Winner

International Commpetition       German Competition

Audience Award       KuKi

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 

Berlin-Brandenburg Short Film Award

Deweneti

Director(s): Dyana Gaye

Senegal / France, 2006

running time : 15´00 min

Ousmane is 7, begs on the streets of Dakar, Senegal, and decides to write a letter to Santa Claus.  more info

Best Animation

História Trágica Com Final Feliz

Director(s): Regina Pessoa

Portugal / France / Canada, 2005

running time : 07´46 min

Some people are different, but they would prefer to be like to the others, so they spend their entire lives denying or hiding their differences. Others accept it and find their place close to the others ... in their hearts.  more info

Best Cinematography

Porno

Director(s): Jan Wagner

Poland, 2006

running time : 11´30 min

Wioletta is new in the neighborhood. She provokes all the boys, including Tomek, who becomes very confused. A love story.  more info

Special Mentions

Éramos Pocos

Director(s): Borja Cobeaga

Spain, 2005

running time : 16´03 min

When his wife leaves him, Joaquín has no choice but to get his mother-in-law out of the retirement home to do the housework.  more info

Sintonía

Director(s): Jose Mari Goenaga

Spain, 2005

running time : 09´02 min

A man is entranced by a woman singing in the car next door, but communication is difficult. His only hope is the radio station.  more info

Teddy

Director(s): André Bergs

Netherlands, 2005

running time : 03´20 min

In a busy city, an old man with his own slow pace finds it impossible to connect with anybody. He meets a little girl and discovers that he is not alone in his isolation.  more info

Best Short Film Against Violence and Intolerance

1. prize

NASIJA

Director(s): Guillermo Rios Bordon

Spain, 2006

running time : 11´00 min

A young African woman is traumatized by the violence in her village. Memories of better times are little comfort...did she ever have a day free of pain?   more info

2. prize

Winterlong

Director(s): Timo Kalevi Puukko, Delian Georgiev, Nadya Krasteva

Bulgaria, 2005

running time : 18´00 min

Nuclear experiments have deadly consequences. After a strange morning, a family far removed from civilization is stricken by disease, electricity and phones fail, and the hope for rescue disappears.   more info

Special Mentions

And there in the Dust

Director(s): Lara Foot-Newton, Gerhard Marx

South Africa, 2004

running time : 07´32 min

A combination of dramatic performance and stop frame animation convey the complexities of a small town burdened by an act of violence.  more info

Best Documentary Short Film

Grajdanskoe Sostoianie

Director(s): Alina Rudnitskaya

Russian Federation, 2005

running time : 29´00 min

Destinies meet with beauracracy at the civil registrar's office. Meaningful events like marriage, divorce, birth and death are handled with everyday office routine.  more info

Special Mentions

Anophtalmus

Director(s): Katharina Pethke

Germany, 2005

running time : 07´00 min

Working hands in darkness, rushing fire and spinning glass at the center of all things. An observation on the process of vision.  more info

Klovnebarna

Director(s): Jannicke Systad Jacobsen

Norway, 2005

running time : 06´00 min

An ordinary day in the life of two brothers who earn their living with juggling and acrobatics amongst the cars and heavy exhaust of an intersection in Guatemala City.  more info

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German Competition 

Best German Short Film

1. Prize

Knospen wollen explodieren

Director(s): Petra Schröder

Germany, 2005

running time : 20´00 min

The young girls Kate and Echo live in their own land of make-believe. When one of them stumbles across the real world, their friendship faces a serious challenge. A fairy-tale musical.  more info

2. Prize

Die Umschulung

Director(s): Marion Kellmann

Germany, 2006

running time : 22´07 min

A cameraman accompanies a perpetually unemployed man while he participates in an occupational reeducation. It could be his last one.  more info

Special Mentions

Leroy räumt auf

Director(s): Armin Völckers

Germany, 2005

running time : 18´33 min

Leroy, 16, Afro-German and notoriously unlucky, must also battle with an identity crisis. He is cultured, well-mannered, and in some ways more German than most Germans.   more info

Phantom

Director(s): Jan Eichberg

Germany, 2006

running time : 02´53 min

A city-dweller makes notes on how to keep a low profile: Dress like everyone else and be on guard!  more info

Apple On A Tree

Director(s): Željko Vidovic, Astrid Rieger

Germany, 2006

running time : 04´50 min

A former apple regrets having been changed into a human and misses his life on the tree.  more info

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KUKI - KURZE FÜR KIDS
Children's and Youth Short Film Festival 

Best Children's Short Film

KuKi 1

Big Girl

Director(s): Renuka Jeyapalan

Canada, 2005

running time : 14´00 min

Playfully competing with Mom´s new boyfriend, nine-year-old Josephine learns that letting people in can lead to wonderful things.  more info

KuKi 2

Penguin's Christmas

Director(s): Arjan Wilschut

Netherlands, 2004

running time : 03´30 min

A penguin on the South Pole tries to get his letter to Santa on the North Pole.  more info

Special Mention

Horn OK Please

Director(s): Joel Simon

Northern Ireland, 2005

running time : 09´00 min

One momentous day in the life of a hapless Indian taxi driver named Lucky. Lucky's goal is to earn enough rupees to buy the air-conditioned taxi of his dreams.  more info

KuKi- Audience Award

Givotnoe

Director(s): Ewgenia Golubewa

Russian Federation, 2005

running time : 04´00 min

Animal eats plant. Plant eats animal. A cycle of aggression in nature.  more info

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Audience Award 'Eject IX'

Apple On A Tree

Director(s): Željko Vidovic, Astrid Rieger

Germany, 2006

running time : 04´50 min

A former apple regrets having been changed into a human and misses his life on the tree.  more info

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