The Berlin Short Film Festival has been running every year since 2014.
Festival 2022
BSFF returned exclusively to Eventive, July 18th–24th, 2022.
Award Winners 2022
Best Short Film
Not That Deep by Misha Maseka
Best Short Documentary
Into The Circle by Meg Griffiths, Scott Faris
Best Sci-Fi Short Film
Kestav by Christopher James Morris
Best Horror Short Film
WhatKilledTimmyBenson by Nick Cremers
Best LGBT Short Film
The Depth Of Our Hearts by Letícia Leão
Best Experimental Short Film
Colors Of Life. by Valerian Takashi Seethaler
Best Short Feature
The Cartographer by Jon Ferguson
Best Animated Short Film
The Boy by Jonathan Gibney
Best Short Short Film
Firebrand Sway by Achinta S. McDaniel, Saam Gabbay
Best Music Video
Birdies Gotta Fly by Matthew Laeng
Audience Awards
Not So Fast by Michael A. Unger
The Cartographer by Jon Ferguson
Not That Deep by Misha Maseka
The Depth Of Our Hearts by Letícia Leão
Into The Circle by Meg Griffiths, Scott Faris
2022 Schedule
Shorts 1
Not So Fast by Michael A. Unger
Lost in a Waltz by Ji–Tian Li
The Social Chameleon by Alex Ross
The Dong With The Luminous Nose by Jonny Phillips
Not That Deep by Misha Maseka
Shorts 2
Kuwonererwa by Ronald Kabicek
Pillow Fight by Evey Yu
Giants by DeObia Oparei
The New Knight by Carl Reid, Steven Allerick
Riskfalling by Jonathan Faircloth Kirk
Momentum by Alexandra Favard
Documentaries 1
The Residency by Chris Frazer Smith
Ink Train by Olly Sindle
Bike Life: How New York’s Wheelie Culture is Creating Community and Changing Lives by Ben Franke
No Place Like Home by Naashon Zalk
This Is Forever by Susy Pena
Energie des Wandels by Tilo Wondollek
Experimental Shorts
Machine by Matthias Von Braun
Colors Of Life. by Valerian Takashi Seethaler
Push by Jasmine Quinones
Wild by Lindsay Leonie Gauthier
Psyche Obscura by Craig Oty
Hell by Sandro Miller
Hold the Lighthouse by Thomas Soto
The Eyes of the Ocean are Always Swollen by Ari Kim
Earth Girl by Dorian Matthew Kelley
What’s Being Told by Tor Seidel
Shorts 3
The Boy by Jonathan Gibney
Firebrand Sway by Achinta S. McDaniel, Saam Gabbay
Baggage by Antti Ahokoivu
The Blame Game by John Patrick Daly
The Cartographer by Jon Ferguson
Sci-Fi Shorts
Blue by Robert Petrie
Paragon by Mac Nixon
Red Gaia by Udesh Chetty
Kestav by Christopher James Morris
Deep Blue by Frances Deng
Horror Shorts
Old Time Radio by Joel B Harlow
Creature by Larissa James
Reborn by Frank Dell’Oro
Devoured by Billy Dudley
WhatKilledTimmyBenson by Nick Cremers
Shorts 4
Niagara Falls by Victor Bellomo, Tara Sickmeier
Birdies Gotta Fly by Matthew Laeng
The Parable Of The Leaf Blower by Rachel Ara
The New Year by William Breen
Bingo Queens by Nicholas Finegan
The Package Thief by Carly Van Liere
The Depth Of Our Hearts by Letícia Leão
Documentaries 2
Wishes In The Wind by Fixt Point
Tears Of An Exile (Deora An Deoraí) by Pierre Yves O’Reilly
Mothers Of Ukraine by Andres E Hernandez
The Landless by Fernanda Ligabue
Wetlands by Andrew Dubber
Into The Circle by Meg Griffiths, Scott Faris
Winter 2022
Berlin Short returned to run exclusively on Eventive, February 1st-10th 2022.
2022 Award Winners
Festival Director Award for Best Short Film
Step By Step by Caatje van Leeuwen
Jury Award for Best Short Film
Carry Me Home: A Ferry Tale by Seth Hardwick
Best Short Documentary
Kids Of The Bims by I Am Here
Best Sci-Fi Short Film
June by Dwayne Cameron
Best Horror Short Film
The Architect’s Dream by Francesco Papetti
Best LGBT Short Film
SOMOS – The Youth Deconstructing Gender Norms by Laura Krsmanovic, Lydie Nesvadba
Best Experimental Short Film
B.L.U.E. — Print by Brandon Mathis
Best Student Short Film
Not Far Out by Beran Ergün
Best Short Feature
Ylem by Una O’Sullivan
Best Animated Short Film
Lifeblood by Nicholas Tory
Best Short Short Film
Young Love In a Dirty Place by Reinis Spaile
Best Music Video
Sins by Josias Tschanz, Jason W Thompson
Audience Awards
Proximity by Jamie Miller
Turning Dark by Reginiano
Carry Me Home: A Ferry Tale by Seth Hardwick
The Out-Fit by Maty Young
Peanut Sprinkles by Calvin Sang
2022 Schedule
Shorts 1
Revers by Antoine Boulanger
Peanut Sprinkles by Calvin Sang
Not Far Out by Beran Ergün
Proximity by Jamie Miller
Geography Of The Heart by Alexandra Billington
