thematic - KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg e.V.

VORWORT 

FOREWORD 

Über zehn Jahre ist es nun her, dass die KurzFilm- 

Agentur Hamburg – hervorgegangen aus dem No 

Budget Festival (heute: Internationales KurzFilm- 

Festival Hamburg) – ins Leben gerufen wurde. Im 

Oktober 1992 wurde sie mit dem Ziel gegründet, die 

Akzeptanz und die Verbreitung von Kurzfilmen 

innerhalb und außerhalb Deutschlands zu fördern und 

zu verbessern. Neben zahlreichen anderen Aktivitäten 

wurde der weltweite Rechtehandel beständig und mit 

wachsendem Erfolg betrieben. 

Unser laufend wachsender Filmstock erfordert eine 

neue Lösung, die wir in der Ringbuchvariante 

gefunden haben. So kann der Katalog mühelos 

aktualisiert und ergänzt werden. 

Geordnet sind die Filme darin nach ihrer Länge 

bis 3 Minuten, 




über 15 Minuten, 

und innerhalb dieser Rubriken nach Produktionsjahr. 

Neu akquirierte Filme können dadurch 

innerhalb ihrer Rubrik jeweils problemlos hinten 

angehängt werden. 

Unser Inhaltsverzeichnis wächst mit und wird 

jeweils zusammen mit den neuen Filmblättern 

versandt. Es bietet neben der alphabetischen 

Ordnung auch eine Kategorisierung nach 

Themen. Aus Gründen der Internationalität und der 

Übersichtlichkeit ist der Inhalt ausschließlich in 

englischer Sprache verfasst. Weitere Hilfe bieten wir 

selbstverständlich und sehr gerne persönlich an. 

Neben diesem Katalog ist die KurzFilmAgentur 

Hamburg zusätzlich in der Lage, aus ihrem 

mittlerweile über 13.000 Kurzfilme umfassenden 

internationalen KurzFilmArchiv zu schöpfen. Unser 

Archiv, welches jährlich mit etwa 1.500 neuen 

Kurzfilmen gespeist wird, gibt Auskunft über 

sämtliche Filmdaten und bietet über einen 

Schlagwortkatalog die Möglichkeit gezielt nach 

Inhalten zu suchen. 

Wir wünschen Ihnen angenehmes Arbeiten mit 

unserem Katalog. Teilen Sie uns Kritik, Anregungen 

und Verbesserungswünsche bitte gerne mit. 

It is now over ten years since the ShortFilmAgency 

Hamburg first saw the light of day having evolved out 

of the No Budget Festival (now: International Short- 

FilmFestival Hamburg). The agency was set up in 1992 

with the aim of improving and developing both 

national and international distribution structures for 

short films. The ShortFilmAgency Hamburg has 

negotiated worldwide film rights in addition to its 

numerous other activities – and with increasing 

success. Our ever-expanding stock of films needs a 

new home, so we have come up with the ring-binder 

variation. This makes it much simpler and less of a 

bind to keep the catalogue up-to-date and fullystocked. 

Films are arranged according to length 

up to 3 minutes, 




over 15 minutes. 

Within each category, films are further ordered 

according to the year they were produced. This 

means that new acquisitions can be added to the 

appropriate section of the catalogue as they appear – 

no problem. 

The index will also change as new films are added to 

the catalogue therefore an updated version will be 

sent out with the pages carrying details of recently 

added films. Titles are arranged both alphabetically 

and thematically. Given the international 

nature of the service and a desire for the catalogue to 

remain easy-to-use, the contents will be in English. 

We are very happy to help with any aspect of our 

work where you may require assistance. 

The ShortFilmAgency Hamburg also maintains an 

international short film archive containing over 13,000 

short films – a further 1,500 new short films are 

added each year. The archive contains a huge amount 

of information relating to each film. A catalogue of 

key words also makes it possible to carry out a 

detailed contents search of the archive. 

We hope you find our catalogue easy and comfortable 

to use. Please get in touch with us with any criticism, 

suggestions or recommendations you may have. 

We look forward to hearing from you.

INDEX 

ALPHABETICAL 

Contact 

Anne Schricker | Ingo Grell 

KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg e.V. 

ShortFilmAgency Hamburg 

Friedensallee 7 | D-22765 Hamburg 

Fon: +49-40-39 10 63 19 

Fax: +49-40-39 10 63 20 

sales@shortfilm.com | www.shortfilm.com 

1:1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A22 

601-S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A7 

8cht . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C5 

A Alma do Negócio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C7 

Als Hitchcock in Auerstedt auf 

Eiermanns Else traf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D12 

Aufschneider, Die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D4 

Außer Betrieb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B12 

Beim Autodoktor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A3 

Ben oder die Wolkenpumpe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D9 

Björn oder die Hürden der Behörden . . . . . . . D14 

Boden der Realität . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B20 

Boliden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B23 

Brain Eater, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C16 

C'est ça . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A11 

Coming Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D2 

Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D5 

Dangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B29 

Dans la Nuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D7 

Datum, Das . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3 

Demokratie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A26 

Deutsche Gesicht, Das . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E2 

Eintagsliebe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A20 

Fanny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D10 

Femme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B17 

Fensterputzer, Der . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C8 

Flaschko - Der Mann in der 

Heizdecke (6 episodes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A27 

Flatsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B4 

Flood, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C9 

Fremder Pelz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B11 

Friss, Vogel, oder stirb! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B6 

Futter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B15 

Geschichte vom roten Keramikpferd, Die . . . .C22 

Grenze, Die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A19 

Große Gefühle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B22 

Half Full, Half Empty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B7 

Hammer & Sichel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B8 

Hammerman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B18 

Happy Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C14 

Hasensignalalphabet, Das . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A18 

Hati-Hati, Malam-Malam! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B26 

Heavy Pregnant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C21 

Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A16 

Ich und das Universum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .D15 

Im Platz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C11 

Insel, Die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A15 

Intermezzo (26 episodes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A1 

Irrtümer – Fluchtversuch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A10 

Irrtümer – Fremde Zivilisationen . . . . . . . . . . . . B1 

Irrtümer – Steinschläge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A14 

Just a Little Bit of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B28 

Kaktus, Der . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A13 

Kann ich was abhaben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E1 

Killer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D8 

Killing Heinz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B5 

Kleine Geschichte Russlands, Eine . . . . . . . . . . B3 

Life of Reilly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E6 

Linear Dreams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C3 

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INDEX 

ALPHABETICAL 

Marsmädchen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B10 

My Job I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A25 

My Job II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B2 

My Job III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B16 

Nachbarn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D13 

Nonstop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E4 

Nous sommes Immortels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A21 

Oath, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C17 

Pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C15 

Pop Musik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A23 

Prodigal Son, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E7 

Verfolger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C2 

Von der Hingabe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C20 

Was nicht passt – wird passend gemacht . . . D11 

Wer hat Angst vorm Weihnachtsmann . . . . . . D6 

Wurstverkäuferin, Die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E5 

Yo Lo Ví . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D16 

Zum Greifen nah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C1 

Quench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A12 

Rad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B9 

Rattenskat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A6 

Regen in New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B24 

Rieku ja Reiku … (12 episodes) . . . . . . . . . A4 / A5 

Rocco - Das Krokodil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A28 

Sea Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B13 

Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C6 

Silverstar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D3 

Spelunkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B19 

Staplerfahrer Klaus – Der erste Arbeitstag . . C12 

Steuermann, Der . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C19 

Super 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B14 

Surprise! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B25 

Swerve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D1 

Taschenorgan, Das . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C18 

Taubenzucht, Die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A8 

Tischkante, Die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A2 

Tomatenköpfe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B27 

Tony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 

Tour d'Amour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C10 

Tour Eiffel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C13 

Unbekannte Flugobjekte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A24 

Und Tschüss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B21 

Untergang Babylons, Der . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A9 

Uzbek Express! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C4 

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Animation: 


Die Tischkante . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A2 



Rattenskat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A6 

Die Taubenzucht . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A8 

Der Untergang Babylons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A9 


Quench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A12 

Der Kaktus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A13 


Die Insel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A15 

Tony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A17 

Das Hasensignalalphabet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A18 

Die Grenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A19 



1:1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A22 

Pop Musik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A23 


Demokratie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A26 





Eine Kleine Geschichte Russlands . . . . . . . . . . B3 




Marsmädchen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B10 

Fremder Pelz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B11 


Sea Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B13 

Futter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B15 

Spelunkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B19 




Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C6 

The Flood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C9 

Yo Lo Ví . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D16 


Das Deutsche Gesicht . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E2 

INDEX 

THEMATIC 

Animal Life: 

Rieku ja Reiku… (12 episodes) . . . . . . . . . . A4 / A5 

Rattenskat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A6 


Quench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A12 


Hasensignalalphabet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A18 


Demokratie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A26 



Fremder Pelz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B11 

Futter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B15 


My Job III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B16 

The Flood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C 9 

Black Comedy: 

C'est ça . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A11 

Quench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A12 





Rad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B9 

Futter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B15 

My Job III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B16 

Hammerman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B18 

Just a Little Bit of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B27 

Dangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B29 

8cht . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C5 



Happy Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C14 

Pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C15 

The Brain Eater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C16 

Das Taschenorgan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C18 

Coming Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D2 

Die Aufschneider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D4 


Nachbarn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D13 

Nonstop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E4 

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INDEX 

THEMATIC 

Comedy / Slapstick: 


Rattenskat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A6 

601-S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A7 

C'est ça . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A11 

Quench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A12 

Der Kaktus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A13 

Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A16 


Die Grenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A19 

Pop Musik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A23 

My Job I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A25 

Demokratie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A26 




My Job II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B2 

Flatsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B4 



Rad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B9 


Futter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B15 

My Job III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B16 

Femme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B17 

Hammerman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B18 

Spelunkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B19 

Boliden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B23 


Surprise! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B25 



Dangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B29 

Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C6 


Tour Eiffel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C13 

Pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C15 



Coming Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D2 

Silverstar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D3 




Nachbarn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D13 


Nonstop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E4 


Cultural History: 



Tony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A17 


Die Grenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A19 






Super 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B14 

Spelunkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B19 

Im Platz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C11 

Coming Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D2 

Yo Lo Ví . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D16 

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Der Kaktus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A13 


Die Grenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A19 

My Job I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A25 


My Job II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B2 



Super 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B14 

My Job III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B16 

Im Platz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C11 

The Oath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C17 


Eiermanns Else traf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D12 


Die Wurstverkäuferin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E5 

Job / Vocation: 


Rattenskat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A6 

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INDEX 

THEMATIC 

Irrtümer – Steinschläge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A14 

Tony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A17 


Die Grenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A19 

My Job I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A25 


Heizdecke (6 episodes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A27 


My Job II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B2 

Flatsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B4 



Super 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B14 

My Job III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B16 

Hammerman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B18 

Spelunkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B19 



8cht . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C5 

Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C6 

Der Fensterputzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C8 


The Oath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C17 



Geschichte vom roten Keramikpferd, Die . . . C22 

Coming Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D2 

Silverstar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D3 



Killer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D8 




The Prodigal Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E7 

Love / Relationship: 






Marsmädchen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B10 

Futter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B15 

Femme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B16 

Und Tschüss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B21 


Surprise! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B25 




8cht . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C5 

Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C6 



Tour d'Amour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C10 

Pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C15 

Der Steuermann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C19 

Von der Hingabe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C20 



Dans la Nuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D7 

Fanny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D10 



Nachbarn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D13 


Nonstop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E4 




No Dialogue: 



601-S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A7 

C'est ca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A11 

Quench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A12 

Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A16 

Nous sommes Immotels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A21 

1:1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A22 

Pop Musik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A23 


Rad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B9 


Sea Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B13 

Femme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B16 


Und Tschüß . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B21 


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INDEX 

THEMATIC 

Boliden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B23 

Surprise! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B25 


Dangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B29 

Verfolger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C2 



Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C6 


The Flood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C9 

Tour Eiffel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C13 

Von der Hingabe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C20 

Swerve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D1 

Silverstar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D3 


Poetical / Philosophical: 

Rieku ja Reiku (12 episodes) . . . . . . . . . . . . A4 / A5 


Die Insel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A15 


Fremder Pelz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B11 

Sea Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B13 


Und Tschüss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B21 

Dangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B29 


Im Platz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C11 

Geschichte vom roten Keramikpferd, Die . . . .C22 



Profound: 


Rattenskat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A6 




Die Insel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A15 

Die Grenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A19 

Demokratie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A26 




Fremder Pelz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B11 

Super 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B14 

Futter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B15 



Im Platz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C11 

The Oath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C17 


Von der Hingabe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C20 

Coming Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D2 

Silverstar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D3 


Dans la Nuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D7 



Das Datum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3 

Satire / Parody: 

