Film Archive

Jahr

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98 kg

98 kg
Izabela Plucińska
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2021
Animated Film
Germany,
Poland
2021
5 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

The cycle of domestic violence: tension, escalation, remorse, and then all over again. The woman in Izabela Plucińska’s film shares the fate of many sufferers: She can’t manage to break out. The metaphorical dumbbells she would have to lift to do it weigh 98 kilograms – like the man who does this to her. All she can do is dissolve, disappear and breathe silently into her individual parts. The animations keep erasing themselves, but painful marks are left behind.

Kim Busch

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Director
Izabela Plucińska
Editor
Daniela Kinateder
Producer
Paulina Ratajczak, Izabela Plucińska
Sound
Andrea Martignoni
Score
Andrea Martignoni
Animation
Izabela Plucińska
World Sales
Maciej Reguła
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The Zillas Have a Picnic

Familie Zilla macht Picknick
Christian Franz Schmidt
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2020
Animated Film
Germany
2019
4 minutes
English,
German
Subtitles: 
English

A cosy family picnic at the place they have been visiting since the Cretaceous period is what Mom, Dad and Go Zilla want. But first the big city that has annoyingly sprung up there must be flattened. In the father’s opinion, the performance of his offspring unfortunately leaves a lot to be desired: Too dreamy and still sucking on a pacifier, the little one just doesn’t wreak enough havoc. It’s an entertaining story in the almost normal everyday life of a family.

Kim Busch

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Director
Christian Franz Schmidt
Script
Christian Franz Schmidt
Cinematographer
Christian Franz Schmidt
Editor
Christian Franz Schmidt
Producer
Christian Franz Schmidt
Sound
Alexander Oberrader
Score
Christian Franz Schmidt
Animation
Christian Franz Schmidt
World Sales
Georg Gruber
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Hotel Astoria

Hotel Astoria
Falk Schuster, Alina Cyranek
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2020
Animated Film
Germany
2020
28 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English

Everyone in Leipzig is familiar with the Hotel Astoria, which has stood vacant since 1996. This film takes a look back to the time when the hotel was the hotspot of the trade fair city, where professionals, politicians and guests from all over the world were entertained with the greatest possible GDR pomp. But the Stasi also came and went in the hotel. The story of an exciting chapter in the city’s history is told with archive material, staff reports, and the distinctive animations by Falk Schuster.

Kim Busch

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Director
Falk Schuster, Alina Cyranek
Script
Alina Cyranek
Editor
Alina Cyranek, Falk Schuster
Producer
Alina Cyranek, Falk Schuster
Co-Producer
MDR Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
Sound
Florian Marquardt
Score
Florian Marquardt
Animation
Falk Schuster, Tim Romanowsky, Alexander Schmidt, Julian Quitsch
Audience Award Competition Short Film 2020
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Out of Bounds
Franz Impler
A video game takes some entertaining and philosophical wrong turns: the tennis player slides from the centre court into a parallel world. A search for identity outside the rules of the game begins.
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Out of Bounds

Out of Bounds
Franz Impler
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2020
Animated Film
Germany
2020
15 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English

A video game takes some entertaining and philosophical wrong turns: the tennis player figure slides from the centre court into a parallel world and is robbed of his racket. The quirky “Pong” setting gradually evolves into the course of a desperate search for identity outside the rules of the game. The pathetic polygonal Roger Federer stumbles over glitches. Rowdy supporting characters offer first harassment, then help. The design, this undead relic from the past of games, is a subversive fellow player.

André Eckardt

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Director
Franz Impler
Producer
Franz Impler