Shorts 2
Reincarnation by Niclas Ribbarp
Beyond the Trees by Fiona Leonard
Lost and Found by Zsolt Répási
BB Gun by Paolina Weber
It’s What She Would Have Wanted by Nate Trinrud
Otra Vida: A Celebration of the Immigrant by Anthony Gomez
Documentaries 1
Ipseity by Nicholas Stachurski
Send Nudes by Jonny Kapps
Strong Hearts: An Indigenous Love Letter To My Sons by Gary “Litefoot” Davis
Let’s Talk, Sister (Hablemos, Hermana) by Celia de Coca
Here We Are by Anny Tubbs
LGBT+ Shorts
Here In My Room by Nataliia Ponomarova
The Out-Fit by Maty Young
Drag Queens Must Die! by Robby Kendall
Sexual Friendship With My Straight BFF by Marik Aaron Roeder
SOMOS – The Youth Deconstructing Gender Norms by Laura Krsmanovic, Lydie Nesvadba
Shorts 3
Dream Of Eternity by Laurentius Emmelmann
The Fantastical Mime by James McConnell
Carry Me Home: A Ferry Tale by Seth Hardwick
When The Snow Shimmers by Thanut Oh Singhasuvich
I’d Like To Thank… by Jonathan J Smit
III. by Tim Dübbert
Shorts 4
Not Too Late by Thiago Maia
Safety First by John Robson
Butterfly Orchid by Chia-Hui Lu
The Dinner Party by Jenna Ushkowitz
Step By Step by Caatje van Leeuwen
Lifeblood by Nicholas Tory
Documentaries 2
Dene Drum Songs in Gahnı̨hthah by Jonathan Antoine
Heart Of Stone by Sonja Baeger
Kids Of The Bims by I Am Here
Experimental Shorts
ArtMinute1 – The Perfect Selfie by Asta Wellejus, Teddy Kristiansen
Umbilical Cord by Ivan Nevesenko
In Event of Moon Disaster by Mark Johnson
Rimless by Yi Qu
Guardians of Paradise by Ivan Maria Friedman
B.L.U.E. — Print by Brandon Mathis
Shorts 5
Return / Revive by Lasse Buchhop
Young Love In a Dirty Place by Reinis Spaile
Tide by Laura Murphy
Nasty by Paige Dillon
Untwined by Alexandra Fehrman
Ylem by Una O’Sullivan
Sci-Fi Shorts
G-Rail by Javier Meroño
Hospice by Soo-young Kim
Eve, Eve by Ruoyun Chen
The Harbour by Sam Ainsworth
June by Dwayne Cameron
Horror Shorts
Ofuda by Yoshinobu Nakamura
Virus by Julien Klink
The Architect’s Dream by Francesco Papetti
Vamp Nite by Roberto J Lopez
Music Videos
The Holy Grail by Vít Janeček
I’m Special by Moran Kariv
Anyone Can Be A Friend (Cricket Wireless) by Jeroen Zijlstra
Fade Away by Jess Sweetman
Turning Dark by Reginiano
XGirl by Thor Freudenthal
The City Streets by Lauren E. Banks
I’ll Be Seeing You by Jacqueline Ragheb
Rise Now by Yantra de Vilder
Sins by Josias Tschanz, Jason W Thompson
Festival 2021
The 8th Berlin Short Film Festival ran online, using Eventive, July 5th-15th, 2021.
2021 Award Winners
Best Short Film
Salvaged Love by Gisela Nadasy
Best Short Documentary
They Keep Quiet So We Make Noise by Marlena Skrobe
Best Sci-Fi Short Film
Crusoe by Shane Acker
Best Horror Short Film
Catfish Killer by Gil Hizon, Seth Harrington
Best LGBT Short Film
Pogonophobia by Thomas Ryan
Best Experimental Short Film
Giraffe Ears by Xawery Deskur, Anna Bolewska
Best Student Short Film
One Last Time by David R. Kramer
Best Short Feature
Far From Abroad by Hyung-Guhn “Hugo” Yi
Best Animated Short Film
Inside by Chun-Chien Lien, Pohan Lee
Best Short Short Film
Embers by Bruce Tetsuya
Best Music Video
Sweet Guilty Pleasure by OUTERSPACE Leo
Audience Awards
Larva by Arik Bauriedl
Giles by Aidan Kaye
Paydaydream by Jörg Wohnsiedler
Habibti, Let’s Go! by Fesih Alpagu
Koreatown Ghost Story by Minsun Park & Teddy Tenenbaum
2021 Schedule
Shorts 1
A Dance For by Claudius Wick
Still In Love by Karan Dhillon
Embers by Bruce Tetsuya
Cashback by Zoe Eisenberg
Pogonophobia by Thomas Ryan
Far From Abroad by Hyung-Guhn “Hugo” Yi
Shorts 2
Crave Me by Andra Roman
Hair by Milena Viitman
Mazel by Jay Miles
Sweet Guilty Pleasure by OUTERSPACE Leo
Escape by Patrick Maijer
Abby and Emily Go To Palm Springs by Hellin Kay
Leo by Fabienne Mahé
Documentaries 1
The Ocean Cleanup System by Oliver Kentner – Olika3D
M A T E R N I A by Danila Rumold
They Keep Quiet So We Make Noise by Marlena Skrobe
In Between by Petra Tejnorová
Men In Sync by Parmida Hamdollazadehkive
Documentaries 2
Beyond The Roadblocks by Andrew Flakelar
Legacy by Margo Weathers
Coffee For Life by Lennart Neumann, Wilhelm Schulz
Island To Outback by David Foreman
Experimental Shorts 1
Pandrog by Jard Lerebours
Devoid by Matthias Von Braun
Pandemic Dreams by Inga Pylypchuk
