Berlinale Shorts In Competition

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2 Berlinale Shorts In Competition CALL OF CUTENESS Brenda Lien Germany 2017 experimental 4 min While we watch the cat fail of the day in cheerful safety, all that remains invisible in this neoliberal nightmare catches up with us. The cat s body is consumed, exploited and controlled. We are here because you were there and waste is disposed of in the sea. (Brenda Lien) FRI 10 FEB 16:00 Cinemaxx 5 PRESS & INDUSTRY TUE 14 FEB 22:00 Cinemaxx 3 PREMIERE THU 16 FEB 17:00 Colosseum 1 FRI 17 FEB 16:00 Cinemaxx 5 FISHING IS NOT DONE ON TUESDAYS Lukas Marxt & Marcel Odenbach Germany/Austria 2017 experimental 15 min A stilt house becomes a cinematographic device by means of its architecture, Ghana s coastline the starting point of a journey in the present day and the yesteryear. SUN 12 FEB 16:00 Cinemaxx 5 PRESS & INDUSTRY TUE 14 FEB 16:00 Cinemaxx 5 PREMIERE WED 15 FEB 17:00 Colosseum 1 THU 16 FEB 21:30 City Kino Wedding BERLINALE SHORTS GO KIEZ FRI 17 FEB 22:00 Cinemaxx 3 KEEP THAT DREAM BURNING Rainer Kohlberger Germany/Austria 2017 experimental 8 min Rainer Kohlberger applied various algorithms to extract the noise and static sounds from a vast number of action films and used the disturbing sounds to reduce the dramaturgy of the narrative to its essence. FRI 10 FEB 22:30 Cinemaxx 3 PRESS & INDUSTRY MON 13 FEB 16:00 Cinemaxx 5 PREMIERE WED 15 FEB 22:00 Cinemaxx 3 FRI 17 FEB 17:00 Colosseum 1 SUN 19 FEB 17:00 Colosseum 1 KEEP THAT DREAM BURNING MISS HOLOCAUST Michalina Musielak Poland/Germany 2017 documentary 22 min Who will be the Miss Holocaust Survivor? An annual beauty contest of a different kind. Against general misgivings and macabre associations, old women stand their ground in order to keep the remembrance alive. SAT 11 FEB 16:00 Cinemaxx 5 PRESS & INDUSTRY MON 13 FEB 22:00 Cinemaxx 3 PREMIERE TUE 14 FEB 17:00 Colosseum 1 THU 16 FEB 16:00 Cinemaxx 5 OH BROTHER OCTOPUS Florian Kunert Germany 2017 documentary 27 min The sea nomads of Indonesia believe that every newborn child has a twin brother in the form of an octopus. According to myth, if something terrible does happen, it is said to be the octopus taking apocalyptic revenge. SUN 12 FEB 16:00 Cinemaxx 5 PRESS & INDUSTRY TUE 14 FEB 16:00 Cinemaxx 5 PREMIERE WED 15 FEB 17:00 Colosseum 1 FRI 17 FEB 22:00 Cinemaxx 3 SAT 18 FEB 14:00 Cubix 7 POWER TO THE PEOPLE SUN 19 FEB 19:30 Zoo Palast 2 POWER TO THE PEOPLE STREET OF DEATH Karam Ghossein Lebanon/Germany 2017 experimental documentary 23 min A place at the end of the city, a flood of pictures and stories. Immersion into the tales of the past and places of the present. SAT 11 FEB 22:00 Cinemaxx 3 PRESS & INDUSTRY WED 15 FEB 16:00 Cinemaxx 5 PREMIERE THU 16 FEB 22:00 Cinemaxx 3 SAT 18 FEB 17:00 Colosseum 1 SUN 19 FEB 17:00 Colosseum 1 KEEP THAT DREAM BURNING

