News, 02.03.2024

Awards Short Film Competition 2024

Jury Award – The Golden Frame

Advena

Nelly Schmidtlein • DE 2023 • 12min

The world Kyria lives in is confusing. The man who was in bed next to her last night is gone in the morning, but he has forgotten something important: his arm. She embarks on a search for the stranger in an abandoned town and gets more and more caught up in this empty and alienated place.

Writer Nelly Schmidtlein Producer Luis Philipp Matienzo Reimold Cast Judith Velana Sahl Cinematographer Matthias Haller Music David Kaufmann

Jury Statement

The award for the best competition film goes to a work whose artistic vision fascinated us from the first picture. The film focuses on unconscious images that follow their own logic and rely on clever imagery, dystopian themes and subversive humor. Wordlessly and with somnambulistic certainty, the protagonist stumbles through the kafkaesque world, to which we as viewers eagerly surrender. The strong, analog black and white images give the story a disturbing depth. Like it’s title, the audience is a stranger in a strange land. The Golden Frame of 2024 goes to Nelly Schmidtlein for her film Advena. (Michaela Bilgeri, Arman T. Riahi, Harvey Rabbit)

Biography

Nelly Schmidtlein is a student at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences in Offenburg, Germany.

Jury Special Mention

Intro

Anne Isensee • DE 2022 • 7min

An animated audio film about the audio descriptor Simone who can’t make sense of this very film in front of her.

Writer, Producer Anne Isensee Cast Orit Nahmias Music Franziska May Sound Irma Heinig Production Assistance Thekla Neuß

Jury Statement

The jury would like to give an honorable mention to a film that, in an ironic, nonchalant and touching way, sheds an illuminating light on the accessibility and enjoyment of films for all people, with or without visual impairment, and inspires us to look for a more open and accessible cinematic world. Our Honorable Mention goes to: Intro by Anne Isensee. (Michaela Bilgeri, Arman T. Riahi, Harvey Rabbit)

Biography

Anne Isensee is an animation director. She studied Animation at the Film University Babelsberg, the EnsAD Paris and the School of Visual Arts New York. Her animated short films have been shown and awarded at international film festivals. She gives lectures and workshops on animation and female*em-powerment. Since 2021, she is a board member of the Animation Association Germany.

Audience Award – Eingelegte Birnen

ALEA

Niccolò Buttigliero Junior • IT 2023 • 9min

As they leave the cinema, Alea and Nyx begin to talk about the right way to look at things. While they discuss, the world around them begins to evaporate.

Writer, Editor Richi Maione Cast Richi Maione, Wanda Gomboli, Maria Antonela Bresug Cinematographer Luca Pescaglini Sound Federico Primavera, Vasco Albanese Music Guglielmo Diana

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Biography

Niccolò Buttigliero Junior was born in 1997 in Italy. He fell in love with cinema as teenager and once an adult, he started to make independent short movies. ALEA is the latest in a series of crooked and lonely shorts, all optimistically apocalyptic.