Movies Samples

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes." Stanley Kubrick

"Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most." Francis Ford Coppola
Hilde&Lilli, Ada&Selina Marhaba, Shalom clash  


heart trouble



Rob who is fifteen would like to have a girlfriend, but he feels he is an outsider. Jasmin is fourteen years old and not interested in boys of her age. Both meet.

Short Film, DV, ca. 30 min, 2003
Team: Kai Sitter & Co. / FILMwork – STUDIO
Director / Script: Kai Sitter ; Camera: Botho Willer ; Actors: Anne Zorn, Kai Sitter ; Cut: Kai Sitter

- First presented at the Munich youth film festival flimmern&rauschen2003
- Award of the Bavaria Filmstadt (Förderpreis)


Sicherheitsmaßnahmen (Security Measures)



A young refugee is being chased by soldiers in a country during a civil war. The film uses documentary as well as fictitious scenes to show how miserable life is for people in war times. Although implored to help the U.N. remains passive.

Short Film, DV, 9:28 min, 2005
Team: Kai Sitter & Co. / FILMwork – STUDIO
Director / Script: Kai Sitter ; Camera: Dimitri Lipovich ; Actors: Seren Sahin, Bernd Banke, Ingo Banke, Franziska & Lennart Weßler ; Cut: Kai Sitter ; Special Effect: Dimitri Lipovich

- First presented at the Munich youth film festival flimmern&rauschen2005
- Presented at the international youth film festival Youki 8 2006 in Wels (Austria)


Sweet Girl



An impressive portrait of a girl who suffers, like many other young women, from an eating disorder. The girl is losing herself in a vicious circle of medication abuse and self-destructive auto- aggression. Will she be able to escape?

Short Film, DV, 28:55 min, 2005
Team: Kai Sitter & Co. / FILMwork – STUDIO
Director: Kai Sitter ; Script: Anne Zorn & Kai Sitter ; Support: Medienzentrum München ; Camera: Kai Sitter ; Actors: Anne Zorn, Ingo Banke, Anna Glasl ; Sound: Kai Sitter ; Cut: Kai Sitter

- First presented at the Munich youth film festival flimmern&rauschen2005


Heartbeat



Mike, a young boy with a heart problem has a lot to cope with: an operation that scares the hell out of him, a seductive nurse, sneering classmates and the cool Michelle, an outsider herself...

Short Film, DV, 21:04 min, 2006
Team: Kai Sitter & Co. / FILMwork – STUDIO
Director / Script: Kai Sitter ; Camera: Dimitri Lipovich ; Actors: Kai Sitter, Magdalena Zenglein, Ingo Banke, Juliane Gemaßmer, Susanne Hofmann, Fr. Zangl, and many more ; Sound: Seren Sahin ; Cut: Denys Pyevtsov

- First presented at the Munich youth film festival flimmern&rauschen2006


Unter den Wolken (Under the Clouds)

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A young girl who stays with her stepfather is running away from home and makes friends with a homeless boy. She claims that her stepfather has abused her. It remains open whether that is true.
Careful handling of a difficult subject.

Short Film, DV, 35:20 min, 2006
Team: Kai Sitter & Co. / FILMwork – STUDIO
Director / Script: Kai Sitter ; Support: Camouflage Filmservice, Medienzentrum München ; Camera: Fay Nolan, Kai Sitter ; Actors: Lena Bouda, Martin Walch, Nils Schwarz, Karin Mees; Sound: Seren Sahin, Kai Sitter ; Cut: Kai Sitter ; Lighting: Kai Sitter

- First presented at the Munich youth film festival flimmern&rauschen2006


Wie soll ich meine Seele halten (How to keep my soul)

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Kian, a young man, has a hard time – he is invited to a party which he misses, has a date with a nice girl in a coffee shop where he does not know what to say, wants to commit suicide but – fortunately – does not even manage to do this.
His imagination is more active, however. In his visions he goes through hell until he finds comfort in his last dream.
The next morning he goes to school again.

Short Film, DV, 25:22 min, 2007
Team: Kai Sitter & Co. / FILMwork – STUDIO
Director / Script: Kai Sitter ; Support: Medienzentrum München, VPJ e.V. ; Camera: Denys Pyevtsov ; Actors: Frederik Itzenplitz, Mengyue Zhu, Alex Kosian, Elena Hasenbeck, Angelo Lanzano, Ingo Banke, and many more ; Makeup Artist: Cilia Loosen, Kai Sitter ; Cut: Denys Pyevtsov, Kai Sitter ; Sound / Lighting: Sabrina Kohlsdorf, Kai Sitter ; Assistant Camera: Daniel Miller

- First presented at the Munich youth film festival flimmern&rauschen2008
- Presented at the youth film festival 8. Bavaria Jugendfilmfestival 2008

Three TREES

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This videoclip was made for a school project with the topic "loop", as a combination of photos and film.
The loop in this clip is of course the location and the actors who come back to this location more than once. The main loop is the circle of life and death which you can see in the story of the boy and girl, and at the end when nature will be destroyed by big skyscrapers. However, you may find even more loops watching this clip.

Videoclip, HD, 07:18 min, 2008
Team: Kai Sitter & Co. / FILMwork – STUDIO
Director / Script: Kai Sitter ; Storyboard / Assistant Director: Lisiena Arifi ; Support: Medienzentrum München, Andreas Hartl (special thanks for the great BMW) ; Camera: Denys Pyevtsov ; Photos: Lisiena Arifi ; Actors: Lucy Zhu, Frederik Itzenplitz, Lisiena Arifi, Kai Sitter, Andreas Hartl ; Makeup Artist: Sabrina Kohlsdorf ; Cut: Kai Sitter, Denys Pyevtsov, Lisiena Arifi

- First presented at the Munich youth film festival flimmern&rauschen2009

SunnyRose

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Dennis has met a girl, Sonja, while chatting via internet. They like each other, so they want to meet in a cinema. In this situation Dennis finds out, shockingly for him, that Sonja is different from the girl he knows from her photos in the chatroom. That is why he cannot show his true emotions for her and is in a conflict how he feels towards her. Sonja, however, tries to get to know Dennis better...

Short Film, HDV, 25 min, 2008
Team: Kai Sitter & Co. / FILMwork - STUDIO
Director / Script: Kai Sitter ; Support: MEIERHOFER AG, Bezirksausschuss 9-Neuhausen/Nymphenburg-der LHM, MiM e.V., Werbegemeinschaft Neuhausen e.V., Globig GmbH, KJR der LHM, VPJ e.V. ; Camera: Denys Pyevtsov ; Actors: Sonja Weichinger, Frederik Itzenplitz, Katharina Polke, Matthias Fendl, Kai Sitter, Nima Lirawi, and many more ; Sound: Markus Peller, Leonhard & Ferdinand Schreiner, Kai Sitter, Sabrina Kohlsdorf ; Lighting: Daniela Stanner, Kai Sitter ; Assistent: Katharina Polke ; Cut: Denys Pyevtsov, Kai Sitter

- First presented at the Munich youth film festival flimmern&rauschen2009
- Award of the Jury with a nomination for the JuFinale 2010 in Augsburg
- Presented at the film festival 44th workshop for young filmers 2009 in Wiesbaden near Frankfurt
- Presented at the internatonal youth film festival up-and-coming 2009 in Hannover
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- Presented at the film festival JuFinale 2010 in Augsburg

34 (Istanbul) - daheim in der fremde

This is a documentary film about two friends who travel to Istanbul and make different experiences there. During this journey they interview two women (one lives in Istanbul, the other one in Germany), which provides the film with a wider range of opinions.

Documentary, DV, 24 min, 2008
Team: Kai Sitter & Co. / FILMwork - STUDIO
Director: Kai Sitter ; Concept: Kai Sitter, Seren Sahin ; Camera: Kai Sitter ; Photos: Seren Sahin ; in an Interview: Vildan Aksoy, Bahar Kilic ; Technical Support: Denys Pyevtsov ; Cut: Kai Sitter, Seren Sahin

Über die Ausweglosigkeit der Liebe

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A young woman is making herself look pretty when a young man with a rose in his hand rings at the door and wants to invite her to the cinema. She gets angry because she has told him very often that she already has a boyfriend.
We follow her on her way to her date which has a surprise in store.

Short Film, HDV, 4:13 min, 2009
Team: Kai Sitter & Co. / FILMwork - STUDIO
Director / Script: Kai Sitter ; Camera: Kai Sitter ; Actors: Dewi Jumpa, Julia Gögh, Frederik Itzenplitz ; Lighting: Kai Sitter ; Sound: Jonas Itzenplitz ; Technical Support: Denys Pyevtsov ; Cut: Kai Sitter

ENDSTATION (TERMINAL)

Two travellers arrive at the main station. They seem to be confused and you don't know their intentions. A row flares up between the couple which ends dramatically. The woman is left behind, completely unhinged. The ending is uncertain.

Short Film, HDV, 5:29 min, 2009
Team: Kai Sitter & Co. / FILMwork - STUDIO
Director / Script: Kai Sitter ; Camera: Denys Pyevtsov ; Actors: Julia Gögh, Frederik Itzenplitz ; Lighting / Sound: Jonas Itzenplitz, Kai Sitter, Denys Pyevtsov ; Music: Regina Lindinger ; Cut: Kai Sitter, Denys Pyevtsov

- First presented at the Munich youth film festival flimmern&rauschen2010

REALISE

A young man, Ingo, throws himself off a bridge. He is homosexual and cannot bear any longer that the whole village shuns him. After the fall he is taken to hospital in the city. He will have to sit in a wheel-chair and is getting psychological treatment. Some sort of partnership develops between him and the psychologist, during which they help each other to gradually reach inner peace.