C'est ça . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A11 

Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A16 

Die Grenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A19 


Pop Musik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A23 


My Job I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A25 

Demokratie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A26 


My Job II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B2 


Futter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B15 

My Job III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B16 

Hammerman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B18 

Spelunkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B19 

8cht . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C5 



Happy Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C14 



Coming Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D2 

Nachbarn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D13 

Science Fiction: 

Quench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A12 



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Marsmädchen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B10 

Super 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B14 

Verfolger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C2 

The Flood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C9 



Das Datum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3 

Science / Phenomenon: 





Der Kaktus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A13 

Irrtümer - Steinschläge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A14 

Die Insel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A15 


1:1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A22 



My Job II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B2 





Fremder Pelz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B11 

My Job III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B16 

Spelunkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B19 



Dangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B29 

The Flood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C9 



Coming Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D2 

Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D5 




Nachbarn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D13 


Das Datum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3 

Nonstop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E4 

INDEX 

THEMATIC 

Social Life: 


Rattenskat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A6 

601-S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A7 



C'est ça . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A11 

Die Insel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A15 

Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A16 

Tony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A17 


Die Grenze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A19 

Demokratie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A26 




Flatsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B4 



Fremder Pelz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B11 

Super 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B14 

Futter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B15 

Femme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B17 

Hammerman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B18 

Spelunkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B19 


Und Tschüss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B21 






Happy Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C14 

The Oath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C17 


Geschichte vom roten Keramikpferd, Die . . . C22 

Coming Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D2 

Silverstar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D3 


Was nicht passt - wird passend gemacht . . . D11 

Nachbarn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D13 





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INDEX 

THEMATIC 


Suitable for Children: 


Rattenskat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A6 

Irrtümer - Steinschläge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A14 

Tony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A17 


1:1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A22 

Demokratie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A26 

Flatsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B4 



Sea Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B13 

Super 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B14 

Futter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B15 

Spelunkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B19 

Boliden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B23 


Dangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B29 

Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C6 

The Flood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C9 


Dans la Nuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D7 


Das Datum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E3 

The Brain Eater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C16 

The Oath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C17 

Swerve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D1 


Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D5 

Killer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D8 



Nachbarn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D13 


Nonstop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E4 


Suspense / Action: 

Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A16 

My Job II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B2 



Super 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B14 

Spelunkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B19 

Boliden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B23 


Surprise! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B25 

Hati-Hati, Malam-Malam! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B26 

Verfolger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C2 

8cht . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C5 



Tour Eiffel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C13 

Happy Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C14 

Pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C15 

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IMPRINT 

Published by 

KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg e.V. © 2003 

Editor Jürgen Kittel 

Editorial Team Anne Schricker, Svenja Hohnke 

Translations Michael Gilmour, Stephen McKee 

Graphic & Cover Design Elke Scholz 

Production Markus Schaefer, www.takeshape.de 

Print Reset Grafische Medien GmbH 

Supported by 

Kulturbehörde der Freien- und Hansestadt Hamburg 

FilmFörderung Hamburg GmbH

INTERMEZZO 

Director: Daniel Guyonnet 

France 1996 

26 episodes á 1:15 min. 

35 mm 

colour 

no dialogue 

animation 

These short stories take a funny and sometimes cruel look 

at the world we live in, exploring everything from the 

power of television to the invasions of flies, from the 

rivalry of lovers to the electric chair. 

Script | Camera | Editing 

Daniel Guyonnet 

Music | Sound Michel Fano 

Festivals 

1994: Annecy, Stuttgart 

A1

DIE TISCHKANTE 

THE TABLE’S EDGE 

Director: Franz Winzentsen 

Germany 1995 

1:27 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 

german dialogue 

animation 

A series about unexplored phenomena. An exotic look 

at life at the edge of a table and some strange goingson. 

A domestic problem which is finally solved thanks 

to a heavy Dutch tablecloth. 


Franz Winzentsen 

Music Jens Peter Ostendorf 

Sound Uwe Knott, Lutz Homann 

FBW-Prädikat Besonders wertvoll 

A2

BEIM AUTODOKTOR 

AT THE CAR-DOC 

Director: Jörg Reddemann 

1:30 min. 

16 mm 

colour 

no dialogue 

animation 

When the best friend is ill you need to take him to the 

doctor. A personification of the car. 

Realisation Jörg Reddemann 

Sound Felix Lamprecht 

Music Chris Marshall 

A3

RIEKU JA RAIKU – TÄYDELLISET SEIKKAILUT 

HIP AND HALE – COMPLETE ADVENTURES 

Directors: Hannu Lajunen / 

Tomi Riionheimo 

Finland 1998 

35 mm 1:1,66 

12 episodes 21:00 min. 

colour 

finnish dialogue = Rieku ja Reiku 

english dialogue = Hip and Hale 

german (Mercedes and Benz) 

or french (Remy and Martin) 

version possible 

animation 

Stories about two Finnish roosters, their male loneliness 

and their longing for a real, lasting relationship. 

SYNTYMÄ | BIRTH 

1:30 min. | Hip broke out first and then came Hale, the one is 

dark, the other pale. 

ENSIKÄNNI | FIRST-TIMERS DRUNK 

1:30 min. | Like real men on fine a day Hale’s learning how to 

booze away. Hip is being just as active by home-brewed 

beer he’s taken captive. 

VINOPÄIVÄ | HIP’S CROOKED DAY 

1:30 min. | Hip is eying his reflection of last night no 

recollection! 

KUKOT KULLINENVOKSINA 

ROOSTERS AS COCKMASTERS 

1:30 min. | Once the town is painted red, the next phase 

leads direct to bed. 

Script Jari Lehikoinen 

Camera Petri Rossi 

Music Lauri Hannu 

Sound Kikeono Filmsound, 

Pekka Karjalainen, 

Kauko Lindfors 

Production Indie Films, Petri Rossi 

Festivals 

1998: St.Petersburg, 

Bilbao, Hamburg 

1999: Kerala (India), 

Nordisk Panorama 

Awards 

1999: Special Prize, Tampere 

A4

RIEKU JA RAIKU – TÄYDELLISET SEIKKAILUT 

HIP AND HALE – COMPLETE ADVENTURES 

RIEKU SYNNIN TUSKISSA | HIP WRACKED BY GUILT 

1:40 min. | His heart with misery is fraught; his sins have got him overwrought. 

ARMAANI ON GERMAANI | GERMANY IN MY MIND 

1:40 min. | To Heike | Once upon a time somewhere, she kissed me, let me stroke her hair. Back and 

forth the letters went nothing much was ever meant. 

RAKKAUDEN KOLME VÄRIÄ | THE THREE COLOURS OF LOVE 

Part 1 Pink | 1:25 min. | Hale’s love is like electric power he reads her poems, gets her a flower. 

Part 2 Grey | 1:00 min. | For the lovers, once so gay, life today looks rather grey. All he does is make a 

mess, and on purpose, that’s her guess. 

Part 3 Brown | 1:20 min. | For you I won’t spread tears about. Get lost, you fuck, I want you out! 

PERUSTAVAT ROKKIBÄNDIN | ROCK & ROLL DREAMS 

2:40 min. | One paying, one invited guest, let’s go, quick, this band’s a pest! 

PIKKUJOULUT | HIP AND HALE AT THE STAFF CHRISTMAS PARTY 

1:40 min. | It’s Christmas party-time again this year, for sure, I’ll find a hen. 

ORPOPOIKIEN JOULUAATTO | CHRISTMAS EVE OF THE ORPHANED 

2:25 min. | Alone at home in candlelight this is it, this is right. 

A5

RATTENSKAT 

RAT SKAT 

Directors: Daniel Haude / Jim Lacy 

Germany 1999 

1:40 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 


animation 

A cynical synopsis of the state of play in the film industry. 

Somewhere in a multiplex cinema beside the popcorn 

machine the rats are playing cards and discussing Bruce 

Willis’ latest apocalypse movie, the central point of which 

seems to be that only the rats will survive. 

Script Jim Lacy 

Camera Daniel Haude 

Music Dayton Allemann 

Sound Paul Goodyear 

Editor Liam Domizlaff 

Narrator Michael Weh, 

Andreas Lehmann, 

Gunther Siebken 

Festivals 

1999: Hamburg, Nevers, Wiesbaden 

Awards 

1999: 1st Prize, Köln 

A6

601-S 

Director: Márton Nyitrai 

Hungary 2001 

1:40 min. 

35 mm 1:1,85 

colour 

no dialogue 

short fiction 

In one single shot and with one tremendous twist, this film 

proves that racing cars and speed do not always belong 

together. If you need a kick – buy a Trabant. 

Script Márton Nyitrai, Gábor Marosi 

Camera Gábor Marosi 

Sound Róbert Juhász 

Editing Judit Cakó 

Cast Adám Wallner, Krisztián Vörös 

A7

DIE TAUBENZUCHT 

PIGEON FANCYING 


Germany 1995 

1:45 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 


animation 

A series about unexplored phenomena. A question of 

genetics and how it is represented in the results of pigeon 

breeders’ best efforts. What more could they possibly want 

to achieve 






A8

DER UNTERGANG BABYLONS 

THE FALL OF BABYLON 


Germany 1995 

1:46 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 


animation 

A series about unexplored phenomena. The film 

considers a woodcut and its metamorphosis from a 

symbolic medieval image to a modern vision of doom. 






A9

IRRTÜMER – FLUCHTVERSUCH 

ERRORS – ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE 


Germany 1999 

1:57 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 


animation 

A perplexing mystery: the roots of pine trees waiting to be 

cut down are mutating into feet. Do the trees want to flee 

and if so why are they still standing here A man in 

lederhosen considers these points as he sets off on a 

metaphysical trip along the here, now and after. A narrated 

story with a sense of the ridiculous. 

Realisation Franz Winzentsen 

Sound Konken Studios 

Festivals 

1999: Hamburg, Köln 

A10

C’EST ÇA 

THAT’S IT 

Director: Felix Dünnemann 

Germany 1990 

2:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,85 

black & white 

no dialogue 

short fiction 

A cyclist, a Cadillac and a cigarette. The moral of this tale: 

smoking damages your health in more ways than you could 

ever imagine. Especially when you don’t notice that the 

traffic lights are red. 

Camera Dietrich Mangold 

Assistant Peter Aichholzer 

Editing Felix Dünnemann 

Cast Ulrich Hub, Petra Griebel, 

Thomas Burnauer 

Production Hochschule für 

Fernsehen und Film München 

Festivals 

1991: Saarbrücken, Göteborg, 

Münster 

FBW-Prädikat wertvoll 

A11

QUENCH 

Directors: 

J. Lacy / D. Haude / K. Albers 

Germany 2002 

2:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 

no dialogue 

animation 

It’s sort of like that other film but not exactly. Except at the 

beginning. Maybe. Parody of the Oscar (®) awarded German 

puppet animation “Quest“. 



Production Jim Lacy, Daniel Haude 

Sound Pierre Brand 

Other Kathrin Albers 

Awards 

2002: Audience Award, Hamburg 

A12

DER KAKTUS 

THE CACTUS 


Germany 1995 

2:02 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 


animation 





A series about unexplored phenomena. 

A family of musicians living somewhere in the mountains of 

Southern Germany discover that every now and then their 

cactus undergoes unusual twists and disortions. A timelapse 

film made with a Super 8-camera helps solve the 

mystery. A Sherlock Holmsian odyssey of investigation with 

a playful commentar. 


A13

IRRTÜMER – STEINSCHLÄGE 

ERRORS – ROCKSLIDE 


Germany 1999 

2:07 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 


animation 

Large amounts of technology and dedication help a 

scientist to uncover the truth behind a number of puzzling 

phenomena in outer space. Apparently, it’s all down to 

goats. According to Joachim Bublath, this short film shows 

that science still does not have all the answers. 



Festivals 

1999: Hamburg, München 

A14

DIE INSEL 

THE ISLAND 


Germany 1995 

2:08 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 


animation 


A visit from strange visitors – white figures, made of light 

ghosts or gods – and its consequences leading to a new 

perspective on the nature of things. 






A15

HOTEL 

Directors: Harry Flöter / Jörg Siepmann 

Germany 1998 

2:13 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 

no dialogue 

short fiction 

A tourist books into a hotel and sets in motion a high-speed 

comedy of disasters: overflowing toilets, drive-by 

shootings, voyeuristic sex and robbery. Nothing is left out. 

A cautionary tale for budget travellers. 

Script Harry Flöter 

Camera Rudolf Heinen 

Sound Lothar Segeler 

Music Mark Sein 

Editing Angst-Film 

Cast Andreas Kunze, 

Thomas Buntroc 

Production Manager 2 Pilots 

Festivals 

1998: Amsterdam, Berlin, Brest, 

Regensburg, Vendôme, 

Rüsselsheim, Oberhausen, 

München, Köln 

1999: Dakar, Osnabrück, Wiesbaden 

Awards 

1998: Special Mention, Nevers 

1999: Canon Special Prize 

A16

TONY 

Director: Simon Piniel 

Switzerland 1996 

2:15 min. 

