Final Project Films

 

View some of the Final Project Films produced by our past students.

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The Most Recent

   
 
"Massala"
GER 2011 - ca. 18 min - Redcode Raw 4K - Farbe - Cinemascope 1:2,35 - Stereo
 
von Krishna Bhati play trailer    
     
     
An Indian illegal worker lives in the basement of a restaurant. His ruthless, highly indebted boss forces him to participate in a coup that's going quite wrong..
     
     
 
"iOma"
GER 2011 - ca. 12 min - Redcode Raw 4K - Farbe - 16:9 - Stereo
 
von Maciej Bocianski play trailer visit website  
 
     

A grandmother wants to buy her grandson a special gift - the latest iPhone.
It turns out that it is far too expensive.
The visit of the grave of her husband on
the cemetery offers an opportunity: She meets a businessman who is in possession of an iPhone and wants to
kill himself.

     
     
     
"Souterrain"    
GER 2010 - ca. 11 min - Redcode Raw 4K / HD 5D- Farbe - 16:9 - Stereo
     
von Erwin Häcker play trailer visit website
     
     
For a thief a burglary will become a matter of conscience, as he discovers,
that somebody is up to something worse.
     
Screenings: Abertoir Horror Film Festival (GB) 2011 / NYC Short Film Festival (USA) 2011 /Tatort Eifel 2011 / Fantastisk Filmfestival Schweden 2011 / XXS-Kurzfilmfestival Dortmund
2011 / X Open Student FF Beginning St. Petersburg (RU) 2011 / OderKurz-Filmspektakel 2011Cabbagetown Int. Filmfestival Toronto (CA) 2011 / Kurzfilmrolle Freiluftkino
Friedrichshain 2011 / 26. Alpinale Voralberg (AT) / MoliseCinema Cascadena 2011 (I)
Postira Seaside Festival (HR) 2011 / Wendlandshorts Waddewitz 2011 / 22. Int. Filmfest Emden-Norderney 2011 / Int. Short Film Festival Detmold 2011 / Crank Cookie
Kurzfilmfestival Passau 2011 / Independent Days Karsruhe 2011 / Grenzland Filmtage Selb 2011 / LA New Wave Int. Film Festival (USA) 2011 / Achtung Berlin Festival 2011 / Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival 2011 / Short Film Festival Psarokokalo (GR) 2011 / Trieste Film
Festival (I) 2011 / Kurzfilmtage Bamberg 2011 / Max Ophuels Preis 2011
b16 Brno (CZ) 2010 / Shnit Int. SFF Cologne 2010
     
Awards: Best of Fest - New York City Shortfilmfestival (USA) 2011 / 1. Preis - Tatort Eifel
Daun (Germany) / Best Director - X Open Student Filmfestival St. Petersburg (Russia) 2011 /Audience Choice Award - Beijing Student Filmfestival (China) 2011 / Bester Kurzfilm
(nominiert) - Max Ophüls Preis 2011 / Best Drama - Cabbagetown Int. Filmfestival Toronto
(CA) 2011 / Honorable Mention - LA New Wave Int. Film Festival (USA) 2011 /
Publikumspreis - Crank Cookie Kurzfilmfestival Passau 2011 / Publikumspreis - XXS-Kurzfilmfestival Dortmund 2011
     
     
     
"Musikhof"
GER/GR 2011 - ca. 10 min - 35 mm - s/w - 16:9 - Stereo
     
von Thomas Kiaos more soon  
     
     
In a courtyard, one morning, the calm and tranquility are threatened by
certain indistinguishable but significant details.
     
Screenings: Premiere auf dem 34tem nationalen griechischem Kurzfilmfestival 2011
(Greece) / 52. Internationales Filmfestival Thessaloniki 2011 (Greece)
     
Awards: Honorable Mention - 34. nationales griechisches Kurzfilmfestival 2011
     
     
     
"Der letzte Auftritt"  
GER 2010 - 8 min - 16 mm - Farbe - 16:9 - Stereo  
   
von Florian Sailer play trailer visit website
     
     
The girl is wearing makeup, a white suit and running barefoot through the night. A truly fabulous sight in this uncomfortable place. Resolutely she
looks up and walks toward the gym.

 
 
 
 
 
 
     
Screenings: 52. Nordische Filmtage Lübeck 2010 / Kurzfilmfestival Kunstgriff Rolle Heide
2011 / Odessa International Filmfestival (UA) 2011 / Clip-Club Eiszeit Kino Kreuzberg 2011
     
Awards: Publikumspreis - Kurzfilmfestival Kunstgriff Rolle Heide 2011
     
     
     
"Tunnel"    
GER 2010 - 11 min - Redcode Raw 4K - Farbe - 16:9 - Stereo
     
von Mathias Steinach play trailer visit website  
     
     

Jana and Peter Gräfe loose their child through a crime and the perpetrator
can slip himself out of his liability.

Paralysis, anger and emptiness surround the young parents.
When Peter decides to take matters into his own hand, he eventually
realizes, that his revenge will not fill the void, that the death of his
daughter has left.

