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.

	Baader-Meinhof-Komplett (Till Penzek, Jon Frickey)
	GERMANY | 2008 | 2 min.
	The German terrorist group „Red Army Fraction“ came to movie theaters in 2008 in the action-filled „Baader Meinhof Komplex“. German movie star Moritz Bleibtreu is Andreas Baader. If you’d like to be like Andreas (or Moritz) yourself, all you need is
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	Unsichtbares Licht (Simon Weber)
	GERMANY | 2008 | 8 min.
	Dr. Fabian Pohl is a radiotherapist. His patients are hoping for a cure through something which the eye cannot see.
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	Der Weltenbauer (Oliver Kuehr, Sascha Haas)
	GERMANY | 2008 | 29 min.
	A revolver lies threateningly on the kitchen counter in a mansion. Successful architect Erik faber is on the edge of loosing his mind. Will he kill? Or be killed?
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	Handarbeit (Andreas Dahn)
	GERMANY | 2008 | 12 min.
	A Future. More and more people exchange their hands with more efficient prosthetics. Dennis has real hands but they are old. When his job performance as a cuckoo clock maker gets low, he has to be affraid of being fired.
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	Abendlied (Frauke Thielecke)
	GERMANY | 2008 | 21 min.
	osef is old and in poor health. His son has hired a young Polish housekeeper, but in a telephone conversation with Nadja the old man bitterly rejects her help.
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	Marteria "Zum Koenig geboren" (Daniel Franke / Martin W. Maier)
	GERMANY | 2009 | 4 min.
	Born to be king, but making a muck of life.
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	David & Lea (Jyri Pasanen)
	SWITZERLAND | 2009 | 3 min.
	David and Lea have made a drastic decision. And now they are reacting quite differently to it. The worries of communicating their fears overshadow their relationship. Silent monologues reveal what they are suppressing. Truths that will change their lives forever – or maybe not.
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