16 mm 

black & white 

english dialogue 

animation 

Tony is a selfmade man and time is money, even in the 

stone age. This comedy contains everything one needs for 

a successful short film: A good idea and a pencil. 

Script Simon Piniel 

Music Young Disciples 

Animation Simon Piniel 

Narrator Gregg Skerman 

Production Manager Karin Barben, 

Lucie Bader Egloff 

Production Höhere Schule für 

Gestaltung Zürich 

Festivals 

1997: Oberhausen, Zürich, Lodz, 

Leipzig, Bristol, Hamburg, Selb, 

Baillargues, Estavar (Argentina) 

1998: Los Angeles, Stuttgart, 

Ankara, Kyoto 

Awards 

1997: Special Prize, Spiez; 3rd Prize, 

Luzern; 1st Youth Prize, Zürich; 1st 

Prize & Audience Prize, Solothurn 

1998: Special Prize, Winterthur 

A17

DAS HASENSIGNALALPHABET 

THE HARE SIGNAL ALPHABET 


Germany 1995 

2:16 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 


animation 


A novelty in signalling which did not last long. Just as 

Frans Terstappen had managed to decipher the hare signal 

alphabet, the hares stopped using it - the conspicuous 

gesticulating causes more harm than good. 





Festivals 

2000: Hamburg 


A18

DIE GRENZE 

THE BORDER 


Germany 1995 

2:20 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 


animation 

Script | Camera Franz Winzentsen 




A pseudo-scientific analysis of a cartographical enigma 

which arose when the frontier between East and West 

Germany was earased. The Border delivers an intelligent 

study of an age-old German problem of borders and walls 

long since gone which nevertheless remain in the head. 

Festivals 

1998: Kiev 

1999: Hamburg, Berlin, Augsburg, 

Regensburg 


A19

EINTAGSLIEBE 

FLASH IN THE PAN 

Director: Florian Kraft 

Germany 2000 

2:25 min. 

Betacam SP 

colour 


animation 

While the other members of his species are trapped on a 

fly-paper seemingly unaware of the fate awaits them, our 

principal actor elects for a more poetically inclined suicide. 

Realisation Florian Kraft 

Festivals 

Oberhausen, Weiterstadt, 

Berlin, Freiburg, Kassel 

A20

NOUS SOMMES IMMORTELS 

WE ARE IMMORTAL 

Director: Daniel Guyonnet 

Frankreich 1999 

2:30 min. 

Betacam SP 

colour 

english or french title link 

animation 

Animated New Year greetings. 

Realisation Daniel Guyonnet 

Festivals 

2000: Lisboa, Annecy, Hamburg, 

Rio de Janeiro, Hiroshima, 

Genzano di Roma, Barcelona, 

Sitges, Espinho, Stuttgart 

2001: Rotterdam, Valence, Bristol, 

Auch, Grimstad, Flensburg, Lisboa, 

Espinho, Melbourne 

Awards 

2000: Bitfilm Award, Hamburg; 

Audience Award, Genzano di Roma 

A21

1:1 

Director: Richard Reeves 

Canada 2001 

2:30 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

Dolby Stereo 

colour 

no dialogue 

animation 

Experimental animation exploring the one to one 

relationship between the sound and picture experience of 

visual music as a time and space artform. Drawn and 

scratched directly on the 35 mm film print. 

Realisation Richard Reeves 

Festivals 

2001: Toronto, Leipzig, Tallinn, 

Vancouver, Windsor, Victoria, 

Seattle, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Rio de 

Janeiro, Ottawa, New York City 

A22

POP MUSIK 

POP MUSIC 

Directors: Jörg Wagner / 

Markus Schaefer 

Germany 2002 

2:30 min. 

Betacam SP 

colour 

no dialogue 

music clip 

Live in Concert: The aged boy group “Liquid Bread“ 

presents its new instrumental hit “Pop Music“. Their 

chosen instruments are beer bottles, beer cans, a 

cigarette lighter and a trash can. The film was shot 

using an invisible split screen. 

Script | Production Jörg Wagner, 

Markus Schaefer 

Camera Holger Braak, Frank Krause 

Editing Moritz von Essen 

Music Markus Schaefer, 

Jörg Wagner 

Cast Axel Behrens, Jan Paulo, 

Markus Schaefer, Lars Wilde 

Festivals 

2002: Hamburg, Weiterstadt, 

Wiesbaden, Regensburg, 

Villingen-Schwenningen, 

Umeå, Limerick 

2003: Clermont-Ferrand 

Awards 

2nd Prize, Hamburg 

A23

UNBEKANNTE FLUGOBJEKTE 

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 


Germany 1995 

2:43 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 


animation 

A series about unexplored phenomena. Over a short 

period of time, a number of UFO’s were sighted over seven 

villages in Lower Saxony. However, none of the eyewitnesses 

took any photographs or film footage of what 

they saw. Most of them said the objects looked like the 

combs their grandmothers once used. The film investigates 

the phenomenon by reconstructing the incident using 

documentary techniques and hand-drawn animation. 






A24

MY JOB I 

Director: Joern Utkilen 

England 1999 

3:00 min. 

Betacam SP 

colour 


short fiction 

A homage to the homemade, low-budget trash film. 

A pilot, Ingvild Soederlind, talks seriously about her job 

– her stove doubles as a cockpit. 

Realisation Joern Utkilen 

Cast Ingvild Soederlind 

Festivals 

1999: Edinburgh, Bristol, Aspen, 

Potsdam, Huesca, Grimstad, York, 

Siena 

Awards 

1999: The Fox Searchlight Award, 

Edinburgh 

2000: Special Prize, Aspen 

A25

DEMOKRATIE 

DEMOCRACY 

Directors: Carsten Strauch / 

Piotr J. Lewandowski 

Germany 2000 

3:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,85 

colour 


animation 

One bright sunny afternoon, all the animals of the forest 

gather together at the big oak near the clearing. Everything 

could have been so nice – but problems start when the 

polecat pees against a tree. He and the badger then argue 

about the concept of democracy or – at least – freedom of 

speech. 

Script | Sound Carsten Strauch 

Camera | Editing 

Piotr J. Lewandowski 

Music Mozart 

Festivals 

2001: Wiesbaden, Selb, Potsdam, 

Dresden, Bamberg, Hamburg, 

Emden, Hildesheim, Bludenz, 

Hildesheim, Marburg-Armöneburg, 

Frankfurt/M., Dresden, Weiterstadt, 

Augsburg, Wiesbaden, Regensburg 

2002: Rüsselsheim 

A26

FLASCHKO - DER MANN IN DER HEIZDECKE 

FLASCHKO - THE MAN IN THE ELECTRIC BLANKET 

Director: Nicolas Mahler 

Austria 2002 

6 episodes 9:46 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 


animation 

Script Nicolas Mahler 

Music José Parrondo 

Animation Sabine Groschup 

Narrator Hilli Reschl, Ronnie Urini 

Prod. Manager Thomas Renolder 

Production ASIFA Austria 

Festivals 

2002: Graz, Hamburg 

A man, his mother and his electric blanket. 

EPISODE 1: DER WEG IST DAS ZIEL UND DAS ZIEL IST SITZEN 

THE PATH IS THE GOAL AND THE GOAL IS TO SIT 

1:33 min. Flaschko opens a birthday present. 

EPISODE 2: KOCHENDE KLASSE VERRECKE | TO HELL WITH MOTHER 

1:42 min. Generation gap. 

EPISODE 3: VIVO FLASCHKO ES SURREALISMO 

VIVO FLASCHKO EL SURREALISMO 

1:29 min. Flaschko sees confusing things. 

EPISODE 4: HORROR FLASCHKUI | HORROR FLASCHKUI 

1:37 min. Flaschkos mother is worried about her son. 

EPISODE 5: SCHMERZEN FUSSEND IM NICHTS | PAINS OF LEISURE 

1:46 min. Flaschko comes up against the bounds of capacity. 

EPISODE 6: HARTES LOS HUHN | HARD LUCK CHICKEN 

1:39 min. Flaschko takes up a profession but can’t stay in business. 

A27

ROCCO - DAS KROKODIL 

ROCCO - THE CROCODILE 

Director: Sebastian Peterson 

Germany 2003 

2:53 min. 

35 mm 1:1,85 

colour 


animation 

A circus dompteur stakes his manhood in a salacious 

demonstration of who is really in charge. Will it end in 

tears 

Realisation Sebastian Peterson 

Music Ingo Frenzel 

Sound Michael Gerbes 

Voices Thomas Kästner, Hannelore 

Minkus 

Production Michael Konstabel 

Festivals 

2003: International Short Film Festival 

Hamburg 

A28

IRRTÜMER – FREMDE ZIVILISATIONEN 

ERRORS – UNKNOWN CIVILISATIONS 


Germany 1999 

3:03 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 


animation 



Cast Hannah Louise Winzentsen 

Festivals 

1999: Hamburg, Winterthur, Berlin 

The Pioneer 10 space probe was shot into space carrying 

information about life on earth for any alien civilisations it 

came across. The film takes a humorous look at how this 

information could be interpreted by scientists from other 

worlds. 

B1

MY JOB II 


Scotland 2000 

3:07 min. 

Betacam SP 

colour 


short fiction 

Another homage to the homemade, low-budget trash film. 

A pot-holer, Ingvild Soederlind, talks seriously about her job 

– her flat doubles as a cave to be explored. 



Festivals 

2000: Edinburgh, Dresden, Aspen, 

York, Hamburg, München 

2002: The Strange Brew Friday 

Midnight Indie Film Fest, USA 

B2

EINE KLEINE GESCHICHTE RUSSLANDS 

A BRIEF HISTORY OF RUSSIA 


Germany 1995 

3:10 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 


animation 

A series about unexplored phenomena. An archeological 

study shows that receptacles and their decoration are not 

only beautiful but also enlightening documents of early 

cultures – in this case, Russia in the 20th century. 






B3

FLATSCH 

Director: Thomas Oberlies / 

Helge Weichmann 

Germany 2000 

3:10 min. 

Betacam SP 

colour 


short fiction 

The inner life of a typewriter. A low-budget film about the 

painful and pleasant everyday-life of frequently and rarely 

used letters. 

Realisation Thomas Oberlies, 

Helge Weichmann 

Music Blue Valley 

Cast Thomas Oberlies, Helge Weichmann, 

Anton Escher, Thomas Thönnes, 

Julia Helm, Birgit Scheibner 

Festivals 

Landshut, Potsdam, Oberhausen, 

Wiesbaden, Weiterstadt, Köln, Flensburg, 

York, Augsburg, München 

B4 

Awards 

Jury Award, Mainz; Jury & Audience 

Award, Rottweil; Jury & Audience Award, 

Konstanz; Audience Award, Thalmässing; 

Audience Award, Hamburg; Audience 

Award, Marburg-Armöneburg; 3rd Prize, 

Gijon; 3rd Prize, Berlin; Special Mention, 

Hannover; Audience Award, Rüsselsheim; 

Special Jury Prize, Bayreuth

KILLING HEINZ 

Director: Stefan Eling 

Germany 1996 

3:20 min. 

16 mm 

colour 

no dialogue 

animation 

Camera Udo Steinmetz, 

Rüdiger Lensing 

Music | Animation Stefan Eling 

Sound F+M Studio Köln 

Production Steinmetz Trickfilm 

Heinz leads a charmed life as he strolls untroubled through 

life’s danger zones: hyper-busy traffic, open manhole 

covers, shoot-ups, muggings. Oblivious to it all behind his 

sunglasses, he seems to remain somehow untouched. That 

is, until he decides to watch a particularly violent video – 

his last. 

Festivals 

1996: Regensburg, Cinanima, 

Sitges, Oslo 1997: Annecy, Münster, 

Hamburg, Bruxelles, Ghent, Roma, 

Cartoombria, Siena, Kiev, Györ, 

Targu Mures, Drama, Rio de 

Janeiro, Rouyan-Noranda, St.Louis, 

Kelibia, Sao Paulo, Luzern, Bristol, 

Braunschweig, Dresden 1998: 

Vendôme, Osnabrück, München, 

Istanbul, Seoul, Köln, Lille 

Awards 

1996: 2nd Prize, Stuttgart 


B5

FRISS, VOGEL, ODER STIRB! 

FOWL PLAY 

Directors: Jim Lacy / Daniel Haude 

Germany 1998 

3:20 min. 

16 mm 

colour 


animation 

A story set in a place Wallace & Gromit never would go. 

