RONDO

Germany, 2022, drama, '29

A carefree weekend at the Baltic Sea with her boyfriend, Lars, turns into a déjà vu experience for Zoé, propelling her back to another time: to a weekend where she had already been at the very same place with someone she had loved before. Like a traitor to her present relationship, Zoé secretly follows the trails of her memory, which she had painfully tried to forget. Rondo is a cinematic poem which circles like a musical round dance and ends where it began.

CAST

Luise Wolfram (ZOÉ), Lucas Englander (LARS), Paul Boche (ROBERT)

CREW

Director, Writer, Editor - Katharina Rivilis  Director of Photography - Giulia Schelhas Steadicam Operator - Konstantin Kann Sound Design - Benjamin Krbetschek Maximilian Wolf-Salari, Sebastian Pablo Poloni  Sound - Sebastian Pablo Poloni Sound Mix - Jan Pasemann  VFX - Gilberto Arpioni  Violin - Markéta Janoušková   Producer - Katharina Rivilis

PRODUCTION

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)

WORLD SALES

Road Movies

FESTIVALS

72nd Berlin International Film Festival - Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2022

DER TAG X

DAY X

Germany, 2019, Drama, '20

June 17th 1953, Frida’s 8th birthday, was supposed to be a celebration, but instead tanks are rolling through the streets of East-Berlin. Frida and her mother are waiting for the birthday guests, but they won't come today. Nor does her father return from the demonstration, and Frida’s mother slowly begins to lose control. Outside, protests turn into a political revolt and the revolt is brutally crushed. The relationship between mother and child - the natural laws of responsibility and protection of the strong over the weak seems no longer to be in force.

CAST

Ninel Skrzypczyk (FRIDA), Katharina Rivilis (GRETA), Jan Pohl (HEINRICH),

Nikolay Sidorenko (SOLDIER)

CREW

Director - Katharina Rivilis  Script - Katharina Rivilis, Samuel Chalela Puccini  Director of Photography - Giulia Schelhas  Editor - Guillaume Guerry  Music - Henning Fuchs  Sound Design - Maximilian Wolf, Sound - Hans-Christian Paul  Make-Up Artist - Cornelia Palitzsch  Costume Design - Kaya Kürten  Set Designer - Tatiana Bastos  Producer - Cecilia Trautvetter

PRODUCTION

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)

RBB (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg)

FESTIVALS (selection)

Nominated for the Student Academy Awards, 2021

Prädikat “besonders wertvoll” by FBW, 2021

Cleveland International Film Festival, 2020 (USA)

Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, 2020 (USA)

Buster Film Festival - CPH-PIX, 2019 (Denmark)

Brest European Short Film Festival 2019 (France)

International Children’s Film Festival Bangladesh, 2020 (Bangladesh)

AWARD : Best International Short Film  

Watersprite Film Festival, 2020 (UK)

XIX Certamen Internacional de Cortometrajes “El Pecado 2020“ (Spain)

Fünf Seen Filmfestival, 2020 (Germany)

Lubuskie Film Summer Festival, 2020 (Poland)

Festival Internacional Cine En Las Montañas, 2020 (Colombia)

Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art, 2020 (Ukraine)

New Berlin Film Award, 2020 (Germany)

Tirana International Film Festival, 2020 (Albania)

AGM International Short Film Competition, 2020 (Turkey)

Macau International Short Film Festival, 2020 (Macau),

AWARD : Best Student Film

Festival Internacional de Curtmetratges de Vila-seca, 2020 (Spain)

ELIA

Germany, 2017, Drama, '42

SYNOPSIS

One day there is a creature that appears into the city. Elia. He came from the forest. Nobody knows who he is. Is a human without an identity even a human? For some he is a sensation, a new Kaspar Hauser. Others see in his appearance and his actions a wonder. He awakens secret longings within the people he meets that circuit themselves.

The film is a silent dance between hope, love and desperation. A febrile dream where  the levels between love and death seem to touch.

CAST

Paul Boche (ELIA), Eva Bay  (JUDITH)

Helmut Mooshammer (DR. REMSCHEID), Leonard Kunz (Stranger)

CREW

Director, Screenplay, Editor - Katharina Rivilis   Director of Photography - Ben Bayer   Music - Henning Fuchs   Sound Design - Maximilian Wolf   Sound -  Matthias Steiert   Make-Up Artist - Jil La Monaca   Costume Artist - Isabelle Mann   Set Designer - Grace Nicholas   Production Manager - Luise Hauschild

PRODUCTION

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)

ARIANA FOREVER!

