Runtime
8 min.

 

Language

German (English subtitles)

 

Original title

Zarte Momente

 

Production Company
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

 

Cast
Ute: Freya Kreutzkam
Jens: Jörn Hentschel
Party Leader (Voice): Georg Sochurek

Team
DoP: Farina Hasak
Gaffer: Jan Fabi
Lighting Technician: Malte Schulz
Sound on Set: Alexander Stadelbacher, Ralf Höckel
Editor: Sabrina Mertens
Audio Mix: Sabrina Mertens
Music: Bastian Schick

Casting: Sabrina Mertens

Set Design: Sabrina Mertens

Producer: Joachim Weiler
Unit Manager: Lukas von Berg

Project Supervisor: Hannes Stöhr

Assistant Director: Hannah Weissenborn
Written and directed by: Sabrina Mertens

 

 

Synopsis
Lonely employment office worker Ute meets

polygamous and jobless Jens at a cuddle party.
Will this encounter between the shy official and

a devotee of life's easier pleasures have a happy ending?

 

A one-take dramedy about searching for an escape from loneliness – whatever the cost.

 

Festivals, Screenings, Exhibitions
Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival, Landshut, Germany, 2017
Kurzfilmfestival Gütersloh, Gütersloh, Germany, 2017
STOP Student Film Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania, 2017
Nonplussed Fest, Los Angeles, USA, 2017
INN Kurzfilmfestival, Braunau, Austria, 2017
Int. low & no budget film-sharing Festival, Stuttgart, Germany, 2017
BENICIA Film Festival, Benicia, USA, 2017
Tuzla Film Festival, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2017
AKUT Amberger Kurzfilm Wettbewerb, Amberg, Germany, 2017
Super8000 Film Festival Aarhus, Denmark, 2017
Interfilm Berlin, Germany, 2017
Klappe Auf! Kurzfilmfestival, Hamburg, Germany, 2017
Ei(n)fälle 2018: Die satirische KurzFilmNacht, Cottbus, Germany, 2018
PURE LOVE Screening by WIZ-ART Festival, Lviv, Ukraine, 2018
SHORTS Film Festival Offenburg, Germany, 2018
SHORTS ATTACK! Short Movie Cinema Tour by interfilm Berlin, Germany, 2018
Orscheler Filmfest, Oberursel, Germany, 2018
Bašta fest, Bajina Bašta, Serbia, 2018
Wir sind Film Kurzfilmabend, Vienna, Austria, 2018
Flensburger Kurzfilmtage, Flensburg, Germany, 2018
CineSlam, Tübingen, Germany, 2018
Sprengel Museum, Exhibition URBAN LIVING, Hannover, Germany, September 2018 – January 2019
Kinomorphia Film Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2018
Kurzfilmnacht im Kunsthaus Rhenania, Cologne, Germany, 2019

Bahnhofskino, Munich, Germany, 2019

Platzhirsch Festival, Duisburg, Germany, 2019

Short Days, Rome, Italy, 2019

NOFLASH VIDEOSHOW, New Brunswick, USA, 2019

Blicke - Filmfestival des Ruhrgebiets, Bochum, Germany, 2019

 

Awards and Honorable Mention
Best Foreign Movie Award at STOP Student Film Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania, 2017
One from 18 Award at Int. low & no budget film-sharing Festival, Stuttgart, Germany, 2017
Honorable Mention at Nonplussed Fest, Los Angeles, USA, 2017
Creativity Award at SHORTS Film Festival Offenburg, Germany, 2018