Comments

film type documentary film, experimental film Production Country Germany production year 2017 runtime 5'00 colour
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch

COMMENTS casts a glance at the German digital legacy of our society and is devoted to digital words: Real commentaries from YouTube are interpreted and presented afresh in different chapters. (Amateur) actors embody the protagonists of the virtual conversations and give them human form thanks to the semi-documentary style adopted. This brings the true, yet bodiless events into a reality that the camera can then cover.

director Jannis Alexander Kiefer Besetzung / Cast Christian Schlemmer, Jürgen Heimüller, Kevin Patzke, Philipp Nazarov Szenenbild / Production Design Anna Lechner, Lara Roßwag Schnitt / Editing Kathrin Unger Bildgestaltung / DOP Adam Graf Produktion / Production Milena Schäpers Drehbuch / Script Jannis Alexander Kiefer Tongestaltung / Sound Design Clemens Ruh film school Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Festivals
2018 Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival, Germany
2018 Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, Germany
2018 Aaretaler Kurzfilmtage, Trimstein, Switzerland
2018 cellu l’art Kurzfilmfestival Jena, Germany
2018 KURZSUECHTIG - Mitteldeutsches Kurzfilmfestival, Leipzig, Germany
2018 Festival of Nations, Lenzing, Austria
2018 Leiden Shorts, Netherlands
2018 filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin, Germany
2018 FEST International Film Festival, Espinho, Portugal
2018 Filmfest Osnabrück - Festival des Unabhängigen Films, Germany
2018 Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany
2018 Film and Art Festival Two Riversides, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland
2018 Warsaw International Film Festival, Poland
2018 Flensburger Kurzfilmtage, Germany
2018 TiSFF Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival, Greece
2018 exground filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany
2018 EARLY BIRD International Student Film Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
2018 FILMZ - Festival des deutschen Kinos, Mainz, Germany
2018 Ruhrtriennale, Bochum, Germany
2018 SHORTS – Trinationales Filmfestival am Oberrhein, Offenburg, Germany
2018 Arc Filmfestival, Mainz, Germany
2018 International Changing Perspectives Short Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
2018 Timisoara Refugee Art Film Festival, Romania
2018 International Short Film Festival Detmold, Germany
2018 Taratsa International Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
2018 Short Film Breaks Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
2018 Caminhos Film Festival, Coimbra, Portugal
2018 KisaKes Short Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
2018 International Inter-University Short Film Festival, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2018 Wallabout Film Festival, New York, USA (Best Concept)
2018 Internationales Willi Münzenberg Forum, Berlin, Germany (2. Platz Kurzfilmwettbewerb)
Awards
2018 SHORT TIGER Award Short Tiger 2018
2018 Global University Film Awards 2018
Production
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Cristina Marx
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Deutschland
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de
Distribution
  • Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg
  • Axel Behrens
  • Bodenstedtstr. 16
  • 22765 Hamburg
  • +49 40 39106318
  • https://shortfilm.com
Sales
  • Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg
  • Anna Leimbrinck
  • Bodenstedtstr.16
  • 22765 Hamburg
  • Deutschland
  • +49 40 3910 6328
  • http://shortfilmsales.com
School
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Deutschland
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de

Jannis Alexander Kiefer

Studying directing at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF;
his first-year film COMMENTS was selected by more than 80 festivals worldwide and won several awards

Filmography
2018 Comments
2019 Kaiser
2020 Bonbon
2020 Kollegen