Student Award SHORTS 2
SO ODER SO
Deutschland 2021 – Director: Lea Tama Springer, Eva Gemmer, Hannah Jandl – English subtitles Q&A Lea Tama Springer, Eva Gemmer, Hannah Jandl (Regie) & team – Length: 45 min.
An episodic film that portrays four young people on the cusp of adulthood. Emy, Wiebke, Tizian and Emma ask themselves, what happens in your life after you have finished school? And come to completely different conclusions. A phase of life that we are all familiar with – carefully observed and recounted with refreshing humour. Andrea Erja
We present the world premiere of the film.
No youth rating
Lea Tama Springer
After graduating from high school, Springer trained as a film and video editor in Munich and worked mainly for documentary formats. A native of Munich, she has been studying documentary film and television journalism at the University of Television and Film Munich since fall 2019.
Filmography
SO ODER SO, DE 2021, 45 min.
Eva Gemmer
In addition to her studies in cultural and political sciences in Hamburg and London, Gemmer completed a journalism apprenticeship as well as several internships at newspaper publishing houses and film productions. Since 2019, she has been studying documentary film and television journalism at the University of Television and Film Munich.
Filmography
SO ODER SO, DE 2021, 45 min.
Hannah Jandl
After graduating from high school, Jandl studied philosophy at the University of Vienna. Meanwhile, she gained some experience on film sets and realised her own projects. Since fall 2019, she has been studying documentary film and television journalism at the University of Television and Film in Munich.
Filmography
SO ODER SO, DE 2021, 45 min.
OBEN OFFEN, DE 2020, 11 min.
Shortlist Student Award
The Student Award of DOK.fest München presents outstanding documentary films by students of German-speaking film schools. The films are nominated for the Megaherz Student Award, worth 3,000 Euros.
We present this film as part of our short film programme SHORTS 2. The ticket also gives access to the following film:
TRACING TANGO ECHO TANGO
Germany 2022, Ksenia Ciuvaseva, 30 min.
The semi-autobiographical film essay of a daughter following the trail of her father, an ex-Soviet pilot, in Sudan. The possibility of doing his old job once again takes him far from home, since “work is work” even when it means being a long distance away from everything you have been familiar with up to that point. A film about flights of fancy and a long fall. Andrea Erja
Writer: Eva Gemmer, Hannah Jandl, Lea Tama Springer. Camera: Mirko Hans. Sound: Eva Gemmer, Hannah Jandl, Lea Tama Springer. Editing: Corinna Loesel (BFS). Production: Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München. Producer: HFF München, Viviana Koch.
TRACING TANGO ECHO TANGO
Deutschland 2022 – Director: Ksenia Ciuvaseva – Original with English subtitles, Q&A with Ksenia Ciuvaseva (dir.) – Length: 30 min.
The semi-autobiographical film essay of a daughter following the trail of her father, an ex-Soviet pilot, in Sudan. The possibility of doing his old job once again takes him far from home, since “work is work” even when it means being a long distance away from everything you have been familiar with up to that point. A film about flights of fancy and a long fall. Andrea Erja
We present the world premiere of the film.
No youth rating
Ksenia Ciuvaseva
When the filmmaker was 19 years old, she moved from Moldova to Germany to fulfill her dream of becoming a film director. After studying film at the Free University of Berlin and Charles University in Prague, she studied film directing at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg.
Filmography
TRACING TANGO ECHO TANGO, DE 2021, 30 min.
RIBAKIT, DE 2019, 13 min.
LE JEUNE PÂTISSIÈR, DE 2017, 17 min.
Shortlist Student Award
The Student Award of DOK.fest München presents outstanding documentary films by students of German-speaking film schools. The films are nominated for the Megaherz Student Award, worth 3,000 Euros.
We present this film as part of our short film programme SHORTS 2. The ticket also gives access to the following film:
SO ODER SO (SO OR SO)
Germany 2021, Lea Tama Springer, Eva Gemmer, Hannah Jandl, 45 min.
An episodic film that portrays four young people on the cusp of adulthood. Emy, Wiebke, Tizian and Emma ask themselves, what happens in your life after you have finished school? And come to completely different conclusions. A phase of life that we are all familiar with – carefully observed and recounted with refreshing humour. Andrea Erja
Writer: Ksenia Ciuvaseva. Camera: Vincent Engel. Sound: Samuel L. Schwenk. Editing: Yasaman Ahmadi. Music: Lambert P.S. Regel. Production: Filmuniversität Babelsberg. Producer: Marlene Grau. International Sales: Festival manager Distribution: Filmuniversität Babelsberg
