IM ZWEIFELSFALL
'If in Doubt' | 30min | director: Till Gombert
Sönke takes care of his pregnant partner Vivian, who suffers without a clear origin of her pains. While she stoically waits for the midwife to call back, he becomes increasingly restless, unsure of his role during her first pregnancy. Dealing with worries, fears and feelings reveals the construction of their relationship.
Show Dossier
In Production
BROT & PUPPEN
fiction short | director: Vera Paulmann
A group of puppeteers rehearses for a performance in a former Nazi forced labor camp. The director drops out shortly before the last weekend of rehearsals, leaving a power vacuum. The remaining performers have to navigate questions of their roles and futures, relationships and artistic attitudes.
Financing
BURNING LAND
doc feature | director: Almira Ismailova | co-production with 24FPS
Our homeland is disappearing before our eyes. In search of traces of a village dissolved by the government. Ermek fights for his dream to practice as musician in the ruins of his culture house once more. Roza tries to understand how she can love the man who once kidnapped her. In these stories, director Almira Ismailova learns to overcome the collective trauma of the destruction of her homeland in northern Kazakhstan.
In Development
BURNING RED
fiction feature | director: Sandro Souladzé
Kessa, a young woman, plagued by the nightmares of war, returns to her native village in Megrelia, intending to sell her abandoned family house. There she embarks on a journey to find out what happened in her childhood home, molded and shaped by the footprints of civil war and collective trauma.
SPEKTRUM
fiction feature | director: Till Gombert
Since an operation, Susanne has an extraordinary eyesight. She tries to find an explanation for her undesirable condition, which cannot be understood by those around her. In the field of tension between her own and others' perception of an unknown illness, her closest relationships have to be renewed or they threaten to fall apart.
WEAR AND TEAR
fiction feature | director: Florian Schmitz
Still being a passionate raver and DJ, Jules (42) earns her living working as a home nurse and carer. Luckily, her client Baris (69), a former night club owner, has a deep understanding for Jules' exhaustion. When Baris unexpectedly dies at the hospital, Jules' setup falls apart piece by piece.
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