GERMAN SHORT FILMS AT BERLINALE 2015 Berlinale Shorts - In Competition ARCHITEKTURA DÄWIT Ulu Braun · Germany 2015 · experimental · 15 min David Jansen · Germany 2015 · animation · 15 min Architecture is the game of positioning bodies in light. Darkness needs A wolf child, a cat, an angel. A father beats a child. The child gets away. A its space. The future is already misaligned. A flight through the world. journey begins. An associative animated film that never strays from the BERLINALE SHORTS III concrete story: The search for one’s identity in the aftermath of physical abuse. SUN 08 FEB 16:00 CINEMAXX 5 - Industry BERLINALE SHORTS IV TUE 10 FEB 16:00 CINEMAXX 5 FRI 06 FEB 16:00 CINEMAXX 5 - Industry WED 11 FEB 17:45 COLOSSEUM 1 TUE 10 FEB 22:00 CINEMAXX 3 FRI 13 FEB 22:00 CINEMAXX 3 THU 12 FEB 17:45 COLOSSEUM 1 FRI 13 FEB 16:00 CINEMAXX 5 BERLINALE SHORTS MIX SUN 15 FEB 17:45 COLOSSEUM 1 DISSONANCE SNAPSHOT MON AMOUR Till Nowak · Germany 2015 · animation, fiction · 17 min Christian Bau · Germany 2015 · documentary · 6 min A genius musician lives a lonely life in a surreal, floating world high above Genpatsu-Rikon. Atomic divorce. A new word in the Japanese language, the ground. He plays the piano every day in a gigantic concert hall, but there created after the catastrophe in Fukushima. The film: A journey is nobody there to listen. One day reality breaks into his fantasy world. through Japan, in the aftermath. BERLINALE SHORTS II BERLINALE SHORTS IV SAT 07 FEB 16:00 CINEMAXX 5 - Industry FRI 06 FEB 16:00 CINEMAXX 5 - Industry MON 09 FEB 22:00 CINEMAXX 3 TUE 10 FEB 22:00 CINEMAXX 3 TUE 10 FEB 17:45 COLOSSEUM 1 THU 12 FEB 17:45 COLOSSEUM 1 THU 12 FEB 16:00 CINEMAXX 5 FRI 13 FEB 16:00 CINEMAXX 5 BERLINALE SHORTS GO KIEZ BERLINALE SHORTS GO KIEZ THU 12 FEB 21:30 NEUES OFF THU 12 FEB 21:30 NEUES OFF photo © Wermke/Leinkauf photo SYMBOLIC THREATS TAKE WHAT YOU CAN CARRY Mischa Leinkauf, Lutz Henke, Matthias Wermke · Germany 2015 · Matt Porterfield · USA, Germany 2015 · fiction · 30 min experimental, documentary · 15 min · On the night of 22 July 2014, Berlin in summer. A young American drifts through the city, she has a lover Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf hoist two white-bleached and searches for more – herself. Then she receives a letter from home. American flags on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. They take the BERLINALE SHORTS II US flags down and fold them in the prescribed orderly fashion. SAT 07 FEB 16:00 CINEMAXX 5 - Industry BERLINALE SHORTS IV MON 09 FEB 22:00 CINEMAXX 3 FRI 06 FEB 16:00 CINEMAXX 5 - Industry TUE 10 FEB 17:45 COLOSSEUM 1 TUE 10 FEB 22:00 CINEMAXX 3 THU 12 FEB 16:00 CINEMAXX 5 THU 12 FEB 17:45 COLOSSEUM 1 BERLINALE SHORTS MIX FRI 13 FEB 16:00 CINEMAXX 5 SUN 15 FEB 17:45 COLOSSEUM BERLINALE SHORTS MIX SUN 15 FEB 17:45 COLOSSEUM 1 Generation CATALINA AND THE SUN THE OLD MAN AND THE BIRD Anna Paula Hönig · Germany, France, Argentina 2015 · fiction · 16 min Dennis Stein-Schomburg · Germany 2015 · animation · 7 min Once upon a time there was a girl named Catalina. Every day she An old man, in the winter of his life, outlived his great love. Isolated in a offered a tale to the Sun Tata Inti for he would always shine in the sky. small house he has arranged with his solitude, until a bird smashes against An old legend from Jujuy, Argentina. the icy window and forces him to act – just the way his wife would have! TUE 10 FEB 15:00 CINEMAXX 1 TUE 10 FEB 17:30 CINEMAXX 1 WED 11 FEB 10:00 FILMTHEATER AM FRIEDRICHSHAIN THU 12 FEB 14:30 CINEMAXX 1 THU 12 FEB 17:30 CINEMAXX 1 FRI 13 FEB 13:00 HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT CINEMA 1 FRI 13 FEB 10:30 CINEMAXX 1 SAT 14 FEB 11:00 CINEMAXX 1 Perspektive Deutsches Kino EIN IDEALER ORT HAKIE HAKI EIN LEBEN ALS MANN A PERFECT PLACE HAKIE HAKI LIVING AS A MAN Anatol Schuster · Germany 2015 · fiction · 39 min Anabela Angelovska · Germany 2015 · documentary · 30 min Rural life in Western Pomerania is undergoing a fundamental change: Hakie is a 'Burrnesha', a sworn virgin. They are biological women who villages are dying, people are leaving, houses are standing empty. have pledged to remain virgins in order to live in society as men. Hakie Frank's family finds itself stuck somewhere between yesterday and lives 'the life of a man' with great resolve, with all its freedoms and tomorrow. A tragicomedy about a family living between a techno club restrictions. The film accompanies Hakie in her daily life and lays bare and a brass band and a place between a nature reserve and a hog farm. just how constructed identity and gender roles are. TUE 10 FEB 14:00 CINEMAXX 5 – Press WED 11 FEB 14:00 CINEMAXX 5 – Press TUE 10 FEB 19:30 CINEMAXX 3 – Premiere WED 11 FEB 19:30 CINEMAXX 3 – Premiere WED 11 FEB 13:00 COLOSSEUM 1 THU 12 FEB 13:00 COLOSSEUM 1 THU 12 FEB 20:30 CINEMAXX 1 FRI 13 FEB 20:30 CINEMAXX 1 I REMEMBER SAG MIR MNEMOSYNE Janna Ji Wonders · Germany 2015 · fiction · 30 min TELL ME MNEMOSYNE Best friends Josh and Ben (both 18) spend their vacation in a remote hut Lisa Sperling · Germany 2015 · documentary · 55 min on the craggy Northern California Pacific Coast. Their friendship is put I went in search of an elapsed life story – Karl Heinz Hummel, 1929 - to the test when Elena, a mysterious 30-year-old woman, moves into the 2009. It lead me to different places and recordings. The film is a house down at the end of the beach. The two boys fall under her spell personal, essayistic research on the lifetime of a Director of Photo- and get caught up in an emotional turmoil with dramatic consequences. graphy. It questions our remembrance and wonders what remains. SUN 8 FEB 13:30 CINEMAXX 5 – Press WED 11 FEB 14:00 CINEMAXX 5 – Press SUN 8 FEB 19:30 CINEMAXX 3 – Premiere WED 11 FEB 19:30 CINEMAXX 3 – Premiere MON 9 FEB 13:00 COLOSSEUM 1 THU 12 FEB 13:00 COLOSSEUM 1 FRI 13 FEB 20:30 CINEMAXX 1 Forum Expanded FACE B INSTITUTE SHAPE SHIFTING Leila Albayaty · Belgium, Germany 2014 · ABOVEGROUND Elke Marhöfer, Mikhail Lylov · Germany, documentary · 39 min Florian Zeyfang, Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Japan 2014 · documentary · 18 min PROGRAM 2 Alexander Schmoeger · Germany 2015 · PROGRAM 5 FRI 06 FEB 21:00 AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE