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INTERFILM Festival
10 - 15 November 2026
10 - 15 November 2026
Online at sooner
Online starting 4. November 2025 - 3 pm
We are happy to continue our cooperation with Sooner and present this retrospective of Jannis Alexander Kiefer with short films an a feature film. It will be available 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.
Enjoy the program here - you need to register at Sooner
Jannis Alexander Kiefer
grew up on his family's farm and, after completing various internships, first studied “audiovisual media” in Berlin and then “feature film directing” at the Film University Babelsberg.
His first-year film COMMENTS, which takes a look at the rampant hatred on the internet, was screened at over 80 festivals worldwide and won several awards. His next short film, KAISER, premiered in 2019 at the Hof Film Festival, where it won the “BILD - KUNST Jury Prize.” In 2021, Jannis Alexander Kiefer will present his graduation film KOLLEGEN at the Max Ophüls Prize, in Clermont-Ferrand, Palm Springs, and at the Warsaw Film Festival, among others. The short film deals with our difficult relationship with the Holocaust.
During the first coronavirus lockdown, Jannis Alexander Kiefer wrote and directed the home office short film MEETING, which won the Short Film Lola in Gold and was broadcast several times on German television. In 2022, he shot his feature film debut ANOTHER GERMAN TANK STORY, which celebrated its world premiere in 2024 at the Shanghai Film Festival and simultaneously at the Munich Film Festival, where it won the First Step Award. The film was released nationwide in cinemas in 2025.
Germany 2025
Jannis Alexander Kiefer - Live Action - 90 min
A highly motivated mayor wants to bring new prosperity to her small village in Brandenburg by filming a Hollywood World War II series there. But will it work, given the constant problems that arise? And the tank in the front yard isn't the biggest of them... A German comedy with quirky characters that takes a sharp, satirical look at provincial life in East Germany, without passing judgment.
Germany 2020
Jannis Alexander Kiefer - Live Action - 14 min
The two craftspeople Uli and Didi are working on a swastika in their workshop somewhere between rural idyll and village dreariness, wondering about the strange newcomers in the village.
Germany 2020
Jannis Alexander Kiefer - Livee Action - 8:40 min
3 minutes before the online meeting: The welcoming joke is well thought out, the bottle is neatly tucked into the underwear and the internet connection is premium - what could possibly go wrong?
Germany 2018-2019
Jannis Alexander Kiefer - Live Action - 14 min
While the people of a small village in the south of Germany prepare for the annual alemannic carnival procession, the nine year old Alexander is focussing on something completely different: his father is going to visit after one year of absence. For Alexander the feelings of curiosity, insecurity and anticipation towards his father’s arrival mix, while the mother’s only concern is that this man won’t enter the house.
Germany 2017
Jannis Alexander Kiefer - Live Action - 5 min
A look at the German digital legacy of our society: real comments from YouTube are interpreted and reenacted in various chapters. (Amateur) actors embody the protagonists of the virtual conversations and give them a human form through a semi-documentary staging. This brings the true but incorporeal events into a space that is tangible for the camera.
Sooner awards prizes in 2 Competitions:
