Writer | Director
In Development (Originals)
Serviceliste
-
Karl-y-Carrita (WT)Listenelement 4
Children's film, 90 min.
The shy boy Karl has a hard time in his new home Uruguay. This changes only when he befriends the brave garbage collector Carrita. But when Carrita's trolley disappears along with her beloved horse, an adventure begins that puts their friendship to the test. Based on true events.
Developed within the Academy for Children's Media 2018/19.
Writer: Juliane A. Ahrens
-
F stands for Freedom (WT)Listenelement 3
Drama / Thriller
A group of rebellious youths resists governmental oppression.
Writer: Juliane A. Ahrens
Production: Walking Ghost Munich
-
13 Bottles (WT)
Dramedy, 90 min.
Thirteen bottles lead a broken mistress into the wife's den - and back to life.
Writer: Juliane A. Ahrens
Production: diefilm München
-
Izzy (WT)Listenelement 2
Coming-of-Age / Dramedy, 90 min.
After more than one traumatic event, a teenage girl and her family are fighting their way back to normal.
Developed within the "First Movie Program".
Writer: Juliane A. Ahrens
-
Havelschule (WT)Listenelement 1
Documentary
The first years of a school class of mentally disabled children.
Writer/Director: Juliane A. Ahrens
Production: Luzid Film
Writer | Director
15-year-old professional soccer player Luka (Helen Bergmann) has exactly one day to say goodbye to her old life before moving to a residential sports school.
Festival screenings (selection): MOSCA - Mostra Audiovisual de Cambuquira (Brazil), International Film Festival Assen | Women & Film (Netherlands)
Written and directed by Juliane A. Ahrens
DOP: Karl Kuerten
Producer: Lena Karbe, Andreas Guenther
Lou (Luise Aschenbrenner) in unhappily in love. Robin (Jean-Loup Eberhardt) gets bullied. Not willing to face their problems the siblings hide in fantasy worlds.
Written and directed by Juliane A. Ahrens, Béatrice Huber and Simon Weber
DOP: Bernd Effenberger
Production: Feuerkaefer Filmproduktion and University of Television and Film Munich
Lesbian Vanessa (Luise Aschenbrenner) is not welcome in the locker room.
Festival screenings (selection): Bloomington PRIDE Film Festival, Short Film Festival Landshuter, London Lesbian Film Festival, KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, Brussels Short Film Festival, Bilbao International LGTB Film and Performing Arts Festival, Shorts at Moonlight, Festival Gejevskega in Lezbičnega Filma, Queer LGBT Film Festival;
Audience Award (International Queer Film Festival Hamburg), Prix du Soroptimist (Festival Les Enfants terribles, Belgium); TV broadcasting
Written and directed by Juliane A. Ahrens, Béatrice Huber and Simon Weber
DOP: Bernd Effenberger
Production: Feuerkaefer Filmproduktion and University of Television and Film Munich
Three-part series celebrating the beatification of the Salvadoran cleric Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez.
Written and directed by Juliane A. Ahrens
DOP: Bernd Effenberger
Production: Tellux Film Munich
David is just no longer David. Pia is distraught and at the end of her tether. Her husband deserted from the US army and is severely traumatised from his deployment in Iraq. He cannot get a grip on his insomnia and his fits of rage. He refuses therapy. Instead the pair tries to build a normal life together in Germany and to put the past behind them. But their relationship is put to the test again and again.
Festival screenings (selection): Hof International Film Festival, International Documentary Film Festival Munich, Munich International Festival of Film Schools; TV broadcasting
Written and directed by Juliane A. Ahrens, Simon Weber
DOP: Juliane A. Ahrens, Simon Weber
Producer: Juliane A. Ahrens, Simon Weber
Production: University of Television and Film Munich
Experimental music project for the Darwin Year.
Written and directed by Juliane A. Ahrens, Simon Weber
DOP: Markus Foerderer
Production: Daniel Rohm and University of Television and Film Munich
Vicki (Victoria Noack) and Paul (Felix Neumann) have a deal to commit suicide together, but only one will
go through with it.
