Deutscher Wettbewerb 4

Saturday, 18. Mar 2023 // 18:30 Uhr @ Leerer Beutel Filmgalerie
Tuesday, 21. Mar 2023 // 20:00 Uhr @ Leerer Beutel Filmgalerie


The Sound of Noise
Germany 2022, color, 5 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Paul Polze

Real slow motion video footage of different music instruments and rendered 3D material. It is the fusion of classical music and video elements in a abstract form and noisy 3D art.

Kolaj
Turkey 2022, color, 8 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Gülce Besen Dilek
Production: Gülce Besen Dilek
As a girl grows up, her world starts to become more complicated. She notices lines appearing on people’s faces that she hadn’t noticed before. While trying to see the hidden lives in between her neighbors’ facial features, her own face struggles to ignore an unwanted line from her childhood.

Fatherly Love
Germany 2021, color, 28 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Alexander Conrads
Production: Florian Von Leitner
After several frustrating attempts at online dating, 47-year-old Markus installs a hidden camera in his teenage daughter’s bedroom and loses himself in his voyeuristic obsession.

Sirens
Germany 2022, color, 13 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Ilaria Di Carlo
Production: Ilaria Di Carlo, Caroline Kox, Sophie Zena Ahrens
Monolithic power plants, billowing columns of smoke, the backdrop of a red sun. The film captures Germany’s coal-fired power plants in their final years of generating energy. An odyssey through the dystopian industrial world that has left a permanent mark on earth’s ecosphere.

Handbook
Germany / Belarus 2021, color, 26 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Pavel Mozhar
Production: Kolja Wolle
After the presidential election in Belarus in August 2020, numerous protests erupt throughout the country. The special police take brutal action against demonstrators. Almost 7000 people are arrested. Hundreds of victims recount their experiences in interviews, revealing a system of repression, which is reconstructed in the director’s room in Berlin.

Zoon
Germany 2021, color, 4 min, OV, Engl. sub
Director: Jonatan Schwenk

Small shimmering animals are in heat. A two-legged forest dweller encounters the lustful group. He and his companions snack on the little creatures and soon a feast begins.