Intercar presents: INTERFILM BERLIN
› Sunday, March 14th › 1 PM › Dufour Auditorium

Interfilm Berlin is more than just a festival: throughout the year, the organization also distributes German short films, plans and presents several "Shorts Attack!" series screenings, and organizes the "Underground Film Festival", which invites the public to experience the art of short film in the Berlin metro. REGARD is pleased to present the best in German short film, as this year we will be hosting Interfilm and the Berlin International Short Film Festival, which began in 1982. It is one of the longest-running film-related events in Germany and receives approximately 800 submissions every year. The Festival focuses mainly on narrative fiction shorts and creative, humourous animated shorts made within the past few years. These two genres are the ideal vehicles for powerfully evocative stories and characters that offer a unique vision of the world. This year, REGARD is also honoured to welcome Interfilm programmer Alexander Stein.

Programming:

Apple on a Tree | Une pomme dans un arbre by Astrid Rieger and Zeljko Vidovic
Germany› 2006 › fiction › BetaSP › 4 min 50 s
An apple regrets being transformed into a human and misses his life in the tree.

Der AufreiBer | The Pick Up Artist by Steffen Weinert
Allemagne › 2006 › fiction › 35 mm › 13 min
Right now, the only thing Olli wants is noncommittal, even anonymous, sex. But while leaving the house of his latest one-night-stand, he meets her six-year-old daughter, Yvonne, who is unhappy with her mother's less-than-perfect love life. The girl decides to find love for her mother, and a new father for herself.

Die Klärung eines Sachverhaltes | The Clarification of a Situation | Une Situation clarifiée by Christian Prettin and Sören Hüper
Germany › 2008 › fiction › 35 mm › 20 min
East Germany, 1985. During a 24-hour interrogation, an East German STASI secret police officer tries to force an engineer to withdraw his application to leave the country, and will stop at nothing to succeed.

Vidéo 3000 by Marc Schleiss and Jörg Edelmann
Germany › 2006 › animated › BetaSP › 5 min
Rolf has just bought a new Vidéo 3000 VCR. He hooks it up, grabs the remote, and...

STYX by Aike Arndt

Germany › 2007 › animated › BetaSP › 8 min 50 s
Everybody knows that after we die, we go to Hell first. But before Charon ferries us over the River Styx to the other side, we must rid ourselves of our worldly possessions and pay him.

ROBIN by Hanno Olderdissen
Germany › 2007 › fiction › 35 mm › 20 min 30 s
The smallest cuts hurt the most. Robin returns to his family after three months in a foster home and finds himself completely lost.

BENDE SIRA | IT'S MY TURN | C'EST MON TOUR by Ismet Ergün
Germany / Turkey › 2007 › fiction › 35 mm › 10 min 5 s
A group of boys have invented a game. After reciting a rhyme, they decide who will be going to the movies because the money they have isn't enough to pay for everyone.

Our Wonderful Nature | Notre magnifique nature by Tomer Eshed
Germany › 2008 › animated › 35 mm › 5 min 5 s
The mating rituals of the water shrew like you've never seen them before.