Festival screenings: Fuenf Seen Festival, Muenster Film Festival, Landshuter Short Film Festival, Cottbusser Filmschau
Written and directed by Juliane A. Ahrens
DOP: Markus Foerderer
Production: University of Television and Film Munich
Miscellaneous
Serviceliste
-
Celebrate Eileen!Listenelement 1
Tragicomedy, 25 min.
A transgender comedy about two friends (Jonathan Berlin, Nurit Hirschfeld) on a one-day odyssey thru Munich.
Written and directed by Judith Westermann
Script Consultant: Juliane A. Ahrens
Production: Ein & Alles Film and University of Televison and Film Munich
-
After MunichListenelement 3
Documentary, 78 min.
After Munich is about the aftermath of the Munich Olympic massacre of eleven Israeli athletes in 1972 and how four women’s lives are changed forever.
Written and directed by Francine Zuckerman
Production Coordinator Germany: Juliane A. Ahrens
Production: Z films Toronto
-
The Vanishing
Drama series, 8x45 min.
The 20-year-old Janine (Elisa Schlott) disappears without a trace. Her mother (Julia Jentsch) is the only one who is convinced that something has happened to her daughter.
Written by Bernd Lange, Hans-Christian Schmid / Directed by Hans-Christian Schmid
2nd Unit Director, On-Set Script Consultant: Juliane A. Ahrens
Production: 23/5 and Mia Film
-
FullhachedeListenelement 2
Documentary, 101 min.
A femenine portrait, where dreams and reality make a lively contrast. Here, dancing and joy withstand against death, and hope emerges from crumbling dreams.
Written and directed by Catalina Torres, Carolina Navas
Producer Germany: Juliane A. Ahrens
Production: Catalina Torres (Colombia)
-
We are Fucked, Sunshine!Listenelement 4
Documentary, 61 min.
How do people live in a country that is affected by collapse, despair an chaos? Through intensive conversations with friends, the Greek film maker Despina Grammatikopulu draws an intimate portray of al lost generation in crisis-shaken Greece - honest, uncompromising, sometimes funny but always disillusioning.
Written and directed by Despina Grammatikopulu
Producer: Juliane A. Ahrens
Production: Feuerkaefer Filmproduktion Juliane A. Ahrens, Béatrice Huber, Simon Weber
-
No Lullaby
Documentary, 77 min.
Three Generations silenced by a gruesome family secret and a society refusing to see reality behind closed doors. No Lullaby tells the story of the life and death fight that a mother and her daughter must lead to break the silence.
Written and directed by Helen Simon
Script Consultants: Juliane A. Ahrens, Silvia Wolkan
Production: Filmallee David Lindner Leporda
-
Cambio de Aire - Change of Scenery
Tragicomedy, 21 min.
When was the last time you were happy? This question marks the invisible bond between three different people in Buenos Aires - a dreamy street musician (Mauricio Muriel), a skeptical escort lady (Cecilia Patalano) and a doorman with a phobia of elevators (Ramiro Lehkuniec) who still lives with his mother. Their weekly sessions with their therapists - in Buenos Aires as normal as the daily lunch break - and their coincidental encounters with each other in the jungle of the big city suddenly lead them to a point where they have to decide: Go on as before or turn their life upside down for a change of scenery, a 'cambio de aire'?
Written and directed by Judith Westermann
Script Consultant: Juliane A. Ahrens
Production: Judith Westermann and University of Television and Film Munich
-
Abend teurer Abenteuer
Comedy, 15 min.
Two shopping-addicted teenagers, Lotta (Amelie Kiefer) and Luise (Karla Nina Diedrich), search for new sources of money. Armed with a revolver they are drifting through the countryside. Fredi (Tobias Schormann), a philosophical gas station attendant, becomes their victim, their hostage, the target of a bullet, and finally their only ally.
Written and directed by Isa Micklitza
Assistant director: Juliane A. Ahrens
Production: University of Television and Film Munich