German Short Films

german Short filmS programs at the Short film Corner
Compétition
marché du film, palais des festivals, level 01
CanneS EDITION 2015
EMERGING ARTISTS
VOL » 2
Contemporary Experimental Films and Video Art From Germany
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AN AppARENT SECRET
Eva Könnemann • Germany 2015 • essay film • 29’ • German
dialogue • English subtitles
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During research about coats of arms I accidently came across the district of Emmelsum
in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Through Wikipedia I found out that Emmelsum
has around 300 inhabitants, has never been self-dependent and that there are no places
of interest. Even the district’s own website states that there is not much to say about
Emmelsum. The film is an attempt at a portrait of this village.
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Stefan Ramírez Pérez • Germany 2014 • 5’ • no dialogue
71-year-old Hakie leads “the life of a man” with great determination. Hakie’s daily routine in
the Albanian Alps is shaped by an archaic separation between the roles of men and women
and allows us to see how the category “gender” is very much a social construction. Is Hakie a
man or a woman? Hakie is a sworn virgin, a “Burrnesha”.
contact: Anabela Angelovska, [email protected]
hinter dem Wald
BEYONd THE FOREST
Francesca Bertin, Leonhard Kaufmann • Germany 2015 •
documentary • 10’ • German dialogue • English subtitles
Beyond the forest is the city of tomorrow, before the forest are the villages of yesterday.
Basil Khalil • Palestine, France, Germany 2015 • fiction • 14’ •
Arabic, English, Hebrew dialogue • English subtitles • world premiere
The silent routine of five nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli
settler family breaks down right outside the convent just as the Sabbath comes into effect.
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23rd May 11:00 a.m. Salle Debussy (Palais des Festivals)
23rd May 4:00 p.m. Salle Buñuel (Palais des Festivals)
contact: Stefan Ramírez Pérez, [email protected]
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Anabela Angelovska • Germany 2015 • documentary • 28’ •
Albanian dialogue • English subtitles
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contact: Incognito Films, Eric Dupont, [email protected]
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contact: Eva Könnemann Filmproduktion, [email protected]
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HAKIE – HAKI. LIVING AS A mAN.
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Cinéfondation
cylixe • USA, Germany 2014 • 15’ • English dialogue
When you enter an existential crisis, all filters fall. Reality is shaded in low contrast, low key,
foggy. Every outside signal grinds mind and teeth and exaggerates to a feedback loop. Every
thought is a downward spiral. A well-known staircase for the experienced traveler in the selfdestructive regions of the mind.
contact: cylixe, [email protected]
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Eliza Petkova • Germany 2014 • fiction • 13’ •
German dialogue • English subtitles • world premiere
Marko Schiefelbein • Germany 2013 • 7’ • German dialogue •
English subtitles
Winter in a big city. Klara, a 30-year-old woman, arrives home with a random guy that she
has just met. Both are drunk, they are giggling, having fun. But there is someone else in the
apartment: 9-year-old Anton catches them having sex. The next morning, Anton is gone.
A woman is sitting in front of a camera telling a story about an experience she had. Even
though she is able to describe the happenings quite detailed, the story also seems to be
unlikely or implausible. It turns out not to be hers rather than a story from a MUSTANG
JEANS commercial.
contact: dffb Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin, [email protected]
THU
21 MAY
11:00 a.m.
Salle Buñuel (Palais des Festivals)
contact: Marko Schiefelbein, [email protected]
SieBen mal am tag Beklagen Wir unSer loS und
naChtS Stehen Wir auf, um niCht zu träumen
Semaine de la Critique
SEVEN TImES A dAY WE BEmOAN OuR LOT ANd AT NIGHT WE GET up TO AVOId dREAmING
contact: Francesca Bertin, [email protected]
Susann Maria Hempel • Germany 2014 • 18’ • German dialogue •
English subtitles
SnapShot mon amour
A cinematic devotional book. Based on interviews with an unemployable sufferer (and his
fellows), living in the East German countryside, who lost his memory in 1989 and woke up
into several nightmares.
Christian Bau • Germany 2015 • documentary • 6’ •
English dialogue
contact: Susann Maria Hempel, [email protected]
After Fukushima a new term appears in the Japanese language: Genpatsu-Rikon, composed
of the characters for “atomic” and “divorce”. In 2011 the filmmaker travels to the east coast
of Japan and tries to find out more about this neologism.
contact: thede filmproduktion, [email protected]
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Tanja Bubbel • Germany 2014 • fiction • 15’ • German dialogue •
English subtitles
Anne’s boyfriend wants to have children. But is she ready for this big step? While babysitting
her best friend’s child at a playground she finds an answer to her question.
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Lukas Marxt • Austria, Germany 2013 • 7’ • English dialogue
A static shot shows part of a landscape, a serene body of water in front of a mountain.
A motorboat enters the picture from the right, obeying the directions sent by radio and
forming a spiral in the water´s surface. The boat then turns to the left and leaves the scene;
solely its wake is visible for a time.
alleS Wird gut EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY
A weekend father picks up his eight-year-old daughter Lea. It pretty much seems like every
second weekend. But after a while Lea can‘t help but feel that something is just not right.
A fateful journey begins.
contact: Patrick Vollrath, [email protected]
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19 MAY
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8:00 p.m.
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6:30 p.m.
Espace Miramar
Espace Miramar
Théâtre Alexandre III
contact: Lukas Marxt, [email protected]
my throat, my air
World premiere SCreening
Loretta Fahrenholz • Germany 2014 • 16’ • German dialogue •
English subtitles
A semi-fictional family drama, shot in Munich’s petty-bourgeois Westend, starring former
Fassbinder actor, Warhol collaborator and horror movie director Ulli Lommel.
contact: Tanja Bubbel, [email protected]
contact: vitakuben GmbH, [email protected]
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Pavel Vesnakov • Germany, Bulgaria 2015 • fiction • 30’ •
Bulgarian dialogue • English subtitles
The death of his father urges Zeus to contact his older half-brother Vasil, who left the family
years ago. Vasil has no intentions to help his younger brother finance the funeral. When he
finally agrees to help Zeus to sell his car, the two brothers start on a fateful journey.
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hypozentrum
Xenia Lesniewski • Germany 2013 • 15’ • German dialogue •
English subtitles
Ass-to-mouth, but Chanel works, too. A global brain and nothing for chance... and degraded
objects of course. Implicitly sad and right... There is rumbling everywhere, and tension. It
seems they still exist, those things you can’t talk about. Sparklers would be good.
A program of recent student shorts and the winners of the Short Tiger
Award 2015 in the presence of the filmmakers.
SUN
17 MAY
8:30 p.m.
Olympia 1
All films are available at the Short Film Corner.
www.german-films.de
contact: Heimathafen Film & Medien GmbH, [email protected]
contact: Ingmar Böschen, [email protected]
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Patrick Vollrath • Germany, Austria 2015 • fiction • 30’ •
German dialogue • English subtitles • international premiere