a monster. They try to flee to their black neighbors. The neighbors refuse at first but suddenly monsters attack them also.

Motten

Melanie Waelde

DE · 2016 · 7 min

Festival 2017

Gustav has lost his big love, Jon found his long time ago, Carlotta does not really know what she is looking for.

NATIVE

Felix Frankus

DE · 2016 · 4 min

Festival 2017

The year 2075: Starting with birth, every person gets an Anti-Emotions-Chip implanted in order to function better in the system. As one individual’s chip fall out, everything goes out of control.

NINO

David Hugo Schmitz

DE · 2016 · 17 min

Festival 2017

You need courage in order to change things, the serenity to take things the way they are, and the wisdom to be able to differentiate between them. Two totally different youths, whose paths cross each other one day, stand precisely before this ordeal.

OSTKAKTUS

honorable mention

Johanna Ziemer, David Vagt

DE · 2017 · 15 min

Festival 2017

An absurd string of coincidences characterizes the story of two in love, a punk band, and their friends.

PINK CUTS PINK

Alma Weber

DE · 2016 · 1 min

Festival 2017

Animatic meets claymation meets film.

The Boy in the Ocean

Friedrich Tiedtke

DE · 2016 · 14 min

Festival 2017

Surrounded by water on a sail boot with his parents, who treat him like a little kid, the 12-year-old Mathias discovers his desire for sexual experience.

Am Tag die Sterne

Deutscher Nachwuchsfilmpreis 2017

Simon Schneckenburger

DE · 2017 · 45 min

Festival 2017

After his brother committed a terrible crime, David and his family from a small town have to flee. Four years later he come back and encounters Mira, a love of long past.

Aus Klein wird Groß

Teresa, Julian, Max, Lea

DE · 2017 · 3 min

Festival 2017

Without any help, hundreds of starfish are going to die. They were left behind when the early morning tide recedes. Based on an essay of Manoj Parik (Japan)

Blake

Deutscher Nachwuchsfilmpreis 2017

Shamila Lengsfeld

DE · 2017 · 18 min

Festival 2017

Blake is a super heroine who fights the government and tries to free her city.

Bug City - Behind The Screens

honorable mention

Andreas Weber

DE · 2016 · 9 min

Festival 2017

A satirical 3D-animation that take the audience on a trip to the inside of a computer, home of a parallel world.

Das Fundbüro

Zuhra Ziwari, Alisajad Qasemi

DE · 2016 · 10 min

Festival 2017

How do you lose time and how can it be retrieved?

Der Törtchendieb

Ferdinand Maurer

DE · 2017 · 2 min

Festival 2017

An old lady, who loves cake, is held up at the baker by a masked robber. After a daring pursuit she catches the cake-thief and experiences quite a surprise.

Desperandum

Laura Gervais, Sophia Schuster

DE · 2017 · 5 min

Festival 2017

This film is about a young girl who feels guilty about the death of her drowned sister.

FUCK WHITE TEARS

Annelie Boros

DE · 2016 · 25 min

Festival 2017

A film about a film that I cannot do because I am white. And about century old borders and political power in South Africa 20 years after the apartheid.

Galatea

Patrick, Ljuba, Fayssal

DE · 2017 · 12 min

Festival 2017

How do I address a girl? And what should I say to her? Kevin seems to have found a solution...

Haunted School - Der Fluch des Medaillons

Marcus Engelhardt

DE · 2016 · 26 min

Festival 2017

Sikor takes off to reveal the secret of the forbidden corridor of the deceased Jannik Hops and the cursed medal of honors. In doing so he falls into a dangerous adventure.

Hühnerfuß im Kopfsalat

Quynh Le Nguyen, Katharina Selbach

DE · 2016 · 11 min

Festival 2017

The parents came from Vietnam as migrant workers, the daughter born and raised in Germany. Two generations that build a family but each have very different cultural growths.

Im Januar

Dominik Schwegler, Anuthinan Ratnamaheson

DE · 2017 · 14 min

Festival 2017

In order to avoid a conflicts, Conny always defers his own desires. When he takes a letter of admission from the university out of the mailbox, he has to make a decision.

Otalgia

Shirin Mohammad

DE · 2016 · 10 min

Festival 2017

An old man who wakes up one morning, resolved to no longer hear any sounds of what kind and to rebel against routine.

