Teddy Kurzfilmrolle 2012

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The Teddy Shorts screen als those movies, which are competing for the TEDDY AWARD 2012 for best short film. This year these are: ZUCHT UND ORDNUNG, A LAZY SUMMER AFTERNOON WITH MARIO MONTEZ, EROTIC FRAGMENTS NO. 1,2,3, THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY, LOXORO, THE BLESSED, THE WILDING, AS THEY SAY, GREEN LASER and 7 DEADLY KISSES.
(To find more information about these films, click on the film title to get directly to the filmpage in the archive.)

ZUCHT UND ORDNUNG
Oops! Shocking? Now here’s a rare sight: two naked elderly men in elegant surroundings talk about their relationship and the good old days, and chat in a refreshingly candid manner about their fetishes, sadomasochistic predilections and bondage.

A LAZY SUMMER AFTERNOON WITH MARIO MONTEZ
A boat, a lake, a lazy summer afternoon, how to look glamorous in nature. Legendary, irresistible, indestructible US underground legend Mario Montezdissects Hollywood icon Joan Crawford’s ridiculous fashion tips: ‘such crap!’

EROTIC FRAGMENTS NO. 1,2,3
“Three” is the rule. The film has three parts. Each part has three shots and each shot is thirty seconds in length. Three characters share their erotic desires from the point of view of a third class citizen in contemporary Thai society.

THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY
Director's statement:
A musical. A life. My family almost forgot to tell me about my great-uncle Jimmy. True story, or so I'm told. Jimmy grew up on a farm, on the Canadian prairies, in the Rosebud Valley, during the Great Depression. His older brothers were teenage mechanics, or outfielders on the local baseball team. But not Jimmy. At ten years old, Jimmy was Georgie Kempt's star pupil in tap dance and acrobatics.
Jimmy: "O the sky is blue and the birds are too / And the rapeseed's high and yellow / And I got no clue what I'm s'posed to do / So I stand on a hill and bellow / I gotta get the frick outta this goddamn craphole / Before I lose my flippin' mind / Or throw myself into a combine / Fill the well fulla strychnine
Hell! This place is so gay and not in the good way."

LOXORO
Lima, Peru. Darkness.
Makuti, a middle-aged single mother is desperately searching for her nineteen-year-old daughter Mía who left home to work on the streets. Makuti and her daughter are no ordinary women: they are transsexuals and their language is known as Loxoro. This film tells the story of a search that crosses boundaries into a remote and unknown world where the unfamiliar is the familiar.

LA SANTA
Father and daughter are getting ready for a grand procession through the village, but things are strained between them. Dad has arranged for his thirteen-year-old daughter, Maria to play the Virgin Mary. Maria doesn’t want to, but her father insists. He hopes that this will heal her. Maria has no idea if she wants to be healed – and from what, anyway? Her father refuses to back down and Maria prepares herself for the role she has to play. But she will make the ground rules. This means deciding such things as the length of her hair. She doesn’t think that peeing standing up is such a bad thing, either.

THE WILDING
Life at a juvenile detention centre is tough for cell mates Malcolm and Tye. Everyone knows that the two are a couple. Quiet Tye often seems to provoke attacks from his fellow inmates; this means that muscular Malcolm is his chief protector. But from now on his lover won’t be able to protect him any more because if he’s involved in one more fight he can forget his coveted day prisoner status – a situation about which everyone inside is well aware. The film’s director won the Australian Orlando Award for Best Queer Short in 2011 for his work NEON SKIN.

AS THEY SAY
Father and son go on a fishing trip together into the mountains. When the son confesses to the father that he's gay, the situation escalates: tests of masculinity, rituals, violence, erupting feelings, speechlessness, and finally an unexpected end. Not only does the film attest to family and generational conflicts, but it positions these within an overwhelming landscape (the Rif mountains), which itself becomes one of the agents. Hicham Ayouch was one of six filmmakers invited to make a work by the Sharjah Biennale 10 (2011). As they say is the result.

GREEN LASER
A mashup of Otto Preminger’s film EXODUS about the founding of the state of Israel, with the voices of Canadian activists who take part in the Gaza flotilla raid in their boat. In typical comic book hero style, the Green Lasers fight against oppression and injustice in the Gaza strip.