Somewhere in Hamburg´s red-light district in a seedy bar of 

the Reeperbahn, a vulture protection racket is turning the 

screws on a lovely flamingo barkeeper. An annoying 

customer walks and, in the middle of it all, forgets to return 

a borrowed lighter. When the cops arrive with guns blazing 

we are treated to a shoot out that betters anything that 

Lethal Weapon 9 will ever offer. 

Script | Editing Jim Lacy 

Camera | Sound Daniel Haude 

Narrator Käthe Lachmann 

Festivals 

1998: Köln, Kiev, Bremen 

1999: Dresden, Luzern 

Awards 

1998: 1st Prize, Hamburg 

B6

HALF FULL, HALF EMPTY 

Director: Lisa Mulcahy 

Ireland 1999 

3:20 min. 

16 mm 

colour 


short fiction 

Script Margaret Moggan 

Camera Cian de Buitléar 

Sound Karl Merrn 

Editing Stephen Vicers 

Cast Michael McElhatton, 

Conleth Hill, Siraj Zaidi 

Two hostages in a cell somewhere in the middle east, one 

the eternal optimist the other darkly cynical. The highlight 

of their day, a word game based on the few words of 

English their captor may or may not say as he serves the 

dinner. On this particular day the words are ‘sorry lad, it 

stinks!’. 

Festivals 

1998: Kiev 

1999: Hamburg, Berlin, 

Augsburg, Regensburg 

B7

HAMMER & SICHEL 

HAMMER & SICKLE 


Germany 1996 

3:30 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 

german dialogues 

animation 

A film about the evolution of a state symbol as both an 

ironic and serious consideration of the state’s own 

development. And – of course – an allegorical tale of an 

ideology well past its sell-by date. 



Music | Sound Uwe Knott, 

Lutz Homann 

Narrator Franz Winzentsen 

Festivals 



B8

RAD 

WHEEL 

Director: Jörn Staeger 

Germany 2001 

3:30 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 


short fiction 

The film’s protagonist desperately struggles onward – 

ever onward – on his bicycle until he is sent spinning 

and thus completes the circle of the whole story. 

Realisation Jörn Staeger 

Cast Rasmus Hamburg, 

Josephin Böttger, Jörn Staeger 

Festivals 

2001: Györ, Hamburg, Weiterstadt, 

Osnabrück, Milano, Flensburg, 

Cork, Villingen-Schwenningen, 

Braunschweig, Lübeck, Lünen, 

Bamberg, Würzburg, Bristol 

B9

MARSMÄDCHEN 

MARS GIRL 

Directors: Daniel Haude / Jim Lacy 

Germany 1999 

3:45 min. 

16 mm 1:1,37 

color 

no dialogue 

animation 

"One day I lost my gravity ... " Love between two worlds 

and lots of music. 



Music Heidi Salaverria 

Sound Paul Goodyear 

Editor Lian Domizlaff 

Cast Jim Lacy, Daniel Haude 

B10

FREMDER PELZ 

STRANGE FUR 


Germany 1999 / 2000 

3:50 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 

no dialogue 

animation 

The behaviour of two polar bears in a zoo interpreted with 

the help of changing symbols. 




B11

AUSSER BETRIEB 

OUT OF ORDER 

Director: Jörg Reddemann 

Germany 1998 

4:00 min 

16 mm 1:1,37 

colour 

no dialogue 

real life and animation 

Have you ever wondered how your money actually comes 

out of that machine in the wall This claymation short film 

introduces you to a hard-working little man you may not 

have noticed before. 

Script Jörg Reddemann, 

Volker König 

Camera Jörg Reddemann, 

Tom Meyer 

Editing Jörg Reddemann 

Music Pollard, White 

Cast Gottfried Klose, Tom Meyer, 

Alexander Sonntag 

Festivals 

1998 - 2000: Oberhausen, Berlin, 

Köln, Annecy 

Awards 

1998: 1st Prize, Bielefeld 

1999: Silver Award, Rüsselsheim 

B12

SEA SONG 


Canada 1999 

4:10 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 

no dialogue 

experimental animation 

An animated look into the sparkling ocean at night. Sounds 

and pictures drawn directly on the 35 mm film print. 

Realisation Richard Reeves 

Sound Ken Stauffer 

Festivals 

1999: Toronto, Halifax, Sudbury, 

Vancouver, Paris 

2000: New York, Jersey City, 

Victoria, Brisbane, Oslo, 

Annecy, Goias (Brazil), Hamburg, 

Berkley, Ottawa, Mill Valley, 

Leipzig, Montréal, 

Bourg en Bresse, Winterthur, 

Regensburg, Brisbane, Tallinn 

2001: Dresden, Bristol, 

Oberhausen, Kiev, Uppsala 

B13

SUPER 8 

Director: Peter D. Göltenboth 

Germany 1999 

4:10 min. 

35 mm 1:1,85 

colour 


short fiction 

A dream comes true for Kai when he is presented with a 

film camera on his 10th birthday. Freely, he films his 

friends, family and surroundings. But on the same day a 

disaster happens that changes his life. After a nuclear 

strike all life is forced to go underground, his parents are 

dead and Kai awaits an uncertain future. 

Script Peter D. Göltenboth 

Camera Ralf H. Schlotter 

Editing Svenja Cussler 

Sound Florian Ahrens, 

Mark Friedrichs 

Production Juric Maric 

Cast Sandro Blümel, Janina Flieger, 

Luigi Fantino 

Festivals 

2000: Potsdam, Bamberg, Leipzig, 

Valencia 

B14

FUTTER 

FEEDING TIME 

Director: Carsten Strauch 

Germany 1996 

4:30 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 


english version available 

animation 

Stefan Krause is a very hungry – and a very human – 

lion living in a zoo. Now, he has to organise his own meals 

– something full of unforeseen complications. An antelope 

eventually offers him a bit of her leg. The lion’s dilemma: 

how do you choose between friendship and hunger 

Script | Animation Carsten Strauch 

Sound | Music Enrico Corsano 

Voices Carsten Strauch, 

Stefan Steinau 

Festivals 

1996: Weiterstadt, Wilhelmshaven, 

Braunschweig, Frankfurt/M., Mainz 

1997: Stuttgart, Saarbrücken, 

Heidelberg, Postdam, Augsburg, 

Emden, Hamburg, Leipzig, Sao 

Paulo, Baden, Cork, Münster, 

Tübingen, Uppsala, Siena, 

Hannover, Lünen, Espinho, Freiburg, 

Villingen-Schwenningen 

1998: Stuttgart, Annecy, Sydney, 

London, Wellington, Rio de Janeiro, 

San Sebastian, Leeds 

1999: Bruxelles, Granada, Dublin 

Awards 

1996: 1st Prize, Rüsselsheim; 

Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Short 

Film Prize; 3rd Prize, Bielefeld 

1997: 1st Prize Youth Jury & 2nd 

Prize, Dresden; Children's Film 

Prize, Oberhausen; 3rd Prize, 

Bamberg; 2nd Prize, Amöneburg; 

Audience Award, Göttingen, 2nd 

Prize, Wiesbaden 1998: 1st Prize, 

Würzburg; German Short Film Prize, 

Filmband in Gold 


B15

MY JOB III 


Scotland 2001 

4:30 min. 

Betacam SP 

colour 


short fiction 

Yet another homage to the homemade, low-budget trash 

film. A vet, Ingvild Soederlind, talks seriously about her job 

while carrying out surgery on cuddly toys. 



Festivals 

2001 Edinburgh, London, Genève 

B16

FEMME 

WOMAN 

Director: Donald Kraemer 

Germany 1996 

4:40 min. 

35 mm 1:1,85 

colour 

no dialogue 

short fiction 

After a night of alcoholic excess, a woman wakes up in 

someone else’s bed – with two strange men. It seems they 

have all just enjoyed a evening of steamy passion. 

Gradually, a picture of the events of the previous night 

comes into focus – and she realises the two men are gay. 

Script Charles Finkbeiner, 

Michael Jahnke, Donald Kraemer 

Camera Charles Finkbeiner 

Music Mijk van Dijk 

Sound Robin Pohle 

Cast Lisa Adler, Cyrill Berndt, 

Uwe Fellensiek, 

Thomas Anzenhofer 

Production Manager 

Michael Jahnke 

Festivals 

1997: Rotterdam, Tampere, 

Winterthur, Hamburg, Verden, 

Bamberg, Köln, Würzburg 

Awards 

1996: Special Mentions, 

Salerno & Montréal 

1997: Prix Elida Fabergé 


B17

HAMMERMAN 

Director: Andy Shelley 

England 1997 

4:49 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 


short fiction 

A talentless man is determined to get into show business. 

He thinks he has hit upon the perfect act: Hammerman. On 

his first audition he asks the manager of the show to hit 

him with a hammer on the head. Instead of starting a 

career in showbiz he finds himself in a hospital. Tragicomedy 

with painful moments and a very British sense of 

black humor. 

Script Chas Bayfield 

Camera Jake Polonsky 

Music Paul Wigens 

Sound Phil Hartley 

Editing Raimondo Aiello 

Cast Simon Hirst, John Hart Dyke 

Prod. Manager Liesbeth Beeckman 

Festivals 

1998: Sydney, Sydney Film Festival 

Regional Tour, Perth, Alice Springs, 

Melbourne, Sao Paulo, Sitges, Bilbao, 

Padova, Windsor, London, Wandsworth, 

Liverpool 1999: Lisboa, Dresden, Osaka, 

Bristol, Edinburgh, London, Manchester, 

Barcelona 2002: Mamers en Mars 

B18 

Awards 

1998: 2nd Prize, Chicago 

1999: Special Jury nomination on 

Originality, Taichung (Taiwan) 

2000: Wrangler Short Film Awards

SPELUNKERS 

Director: Jim Lacy / Daniel Haude 

Germany 2002 

4:55 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 


animation 

Three spelunkers confront a monster in a cave that 

metaphorically represents inconsistent German 

environmental policy. 



Production Jim Lacy, Daniel Haude 

Sound Pierre Brand 

Cast Käthe Lachmann, Jan Paulo, 

Sabine Jaschke 

Festivals 


Awards 

2002: 1st Prize, Wiesbaden 

B19

BODEN DER REALITÄT 

BASE OF REALITY 

Director: Olaf Böhme 

Germany 1996 

5:22 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 

no dialogue 

animation 

An entertaining and philosophical take on the nature of 

reality featuring multiple shifts in perspective. Two men 

move along perpendicular pavements but a fight breaks out 

when each tries to establish his own chosen path as the 

right one. Eventually, water pouring from a fire hydrant 

creates a new level for both of them. 

Camera Heinz Busert 

Music Rainald Hahn 

Sound Studio Mankewitz 

Editing Olaf Böhme, Heinz Busert 

Production Ostfilm 

Festivals 

1996: Valladolid 

1997: Clermont-Ferrand, Cork, 

Edinburgh, Heidelberg, Kiev, 

Montréal, Ottawa, Umeå, Uppsala 

1998: Annecy, Leipzig 

Awards 

Special Mention, Bourg-en-Bresse 


B20

UND TSCHÜSS 

BYE 

Director: Walter Feistle / 

Stefan Schneider 

Germany 1993 

6:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,85 

colour 

no dialogue 

short fiction 

A round dance of different young lovers at the station. 

Done in a single shot with an almost constantly moving 

camera. 

Script | Editing Stefan Schneider 

Camera Mike Bartlett 

Music Les Pires 

Sound Titus Lange 

Production Die Freunde 

des bewegten Bildes 

Cast Jargen Albrecht, Ulrike Arnold, 

Birgit Aurell, Rainer Furch, 

Nina Kapust, Karin Kîster 

Festivals 

1993: Hof, Brest 1994: Göteborg, 

Hamburg, Huesca, Dresden, 

Vila do Conde, Valencia, London 1995: 

Bruxelles, Karlovy Vary 1999: Winterthur 

Awards 

1994: 1st Prize, Tel Aviv; Film Fund 

München 1995: Special Prize, 

Montecatini; Golden Unicorn, Bludenz 


B21

GROSSE GEFÜHLE 

BIG FEELINGS 

Director: Sandra Schießl 

Germany 1999 

6:10 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 

no dialogue 

animation 

Brought to life from the depths of a cake-mixing bowl a 

small rabbit appears and falls for the wrong guy. She will 

use all of her feminine charms to win his stony heart and 

still fail. A bitter-sweet love story told with humour which 

journeys along the road of devotion, jealousy, intrigue, 

pride and pain. Big feelings on the kitchen shelves. 

