On Wednesday August 24, starting at 7 PM, Goethe Institute of Los Angeles will have an evening of film screening under the title of: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg presents “Low Budget – High Energy”. Goethe Institute is located at 5750 Wilshire BLVD. Suite 100, Los Angeles CA 90036. Parking is free. If you are planning to attend the screening bring your ticket stub along.
Program:
THE VISIT; Animation / 9 min
Fantasy, dream or reality? What is the difference? When people get old…
Producer: Nicolas Palme
www.neuer-trickfilm.at
KLINGENBERG – A MAD CRIME STORY: Short / Trailer 2 min
Former police inspector Klingenberg is brought into a retirement home. When a resident disappears without a trace and is declared dead, he becomes suspicious and sets out to find him.
Producer: Boris Frank – Story: Stefanie Ren
www.klingenberg-film.de
LIGHT YEARS: Short / 24 min
The astronaut Finn questions the reality of his existence due to sudden hallucinations in preparation to his space mission.
Producer: Teymour Tehrani
MARTHA – A TWISTED FABLE: Spot / 1:47 min
All of a sudden, Martha is confronted with something she cannot handle…yet!
Director: Kay Kienzler
TUBORG – WHAT EVER HAPPENED: Spot / 2 min
By accident two babies are growing up to be in families they don’t belong to..30 Years later the men meet at a bar..what happend ?
www.estherkurle.com
B WIN – 5%: Spot / 2 min
To win a horse race the jokey only counts 5%, but that makes the difference…
www.estherkurle.com
AN ODE TO WOMEN: 2 Spots / 3 min
There is always a choice. It is your decision either to go the usual or your own way.
Director: Justus Becker
Producer: Maximilian Vetter
www.justusbecker.com
RIMOWA: Spot / 2 min
Every case tells a story. But the same story can look different by another point of view.
Director: Justus Becker
Producer: Maximilian Vetter
www.justusbecker.com
MEANWHILE IN MAMELODI: Documentary / Trailer 2 min
A portrait of a family made up of two South African generations, their hopes, disappointments, dreams and realities.
Producer: Boris Frank
www.meanwhile-in-mamelodi.com
THE WHITE TREASURE: Documentary / Trailer 3 min
Just beside an endless white desert up in the Bolivian andes, Daniel and his family lead traditional salt workers´ lives. Since it has become known that Salar de Uyuni holds the worlds´s biggest amount of lithium. THE future´s resource – their little village finds itself in a place where global interest reaches in.
Producer: Julia Wagner
SEVENTH DAY: Short / 20 min
Away from his homeland Congo Michel seeks asylum in Germany. Sophie is nine years old and today she returns home alone from school. The chronology of events lead together in a tragedy. For Michel nothing is the same no more…
Producer: Lena Kraeber
LA DIMORA – COMING HOME: Short / Trailer 2 min
Lea is looking for her father. When she finds him he is running a mafia-like, shady restaurant, deals with doubtful people and has no interest in having a daughter at all. But they both realize that they have a lot in common…
Producer: Maximilian Vetter
BOB: Animation / 3 min
A hamster is chasing his true love around the globe. Will he get her?
Writer: Stefanie Ren
DEAD END: Animation / 5 min
A man, a suitcase, dark streets, deep waters and a beautiful woman. How this is all connected? Narrative in the tradition of film noir.
Composer: Max I. Milian
THE SANDMAN: Short / 40 min
Nathanael feels chased by an ominous man, who he believes to recognize from his past. A childhood trauma breaks through. – Adaptation of the famous gothic novel by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Director: Andreas Dahn.