Fade & Float by Violeta M. Valcheva
Ball by Gabriel Jace Long
On Bathing and Being [å være i varmt vann] by Anna Ulrikke Andersen
Ex by Niall Sweeney, Eamonn Doyle
Shorts 3
Rufus In Love by Vanessa Riecke
Feel by Justine Faure-Vincent
He Belongs To The City by Victor Jackson, Aaron Hamilton
Lucy Frantic – Endless Greed by Tuomas Kortelainen
Space Elevator by Zuzanna Ciosmak
If We Have Time by Marcus Martinson
Shorts 4
Not My Circus by Allen Shaw
Loving Lenna by Kirstie Muñoz
Conversations With My Mother by Istvan
While The Tree Tops Dance by My Hyttel
Panda by Jacob Fangel Løgstrup
Documentaries 3
The Spirit of Noh by Edwin Lee
Garage Romantic by Dan Sadgrove
Contact by Ida-Nathalie Hildèn
The Belgrade Minimalists: Ensemble for Different New Music – 40 Years Later by Srdjan Janjuš
Experimental Shorts 2
Le Voyage Dans La Lune by Rotem Tsulker
Time To Attune by Marianna Varviani
Dick by Kevin McLellan
Giraffe Ears by Xawery Deskur, Anna Bolewska
Shorts 5
Paydaydream by Jörg Wohnsiedler
Played by Mark van Welzenis
Unheard-Of by Emma Bading
The Long Therapy Is Inevitable by Julia Gorbachevskya
Oonch Neech by Aryaman Prasad
Shorts 6
Distance by Wei Zhang
I Thought It Was A Man But It’s Only Satan by Vitória Real
Inside by Chun-Chien Lien, Pohan Lee
Andi by Timm Kulke
Scene From A Friendship by Mia Jensen
The Penalty by Ignazio Vacca
A Boy In A Window by Viktor Jörneryd
Trial By Combat by Daniel Wolf
Sci-Fi Shorts
AL2-st (Altruist) by Christo Vutev
Perfect Ward by Jo Southwell
Amici Novum by Alex Kopnick
Crusoe by Shane Acker
Voices From The Void by Theo Burtis
Horror Shorts
The Bunny Man by Phil Pomeroy
Catfish Killer by Gil Hizon, Seth Harrington
Larva by Arik Bauriedl
Koreatown Ghost Story by Minsun Park & Teddy Tenenbaum
Shorts 7
Public Secrecies Berlin by Erich Hörtnagl
The Owl And The Pussycat by Mole Hill
Habibti, Let’s Go! by Fesih Alpagu
Two To 1 by Samson Schneiderman
Caracalla by Luca Di Capua
The Best Friend by Lena Imboden
Goodbye Taipei by Alan Chen
Shorts 8
October 31 by Jihoon Roh
Coffee and Cake by Manuel Endraß
One Last Time by David R. Kramer
All Of Our Shadows by Ruth Beni, Daniel Greaves
Cats and Dogs by Joost Biesheuvel
Salvaged Love by Gisela Nadasy
Giles by Aidan Kaye
2020
The 7th Berlin Short Film Festival ran July 1st–5th, 2020.
2020 Award Winners
Best Short Film
Wanted: Strong Woman (Marilyn Cooke)
Best Documentary Short
Sahildeki Yabancı / Stranger by the Sea (Şule Takmaz Nişancıoğlu)
Best Sci-Fi Short
Mino: A Diasporic Myth (Ashunda Norris)
Best Horror Short
The Lesser Key of Solomon (Jaro Mayda III)
Best LGBT Short
Free Fun (Fehmi Öztürk)
Best Experimental Short
Expires 2/11 (Manuel Rodriguez)
Best Student Short
Charlie’s 2020 Vision (Lynsey Cowlishaw)
Best Short Feature
Once in a Hundred Years: The Life & Legacy of Marian Anderson (Bill Nicoletti)
Best Animated Short
Fail In Love (Cécile Rousset , Romain Blanc-Tailleur, Adrienne Nowak)
Best Short Short
I’ll Cry Tomorrow (Brett Thomas)
Best Music Video
Something More (Sebastian Mayr)
Audience Awards
Lost & Found (Adam DeCarlo)
Once in a Hundred Years: The Life & Legacy of Marian Anderson (Bill Nicoletti)
Sweet Soul In Exile (Tyler A. Chase)
Housebound (Luke Keatinge)
The Last Mermaid (Fi Kelly)
2020 Schedule
Block 1: Shorts
Charlie’s 2020 Vision (Lynsey Cowlishaw)
Something More (Sebastian Mayr)
Lost & Found (Adam DeCarlo)
Expires 2/11 (Manuel Rodriguez)
Dated (Zenon Samuels)
Wanted: Strong Woman (Marilyn Cooke)
Block 2: Documentaries
Sweet Soul In Exile (Tyler A. Chase)
Sahildeki Yabancı / Stranger by the Sea (Şule Takmaz Nişancıoğlu)
Once in a Hundred Years: The Life & Legacy of Marian Anderson (Bill Nicoletti)
Block 3: Shorts
Syncopation (Sally Waterman)
I’ll Cry Tomorrow (Brett Thomas)
Fail In Love (Cécile Rousset , Romain Blanc-Tailleur, Adrienne Nowak)
Akram (Mickey Broothaerts, Adrien Berlandi)
Adolescence (Zeb Daemen)
Block 4: Sci-fi, Fantasy, & Horror
Free Fun (Fehmi Öztürk)
Concession (Paul Odgren)
Mino: A Diasporic Myth (Ashunda Norris)
The Lesser Key of Solomon (Jaro Mayda III)
Housebound (Luke Keatinge)
Block 5: Shorts
Babou (François Narboux)
Sankofa (Vivian Vivas)
Groundwork (Jan Hofer)
The Last Mermaid (Fi Kelly)
For previous film screenings and schedules, please see the archive.
