DAS KALTE HERZ, 29 min.
Animated short-film adapted from the fairy tale by Wilhelm Hauff
Deutschland 2012
FSK: recommended from age 6

Directed and written by: Hannes Rall
Produced by Michael Meier and Hannes Rall
Score and sound design by Eckart Gadow
Color design: Hans Bacher

German Premiere: Voice over actor Michael Mendl is expected to come.

Voice over actors (German version): Karl-Michael Vogler, Philipp Moog, Sabrina Litzinger.
Voice over actors (English version): Michael Mendl, Timothy Peach, Jasmin El-Tawil.

Animation: Hannes Rall, Michael Meier, Ralf Bohde, Norman Baculi, Davide Benvenuti, Jochen Rall, Lorna Sun.

The Black Forest in the 19th century: A young and poor charcoal-burner desperately wants to become rich. He trades his warm heart for a cold stone with the evil spirit of the forest. A cautionary tale about the effects of greed on the human soul, based on a darkly romantic German fairy tale.

FBW: Highly recommended

Laudatio

The Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung (FBW) is a German federal authority for evaluating and rating film and media. Its two seals of approval for outstanding quality are "recommended" (Wertvoll) and "highly recommended" (Besonders wertvoll). “Highly recommended” also qualifies to receive governmental funding for a future project."

ERNEST & CÉLESTINE

by Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner, France/Belgium/Luxembourg 2012

In the common world of bears, friendly encounters with mice are not well received. But Ernest is a little different than the rest of the bear community. In a generous gesture, the grand clown and musician offers refuge to the orphaned little mouse Célestine who escaped from the rodent underworld. So the two friends help and support each other and thereby turn the existing order upside down.

Reception of the French Film Festival:

Saturday, 6.20 – 7.30 PM, Foyer EM Cinema