3 Perspektive Deutsches Kino FINAL STAGE Nicolaas Schmidt Germany 2017 fiction 27 min First: a young man forlornly mourns the departure of his friend. Later: a majestic parade through Europe s longest shopping mall. In the end: a sigh of relief. FRI 17 FEB 12:00 Cinemaxx 4 PRESS & INDUSTRY FRI 17 FEB 16:30 Cinemaxx 3 PREMIERE SAT 18 FEB 12:00 Colosseum 1 SUN 12 FEB 22:00 Cinemaxx 3 QUEER SHORTS SUN 19 FEB 16:00 International TEDDY SHORTS GABI Michael Fetter Nathansky Germany 2017 fiction 30 min This is a film about truthfulness. Wait! Let s try that again. With more pauses and a different emphasis. Here we go! This is a film ABOUT truthfulness. Does that sound convincing? Not really. Or does it? FRI 10 FEB 13:45 Cinemaxx 5 PRESS & INDUSTRY FRI 10 FEB 19:30 Cinemaxx 3 PREMIERE SAT 11 FEB 12:00 Colosseum 1 SAT 11 FEB 20:30 Cinemaxx 1 KONTENER CONTAINER Sebastian Lang Germany 2017 fiction 30 min Two female Polish farmworkers live alongside each other at a Brandenburg dairy, each deliberately ignoring the other until one day Tava doesn t turn up for work. THU 16 FEB 14:00 Cinemaxx 5 PRESS & INDUSTRY THU 16 FEB 19:30 Cinemaxx 3 PREMIERE FRI 17 FEB 12:00 Colosseum 1 FRI 17 FEB 20:30 Cinemaxx 1 MIKEL Cavo Kernich Germany 2017 fiction 31 min A young refugee from Nigeria finds himself stuck in an illegal job in Berlin, a nomad in permanent transit. In the end, he writes a postcard home. THU 16 FEB 14:00 Cinemaxx 5 PRESS & INDUSTRY THU 16 FEB 19:30 Cinemaxx 3 PREMIERE FRI 17 FEB 12:00 Colosseum 1 FRI 17 FEB 20:30 Cinemaxx 1 NATIVe Indigenous Cinema Christian Vagt TARA Felicitas Sonvilla Germany 2017 fiction 30 min The near future. A young woman named Mira is on her way to Tara, a utopian place full of promise. We set off with Mira on a journey into the unknown that is both highly artificial and yet also close to today s reality. THU 16 FEB 14:00 Cinemaxx 5 PRESS & INDUSTRY THU 16 FEB 19:30 Cinemaxx 3 PREMIERE FRI 17 FEB 12:00 Colosseum 1 FRI 17 FEB 20:30 Cinemaxx 1 VOR DEM SCHNEE BEFORE THE SNOW Christian Vagt Germany 2007 documentary 27 min Eerie first-hand accounts of the supernatural and the dead in the world of Khanty and Nenets. An intimate atmosphere encompasses the spiritual world void of interpretation, and tells of the mysteries beyond the reality of western Siberia. THU 16 FEB 21:30 Cinestar IMAX FRI 17 FEB 15:30 Cubix 8

4 Forum Expanded Bernd Lützeler CAMERA THREAT Bernd Lützeler Germany 2017 experimental 30 min CAMERA THREAT explores the ambivalent relationship of the film city Mumbai with the moving image. A director and an actress get stuck in impromptu conversations on the side effects of a world that no longer bothers to tell facts from fiction. TUE 14 FEB 17:30 Arsenal 1 FRI 17 FEB 21:30 Akademie der Künste SAT 18 FEB 16:00 Cinemaxx 5 FORUM EXPANDED BERLINALE SHORTS MIX Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy HELIOPOLIS HELIOPOLIS Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy Germany 2016 experimental 26 min A cinematic interpretation of an ancient city simulation used to train architecture students and the hypnotic, trance-inducing ritual connected to its use. MON 13 FEB 21:30 Akademie der Künste TUE 14 FEB 20:00 Arsenal 1 Eva C. Heldmann IM GEHÄUS IN HIS ROOM Eva C. Heldmann Germany 2017 experimental 27 min Dennis and I live together. I explored his room with my camera. Papers, books, and tools cover the floor: a lawless world of a thinker and a handyman. I don't really trust his working methods little gets done but they draw me in. TUE 14 FEB 21:30 Akademie der Künste WED 15 FEB 19:30 Arsenal 1 Peter Miller SET Peter Miller Germany 2016 experimental 10 min For this found footage animated film I downloaded 10,000 photographs of the sunset, adjusted each one and arranged them in order, setting into motion a singular, colossal, collective sunset. (Peter Miller) TUE 14 FEB 17:30 Arsenal 1 FRI 17 FEB 21:30 Akademie der Künste Maya Schweizer A TALL TALE Maya Schweizer Germany/Ireland 2017 experimental 16 min Orson Welles, Edgar Allen Poe, and other literary and cinematic ghosts seem to lead the spectator of A TALL TALE onwards, passing through a landscape of ruins and films and ruins of films that evoke phantoms and fairies. FRI 10 FEB 21:30 Akademie der Künste SUN 12 FEB 12:30 Arsenal 1 Bruce LaBruce/Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion ULRIKE S BRAIN Bruce LaBruce Germany 2017 fiction 55 min Referencing sixties B-movies like THEY SAVED HITLER S BRAIN and THE BRAIN THAT WOULD NOT DIE, ULRIKE S BRAIN finds Doctor Julia Peiffer arriving at an academic/scientific conference with an organ box containing the brain of the real Ulrike Meinhof, which was saved by the authorities along with the other three brains of the leaders of the RAF after they all died in Stammheim prison. Forum Expanded - Exhibition Akademie der Künste (open daily from 11:00 to 21:00) SAT 11 FEB 19:00 Akademie der Künste SAT 18 FEB 20:00 Arsenal 1 Sandra Schäfer, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017 CONSTRUCTED FUTURES: HARET HREIK Sandra Schäfer Germany 2017 experimental 28 min The 4-channel installation CONSTRUCTED FUTURES: HARET HREIK is concerned with the ideological, aesthetic, religious, and political implications of the architecture of reconstruction, using the example of the Beirut neighborhood Haret Hreik. Merle Kröger, Izadora Nistor, Philip Scheffer IZADORA (LISTENING TO VERSIONS OF HERSELF) Philip Scheffner, Merle Kröger, Izadora Nistor Germany 2016 experimental 8 min A sunny afternoon. This moment belongs to Izadora alone, bursting into thousands of seconds, or extending one split second to infinity. In this moment, everything is possible. Katrin Winkler TOWARDS MEMORY Katrin Winkler Germany 2016 experimental 31 min TOWARDS MEMORY is a collaboration with Namibian women who were sent to the former GDR as children during the Namibian struggle for independence and raises questions about dealing with the history of colonialism, genocide, displacement, and Apartheid.