FESTIVAL 2019
2019 Award Winners
– Best Short Film
Coming Up For Air (Jeroen Hoogaars)
– Best Short Documentary
Interior Motives (Natalie Shirinian)
– Best Short Short Film
Dance of the Dead (Scarlet Sykes Hesterman)
– Best Sci-Fi Short Film
Full Circle (Willem van Egmond)
– Best Horror Short Film
#YouToo (Björn Pinxten, Jenne Decleir)
– Best Experimental Short Film
Artistes Burlesques (John Bickerton)
– Best Comedy Short Film
Guilty Pleasure (Yannik Leibacher, René Müller)
– Best Short Feature (30-50 min)
1969-2019 (Ira Schneider)
– Best LGBT Short Film
With Reason and With Heart (Inge Theunissen)
– Best Animated Short Film
Two Balloons (Mark C. Smith)
– Best Music Video
Midnight Dancer (Dan Przygoda)
Nominees & Schedule:
Thursday July 11th
18:00
1969-2019 (Ira Schneider)
Wasteland (Gustav Bondeson)
Shamans (Santiago Echeverry)
Tranquility (Alexander Müller)
The Way (Lena Heggelund)
EZK: Beyond the Walls (Shawn Pyfrom)
20:00
10,000,000 Worlds (Francesca Tesler)
The Masque of Blackness (Epoh Beech)
Turning Days (Anton Drozdov-Schastlivtsev, Irina Drozdova-Schastlivtseva)
Vibes (Bane Fakih)
Destroyer of Worlds (Sam Dawes)
22:00
Still (Mari Continenza)
The Man In The Mirror (Huan Yu)
Buskers (Olga Okrepilova)
Make No Mistake (Lloyd Harvey, Spencer Harvey)
Interior Motives (Natalie Shirinian)
Friday July 12th
18:00
Re:Frame (Michael Salomon)
A Deeper Need (Lilia Andreotti)
The Boom (Helena Borm)
The Hive (Matthew McKee)
Showboat Sailor (Chirath De Silva)
20:00
Untitled (Ira Schneider)
Filch (Rachel Fitzgerald)
Spice (Emily Brandi)
The Women of Titmouse Animation (Christine Guest)
The Banshee (Donncha Gilmore)
22:00
With Reason and Heart (Inge Theunissen)
Hope (Christopher Buhr)
Bubble Wrap (Dominique de Rivaz)
Real Love Never Dies (Valentina Vinci)
A Close Shave (Michele Aboud)
May Day (Olivier Magis, Fedrik De Beul)
Saturday July 13th
18:00
Japan (Nils Hünerfürst)
Can We Order First? (Anca Vaida, Maia Kipping)
Midnight Dancer (Dan Przygoda)
Three-Wheel Stroller (Selina Sondermann)
Gravity Well (Jadi Carboni)
The Game Is On (Thaimko Conteh)
20:00
The Yogi Walrus (Marohnda Bay)
myBorder‘s joyFence (Michael Kranz)
Landscape (Leonardo Nussenzveig)
Hot Dogs on a Tricycle (Francisco Alcala Torreslanda, Alejandra Alcala)
Hi Mrs. Friedman! (Rachel Epstein)
Don’t Get Mad… (Guido De Craene)
Thanks Jimi (Krzysztof Pulkowski )
22:00: Horror & SF
Full Circle (Willem van Egmond)
Coming Up For Air (Jeroen Hoogaars)
A Cure For Sleep (Ine Holsteens)
Singularity (MISTER)
Welcome to Earth (Daan van’t Einde)
Guilty Pleasure (Yannik Leibacher, René Müller)
POV (Paul Ashton)
Rub Me The Right Way (Pit Bredimus, Jefferson Jung)
Cold Cold Coffin (Brian Cichocki)
#YouToo (Björn Pinxten, Jenne Decleir)
Sunday July 14th
18:00
What If? (Sara Alize Cross)
Jewels (Bobby Bosko Grubic)
Zero (Rik Zak)
We Do Us (Mary Janssen)
The Last Lullaby (Edouard Tardan)
Why So Sirius? (Karel Šindelář)
20:00
Schneeweiss (Snow White) (Theodora Richter)
Dance of the Dead (Scarlet Sykes Hesterman)
Blow Up Doll (Ashmita Guha)
Island (Chapter 1) (Mark Madel)
The Boy With The Teddy (Alessandro Schuster)
Somewhere In Their Heads (Gregg Houston)
Meli Melo (Julian Wolf)
22:00
Better Than You Doin You (Don’t Be Mad) (Caroline Liviakis)
Runo (Joakim Juti)
Miss Black Germany (Elisha Smith-Leverock)
A Measure of Time (Randy Larcombe)
Artistes Burlesques (John Bickerton)
Two Balloons (Mark C. Smith)
The Legend of The Lake (Hetzel Chloé)
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2018
The fifth Berlin Short Film Festival ran with three screenings a night, June 28 – July 1, 2018, and screened 85 short films.