Script | Camera | Sound | 

Production Sandra Schießl 

Music Michael Gilmour, Tim Risher 

Editing Hauke Böttcher, 

Kerstin Sprenger 

Festivals 

1999: Weiterstadt, Leipzig, Münster 

Awards 

1999: HanseShort Hamburg; 

3rd Prize, Köln; 1st Prize, Hannover 

B22

BOLIDEN 

BOLIDES 

Director: Walter Feistle 

Germany / Switzerland 1991 

6:00 min 

16mm 

black & white 

no dialogue 

short fiction 

Script | Editing | Camera 

Walter Feistle 

Music Strings in Agony 

Sound Thomas Kronthaler, Felix Frey 

Production Die Freunde des 

bewegten Bildes 

Cast 25 cildren from Lenzburg 

and its environs 

In this action film a little boy is forced by two older ones to 

take part in a soap-box derby. In his rickety old pram he has 

not the slightest chance against his competitors' 

sophisticated racing cars. But breakdowns, blowouts and 

horrible crashes decimate the fearless speed freaks. Will 

the pram pilot even be the champion 

Festivals 

München, Solothurn, 

Clermont-Ferrand, Tampere, 

Selb, Oberhausen, Kairo, 

Uppsala, Rajasthan (India), Namur 

Awards 

Audience Award, Hamburg; 

Golden Unicorn, Bludenz; 

Audience Award, Münster 


B23

REGEN IN NEW YORK 

RAIN IN NEW YORK 

Director: Krischan Koch 

Germany 1995 

6:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 


short fiction 

Peter, Biggi and Wilfried are sitting comfortably in front of 

the television looking forward to coverage of a tennis 

tournament in New York. However, the action at Flushing 

Meadows has been washed out by rain. Nothing but rain in 

New York for days. A beautiful comedy about waiting for 

something to happen. 

Script Krischan Koch 

Camera Uli Fischer 

Sound Volker Zeigermann 

Editing Matthias Glasner 

Cast Joachim Król, Leonard Lansink, 

Catrin Striebeck 

Production Manager Bernd Medek 

Production Jack Film 

Festivals 

1995: Oberhausen, Schwerin, 

Emden, Hamburg, Hannover, 

Villingen-Schwenningen, 

Braunschweig, Lünen, Wiesbaden 

1996: Gütersloh, Saarbrücken, Brühl, 

Amsterdam, Augsburg 

1998: München 


B24

SURPRISE! 

Director: Veit Helmer 

Germany 1995 

6:00 min. 

35 mm 1.1,66 

colour 

no dialogue 

short fiction 

A man gathers together an arsenal of lethal weapons 

around his lover’s bed as she sleeps. It looks like he has 

something murderous in mind. But, in fact, the whole 

complicated chain reaction he sets up is just to make it 

easier for her to get out of bed in the morning. 

Script Veit Helmer 

Camera Stefan von Borbély 

Musik Niki Reiser 

Sound Jörg Höhne 

Cast Max Tidof, Yutah Lorenz 

B25

HATI-HATI, MALAM-MALAM! 

BE CAREFUL IN THE NIGHT 


Germany / Indonesia 2001 

6:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 

indonesian dialogue 

short fiction 

Taking a cab in Jakarta is dangerous. Especially for 

beautiful girls. But in this case the taxi driver is in trouble. 


and Students of IKJ 

Camera Robertus B.J.B. 

Music Oppie & Gigi 

Sound Wahyu Tri Purnomo 

Editing Ahsan Andrian 

Cast Maria Gorethi Megarita, 

Epi Kusnandarv 

B26

TOMATENKÖPFE 

TOMATOHEADS 

Director: Paul Horn / Harald Hund 

Austria 2001 

6:00 min. 

Betacam SP 

colour 


short fiction 

We’re introduced to the everyday life of the family 

Meiberger. Although they do ordinary things something is 

strange. Mr. and Mrs. Meiberger are living upside down. 

Realisation Paul Horn, Harald Hund 

Actors Karo Meiberger, Paul Horn 

Festivals 

2002: Chicago, Cork, Berlin, Paris, 

Marseille, Zürich, Hamburg, Köln, 

Augsburg, Weiterstadt, 

Schwenningen, München 

Awards 

2002: Audience Prize, Hamburg; 

Vienna Video Award 

B27

JUST A LITTLE BIT OF LOVE – 

A TRIBUTE TO DES SMITH 

Director: Peter Foott 

Ireland 2002 

4:35 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 

no dialogue 

short fiction 

A young girl hurries home to build herself love. She begins 

to assemble her perfect man to her perfect music. Through 

the magic of love and imagination, the mannequin comes to 

life and the two fall deeply in love. However, her man only 

lives through her eyes and when they are spotted taking in 

a romantic stroll on the pier, alarm bells sound. The 

authorities take her away and the mannequin falls lifeless 

without her. 

Script Peter Foott 

Music Jerry Hughes, Des Smyth 

Sound Shane O’Neill 

Camera Bonnie Dempsey 

Actors Claire McGary, 

Peter Vollebregt 

Production Manager Vincent Lambe 

Festivals 

2002: Cork, Galway, Kerry, Uppsala, 

Brest, Madrid, Boston 

Awards 

2002: Best Undergraduate Award, 

Hampton 

B28

DANGLE 

Director: Philip Traill 

Germany / England 2003 

5:54 min. 

35mm 1:1,85 

colour 

no dialogue 

short fiction 

A man out for a walk ends up plunging the world into darkness. 

Realisation Philip Traill 

Festivals 

2003: Berlin Film Festival, 

International Short Film 

Festival Hamburg 

Awards 

2003: Berlin Film Festival Talent 

Campus Award 

B29

ZUM GREIFEN NAH 

WITHIN GRASP 


Germany 1992 

7:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 


short fiction 


Camera Janucz Reichenbach 

Cast Wolfgang Bauer, 

Anne-Marie Bubke, 

Antony Paul, Jean Wilson 

In this romantic comedy, Anton is a construction-site 

crane worker with a bird's eye view. From his eyrie he sees 

Tatjana and in the morning when she awakes she finds 

some flowers which have been miraculously placed on her 

balcony. After being knocked out by his boss, Anton finally, 

but unconsciously, finds his way into Tatjana's flat, and the 

couple comes together. 


C1

VERFOLGER 

PURSUER 

Director Sebastian Niemann 

Germany 1994 

7:00 min. 

35 mm 

black & white 

no dialogue 

short fiction 

A young traveller is walking along an offside road. When a 

vehicle comes closer, the woman decides to ask for a lift. 

An old truck stops in front of her. But when the girl 

approaches, the truck backs off. The next moment the car 

comes closer in a threatening way. A scary cat and mouse 

game starts ... 

Script Sebastian Niemann 

Camera Gerhard Schirlo 

Music Thomas Wilhelm 

Editing Hana Müllner 

Cast Julia Haacke, Klaus Stiglmeier, 

Rainer Matsutani 

Production Annette Deventer, 

HFF Munich 

Awards 

1st Special Prize, Bruxelles 


C2

LINEAR DREAMS 


Canada 1997 

7:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 

no dialogue 

cameraless animation 

Images from the mind's eye, music from the mind’s ear - a 

stream of consciousness journey, produced by drawing and 

painting directly on 35 mm film - accompanied by handscratched 

sounds. A magnificent piece of work, a film 

produced only with the material of film itself! 

Camera | Music | Animation | 

Editing | Production 

Richard Reeves 

Sound Richard Reeves, 

Tona W. Ohama 

Festivals 

1997: Toronto, Zürich, Squamish, 

Yellowknife, Portland, Schorndorf, 

Leipzig 1998: Hong Kong, Stuttgart, 

Dresden, Annecy, Cardiff, Hamburg, 

Wellington, Rio de Janeiro, Luzern, 

Riga, Toronto, Pesaro, Kiev, Uppsala, 

Rouyn-Noranda, Espinho, 

Regensburg, Braunschweig, Utrecht 

1999: Göteborg, Valence, Bruxelles, 

Montreal, Vancouver, Hannover, Oslo, 

Seoul, Toronto, Paris 2000: 

Rotterdam, Vancouver, Vietnam, 

Fredrikstad 2001 - 2003: Kinetica 3 - 

International Tour, iota Center for 

Visual Music 

Awards 

1997: Best Canadian Short, Halifax; 1st Prizes, Edmonton; 

Victoria; Calgary 1998: 1st Prizes, Ottawa; Zagreb; Jersey 

City; Brisbane; Best Sound Design, Ann Arbor; 2nd Prize, 

Agura Hills; Special Mentions, Genzano di Roma; Dresden; 

San Francisco 

C3

UZBEK EXPRESS! 


Uzbekistan / Germany 2001 

7:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 

no dialogue 

short fiction 

Tashkent Station: Passengers rush to the express train. The 

conductor signals to the old engineer: All set for departure. 

The sight of a couple locked in an intimate kiss inspires the 

engineer to abandon the train and to make a fundamental 

change in his life ... 


and students of the Tashkent 

Filmschool Mannon Uigur 

Camera Rifkat Ibragimov 

Sound Sayora Hudayberdieva 

Editing Dagmar Drews 

Production Manager 

Tursunbay Halikov 

Line Producer Raschid Abrumadov 

Casting Aschot Abidjanow 

C4

8CHT 

8IGHT 

Directors: Charley Stadler / 

Fred G. Eger 

Germany 1997 

7:20 min. 

35 mm 1:1,85 

colour 


short fiction 

Script Fred G. Eger 

Camera Stefan von Borbély 

Music Stephan Massimo 

Sound Vladimir Skoronowsky 

Editing Andreas Herzog 

Cast Barbara Rudnik, Michael 

Brandner, Nicole Marischka, 

Jeanette Uetz, Sabrina Luft 

Production Manager Fred G. Eger 

In the style of a perfect commercial we are introduced to a 

beautiful woman (Barbara Rudnik) working a telephone 

help-line for people who are depressed. A man who has 

turned on the gas, calls her for help. If he had known that 

this was a woman looking for revenge on any man, he 

could have killed himself alone. 

Festivals 

1998: Dresden, Emden, Hamburg, 

New York 

Awards 

1998: 2nd Prize, Bilbao 

C5

SHOCK 

Director: Zlatin Radev 

Bulgaria 1996 

7:33 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 

no dialogue 

real life and animation 

An animator fallen in love with the girl he has just drawn, 

"falls" head over feet into the animation world. The old 

story about the animator and his creations presented 

through unusual hand-animated techniques. 

Script Vladislav Budinov, 

Zlatin Radev 

Camera Sylvester Yordanov 

Music | Sound Assen Avramov, 

Blagomir Alexiev 

Animation Vladislav Budinov, 

Zlatin Radev 

Cast | Production Manager Zlatin Radev 

Festivals 

1997: Ankara, Espinho, Perugia, Sitges, 

Melbourne, Oslo, Quebec, Annecy, 

Vevey, Montecatini, Hamburg, Swamp 

1998: Hong Kong, Bruxelles, Lleida, 

Seoul, Rio de Janeiro, Bilbao, Pesaro, 

Zagreb 1999: Györ 

C6 

Awards 

1996: 1st Prize, Drama 1997: 1st Prize, 

Antalya; 1st Prize Kiev; Best Animated 

Film, Bulgaria; Special Prize Larissa 

1998: Special Prize Dong-A LG

A ALMA DO NEGÓCIO 

THE SOUL OF BUSINESS 

Director: José Roberto Torero 

Brazil 1996 

8:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 

portuguese dialogue 

short fiction 

Script José Roberto Torero 

Camera Kátia Coelho 

Editing Paulo Sacramento 

Art Director Billy Castilho 

Cast Carlos Mariano, Renata Guimaraes 

Production Manager Zita Carvalhosa 

Production Cinematográfica, Superfilms 

A thoroughly modern couple – young, attractive, labelconscious 

– sit down for breakfast. They start to quote from 

the adverts used to sell the products on the table in front of 

them. However, their behaviour quickly departs from that 

portrayed in the adverts and they enter into a cruel and 

bloody fight to the death. 

Festivals 

1996: Santiago, Havana 

1997: Rotterdam, Fribourg, Clermont- 

Ferrand, Tampere, Mediawave, 

Hamburg, Philadelphia, Arcipelago, 

Montréal 1998: New York 1999: Rom 

Awards 

1996: Special Prize, Jornada da Bahia 

1997: Special Prize, Drama; Special 

Prize, Recife; Audience Award, Curitiba; 

Audience Award, Cuiab and Guarnicí; 

Special Mention, Palm Springs 1998: 

Jury Prize, Malmö 

C7

DER FENSTERPUTZER 

THE WINDOW CLEANER 


Germany 1993 

8:10 min. 

35 mm CS 

colour 

no dialogue 

short fiction 

Sophie works in a cafe at the top of the TV tower in Berlin. 

One day, while changing for work, her eyes meet those of 

the window cleaner, Anton. Instead of working, the pair 

start flirting until her jealous boss rudely interrupts them. 

