/Border
grotesque shortfilm, 10min, B/W, 16mm, 4:3, Germany, 2005
idea/ cinematography/ editing: Christiane Schmidt
co-directing: Christiane Schmidt and Constanze Schmidt
sound: Julia Tal, Didier Guillain, Koro Guy Azo
costume/ set design: Cinzia Fossati, Verena Scheibe
production: HFF/ University of Television and Film Munich
actors: Theresa Adam, Koro Guy Azo, Benjamin Okanlawon Dufemi, Sunny Pius Ebilueye, Rainer Gienandt, Didier Guillain, Carmen Härdle, Johanna Härdle, Annette Klosowski, Henrike Liber, Jean Marc Nivet, Konstantinos Spiliopoulos, Margarete van den Berg,
Volker Zander, Anne-Isabelle Zils
festivals: 28.Festival international Films de Femmes/ Créteil, Young Collection 32/ Bremen, Oldenburger Sudentenfilmfest „Zwergwerk“, Straubinger Kurzfilmfesival, Cellu l’ Art/ Jena, female-short-cuts/ Düsseldorf
TV: Canal +
screenings: Les Bains Connective Plankton Bar/ Brussels, Cinema Nova/ Brussels, PleinOPENair/ Brussels
awards: Publikumspreis Young Collection, Bremen 2005
press: codemagazine, no.1, hiver 05-06, Life & ArtStyle, page 30/31
synopsis: At a border checkpoint in the middle of nowhere, a line of people waits in the snow. To cross the border, those waiting must submit to absurd tests—tests whose rules do not remain the same.
Christiane Schmidt 