Pictured above: film crew and guests for “Eviction” (D: Marcel Glauche) which premiered at Berlin Short 2016 & below, phot courtesy of Deutsche Welle, July 4th at BSFF 2016
2018 Award Winners
Best Short Film
Bournonville Today (Signe Roderik)
Best Short Documentary
Vanishing History (Daud Khattak)
Best Short Short Film
Fortnite: Gasoline, Official Video (Sven D., Philipp Primus)
Best Sci-Fi Short Film
Saturn Voyager (Iuri Araújo, Guilherme Araújo)
Best Horror Short Film
Quiver (Shayna Connelly)
Best Experimental Short Film
War For Lizards (Farshad Bagheri)
Best Comedy Short Film
State Of Emergency (Tarek Roehlinger)
Best LGBT Short Film
MMF (Leonard Garner)
Best Animated Short Film
Tall Juan: Cuidacoches (Dante Zaballa)
Best Short Feature
The Peculiar Abilities Of Mr Mahler (Paul Philipp)
Best Music Video
Metamorphosen (Katharina Ziemkus)
Schedule 2018
Thursday, June 28th
18.00
Yougend (Mai Lasan)
Melodies from Scotland – The Ayoub Sisters (Marco Alessi)
Hiatus (Kevin Haefelin)
The Next is Yet to Come (Ira Schneider)
Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Emily Manthei)
Dad (Markus Mueller)
20.00
Waiting For Tomorrow (Selon Fischer)
Deer Damage (One Shot) (Marcus Siebler)
Lacrimosa (Tanja Mairitsch)
Father’s Day Breakfast (Natalie Simpkins)
Stiff (Gabrielle Pfeiffer-Fasbender)
22.00
Love Divine (Sean Fee)
Finding Lucy (Robin Waldman)
Eurêka ! (David B. Ricard, Menka Nagrani)
I’m Not Sure (Gabriel Hensche)
Quartet (Anna-Katharina Schröder)
Friday, June 29th
18.00
Lost (Thomas Simon)
Lost Wallet (Daniel Pudi)
The Sleeper (Steen Agro)
a rose is (Maja Zagorska)
Fruehlingskinder – Children Of Spring (Zara Demet Altan)
Upper Austria: An Incredible Journey (Geoff Tompkinson)
Ugly Room (Alina Zamanova)
Next Stop (Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen)
20.00
Test (Claudia Ungersbäck)
The Overcoat (Ian Boisvert)
My Poison Is Your Fate (Isolde Guckelsberger-Penzin, Karen Koch)
One Shot (Jo-Anne Brechin)
Palpitations of Dust (Ann Huang)
Be My Guest (Tisch & Bett) (Anne Chlosta)
Eckhardt (Konstantin Rall)
22.00: Documentary Block
Dogs to the Rescue (Andrew Gallagher)
The Last Of His Kind (Jánik von Wilmsdorff)
Vanishing History (Daud Khattak)
Bournonville Today (Signe Roderik)
Saturday, June 30th
18.00
How To Make Tteokbokki (Ji Su Kang-Gatto)
The Tree of Poison (Anastasia Nezhivaia)
Pure White (Sven Windszus)
Unfaded (Stephan Velema)
The Swan (Jonas Karasek)
It Is Not Only About Fish (Kodjo Adanledji)
Disoriented (Lara Mack)
20.00
Detour (Dik Sum Man)
Free Period (Alison Piper)
Ego (Mario Addis)
State Of Emergency (Tarek Roehlinger)
Traces (Cecilia Guichart)
The Peculiar Abilities Of Mr Mahler (Paul Philipp)
22.00: Sci-Fi/Horror Block
Visualinsky (Atsushi Hirakawa)
Exit Strategy (Travis Bible)
Body Ads (Bernardo Artica)
The Super Recogniser (Jennifer Sheridan)
Saturn Voyager (Iuri Araújo, Guilherme Araújo)
Quiver (Shayna Connelly)
Keep The Gaslight Burning (Dave Elsey, Lou Elsey)
Heir (Danny Adhim)
Sunday, July 1st
18.00
Edge (Tired Eyes Kingdom) (Alexander Ritter)
Feel (Monique Küsel)
Object Dream (Kyungwon Song)
Ersatzbank (Tim Lee)
Fricke-Ticke (Patrick Waldmann)
Playing With Fire (Carolyn Corkindale)
MMF (Leonard Garner)
Voices (Robin Goethals)
By Blood (Jonathan Delerue, Guillaume Enard)
20.00
ONZ: Vandetta feat. Kim Olsen (Amanda Tan)
War For Lizards (Farshad Bagheri)
Late Season (Daniela Leitner)
Inside & Out (Rocky Marquette)
Idol (Luisa Taraz)
Someone Good Will Find You (Leelila Strogov)
You Are mMy All (Joseph Jeremiah Langley)
MimiCry (Jennifer von Schuckmann)
22.00
Tall Juan: Cuidacoches (Dante Zaballa)
Pray (Samia Tawil)
Hope Of Ashes (Hassan Al Hashem)
You, My Brother (Ghadir)
Fortnite: Gasoline, Official Video (Sven D., Philipp Primus)
Near Change (André Sogliuzzo)
Zulu: Hidden People (Lukas Kunzmann)
Metamorphosen (Katharina Ziemkus)
Tamagotchi (Krzysztof Grajper)
Les Artisans de l’Art, 2ème Portrait: Jean-Pierre Maury (Grégory Papinutto)
2017 Award Winners
Best Short Film
Southern Edge of The Cloud D: Ching Yan Alon Chan
Best Short Documentary
The Voice of a Million Times One D: Marijn Poels
Best Short Short Film
Breakfast of Champions D: Beraat Gökkuş
Best Sci-Fi Short Film
A Magician D: Max Blustin
Best Horror Short Film
The Black Bull Incident, Episode One: Pretty Rough Around Closing D: Rob & Si Wright
Best Experimental Short Film
The Charlotte Russe with the Medal of the Wobbling Bubble in its Palm Trilogy D: Ira Schneider
Best Comedy Short Film
Enter The Cowboy D: Jack Hansen
Best Music Video
Stop Us D: This is Felo
2017 Schedule
June 29th
18:00
Color Your Life – Anton Tyroller