Anton picks up a hammer to take revenge. The film plays 

with images and sound in highly stylised manner. 

Script | Editing Veit Helmer 

Camera Joachim Jung 

Music Christoph Oertel 

Sound Jörg Bohlmann 

Cast Diana Abu, Erca Inci 

Awards 

1993: 2nd Prize, Granada; 2nd Prize, 

Aix-en-Provence; 1st Prize, Verden 


C8

THE FLOOD 

Director: Simon Piniel 

Switzerland 2000 

8:10 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 

no dialogue 

animation 

Realisation Simon Piniel 

Music Cyril Boehler 


Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich 

A ground squirrel clears away every scrap of vegetation 

from the area in which he roams – all in the name of 

science. A storm comes along and leaves his home 

underwater. His only escape is to flee into space. However, 

all his attempts fail since nature has a way of bringing 

everything back down to earth. A critical and entertaining 

statement on exploitation of the environment. 

Festivals 

2000-2001 Locarno, Luzern, Vevey, 

Leipzig, Melbourne, Lodz, Genève, 

Bruxelles, Winterthur, Amiens, 

Aubagne, Bologna, Tallinn, Zürich, 

Puchon, Mainz, Biarritz, Valencia, 

Göteborg, Solothurn, Bruxelles, 

Winterthur, Aarau, Student 

Academy Awards, Schaffhausen, 

Zug, Biel, Potsdam, Frankfurt/M., 

Spiez, Sion, Roma, Bludenz 

Awards 

Northridge, Vancouver, Tempe, 

Huesca, Rio de Janeiro, Arcipelago, 

Rimounki, Kairo, Bucuresti 

C9

TOUR D’AMOUR 


Germany 1988 

9:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 


short fiction 

A short comedy about a very lonely man who conquers the 

heart of his beloved with the help of a telephone-box. But 

he fails because of his broken alarm clock. 

Script | Editing Veit Helmer 

Cast Beate Jensen, 

Dominique Horwitz 

Awards 

1989: Short Film Prize, Society of 

German Film Theatres 


C10

IM PLATZ 

POTSDAMER PLATZ – REMIX 

Director: Uli M Schüppel 

Germany 1997 

9:30 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

black & white 


essay 

Camera Walter Lenertz 

Music FM Einheit 

Sound Frank Behnke 

Editing Uli M Schüppel 

Text Paul Zech 

Narrator Otto Sander 

Paul Zech’s expressionistic poem on Berlin’s Potsdamer 

Platz of 1913 melts together with today’s music of the 

construction machines and FM Einheit (Einstürzende Neubauten) 

to offer a fascinating perspective on Europe’s 

largest building site. Otto Sander a German actor of repute 

and native of Berlin lends authenticity to the fable of a 

metropolis. 

Festivals 


1998: Rotterdam 

1999: Regensburg 

C11

STAPLERFAHRER KLAUS – DER ERSTE ARBEITSTAG 

FORKLIFTDRIVER KLAUS – THE FIRST DAY ON THE JOB 

Directors: Jörg Wagner / Stefan Prehn 

Germany 2001 

9:30 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

Dolby Stereo 

colour 


short film 

Klaus has just passed his driving test for forklifts. But his 

first day on the job turns out to be the real challenge. Cruel 

but informative accidents happen. Only few survive the 

blood shed. A homage to working safety educational films. 

C12 

Festivals 

2001-2002 selection: Hannover, Dresden, Soest, Kiel, 

Cannes, Thalmässing, Bamberg, Rüsselsheim, 

Hamburg, Toronto, Hildesheim, Wellington, Fantasy 

(several German cities), Edinburgh, Weiterstadt, 

Sarajevo, Oldenburg, Figueira da Foz, Köln, Umeå, 

Malmö, Osnabrück, Mainz, Flensburg, Sitges, Cork, 

Ghent, München, Uppsala, Savannah, Lübeck, 

Villingen-Schwenningen, Nürnberg, Winterthur, 

Brest, Bristol, Augsburg, Regensburg, Münster, 

Vendôme, Saarbrücken, Rotterdam, Clermont- 

Ferrand, Annonay, Málaga, Las Palmas de Gran 

Canaria, Landshut, Trondheim, Bruxelles, La Chaudsde-Fonds, 

Paris, Selb, Luxembourg, Philadelphia, 

Granada, Amsterdam, Bordeaux, Palm Beach, Lille, 

Brooklyn, Portimao, Tübingen, Maitland (USA), 

Grimstad, Ljubljana, Karlovy Vary, Puchon, 

Novomesto (Slovenia), Espoo, La Ciotat, Helsinki, 

Covilha, Manchester Genève, Avignon, Villeurbanne, 

Bratislava, Leuven, Sydney, Sofia 

Script Jörg Wagner, Stefan Prehn 

Camera Matthias Lehmann, 

Christoph Chassée 

Sound Ronny Schmidt 

Editing Andrea Stabenow 

Cast Konstantin Graudus, 

Douglas Welbat, Dieter Dost 

Narrator Egon Hoegen 

Production Manager Michael Sombetzki 

Awards 

2001: 1st Prize, Valencia; Jury & 

Audience Award, San Sebastian; Jury 

& Audience Award, Bruxelles; 1st Prize, 

Torino; Young Jury Price, Covilha; 

German Film Critics Award (FIPRESCI) 

2002: F.W.-Murnau Short Film Prize; 

Silver Audience Award, Berlin; Audience 

Award & Development Film Fund Prize 

(FFA), Lünen; 1st Prize, Wiesbaden; 

Special Mention, Badalona; Special 

Mention, Siena

TOUR EIFFEL 

EIFFEL TOWER 


Germany 1994 

10:00 min. 

70 mm 1:1,85 

colour 

engl. / ital. dialogues 

short fiction 


Camera Joachim Jung 

Musik Christoph Oertel 

Sound Thorsten Bolzé 

Editing Antje Botschen 

Cast Bruno La Brasca, 

Shang Cong, Jef Bay 

Lulu, from Sicily, drives his small, clapped-out Fiat to Paris 

in order to fulfil his life’s dream: to own a red sports car. 

However, from the top of the Eiffel Tower, he can only 

watch as his car is stolen by a thief intent upon stealing 

the Mona Lisa. The police are soon in hot pursuit but, 

during the chase, his beautiful car is wrecked. When he 

finally returns to his vehicle, the police mistake him for the 

art thief and arrest him. 

Awards 

1994: 1st Prize, Gijon 

C13

HAPPY VIDEO 

Director: Bernhard Landen 

Germany 1996 

10:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,85 

colour 


short fiction 

A TV show offers 10.000 marks for the funniest home 

video. Erwin decides to enter but has problems getting his 

son to fall in a funny-yet-natural way. However in doing so 

he loses the respect of his family. Alone and without the 

dreamed-of ten grand, he arrives at the Rambo-style, with 

machine gun seeking revenge. 

Script Christian Jeltsch, 

Bernhard Landen 

Camera Holger Fink 

Music Andreas Cämmerer 

Sound Markus Schabauer 

Editing Uli Schön 

Production Markus Penth 

Festivals 

1998: Solothurn 

C14

PACT 

Director: Scott Patterson 

Australia 1996 

10:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,85 

colour | black & white 


short fiction 

Script John O’Brien 

Camera Allen Koppe 

Music Felix Davies 

Sound Liam Egan 

Editing Kristine Hurley, 

Scott Patterson 

Art Director Igor Nay 

Cast Veronica Neave, Rhett Walton 

A black-humored post-modern Romeo and Juliet for 

modernday malcontents. A couple attempt several unsuccesfull 

suicides: death pills (one drop on the floor and 

gets lost in a pile of plate fragments), guns and knives. 

Finally after they decide that life is worth living the boy 

realises that the girl has killed herself. Seconds later in a 

switch from black-and-white we see him flying out of the 

window to a death in glorious technicolor. 

Festivals 

1996: Edinburgh, Venezia, Montréal, 

Melbourne, Hof 1997: Göteborg, 

Aspen, Auckland, Wellington, Mill 

Valley, Uppsala, Bilbao, Toronto, 

Orlando, Wiesbaden, St. Kilda, 

Sydney, Split, Drama, Regensburg 

1998: Sydney, Sao Paulo, Roma 

1999: Györ 

Awards 

1997: Special Prize, Hamburg 

C15

THE BRAIN EATER 

Director: Conor McMahon 

Ireland 2001 

10’12 min. 

Betacam SP 

colour | black & white 


short fiction 

Following a car crash in the middle of nowhere, a young 

boy eats his parents’ brains in order to survive. From then 

on, he stays in the woods leading the life of a wild animal 

and waiting for fresh brains to come along. 

Script | Editing Conor McMahon 

Camera Andrew Legge 

Sound Shane O'Neill 

Prod. Manager Eoin Whelan 

Music John Gillooley 

Cast Ned Denehey, Adam Boyle, 

Kenny Reynolds 

Festivals 

Cork, Sitges, Edinburgh, London, 

Bruxelles, Dublin 

Awards 

2002: 1st Prize, Sitges; 2nd Prize, 

Edinburgh; 1st Prize, Torino 

C16

THE OATH 

Director: Tjebbo Penning 

The Netherlands 1997 

11:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

black & white 


short fiction 

Script Tjebbo Penning 

Camera Han Wennink 

Music | Sound Soundpalette 

Editing JP Luijsterburg 

Cast Frank Ogilvie, 

Serge Herni Valcke 

Prod. Manager Petra Goedings 

Production Phanta Vision 

An atmospheric short sent in a high-security prison in 

America. Based on a true story, The Oath explores a 

complicated, ambivalent moral code: A prison doctor is 

called to revive a prisoner after an attempted suicide in the 

knowledge that afterwards he must escort the condemned 

man the electric chair and pronounce him fit to die. 

Festivals 

1997: Hamburg, Tampere, San Jose 

1998: Oberhausen, Wiesbaden, 

München, Bern 

Awards 

1997: 1st Prize, Emden; 1st Prize, 

Montecatini; Special Prize, Avança; 

1st Prize, Antalya 1998: Special 

Mention, Porto; 3rd Prize, Huesca; 

1st Prize, Odense 

C17

DAS TASCHENORGAN 

THE POCKET ORGAN 


Germany 2000 

11:00 min. 

35 mm 

colour 


short fiction 

A fast parody on hospital soaps. An organ found after a 

surgery provokes trouble in a hospital's daily routine. 

C18 

Awards 

2000: Audience Award & 

Development Film Fund Prize 

(FFA), Lünen 2001: 2nd Prize, 

Rüsselsheim; Friedrich-Wilhelm- 

Murnau Short Film Prize; 2nd 

Prize, Hamburg; 2nd Prize, Jena; 

3rd Prize, Bamberg; Nominated 

for the German Short Film Prize; 

2nd Prize, Villingen- 

Schwenningen 


Script Carsten Strauch 

Camera Nina Werth 

Music Dido Hartwig 

Sound Johannes Grehl 

Editing Johannes Ebert 

Prod. Manager Norman Strohmaier 

Production C. Strauch-Filmproduktion 

Cast Jochen Rühlmann, 

Carsten Strauch, Rainer Ewerrien, 

Madeleine Kuhnert, Nina Hecklau, 

Christel Niederstenschee, 

Dolly Buster 

Festivals 

2001: Saarbrücken, Würzburg, Selb, 

Wiesbaden, Potsdam, Jena, Dresden, 

Cannes, Emden, Bludenz, Marburg- 

Armöneburg, Frankfurt/M., Dresden, 

Weiterstadt, Köln, Reinheim, Winterhur, 

Augsburg, Regensburg 

2002: Bayreuth, Frankfurt/M.

DER STEUERMANN 

THE NAVIGATOR 

Director: Stefan Schneider 

Germany 1996 

12:00 min. 

35 mm 

colour 


short fiction 

In an overcrowded world where it rains cats and dogs a 

man builds a boat in his appartment to break free from this 

apocalyptic world. 

Script Stefan Schneider 

Camera Judith Kaufmann 

Production Design Camilla Nagler 

Music Markus Höring 

Editing Ulla Hiltl 



Cast Dietmar Mössmer, 

Katja Weitzenböck 

Festivals 

1996: Montréal 


Awards 

1996: München, Saarbrücken 

1997: Mexico City, Lodz 


C19

VON DER HINGABE. 

ABOUT DEVOTION. 

Director: Maike Höhne 

Germany 2002 

12:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,85 

colour 

no dialogue 

short fiction 

Is it a long-time couple, a sexual affair or just a one-night 

stand that turns out to be more. An intimate insight into 

the lovelife of two persons who are about to clarify their 

feelings. 

