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FOR REASONS UNKNOWN

film type experimental film, fiction Production Country Germany production year 2020 runtime 16'01 colour Color
screening format DCP aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Dolby Surround languages fantasy
screening format 35mm aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Dolby A languages Fantasy

A genre-pull in which the presence of the characters and the cinematic medium range between invisibility, heightened perception and physical presence. A real thriller!

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FOR REASONS UNKNOWN FOR REASONS UNKNOWN
director Tom Otte Animation Maris Polis Cast Bekim Latifi, Benjamin Hassmann, Sebastian Rudolph Editing Salka Tiziana, Tom Otte DOP Tom Otte Production Tom Otte Script Tom Otte Sound Design Jakob Spengemann film school Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg (HfbK)
Festivals
2020 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken, Germany
2020 Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany
2020 exground filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany
2020 interfilm Berlin: Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Germany
2020 KFFK/Kurzfilmfestival Köln, Germany
Production
  • FAUST Film
  • Tom Otte
  • Amselring 78
  • 24220 Flintbek
  • http://www.tom-otte.com
Distribution
  • FAUST Film
  • Tom Otte
  • Amselring 78
  • 24220 Flintbek
  • http://www.tom-otte.com
Sales
  • FAUST Film
  • Tom Otte
  • Amselring 78
  • 24220 Flintbek
  • http://www.tom-otte.com
School

Tom Otte

Born 1991;
graduated from the University of Fine Arts Hamburg in 2019 with the short film FOR REASONS UNKNOWN;
DoP on Salka Tiziana’s feature length debut TAL DÍA HIZO UN AÑO;
works as a freelance cinematographer

Filmography
2015 Küche des Glücks
2016 I Know When You’re Blue, I Know When You’re Lonely