5 Market Screenings SHORT FILMS FROM LOWER SAXONY AND BREMEN Four short films supported by Nordmedia and presented by the Film- and Medienbüro Niedersachsen. WED 15 FEB 10:40 Cinemaxx 11 HESSEN TALENTS 2017 The film program provides you with a selection of promising short films from the fields of animation, documentary, experimental film and fiction, from four film-producing universities in Hessen. WED 15 FEB 11:00 Cinemaxx 12 GERMAN SHORT FILMS CATALOGUE SELECTION 2017 The German Short Film Association presents a 60-minute compilation of German short films in various genres. WED 15 FEB 15:00 Cinemaxx 2» Invitations for non-market badge holders will be provided upon entrance. Berlinale Talents PROJECT LAB PRESENTATION: SHORT FILM STATION The Short Film Station 2017 invited ten filmmakers with strong concepts to explore the possibilities of the short film format. The mentor program enables its participants to further develop their projects and to gain insights into the latest industry developments. At the public presentation, film professionals can get to know the projects and meet with the filmmakers. WED 15 FEB 11:30 13:00 Academie Lounge Köthener Str. 44 In cooperation with Berlinale Shorts and supported by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and AG Kurzfilm.» For accredited Berlinale guests and industry professionals. Please register with: c.steiner@berlinale.de» Find all Short Film Station 2017 projects online: Panel IN ANOTHER WORLD: YOU CAN BE EVERYTHING Expert: David OReilly Moderated by Maike Mia Höhne Famous for stripping down 3D graphics to the point of absurdity, the animated films of young Irish-born filmmaker and artist David OReilly have garnered more than 80 awards, including the Golden Bear. Having recently stormed the world of video game and app development, OReilly s œuvre awes in its defiance of traditional aesthetics and formats. Taking time away from the premiere of EVERYTHING, his newest "game-that-is-also-a-film", in competition at Berlinale Shorts, OReilly recounts his meteoric career trajectory and the choices and chances that landed him in the world of games. WED 15 FEB 14:00 15:00 HAU Hebbel am Ufer - HAU2 Hallesches Ufer 32 In cooperation with Berlinale Shorts and supported by the European Film Academy.» For accredited Berlinale guests and for the public. Tickets available at the respective ticket counters. SCREENING SHORTS: IT'S ALL ABOUT TRANSFORMATION HIWA by Jacqueline Lentzou 11 min LA PRIMA SUECA by Inés María Barrionuevo & Agustina San Martín 20 min ENSUEÑO EN LA PRADERA by Esteban Arrangoiz Julien 17 min MILK by Daria Vlasova 16 min SIRENS by Emmanuel Trousse 11 min Big things come in small packages! This program features a hand chosen selection of short films that are screening in the official programs of the festival. Berlinale Shorts is known for premiering bold approaches to the short form and Generation features a strong lineup for audiences of all ages. Don't miss these films which are competing for Golden and Crystal Bears and the extended Q&A with the filmmakers following the screening. THU 16 FEB 14:00 16:00 HAU Hebbel am Ufer HAU1 Stresemannstr. 29 In cooperation with Berlinale Shorts and Berlinale Generation.» For accredited Berlinale guests and for the public. Tickets available at the respective ticket counters

6 Special Event SHORT.FILM.TOUR THE GERMAN SHORT FILM AWARD. IN CINEMAS. During their stopover at the Berlinale, the German Short Film Association presents a selection of the outstanding films nominated for or awarded the German Short Film Award in We are looking forward to some of the filmmakers being present for the screening. Individualised programs can be compiled from all thirteen participating films and booked for screenings in Germany or abroad. TUE 14 FEB 15:15 Hackesche Höfe Kinos (German without subtitles) Pick up your password for online preview at the stand of the AG Kurzfilm at the European Film Market. TEHRAN DERBY by Simon Ostermann Germany 2016 documentary 20 min A QUIET PLACE by Ronny Dörfler Germany/Romania 2016 fiction 24 min OCEAN HILL DRIVE by Lina Sieckmann & Miriam Gossing Germany 2016 experimental 14 min HOMEWORK by Annika Pinske Germany 2016 fiction 7 min Come and visit the AG Kurzfilm - German Short Film Association and German Films. Pick up the catalogue G ERMAN SHORT FILMS 2017 and the new DVD compilations at the European Film Market. Martin-Gropius-Bau Ground Floor Stand No. 17 phone