Script Maike Höhne 

Camera Christine A. Maier 

Editing Lars Reimers 

Sound Eduardo Bossié 

Prod. Manager Petra Schröder 

Cast Ann Brüchert, Nikolaus Hof 

Festivals 

2002: Oberhausen, Stockholm, Split, 

Regensburg 

Awards 

2002: Special Mention, Hamburg 

C20

HEAVY PREGNANT 

Director: Piotr J. Lewandowski 

Germany 2003 

8:56 min. 

35mm 1:1,85 

colour 


short fiction 

What happens when, even after 27 years, a child cannot 

part from its mother, is still attached by the umbilical cord 

and refuses to leave the womb. 

Script Piotr J. Lewandowski, 

Carsten Strauch 

Camera Frank Lamm 

Editing Daniel Olteanu 

Sound Tilmann Braun 

Music Manana Khundadze 

Production Carsten Strauch 

Filmproduktion & FABW 

Cast Roland Silbernagl, 

Carsten Strauch, Rainer 

Ewerrien 

Festivals 

2003: International Short Film 

Festival Hamburg 

C21

DIE GESCHICHTE VOM ROTEN KERAMIKPFERD 

THE STORY OF THE RED CERMAMIC HORSE 

Director:Tonia Budelmann 

Germany 2003 

11:44 min. 

Mini DV PAL 

colour 


short fiction 

When Marie wakes up, she tumbles into the mess from the 

night before. The sun shines up in the sky like a hot reproach. 

It seems to say, „go out, be happy!“ But Marie is 

unhappy, lonely, and at war with the world. She decides to 

spend this beautiful day in a haze. Stoned, she trudges 

through the streets, lost in her brooding. She is both painfully 

and jokingly aware of the rift between desire and existence. 

A film about identity, loneliness and addiction - a drama of 

affluence and boredom. 

Realisation Tonia Budelmann 

Music Jodelexpress 

Camera Karin Vorderwühlbecke 

Sound Martin Gleitze, Tonia Budelmann 

Cast Marie Garg, Thomas Ludzinski, 

Markus Albert, Ali Hamade 

Festivals 

2003: Hamburg, Stuttgart-Ludwigsburg, 

München, Winterthur 

2004: Clermont-Ferrand,International 

Competition 

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SWERVE 

Director: Marcus Gale 

Australia 1995 

12:30 min. 

35 mm 1:1,85 

colour 

no dialogue 

short fiction 

Script Marcus Gale 

Camera Jeff Malout 

Music Julian Knowles 

Sound Liam Egan 

Editing James Manche 

Cast Roy Billing, Danny O’Neill, 

David Bosse, Suzie Bleach, 

Adam Cockburn, Liam Kennedy 

Prod. Manager Helen Panckhurst 

Production Liberty Production 

Swerve: a sudden sideways movement. Likewise the plot 

of this fast-moving thriller as one swerve quickly follows 

another ... A car races along a country road. The driver, a 

business man, is about to lose control of the car. He is 

forced to stop. The man passes out, loses his car, gets it 

back, then loses it again. The police catch the thief and 

discover a dead body in the trunk ... 

Festivals 

1996: Stockholm, Sydney, Umeå, 

Hamburg, Melbourne, St. Kilda, 

Montréal, Berlin 

1997: Cleveland, Tampere 

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COMING OUT 


Germany 1996 

12:30 min. 

16 mm 

colour 


short fiction 

Andreas Hübner is an unfriendly official who interviews 

immigrants wishing to stay in Germany. One morning an 

Adolf Hitler moustache appears on his face. All efforts to 

remove the fascist identifier fail and Andreas ends up alone 

in a field asking God for help. The answer arrives in the 

shape of a yoghurt carton with a 1945 sell-by-date. 

Script Carsten Strauch 

Camera Nina Werth 

Music Enrico Corsano 

Sound Eric Wienholtz 

Editing Carsten Strauch 

Cast Markus Öffinger, Angelika de Leuw, 

Mukul Abhyankar, Vinay Desal, Kurt 

Eggmann, Marion Baumann, Jörg 

Baumann, Suse Kuehnhold 

Festivals 1996: Weiterstadt, 

Braunschweig, Frankfurt/M., Mainz 1997: 

Potsdam, Augsburg, Bamberg, Hamburg, 

Amöneburg, Sao Paulo, Uppsala, Göttingen, 

Lünen, Villingen-Schwenningen 

Awards 1996: 3rd Prize, Regensburg 

1997: 1st Prize, Berlin; 1st Prize, 

Heidelberg; 2nd Prize, Rüsselsheim, 

Audience Award Münster 

D2 

FBW-Prädikat Besonders wertvoll

SILVERSTAR 

Directors: Harry Flöter / 

Jörg Siepmann 

Germany 2000 

12:51 min. 

35 mm CS 

colour 

no dialogue 

short fiction 

Script H. Flöter 

Camera H. Schomerns 

Music D. Tiedke, P. Räbiger 

Editing B. von Grafenstein 

Cast T. McGovern, P. Fuchs, 

Th. Gimbel, N. Bodeux 

A huge multistore on the outskirts of town. In the car park 

hundreds of silvery trolleys that are conscienciously pushed 

back together again by Bergmann. Then one day he loses 

his job – you know those little plastic coins or the 1-Markalternative. 

Chances for a new job: Zero. But at night, 

Bergmann returns and his metallic friends already await 

him. It is his night and for one last time, he fills the car 

park with life. 

Awards 

2000: Audience Award, Hamburg; 

Jury Award, Vendôme 


D3

DIE AUFSCHNEIDER 

CUT THE CRAP 

Director: Annette Ernst 

Germany 1999 

12:52 min. 

35 mm 1:1,85 

colour 


short fiction 

Henry and Nick, gangsters, meet up with Maria from 

Columbia to take over drugs she swallowed. Before she 

could deliver them she dies in the bathroom. The drugs are 

already sold and therefore they have to cut open Maria. 

Moral dilemmas follow with an unexpected twist in the 

tail. 

Script David Ungureit 

Camera Frank Griebe 

Music Parviz Mir-Ali 

Editing Katrin Suhren 

Prod. Manager Michael Sombetzki 

Cast Jochen Nickel, Frank Giering, 

Fernanda de Sousa 

Festivals 

1999: Hof, Braunschweig, Biberach 

2000: Saarbrücken, Würzburg 

D4

CUT 

Director: Thorsten Kirves 

Germany 1998 

13:30 min. 

35 mm 1:1,85 

colour 


short fiction 

A scalpel-wielding sadist is torturing a woman tied to a 

bed. Suddenly, Paul rushes into the room – Cut. A clever 

interplay of the age-old themes of sex, violence, love and 

drugs which questions the illusory nature of what 

constitutes reality in film. 

Script Thorsten Kirves 

Camera Anoré Lex 

Music Matthias Claussen 

Sound Thomas Janßen 

Editing Radka Stanek 

Cast Ralph Herforth, Nina Petri, 

Saskia Schwarz, Katja Hoffmann 

Production Kamuran Pamuk 

Festivals 

1998: Berlin, Bilbao, Emden, Fantasy 

(several German cities), Hamburg, 

Lübeck, Wilhelmshaven 

1999: Kiel, Münster 

D5

WER HAT ANGST VORM WEIHNACHTSMANN 

WHO IS AFRAID OF SANTA CLAUS 

Director: Annette Ernst 

Germany 1996 

14:48 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 


short fiction 

After hiring a student to play Santa Claus for their children 

the Lemms get more Santas than they bargained for when 

two friends of the student also turn up and begin to feel 

themselves more than at home. Inspired by the short story 

"The Trap" from German satirist Robert Gernhard this 

amusing short shows how a lie can cause uncomfortable 

complications when you have to protect it. 

Script Ralf Ruland 

Camera Bernhard Häusle 

Music Frank Reinert 

Sound Peter Schumacher 

Editing Dagmar Lichius 

Cast Dieter Brandecker, 

Gottfried Mehlhorn 

Festivals 

1996: Hof, Braunschweig, Frankfurt, 

Wiesbaden 

1997: Papenburg, Berlin, Gera, 

Dresden, Verden 

Awards 

1996: Special Prize, Biberach; 

Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Prize 

1997: Audience Award, Würzburg 


D6

DANS LA NUIT 

IN THE NIGHT 

Director: Stefan Schneider 

Germany / France 1995 

14:00 min. 

16 mm 

colour 

french dialogue 

short fiction 

Five children carry out a dead friend’s last request. The 

newly-departed friend was terrified of the dark – and of 

being buried. Therefore, his last wish was to be buried at 

sea. 

Script Stefan Schneider 

Camera Michael Vogel 

Prod. Design Alexander Scherer 

Sound Marina Lerchs 

Music Markus Höring 

Editing Ulla Hiltl 



Cast Six children from Plougrescant 

Festivals 

1995: Hof 1996: Brest, Saarbrücken, 

München, Dresden, Oberhausen, 

Hamburg, Uppsala, Regensburg 

Awards 

1996: 1st Prize, Gera; 

2nd Prize, Bamberg 


D7

KILLER 

Director: Bernhard Landen 

Germany 1998 

14:30 min. 

35 mm 1:1,85 

colour 


short fiction 

In the bar of a luxurious hotel, a gangster’s attractive young 

bride (Heike Makatsch) approaches a killer with a job offer. 

He accepts the contract but is determined that it will be his 

last – he just wants to get it over with. However, this is 

only the beginning of the nightmare. 

Script Bernhard Landen 

Camera Ekkehart Pollack 

Music Tom Dokoupil 

Sound Thomas Schwenck, 

Petra Fröhlich 

Editing Uli Scheu 

Cast Heike Makatsch, 

Giulio Ricciarelli, Axel Milberg 

Production FKK Filmproduktion 

Festivals 

1998: Hof, Saarbrücken, 

Braunschweig, Emden, Würzburg, 

Santa Barbara, Toronto, Malibu, 

Palm Springs, Los Angeles, 

Edinburgh 1999: Hamburg 

Awards 

1st Prize, Houston 

D8 

FBW-Prädikat wertvoll

BEN ODER DIE WOLKENPUMPE 

BEN OR THE CLOUD PUMP 

Director: Andreas Schmid-Thomae 

Germany 1994 

15:00 min. 

16 mm 1: 1,33 

black & white 


short fiction 

Script | Editing 

Andreas Schmid-Thomae 

Camera Peter Indergand 

Music Max Doehlemann 

Sound Michael Bähni, 

Peter Fuchs, Meloton 


Fernsehen und Film München, 

Die Freunde des bewegten Bildes 

Ben, the postman, constructs his own flying bicycle, but 

when he tries to fly, he ends up crashing into a quarry. 

He causes much consternation amongst the construction 

workers down below and is forced to seek refuge on top of 

a crane from which he refuses to come down. Nonetheless, 

in the end, he takes off. 


D9

FANNY 

Director: Andreas Schmid-Thomae 

Germany 1996 

15:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,85 

colour 


short fiction 

After many years Al meets his old love Fanny again by 

coincidence and loses sight of her once more. Together 

with his friend Max he finds her in the end after lots of 

confusions. 

Script Andreas Schmid-Thomae 

Camera Martin Farkas 

Editing Matthias Lehmann 

Music Max Doehlemann 

Sound Ton Team Oliver Jergis, 

Marc Parisotto, Sebastian Riederer, 

Eckart Goebel 


Fernsehen und Film München, Die 

Freunde des bewegten Bildes 

Cast Georgia Stahl, Johannes 

Spengler, Sebastian Münster, 

Marisa Burger, Markus Knüfken, 

László I. Kish, Micaela Czisch 


D10

WAS NICHT PASST – WIRD PASSEND GEMACHT 

WHAT DOESN’T FIT – WE MAKE FIT 

Director: Peter Thorwarth 

Germany 1996 

15:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 


short fiction 

In order to blackmail their greedy boss building workers 

fake the death of an illegally working Polish colleague. 

A humorous but at times tense examination of German 

attitudes and character. 

Script Peter Thorwarth 

Camera Eckhard Jansen 

Music Rainer Kühn 

Editing Anja Pohl 

Cast Paco Gonzales, Diether Krebs, 

Ralf Richter, Peter Thorwarth 

Production VIDE Filmproduktion, 

Christian Becker 

Awards 

1997: Nomination Student Academy 

Award; Nomination German Short 

Film Prize; 2nd Prize, Chicago; 

Special Prize, München 


D11

ALS HITCHCOCK IN AUERSTEDT AUF 

EIERMANNS ELSE TRAF WHEN HITCHCOCK 

MET EIERMANN’S ELSE IN AUERSTEDT 

Director: Birgit Lehmann 

Germany 1999 

15:00 min. 

