Film Archive

Slowenian Animation 2022
Filmstill I Already Know What I Hear
I Already Know What I Hear
Darko Masnec
Hand-drawn strokes forming and transforming to the beat of electronic sound fragments create a space full of successful and failed attempts at communication.
Filmstill I Already Know What I Hear

I Already Know What I Hear

Ja već znam što čujem
Darko Masnec
Slowenian Animation 2022
Animated Film
Croatia
2012
5 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

An abstract, extremely reduced miniature that manages to express and capture all the more with minimal means. Only a few hand-drawn monochrome strokes, forming and transforming to the rough beat of electronic sound fragments, create a vast space. It is filled with image and sound signals, with successful and failed attempts at communication.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Darko Masnec
Script
Darko Masnec
Editor
Darko Masnec
Producer
Darko Masnec
Sound
Vjeran Šalamon
Score
Vjeran Šalamon
Animation
Darko Masnec
German Competition Short Film 2022
Filmstill I will take your shadow
I will take your shadow
Ayala Shoshana Guy
Her grandfather and grand-uncle escaped from the Nazis. Ayala Shoshana Guy faces this story of flight in dreamlike simultaneity: shadows continue to have an effect on the present.
Filmstill I will take your shadow

I will take your shadow

I will take your shadow
Ayala Shoshana Guy
German Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Germany
2022
19 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
German

Ayala Shoshana Guy tries to grasp the ephemeral: She interweaves her grandfather Jancsi’s story, remembered only in fragments, who left Vienna with his brother Bandi to escape the Nazi regime, with her own inner images, thus questioning them in a way. A ship to Palestine turns into an all-inclusive cruise liner, the vague becomes concrete only to fade away again. Cautious and bold in equal measure, the granddaughter enters shadowy terrain.

Carolin Weidner

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Director
Ayala Shoshana Guy
Script
Ayala Shoshana Guy
Cinematographer
Ayala Shoshana Guy
Editor
Ayala Shoshana Guy
Producer
LiLi Nacht, Ayala Shoshana Guy
Sound Design
Julian Hoffmann
Score
Julian Hoffmann
Animation
Ayala Shoshana Guy
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Filmstill Ice Merchants

Ice Merchants

Ice Merchants
João Gonzalez
International Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Portugal,
France,
UK
2022
14 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

There is a house hanging from heavy ropes, firmly anchored to the rocks. Up there in the cliffs, far above the town below, a father lives with his son in the cold. In his 2D frame-by-frame animation, director João Gonzalez uses few colours, which makes the harsh shadows and extreme camera angles of his drawings all the more atmospheric. He has realised a metaphorical tale that can do without dialogue, relying on sound and images alone.

Marie Kloos

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Director
João Gonzalez
Script
João Gonzalez
Cinematographer
João Gonzalez
Editor
João Gonzalez
Producer
Bruno Caetano
Co-Producer
Michaël Proença
Sound
Ed Trousseau, Ricardo Real
Score
João Gonzalez
Animation
João Gonzalez, Ala Nunu
World Sales
Joaquim Pinheiro
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Kids DOK 2022
Filmstill I’m Not Afraid!
I’m Not Afraid!
Marita Mayer
Playing hide-and-seek in the dark courtyard, Vanja is frightened by the many shadows. He transforms himself into a dangerous tiger and discovers that even the big ones are scared sometimes.
Filmstill I’m Not Afraid!

I’m Not Afraid!

