Every Time I Look at You
Short Film
English
19:30
2025
Germany
Aaron, a young African-American, falls in love with Larissa, a German white woman. But as soon as she tells him that she is pregnant, things begin to fall apart and Aaron has to face his past.
Story by: Barry Despenza, Antonia Lindner
Writer: Jennifer Drake, Celina Bahar Moradi, Antonia Lindner
Cinematography: Noah Böhm
Sound: Xavier Fleming
Sound Design: Andreas Goldbrunner, Xavier Fleming
Music + Original Song: Jiro Yoshioka
Color Grading: Johan Nurmilehto
Producer: Nele Urbach
Cast: Emmanuel Trier
Maia Frosch
Jay Sukali
Lina Maruyama
Antonia Braovac
Dominik Gruber
Director + Editor: Antonia Lindner
University of Television and Film Munich + FineLine Film
Stills ©HFFMünchen + ©FineLine Film
Lass Nicht Los / Don't Let Go
Short Film
German + Arabic
13:46
2024
Germany
Amir and Anouk are driving homewards after their first road trip together. High of their love they feel nothing can ruin their luck until they are being stopped by the police.
Writer: Antonia Lindner
Script Consultants: Rafael Kousz, Raaed Al-Kour
Cinematography: Philipp Kaiser
Sound: Xavier Fleming
Sound Design: Andreas Goldbrunner
Music: Barry Despenza
Color Grading: Philipp Kaiser
Producer: Rafael Kousz, Sandra Cavallaro
Cast: Hassan Kello
Flavia LeFèvre
Cornelia von Fürstenberg
Ben Ulrich
Simon Bogocz
Felix Mann
Director + Editor: Antonia Lindner
University of Television and Film Munich
Festivals:
Max Ophüls Preis 2024 | Wettbewerb Kurzfilm Uraufführung / World Premiere, Germany
International Short Film Week Regensburg 2024, Germany
24. Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival 2024, Germany
Next Generation Short Tiger 2024, Germany
36. Dresden International Short Film Festival 2024, Germany
Sehsuechte | 53nd international student film festival 2024, Germany
Marché du Cannes - Short Film Corner 2024, France
32nd Raindance Film Festival London 2024, UK
Tbilisi International Student Film Festival 2024, Georgia
Durban International Film Festival 2024 - *Winner of Best Student Film Award*, South Africa
Odense Film Festival 2024, Denmark
FEST - New Directors 2024, Portugal
36. Finále Plzeň 2024, Czech Republic
German Currents Los Angeles 2024 – 18th Annual Festival of German Films, USA
24. Festival de Cine Alemán 2024 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
29. Festival du Cinéma Allemand 2024 - Paris, France
Lange Nacht der Museen München 2024, Germany
40th Warsaw Film Festival 2024, Poland
51st Wuerzburg International Film Festival 2025, Germany
Filmtage Friedrichshafen 2025, Germany
5. Festival del Cinema Tedesco Rom 2025, Italy
27. German Film Fest Madrid 2025, Spain
SHORTS - Trinationales Filmfestival Hochschule Offenburg 2025, Germany
Tuztinger Kulturnacht 2025, Germany
T-Port Lighthouse Selections 2025
Press:
Interview Blickpunkt:Film „Qualität, spielerischer Ansatz und große Visionen“
Neue Blickpunkt:Film-Nachwuchskolumne »Zukunft:Film« stellt junge Talente in den Fokus
https://www.sr.de/sr/mediathek/audio/SR2_BE_1526.html
https://www.sr.de/sr/sr2/themen/kultur/20240122_demo_blick_auf_kurzfilme_ophuels_100.html
Testkammer Interview
Stills ©HFFMünchen
SARMA
Short Film
Kurdish + German
15:37
2023
Germany
Alan gets invited by his german classmates to hang out for the first time. Him, his sister and mother get very excited and help him to prepare for this special day.
Writer: Dara Lalo
Cinematography: Julian Weisser
Sound: Avow Lalo
Sound Design: Xavier Fleming
Color Grading: Julian Weisser
Producer: Dara Lalo
Cast: Dara Lalo
Narîn Khalil
Hajera Almesto
Raschid Scharmo
Khalil Hamada
Director + Editor: Antonia Lindner
University of Television and Film Munich +
Otto-Falkenberg-Schule für Schauspiel
Stills ©HFFMünchen
Der Antrag / The Application
Short Film
German + English
09:00
2023
Germany
When B. enters the german foreigners registration office to pick up his residence permit, he soon has to realise that things are different from what he expected. He is caught in disbelief, until he finds a friend who pushes him to make use of his privilege.
Writer: Sandra Katzlmayr, Antonia Lindner
Cinematography: Hana Reintges
Music + Sound Design: Xavier Fleming
Producer: Felix Mann, Rafael Kousz
Cast: Om Hari Lasar
Dara Lalo
Benito Bause
Mela Feigenbaum
Victor Sternweiler
Maximilian Rosenbluth
Frank Padova
Sophie Colindres
Felix Mann
Director + Editor: Antonia Lindner
University of Television and Film Munich
Festivals:
Interfilm 39th Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Berlin – „Deutscher Wettbewerb"
FILMZ Mainz 2023
Kurzfilmsause Freiburg – Blackwood Filmfestival - Audience Award 2nd place
Tbilisi International Student Film Festival 2023
Lange Nacht der Museen München 2023
Pune Short Film Festival 2023
Underdog Film Festival Wolfsburg 2023
Sehsuechte | 52nd international student film festival 2023
TakeOne Innsbruck 2023 - Winner 2nd Prize
Stills ©HFFMünchen
Then when the child was born
Digital Video
07:38
2020
Germany / Canada
A look at the perforated german past.
AIR
Digital Video
04:32
2021
USA/Canada
A human reality in the future under changed environmental conditions. How will the atmosphere and the air we breathe once our oceans’ biodiversity is exhausted? Will there be air to breathe when the big blue ecosystem collapsed entirely and its function as oxygen generator is history? The video attempts to preserve a possible reality which did not happen yet and which might be preventable if tangible pictures are given of how our future might look like if it is too late to act and to recover appreciation for our fragile environment and life support system, nature.
The constant noise inside and outside recreates a numbness of the body under the imagined circumstances. Sparse dialogue results from an imagined numbness of the mind, suppressed by an oppressed environment. Natural, organic connection is needed more than ever.
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AIR 1.0
Digital Video
1:54
2020
USA
A human reality in the future under changed environmental conditions. How will the atmosphere and the air we breathe once our oceans’ biodiversity is exhausted? Will there be air to breathe when the big blue ecosystem collapsed entirely and its function as oxygen generator is history? The video attempts to preserve a possible reality which did not happen yet and which might be preventable if tangible pictures are given of how our future might look like if it is too late to act and to recover appreciation for our fragile environment and life support system, nature.
The constant noise inside and outside recreates a numbness of the body under the imagined circumstances. Sparse dialogue results from an imagined numbness of the mind, suppressed by an oppressed environment. Natural, organic connection is needed more than ever.
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Tripolar
Digital Video
0:49
Music by Barry Despenza
2019
USA
Does the present = one historical event + another? Which human variables in what relation created events in our past and present? Can we compare our present to a mathematical equation depicted through editing, even though the process is instinctive and brute, in short, human?
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Der Panther
Found Footage Digital Video
0:56
Music and Recording by Barry Despenza
2020
USA
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