interfilm Distribution presents: Kurz(Vor)Film

interfilm Distribution presents

DIS 03 interfilm Distribution presents: Kurz(Vor)Film

Back in the day it used to be a tradition, until profit-over-art became the rule and viewers were forced to endure annoyingly coy advertisements in cancer-causing doses – often with clenched fists – instead of one or more short films before the main attraction. Sometimes it’s even worth letting a train or two go by so you can flop down in your seat 15 minutes “late”. Well, it’s time for a change, or at least that’s what the distribution arm of Interfilm Berlin (a nation-wide advocate for opening films) thought: why not let the audience decide in the scope of a supporting film test which five-to-seven-minute films they’d like to see before the main film? Why not drum up more support for the supporters?

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interfilm Distribution presents: Kurz(Vor)Film

23 films

3x3

Nuno Rocha // Portugal // 2009 // 06:00 min

Live Action

A night watchman plays basketball all night, perfecting his game. While the young cleaner on night duty is unable to keep up with him, he doesn't give up that easily.

A Double Life

Job Roggeveen / Joris Oprins / Marieke Blaauw // Netherlands // 2018 // 02:43 min

Animation

A deliciously dark comedy about a husband and wife whose different ideas of gender conformity lead to an unexpected confrontation.

Animals

Tue Sanggaard // Denmark // 2019 // 06:10 min

Animation

Everyday train rides can sometimes prove stressful, bringing beastly animal instincts to the surface.

Espresso

Alexander Gratzer // Austria // 2016 // 05:21 min

Animation

Waiter? Hello, waiter? Where’s the waiter? A customer sits in a café and waits, but no one comes.

Slovo

Farewell

Leon Vidmar // Slovenia // 2016 // 05:51 min

Animation

As Lovro sits in the bathtub, memories of his grandfather and the fishing trips they once took together begin to swell up.

Velodrool

Sander Joon // Estonia // 2015 // 06:11 min

Animation

An addicted biker runs out of cigarettes. He joins a race to get more, but has to take help from some peculiar people in the audience to stay in the competition.

Na zdrowie!

Bless you!

Paulina Ziolkowska // Poland // 2018 // 04:45 min

Animation

Everyone gets sick of everyone. But things become really bad when you get sick of yourself.

Peix al forn

Baked Fish

Guillem Miró // Spain // 2018 // 04:00 min

Animation

What happens if there is so much plastic waste floating in the oceans that the fish disappear? An ironic vision of the future.

Vermine

Jeremie Becquer // Denmark // 2018 // 06:00 min

Animation

A poetry writing rat is arrested by the mouse police officers without any reason. The rat is “different” for the mice and is therefore treated with contempt.

Working with Animals

Marc Reisbig // Norway // 2016 // 04:02 min

Live Action

This director has a genuinely hard time with his stars. He tells us about his troubles here.

o28

Otalia Caussé / Antoine Marchand / Geoffroy Collin / Robin Merle / Louise Grardel / Fabien Meyran // France // 2019 // 05:20 min

Animation

In Lisbon, a german married couple is about to get aboard the legendary n°28 tramway, but how should you ract when the brakes let go and embark you on a vertiginous race... with a baby on board.

Lift Off

Fabian Tischer // Germany // 2009 // 01:20 min

Experimental

Berlin's iconic symbol, the Television Tower, in a daring production. It lifts off!

Widerstand

Resistance

Benjamin Hujawa // Germany // 2019 // 03:00 min

Live Action

A family discussion on Christmas can only be brought to an end by extreme measures.

Meinungsaustausch

Duologue

Sophia Bösch / Sophie Linnenbaum // Germany // 2016 // 04:00 min

Live Action

There’s not a day that goes by without new refugees reaching Germany. And voices full of hate and fear rise with their numbers.

Kids for Guns

Simon Ostermann // Germany // 2018 // 01:21 min

Live Action

Children are constantly exposed to danger. Wouldn’t it just be easier to give them guns, too?

Ich Will

I Want

Anne Isensee // Germany // 2019 // 02:00 min

Animation

“You can’t always get what you want...” sang the Rolling Stones once upon a time, though they consistently proved the opposite. A young woman wants a whole lot too. Being heard would be pretty nice for starters.

#klangberlins

Boris Seewald // Germany // 2017 // 03:22 min

Experimental

The clatter of a Trabbi rounding the “Goldelse”, the “beep-beep-beep” of the S-Bahn train door or the crackling of currywurst frying up in Kreuzberg – Berlin’s noises and sounds are inimitably unique! Really?

Touche Diese

Hash Key

Erwan Alépée // France // 2017 // 02:45 min

Live Action

Alexander calls a number he knows really well.

Ausstieg Rechts

Exit Right

Rupert Höller / Bernhard Wenger // Austria // 2015 // 06:00 min

Live Action

Look away or intervene? When a black man is victim of unfounded, racial abuse in a packed bus, there is only one passenger who won’t ignore the situation like everyone else.

Illustration : compostage

illustration : composting

Elise Auffray // France // 2014 // 02:30 min

Animation, Live Action

How does left-over food turn into soil? This stop-motion animation shows us the process in quick motion.

Pommes Frites

Balder Westein // Netherlands // 2013 // 02:00 min

Animation

On this stormy Halloween night, nothing goes as planned.

Volltreffer

Direct Hit

Peter Dietrich // Germany // 2006 // 01:09 min

Live Action

Soccer is our life, we play everywhere, we score and we achieve the unexpected.

First Like

Alexander Rönnberg // Sweden // 2016 // 03:30 min

Live Action

An evening alone at home, junk food and a selfie. Oops! This picture shows a bit more than intended...

Detail

INTERFILM 37 International Short Film Festival Berlin
16 - 21 November 2021