Ich habe keine Angst!
Marita Mayer
Kids DOK 2022
Animated Film
Germany,
Norway
2022
7 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

“Grrr, I’m a tiger!” Vanja and his big sister turn the flat into a jungle. Then Thea gets a visitor. Three can also play hide-and-seek, suggests Vanja. He runs into the courtyard, where there are dark corners, creepy shadows and strange noises. To overcome his fear, he turns himself into the dangerous tiger again – and discovers that even the big ones are scared sometimes.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Marita Mayer
Cinematographer
Friedrich Schäper
Editor
Frédéric Schuld
Producer
Fabian Driehorst, Lillian Løvseth
Co-Producer
Lillian Løvseth, Anita Killi
Sound
Simon Bastian
Sound Design
Simon Bastian
Score
Marius Kirsten
Animation
Carlo Palazzari, Alba Dragonetti, Florian Maubach, Hero Hendel, Lena Fraundienst, Sinéad Nolan, Friedrich Schäper
World Sales
Stine Wangler
Funder
MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, BKM, Kuratorium junger deutscher Film, FFA Filmförderungsanstalt, Østnorsk Filmsenter, Fond for Lyd og Bilde
Extended Reality 2022
Filmstill In the Mist
In the Mist
Tung-Yen Chou
A group sex scene in a gay sauna becomes a real-surreal stage for desire and reflection: on sex positive spaces, our own lust and our own sense of morality.
2020
Filmstill In the Mist

In the Mist

Wù jhong
Tung-Yen Chou
Extended Reality 2022
XR
Taiwan
2020
15 minutes
English,
Chinese

We find ourselves in the middle of a gay sauna. In search of physical contact outside ideas of bourgeois romantic love, we are part of a group sex scene. We look at the protagonists, just as they look at us. The space becomes a stage, both real and surreal, that provokes reflections: about sex positive spaces, our own lust and our own sense of morality.

Lars Rummel

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Executive Producer
Chin-Hsuan Sung
Production Company
Very Theatre
Editor
Chia-Wen Huang
VR Developer
Ming-Yuan Chuan
Sound
Chin-Lun Kao
Score
Hai-Ting Liao
Performer
Jing-Yan Lin, Gryphon, Hsin-Hung Chen, Jack, John, James, Kai-Cheng Cho, Owen Wu, Chi-Yen Li, Luke, Barnie, Eason Lee, Ming-Fang Qiu
Director
Tung-Yen Chou
Cinematographer
Che-Yu Chou
Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022 2022
Filmstill Infinity According to Florian
Infinity According to Florian
Oleksiy Radynski
The hot button issue of pre-war Kyiv: the power of developers. Florian Yuryev’s architectural visions contrasts with the stubbornness of a businessman inspired by Donald Trump.
Filmstill Infinity According to Florian

Infinity According to Florian

Neskinchennist’ za Florianom
Oleksiy Radynski
Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022 2022
Documentary Film
Ukraine
2022
70 minutes
Ukrainian,
Russian
Subtitles: 
English

The hot button issue of pre-war Kyiv: the power of developers. Oleksiy Radynski explores the opposition of an architect who designed one of the most significant buildings in Kyiv and the capitalistic cynicism that ruins the city’s uniqueness. Florian Yuryev’s philosophy of a galaxy’s mortality, of a “beautiful zero” we all are going to return to, contrasts with the ridiculous and dangerous stubbornness of a businessman inspired by Donald Trump.

Daria Badior

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Director
Oleksiy Radynski
Cinematographer
Max Savchenko
Editor
Mykola Bazarkin
Producer
Lyuba Knorozok
Sound
Andriy Borysenko, Oleksandr Konoval
Score
Andriy Borysenko
World Sales
Clementine Engler
Nominated for: MDR Film Prize
Soul-Things 2022
Filmstill Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Rachel Reupke
Like little dots, people appear in the depths and at the periphery of stunning panoramic shots. The colossal landscape turns into an infinite space of fear.
Filmstill Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Infrastructure
Rachel Reupke
Soul-Things 2022
Experimental Film
UK
2002
14 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Stunning panoramic shots of natural landscapes are cut through by swathes of traffic. People appear like little dots in the depths and at the periphery. Only gradually do we realise that they are fleeing. Great dramas grow out of this micro world, the colossal landscape becomes increasingly merciless and begins to resemble an infinite space of fear.

