1986 | 4 min | Shorts
With quirky charm and DIY panache this short film captures a young woman's everyday annoyances. DER MENSCH IST SEINES LEBENS FROH - NICHT NUR ALS EMBRYO by Maren-Kea Freese is a rediscovered rough cut gem from the 80's West Berlin Super 8 underground.
1984 | 5 min | Shorts
This unique architectural documentary shows both the apartment's interior, with its art posters, dishes strewn across the kitchen table and leafy plants as signifiers of a non-conformist lifestyle, as well as views of the courtyard and street. The studio's inhabitant remains unseen but is present through the point of view cinematography. The International Building Exhibition (IBA) awarded the film its prize for its creative use of cinema in exploring urban space and lifestyle. The short experimental ...
1990 | 4 min | Shorts
The pastoral setting of WARTEN (Waiting) belies the main character's inner turmoil as she wonders if what or who she's waiting for will ever come. Freese succeeds at showing the woman's state of mind through minimal means. WARTEN was Freese's application film for Berlin's prestigious German Film and Television Academy (dffb), which accepted her. WARTEN (Waiting) by Maren-Kea Freese is a rediscovered gem of the 1980's Super 8 underground in West Berlin.
1984 | 8 min | Shorts
Maren-Kea Freese movie is a rediscovered gem of the Super 8 underground in 1980's West Berlin. The short film is a two-hander showing the absurdities of modern relationships. A man and woman alone in a room with just a boardgame between them. What's the next move?... TREFFPUNKT ER + SIE experiments with wordless acting, editing and ironic use of music to create an offbeat variation of romantic comedies.
1999 | 79 min | Timeless
Maren-Kea Freese's ZOE was her award-winning graduate film as a student at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin that perfectly encapsulated the lives of drifters in Berlin at the turn of the millennium. Just as the Berlin School is low-key and stoic (and Freese does share a similar lean toward the anti-dramatic), ZOE is laconic, yet near hallucinatory. "Fascinating portrait of one of the 'broken characters' that director/author Freese is so fond of." (Moving Pictures). ZOE is the main ...
1992 | 15 min | Shorts
Zoe is an elevator girl at the TV tower on Alexanderplatz and lives in a cramped bathroom. Maren-Kea Freese shows the everyday life of a woman in a city in transition who is searching for herself. ZOE was made in 1992, not long after the reunification of Berlin. The film shows in poetic black and white and 16mm images East Berlin districts like Mitte before many buildings were modernized or have vanished. ZOE captures a moment in Berlin's history and paints a sensitive portrait of "Generation X" ...
2017 | 20 min | Shorts
In the shop, their relationship meets bigger ordeals than they ever would have imagined. Is this really how a relationship works, or are they the subjects of a capitalist conspiracy?
2015 | 4 min | Shorts
Zoey's first night as a superhero is nearly ruined when she's given a sexy and impractical uniform. What is appropriate attire for superhero sidekicks? And who is the sidekick anyway? Zoey negotiates these questions on her first day in the heroing business.
2020 | 14 min | Shorts
In Jannis Alexander Kiefer's short film, which is also being shown at interfilm, two craftsmen, Uli and Didi, In their workshop somewhere between rural idyll and village dreariness, are building a swastika and puzzling over the strange newcomers to the village. GOOD GERMAN WORK (orignal title: KOLLEGEN) by Jannis Alexander Kiefer was produced in 2020 and shows how everyday routines can give rise to moral conflicts. The film celebrated its festival debut at the Interfilm Festival Berlin, among others, ...
2015 | 51 min | Drama
Silent movie meets musical in this intense and colourful version of the classic piece by Goethe, FAUST. The devil wagers with God that he can lead Berlin-Kreuzberg musician Faust astray. Faust composes a sure-fire hit and falls for the virtuous Gretchen. Fate is set to take its course. Director Mingus Ballhaus is a graduate of the DFFB - German Film and Television Academy Berlin, who lives and works in Berlin as a filmmaker and drummer. Here Ballhaus is supported by cinematographer Jide Tom Akinleminu ...
2017 | 10 min | Shorts
Lucy (Rosalie Thomass) regularly shoplifts at the supermarket with her baby in the stroller. One day she is confronted by the store detective and reveals her secret to him. Lucy is tired of pretending to be the perfect mother. "She is torn between her own aspirations and the reality in which they find themselves after the birth of their child." (Director's comment - Pola Beck). A film about the absurdities of being a mom today. "KLEPTOMAMAMI is nothing more and nothing less than a wonderfully amusing ...