A Crush on German Short Films

Following the great success of the screening last year, the Goethe Institut in collaboration with the ARTos Foundation are presenting also this summer the open air screening of "A Crush on German Short Films" on Tuesday 11 June 2013 at 21:00. From more than 450 submissions of German short films, 10 excellent short films have been selected, some fascinating, bizarre and others hilarious.

With English subtitles

NOBODY’S FOOL
PAS FOLLE
Alexandra Kardinar, Volker Schlecht | Germany 2012 | animation | 3’ | no dialogue
Emotions become chains, love becomes lust to kill. Addiction and possession, relation and separation. Cheetahs and speedy cars.

DIE KONFERENZ ODER DIE RUECKSEITE DES MONDES
LA CONFΙRENCE OU LA FACE CACHΙE DE LA LUNE
THE CONFERENCE OR SHOOTING FOR THE MOON
Franz Winzentsen | Germany 2012 | animation | 6’ | German dialogue
Handbrushes, collected from the rubble in the ruins of a former ship propeller factory, have grown beaks. In a conference they connect the built-in obsolescence and the belief in economic progress with shooting for the moon.

LAEUFER
LE COURSIER | RUNNER
Carolina Hellsgerd | Germany 2013 | fiction | 14’ | German dialogue
Amal, a 13-year-old refugee from Lebanon, deals drugs in the Hanover subway. He lives an isolated life in a home for asylum seekers outside the city. One day he meets a young German girl called Clara, who might be able to rescue him.

SNAIL TRAIL
LA RΙVOLUTION DE L‘ESCARGOT
Philipp Artus | Germany 2012 | animation, experimental | 3’ | no dialogue
A snail invents the wheel and experiences a cultural evolution to finally return to its origins.

FATHER
LE PERE
Ivan Bogdanov, Moritz Mayerhofer, Dmitry Yagodin, Asparuh Petrov, Rositsa Raleva, Veljko Popovic | Germany, Bulgaria, Croatia 2012 | animation | 16’ | English dialogue
When did you last talk with your father? Will you ever ask him about the things that hurt you?

THE DOWNFALL
L‘EFFONDREMENT
Andreas Melcher, Christian Meyerholz | Germany 2012 | experimental, fiction | 3’ | no dialogue
A society destroying itself by its constant need for growth. Similar to vanitas still life paintings, shifts in the continuous course of time show transience and the permanent change of ending and renewal.

FLUCHT NACH VORN
FUITE EN AVANT | BREAKING THROUGH
Florian Dietrich | Germany 2012 | fiction | 9’ | German dialogue
Vicky, who is behind bars at a Berlin correctional facility, tries to end her relationship with her long-term boyfriend Wolf. Clearly upset, Wolf puts officers to action dragging him out by his collar. Out on the street he sees only one chance to save his love for Vicky…

ANDERSARTIG
J’ΙTAIS DIFFΙRENTE | DIFFERENT
Dennis Stein-Schomburg | Germany 2011 | animation | 5’ | German dialogue
One child is different than the others. Because of her dreamily and sportive nature she does not match the generally accepted behaviour of the other kids. Being different makes her more and more lonely. But in the end her solitude saves her from being killed.

BEIGE
Sylvie Hohlbaum | Germany 2012 | documentary | 14’ | German dialogue
There seems to exist a clandestine dress code for German "best agers": They all dress in beige! Is there a connection between wearing beige and growing old? And, will we all beige-ify one day?!?

MAEDCHENABEND
SOIRΙE ENTRE FILLES | GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT
Timo Becker | Germany 2011 | fiction | 17’ | German dialogue
Christine (75) is tired of life. When her retirement home roommate Eva (74) abducts her to a night out in the Hamburg red light district she is confronted with a flashy and entertaining world she feels way too old for.