Happiness – Hannah Stockmann
Money Aarder – Jayant Jathar
Prysia’s Garden – Mišo Suchý
The Leadenhall Building – Dan Lowe, Paul Raftery
Les Copines (The Girlfriends) – Paula Pfitzner
20:00
The Supper – Klaus Bobach
Kassel 9th Of December – Arianna Waldner Bingemer
Masquerading: To Hell And Back – Sofia De Fay
Breakfast of Champions – Beraat Gökkuş
The Happy Genius – Hannah McKibbin
The Voice of 650 Million Times One – Marijn Poels
22:00
Invisible Man – Jan Nord
Connected – Carmen Belaschk
Valentina – André Gevaerd
Imperative Shift: Fukushima, Tip Of The Iceberg – Yoko Kubota
Sunshine – Sören Wachsmuth
June 30th
21:00 Filmmakers’ Night at Griffin Bar aka A.G. Foundation, Invalidenstraße 151, 10115 Berlin
July 1st
18:00
Altinha – Jean-Marc Joseph
Nobody Is Home Right Now – Konstantin Rall, Roland Wendling
Cinci Linci – Arno Fisser, Marko Lakobrija, Michael Schackwitz
Walls – I Am Here
Give A Man A Mask, And He Will Tell You The Truth – Odette van Rensburg, Eric Gauss
Fight With Ego – Francesco Vellei
Bold Green – Selon Fischer
20:00
Flores – Asbirg Anderson
No Monsters In Berlin – Kate Holland
For Mum Who Made Me Sad – Natascha Zink
DivagationS – Caroline Caza
Follow Me – Dieter Grohmann
Stop Us – This Is Felo
Enter The Cowboy – Jack Hansen
The King – Jehan Bokhari
Shit – Felix Kapfer
The Centre of Europe – Felix Schon
22:00
America First – Maldives Second – Silke de Vos
Revenge – Renas Miran
It’s Been A Long Time – Esteban Neumann
In The Fog – Marcin Gajewski
The Charlotte Russe with the Medal of the Wobbling Bubble in its Palm Trilogy – Ira Schneider Replacing The Bog-Standard Short Film – Dennis Gerecke
Southern Edge Of The Cloud – Alon Chan
July 2nd
18:15
Du Bist Da – Katharina Lehmann
Stupid Smartphone Therapy – Garmamie Sideau
Fawn – Pat Aldinger
Mister Mex: Mama – Julian Spillner
Krump – Johannes Ziegler
Plethora – Annique Delphine
Skywriters – Nils Otte
Arcadia Project – Saebom Kim
20:00 SF/Horror Block
The Shark In The Park – Fabian Pross
Waste – Justine Raczkiewicz
Erebus – Sheila Patterson
Reconnect – Chiu Fai Tsui
The Ruins – Ric Sechrest
Analogie – Lukas Kunzmann
Colony Collapse Disorder: A Life Without Bees – Mario Burbach
The Black Bull Incident, Episode One: Pretty Rough Around Closing – Rob & Si Wright
New Abyss – Tobias Arndt
Meat – Antoine Osorio, Paul-André Robin
22:00
My Pretty Pony – Maciej Barczewski
Fresh Blood – Richa Rudola
Bulbul – Işıl Karataş
Mission Accomplished (Erledigt/Done) – Maike Zelle
The Bus, The Mob and The Village – Klaus Scherer
July 3rd
18:00
Rubicon – Ian Boisvert
Gespräche mit Günter Gelb – Leonardo Re
Hope: Cell – Riccardo Bernardi
Sthir – Anna Ador
A Magician – Max Blustin
Kanthari – Marijn Poels
20:00
The Black Bull Incident, Episode One: Pretty Rough Around Closing – Rob Wright Replacing Liedfett – Schlaflied (Victor Flowers RMX) – Michael Borwitzky
Control/Response – Anthony Stagliano
Bad Sheriff – Ben Bernschneider
Y – Gina Wenzel
The Charlotte Russe with the Medal of the Wobbling Bubble in its Palm Trilogy – Ira Schneider
22:00
The Cricket And The Ant – Julia Ritschel
Bar À Vin – Dmitrijs Fjodorovs
Close Your Eyes – Marion Crepel
For One – Mathieu Rivolier
Mausoleum – Lauri Randla
MetalMonkey – The Cat Conspiracy
The Bog-Standard Short Film – Dennis Gerecke
2016 Award Winners
Best Short Film
Nothing Escapes My Eyes D: David Krippendorff
Best Short Documentary
Born of Stone D: Emilio Bellu
Best Short Short Film
The Peacock D: Wenquian Gao
Best Sci-Fi Short Film
The Last Journey of the Enigmatic Paul WR, D: Romain Quirot
Best Horror Short Film
How To Be A Villain D: Helen O’Hanlon
Best Experimental Short Film
Artistic Dictatorship D: Gor Aroevic
Best Comedy Short Film
Tre Tosser (Three Fools) D: Snobar Avani, Peter Hausner
Best Music Video
Lamentation D: Kirk Kelley
Pictured above: Still from ”Southern Edge of The Cloud” by Alon Chan. D. Krippendorff, winner of Best Short Film at Berlin Short 2016 for “Nothing Escapes My Eyes”. Below Lara Celenza, Helen O’Hanlon & Ira Schneider at BSFF 2016.
2016 Screenings
30 June 6pm Block 1
Nothing Escapes My Eyes D: David Krippendorff
Born of Stone D: Emilio Bellu
Girl Pool D: Deborah Magocsi
The Peacock D: Wenquian Gao
Blotch Murder D: Serge Goldwicht
Number 44 D: Michael Ulmer
Shark & Lion D: Behind the Mask: Florian Fischer, Michael Kugler
We Don’t Bury Animals D: Thibaut Charlut
8pm Block 2
Xie Xie D: Nikolas Ibrahim
Du Stoerst (You Don’t Disturb Me) D: Melanie Langpap, Dorothea Lemme
Domimaid – Duties Day-to-Day D: Maik Kern
The Last Journey of the Enigmatic Paul WR, D: Romain Quirot
Decoupled D: Lutz Heineking, jr.
