Vernacular Heroes ! – at Shorts Attack in October 2011

 

Dialects are an integral part of the German language. And when vernacular takes hold of a film, expect the preposterous! This round of Shorts Attack visits a variety of German speaking regions in 12 films – and the old rule applies: Those who chatter the most are usually the hands down winners!

 

 

The program:

DARK AGES  [ Futuristic vision in the Middle Ages ]
Ali Eckert, Daniel Acht, Germany 2002, Short Fiction
12 min
England 1256, at the scene of the last battle of the brave and the beginning of the European Union. But the real horror is yet to confront them, as King Arthur announces his visionary idea

 

HASE & IGEL  [ Translation meltdown ]
Sebastian Winkels, Germany 2000, Documentary
6 min
Freely adapted from Grimm’s tales: A group of German language crash course participants retell the most popular tale of swindle in German literature: true-to-life and in ‘Hare and the Hedgehog’ style.

 

DAS GRÜNE SCHAF  [ Marginalisation drama ]
Carsten Strauch, Germany 2008, Animation
4 min
Marcel doesn’t have it easy at school. As a green sheep he is often isolated and confronted with prejudices.

 

ICH BINS HELMUT  [ Familien-Epos ]
Nicolas Steiner, Germany/ Switzerland 2009, Short Fiction
12 min
Helmut celebrates his 60th birthday. He is in fact 57, but his wife got the date wrong. As the party begins, the veneer of lower middle-class domesticity gradually peels away.

 

PESCHI & POSCHI: WUNSCHLOS GLÜCKLICH
Jens Rosemann, Max Rademann, Germany, Animation
3 min
Peschi and Poschi buy a streusel cake. It’s quite obvious to have a philosophic conversation about that.

 

DREI KNÖDEL FÜR KNEISSEL  [ Penalisation thriller ]
Daniel Zinner, Germany 2011, Animation
10 min
Kneißl, a robber, sits in his cell awaiting execution. The 3 liver dumplings in his last meal keep him company. Their only wish is to be eaten by the great Kneißl, Robin Hood of the Bavarian Forests.

 

WURSCHT  [ Culinary swipe ]
Adele Raczkövi, Julian  Vavrovsky, Austria 2005, Animation
4 min
While lust for flesh sets the stage for romance, dreams, pain and love – knowledge of the real origins of sausage – meat and pork –  is generally suppressed.

 

DER ANNER WO ANNERSCHDER  – [ Travel film ]
Philipp Hartmann, Germany 2007, Documentary
3:30 min
Ze ozzer vun is form Karlsruh´. Zere is his home. Zat´s vhy he speaks a little bit strrhanche. Zen he goes somevere else and novun understands him.

 

 

DEMOKRATIE – [ Justice drama ]
Carsten Strauch, Deutschland 2000, Animation
3 min
It could have been so lovely when the animals came together in the forest clearing. Instead, the badger and the polecat quarrel about how to use the space.

 

UNDERGOUND ODYSSEY – [ Car Park -Thriller ]
Christos Dassios, Uli Grohs, Robert Nacken, Germany2010, Short Fiction
6 min
A mysterious lady hires two hoodlums with a matter of the utmost urgency. There’s hardly any time and it’s a long way to the car. So, time for a little story…

 

DER CONNY IHR PONY – [ Verkehrsmittel-Groteske ]
Robert Pohle, Martin Hentze, Germany 2008, Animation
5 min
Eleven year old Conny lives in small Swiss town and muses about how she can’t fit her pony on the bus.

 

 

HESSI JAMES – [ Western ]
Johannes Weiland, Germany 2000, Animation
6 min
It’s high noon in the Arizona desert: Cowboy John G.G. Tucker is a dreaded gunslinger. But there’s always someone else who’s faster – even if they don’t use a Colt.