SIRENS

film type documentary film, experimental film Production Country Germany production year 2022 runtime 13'23 colour Color
screening format DCP aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Dolby Surround
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Dolby Surround
screening format DVD aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Dolby Surround

Monolithic power plants, billowing columns of smoke, the backdrop of a red sun. SIRENS is an experimental short documentary that captures Germany's coal-fired power plants in their final years of generating energy. Shot entirely from helicopters, the film takes us on a journey through industrial wastelands, thus recalling the passage of Ulysses' boat through the Sirens' strait. An odyssey through a dystopian industrial world that has left a permanent mark on Earth's ecosphere.

director Ilaria Di Carlo Script Ilaria Di Carlo Production Sophie Ahrens, Caroline Kox, Ilaria Di Carlo Editing Sofia Angelina Machado Original Score Demetrio Castellucci DOP Francisco Mece Szenenbild / Production Design Ilaria Di Carlo
Festivals
2022 ZubrOFFka International Short Film Festival, Białystok, Poland (Bester Kurzfilm)
2022 Drama International Short Film Festival, Greece (Honorable Mention)
2022 Split Film Festival, Croatia (Grand Prix)
2022 Flensburger Kurzfilmtage, Germany (Wagnis Prize)
2022 Montreal Festival du nouveau cinéma, Canada
2022 FILMFEST DRESDEN - International Short Film Festival, Dresden, Germany
2022 Braunschweig International Filmfestival, Germany
2022 REGARD – Saguenay International Short Film Festival, Canada
2022 2ANNAS: International Short Film Festival, Riga, Latvia
2022 Festival Internacional de Filmets, Badalona, Spain
2022 Torino Film Festival, Italy (Beste Kurzfilm)
2023 Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival, Germany (Honorable Mention)
2023 NaturVision Filmfestival, Ludwigsburg, Germany (Beste Kurzfilm)
2023 Euganea Film Festival, Monselice, Padua, Italy (Jury Prize)
2023 Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy
2023 Concorto Film Festival, Piacenza, Italy
2023 Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media, Germany
2023 ISMAILIA International Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts, Ismailia, Egypt
2023 Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, Germany
2023 KFFK/Kurzfilmfestival Köln, Germany
2023 filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin, Germany
2023 Neiße Film Festival, Großhennersdorf, Germany
2023 IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival, Pernik, Bulgaria
2023 Brno16, Czech Republic
2023 Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany
2023 Filmfestival Münster, Germany
2023 blicke filmfestival des ruhrgebiets, Bochum, Germany
2023 kontrast - Das Bayreuther Filmfest, Germany
2023 Lublin Film Festival, Poland
2023 OpenEyes Filmfest Marburg, Germany
2023 Werkleitz Festival, Halle (Saale), Germany
Production
  • Schuldenberg Films
  • Sophie Ahrens
  • http://www.paradies.works/
Distribution
  • Schuldenberg Films
  • Sophie Ahrens
  • http://www.paradies.works/
Sales
  • Schuldenberg Films
  • Sophie Ahrens
  • http://www.paradies.works/

Ilaria Di Carlo

Ilaria Di Carlo is an Italian artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. She studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Rome, at the Central Saint Martin's College of Art in London, and at the SAE Institute in Berlin. Her works as a filmmaker have been screened at numerous international film festivals and received multiple awards.

Filmography
2017 The Black Book of L
2018 The Divine Way
2019 Ad Sidera Mundi
2022 Sirens
2026 Poliphem (Polifemo)