sun 01 AUG
WESTBOURNE STUDIOS
242 ACKLAM ROAD, W10 5JJ




GERMAN Films



12 am - 11 pm



Orania
Tobias Lindner, 95 minutes, 12
An intimate portrait of a private village in South Africa, which is solely inhabited by white afrikaners.
Documentary
Germany

Cross And Banner
(Glaube Sitte Heimat), Jurgen Ellinghaus, 55 minutes, U
Beverungen, a small town in the middle of Germany, is hosting the annual festival of the “Confederation of Historical German Marksmen’s Brotherhoods” with thousands of participants. Mediaeval revival in 21st-century Germany.
Documentary
Germany

The Voice Of God
Bernd Lutzeler, 10 minutes, U
If God would come down to earth and try to earn a living in Bombay, most probably he would very soon become successful as a voice over artiste, lending his voice to thousands of Hindi moves and even more documentaries and public service films in India, A melodramatic docu-drama with voice-over in stop-motion and long-time exposure.
Experimental
Germany

Rev Errance
Alphonse Yambre, 4 minutes, U
A man from Burkina Faso writes a poem-letter about his loneliness in the European diaspora. He fled from war but misses his African home, and dreams about his return. The man feels sorry for the African companions who have clandestine fantasies about visa-free travels.
Art
Germany

Coke Lukewar
Elisa Klement, 14 minutes, U
Caro (11) stays overnight at her best friend’s place. Another girl joins them and Caro feels like a fifth wheel. Fortunately there is Gregor, the older brother of her best friend and Caro’s secret love.
Drama
Germany

Sunshine At Night
Elisa Klement, 14 minutes, U
The piano teacher Gisela Schulte has been living alone for many years. One day she finds the door key of her neighbour Mr Sunshine and decides to get to know him better.
Drama
Germany

Loud & Low
Elisa Klement, 14 minutes, 12
Greta and Gunnar have a hut. When they decide, one day, to meet at Greta’s house, Greta is exposed to someone grooming her on internet chat. Her first, curious steps exploring love get a hard blow.
Drama
Germany

Fortune Faded
Alexander Heringer, 3 minutes, 12
Every Moment leads to another one. Thus, to understand one Moment one has to know about his background, because everything has a cause and everything has an effect.
Drama
Germany

Andersartig (Different)
Dennis Stein-Schomburg, 5 minutes
One child is different than the others. Because of her dreamy and sportive nature she doesn’t match the generally accepted behaviour of the other kids.
Animation
Germany

Ankommen (Strangers We Meet)
Christian Wittmoser, 30 minutes, 15
“Ankommen” is a German short film about the search for recognition, fulfilment and love. When his girlfriend leaves him, Nikias goes on their planned holiday to Majorca by himself.
Drama
Germany

Cold Star
Kai Stanicke, 7 minutes, 12A
A boy experiences new desires while watching a man at an indoor swimming pool. Forced up the diving platform by a rowdy gang, he receives help from an unexpected source.
Music Video
Germany

Erinnerungen an den Sommer (Remembering The Summer)
Friedrich Tiedtke, 11 minutes, 12A

A Woman
(Isolde Barth) remembers her first love experience, realizing its true significance only in retrospective. Beautiful and light feelings suddenly turn oppressive and lead to new perspectives.
Drama
Germany

Dreieinhalb (Three And A Half)
Elisa Unger, 20 minutes, 12
The house Martin inherited in Transylvania turns out to be a worthless old shack. The money he borrowed for the journey is almost gone.
Comedy
Germany

Felix
Anselm Belser, 1 minute, U
Every action has a reaction.
Comedy
Germany

Geschwister (Siblings)
Joya Thome, 8 minutes, U
“Daddy has made a mistake.” That’s what three siblings, Mara (16), Felix (12) and Moritz (7), get served for dinner.
Drama
Germany

Gay Goth Scene
Kai Stanicke, 5 minutes, 12A
For a young boy, school is a living hell. He decided to put an end to it.
Music Video
Germany

Eat
Moritz Kramer, 7 minutes, 12A
A photoshoot. The model Helen is unnerved. Back in the changing room she makes a surprising discovery. Everything around her is edible − the chair, the TV, the walls.
Drama
Germany

Steffi gfällt das (Steffi Likes This)
Philipp Scholz, 5 minutes, U
Paul is a Social Media junkie and he can’t live his life without his smartphone. But on his lucky day he’d be better off leaving it at home...
Comedy
Germany

Ballet Story
Daria Belova, 9 minutes, 12A
Another day at the ballet school. Classes routine goes as usual, when Sophie notices a boy outdoors, on the street. He was here yesterday already. She finds him mysterious, maybe she likes him, but doesn’t dare to do anything with it. Surrounded by her frivolously chattering classmates, she realizes that another girl is faster making decisions, and Sophie finds herself caught in a vortex of grief and aggression.
Drama
Germany