7 DEADLY KISSES
From fish kiss to dragon kiss – this is where people of all ages and genders who want to learn how to kiss can find out (almost) everything about the no-no’s of the face fuck. Two willing and able male trainees demonstrate the first seven deadly kisses for any relationship…

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129 min
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International
Year of Presentation
2012
Year of Production
2011/2012
Director
Jan Soldat, John Edward Heys, Anucha Boonyawatana, Trevor Anderson, Claudia Llosa, Mauricio López Fernández, Grant Scicluna, Hicham Ayouch, John Greyson, Sammaria Simanjuntak
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diverse
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Biography Jan Soldat

Born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany in 1984, he made short films in the Chemnitz Film Workshop and then began studying film and television directing at the University of Film and Television ‘Konrad Wolf’ in Potsdam in 2008. His films have screened at the Berlinale several times: GELIEBT in Berlinale Shorts in 2010, ZUCHT UND ORDNUNG in the Panorama and CRAZY DENNIS TIGER in Generation 14plus in 2012. In 2014, he was a member of the Generation 14plus International Jury. HAFTANLAGE 4614 is the second in a four-part documentary series about games involving prison role play.

Filmography Jan Soldat

2010 Endlich Urlaub | 2012 Crazy Dennis Tiger | 2014 Ein Wochenende in Deutschland | 2015 Der Besuch | 2015 Die sechste Jahreszeit

Biography John Edward Heys

Born and raised in New Jersey in the US, he later moved to Miami Beach, and then returned to New Jersey. In 1969 he founded the American newspaper Gay Power and, a year later, embarked on an acting career. He has appeared in several one-man performance pieces and has made eleven films to date. He is currently a resident of Berlin and Brandenburg.

Filmography John Edward Heys

Biography Anucha Boonyawatana

Born in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand in 1981, she is a director and founder of G-Motif Production video production company. Her graduation film DOWN THE RIVER (2004), in which she combined a homosexual love story with Buddhist philosophy and Thai art, screened at numerous international festivals. Her web-film LOVE AUDITION was made in collaboration with a public health agency and Unesco. Her short film EROTIC FRAGMENTS NO. 1,2,3 screened in Competition at the Berlinale Shorts section in 2012. ONTHAKAN is her debut feature film.

Filmography Anucha Boonyawatana

2004 Down the River

Biography Trevor Anderson

Trevor Anderson is a director, writer, and actor. His films include Docking (Sundance '19); The Little Deputy (Sundance '15, SXSW '15); The Man That Got Away (D.A.A.D. Short Film Prize, Berlinale '12, SXSW '12); The High Level Bridge (Sundance '11, SXSW '11); The Island (Berlinale '09, Best Short Film at Pink Apple Zurich '09), and Rock Pockets (Lindalee Tracey Award, Hot Docs '07).
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Trevor Anderson

Biography Claudia Llosa

Born in Lima, Peru in 1976 where she studied informations sciences and subsequently screen writing at Escuela TAI in Madrid. She began her career in advertising and television and founded her own production company. Made in 2006, her first feature film MADEINUSA won numerous awards at international film festivals. She attended the Berlinale in 2009 with her second film LA TETA ASUSTADA winning the Golden Bear for Best Film. LA TETA ASUSTADA was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Filmography Claudia Llosa

2006 Madeinusa | 2009 Eine Perle Ewigkeit | 2014 Aloft

Biography Mauricio López Fernández

Born in Santiago, Chile in 1986. A directing graduate from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. In 2010 he directed the short film THE GUEST.

Filmography Mauricio López Fernández

2010 La visita (Short) | 2014 La Visita

Biography Grant Scicluna

Grant Scicluna is a director and writer, known for The Wilding (2012), Downriver (2015) and Hurt's Rescue (2014).

Filmography Grant Scicluna

2011 Golden Girl | 2015 Downriver | 2018 Fresh!

Biography Hicham Ayouch

Born in 1976 in Paris.
A journalist by training, Hicham Ayouch has directed numerous institutional and advertising films. In 2004, he began writing the script for Samba do Maazouz. In 2005, he directed his first short film, Bombllywood. He followed up with a documentary, Les Reines du Roi (2006), a documentary on the status of women in Morocco, before signing his first feature film, Les ArÃªtes du coeur then PoussiÃ¨res d'ange (documentary), in 2007.
He then produced Fissures in 2008, then FiÃ¨vres in 2013.

Filmography Hicham Ayouch

2006 Tizaoul | 2009 Fissures | 2013 Fièvres

Biography John Greyson

The Canadian film and video artist was born in Nelson, British Columbia in 1960. He studied film at the Canadian Film Center and has made over 60 award-winning feature films, installations, transmedia works and shorts. In 1989, he won a Teddy Award for Urinal; in 1991, he received another for The Making of Monsters. His work combines documentary and fictional elements and explores issues including queer activism, homophobic violence, AIDS activism, anti-apartheid and anti-war struggles, conflicts in the Middle East, police entrapment and prison abolition. He has taught film production at York University in Toronto since 2014.

Filmography John Greyson

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