Everybody should do the things they love. Why should being blind change that? Milos Devise has been blind since having an eye operation when he was four-years-old. Milos loves rock music and fast machines ? and riding around on the bus without paying his fare. In just nine minutes, Nadja Elabbadi?s film presents a young man?s unconventional and inspiring outlook on life.

Nadja Elabbadi,

born 31.03.1979 in Wetzlar. Studies Design and Film at the Hochschule f?r Gestaltung Offenbach since 2001.

Twelve-year old Daniel and his seventeen-year-old brother live in a run-down German tenement building. Patrick occasionally earns a bit of money by secretly kidnapping people?s pets to collect the reward money later. In spite of his harsh environment, Daniel is able to escape into small flights of fancy. But his situation becomes more drastic the more dependent he becomes on his older brother. For a while, Daniel seems to find a friend in Bernd, a neighborhood junkie. Crude, harsh, but also poetic, ?Hochhaus? tells the story of a boy forced to grow up too soon and labor through a world that seems to have no place for him.

In just 25 minutes, Director Matthias Stockl?w manages to hilariously answer the question of why a man would bury his car in the yard and some of life?s other more important questions. Julia, a teacher, is suffocating under the stress of her job and personal life. Her chaotic husband, Walter, has not told her what he did last night. The car is missing, and the mail arrives in shreds. Her co-worker, Wesenberger, finds her attractive. In the meantime, Sarah and Tim would be having a wonderful day on the boat ? if it weren?t for the evil Easter bunny and the polar bear.

"Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker" is an animated short-film about different inhabitants of an appartment-house. Because of someone claiming too much noise a policeman is called and everything turns into chaos. Technic: hand-drawn animation & 3D

1974 born in Limburg/ Germany ? 1994 Abitur ? 1994 apprenticeship as a sign-painter ? 1997 University of applied Sciences Wiesbaden ? 2002-2004 Universidad Complutense Madrid

The film deals with the pain felt at the death of one?s mother. A young woman?s voice-over talks about the impossibility of coming to terms with this pain through various therapies. She does this with the same laconic humour which marks the images of the film. They are images of absurd moments which reveal the faultline running through the world, when everything in life seems somehow wrong. It makes us laugh, but this laughter is always a way to recognise a pain that won?t go away. Anna Berger uses simple means to find strong images and words for a form of mourning based on humour.

anna berger

born: frankfurt/main 1975

1997-2005 studied at the academy of art and design offenbach, diploma

studied film (prof. helmut herbst and prof. rotraut pape)

and experimental spatial concepts (prof. heiner blum)

films (selection)

2000 dish, 4min, 16mm farbe/beta, dokumentarfilm

2001 where the rabbit sleeps/sensorama, zus. mit michel kl?fkorn, 4min, dv, musikvideo

2002 hose, 2min, dv

2004 ballet, zus. mit michel kl?fkorn, 3min, dv

2005 untitled, 12min, dv

Michael Kl?fkorn?s exciting six-minute film deals with the surprising amount of power wielded by cars in contemporary society. The film shows how much we already depend on automobiles to shape our societies.

The train station area in Frankfurt am Main. Between the con artists, brothels and junkies, Walter has found his niche for survival though; he cleans cars for the pimps and prostitutes. He has a background however. ?Walter? is the portrait of a person who copes with everyday life against all adversity.

This forty-minute documentary deals with the thoughts and feelings of teenage Albanian girls who live and go to school in Offenbach, Germany, but regularly return to their homeland, Kosovo, during vacations. The camera follows three sisters - Nagjije (15), Nazmije (16) und Bege (17) ? on one such summer vacation trip. Bege has reached marrying age, and although she?s not sure she?s ready yet, any future husband would have to be Albanian. But none of the girls would want to live in Kosovo permanently. The film masterfully illustrates the conflicts between maintaining one?s cultural roots and the pressure of conforming to the modern world.

?Die unertr?gliche Seichtigkeit? (?Unbearable Shallowness?) is a ?melan-comic? film about men and women, the amount of things and of course... CHER! Director Eva Becker?s five-minute short film successfully combines humor and depth.

Harald Bergmann?s film ?Brinkmanns Zorn? portraits the poet Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, who demands everything at once ? love, death, pop, hate, art. Based on Brinkmann?s original tape recordings and Super8 clippings, Harold Bergmann has made a fascinating film about the literary icon. A film that ? just like Brinkmann himself ? uses different media and cinematic devices to depict modern reality. Here documentary and biography merge and become an outstanding work of art; one that in regards to authenticity and fascination is nearly unsurpassable.