Karlstod (Karl’s Death
, Mariko Minoguchi, 14 minutes, 12
A trout meant to be grilled gets the name Karl and doesn’t end up on the barbecue.
Drama
Germany

Dans Le Jardin Du Ni
Sophie Kluge, 9 minutes, U
How a day goes by. The phone rings and rings. A romantic weekend in Paris didn’t work out as planned.
Drama
Germany

Shaitan
Ersin Cilesiz, 28 minutes, 12A
Faris closes his eyes and breathes deeply. He relives the murder of his parents. Again and again. It will not let him go. It arouses something that is deeply buried within his soul.
Drama
Germany

Nachtwächter (Night Guard)
Eike Frederik Schulz, 30 minutes 12A
The days of Adrian and Commissioner Keller in the provincial Oldenburg are numbered.
Drama
Germany

Sinfonie der Dumpfbacken (Symphony Of Fools)
Volker Heymann, 5 minutes, 12A
An emergency meeting of the sales represenatives of a medium-sized company. Sales are dropping, a new strategy must be found! The current product, a bobble-head dog.
Comedy
Germany

Neue Nähe (New Closeness)
Sonja Vukovic & Christain Stahl, 5 minutes, 12A
The topic of the future journalism/ new media is one of the most important in the think tank of the publisher. So “Neue nahe” was used on the one hand for the training, but also for in-house, substantive debate. In English.
Experimental
Germany

The Hopper
Alex Bruel Flagstad, 17 minutes, 15
Clay-motion, stash house stick-ups, West Baltmore, and fluffy pancakes. In English
Animation
Germany

Vaterlandsliebe (A German Loves His Fatherland)
Nico Sommer, 20 minutes, 15
Jens is tolerant, tall and good-looking. His big honesty and loyalty to Germany increasingly brings him problems. Many people think he is a Nazi, although he only loves his native country.
Drama
Germany

Weisse Nacht (White Night)
Sabrina Sarabi, 21 minutes, 18
A young couple gets themselves into a role play for the course of the night. But soon enough the borders between reality and game, between role and identity begin to melt.
Drama
Germany

Wie Du küsst (The Way You Kiss)
Eva Trobisch, 22 minutes, 12A
After his father left the family, Klemens has taken over for him as the man of the house. His mother Kerstin and him live in tune with each other’s more or less regular day-today routine.
Drama
Germany

Achttausend (Eightthousand)
Simon-Niklas Scheuring, 19 minutes, 12
Jens and his girlfriend Nessi live in a run-down cellar flat. One night when he comes home with his face beaten bloody, both of them are aware that they have no more money and they start to argue.
Drama
Germany

1 Minus 1 Equals 0 (1 Minus 1 Geich 0)
Sylvania Pen, 12 minutes, 15
“1 Minus 1 Equals 0” shows us the reflected thoughts of a young woman who is at the mercy of her inner emotional chaos − looking back at a time of inner conflict between her heart and ego, illusions and reality − and at the threat of breaking under the strain.
Drama
Germany

Wake Up!
H Schleicher, 8 minutes, 12A
Wake Up! offers a view of the dreamer from the outside, shows the sleeper rolling to and fro, laughing or taking in dreams, awoken through fear, torn from the dreams, the experience still etched on their face. A few moments of transition from the world of the dream to conscious reality, attempts to get their bearings and process the dream or nightmare.
Found Footage
Germany

You Freud − Me Jane
H. Schleicher, 13 minutes, 12A,
You Freud − Me Jane marks the end of the trilogy and deals with the interpretation of dreams as the key to the unconscious. Canvas therapists explain the principles of pychoanaylsis and related terms such Oedipus complex, latency period, and penis envy. High-profile patients lie on the couch and ask themselves, who am I? Freud in many incarnations − and his therapist colleagues ask themselves the same, but nevertheless give their best − until the time is up.
Found Footage
Germany

Reverie
Valentin Gagarin, Shujun Wong, and Robert Wincierz, 13 minutes, 12A
An inconspicuous citizen on the way to work is torn out of his daily routine when he witnesses a rail suicide. The event haunts him in his imagination and mixes rapidly with his own reality of social downfall in a cascade of surreal nightmare.
Animation
Germany

Sleeping Dogs (Schlafende Hunde)
Michael O’ Conner, 85 minutes, 15
Shot in black and white this drama/psychological thriller explores the complicated relationship of a father and son against a tension-filled background of death, loss, and a criminal past.
Drama
Germany

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