English titel SPARK
11 min
produced and shot in Buenos Aires, Argentina
original language: Argentine Spanish
Nina Ferreira (Marta) | chispa still © Flope Velozo, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Para apoyar a su papá soltero, MARTA, de 8 años, se acostumbró a manejar su vida cotidiana por sí sola. Pero cuando nota que él tiene cada vez menos tiempo para ella, decide recuperar su atención de vuelta.
To support her single dad, 8-year-old MARTA has learned to manage her everyday life alone. But when she senses that he is making less and less time for her, she decides to win back his attention.
MARTA Nina Ferreira
PAPÁ Sebastián Berta Muñiz
WITH Flor Romay, Lucas Mancinelli, Ricardo Ferreira, Juan Thiago Leanza Montes, Alito Dubal
director, screenplay and producer: Vera Kayh
DoP and camera: Flope Velozo
editor: Frederik Bösing
sound design and mixing: Timo Klabunde
sound on set: Máximo Savir
1. AD: Juan Thiago Leanza Montes
1. AC: Martina Szklar
2. AC: Valentino Benavento
gaffer: Jorge de las Morenas, Pablo Lequio, Zackarías Cattarin, Brittany Whitman
animation credits: Rahel Fundinger
colorist: The Blonde Colorist
score: Clemens Gutjahr
in production
~20 min
genre
A 124 years young female vampire tries to escape loneliness and turns a supposedly also lonely woman into a vampire.
OLIVIA Maria Shtofa
STELLA Birgit Unterweger
CHRIS Franz Warnek
POLIZISTIN Lauretta van de Merwe
POLIZIST Michael Stiller
screenplay and idea: Max Rechtsteiner
director: Frederik Bösing
co-director: Vera Kayh
DoP: Terry Kraatz
producer: Yasemin Özlü
sound on set: Ton Till Kauffer
setdesigners: Stefana Dilova, Pia Beckmann, Marie Brossmann
lightning: Julia Leber
make up artist: Kira Witte
many more credits following
A production by Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
English titel CHIEF
19 min
comedy, drama
Festivals:
Filmfestival Kitzbühel | August 2023
Construir Cine, Buenos Aires | May 2023 | best international short film
Grenzlandfilmtage Selb, Aš, Regensburg | April 2023
Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg | March 2023
Filmtage Friedrichshafen | March 2023
28. Filmschau BW, Stuttgart | December 2022
Die leitende Postbotin Chef muss von der alten Frau Liebermann ein falsch zugestelltes Paket zurückholen. Doch die einsame Dame ist gerissener als es scheint und verfolgt einen ganz eigenen Plan. Wird es Chef gelingen, über ihren Schatten zu springen, um das wertvolle Paket zurückzubekommen?
The chief postwoman Chef has to retrieve a wrongly delivered package from the old Mrs. Liebermann. But the lonely lady is more cunning than she seems and has a plan of her own. Will Chef succeed in jumping over her shadow to get the valuable package back?
CHEF Tini Prüfert
MRS LIEBERMANN Dorothea Neukirchen
LUKÁŠ Laurenz Lerch
screenplay: Annchristin Valerie Boehm, Vera Kayh
director: Vera Kayh
1. AD: Maja Bresink, Rodrigo Valverde
producer: Jonathan M. Schneider
DoP: Terry Kraatz
editor: Myrthe Rehbein
scenography: Juci Juhász
costume design: Samira Brückel
make up: Selina Wriessnegger, Bianca Sanchez Rubio
casting director: Laura Buschhagen
sound on set: Max von Dadelsen, Samuel Albert
sounddesign: Clemens Gutjahr
music: Clemens Gutjahr
colorist: Julius Boehm
motion design: Nicolas Schneider
A production by Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 2022
© Terry Kraatz, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
5 min
experimental, analogue
Festivals:
talents' encounter | Stuttgarter Filmwinter | January 2024
Toulouse Traverse Vidéo | 2024
Bologna Zed Festival | 2023
Italy - Lago Film Fest | 2023 | Special Mention "Moving Bodies"
Graz - Cinema Talks Festival | May 6, 2023
Twenty-year-old El tries to make sense of masculinities. His struggling will be expressed in a dance.
