Films nominated for the Producer's Award
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Producer's Award 1
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 19.00h Thalia 2
Mein Vogel fliegt schneller
Sores & Sîrîn
Sores & Sîrîn
Feature Film | Germany | 2008 | Katrin Gebbe | 24'
The Kurdish siblings, Sores und Sîrîn, are growing up as war refugees with their fostermother in Hamburg. Years after the war, their grandfather appears to take them back to their home country with him Now the two have to decide where their home is.
Mein Vogel fliegt schneller
My bird flies faster
Feature Film | Germany | 2008 | Gülseli Bille Baur | 86'
Eleven young people and an escalation in apparently harmonious love relationships: a postmodern fairytale big city about loneliness and dependence and about the question which is greater: freedom or love?
Producer's Award 2
Donnerstag, 23. April 2009 - 18.00h Thalia 1
Höllenritt
Roller Coaster
Feature Film | Germany | 2008 | Martin Busker | 30'
For the first time since his parents got divorced, Jakob has to spend a weekend together with his father. Jakob is determined to ruin it for him. That’s because he has to get points to become a member of his friends’ club, “DAA – Dads are Assholes”. Only it all goes differently from the way he planned it: the new girlfriend, Karin, is terribly nice and her daughter, Marion, comes across as wanting to be his sister. On a trip together to the entertainment park, things finally blow up. That’s because Jakob actually does miss his father.
Roentgen
Roentgen
Roentgen
Feature Film | Germany | 2008 | Michael Venus | 24'
1896: the young doctor, George, believes he has found a cure-all in the recently discovered X-rays. He loses himself in his research and so risks everything. His wife, Charlotte, wants to overcome the growing alienation from her husband and is prepared to use any means.
Für Miriam
For Miriam
Feature Film | Germany | 2008 | Lars-Gunnar Lotz | 58'
A fatal accident. Karin, a young mathematics teacher, feels guilty over the death of a scooter rider – but she isn’t. She is hit all the harder, when she finds out that the brother of the dead woman, Miriam, is her pupil, Lukas. Although everyone around her constantly tries to convince her of her innocence, she becomes increasingly distant from her friends, particularly from her boyfriend, Christian. Looking for a way to apologise, she enters into a self-destructive relationship with Lukas.
Producer's Award 3
Friday, April 24, 2009 - 17.00h Thalia 2
Riesendurst
Riesendurst
The Giant Thurst
Commercial | Germany | 2009 | Georg von Mitzlaff | 1'
The giant Thirst is the title of an advertising spot for a petrol-saving car, which imitates the style of the monster films of the 1950’s. A monster “knocks back” an entire town, as it tries to slake its gigantic thirst, and so spreads fear and horror among the inhabitants.
Weltstadt
Weltstadt
Feature Film | Germany | 2008 | Christian Klandt | 104'
A real event: in a picturesque little town, two youths attack a sleeping street person. When they find out he hasn’t any valuables, they beat him and set him alight. For 24 hours before the deed, “World City” tells the story of five people, who live together and influence each other, without, however, realising it.
Producer's Award 4
Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 15.00h Thalia 2
Wüste/Außen/Tag
Desert/ExteriorDay
Feature Film | Germany | 2008 | Mia Grau | 30'
Two actors get to know each other at a shoot. They are playing a couple that kisses and fights simultaneously. In real life, they are strangers, until they spend a non-shooting day together and their different realities collide. This is not a love story, this is a story about fighting for closeness and for apartness, perceptions and projections, desires and fears.
Auf Nummer sicher
Auf Nummer sicher *
On the safe side?
Feature Film | Germany | 2007 | Jonas Dornbach | 75'
In actual fact, the television journalist, Sandra Harkow was only supposed to report on the political symposium about a new RFID technology, which permits biometric data to be stored on identity cards. An apparently crazy person puts her on the track of something, however, and she begins to find out what is really hidden behind the plans.
*out of competition
