SHORT FICTIONAL FILM| 9’ | GERMANY | 2017 | PREMIERE IN SPAIN
DIRECTOR: Rebecca Panian

CAST

  • Olivia: Daniela Schulz
  • Girl: Liv Killing
  • Barista: Björn von der Wellen
  • Security: Christoph Letkowski
  • Bus Driver: Tom Keune
  • Young Man: Bernardo Arias Porras

SYNOPSIS

You want to drink your coffee peacefully but instead you end up in a situation where people start to stir up hatred against refugees – what do you do?
While waiting for her train in a café a young woman (Olivia) suddenly ends up in a situation where the barista chases away a begging girl and starts to stir up hatred against refugees with two customers. Olivia has to decide whether to simply leave the place like another customer does or to take action.

FESTIVALES

  • 22.09.2017 * 23rd ENCOUNTERS INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM AND ANIMATION FESTIVAL (Official selection, WORLD
    PREMIERE, Bristol, UK)
  • 29.11.2017 * 30th FOYLE FILM FESTIVAL (Official selection, Derry, UK)
  • 16.03.2018 * THE SOUTH FILM AND ARTS ACADEMY FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Santiago, Chile)
  • *BEST DRAMA SHORT FILM*
  • *BEST SCREENPLAY*
  • *LEAD ACTRESS HONORABLE MENTION*
  • *YOUNG ACTRESS HONORABLE MENTION*
  • *BEST AUDIENCE AWARD*
  • 10.04.2018 * KING’S TRANSNATIONAL LAW SUMMIT 2018 (Official Selection, London, UK)
  • *4th PRIZE*
  • 06.04.2018 * 18th BEVERLY HILLS FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, CA, USA)
  • 07.04.2018 * 16th FESTIVAL INT’L SIGNES DE NUIT (Official Selection, Berlin, Germany)
  • 16.04.2018 * 3rd FEMINIST BORDER ARTS FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, New Mexico, USA)
  • 01.05.2018 * 28th FILMKUNSTFEST MV (Official Selection, Schwerin, Germany)
  • 02.05.2018 * 2nd VISIONÄR FILM FESTIVAL 2018 (Official Selection, Berlin, Germany)
  • 11.05.2018 * 24th KURZFILMTAGE THALMÄSSING (Official Selection, Germany)
  • 18.05.2018 * 5th FESTIVAL OF NATIONS 2018 (Official Selection, Lenzing, Austria)
  • 23.05.2018 * MIAMI SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (German Short Film Night, Miami, FL, USA)
  • 31.05.2018 * 13th BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Great Barrington, MA, USA)
  • 06.06.2018 * 5th LITERALLY SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Houston, TX, USA)
  • 09.06.2018 * 2nd THE BUDDHA INT’L FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Pune, Maharashtra, India)
  • 13.06.2018 * PORTO 7 – INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Porto, Portugal)
  • *BEST INTERNATIONAL FICTION*
  • 22.06.2018 * 3rd PAPHOS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Cyprus)
  • 28.06.2018 * 10th CINEGLOBE FILM & VR FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Geneva, Switzerland)
  • 15.07.2018 * 3rd DRUNKEN FILM FEST (Official Selection, Bradford, United Kingdom)
  • 17.07.2018 * 5th KO:SH FILM FEST – INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Tirana, Albania)
  • 06.08.2018 * 11th LVIV INT’L SHORT FILM FESTIVAL WIZ-ART (Official Selection, Lviv, Ukraine)
  • 14.08.2018 * 5th FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE CINE PEQUEÑO OF ASPE (Official Selection, Alicante, Spain)
  • 25.08.2018 * 18th BLISSFEST333 INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Denver, CO, USA)
  • 01.09.2018 * 7th CHEFCHAOUEN INT’L FILM FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH (Official Selection, Chauen, Morocco)
  • 13.09.2018 * 8th QUEBEC CITY FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Quebec, Canada)
  • 16.09.2018 * 24th INT’L SHORT FILM FESTIVAL IN DRAMA (Official Selection, Drama, Greece)
  • 21.09.2018 * 3rd REVOLUTION ME FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, New York, USA)
  • 29.09.2018 * BALTIC FILM ART FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Lübeck, Germany)
  • 04.10.2018 * 8th FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE FINE ARTS (Official Selection, Miramar, Puerto Rico)
  • *BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORTFALL*
  • 10.10.2018 * 9th OFFLINE FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Birr, Ireland)
  • 11.10.2018 * 28th PÄRNU INTERNATIONAL FILM VIDEO FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Pärnu, Estonia)
  • 13.10.2018 * 7th BRISTOL RADICAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Bristol, UK)
  • 15.10.2018 * 3rd FECIS – SALTO INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Salto, Uruguay)
  • 17.10.2018 * 4th DURHAM REGION INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Oshawa, ON, Canada)
  • *HONORABLE MENTION – BEST SHORT FILM*
  • 25.10.2018 * CATHOLIC FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Seoul, Korea)
  • 25.10.2018 * 2nd COURAGE FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Berlin, Germany)
  • 30.10.2018 * 19th INTERNATIONAL IZMIR SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Izmir, Turkey)
  • 30.10.2018 * 40th BIBERACHER FILMFESTSPIELE (Official Selection, Biberach an der Riß, Germany)
  • 02.11.2018 * 6th YOFIFEST FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Yonkers, NY, USA)
  • 02.11.2018 * 16th TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Tirana, Albania)
  • 09.11.2018 * 48th ALCINE – FESTIVAL DE CINE DE ALCALÁ DE HENARES (Official Selection, Madrid, Spain)
  • 09.11.2018 * 6th EAT MY SHORTS – HAGENER KURZFILMFESTIVAL (Official Selection, Hagen, Germany)  *3rd PLACE*
  • 10.11.2018 * 17th REGGIO FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Reggio Emilia, Italy)
  • 14.11.2018 * 18th FLENSBURGER KURZFILMTAGE (Special Program, Flensburg, Germany)
  • 20.11.2018 * 5th DUBLING FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Dublin, Ireland)
  • 21.11.2018 * BRAZILIAN INTERNATIONAL LABOUR FILM FESTIVAL / MOSTRA CINETRABALHO (Official Selection, São Paulo, Brazil)
  • 26.11.2018 * KINOFILM – MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM & ANIMATION FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Manchester, United Kingdom)
  • 01.12.2018 * 21st OLYMPIA INT’L FILM FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE (Official Selection, Pyrgos, Greece)
  • 14.12.2018 * 29th ISTANBUL INT’L SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Istanbul, Turkey)

TRAILER

REBECCA PANIAN

After her pre-film-life as a sign writer, a Flight Attendant and a Graphic Designer, Rebecca Panian worked as a TV-Editor for Endemol Germany and as a freelance-editor and director for the Swiss Television and did her Bachelor of Arts in journalism. Since 2006 she realizes documentaries and fictional film projects. From 2012 till 2015 she did her Master’s in directing fiction at the ZHdK in Switzerland. She finished her studies with the short film FRAGILE, which has been shown on several festivals worldwide. Her first feature length documentary ZU ENDE LEBEN – DYING TO LIVE won the Audience Award at the Zurich Film Festival 2014 and had its theatrical release in Switzerland in April 2015.