Teddy Kurzfilmrolle 2011

The Teddy Shorts screen als those movies, which are competing for the TEDDY AWARD 2011 for best short film. This year these are: LA DUCHA, TOMORROW EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT, BLOKES, PORNO MELODRAMA and SPRING.
(To find more information about these films, click on the film title to get directly to the filmpage in the archive.)
 
LA DUCHA
A couple spends their last morning together in the bathroom. One of them is about to leave the country. The other has decided to stay. But who will take care of the cat?
 
TOMORROW EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT
An intense conversation between two people one evening leads to a pictorial love story about loss and longing. An homage to Eric Rohmer and the attention he paid to the tiny details of our everyday lives.
 
BLOKES
Santiago, Chile, in 1986. Luchito is 13 years old and feels deeply attracted to Manuel, a 16-year-old neighbour. Luchito masturbates whilst watching the window of an adjacent building where Manuel is enjoying a sexual encounter with a neighbourhood girl. The window becomes an erotic stage that arouses Luchito’s curiosity – but this has catastrophic consequences for Manuel.
 
PORNO MELODRAMA
Akvilé and Jonas were a couple until Jonas fell in love with a man. But Akvilé cannot forget her lover and continues to appear in porn films, even without him. She begs her childhood sweetheart to make one more film with her. Jonas agrees – but only so that he can leave the country with his lover.
 
SPRING
Joe embarks on a sadomasochistic adventure with a stranger. For him it’s all about the sexual thrill, but for Tim their game satisfies deep psychological needs. An encounter between two people with very different desires, after which, nothing is the same as before.

details

  • Runtime

    ca. 120 min
  • Country

    International
  • Year of Presentation

    2011
  • Year of Production

    2010/2011
  • Director

    Maria José San Martín, Akram Zaatari, Marialy Rivas, Romas Zabarauskas, Hong Khaou
  • Cast

  • Production Company

    diverse
  • Berlinale Section

  • Berlinale Category

    Short Film

Biography Maria José San Martín

Born in Curico in Chile in March 1974, she has taken part in theatre workshops and works as an assistant director. LA DUCHA marks her debut as a director.

Filmography Maria José San Martín

2012 Gleisdreieck (Short) (as María José San Martín) | 2016 Meine Eltern sind irgendwie anders

Biography Akram Zaatari

Born in Saida in the Lebanon in 1966, he studied architecture at the American University in Beirut. After graduating he took up studies at the New School for Social Research in New York where he graduated in media studies. He worked at Future Television in Beirut from 1995-97 and made numerous videos. The founder of the Arab Image Foundation, he lives and works as an independent filmmaker in Beirut.

Filmography Akram Zaatari

2015 Thamaniat wa ushrun laylan wa bayt min al-sheir

Biography Marialy Rivas

Born in Chile, award-winning director and writer Marialy Rivas spent her childhood and pre-teen years under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Tackling questions of wealth disparities and social mobility, Rivas went to one of the most southern islands of her home country for her short documentary Melody (Mountainfilm 2015), a film about a passion for music and its ability to offer a way out of poverty. Her other films include Young & Wild, which won Best Screenplay at Sundance 2012; There is Hope, a short film made with funding in part from the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation; and Blokes.

Biography Romas Zabarauskas

Romas Zabarauskas is a Lithuanian film director, screenwriter and producer.

Filmography Romas Zabarauskas

2013 We Will Riot | 2016 Nuo Lietuvos nepabegsi | 2020 Advokatas

Biography Hong Khaou

Screen Star of Tomorrow Hong Khaou spent several years at independent film distribution company Peccadillo Pictures. Making the move into filmmaking, Hong wrote and directed two short films, SPRING (2011) and SUMMER (2006), which were selected for the Sundance and Berlin International film festivals respectively. His debut feature film, LILTING, starred Ben Whishaw as Londoner Richard, and Cheng Pei Pei as the Cambodian-Chinese mother of Richard’s recently deceased boyfriend. The film, which was produced under Film London’s Microwave Scheme, had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in the World Dramatic Competition, was sold in over 12 territories internationally, and was released theatrically in the UK through Artificial Eye.
In 2014, Hong was named as one of BAFTA LA's Brits to Watch, and was nominated for Best Debut Director at the British Independent Film Awards. He also received the Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award for his feature project MONSOON, which is in post-production. MONSOON premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the the Czech Republic in July 2019, where it was also entered in competition. In 2015, Hong was BAFTA-nominated for Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer.
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Filmography Hong Khaou

2014 Lilting