Talks and Topics

Marie Zrenner won won the German Short Film Award in the category of feature films with a running time of more than 10 minutes and up to 30 minutes with ALEX IN DEN FELDERN (Alex in the Fields) in 2023. In the latest episode of Talks’n’Topics, she talks to Luc-Carolin Ziemann about her enjoyment of fiction in documentaries and the importance of trust in documentary film. Read More

Hoda Taheri and Boris Hadžija met a few years ago at the DFFB in Berlin, became friends and later started making films together. In the new episode of Talks’n’Topics, they talk to Borjana Gaković about what makes their collaboration special, the documentary in fiction, bureaucracy and sexuality in film. Read More

FILZ was founded in 2012 as a self-organised and autonomous film seminar within the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts (HGB). The Film Initiative Leipzig FILZ is an association of authors, filmmakers and artists. All participants share a strong interest in artistic, documentary work, with a focus on the moving image.
Luc-Carolin Ziemann talks to Clara Wieck, Juliane Jaschnow, Jonas Matauschek and Nick Teplov – four of FILZ’s current fourteen active members – about the collective, current joint projects and networks, and the importance of ongoing dialogue. Read More

Julia Roesler and her collective werkgruppe2, consisting of four artists from different disciplines, work together primarily in film and theater. In their artistic work, they reflect on themes of social minorities, the invisible and the excluded, exploring the boundaries of documentary and fiction. Read More

Anna Roller is a director and writer from Munich, she already experimented with the camera as a child and teenager. Since 2014 she studied at the University of Television and Film.

With Borjana Gaković Anna Roller talks about her short films PAN (2017) and GÖR (2021), which successfully screened at festivals worldwide and won awards. Read More

As an artist, Betina Kuntzsch has developed the genre of video drawing, often combining hand-drawn animations with historical film, photo and archive material to create animated, documentary short films. Betina Kuntzsch talks with Borjana Gaković about her short film HALMASPIEL (Chinese Checkers, 2017) – which tells the story of her mother. Read More

Borjana Gaković talks to Michael Fetter Nathansky about his 2017 short film GABI, his working methods and current projects. Read More

Borjana Gaković spricht für Talks’n’Topics mit Regisseurin Sophie Linnenbaum über eines ihrer früheren Werke – den Kurzfilm PIX – aber auch über aktuelle Projekte wie ihr Langfilm-Debüt THE ORDINARIES, das Ende März 2023 in den Kinos startet. Read More

Alison Kuhn is one of Germany’s most interesting young filmmakers – she is a writer, actress and director and has made a name for herself in recent years with multiple… Read More

Ilaria Di Carlo is an Italian artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Berlin. With her artistic documentary films, which have won numerous international awards, she has developed her… Read More

The Locarno Film Festival, one of the most important of all the international film festivals, has a tradition of supporting short films. Not only does it host competitions for national and international shorts, but also Shortsweek, which takes place online in February. When Giona Nazzaro took over as artistic director in 2021, he further strengthened this commitment. Together with Eddie Bertozzi, who is responsible for Pardi di Domani, the festival’s short film program, they launched a new competition for films by established directors: Corti d’autore. Shortfilm.de met them both shortly before this year’s edition to discuss their visions regarding short films and their efforts at integrating them into the overall ecosystem of the festival. Read More

Today in our Talks’n’Topics column we introduce Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner. They were nominated for the German Short Film Award in 2020 with their experimental film A DEMONSTRATION and… Read More

Deren Ercenk was nominated for the German Short Film Award in 2020 with BERZAH in the category fiction film of more than 10 to 30 minutes. Conny Klauß has met… Read More

At Talks’n’Topics we introduce you to Lucia Margarita Bauer as our next artist. In 2020, she won the special prize of the German Short Film Award for films between 31… Read More

Today on Talks’n’Topics we introduce you to Shoko Hara. In an interview with Conny Klauß, she talks about the possibilities of animated documentaries, toxic relationships and the fascination a convicted… Read More

As a new section within our interview format, we would like to publish Talks’n Topics Talks’n’Topics, conversations with filmmakers in moving image. We start with Vika Kirchenbauer, who was awarded… Read More

Animation filmmaker Caroline Hamann on her year 2020 Read More