In cooperation with interfilm Berlin a comprehensive program of short films will be shown on the screen of balancity. Besides insights in German culture and history these films mirror Germany’s lively short-film scene.
Location: Stage of the German Pavilion

Cityscapes

Forays through Germany: 14 films attest to the various facets of urban reality, between truth and fiction. Where documentary meets vision, art meets performance, architectural features are mirrored in imaginative fancy and metropolitan self-certainty is inflated by a lust for living.

A6/A9
Johannes Schiehsel | 2008 | 03:00 min
A peaceful landscape is devoured by never-ending concrete reptiles. The multi-lane bitumen skins melt into insane constructions.

City West Revisited
Ulf Staeger | 2006 | 08:00 min
The urban changements in the former city centre of West Berlin become visible with the help of time transitions.

Collosiaeus Urbanus Polyphagus
Doris Freigofas | 2008 | 03:00 min
The Collosiaeus Urbanus Polyphagus originally is a forest dweller, nowadays it is living in the city, where it frequently causes devastation.

Delivery
Till Nowak | 2005 | 09:00 min
An old hermit lives a lonely life in the dark shadows of industrial smog. One day he receives a mysterious package

Europe Free Running
Björn Beau | 2009 | 06:34 min
To reoccupy the urban space, three Free Runners need to distinguish and overcome their boundaries ending up in an energetic run through the city.

Journey to the Forest
Jörn Staeger | 2008 | 07:30 min
A digital poem about the woods in Germany. The viewer follows a trace of trees and roams trough man-made streets, fields and forests.

Last song, Coppery
Claudia Guilino | 2009 | 04:00 min
The mortal agony of the palace of the republic.

Ostkreuz
Laura Geiger, Tom Kretschmer | 2007 | 08:30 min
The railway station Ostkreuz, in Berlin, is more than 100 years old. For the first time in its history it will undergo a dramatic transformation. All that remains are memories of a time and how it used to be.

Say Hi to Our Mountains
Sven Knaut, Stephan Schulz | 2001 | 03:00 min
An urbane mountaineer climbs up a mountain. He has a picnic there, drinks too much and falls.

The Model
Florian Gwinner | 2006 | 06:30 min
The camera tracks slowly backwards through THE MODEL. Reality bites its own tail.

The Neon-Orange Cow
Mischa Leinkauf, Matthias Wermke | 2005 | 06:00 min
An expedition through Berlin at nighttime. The unusual approach to dealing with public space opens the view to discover something new in the known.

Urban Poems
Jörn Staeger | 2004 | 08:00 min
Taking as its basis seven destinations, the observer travels through urban areas from more than 20 German cities; each a tightly packed space in which the architectural epochs are overlapping, collageing or augmenting each other."

What Would the Drop Know About That
Jan Zabeil | 2007 | 12:00 min
Atmospherical and philosophical approach to the Reichstag, the house of the German parliament.

Whirr
Timo Katz | 2006 | 02:30 min
The variations on the facade standard that the inhabitants of a townhouse community have achieved become visible. Rhythmically set to the music of Japanese duo Fonica.