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Directed by Michael Dämmig
Short Animation
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In a fight between a tree and a monkey, more is won than a mango.
It bears no fruit, is small and crooked. But when a mango suddenly drops down to him from the high treetops, Karl seizes the opportunity to finally be a little more like the other trees. But Jim, a hungry orangutan, is also after the juicy mango. A fight breaks out over the fruit and Karl has to decide who he really wants to be.
Guanajuato International Film Festival 2023 official selection Open Air COBRA, Solingen 2023 official selection Monadnock International Film Festival 2023 official selection Hofer Filmtage 2023 official selection Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival 2024 official selection FIRST STEPS Award 2023 in der Kategorie Short Steps
Director: Michael Dämmig
Script: Stefan Dämmig
Producer: Luisa Beuschlein
DOP: Pasindu Goldmann
Sounddesign: Marius Schaaf
Directed by Arun Leander
Short Animation
Music by Steven E. Müller & Fabian Zeidler
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Sparrows pilfer the crumbs left behind by park visitors using advanced surveillance technology.
Picnickers and other visitors to the park frequently leave a few morsels behind – much to the delight of the SPARROWS. However, the SPARROWS are not content with mere meager (either mere or meager, not both) crumbs. They aim to pilfer entire meals from unsuspecting humans. Their special mission comes with top secret sparrowcifications and requires cutting-edge sparweilance technology.
Director / Producer / Script: Arun Leander
Sounddesign: Noël Riedel & Lambert Regel
Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Directed by Jannis Alexander Kiefer
Dark Comedy, Ensemble, First Feature
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In the sleepy East German village of Wiesenwalde, the only local attraction is the birthplace of a classical composer. So when an American film crew arrives to shoot a World War II series, the villagers are determined to take advantage of the opportunity to chase their personal dreams—until a sudden power outage and a missing tank risk ruining all their plans.
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Directed by: Jannis Alexander Kiefer
Written by: Jannis Alexander Kiefer, Theresa Weininger
Producers: Phillipp Kreuzer (MAZE Pictures), Christoph Degenhart (MAZE Pictures)
Coproducers: Lotte Ruf (Filmuniversität Babelsberg), Frithjof Stückemann (Filmuniversität Babelsberg), Jannis Alexander Kiefer
Cast: Johannes Scheidweiler, Meike Droste, Monika Lennartz, Roland Bonjour, Alexander Schuster, Gisa Flake, Susanne Bredehöft, Philipp Karner
Second Place Winner / Finalist
electroacustic composition for aks synthesizer and publison infernal machine
on fixed media (8 channels), at Crescendo festival, Berlin GER (2016)
piano solo
Premiere by Luka Hauser at Kyoto International Music Students Festival, Kyoto Japan (2019)
large orchestra
WDR Symphony Orchestra | Mariano Chiacchiarini (conductor)
(2018)
Directed by Felix Charin
Aurie, a wannabe Instagram influencer, tries everything to increase her followers. She goes to a hotel resort with her boyfriend Eli, hoping that wellness and holiday content will increase her online fame. When this fails, Aurie’s mood gets worse, but there seems to be something wrong with the hotel and staff. While Aurie gets more suspicious, Eli does not seem to notice anything.
2020, horrorshortfilm: 13 min.
Language: English
Directed by Sophie Linnenbaum
In a repressive three class-society, Paula, a simple Supporting Character, is about to face the most important test of her life: she has to prove she deserves to be a Lead. She is at the top of her class at the Main Character School – but so far has failed in generating great emotional music. In search of a solution, she finds herself in the abyss of the cinematic world, on the fringes of the storyline and lost amongst the Outtakes.
with Fine Sendel, Jule Böwe, Sira-Anna Faal, Noah Tinwa, Henning Peker, Denise M’Baye, Pasquale Aleardi
Produktion | Bandenfilm
Ko-Produzent | ZDF – Das kleine Fernsehspiel
Ko-Produzent | Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Co-Verleih | notsold GmbH
Co-Verleih | Port au Prince Pictures GmbH
2023, 120 min., FSK12
Language: German
Podcast Intro for the student podcast of the Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
music for the opening ceremony of the Sehsüchte Filmfestival 2020
Directed by Felix Charin
An Internet-troll gets trolled by a real troll.
2020, horrorshortfilm: 9 min.
Language: English
Directed by Julian Rabus, Mara Pollak, Marie Jaksch, Vincent Hannwacker, Dominik Bais
The film adapts the eponymous work by german writer Christoph Martin Wieland and transfers the love story into the present day.