André Eckardt

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Director
Rachel Reupke
Homage Mila Turajlić 2022
Filmstill Innocence Unprotected
Innocence Unprotected
Dušan Makavejev
The first Yugoslavian sound film from 1941: re-edited, supplemented and modified by Nazi newsreels and footage from 1968, ironically transformed from feature film to documentary.
Filmstill Innocence Unprotected

Innocence Unprotected

Nevinost bez zaštite
Dušan Makavejev
Homage Mila Turajlić 2022
Documentary Film
Yugoslavia
1968
75 minutes
Serbian,
German
Subtitles: 
English

The feature film “Innocence Unprotected” by Dragoljub Aleksić tells the story of a young woman who’s to be forcibly married to a horrible rich man while her true love is for a daring acrobat. This first Yugoslavian sound film was made in 1941 in occupied Belgrade and never released because of Nazi censorship. Dušan Makavejev’s deconstruction of this bizarre work, which he re-edited, partly hand-coloured, supplemented with German newsreels and current footage of former participants and thus turned into an eponymous documentary film in 1968, was awarded a Silver Bear at the Berlinale.

Christoph Terhechte

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Director
Dušan Makavejev
Script
Branko Perak, Dušan Makavejev
Cinematographer
Stevan Misković, Branko Perak
Editor
Ivanka Vukasović
Producer
Avala Film Library
Score
Vojislav Kostić
Filmstill Intro

Intro

Intro
Anne Isensee
German Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Germany
2022
8 minutes
English,
English captions
Subtitles: 
English

What does it mean to make an animated film accessible to people with impaired vision? Can audio description convey what’s happening on the screen and what is, especially in animated film, often entirely a product of the imagination? Anne Isensee (Golden Dove for “Megatrick” in 2017) tackles these complex questions with a light touch, humour and verbal wit. She pulls off the feat of producing a concentrated cinematic investigation into the multi-layered quality of (all) perception.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Anne Isensee
Script
Anne Isensee
Editor
Anne Isensee
Producer
Anne Isensee
Sound
Irma Heinig
Sound Design
Irma Heinig
Score
Franziska May
Animation
Anne Isensee, Sonja Rohleder
World Sales
Cord Dueppe
Funder
FFA Filmförderungsanstalt
Narrator
Orit Nahmias
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Filmstill Iota Period Omega

Iota Period Omega

Giota Teleia Omega
Alexis Alexiou
International Competition Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Greece
2022
13 minutes
Greek
Subtitles: 
English

Planes of all sizes, fun fairs, neon advertising, protesting people, men, women and children having fun, desert-like landscapes, urban views – the shimmering 8mm images develop a peculiar pull. They come from our present day but seem strangely distant, past. It’s the visual diary of I.O, a girl who lives in a future surveillance state and remembers the world before climate change.

Anke Leweke

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Director
Alexis Alexiou
Script
Aspasia Lykourgioti, Alexis Alexiou
Cinematographer
Alexis Alexiou
Editor
Lambis Haralambidis
Producer
Afroditi Nikolaidou
Sound
Manolis Manousakis
Score
Yannis Veslemes
Narrator
Sofia Kokkali
Kids DOK 2022
Filmstill If Not Now, Then When …?
If Not Now, Then When …?
Jens Rosemann
On a beautiful summer day, Sven is finally going to take the plunge: to jump from the ten-metre board. But first a shower. Now he’s ready, but … perhaps better tomorrow?
Filmstill If Not Now, Then When …?

If Not Now, Then When …?

Sven nicht jetzt, wann dann …?
Jens Rosemann
Kids DOK 2022
Animated Film
Germany
2021
3 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English

It’s a beautiful summer day and Sven is finally going to take the plunge. He’s at the public pool, at the foot of the ladder leading up to the ten-metre board. Today he is going to jump. Now! Or perhaps some chips as a start? And it would be good to take a shower first. But then he’ll be ready, though …? Oh no, the queue behind him is waiting, there’s no turning back. Sven climbs up the tower.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Jens Rosemann
Producer
Jens Rosemann
Sound Design
Christoph Fleischer, Jan Soutschek
Animation
Jens Rosemann