Persona

Alexey Kamynin, Max Schäffer

DE · 2016 · 6 min

Festival 2017

In the near future almost everybody’s life will be dominated by an App: PERSONA. By simply pressing a button, it allows the user to change his looks and to change his physical abilities.

Ruby

Ferdinand Singhartinger, Amon Ritz, Alois Herrmann

DE · 2016 · 6 min

Festival 2017

Ruby is an outsider at school – but absolutely a technical genius, with a tendency to open doors with no entrance signs.

She Saved Herself

Klara Trede

DE · 2017 · 11 min

Festival 2017

Mina suffers from depression and tries to find a way out of her situation in order to save herself.

Sonntag

Jonathan Schaller

DE · 2016 · 25 min

Festival 2017

There is Tristan, Marlene, two sleeping mats, and an egg, sunny side up. 9 episodes and one day, that is not.

Treelife

Wenzel Venohr

DE · 2016 · 3 min

Festival 2017

In a field a tree stands and becomes a passive part of many stories that happen around it.

Troop Leader

Vincent Ercolani

DE · 2017 · 14 min

Festival 2017

Four maybe friends meet for a party. But the situation escalates...

Un’inestinguibile sete

Jo Satolli de Crescenzo

DE · 2016 · 1 min

Festival 2017

A short dramatic story about a skeleton that did not want to drink water but rather BLOOD!!!

Unterkühlung

Olga Kosanovic

DE · 2016 · 10 min

Festival 2017

While Eddie is busy with his modest life crisis, he suddenly has to tend to an ice box given to him.

We Are Watching You

Florian Hofmann

DE · 2017 · 4 min

Festival 2017

An entertaining but critical glance at the daily life of the information society.

Youme knows what Meyou wants

honorable mention

Mona Keil

DE · 2016 · 2 min

Festival 2017

A personal, intuitive, tactile and erotic study of the human body.

Auf der Suche nach der Liebe

Benedikt Schmoldt

DE · 2016 · 8 min

Festival 2017

Love should not be unobtainable for autistic people. Maxim descriptively tells how a partnership is possible.

Brüderchen und Schwesterchen

Oskar Kaiser, Valentin Klaß

DE · 2016 · 9 min

Festival 2017

Hamburg, St. Pauli Piers: Theo walks out of the Streetcar station, wet, only wearing his swimming suit.

Campingausflug

Zarife Muja, Leo Lass, Chiara Kisro, Zahi El Chafei, Aylina Paetzold

DE · 2017 · 1 min

Festival 2017

A young couple wants to spend more time at the sea. But before the vacation even begins the young man disappears. The tracks of a wild animal lead to believe that something terrible has happened.

Das Mädchen in Grün

Max Langsch

DE · 2015 · 12 min

Festival 2017

In a world of conformity people move like robots in fixed patterns and do not notice the beauty of things around them.

außen

Joana Stamer

DE · 2017 · 3 min

Festival 2017

A romance to the rhythm of the doorbell. My options for reality

Február

Marlena Molitor

DE · 2017 · 12 min

Festival 2017

Zsuzsanna and Sandor have been living under a bridge in Munich for more than 6 months. A mundane confrontation with the antagonisms of daily life. A glimpse into their home, the nature of their companionship and their embrace of the little things.

Girl In The Mirror

Ella Knorz

DE · 2016 · 12 min

Festival 2017

Following all the beautiful people on social networks like Snapchat and Instagram, princess C. finds it hard to accept her true self. She succumbs to the peer pressure of her generation to look impeccable at all hours of the day and works hard to change her look to fit in with the mainstream ideal of beauty.

Im Rhythmus der Lügen

Finn Mangels

DE · 2017 · 14 min

Festival 2017

Hektor fights through a jungle of conventions and social norms in order get to his love, Nina.

M'athair

Johanna Jannsen

DE · 2016 · 8 min

Festival 2017

Surrounded by the rough Atlantic, Peadar lives on the Irish island Inisheer. He works on the islands ferry and takes care of his 99-year-old father.

Zweiraumsilke Mutterschiff

Kilian Reil

DE · 2017 · 4 min

Festival 2017

A trip to the moon requires great exertion and a large portion of motivation.

TAGIIR

Bundes-Schülerfilm-Preis 2017

Zoë Steingaß

DE · 2016 · 15 min

Festival 2017

This is the story of a friendship between the Syrian refugee Faris and the German Phillip, who suggests that Faris should work in his father’s the arms manufactory.