Summer Hit

film type fiction Production Country Germany production year 2019 runtime 19'12 colour Color
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 1.66:1 sound format Dolby SR original-language Icelandic subtitles English, German, Spanish
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.66:1 sound format Dolby SR languages Englisch, Deutsch, Spanisch Subtitles Englisch, Deutsch, Spanisch

Laia from Spain and Emil from Iceland are Erasmus students in Munich. After having had sex for a couple of times, Emil professes his love to Laia - but she panics and runs away. Their time abroad is almost up, but they still have to find out whether this is just a summer thing or the real deal.

director Berthold Wahjudi Cast Atli Benedikt, Bente Lay, Katrin Filzen, Leonard Dick, Martina Roura Original Score Florian Paul, Nils Wrasse Szenenbild / Production Design Maribel Sengewald, Sophie Charlotte Hoffmann Editing Berthold Wahjudi, Philipp Link Script Berthold Wahjudi Production Philipp Link, Melissa Byrne DOP Tobias Blickle Sound Design Marius Bacza film school Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
Festivals
2019 Palm Springs International ShortFest, USA (Best Live-Action Short)
2019 Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers, France
2019 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken, Germany
2019 IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival, Pernik, Bulgaria
2019 FiSH Filmfestival Rostock, Germany (Publikumspreis)
2019 Poitiers Film Festival, France
2019 Paris International Short Film Festival, France
2019 Sehsuechte – Internationales Studierendenfilmfestival Sehsüchte, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany
2019 filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin, Germany
2019 Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival, Ukraine
2019 Shorts at Moonlight KurzFilmFestival, Hofheim, Germany
2019 SHORTS Trinationales Filmfestival Offenburg, Germany (Publikumspreis)
2019 up-and-coming Internationales Film Festival Hannover, Germany
2019 Filmschau Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
2019 Bundes.Festival.Film., Remscheid, Germany (Preis für ein Besonderes Drehbuch, Preis für einen Besonderen Film zum Thema Europa und Zukunft)
2019 NUFF - Nordic Young Film Festival, Tromso, Norway
2019 Cerdanya Film Festival, Girona, Spain
2020 SXSW South by Southwest Conferences & Festivals, Austin, USA
Production
  • Gute Zeit Film
  • Philipp Link, Melissa Byrne
  • Dreimühlenstr. 24
  • 80469 München
  • http://www.gutezeit-film.com
Distribution
  • MAGNETFILM
  • Georg Gruber
  • Torstr. 154
  • 10115 Berlin
  • +49 30 24628156
  • http://www.magnetfilm.de
Sales
  • MAGNETFILM
  • Georg Gruber
  • Torstr. 154
  • 10115 Berlin
  • +49 30 24628156
  • http://www.magnetfilm.de
School
  • Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
  • Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1
  • 80333 München
  • Germany
  • http://www.hff-muc.de

Berthold Wahjudi

Born 1993 in Hamburg;
studied arts & sciences at the University College London and the University of California;
whilst studying, he worked as a reader and team assistant for Heyday Films and Rooks Nest Entertainment;
since 2016 studies directing at the University of Television and Film Munich

Filmography
2018 SUMMER'S END
2018 SIDE A / SIDE B
2018 PLAN B