35 mm 

colour 


fictional documentary 

Alfred Hitchcock loved dark mysteries. In this mockumentary 

one of his secrets is disclosed. A photo from 1956 

verifies that Hitchcock stayed in Auerstedt and that he 

met Eiermann’s Else, who inspired him deeply. 

Script | Production Birgit Lehmann 

Camera Vita Spieß 

Music Thimo Dörrhöfer 

Editing Birgit Lehmann, 

Maria Wippel 

Festivals 

1999: Hof 2000: Rotterdam, Sydney 

Awards 

2000: F.W.-Murnau Short Film Prize; 

Jury Award, Schwerin; 1st Prize, 

Toronto; Audience Award, Marbur; 

Golden Unicorn, Bludenz; 

Nominated for the German Short 

Film Prize; Hessian Film Prize; 1st 

Prize, Dahlonega (USA) 


D12

NACHBARN 

NEIGHBOURS 


Germany 1999 

15:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 


short fiction 

Script Carsten Strauch, 

Nina Worth, Markus Oeffinger 

Camera Nina Worth 

Music Matthias Keller 

Editing Johannes Grehl 

Prod. Manager Nodja El-Hagge 

Cast Reinhard Maiwald, 

Christel Niederstenschee 

The story of several vampires in the 90s who are still faced 

with massive prejudices due to their extravagant lifestyle 

and genetically transmitted attributes like longer canine 

teeth. Even after their relocation to the idyllic forest of 

Odenwald, difficulties with their neighbours, the Sonthofs, 

immediately arise. 

Festivals 

1999: Lünen 2000: Saarbrücken, 

Würzburg, Dresden, Selb, 

Heidelberg, Postdam, Fantasy 

(several German cities), Bamberg, 

Hamburg, Rüsselsheim, 

Marburg-Armöneburg, 

Weiterstadt, London, Hannover 

Awards 2000: 2nd Prize, 

Marburg-Armöneburg 


D13

BJÖRN ODER DIE HÜRDEN DER BEHÖRDEN 

BJÖRN – THE HURDLES OF BUREAUCRACY 

Directors: Andreas Niessner / 

Oliver S. Bürgin 

Germany 2001 

15:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 


short fiction 

Björn’s plane to Istanbul is due in three hours. Suddenly he 

realises that his passport is expired. An odyssey starts 

through the Civil Services that will leave nothing as it was 

before for him. 

Script Andreas Niessner 

Camera Markus Krämer 

Music Andreas Weidinger 

Sound Friedrich Hertz 

Editing Andreas Althoff 

Cast Andreas Niessner, 

Jeanette Hahn, Oliver S. Bürgin 

Festivals Hamburg, Emden, Karlovy Vary, 

Ghent, Sao Paulo, Cleveland, Tel Aviv, 

Montréal, Toronto, Bucuresti, Évora, 

Imola, Metz, Augsburg, Lisboa, Valencia 

Awards 1st Prize, Rüsselsheim; Special 

Mention, St. Petersburg; Golden Hope 

Award, München; Lost High Tape Award, 

Berlin; Audience Award, Würzburg; 

Audience Award, Flensburg; F.W.- 

Murnau Prize; Short Tiger Award, (FFA) 

D14 

FBW-Prädikat wertvoll

ICH UND DAS UNIVERSUM 

ME, MYSELF AND THE UNIVERSE 

Director: Hajo Schomerus 

Germany 2003 

13:20 min. 

35 mm CS 

colour 


documentary 

Script Hajo Schomerus 

Editing Dora Vajda 

Music Geeta Dutt 

Sound Markus Hüser, Bernd Hakkmann 

Production Busse & Halberschmidt 

Cast Sabine Fortwängler, Norbert, 

Buhl, Volker Kratz, Fritz Waffenschmidt 

A classical tragedy: the individual`s conflict with himself 

and the big complex structure of the universe. A flight attendant 

and the airplanes`s seating, a huge excavator in the 

opencast brown coal mine, a furniture showroom on the 

heavy-traffic thorough-road, and, finally, a little glimpse of 

the hereafter. 

Festivals 

2003: Aarhus, Ludwigsburg, Jihlawa, 

Kassel, Münster 

Awards 

2003: Audience Award, Hamburg; 

Audience Award, Cologne; Audience 

Award, Munich; 2nd Jury Award, 

Uppsala ; 2nd Promotion Prize, 

Stuttgart Ludwigsburg; Jameson 

Award, Regensburg, German Film 

Critics Award (FIPRESCI) 

FBW-Prädikat Besonders Wertvoll 

D15

YO LO VÍ 

I SAW IT 

Directors: Hanna Nordholt /Fritz 

Steingrobe 

Germany 2003 

14:30 min. 

35 mm 

colour 


experimental animation 

"Yo lo Vi – I saw it” is chiefly characterised by its complexity 

and the successful adaptation of a difficult subject. Based 

on the simple idea of a metro train ride, starting at the station 

"Goya”, the film takes the viewers into the fascinating 

world of Goya by animating the figures drawn by the Spanish 

painter. The film’s sympathetic use of animation techniques 

thus creates a vision, which brings together the connections 

between rationality and imagination in Goya’s art, 

the creation of images from the depths of nightmares, the 

production of images in different media, and the liberating 

effects of art. 

Realisation Hanna Nordholdt, Fritz 

Steingrobe 

Sound Banda Sonora 

Festivals 

2003: Hamburg, Weiterstadt, Baden 

(CH), Leipzig, Berlin, Barcelona, 

Madrid, Münster 

Awards 

2003: Nomination German Shortfilm 

Award; 2nd Jury Award, Weimar 

FBW-Prädikat Besonders Wertvoll 

D16

KANN ICH WAS ABHABEN 

WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME 

Directors: Johannes Kassenberg / 

Klaus Reinelt 

Germany 2000 

15:03 or 16:40 or 22:00 min. 

Betacam SP 

colour 

no dialogue 

pixillation 


J. Kassenberg, K. Reinelt 

Sound Reinelt, 

Kassenberg, Andriessens 

Cast Klaus Reinelt, Piet Kremer, 

Vanessa Paulzen 

A man is the victim of strange experiments with dreams of 

flying. He’s living in a pool with water and as the scientist 

gives him an overdose odd dream-energy he escapes. 

15.000 animated fotos are telling this strange and funny 

story about the flying man, his enemy the scientist, a 

woman and a shark. 

Festivals 2001: Hamburg, New York, 

Auckland, Rio de Janeiro, Chicago, 

Flensburg, Rochester, Leipzig, Genève, 

Villingen-Schwenningen, Berlin, Amsterdam 

2002: Valenciennes, Boulder, Colorado, 

San Francisco, Tokyo, Poitiers, London, 

Dallas, Melbourne, Washington DC 

Awards 2001: Silver Bear, Linz; 2nd Prize, 

Philadelphia; Jury & Audience Award, 

Baltimore; 1st Prize Bradford; Silver 

Castle, Posen 2002: Blicke aus dem 

Ruhrgebiet, (Special Prize of the City of 

Bochum), Audience Award, Lausanne; 

Audence Award, Paris 

E1

DAS DEUTSCHE GESICHT 

THE GERMAN FACE 

Director: Simone Henneken 

Germany 1999 

16:30 min. 

35 mm 1:1,37 

colour 


english version available 

animation 

Silvia Ambassador is quite sure how she would like things 

to work out for the rest of her life. However, even the 

slightest of interruptions causes this illusion of control to 

come crashing down. Also, what she doesn’t know is that 

her boyfriend is in the process of becoming her exboyfriend. 

A poetic, beautifully illustrated tale. 


Simone Henneken 

Sound | Prod. Manager 

Charles Kissing 

Music Rudi Burr, Reznicek 

Voice Sandra Staffe, Sabine 

Schönfeldt, Simone Henneken, 

Jürgen Hall 

Festivals 


E2

DAS DATUM 

FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES 

Directors: Florian and Sebastian 

Henckel-Donnersmarck 

Germany 1999 

16:56 min. 

16 mm 1:1,37 

colour 


short fiction 

Script | Editing 

Sebastian and Florian 

Henckel-Donnersmarck 

Camera Susanna Salonen 

Sound Thomas Dorl 

Cast Vadim Glowna, 

Paul Meusen, Dominic Ofner 

Prod. Manager Martin Stier 

Festivals 

2000: Malmö, Hof 

A thougtful children’s short with a Taoist message in its 

heart. Two boys try to build a time-travelling machine. 

When the machine fails to take them into the future they 

decide to travel back to the present time where life must 

be lived. 

E3

NONSTOP 

Director: Kari Paljakka 

Finland 1987 

19:00 min. 

16 mm 

black & white 

finnish dialogue 

short fiction 

A simple beginning: a man hides behind a tree to observe 

his wife with another man. He follows the pair with the 

intention of killing her. The narrative fast forwards on an 

ever-repeating filmic loop which engages each time a 

revolver changes hands. Thrilling, ingenious and resourceful 

short takes more unexpected curves in one of its minutes 

than the average crime series does in lifetime. 

Camera Tahvo Hirvonen 

Music Jussi Hirvi 

Sound Markku Honkanen 

Editing Alvaro Pardo 

Production Klaus Heydeman 

Festivals 

1988: Clermont-Ferrand 

1992: Sao Paulo 

1995: Nordisk Panorama, Cork 

1996: Wilhelmshaven 

Awards 

1988: Special Prize Finland; 

Audience Award, Uppsala; Special 

Mention Tampere; 2nd Prize 

Montréal 

1990: Audience Award, Hamburg 

E4

DIE WURSTVERKÄUFERIN 

THE BUTCHER’S BRIDE 

Directors: Stefan Hillebrand / 

Oliver Paulus 

Germany / Switzerland 2001 

20:40 min. 

35 mm 1:1,85 

colour 


short fiction 

Script Stefan Hillebrand, Oliver Paulus 

Camera Mattias Schlick 

Music Jesse Millirer 

Sound Andreas Hildebrandt 

Editing André Bigoudé 

Cast Isolde Fischer, 

Mathias Freitag, Jürgen List 

Werner, the butcher, and Sylvia, who sells sausages, are a 

couple. However, Martin is madly in love with Sylvia. When 

an argument finally breaks out between Werner and Sylvia, 

Martin sees his big chance. He saves Sylvia – but she is 

not as impressed as he had expected. This amusing 

mockumentary takes a hard look at what really motivates 

people. 

Festivals 2001: Solothurn, Osnabrück, 

München, Braunschweig, Winterthur, 

Regensburg, Lünen, Lausanne 

2002: Bamberg, Stuttgart, Landshut, 

Vila do Conde, Montecatini, 

Weiterstadt, Flensburg 

Awards 2001: Audience Awards in 

Hamburg, Zürich, Genève, Brest; Prix 

Kodak, Uppsala; 2002: Swiss Film Prize; 

Nominated for Best International Short 

Film, Caracas; Jury Award, Verden; 

Audience Award, Huesca; Special 

Mention, Villingen-Schwenningen 

E5

LIFE OF REILLY 

Director: Patrick O’Donoghue 

Ireland 1995 

26:18 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 


short fiction 

His whole life long, John Reilly has been overprotected by 

his nearest and dearest – which is why he has never had to 

learn to stand on his own two feet. With great humour, we 

are introduced to the various members of his family and the 

influence each has had on his upbringing. Finally, on his 

wedding night, his problems really come to a head. 

Script Alan Archbold 

Camera Seamus Deasy 

Music John Carney 

Sound Brendan Deasy 

Editor Delores Hegarty 

Cast Mark O’Reagan, 

Brendan Gleeson, Anita Reeves, 

John Olohan, Dawn Bradfield, 

Alan Barry, Bosco Hogan, 

Marion O’Dwyer 

Production Patrick O’Donoghue 

Awards 

1995: Special Prize, Hamburg 

E6

THE PRODIGAL SON 

Director: Chris W. Mitchell 

The Netherlands 1995 

29:00 min. 

35 mm 1:1,66 

colour 


short fiction 

A young man who earns his living as a hustler is taken 

home by a man who then ties him to a bed. Too late, the 

young man realises he should had never have come. 

A tense, nerve-jangling trip to the weird sexual fringe. 

Script Chris W. Mitchell 

Camera Danny van Deventer 

Music Evelien de Laaf 

Sound Ludo Keeris 

Editing Piet Oomes 

Cast Roy Ward, William Sutton, 

Rodney Beddall, Ans Boon 

Production Spellbound Films 

Festivals 

1995: Utrecht 1996: Rotterdam, 

Clermont-Ferrand, Sydney, 

Barcelona, Bruxelles, Dublin, 

Amsterdam, Huesca, Hamburg, 

Umeå, Sitges, Uppsala, Brest, Torino 

1997: Stuttgart, Malaga, Roma, 

Madrid 1998: Granada, Strassbourg 

Awards 

1996: 1st Prize, San Sebastian 

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