Jupiter

film type fiction Production Country Germany production year 2019 runtime 13'58 colour
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby Digital languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch, Französisch, Spanisch
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby Digital languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch, Französisch, Spanisch

Only a few hours until a comet passes Earth at a threatening distance. A shy girl is travelling with her family to a remote cabin in the alps, where she has to decide wether to pursue her own path on Earth or to follow her parents, members of a cosmic cult, through a fatal procedure into a higher existence on Jupiter.

http://www.dreifilm.de/portfolio/jupiter

Official Trailer: https://vimeo.com/332024116

director Benjamin Pfohl Besetzung / Cast Cosima Shaw, Greta Bohacek, Kai Ivo Baulitz, Thekla Hartmann Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Gary Hirche Szenenbild / Production Design Markus Dicklhuber Schnitt / Editing Valesca Peters Bildgestaltung / DOP Tim Kuhn Produktion / Production Alexander Fritzemeyer, Martin Kosok Drehbuch / Script Benjamin Pfohl Tongestaltung / Sound Design Andreas Goldbrunner film school Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
Festivals
2019 Encounters International Short Film Festival, Bristol, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2019 interfilm Berlin: Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Germany
2019 Brussels Short Film Festival, Belgium
2019 Edinburgh International Film Festival, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2019 Warsaw International Film Festival, Poland
2019 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia
2019 Sapporo International Short Film Festival, Japan
2019 Izmir International Short Film Festival, Turkey
2019 International Short Film Festival Cyprus, Limassol
2019 BRNO SIXTEEN - International ShortFilmFestival Brno, Czech Republic
2019 International Student Film and Video Festival of Beijing Film Academy (ISFVF), China
2019 Internationales Festival der Filmhochschulen München, Germany
2019 Wendland Shorts Kurzfilmfestival, Lüchow, Germany
2019 San Sebastián Horror & Fantasy Film Festival, San Sebastian, Spain
2019 STIFF Student International Film Festival, Rijeka, Croatia
2019 Internationales Filmfest Braunschweig, Germany
2019 TiSFF Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival, Greece
2019 International Cinematographers Film Festival Manaki Brothers, Bitola, Republic of North Macedonia
2019 Filmfestival Münster, Germany
2019 exground filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany
2019 Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney, Germany
2019 filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin, Germany
2019 Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival, Germany
2019 SHORTS – Trinationales Filmfestival am Oberrhein, Offenburg, Germany
2019 Kurzfilmtage Thalmässing, Germany
2019 Grenzland-Filmtage, Selb, Germany
2019 blicke - filmfestival des ruhrgebiets, Bochum, Germany
2019 Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, Germany
Production
  • DREIFILM
  • Martin Kosok
  • Schellingstr. 129
  • 80798 München
  • http://www.dreifilm.de
Sales
  • interfilm Berlin Management GmbH
  • Cord Dueppe
  • Straßburger Str. 55
  • 10405 Berlin
  • Deutschland
  • +49 30 25942903
  • http://www.interfilm.de
School
  • Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
  • Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1
  • 80333 München
  • Deutschland
  • http://www.hff-muc.de

Benjamin Pfohl

Born in Cologne;
worked on several national and international feature film productions before enrolling at the University of Television and Film Munich;
wrote and directed several short films and was awarded a FIPRESCI prize;
his graduation short JUPITER competed in over forty film festivals worldwide and was shortlisted for the BAFTA Student Film Award

Filmography
2010 Munich Bohème
2012 Die Einsamkeit des Jägers
2014 Amazigh Ghostland
2014 Totes Land