Short Cut To Hollywood

Short Cut To Hollywood

by | Feb 13, 2023

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Shortcut to Hollywood

John F. (Friedrich) Salinger – whose real name is Johannes Friedrich Selinger – is an insurance salesman from Berlin by profession. Now 35 years old, he realizes that his life hasn’t actually turned out the way he once hoped – that he won’t leave anything of himself to humanity, that the realization of his dream of fame and immortality is getting close. Then he comes up with a brilliant idea. A film which will help him to eternal fame.

His two friends, an ambulance driver who dropped out of medical school and a failed used car salesman, are thrilled. So the three underdogs set off on their documentary road movie to the USA. They are sure of their cause, because even if it will be hard: Hollywood will soon be at their feet!

Singing, they drive off over the endless highways across America, the most incredible idea in film history in their luggage. At first, they are at best smiled at. But when they get serious, when “the bomb bursts,” everything starts moving: The conquest of the new continent begins, and the media machinery gets going. America is suddenly upside down. The venture works out and the three actually become world famous. But the price is high. For John must die in order to live eternally.

Credits

Cast: Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Marcus Mittermeier, Christoph Kottenkamp, Henning Grübel, Marta McGonagle, Alison Findlater-Galinsky, Jerôme Poynton, Jerry Perez, Iris Lohninger

Screenplay: Jan Henrik Stahlberg
Director: Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Marcus Mittermeier
Camera: David Hofmann
Composer: Rainer Oleak
Editing: Sarah Clara Weber
Production design: Peter Naguib
Costume: Juliane Maier
Make up: Jana Filipp
Sound: Florian Niederleithinger
Production management: Dorothee Beinemeier
Co-producer: Robert Hofferer, Andrea Balen, Corina Danckwerts
Producer: Marcos Kantis, Michal Pokorny, Martin Lehwald, Philipp Kreuzer, Matthias Esche, Jan S. Kaiser, Marcus Mittermeier, Jan Henrik Stahlberg
Supporters: The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderungsanstalt, German Federal Film Fund, Kuratorium junger deutscher Film, MEDIA Program of the European Union, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern
Production year: 2007/2008

Preise
  • Award for the best sound design, Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg Vorpommern
Festivalteilnahmen
  • Berlinale (Panorama)
  • Film Art Festival Mecklenburg Western Pomerania Schwerin
  • Jecheon International Music & Film Festival
  • German Currents L.A.
  • Sao Paulo International Film Festival
  • International Film Festival Molodist Kyiv
  • GI San Francisco
  • Vilnius International Film Festival
Scene from Shortcut to Hollywood
Scene from Shortcut to Hollywood
Scene from Shortcut to Hollywood
Scene from Shortcut to Hollywood

Teleportation

Teleportation

by | Feb 13, 2023

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Teleportation

Frederike and Fabian, both 10 years old, secretly plan an experiment. They want to beam away their friend Jonathan, also 10 years old. The experiment goes wrong and instead of the boy, suddenly all the people in the village have disappeared. The school is also completely empty.

While searching for the causes, they discover images on television of people climbing up the Berlin Wall and driving their Trabbis toward the border. The children realize that they have accidentally beamed all the people to West Berlin. They must repeat the experiment to save their parents and neighbors. An adventurous retelling of the events of November 9, 1989.

Credits

Cast: Isabelle Kühn, Elias Mavriki, Till Valentin Winter

Screenplay: Markus Dietrich, Hanna Reifgerst
Director: Markus Dietrich
Camera: Urs Zimmermann
Composer: Philipp E. Kümpel, Andreas Moisa
Editing: Andreas Baltschun
Production design: Asja Neumann
Costume: Christian Röhrs
Make-up: Manuela Bruns
Sound: Thomas Pfeiffer
Production Management: Hanna Reifgerst
Production management: Alexander Wadouh
Executive producer: Michael Schiering
Producer: Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny
Sponsor: Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Production year: 2009

Festivalteilnahmen
  • Berlinale – Nomination for the Berlin Today Award
  • Filmfest Dresden
  • Mo & Friese – KinderKurzFilmFestival Hamburg
  • FEST – International Film Festival Portugal
  • Munich Film Festival
  • Ourense International Film Festival
  • Chicago International Children`s Film Festival
  • KuKi – Children’s Film Festival
  • Istanbul Children’s Film Festival
  • Falsstaff International Film Festival
  • Michael Moore’s Traverse City Festival
  • Festival jeunesse Carrousel Rimouski
  • Cinemagic Belfast
  • Cleveland International Film Festival
Scene from Teleportation
Scene from Teleportation
Scene from Teleportation
Scene from Teleportation

