A new competition comes to complete the proposal of the BolzanoShortFilmFestival: die kurze Welle open for all shorts in German language.
This particular choise of the organizers has two reasons: first, it wants to offer for the pubblic of Bolzano city a various cultural perspective; second,it wants to open the possibility of a deep knowledge of the German language shorts, increasingly and qualitative, without the restrictions available for the other two competitions of the Festival – No Words and ShortFilmExperiment.

	Höllenritt (Martin Busker)
	GERMANY | 2008 | 30 min.
	"Dad is an asshole, the Devil is a woman called Karin and my new wannabee sister has magical tits." Reeling from his parents' divorce, 12-year-old Jakob wants to make his first weekend away with his father a living hell.
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	UpStairs (Jonas Ungar)
	GERMANY | 2008 | 15 min.
	A roadmovie through a house.
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	Timetravel,Inc. (Winfried Bellmann)
	GERMANY | 2008 | 12 min.
	A group of scientists succeed a leap in time into the future. As the test person has been received, he is been attacked and is pitted against his older ego moribund. Is that a paradox?
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	Sommersonntag (Sigi Kamml, Fred Breinersdorfer)
	GERMANY | 2008 | 10 min.
	SUMMER SUNDAY tells a dramatic story with an achaic conflict: It is a matter of life and death for Micha, a deaf boy...
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	Clint (Philipp Scholz)
	GERMANY | 2008 | 4 min.
	Clint is satisfied having a love triangle with his girlfriend mia and his cigarettes. Everything works out fine until he is spoilt for choice.
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	Letzte Bergfahrt (Peter Keller)
	GERMANY | 2008 | 16 min.
	Forgotten in the ski lift? A wealthy Munich couple in supposedly hopeless situation- the life-lies break open, truth erupts, and their relationship gets the final kick...! Flash drama on desire, cowardliness and fulfilment.
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