Teheran Kitchen

film type documentary film Production Country Germany production year 2009 runtime 17'00 colour Color
screening format Beta SP aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby Digital original-language Farsi, Turkish subtitles German

Between 600 kebabs and nagging students we find three cooks and a kitchen help in a small canteen working with wit and irony while doing their duties, philosophising about food and life in general. And still there is a lot more that makes this place something special.

director Pola Beck Original Score Majeed Qadianie Editing David Wnendt DOP Thomas Moritz Helm Production Cristina Marx Script Pola Beck Sound Design Johannes Peters film school Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Festivals
Brooklyn International Film Festival, New York, USA
Shorts at Moonlight KurzFilmFestival, Hofheim, Germany
Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany
exground filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany
FILMFEST DRESDEN - International Short Film Festival, Dresden, Germany
Filmfest Osnabrück - Festival des Unabhängigen Films, Germany
FSF - International Student Film Festival, Belgrad, Serbia
interfilm Berlin: Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Germany (Bester Dokumentarfilm)
Flensburger Kurzfilmtage, Germany (Förderpreis)
Production
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Cristina Marx
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Germany
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de
Sales
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Cristina Marx
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Germany
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de
School
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Germany
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de

Pola Beck

Born 1982 in Berlin;
2005-2011 studied directing at the Film and Televison Academy "Konrad Wolf";
her graduation film BREAKING HORIZONS won numerous international awards;
currently she is developing new TV & cinema projects

Filmography
2005 Five to Six
2006 Sternstunden
2008 In Deiner Haut
2009 Teheran Kitchen
2010 Der Kreis in dem sie reist
2012 Am Himmel der Tag