Headlock

Headlock

by | Feb 13, 2023

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Headlock

When Susanne crashes through the emergency room doors, heavily pregnant, she is completely unprepared and panics. In a fit of hysteria – labor is just beginning – she gets a revelation: she needn’t worry, because the child is preordained. 12 years later, Susanne is looking forward to a fresh start. After a long period of abstinence, she has renewed hope for a working relationship. But her son, whom she has considered a genius since the revelation, writes unreadable essays and his teacher wants to transfer him to a special school. Susanne and Jonathan are cramming for their lives.

This film is a collaboration between director Johan Carlsen and Cornelia and Christopher Kwanka, a single mother and her son living in Berlin-Lichtenberg. Conny and Christopher depict scenes from Johan’s childhood, as well as from their own experiences. They play Jonathan and Susanne, a mother and son who fight a battle for recognition and balance.

Credits

Cast: Christopher Kwanka, Conny Kwanka, Sam Louwyck

Screenplay: Johan Carlsen
Director: Johan Carlsen
Camera: Armin Dierolf
Editing: Johan Carlsen
Production design: Stefan Oppenländer
Costume: Lea Walloschke
Make-up: Christina Wagner, Milena Pfleiderer, Katja Schulze
Sound: Martin Hertel, Juri von Krause
Production Management: Nicolai Zeitler
Production management: Birgit Weingärtner
Executive producer: Till Rothmund
Co-producer: Christian Schulzki (ariane-film gmbh), German Film and Television Academy Berlin, Makrorama
Producer: Martin Lehwald
Commissioning Editor: ZDF – Das kleine Fernsehspiel, Frank Seyberth
Station: ZDF
Funded by: Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderungsanstalt
Production year: 2011

Festivalteilnahmen
  • 45th Hof Film Days
  • IBAFF Int. Film Festival
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Layla M.

Layla M.

by | Feb 13, 2023

Scene from Layla M.

Layla M.

When Dutch-born Muslim girl Laila (18) feels less and less at home in the Netherlands, she slowly but surely becomes involved with a group of extremists and radicalizes. She encounters a world that nurtures her ideas initally, but finally confronts her with an impossible choice.

Credits

Cast: Nora el Koussour, Ilias Addab

Screenplay: Jan Eilander, Mijke de Jong
Director: Mijke de Jong
Camera: Danny Elsen SBC
Composer: Can Erdogan
Editing: Dorith Vinken NCE
Production design: Jorien Sont
Costume: Jacqueline Steijlen
Mask: Trudy Buren
Sound: Joost Roskam
Mix: Alek Goosse
Producer: Jet Christiaanse, Chantal Nissen, Rula Nasser
Co-producer: Menuet, Chromosom Film, The Imaginarium Films, NTR, Schiwago Film
Producer: Topkapi Films
Production year: 2016

Festival Participations
  • 37th Filmfest München, 2017
  • Nederlands Film Festival, 2017
  • Palm Springs International Film Festival, 2017
  • Cairo International Film Festival, 2016
  • Chicago International Film Festival, 2016
  • Gijón International Film Festival, 2016
  • BFI London Film Festival, 2016
  • Philadelphia Film Festival, 2016
  • Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), 2016
  • 8th Les Arcs European Film Festival, 2016
Awards
  • Nederlands Film Festival, 2017:
    Best Actress – Nora El Koussour
    Best Supporting Actor – Mohammed Azaay
  • 37th Filmfest München, 2017:
    Fritz Gerlich Prize – Mijke de Jong
  • Philadelphia Film Festival, 2016:
    Jury Special Award for Outstanding Performance – Nora El Koussour
  • Les Arcs European Film Festival, 2016:
    Audience Award – Mijke de Jong
    Best Actress – Nora El Koussour
Scene from Layla M.
Scene from Layla M.

Göggingen

Göggingen

by | Feb 13, 2023

Göggingen

Göggingen

Screenplay: Christoph Silber, Dörte Franke, Martin Lehwald
Director: Martin Lehwald

An emigrated German returns in 1947 as an officer in the U.S. Army and is assigned to oversee the denazification camp at Göggingen. There he befriends the wife of a high Nazi chargé, who uses him to escape with her husband.