Phanias withdrew from the city of Athens to the countryside to leave his old life behind. But one day he encounters his former love Musarion who tries to bring him back to reason.
The film follows their struggle to find an enlightened form of love that can overcome philosophical and political fanaticism.
“Musarion” is a collectiv work of five young artists and mixes elements of the original text, opera, theatre, video art and narrative film.
2020, shortfilm: 29 min.
Language: German; Subtitles: English
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Music by Dominik Giesriegl
Orchestration for HEIKOMUSIC / Tilo Heinrich
The charming live-action adventure with CGI animated animals about an unusual school where the children receive a magical animal as a companion, centers on new girl Ida, who goes from being an outsider to the star student thanks to her magical animal, the talking fox Rabbat. Ida has had to move to another town and is now the “new girl” at the Winterstein School. She has a hard time in the new class: bitchy Helene makes sure that Ida has scant chance of making friends, and there is only one place left for her on the first day of school: next to outsider Benni. One day, her teacher introduces the children to Mortimer Morrison, who travels the world looking for “magical animals”. Each of these animals is destined to become a child’s soulmate. Of all people, newcomer Ida and outsider Benni are the first in the class to have magical companions. From now on, Benni has the ancient, wise turtle Henrietta at his side and Ida the cunning fox Rabbat. When objects keep disappearing at school, the children and the magical animals must stick together to solve the mystery of the school thief.
Music by Ute Engelhardt
Orchestration for HEIKOMUSIC / Tilo Heinrich
Vic is a young Viking like no other: not very strong but very clever. When his father, Halvar, the village chief, steals from his sworn enemy a magic sword that turns everything into gold, the lure of gain wreaks havoc among the Vikings.
Music by Jessica de Rooij & Maurus Ronner
Orchestration for HEIKOMUSIC / Tilo Heinrich
“Sisi” follows the extraordinary life of empress Elisabeth of Austria. Modern, honest, and authentic. Told from the perspective of her closest confidants, the series takes a new look at the empress’ life and reveals a multi-layered woman fascinating with her attitude, her courage and her contradictions. The youthful Sisi evolves into Empress Elisabeth. A woman who lives an extraordinary difficult life on her own terms: Self-confident, free, independent – and willing to pay the price for it.
Music by Andreas Weidinger
Orchestration for HEIKOMUSIC / Tilo Heinrich
Vlad has just moved and joined one of the most famous magical schools in the world, where he meets fairies, witches, trolls and dwarfs. Him and his father are the first vampires in town, but he soon meets other special kids.
Music by Lorenz Dangel
Siggi Jepsen is in Germany after the war in an institution for difficult-to-educate young people. He is to write an essay on the subject “The Pleasures of Duty,” but has no idea. Only when he is locked a cell the next day do memories of his childhood during WWII break out: His father, police officer Jens Ole Jepsen, was commissioned to bring friendly expressionist painter Ludwig Nansen a professional ban at Nansen’s surveillance. Siggi was supposed to help him, but eventually he rebelled against his father, sided with the recalcitrant Nansen, and hid some of the forbidden pictures, which eventually led to his imprisonment in the asylum.
Music by Lorenz Dangel
Siggi Jepsen is in Germany after the war in an institution for difficult-to-educate young people. He is to write an essay on the subject “The Pleasures of Duty,” but has no idea. Only when he is locked a cell the next day do memories of his childhood during WWII break out: His father, police officer Jens Ole Jepsen, was commissioned to bring friendly expressionist painter Ludwig Nansen a professional ban at Nansen’s surveillance. Siggi was supposed to help him, but eventually he rebelled against his father, sided with the recalcitrant Nansen, and hid some of the forbidden pictures, which eventually led to his imprisonment in the asylum.
Music by Ralf Wengenmayr & Marvin Miller
Orchestration for HEIKOMUSIC / Tilo Heinrich
A year has gone by since Jim Button and his best friend, the engine driver Luke, returned from their dangerous adventure in Dragon City. Life on Morrowland goes its leisurely way again. Suddenly, dark clouds are gathering over the tranquil island of Morrowland: the notorious pirate gang “The Wild 13” has learned that the dragon Mrs Grindtooth has been conquered by Jim and Luke and now swears revenge. To protect Morrowland from another threat, the two of them set off with their steam engines Emma and Molly on a dangerous journey where they meet old friends like princess Li Si, Mr. Tur Tur and Nepomuk and make new friends with Sursulapichi, a real mermaid. On their adventure, Jim’s most fervent wish might also come true: to find out the truth about his mysterious origins.