Film, HDV, 45:00 min, 2009
Team: Kai Sitter & Co. / FILMwork - STUDIO
Director: Kai Sitter ; Script: Kai Sitter, Katharina Polke ; Camera: Denys Pyevtsov ; Actors: Andreas Plaianu, Heike Oettl, Dewi Jumpa, Julia Gögh, Seren Sahin, Stefanie Woitun, Michael Kuhn, Christine Schropp-Polke, Jürgen Polke, Markus Peller, Martin Osiadly, Philipp Novotny, Claus Schwarz, David Müller, Josef Schmidbauer, Kai Sitter, Sabrina Kohlsdorf, and many more ; Lighting: Kai Sitter, Denys Pyevtsov ; Sound: Matthias Lindinger, Stephan Büttner, Markus Peller, Sabrina Kohlsdorf, Kai Sitter ; Sounddesign: Denys Pyevtsov ; Music-Design: Alexej Milstein ; Music-Take: Swen Dowidat ; Music: STEEP, Green Grass Angel Face ; Piano-Music: Quirin "Kju" Krabichler ; Singing-Coach: Dewi Jumpa ; Makeup Artist: Christine Schropp-Polke ; Assistent: Katharina Polke ; Cut: Denys Pyevtsov, Kai Sitter

- First presented at the "Gasthaus Saxenhammer" (April 8th, 2010)

Hilde&Lilli, Ada&Selina

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Two old ladies who are friends, accept foreign nurses into their homes, to avoid going to an old people's home. Both nurses move in with the ladies. While the two old friends meet for their traditional coffee afternoons, their life stories move in completely different ways.

Short Film, Full-HD, 23:30 min, 2010
Team: Kai Sitter & Co. / FILMwork - STUDIO
Director / Script: Kai Sitter ; Camera: Marcelo Fiuza ; Actors: Hildegard Weinelt, Lilli Abbetmeyer, Funda Buyar, Julia Gögh, and many more ; Lighting: Marcelo Fiuza ; Sound: Matthias Lindinger ; Makeup Artist: Funda Buyar, Julia Gögh, Kai Sitter ; Look/Sounddesign: Denys Pyevtsov ; Cut: Kai Sitter

- First presented at the Seniorenheim BRK Kieferngarten (Munich) 2010
- Presented at the Munich youth film festival flimmern&rauschen2011
- Presented at the film festival workshop of young movie scene 2011 in Wiesbaden near Frankfurt

Marhaba, Shalom

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The documentary shows an exchange visit between Arab-Israeli and German youths in Israel and Munich/Salzburg.
We get to know the way of life of the young Arab-Israeli, their culture and their views on Israel, which includes interviews where political and religious questions are being discussed as well. How do they live together in Israel, the Christian and Muslim Arabs, and the Jewish Israeli? This documentary wants to convey a personal view of these young people who take part in this exchange, of young adults who have their own ideas and do not want to adopt preconceived opinions.

Documentary, HDV, 75 min, 2010
Team: Kai Sitter & Co. / FILMwork - STUDIO
Director: Kai Sitter ; Idea: Matthias Lindinger ; Concept: Kai Sitter, Matthias Lindinger, Denis Pevtsov ; Reporter: Kai Sitter, Jonas Bolzen, Matthias Lindinger ; Camera: Denis Pevtsov, Photos: Kai Sitter ; Sound: Denis Pevtsov ; Cut: Kai Sitter, Denis Pevtsov

- Presented at art house cinemas in: München (Munich), Köln (Cologne), Bamberg, Erlangen

clash

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The film shows the encounter of a young German woman with a young Turkish man on the underground in the every-day chaos of a big city. Only in their thoughts they develop a dialogue between each other. At the end they go their different ways as it is in life.

Short Film, Full-HD, 10 min, 2011
Team: Kai Sitter & Co. / FILMwork - STUDIO
Director / Script / Camera: Kai Sitter ; Actors: Anna März, Seren Sahin, and more ; Lighting: Karolin Nirschl, Kai Sitter ; Sound: Matthias Lindinger ; Assistent Director: Karolin Nirschl ; Dialogue-Mix: Alexej Veldanov ; Look / Sounddesign / Cut: Denis Pevtsov

- First presented at the Munich youth film festival flimmern&rauschen2012
- Award of the Jury with a nomination for the JuFinale 2012 in Kulmbach
- Presented at the film festival workshop of young movie scene 2012 in Wiesbaden near Frankfurt
- Presented at the film festival JuFinale 2012 in Kulmbach

Hilde&Lilli, Ada&Selina