Short Export – Made in Germany

With the Short Export – Made in Germany 2021 programme once again and for the 16th time, outstanding German short films travel the world. In an unconventional yet authentic manner, they deal with change and challenges, home, arrival and overcoming trauma. They are powerful, loud and calm - and sometimes humorous.

Short Export is a German-French cooperation between AG Kurzfilm, German Films, Goethe-Institut Lyon, Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg and the International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand.

The programme consists of following films:

INNdependence
Michael Schwarz | Germany 2020 | Documentary | 17 min.
Corona lockdown 2020. All hotels, guest houses and youth hostels are closed – except one business hotel, which is housing 29 homeless people. However, their stay is only temporary…

Postpartum
Henriette Rietz | Germany 2020 | Animation | 5 min.
Postpartum describes the chaotic phase the protagonist enters when she becomes a mother for the first time. Pumped full of hormones and lacking sleep, this intense time has burned itself deep into her heart.

The one who crossed the sea
Jonas Riemer | Germany, Austria 2020 | Animated documentary | 11 min.
A refugee from the GDR crosses the Baltic Sea in a folding boat. Years later, he finds a new home in a burgeoning nationalist movement.

Seahorse
Nele Dehnenkamp | Germany 2020 | Documentary | 16 min.
Amid the prosaicness of a swimming course, a young Yezidi woman wrestles quietly with her terrifying memories of the Mediterranean Sea.

The chimney swift
Frédéric Schuld | Germany 2020 | Animation | 5 min.
19th-century Europe: A child climbs up a chimney while a bird glides down into it to build a nest. An encounter with no way back.

Masel Tov Cocktail
Arkadij Khaet, Mickey Paatzsch | Germany 2020 | Fiction | 30 min.
Ingredients: one Jew, twelve Germans, 5 ml culture of remembrance, 3 ml stereotypes, 2 tsp of patriotism, 1 tsp of Israel, 1 falafel, five Stolpersteine, a dash of antisemitism. 100 precent koscher!