Protagonist: Shaked Heller
Voice over artist: Dimitri Abold
Directed and written by: Leve Kuehl, Vera Kayh, Marie Scholjegerdes
Director of photography: Marie Scholjegerdes
Screenplay advisor: Annchristin Valerie Boehm
Music: Peter Albrecht
Drums: Christian Scheible
Dialog and foley editor: Clemens Gutjahr
Colorist: Benedict Uphoff
Visual effect artist: Philipp Doerrer
Motion Design: Fee Fuchs
A production by Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 2023
© Marie Scholjegerdes, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
English titel NEVER NUDE
9 min
comedy
Festivals:
Landau La Meko | 2023
Mannheim GirlsGoMovie | Nov 13, 2022
Pforzheimer Kurzfilmwettbewerb | Sept 30, 2022 | 3rd price
Filmkunsfest MV | Aug 4, 2022
Der Hobbyfußballer Günne kann ums Verrechen nicht vor anderen duschen und wartet, bis alle aus der Kabine sind. Heute durchkreuzt der Aikido-Anfänger Jannis dessen Routine. Eine Begegnung zweier sehr unterschiedlicher Menschen, die durch ihre Unsicherheiten gemeinsamen Boden finden.
Günne, an amateur soccer player, can't shower in front of others and waits until everyone is out of the dressing room. Today, aikido beginner Jannis thwarts his routine. An encounter of two very different people who find common ground through their insecurities.
GUENNE Hassan Lazouane
JANNIS Daniel Friedl
VOICES Benedikt Paulun
Director and screenplay: Vera Kayh, Paula Meier
DoP: Anian Krone, Amina Krami
Soundtrack: Clemens Gutjahr
Colorist: Anian Krone
A production by Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 2021
© Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
5 min
Arne sieht die Welt anders. Und sein Chef sieht darin ein Problem. Der Kollege sucht einen Weg, damit umzugehen und am Ende leben sie doch alle irgendwie in ihrer eigenen Welt.
Arne's world looks different. His boss sees problems about that. The collegue tries to find a way dealing with it. And in the end all of them are living in their own little world somehow.
ARNE Jannik Muehlenweg
COLLEGUE Simon Mazouri
CHEF Jürgen Lingmann
Director and writer: Vera Kayh
Audio: Clemens Gutjahr
Camera: Tilo Schmidt, Vera Kayh
Assistant: Saskia Kreutter
Editor: Vera Kayh
2020
7 min
Reni wächst in einem fränkischen Dorf auf. Sie ist eigentlich schon zu alt um noch zuhause zu wohnen. Das Verhältnis zu ihrer Mutter ist von Abhängigkeit und wenig Worten geprägt.
Qais, ein junger Mann, ist neu in der Gegend und will Reni nach dem Weg fragen.
Sie hat es nicht gelernt, auf Menschen zuzugehen und versucht auf ihre Art mit ihm in Kontakt zu treten.
Reni should be too old to live at home with her mum. In a live with addiction and few words.
One day Qais, who's new in the village, asks here for the way.
She has never learned to make towards somebody and now tries to get in touch with him her way.
MOTHER Esther Keil
QAIS Raafat Daboul
Director + writer: Vera Kayh
Sound: Clemens Gutjahr
DoP: Ben Nowarra, Vera Kayh
Makeup Designer: Melanie Mueller
Assistant: Martina Schroeder, Marco Bayer
Editor: Vera Kayh
2020
15 min
comedy
Two evidently different people have one thing in common:
They both order their lunch at Dragon-Asia-Takeaway.
Until - it may be fortune, coincidence or simply a question of luck - they reunite on a further common ground...
CAST Paul Steinbach,
Vera Kayh, Marireau Muehlen, Philipp Sommer, Henning Kallweit, Ronny + Lea Tomiska
Director and writer: Vera Kayh
Sound and music: Clemens Gutjahr
DoP: Ben Nowarra
Musicians: Dennis Janson, Bastian Vogel
Assistants: Florian Frenster, Martina Schroeder, Marco Bayer
Editors: Vera Kayh, Ben Nowarra
2019