Inflatable bear, hourly

new film type fiction Production Country Germany production year 2025 runtime 11'59 colour Color
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.33:1 (4:3) sound format 5.1 Audiomix original-language German, English, Russian subtitles English

A young immigrant actress, dressed as a costumed bear, faces a surreal odyssey in Berlin's Soviet-era outskirts, where a chaotic birthday party blends humor, tragedy, and the echoes of a home she cannot forget.

director Elisabeth Werchosin Production Kiriil Krasovski, Elisabeth Werchosin, Roman Blatman Script Elisabeth Werchosin Editing Elisabeth Werchosin DOP Roman Blatman Original Score Aleksey Komasa Sound Design Sasha Valent Cast Varvara Shmykova, Corinna Kirchhoff
Festivals
2025 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France (Official selection)
2025 Go Short International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, Netherlands (Official selection)
2025 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, Argentina (Official selection)
2025 Lago Film Fest, Treviso, Italy (Official selection)
2025 CURTA CINEMA - Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Brazil (Official selection)
2025 Valencia International Film Festival 'Cinema Jove', Spain (Official selection)
2025 Palm Springs International ShortFest, USA (Official selection)
2025 Minikino Film Week – Bali International Short Film Festival, Denpasar, Indonesia (Official selection)
2025 FEST - New Directors | New Films Festival, Espinho, Portugal (Official selection)
2025 Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia (Official selection)
2025 Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad, Norway (Official selection)
2025 interfilm Berlin: Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Germany (Official selection)
2025 Short Cuts Cologne, Köln, Germany (Official selection)
2025 Linz International Short Film Festival, Austria (Official selection)
2025 Cork Film Festival, Ireland (Official selection)
2025 Certamen Internacional de Cortos Ciudad de Soria, Greece (Official selection)
Distribution
  • Blue Monticola Film
  • Gregory Bagaev
Sales
  • Blue Monticola Film
  • Gregory Bagaev
Production
  • Blue Monticola Film
  • Elisabeth Werchosin

Elisabeth Werchosin

Elisabeth Werchosin, born 1995 in Pskov, Russia, to a family of German immigrants. She graduated as a film director from the Saint Petersburg University of Film and Television and moved to Berlin in 2022. Besides working as an assistant director in filmmaking, she is participating in an project as a photographer.

Filmography
2021 Lesezeichen
2023 Wir trauern
2025 Inflatable bear, hourly