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Mascha

film type fiction Production Country Germany production year 2025 runtime 13'24 colour Color
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format 5.1 Audiomix original-language German, English subtitles English

Mascha is homeless and lives in her car. When Mascha loses her car one day, she has to find a safe place in the city to spend the night. In a mixed format with fictional and documentary elements, MASCHA tells the borderline experience of a young homeless woman.

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director Laura Engelhardt Production Laura Engelhardt, Florian Dedek Script Laura Engelhardt Editing Laura Engelhardt DOP Linda Schefferski Cast Lea Willkowsky Sound Design Janis Ahnert Szenenbild / Production Design Renate Mihatsch film school Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
Festivals
2025 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken, Germany
School
  • Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
  • Heumarkt 14
  • 50667 Köln
  • Germany
  • +49 221 201890
  • http://www.khm.de
Production
  • Filmbetrieb
  • Laura Engelhardt
  • Rothehausstr. 5
  • 50832 Köln
Distribution
  • Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
  • Ute Dilger
  • +49 221 20189 330
  • https://www.khm.de/
Sales
  • Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
  • Ute Dilger
  • +49 221 20189 330
  • https://www.khm.de/

Laura Engelhardt

Works as filmmaker, artist and producer, is co-founder of the Cologne-based production company Filmbetrieb;
holds a BA Architecture, an MA Spatial Strategies, and studied film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne;
her shorts have been shown internationally in artistic contexts and at festivals

Filmography
2014 Home on Display
2015 Bauangriff
2016 Vorort
2019 Aufzeichnungen aus der Nachbarschaft
2020 Auftritt und Abgang von Mascha B.
2024 Violet
2025 Mascha

Portrait of Laura Engelhardt