Duitsland

Van fictie via documentaire en experimentale film naar animatiefilm. We schotelen en je de filmselectie van het Goethe-Instituut voor. Op één avond bekijk je het beste van de Duitse kortfilm.

Paulina
Lynn Kossler
Germany
2011 – 24’00″- Color

Anna feels like an alien. She blushes all the time, so much so that it is has become a source of suffering, prompting her to attempt to avoid situations in which she changes colour. However, when she meets Paulina one night, she cannot rely on her avoidance strategies any more.

Les Mouches (Les Oiseaux II)
Susann Maria Hempel
Germany
2010 – 07’00″ – Color

Filmed at the Institute of Systematic Zoology and Evolutionary Biology in Jena, THE FLIES offers an experimental sequel to Hitchcock´s ‘The Birds’. Its miniature architecture was built in Greiz. Greiz is one of the shrinking cities in the Eastern part of Germany – and its abandoned places are attacked by insects.

Force Centrifuge (Fliehkraft)
Marie Elisa Scheidt, Alexandra Wesolowski
Germany
2011 – 17’00″ – Color

Matthias spent five months in solitary confinement, sentenced by the GDR authorities for illegal border crossing. Deprived of sleep and social contact, he lived on his mere daydreams. Even after 23 years, Matthias can’t escape from his former cell.

La Maison (Das Haus)
David Buob
Germany
2011 – 06’48″ – Color

This little girl’s dream is to care for her grandmother, but aunt and mother do not let her do so. There is only one way out.

Armadingen
Philipp Käßbohrer
Germany
2011 – 23’00″ – Color

Walter lives with his wife Helga on an isolated farm. In truth they’ve been leading parallel lives for many years now. When he hears news of a gigantic asteroid hurtling towards Earth on the tractor radio, he decides to make this the best possible last day for his wife.

Comme on fait lever la lune (How to Raise the Moon)
Anja Struck
Germany/Denmark
2011 – 08’48″ – B&W

In a place of condensed time, stagnant things become alive and Sleep (Fox) and Death (Bunny) are fighting over a sleeping woman’s life.

Symphonie des Abrutis (Sinfonie der Dumpfbacken)
Volker Heymann
Germany
2011 – 05’00″ – Color

During a meeting six salesmen face a problem: they aren’t selling enough of their product, toy nodding dogs. Stupid nodding is the only answer.

Le Projet Centrifugeuse Cérébrale (The Centrifuge Brain Project)
Till Nowak
Germany
2011 – 07’00″ – Color

The “Centrifuge Brain Project” is a scientific experiment that started in the 1970s. It involves an amusement park to enhance peoples’ brain capacity. Dr Laslowicz explains the project. He believes that centrifuging people with 20.000 horsepower solves human problems.