Sehsüchte - 45th International Student Film Festival Filmuniversity Babelsberg

Once upon a time in America. Two teenagers want to escape the dreary everyday life and the broken world around them. They hitchhike their way out of America. What begins as a reverie about a better, wilder life turns out to be more serious than the two had imagined. The line between fiction and reality begins to blur.

 Best Feature Film Short

Fabian travels to Lisbon to follow his ex-girlfriend Doro. He wants back the love of his life. He wants to fight for her. At first, things seem to be going great under the Portuguese sun, but old vices are catching up with Fabian. Breaking waves, dark erotic and smothering love make for an impressive, sinister relationship thriller.

 Best Feature Film

A man is living alone in a small house in England. Nothing special, really. But his hobby is quite something: He collects lifelike dolls and spends most of his day with them. Next to some photoshoots and tea time, even erotic experiments are part of his day.

 best documentary (short)

Inside the dark sewers, the little mouse Robin is sitting surrounded by his collected treasures. But then the disgusting little slug Necki causes Robin’s most treasured item, a book filled with pictures of landscapes, to fall down the drain. To save it, Robin has to leave his home and, together with Necki, outgrow his fears.

 Best Children's Film

Did I turn off the oven? Did I lock the door? Everyday anxieties are taking over Ruben’s mind more and more, which consequently leads to absurdity. Reality and fantasy are merging more and more.

 Best Animation Film

An unmanned old-timer is driving through the city at night to pick up three passengers. Three humans, and three goals: each of them has a different idea about what to do with the car. The pregnant Nadia wants nothing more than cosmetic surgery, Billy is searching for the great love and Duco simply wants to impress his girlfriend with the car. But only one of them can have the car, and the three are willing to do everything to keep it.

 Best Genre Film

“If you aren’t in touch with nature, you’re not a Faroese!” The Faroese, islanders constantly moving between keeping traditions and adapting to modern life, are heavily criticized for their pilot whale hunting by animal rights activists. But for the Faroese, whale hunting is done to ensure self-sufficiency. An icy conflict depicted with imagery that is most certainly not for the faint of heart.

 Audience Award

The Berlin Wall is torn down and invasive worm UFOs infect the population of the GDR with a zombie virus that no one can escape from. But a few, fearless heroes decide to face the undead, bloody horde. The tough field worker Irene, the son of an SED official, Bobo, as well as the Soviet soldier Aljoscha. Time to fight, comrades!

 Best Screenplay

Camille escapes her past and meets Lena, who puts her under her wings. Lena lives with her gang of four girls, who share everything. They understand he world as their playground, but also as their enemy. A film about strong women who try to live their life without any help from adults.

 Best Youth Film

 Best Music Video

Once upon a time, Laura fought to have the crimes committed during military dictatorship remembered, but now her dementia has taken away the painful memories. When the director of this documentary meets her grandmother in Argentina, the history of the country is blended with her family’s fate, and forms a gripping tale about forgetfulness.

 best documentary (long)

Uwe, a notorious drunk, lives in the Swabian village Martringen. After a night out with heavy drinking, he witnesses the murder of beauty queen Susi. But no one believes the outsider, so he decides to take matters into his own hands. A strange crime story in Swabian.

 Producers Award