Wächter der Spieluhr - Keeper of the Past

Plot

Accepting life as it comes is our decision to make!

Farmer Finn van Hagen begins a New Life and moves with his wife and his two children out to the country. He now lives on an old, idyllic farm, in the middle of nowhere…to his eyes, in a Perfect World.

One day a Stranger appears, out of the blue. He asks Finn strange questions and tries to draw a well-kept secret from his daughter Verlanda: The whereabouts of a music box, in which Finn’s past lies hidden..a past, he has long forgotten…

If Finn should ever open the music box…
…he not only might lose his family forever…
…he also might bring it to cave in…the World as he knows it.

The Decision is his…

Awards

• 2016 – Windrider International Student Film Festival (LA, California) – Honorable Mention Award (Live-Action Short Film)
• 2015 – Nevada Film Festival (USA) – Platinum Award – Short Film Competition
• 2015 – Oregon Film Awards (USA) – Platinum Award – Short Film Competition
• 2015 – Oceanside International Film Festival (California, USA) – Best Narrative Short Film
• 2015 – New Jersey International Film Festival (USA) – Best Student Film
• 2015 – Los Angeles Film Review Independent Film Awards (California, USA)Best Production Design, Best Costume, Best Visual Effects
• 2015 – Los Angeles New Wave International Film Festival (California, USA) – Best of Fest, Best Director, Best Editing
• 2015 – NYLA International Film Festival – NY Screening (USA) – Best Narrative Short, Best Director, Best Actress
• 2015 – Honolulu Film Awards (Hawaii, USA) – Best Foreign Film
• 2015 – Illinois International Film Festival (USA)– Best International Sci-Fi -Short
• 2015 – Independent Days Filmfest Karlsruhe (Germany)– 3rd Place, Narrative Short
• 2015 – Buffalo Niagara Film Festival (New York, USA) – Best Director – Short
• 2015 – Los Angeles Movie Awards (USA) – Best Narrative Short, Best International Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Editing

Nominations & Screenings

• 2017 – Film & Comic Con Karlsruhe (Germany) – No Awards Given
• 2016 – Red Rock Film Festival (Utah, USA) – Narrative Short
• 2016 – Dortmunder XXS-Kurzfilmfestival (Germany) – Best Short
• 2016 – Dortmunder Tresen-Filmfestival (Germany) – Best of Fest
• 2016 – Internationales Frauenfilmfestival (Dortmund/Köln, Germany) – Best Cinematography (Short Film)
• 2016 – Flickers’ Roving Eye International Film Festival (Rhode Island, USA) – Narrative Short
• 2015 – Red Rock Film Festival (Utah, USA) – Narrative Short
• 2015 – Hamilton Film Festival (Ontario, Canada) – Narrative Short
• 2015 – NYC Independent Film Festival (New York City, USA) – Narrative Short
• 2015 – Stark County Int. Short Film Series (Ohio, USA) – No Awards Given
• 2015 – South Dakota Film Festival (Aberdeen, USA) – Narrative Short
• 2015 – Golden Door International Film Festival (New Jersey, USA) – Narrative Short
• 2015 – Cheyenne F.A.S.T. Film Festival (Wyoming, USA) – No Awards Given
• 2015 – Festival du Film International de Saint-Sauveur (France) – No Awards Given
• 2015 – El Dorado Film Festival (Arkansas, USA) – Narrative Short
• 2015 – Harlem International Film Festival (New York, USA) – Narrative Short
• 2015 – Shorts at Moonlight (Hofheim, Germany) – Narrative Short
• 2015 – Montreal CineFest (Québec, Canada) – Narrative Short
• 2015 – Sci-Fi-London Film Festival (UK) – No Awards Given
• 2015 – Long Island International Film Expo (New York, UY>) – Narrative Short, Best Cinematography
• 2015 – Sunscreen Film Festival (St. Petersburg, Florida) – Foreign Short
• 2015 – Sacramento International Film Festival (California, USA) – Narrative Short/Long (20-40 min)
• 2015 – North Hollywood Cinefest (Los Angeles, USA) – Best Narrative Short
• 2015 – Cleveland International Film Festival (Ohio, USA) – Narrative Short
• 2015 – Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival (Landshut, Germany) – Best Short
• 2015 – Genrenale Filmfestival (Berlin, Germany) – Narrative Short