Humour/Satire

No more fun? – No thanks!

 

The international competition Humour/Satire brings films from all around the world to the screen that illuminate very different facets of the genre. This is where black humor, slapstick, political satire and tragicomedy go hand in hand, because at the Filmfest comedy is allowed to be absurd, grotesque, laconic, light, tragic or heart-warming. It is allowed to scratch (taste-) boundaries or simply make you laugh. Humor unexpectedly opens new doors d opportunities between people because in many places, controversial topics can only be addressed through a comedic voice in the first place. Tragedy and Comedy are often very closely linked which makes laughter all the more liberating. Since it is also a form of communication that knows no language barriers, this competition is particularly important to us.

 

From over 300 submissions, our 16-member viewing committee has selected 21 short and medium-length films as well as six feature films to compete in their respective categories for the prizes listed below:

 

Awards

 

Best Feature Film
(45 minutes or more), endowed with 5,000 EUR,

donated by the Senator for Economics, Labour and Europe

 

Best Medium-Length Film
(15 to 45 minutes), endowed with 2,500 EUR,

sponsored by the Senator for Economics, Labour and Europe

 

Best Short Film
(up to 15 minutes), endowed with 1,500 EUR,

donated by the Senator for Economics, Labour and Europe

 

Our expert jury will award the winning films on March 23 2025 at 11 a.m. at Kleines Haus of Theater Bremen.

Nominated Films

Another German Tank Story
Horror Story
DEAD DEAD FULL DEAD
SUZE
The Spin
MUXMÄUSCHENSTILLˣ

Nominated Shorts

Shorts Humour/Satire #1
Get the Whole Picture!

 

Shorts Humour/Satire #2
Appearance & Reality

 

Shorts Humour/Satire #3
Francophonic Dilemmas

 

Kurzfilme Humour/Satire #4
Barriers (and how to break them)

 

Jury

Neele Leana Vollmar

 

 

Neele Leana Vollmar was born in Bremen in 1978. From 1999 to 2000, she worked as a freelance assistant director on various productions before beginning her studies at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Directing Scenic Film, at the end of 2000. Her short film MEINE ELTERN, which she made as part of her studies in 2003, won several international awards. In the same year, she took part in the Berlinale Talent Campus and the master class The Hollywood Perspective at UCLA/Los Angeles. She completed her studies in Ludwigsburg in 2005 with her first feature film URLAUB VOM LEBEN, which opened the Hof Film Festival.

Since then, Neele Leana Vollmar has mainly made feature films (including MARIA, IHM SCHMECKT’S NICHT!, RICO, OSKAR UND DIE TIEFERSCHATTEN, MEIN LOTTA LEBEN, AUERHAUS). The RICO AND OSKAR films in particular attracted a great deal of attention and won many awards (including the German Film Award and the Bavarian Film Award). AUERHAUS was the first film for which she also wrote the screenplay.

In 2023, she realized the mini-series LEVI STRAUSS – DER STOFF DER TRÄUME (written and directed), which was broadcast on ARD in January 2025. In the fall of 2024, Neele Vollmar shot her own feature film RITA UND HANS (AT), which is currently in post-production.

Trystan Pütter

 

 

Trystan Pütter was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1980. After studying art in Vienna, he began his acting career at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in a production by René Pollesch. He then performed on various theater stages, including in productions by Frank Castorf and in several by René Pollesch.

Pütter made his screen debut in 2005 in Ulrich Köhler’s “Montag kommen die Fenster”. He then played major and minor roles in numerous cinema and TV productions: “Hilde” by Kai Wessel, “Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter” by Philipp Kadelbach, “Passion” by Brian de Palma, “Phoenix” by Christian Petzold. In 2016, Pütter appeared in the award-winning film by Maren Ade, “Toni Erdmann”, the event series “Ku’damm 56” by director Sven Bohse and “Rico, Oskar und der Diebstahlstein” by Neele Leana Vollmar, among others. He shot “Freies Land” for Christian Alvart.

He was part of the ensemble of the acclaimed series “Bad Banks” (director: Christian Zübert) and “Babylon Berlin” (directors: Achim von Borries, Henk Handloegten, Tom Tykwer). Other recent projects include “Das Boot – Staffel 3” and most recently in “Sabbatical” by Judith Angerbauer, which celebrated its world premiere at the Munich Film Festival 2024 in the New German Cinema series, as well as in David Dietl’s “Feste Freunde”, which is currently showing in cinemas.

Bill Eagles

 

 

Bill Eagles is a British film and television director.

Bill’s television work includes high profile dramas, both in the UK and US, directing shows such as Bruno Heller’s Pennyworth, Strike Back (which he also Executive Produced), Powers, Gotham, State of Af-fairs and The Mentalist. Bill also set up ITV drama The Good Karma Hos-pital. Bill directed Reunion an original thriller written by Marston Bloom for MGM.

Bill directed two episodes of Who is Erin Carter for Left Bank and Netflix which quickly became the Number One Most Viewed show on the plat-form after its launch.

Most recently Bill directed the third episode of the Enid Blyton adapta-tion The Famous Five for the BBC and Moonage, executive produced by Nicolas Winding Refn.

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