Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg (Firm)
1) Backpack
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the thirst for adventure, young teacher Daniel heads off to his first big journey around the world. But on his first stop in the Indonesian megacity Jakarta, Daniel is totally over challenged by the foreign culture. He loses sight of his goals and finally of himself. When he meets young Clara, Daniel believes to escape from his torturing loneliness by falling in love with her.
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A wasteland, in which mid-fifty year old Rolf (Matthias Brenner) tries to motivate his dog Piet to keep walking. A quiet wide shot shows the desolation of the surroundings, which are just as unspectacular as Rolf’s deep affection for his dog. Hip dysplasia - the diagnosis from the veterinarian is unemotional. For Rolf his world is falling apart. An operation could save the dog but would cost a lot of money - money Rolf obviously doesn’t have....
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A male prostitute who almost forgot the meaning of real feelings is falling in love with a young girl. By her tenderness he's experiencing a feeling of warmth. His world is out of joint and he realizes he's just as lonely as his clients - always looking for affection. The only way to find himself is to face up to his feelings.
4) Couchmovie
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In four episodes, the film portrays the encounters between "couch surfers"and their hosts in four different places in Europe. In Stuttgart, Swabian publisher Annette meets Pawel, a Polish happy go lucky, while in Spain, her niece Nina is expecting a big fiesta but instead comes upon a deaf old man. Meanwhile Matti, a freshly minted high school graduate, is hoping for a grand adventure in Paris, while the two Erasmus students Reka and Alma wander through...
5) Sunny
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Hajo doesn´t think much before he beats the living daylight out of somebody. Hajo is nineteen and very aggressive. Half a year ago he became a dad. He has to take care of his son instead of hanging out with his friends and having a good time. But Hajo has no desire to change diapers and give the mom. He wants to work and earn money. Hajo draws up a plan which, carried out, endangers his son.
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Chris, a young lawyer, drives on a nightly road heading towards Hamburg. But his ride takes an unexpected turn as he witness a tragic accident. A crime, two sadistic police men and a bestial ranger: The angst-ridden Chris realizes, that this horrifying night won’t be over soon…This tremendously thrilling and fast-paced movie grabs you from the first minute and surprises as a spine-chilling shocker with some nasty black humor. - Not for the faint-hearted!...
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Extension 11 - one of many districts in the Mamelodi township in South Africa. Welcome to the "shack side”. Running water, electricity and paved roads are nowhere to be found. But even here there is of course daily life, which the Mtsweni family masters with routine and ingenuity. Father Steven puts all his energy into his small kiosk located in the township, thus keeping his family afloat and enabling his children an education. His daughter "Mosquito"...
8) Nebel
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A station in thick fog, tracks that disappear into the white mists and a figure, waiting. In between patches of mist a fox appears, looking for a scent in the wind. And then: bluster, shimmer, silence. And more fog. Views of nature merge with brief encounters. People living in their own worlds: an astronomer who, looking to the sky, would welcome the idea that we might not be alone in the universe. A musician hoping to meet the right woman one day....
9) Monika
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Barely out of her teens, dependent on her family and extremely nearsighted, Monika, 20, desperately wants to pass her driving test. She undertakes a risky eye laser operation which fails and she loses her sight. Her fragile mother cracks under the strain of seeing her daughter blind and defenceless. Through this Monika shows her own inner strength and fights for her independence. A year later she enrols in an apprenticeship as a physical therapist....
10) Metamorphosen
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Settled somewhere in nowhere in the south Ural region in Russia, the film tells the story of people living in one of the most radioactive contaminated spots on earth. Unknown to a wide public, this region was repeatedly irradiated by different accident of the nuclear facility Mayak, which was the first plant for the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union and which is still in operation.. Rather than an investigative...
11) No Circus Today
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
8-year old Dominik lives alone with his two smaller siblings and their single mother in the suburb Berlin Hellersdorf. Too mature for his age, he has to take care of his little sister. He is trying to master his fate, struggling between the responsibilities of his family and his own childish desires.
12) Am anderen Ende
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Marianne works for a crisis line night after night; no one is able to help all the lonesome people at the other end of the line no matter how hard she tries. But tonight night she will have to face her own problems...
13) Birdstrike
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
If an airplane encounters birds, the birds are normally on the losing end. But what if the airplane is smaller than the bird?
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Because of his cancer, Pavel has to intensify his chemotherapy. One of its side effects is the loss of fertility. The exhausting therapy is to start in five days. Pavel and Jasmin have only recently begun their relationship but they now have to make decisions that were expected to come far in the future.
15) Wallflower Tango
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Kalle, a thief who is just about to steel a valuable diamond is caught by the lonely Charlotte. Kalle tries to escape with his haul but Charlotte is not willing to let him go...
17) When Demons Die
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
8-year old Joshua has never left his home for dangerous creatures live outside their isolated farmhouse - the Gorgers. But when his father Aaron mysteriously disappears Joshua is forced to go outside. A decision that will change his life forever. **Sitges International Film Festival ** nominee for Best Short Film.
18) Allendes Enkel
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
For years pupils and students have been protesting in Chile against the privatization of the educational system. Thousands demonstrated for their right to free education. By 2012 the protests began to decrease. Today only one school in Santiago is still occupied. The violent raiding of the school by the police could happen at any time, so who are these pupils and what are they demanding?
19) Valentina
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Romany
Description
Valentina lives among her extended family in the poor quarters of a Roma neighborhood in Macedonia. The ten-year-old girl is a tomboy and a highly gifted storyteller. Via quirky anecdotes, surreal daydreams and painful memories, Valentina introduces us to her family: we observe her father Asim collecting bulky rubbish, her mother Naile begging, her sister Ramize braiding hair, her brother Ferdi who is full of mischief and her granddad who can only...
20) A6/A9
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Concrete reptiles are chasing you and it's 100 metres until the last exit...