Who Killed Bruce Lee – Born Addicted (Official Music Video) D: Chadi Younes
Eviction D: Marcel Glauche
10pm Block 3
Declaration of Dependence D: Carsten Pütz
R.I.P. – Rest In Pieces D: Steffen Hand, Folke Renken
Fink. Less Alone D: Bob van de Gronde, Brahm van der Hoeven
The Heat Wave D: Lucía Valverde
City of Souls D: Water Ziga Zupancic
Sidste Samling (Final Meeting) D: Hans-Christian Leonhard
1 July 6pm Block 4
The Sad Monk D: Diana Frankovic
Low Key D: Samuel Neo
The Last Poacher D: Jakob Reuter
Happy Tuesday D: Wouter van Couwelaar
Tarot-Reading D: Aneta Panek
You Can Go Now D: Apollonia Theresa Bitzan
Jakob D: Matthias Ninaus
8pm Block 5
Paradies D: Matthias Michel
# Meat D: Marc van den Broek
You&Me D: Helmut Geissler
The Queen D: Hugo Teugels
Unraveled D: Saskia Waijers
10pm – Horror Night – Block 6
Silhouette D: Wolfgang Rauh
The Sight D: Frank Fonz
GPS D: Stephane Everaert
The Life of Death D: Marcin Dubiniec
Quenottes (Pearlies) D: Pascal Thiebaux
Kaddish! D: Emeline Castaneda
2 July 6pm Block 7
Va Banque (Risky Game) D: Stefan Plepp & Christine Kabisch
How To Be A Villain D: Helen O’Hanlon
Thursday D: Bruno Brejt
Over The Rainbow D: Tara Fallaux
Jang o Solh (War & Peace) D: Farhad Bazleh
8pm Block 8
Lulladie D: Lara Celenza
Somewhere On Orchard Street D: Ira Schneider
Expired D: Kelly Joanne Jenkins
Beautiful Dreamer D: David Gaddie
Pjesma Sela Rude (The Song of the Village Ruda) D: Riccardo Jurkovic, Leonhard Hofmann
10pm Block 9
Minus One D: Alexander Tuschinski, Jennifer Pakosch, Julia Kästle
Main Gauche (Left) D: Lionel Guerrini
Artistic Dictatorship D: Gor Aroevic
Play Love D: Roberto Guerra
Fog The Windows D: Cindy Pruitt
Tangomania D: Susan van den Broek
Match D: Fokke Baarssen
3 juli 6pm Block 10
Final Analysis D: Alexander Schoenauer
Looking For Mr. Right Now D: Anne Chahine
We Were Not Made For This World D: Colin West McDonald
A Perfect Day D: Christian E. Christiansen
Stimming – A Portrait D: Harun Hazar
The Last Picture D: Willem van Egmond
8pm Block 11
X D: Jesper Skouboelling
Tre Tosser (Three Fools) D: Snobar Avani, Peter Hausner
The Andreas Krieger Story D: Julia Frenzer
Legacy D: Josh Mawer
Everything Will Work Out Just Fine! D: Gabriel Sahm
10pm Block 12
Doors of Perception D: Caroline Schwarz
Digital Romance D: Michael Helmuth Hansen
Lamentation D: Kirk Kelley
Wrest D: Benjamin Strickland
Step 8 D: Rick Lenzing
Dede: Mehmet With the Yellow Boots D: Tamara Miranda
4 July 6pm Block 13
Sham or Shelter D: Alexander Ullmann
3XLove D: Olga Chajdas
Deleting Me Again — Society Burning (Official Music Video) D: Kiki Shakti
It All Began At Moseley: A Portrait of Philip Walsh D: David Walsh
The Mámos and the Trees of Peace D: Laila Milon, Caroline Wünsche
Czardashian Rhapsody D: Lara St. John
Flight Into Darkness D: Alexander Ratter
8pm Block 14
Benedict D: Lucas Tietjen
Heavy Feathers D: Joosje Duk
Rose D: Ritchie Vermeire
The Phone Call D: José Antonio Berzal Bartolomé
Berlin Way of Love D: Salama Marine, Matthieu Douard
10pm Block 15
Rabbits D: Marlene Pardeller
From Another Place D: Kasper Tornbjerg
The Traces You Left In My Dream D: Valentin Noujaim
Just Listen D: Lian Priemus
2015 Award Winners:
– Best Short Film: Endangered Species (Ira Schneider)
– Best Short Documentary: Above & Below: Galapagos National Park (Behind the Mask, Florian Fischer, Michael Kugler)
– Best Short Short Film: Clairvoyance (Hiroki Yokoyama)
– Best Sci-Fi Short Film: The Long Slow Flight of the Ashbot (Colin West McDonald)
– Best Horror Short Film: The Graveyard Shift (Peter Feysa)
– Best Experimental Short Film: conform! (Alexander Bobenko, Charles Gunn)
– Best Comedy Short Film: The Critic (Alexander Tuschinski)
– Best Music Video: IceTruckFuckHardcore (Johannes Lohmann, Christoph Hertel)
2015 Screenings
Thursday, 2nd July
Block 1 – 6pm
Never Forget (Björn Lingner)
One Scythe Fits All (DIonne Stevens)*
Two Fish (Divina Hasselmann)
東京コスモ (Tokyo Cosmo) (Takahiro Miyauchi)
(en)vie (Maud Forget)
Weekendowe Hobby (Robert Urban)
Block 2 – 8pm
90 Degrees North (Detsky Graffam)
Æon (Thom Ward)
Umleitung (Madli Moos)
Olivia (Jesper Seip)
The Eye of the Beholder (Stefanos Pavlakis)
Supermisil (Javier Arcelus Cano)
The Words Hear The Light (Diego Fiori, Olga Pohankova)
Friday, 3rd July
Block 3 – 6pm
The Long Slow Flight of the Ashbot (Colin West McDonald)
The Critic (Alexander Tuschinski)
The Least Evil (Elisa Unger)
Gateway to the World (Delia Gyger)
Deadvolt (Laurie Clemens)*
Magic (Konstantin Rall)
Børn Af Dagen (Amir Rezazadeh)
발자국들 (Kevin Saychareun)*
Rio das Moedas (Larissa Redondo)