documentary · 22 min SUN 08 FEB 16:30 AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE followed by a concert by Leila Albayaty PROGRAM 5 TUE 10 FEB 17:30 ARSENAL 1 SAT 07 FEB 15:00 ARSENAL 1 SUN 08 FEB 16:30 AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE TUE 10 FEB 17:30 ARSENAL 1 ESCAPE FROM FROM RAMALLAH 20 HANDSHAKES MY EYES Asem Nasser · Palestine, Germany 2014 · FOR PEACE Felipe Bragança · Brazil, Germany 2015 · documentary · 5 min Mahdi Fleifel · Palestine, Germany 2014 · docu-fiction · 33 min PROGRAM 12 documentary · 5 min PROGRAM 9 TUE 10 FEB 19:00 AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE PROGRAM 15 MON 09 FEB 18:00 AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE WED 11 FEB 16:15 ARSENAL 1 WED 11 FEB 19:00 AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE WED 11 FEB 13:45 ARSENAL 1 FRI 13 FEB 15:00 ARSENAL 1 SAT 14 FEB 16:00 CINEMAXX 5 Culinary Cinema Special Screenings AUTOMATIC FITNESS Berlinale Shorts Extra Generation Kplus Special Screening Alejandra Tomei, Alberto Couceiro · SHORT FILM NIGHT OF 60 YEARS DEFA Germany 2015 · animation · 21 min THE GOLDEN BEARS STUDIO FOR A labyrinthic poetry on the human SAT 14 FEB 22:30 KINO INTERNATIONAL automatism. A reflection about our daily ANIMATION FILMS WED 11 FEB 10:30 CINEMAXX 1 relationship with money and time. Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Golden Bear Awards for the Best Short ALARM IM KASPERLETHEATER MON 09 FEB 19:30 CINEMA Films, the screening includes the Lothar Barke, 16 min, 1960 MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU following German Berlinale winners: DIE FLUCHT ZU DEN PINGUINEN Günter Rätz, 9 min, 1984 GESICHT VON DER STANGE? GEGNER NACH MASS Bruno J. Böttge, 5 min, 1963 Raimond Ruehl, 12 min (Golden Bear 1961) META MORFOSS Monika Anderson, 15 min, 1978 ORTSFREMD… WOHNHAFT VORMALS MAINZER PÜNKTCHEN Bruno J. Böttge, 7 min, 1964 LANDSTRASSE Hans Sachs, Hedda Rinneberg, DIE SUCHE NACH DEM VOGEL TURLIPAN 12 min (Golden Bear 1977) Kurt Weiler, 13 min, 1976 NR. 1 – AUS BERICHTEN DER WACH- UND URWALDMÄRCHEN Katja Georgi, 15 min, 1977 PATROUILLENDIENSTE Helke Sander, 10 min VOM FRÖSCHLEIN UND SEINEM REIFEN (Golden Bear 1985) Heinz Nagel, 4 min, 1964 MASKS Piotr Karwas, 5 min (Golden Bear 1999) Not part of the Berlinale Talents Critics’ Week Berlinale program – Independently organized by the SHORT CUTS PANEL German Film Critics’ Association. TUE 10 FEB 14:00–15:30 HAU Hebbel am Ufer - HAU2 Hallesches Ufer 32, 10963 Berlin For accredited Berlinale guests and for the public. Tickets available at the respective ticket counters. Sabine Brantus (ARTE), Laurent Crouzeix (Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival), Jukka-Pekka Laakso (Tampere Film Festival), Jan Naszewski (New Europe Film Sales). Moderated by Ben Gibson. HOCHZEITSVORBEREITUNGEN AUF DEM LANDE This panel will consider the reasons for and advantages of making a short film, how to create a unique buzz and find the WEDDING PREPARATIONS right presentation context and how to monetize a short film IN THE COUNTRY through distribution, sales, festival fees, etc.