PRINCESS

film type fiction Production Country Germany production year 2017 runtime 16'20 colour Color
screening format DCP aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Stereo languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Stereo languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch

When 11-year-old gang leader Ole and his buddies Marco and Milan nicked 12-year-old Davie's school bag, Ole could never in his wildest dreams have imagined that a short time later he would appear on stage with Davie at a school karaoke contest dressed as a princess with makeup on... Neither could his friends.

director Karsten Dahlem Cast Ava Taremizad, Emil Pai Pötschke, Noah Lakmes, Phillip Breu Original Score Hajo Wiesemann, Philip Zdebel Szenenbild / Production Design Justyna Jaszczuk Editing Diana Matous DOP Juhani Zebra Production Adrian Topol, Nick Guido van Ginneken Script Karsten Dahlem, Stephan Lacant Sound Design Marc Reinkober
Festivals
2017 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken, Germany
2017 Transgender Film Festival, Kiel, Germany (Best Short Film, Best Actress)
2017 MOSCA - Mostra Audiovisual de Cambuquira, Brazil (Best International Short Film)
2017 KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, India
2017 20minmax Kurzfilmfestival Ingolstadt, Germany
2017 Cinema in Sneakers Film Festival for Children and Youth, Warsaw, Poland
2017 DIGO Goiás International Film Festival on Gender and Sexual Diversity, Brazil
2017 Lovers Film Festival, Torino, Italy
2017 OderKurz-Filmspektakel, Oderaue, Germany
2017 Cinehill Motovun Film Festival, Zagreb, Motovun, Croatia
2017 Sardinia Film Festival, Sassari, Italy
2017 Shorts at Moonlight KurzFilmFestival, Hofheim, Germany
2017 Durban International Film Festival, South Africa
Awards
2017 Best Short Film Gold Movie Awards 2017
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Karsten Dahlem

The script FREIER FALL, which he co-wrote with Stephan Lacant was nominated for the Deutscher Filmpreis. His script FREMDE TOCHTER which he also co-wrote with Lacant has recently been filmed. His short film PRINCESS is Dahlem's debut as a director.