Block 4 – 8pm
Berlin: Layers of Movement (Natascha Kuederli)
The Ballad of the Homeless (Monica Manganelli)
The Graveyard Shift (Peter Feysa)*
Zombie Nation (Sebastian Harrer)*
QX2026 (Samrat DasGupta)
Pussy Chronicles (Julia Limpert)
Saturday, 4th July
Block 5 – 6pm
Stream – Explore the Unseen (Roman De Giuli)
Gold (Alexander Tuschinski)
Koma (Cyril Haas)
Absence (Jimmy Lindgren)
Hades (Kevin Kopacka)*
Lion Shepherd – “Lights Out” (Piotr Jasinski)
Rider on the Storm (Juliette Clara Bertoldo)
Endangered Species (Ira Schneider)
Block 6 – 8pm
Sonntags (Ira Tondowski)
Cheeky Beasties (Daniel Holzberg)
Gutenberg in the Cyberstorm (Susanne Lenz-Gleißner)
Tantalum (Johannes Richard Voelkel)
Clairvoyance (Hiroki Yokoyama)
Loneliness (Pierre Joël, Mikhaelle A. Marty)
IceTruckFuckHardcore (Johannes Lohmann, Christoph Hertel)
Will I Scatter Away? (Emma Penaz Eisner)
Sunday, 5th July
Block 7 – 6pm
Postheimat (Ioanna Kryona)
The Man Inside (Peter Sand)
Nostalgia (Natascha Zink)
The Hitchhiker (Fivaz Buys)
180 (Tim Earnheart)*
John Harkins, the Florist (Julian Gehrmann)
Tea By The Lake (Behind the Mask, Florian Fischer)
Block 8 – 8pm
Kang E Defa – Female Rhapsody in Kosova (Fatime Kosumi)
conform! (Alexander Bobenko, Charles Gunn)
Pelota (Nuno-Miguel Wong)
C.T.R.L (Mariana Conde)
Above & Below: Galapagos National Park (Behind the Mask, Florian Fischer, Michael Kugler)
Monday, 6th July
Block 9 – 6pm
Kratzbaum (Simon Glass)
Perfection (Benedikt Roeskau)
Hello AeH – Deck, Freighter Travel Not Only For Beginners (Norbert Panke)
Karma (Carlo Oppermann)
Aline (Aram van de Rest)
Block 10 – 8pm
Wintersreise (Susanne Boeing)
Zen: Discovering the Now (Beatrice Madach)
The Last Escape – East Germans on the Top of Tibet (Karsten Koenig)
Great Help (Vanessa Riecke)
The Last Girl (Bjarke de Koning)
Cocolo Ramen (Francoise Desbois)
The Diver (Heiko Aufdermauer)
* = horror films, adult content
2014 Award Winners
Best Short Film: Too Bad — dir: Lorenzo Berghella
Best German Short Film: Roughtown — dir: Gabriele Heberling
Best Short Documentary: Shakespeare’s Intermission — dir: Diana Nilles
Best Sci-Fi/Horror Short Film: O — dir: July Allard
Best Experimental Short Film: Frollein Frappe — dir: Vanessa Aab
Best Short Short Film: Interior — dir: Immanuel Esser
Best Music Video: Seduction — dir: Parker Ellerman
2014 Screenings
DATE: October 26th
Block 1 — 6pm
Frollein Frappe — dir: Vanessa Aab
FestEvil — dir: Paul Taylor
Look At Me Now — dir: Trine Nadia
Open Minded* — dir: Nikolaus von Uthmann
Thru Her Eyes — dir: Hans Lein
Chaja & Mimi — dir: Eric Esser
Block 2 — 7:30pm
Doublure Lumière — dir: Alexandre Triaca
Beirut in Two Words — dir: Anne Chahine
Nobody Can Touch Us — dir: Anton Iversen
Color Thief — dir: Violeta Barca-Fontana
Seduction — dir: Parker Ellerman
DATE: October 28th
Block 3 — 6pm
Moments — dir: Jean-Luc Julien
Octave — dir: Eili Bråstad Johannessen
L’École de Simili — dir: Marlies Poeschl
Mama Doesn’t Know Best — dir: John Heath
Anchovies — dir: Annabelle Attanasio
Shakespeare’s Intermission — dir: Diana Nilles
Block 4 — 7:30pm
JEANNE — dir: Andreas Heinrich
Rêverie — dir: Tobias Spierenburg
Interior — dir: Immanuel Esser
Emotional Bruises — dir: Alexandre Zarka
Roughtown — dir: Gabriele Heberling
DATE: October 29th
Block 5 — 6pm
Après les cours — dir: Guillaume Renusson
Baritone — dir: Antoine Lanckmans
dom’z sütü — dir: Neco Çeli̇k
Mirages — dir: Wendy Pillonel
Block 6 — 7:30pm
Too Bad — dir: Lorenzo Berghella
Mortal Dilemma — dir: Michael Minton
The Magic Moment — dir: Christopher Helkey
La Plage — dir: Alain Deymier
Les Papillons Noirs — dir: Antoine Blanchet
Michael S., versammelt — dir: Steven Swirko
DATE: October 30th
Block 7 — 6pm
Last Christmas — dir: Uta Seibicke
Eden — dir: Manfred Asperger
SHORT — dir: Naima Challioui
Evi Vine – For You — dir: Juergen Schindler
Four Tails — dir: Christopher Villiers
Block 8 — 7:30pm
Cut — dir: Peter Lemper
Remembering The Fallen — dir: Julien Grincajgier
Business As Usual – Der Prophet fliegt mit — dir: Lenn Kudrjawizki
The Girl and The Dogs — dir: Selma Vilhunen, Guillaume Mainguet
Morceaux d’Ennui — dir: Damien Stein
Beinball — dir: Werner Fiedler
DATE: October 31st
Sci Fi Block 9 — 6pm
Inmate 48 — dir: Sohail A. Hassan
Relativity Explained To Children — dir: Pierre Gaffié
Sunset Day — dir: J.A Duran
O — dir: July Allard
ROTOR — dir: Maarten Groen
Horror Block 10 — 7:30pm
Revolve — dir: Andreas Olenberg
Massacre Lake — dir: Micah Gallo
Good Samaritan — dir: Jeffrey Reddick
Girl — dir: Charles Quinn Frutos
The Tour — dir: Damon Rickard