Online at Sooner
INTERFILM Festival
5/11/24 - 10/11/24
5/11/24 - 10/11/24
Online at Sooner
Online starting 15 November 2024 - 3 pm
We are happy to continue our cooperation with Sooner and present this retrospective of one of our favorite directors together: Pola Beck with short films will be available to enjoy on the arthouse streaming platform from the start of the festival, for all those who simply can't get enough after the last festival screening. And for the time afterwards.
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Pola was born in Berlin in 1982. Raised by a theatre and film family, she developed an early interest in art, photography, and the moving image. After various directing internships she spent a year at the European Film College in Denmark in 2003, where she shot her first shortfilm: an erotic fairy tale. From 2005-2011, she studied directing at the filmuniversity Babelsberg. Her first feature film "Am Himmel der Tag" (2012) won several awards. With the TV-series hit "Druck", she began to focus on series work, followed by "Das letzte Wort" (Netflix), "Liebe.Jetzt!" (ZDFneo), the sci-fi series "Tender Hearts" (Sky) and the feature film "Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt".
Pola usually tells stories intuitively from a female perspective and deals with topics such as love, family, forms of relationships and how people grow from and through crisis situations. She is currently developing a family thriller/drama with WDR and is working on a graphic novel adaptation. Pola lives and works in Berlin.
Germany 2017
Pola Beck - Comedy - 10 min
Lucy is tired of being the perfect mother. When a department store security guard searches her stroller, he finds more than he could ever have imagined.
Award-winning short film comedy about the absurdities of being a mom today.
Germany/Iran 2009
Pola Beck - Documentary film - 17 min
Between 600 kebab and nagging students we find three cooks and a kitchen help in a small canteen working with wit and irony while doing their duties, philosophizing about food and about life in general. And still there is a lot more that makes this place something special…
Humorous, award-winning documentary short film about three Iranian cooks in a student canteen in Tehran, where women and men eat separately. The film was made as part of a German-Iranian exchange project.
Germany 2010
Pola Beck - Drama, Fiction - 25min
19-year-old Luisa travels to Mexico to search for her Mexican roots, which her mother has kept from her. She wants to find her grandfather, whom she has never met.
Atmospheric drama about a young woman's search for her roots in Mexico. The film was made as part of a German-Mexican exchange project with arte.
Germany 2007
Pola Beck - Drama, Fiction - 22 min
A shimmering summer story set in a vacation home on the Baltic Sea. 16-year-old Suse feels like a fifth wheel next to her young mother and her new boyfriend and isolates herself. But then she discovers how she can change things in her favor. She just has to use the right tools....
This coming-of-age drama was Pola's first fictional short film at the film school and premiered at the Berlinale.
Germany 2006
Pola Beck - Documentary film - 14 min
How does the night affect people? A documentary with a poetic view on night workers and their very own rhythm. An expedition through the sleeping town in search of hidden productiveness throughout the night.
Pola’s first documentary film, shot on 16mm & edited at Steenbeck. She only had 50 minutes of film material to shoot.
Germany 2008
Pola Beck - Drama, Science-Fiction - 5:30 min
„There is no place you can’t reach with us, no experience we can’t make happen for you. Whatever brings you to us - with Elysium you have made an excellent choice.“ - A short vision about what euthanasia could look like in the future.
Germany 2014
Pola Beck - Drama, Fiction - 11min
One man. Two women. A place of longing.
Originally planned only as a showreel scene for actor César Ramos, Pola and César decided to make short film with friends & family and very few money.
Germany/Denmark 2004
Pola Beck - Comedy, Fiction - 6 min
Erotic fairy tale about the sexual fantasies of employees in a canteen kitchen.
Pola’s first “real” short film, made with an international team at the “European Film College” in Denmark and her application film for the Film University Babelsberg.
Sooner awards prizes in 2 Competitions:
