Meeting
2020 | 8 min | Shorts
In Jannis Alexander Kiefer's short film, which is also being shown at interfilm, employees are immersed in seemingly endless conference calls.
Jannis Alexander Kiefer
DirectorJannis Alexander Kiefer, born in Gießen in 1989, is a German director and filmmaker. He pursued his studies in scenic arts at the University of Hildesheim before specializing in directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. He gained widespread recognition with his short film *KOLLEGEN* (2020), which was honored with the German Short Film Award in Gold. The film also received the Audience Award at the 2021 Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival. His more recent works include the short film *IT'S A MATCH* (2022), which was also screened at festivals.
Films
Good German Work
2020 | 14 min | Shorts
In Jannis Alexander Kiefer's short film, which is also being shown at interfilm, an absurd film project shakes up a village.
Comments - Away From Keyboard
2017 | 5 min | Shorts
This short by Jannis Alexander Kiefer, presented on Sooner as a highlight for interfilm 2025, takes a look at Germany's digital heritage.
Bonbon
2020 | 16 min | Shorts
Jannis Alexander Kiefer's short, presented as an interfilm 2025 highlight on Sooner, follows a child searching for his father at a carnival parade.
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Comments - Away From Keyboard
2017 | 5 min | Shorts
In four concise chapters, Jannis Alexander Kiefer's short film, which is also being shown at interfilm, demonstrates how quickly digital anger and hatred can turn into real violence. Based on typical online discussions, the film traces the dynamics that arise in social networks when anonymity and peer pressure lead to disinhibition. Without pointing fingers, but with keen observation, Jannis Alexander Kiefer dissects the language of the internet and its consequences in everyday life. In doing so, ...
Good German Work
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, ...
Rosa
2004 | 2 min | Shorts
Eduard is afraid of the color pink. Sabine likes Robert and the color pink. Will that work out? Malte Wirtz is a German filmmaker and theater director known for his experimental and independent work. With a background in theater studies and directing, Wirtz's works often combine socio-critical topics with unconventional aesthetic approaches. His style is characterized by a clear handwriting that combines minimalism and intense character studies. In addition to feature films, he has also made short ...
Rot
2004 | 3 min | Shorts
A woman who has a penchant for the color yellow loves a man who only has eyes for the color red. To win him over, she comes up with a few ideas to convince him of her merits. Will her love be reciprocated? Malte Wirtz is a German filmmaker and theater director known for his experimental and independent work. With a background in theater studies and directing, Wirtz often combines socio-critical topics with unconventional aesthetic approaches in his works. His style is characterized by a clear handwriting ...
So bright the night
2019 | 14 min | Documentary
As night advances and the darkness overtakes the light, tranquility reigns. But when most peolpe are drifting off to sleep, others are awaken by the ringing of their alarm clocks. Night workers are on the job from sunset to sunrise. SO BRIGHT THE NIGHT is both a short documentary and a 5-minute piano piece. "A beautiful and lovingly crafted documentary that focuses on various professional groups who work night shifts. The film provides an insight into a strange world in the dark that silently masters ...
Robin
2008 | 21 min | Shorts
The film was shot on the "Kölnberg" high-rise complex in Cologne-Meschenich, which is considered a social hotspot. Hanno Olderdissens's graduation film from the International Film School Cologne was awarded more than ten prizes internationally. Robin is eight when his mother Sabine becomes pregnant again. Because Sabine is overwhelmed with child, new boyfriend and pregnancy, Robin has to go to a foster home. When he returns after three months, the situation has not improved at all. The mother's new ...
Lockbuster
2015 | 9 min | Shorts
When all his colleagues leave the office for exciting holidays, office clerk Joost locks himself in the storage room. The only way to escape is to unleash the hero within himself.
Forward
2011 | 15 min | Shorts
Seventeen-year-old Chris Thesemann lives as a childish oddball and loner in an ideal family world. One day, he disappears from home and meets Lotte, a prostitute in her late 40s. Chris has a very specific reason for seeking out this woman. Her life hasn't gone as planned either, but she takes life as it comes. Director and screenwriter Kim Münster slowly unfolds Chris's life story and family circumstances. The protagonist of NACH VORNE experiences the divorce of his foster parents and runs away ...
Monday – A German Love Story
2017 | 5 min | Shorts
Klaus lives for his work. He loves it when he and his colleagues stamp files to the beautifully choreographed beat of the time clock. If only it weren't for that annoying end of the working day, which forces him out of the temple of productivity and into his dreary home. "Anyone wondering how outsiders imagine everyday life in the German office can get the perfect picture of it with MONDAY." (Sooner curator Eva Neidlinger)
Everything Has an End
2022 | 15 min | Comedy
Helen tries to do everything right, but the customers aren't interested in the middle-aged woman in the vendor's tray sausage grill. As the straps cut deeper and deeper, Helen has to break out and from then on does everything wrong, or right? Go Helen! The oversized sausage hovers over Helen's head like a thundercloud. The bratwurst metal corset glows in bright color, but no one approaches the mid-50-year-old as if she were invisible. Despite her precarious work situation, she wants to meet the ...