#05 Memory Mücke | Memory Mosquito

Absurdist, Mystery, 2022, 02:30 min

Ms. Lazahr needs information and is willing to take a strange way to get it, which could get
on Ms. Winkler’s nerves.

  • Director: Max Laux, 21 Y., Detmold

  • D.o.P.: Julia Holzweißig

  • Editor: Max Laux

#06 ?Wa Iza | And if?

Drama, 2022, 03:45 min

Ishmael’s shoulders are loaded with expectations. Perhaps too many. In this 2D animated drama with real backgrounds, Ishmael has to face a conversation with his mother that makes him uncomfortable. What is it that is bothering Ishmael and how will he deal with it?

  • Director: Ali Halawi, 24 Y., Bad Salzuflen

  • D.o.P.: Tilo Geb, Felix Müller

  • Editor: Aimee Tiamson

#07 I woke up like this | I woke up like this

Experimental, 2022, 03:26 min

Everyone is aware that no one looks as flawless as the social media filter “I woke up like this” when they get up. Our short film, accompanied by a self-penned poem, is also about the distortion of beauty ideals through social media and the historical development of ideas of beauty.

  • Directors: Linda Theiner, Charlotte Baumgärtner, 17 Y., Nürnberg, München

  • D.o.P.: Charlotte Baumgärtner

  • Editor: Linda Theiner

#08 Sunken | Sunken

Horror, 2022, 05:37 min

At night, a young woman is haunted by several strange events that make her cling to her tragic past.

  • Director: Leon Meyburg, 17 Y., Drochtersen

  • D.o.P.: Leon Meyburg

  • Editor: Leon Meyburg

#09 Anemone | Anemone

Drama, 2022, 11:11 min

As the result of a breakup, a woman tries to break out of her everyday life by going in search of her old self. She heads to her hometown by the sea with her former best friend from her youth and has to face the reality that they are not the people they used to be.

  • Director: Hoang Quynh Nguyen, 23 Y., Berlin

  • D.o.P.: Jan Wittkopp

  • Editor: Hoang Quynh Nguyen