My Own Kind

film type experimental film, fiction Production Country Germany production year 2019 runtime 15'00 colour
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Dolby Digital languages Englisch Subtitles Englisch, Deutsch

Liliths life is governed by the expectations of others. She watches her best friend escape the bleak town, while she remains, a child in her arm, being told there is nothing like motherhood. Lilith confides for the first time that she did not want it. That she regrets its death but also its birth.

director Mirjam Khera Schnitt / Editing Marie Fontanel Bildgestaltung / DOP Jan Philip Ernsting Produktion / Production Jonathan Geller-Hartung Drehbuch / Script Jonathan Geller-Hartung, Mirjam Khera Tongestaltung / Sound Design Till Aldinger film school Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Festivals
2019 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
2019 Encounters International Short Film Festival, Bristol, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2019 Filmfest Osnabrück - Festival des Unabhängigen Films, Germany
2019 Filmplus - Festival für Filmschnitt und Montagekunst, Köln, Germany
2019 KFFK - Kurzfilmfestival Köln, Germany
Awards
2019 Nominierung Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2019
Production
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Cristina Marx
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Deutschland
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de
Distribution
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Cristina Marx
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Deutschland
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de
Sales
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Cristina Marx
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Deutschland
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de
School
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Deutschland
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de

Mirjam Khera

Born 1992 in Munich and grew up in an Indian-German household;
studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in New York;
her play ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE won the Strasberg Works Competition in 2011;
since 2015 she lives in Berlin

Filmography
2016 Alex / Alaa