Loss, Revenge, Emptiness.

 
   
Screenings: Premiere auf dem Zanzibar Int. Filmfestival Tansania 2011
     
     
     
"Ottos Otte"    
GER 2009 - 11 min - Redcode Raw 4K - s/w - 4:3 - Stereo  
     
von Anna Bolster play movie  
     
     
Little Otto receives a terrible present from his Aunt Agathe.
He tries to act as if it was the greatest present ever and the trouble begins..
     
Screenings: I've Seen Films 2010 Internet Contest Short Films
     
     
     
"Peripheres Verlangen"    
GER 2009 - ca. 10 min - 16 mm - Farbe - 16:9 - Stereo  
     
von Beatrice Lefevre more soon
     
     

Somewhere in the Berlin area, a young right-wing radical attempts an
assault on a house inhabited by Africans. One of the inhabitants catches
and attacks her.

During the violent confrontation the two women remember two sequences of past encounters.

 
 
 
 
     
Screenings: Premiere auf dem Printemps de Cineffable (FR) 2011
     
     
"Pagani"    
GER 2009 - 15 min - 16 mm - Farbe - 16:9 - Stereo  
     
von Nils Brandt play trailer Making Of visit website
     
     
A sticky summer day. The sun is already low, when Alice, an attractive metropolitan woman, arrives in a secluded village.
There’s a somewhat eerie atmosphere in the air. Seeking help,
Alice enters the village pub. A few old men sitting in the dim light take
little notice of her. The landlord is also very reticent.
The only bus Alice could take to leave the village, drives off the next day.
The thought of spending the night in this village makes her feel uneasy.
Why does everyone here behave in such a peculiar way?
Alice doesn’t sense how delighted these odd villagers are at her sudden appearance. And her long hair …
 
 
 
     
"Paralyse"    
GER 2009 - 11 min - 16 mm - Farbe - 16:9 - Stereo  
     
von Tobias Wulff play trailer play movie visit website
     
     
Als René nach einer durchzechten Nacht in seinem Stammlokal zusammenbricht, wacht er schweißgebadet in seinem Bett auf. Schon
nach kurzer Zeit merkt er, dass seine Umwelt nicht mehr wie gewohnt auf
ihn reagiert.

Als René noch am gleichen Tag seine Vermisstenanzeige in der Zeitung entdeckt, ahnt er Schlimmes…
 
 
 
 
   
Screenings: kiezkieken Berlin 2009 / Independent Days Karlsruhe 2010 / Tanke Shots
Halver 2010 / W.Ö.F.F. International Filmfestival Berlin 2010 / 21. Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney 2010 / 6. Indigo Filmfest Saarland / 9. Filmsalat Kurzfilmfestival Verden /Filmfest Anaberg 2010 / 4. Kurzfilmfestival Oberschöneweide
     
Awards: Medal of Honor @ W.Ö.F.F. International Filmfestival Berlin 2010
     
     
     

The Classics

     
     
"Leoni"    
x x x
     
Regie: Hagen Decker




play movie
  Screenings
 
no budget - Unabhängiges Medienfestival Tübingen 2006
Loesje's Imagination Berlin 2006
Crank cookie - Kurzfilmtage Passau 2006
Parkgewusel - Kurzfilmfestival Wien 2006
Open Eyes Filmfest Marburg 2006
Holzstock Kurzfilmfestival- St. Ingbert 2006
FilmLichter06 - Detmold
Halbbilder Kurzfilmfestival Magdeburg 2006
Slam-Movie-Night - St. Gallen 2006
     
     
     
"Zygose"    
x x x
     
Two Grateful Ducks
(Arndt Stepper & Gonzalo Arilla)




play movie
  Awards
 
Preis der deutschen Filmkritik - bester Experimentalfilm 2004
 
     
     
     

"Hydronephrose"

Regie: Dirk Gerbode

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play movie

 
Screenings

kontrast Kurzfilmfestival Bayreuth 2002
sehsüchte Potsdam 2002
Unabhängiges Filmfest Osnabrück 2002
Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg 2001
     
     
     

"Liebe Mutter"

Regie: Leo Khasin



  Awards

Publikumspreis beim Filmforum Wismar 2002

Screenings

Filmfest Dresden 2002
exground Wiesbaden 2002
Interfilm Berlin 2001
Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt 2001
     
     
     

"Nocturne"

Regie: Johannes F.Sievert



  Screenings

Festivals:
Berlin, San Francisco,
Fort Lauderdale, London, München, Marburg, Thüringen
TV: 13TH Street [ Premiere ]
     
     
     

"Blue Balances"


Regie: Tina Tripp



 

Awards

Publikumspreis beim Kontrast Kurzfilmfestival Bayreuth 2000

Screenings

Kurzfilmfestival Dresden 2000
Kontrast Kurzfilmfestival Bayreuth 2000

     
     
     
"Otaku"

Regie: Pierre Pretsch




  Awards

1. Preis im Regionalfenster der Kuzfilmwoche Regensburg 1999