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			NEXT GENERATION 2005 Caligari: 07.04. / 11.30 am THE FINAL GERMANY 2005 / MUNICH ACADEMY FOR TELEVISION AND FILM / 16MM (SCREENING FORMAT: 35MM) / S/W / 12 MIN / OV W. ENGL. ST / SHORT FEATURE FILM / DIRECTOR: Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt While the others are outside watching a football match on TV, Nicole gives birth to her child in the camper. Completely overwhelmed by the situation, she doesn’t manage to recognize and accept it. I TOOK THE RED PILL GERMANY 2005 / ANHALT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES, DESSAU / BETA SP (SCREENING FORMAT: 35MM) / COLOR / 4 MIN / ENGL. OV / ANIMATION FILM / DIRECTOR: Ramesh Pallikara The film explores the concept of “pricelessness” (or rather the absence of it) in the corporate-driven, ad-mad, consumerist world we live in, through the use of ad-style imagery and wordplay. THE CHILD GERMANY 2003 / ANHALT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES, DESSAU / DIGITAL (SCREENING FORMAT: 35MM) / COLOR / 7 MIN / GERMAN/ENGL. OV W. ENGL. ST / ANIMATION FILM / DIRECTOR: Steffen Blechschmidt As a mad scientist brings a robotic creature to life, his laboratory machinery short-circuits. He dies in a big bang, leaving the newborn on its own. Faced with life, the robot tried to find its purpose in the remains of the lab and turns to the only familiar object: a computer. THE AMERICAN EMBASSY OR WHY WE ARE MOVING GERMANY 2003 / DEUTSCHE FILM- UND FERNSEHAKADEMIE BERLIN / DV CAM (SCREENING FORMAT: 35MM) / COLOR / 10 MIN / OV W. ENGL. ST / SHORT FEATURE FILM / DIRECTOR: David Sieveking January 2003, on the eve of the US-led Iraq campaign, a young couple tries to improvise a protest march heading to the American embassy with the motto “no blood for oil”. JAM SESSION GERMANY 2005 / FILM & TELEVISION ACADEMY (HFF) “KONRAD WOLF”, POTSDAM-BABELSBERG / 35MM / COLOR / 9 MIN / POLN. OV W. ENGL. ST / ANIMATION FILM / DIRECTOR: Izabela Plucinska Theresa and Viktor, a middle-aged couple, are living in an apartment above a jazz club. They can’t sleep at night because of the music coming from the club. Perhaps it is a welcome distraction from their mundane lives? CHRISTINA WITHOUT KAUFMANN GERMANY 2004 / MUNICH ACADEMY FOR TELEVISION AND FILM / 35MM / 15 MIN / OV W. ENGL. ST / SHORT FEATURE FILM / COLOR / DIRECTOR: Sonja Heiss Driven by the fantasy of a “menage a trois”, Christina, a woman in her forties, finds herself on the three-piece sofa set of a young harmonious couple. THE TOURIST GERMANY 2004 / MUNICH ACADEMY FOR TELEVISION AND FILM / 35MM / COLOR / 7 MIN / ENGL. OV / SHORT FEATURE FILM / DIRECTOR: Lancelot von Naso A film in 24 images about a film, a stolen camera, an unsympathetic tourist on a Caribbean island and a clever little boy. RALLYE GERMANY 2004 / HOCHSCHULE FÜR BILDENDE KÜNSTE HAMBURG / 35MM / S/W / 2 MIN / ENGL. OV / SHORT FEATURE FILM / DIRECTOR: Romeo Grünfelder An accident will occur, occurs, has occurred; but just as well it happens at the same time that it will take place, already took place and is just about to have taken place, so that it, before it takes place, did not take place, and as soon as it takes place, never will have taken place. LAL GERMANY/TURKEY 2005 / KUNSTHOCHSCHULE FÜR MEDIEN KÖLN / 35MM / S/W / 16 MIN / TURK./GERMAN OV W. ENGL. ST / SHORT FEATURE FILM / DIRECTOR: Dirk Schäfer LAL is the portrait of an eccentric German widow, living and working as a psychoanalyst in Istanbul. One evening after a long separation, she meets up with her daughter, who has joined the Kurdish guerilla in Eastern Turkey. The daughter reveals an amazing secret to her mother. And the night has another surprise to come. CURD SOAP GERMANY 2004 / FILMAKADEMIE BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG / 35MM / COLOR / 3 MIN / ENGL. OV / ANIMATION FILM / DIRECTOR: Alexander Kiesl, Sebastian Stolle While using a public toilet, the hare Klaus is disturbed by a turtle, who tries to sell him 15 boxes of soap... and succeeds. Screenplay: Badesalz. dim GERMANY 2004 / FILM & TELEVISION ACADEMY (HFF) “KONRAD WOLF”, POTSDAM-BABELSBERG / SUPER 16MM (SCREENING FORMAT: 35MM) / COLOR / 15 MIN / OV W. ENGL. ST / SHORT FEATURE FILM / DIRECTOR: Ann-Kristin Wecker Katinka and Adrian are cycling through an urban landscape, exploring both the harsh concrete world and their feelings for each other.