2015, Drama, '23

Available on Amazon Prime Germany, UK, USA, Japan

Margarita, the 13 years old introverted outsider of the school observes the beautiful Ariana on a class trip. All the boys want to  be around her and all the girls want to be like her. Also Margarita feels the aura of fascination that surrounds Ariana and a secret friendship develops between these two different girls.     However, Margarita witnesses her classmates' obsession for Ariana getting out of control. As the class trip is overshadowed by a dark secret, Margarita is confronted with a moral conflict that seems to be unsolvable...

CAST

Rebecca Schulz (MARGARITA), Anna-Luna Scheffel (ARIANA), e.g.

CREW

Director - Katharina Rivilis   Screenplay - Katharina Rivilis, Julia Penner   Producer - Roxana Richters   Director of Photography - Claudia Schröder   Editor -  Guillaume Guerry   Sound Design - Nicola Fanari   Music -  Franziska Henke, Thomas Rozès

PRODUCTION

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)

FESTIVALS (selection)

49. Hof International Film Festival, 2015 (Germany)

New Berlin Film Award, 2016 (Germany)

AWARD : Special Mention

Wendland Shorts, 2017 (Germany)

45. Lubuskie Lato Filmowe, 2017 (Poland)

40. Montreal World Film Festival, 2016 (Canada)

21st International Film Festival Chemnitz – Schlingel 2017 (Germany)

Brest European Short Film Festival, 2016 (France)

AWARD : Young Jury Award

46th Kyiv International Film Festival “Molodist”, 2017 (Ukraine)

12 Months Film Festival,  2017 (Romania)

AWARDS : Best Actress

            2. Place - Best Director

Dona i Cinema - Mujer y Cine - Woman & Film - Dones en Art, 2016 (Spain)

23. International Short Film Week Regensburg!, 2016 (Germany)

Festival Internacional de Cine Universitario Kinoki, 2017 (Mexico)

AWARD : Best International Film

Manlleu Short Film Festival, 2017 (Spain)

Fünf Seen Filmfestival , 2016 (Germany)

In the Palace International Short Film Festival, 2017 (Bulgaria)

Cutocircuíto - Santiago de Compostela Int. Film Festival, 2017 (Spain)

REMOTE CONTROL

Germany, 2013, Drama, '8, 16mm

The drone pilot Lars Brander is fighting in a war that is taking place thousands of miles away. The young officer is living in a paradox between a surrounding "intact" society and the the cruelty of the so called "clean war." One day he is urged to kill a group of people that includes a child. He must make a decision within seconds.

CAST

Leon Schröder (LARS BRANDER) ,Lucas Steltner (OFFICER)

CREW

Director, Screenplay, Editor - Katharina Rivilis   Director of Photography - Moritz Friese   Music - Joana Waluszko   Sound Design - Nicola Fanari   Set Design & Costume - Isabel Simões   Sound - Till Gerstenberger   Drone Film Concept - Ben Bayer   Producer - Katharina Rivilis

PRODUCTION

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)

OFFSTAGE

Germany, 2013, Documentary, '10

A portrait of an actor who performs on New Years Eve in front of a big audience, then becoming the observer of the audience himself. As the film follows Dejan Bucin, actor at the Berliner Ensemble, it deals with the theme of loneliness while being exposed and within a crowd of a vibrant celebration and night in Berlin.

CREW

Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer - Katharina Rivilis

CAST

Dejan Bućin (as himself)

DAS MÄDCHEN MIT DEM ROTEN HAAR

THE GIRL WITH THE RED HAIR

Germany, 2012, Drama, '10

Available on Amazon Prime Germany, UK, USA, Japan

Margalit (12) comes as a stranger into the children's choir of a big opera house. She seems to be a silent young girl with an adorable voice longing for the acceptance of the other children. Margalit confides a secret to a boy, with whom she tentatively makes friends. Yet the boy cannot deal with this responsibility and mocks her by disclosing it to the group. The children start to discriminate her. A fatal group dynamic of isolation sets in.

CAST

Lea Müller (MARGALIT), Wladimir Lavrentiev (ANTON)

CREW

Director/Screenplay/Editor - Katharina Rivilis   Director of Photography - Benjamin Bayer   Sound - Lajos Wienkamp   Music - Henning Fuchs

PRODUCTION

Katharina Rivilis - Wolfskind Films

FESTIVALS

Human Rights Film Festival Barcelona (Spain)

Landshut Short Film Festival (Germany)

Flensburger Kurzfilmtage (Germany)