CORAJE
COURAGE
Documentary | 78 Min | Germany, Mexico | 2018
Synopsis: The lives of three young boys in Mexico City during and after their time in prison struggling to find their place in the outside-world. They don´t only share a history of abuse, violence, poverty and criminality, but also the therapeutic experience of Theater in jail. A experience, they would gladly continue, if they only knew how to make it compatible with the real world they live in the streets of the big town after their release
Production: Freie Universität Berlin, European Research Council, ABO International
Director: Janina Möbius
DoP: Ernesto Pardo, Ricardo del Conde
Editor: Alfredo Castro
* DocsMX 2018, Mexico City International Documentary Film Festival. Official selection
JOHN BERGER oder Die Kunst des Sehens
JOHN BERGER OR THE ART OF LOOKING
Documentary | 55 Min | Germany | 2016
Synopsis: Art, politics and motorcycles: on the occasion of his 90th birthday JOHN BERGER OR THE ART OF LOOKING is an intimate portrait of the writer and art-critic whose ground-breaking work on seeing has shaped our understanding for over five decades
Production: Ma.ja.de Filmproduktion. In co-production with BBC and ZDF in association with ARTE, SRF and SVT
Director: Cordelia Dvorák
DoP: Piotr Rosolowski
Editor: Alfredo Castro
Website: en.majade.de/films/john-berger-oder-die-kunst-des-sehens
* Guadalajara International Film Festival
* Animation & Contemporary Art FF Olomouc 2016 Thessaloniki IDF 2017
* Guadalajara International Film Festiva
* Art FIFA Montréal 2017
* DOK.fest Munich 2017
NEBENZIMMER
NEXT ROOM
Fiction | 40 Min | Germany | 2018
In postproduction
Synopsis: The sudden death of Mano's wife Lena, put's him in a state of shock. Lena was critically ill but Mano accuses the doctor to bear the blame. At down Mano visits his brother-in-law to ask him for help
Production: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Director: Christos Netsos
Cinematography: Miriam Kolesnyk
Editor: Alfredo Castro
AUßEN FRIEDEN, INNEN KRIEG
OUTSIDE PEACE, INSIDE WAR
Documentary | 29 Min | Germany | 2017
Synopsis: More than 70 years after the end of WW2, Hilde and her surviving sister speak about their experiences of sexual and physical violence perpetrated against them and their sisters by soldiers during the war. This film speaks about and to the violence and trauma perpetrated against women and girls in war and crisis zones around the world, both past and present, and its impact on women’s lives.
Production: KaMaBe
Director: Katja Berls
Editor: Alfredo Castro
* 12th MONACO CHARITY FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Monaco)MAY 14, 2017
* 2nd FICII - INCA IMPERIAL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Lima, Peru)MAY 18, 2017
* 5th LONDON FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, London, UK)AUGUST 17, 2017
* 12th SHORTS MEXICO – FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CORTOMETRAJES DE MEXICO (INT’L DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION Category, Mexico City, Mexico)SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
* 2nd SAN JOSE INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS (Documentary Short Film Category, San José, Costa Rica) OCTOBER 25, 2017 BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY AWARD.
* 1st BLUE DANUBE FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Vienna, Austria)NOVEMBER 4, 2017
* NORTH CAROLINA FILM AWARD (Competition, North Carolina, USA)NOVEMBER 16, 2017
* STEAM HOUSE ENTERTAINMENT INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS (Official Selection, Avenal, CA, USA)DECEMBER 8, 2017
* 4th LEBANON INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Nabatiyeth, Lebanon) * DECEMBER 16, 2017
* 5th SUDAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (SIFF) 2018 (Official Selection, Khartoum, Sudan)JANUARY 21, 2018
* 13th THE MYRTLE BEACH INT'L FILM FESTIVAL (Official Selection, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA)
DIE BOMBENLEGERIN
THE BOMB- LAYING GIRL
Fiction | 20 Min | Germany | 2015
Synopsis: Mathilda, 16 years old, struggles with the challenges of growing up. Unsatisfied with the world that surrounds her, she tries to revolt. She doesn't want to dance along with all the others, but resistance is not that easy. In her dimmed room, she builds bombs, but she doesn‘t know yet, where to place her anger.
Production: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Director: Bernadette Kolonko
DoP: Omri Aloni
Editor: Alfredo Castro
* Sehsüchte - Internationales Studenten Filmfestival. Potsdam 2016
* 12. Achtung Berlin-The new Berlin film award
* Made in Berlin-Brandenburg - Bester Kurzfilm
DER KRIMINELLE
THE CRIMINAL
Fiction | 30 Min | Germany | 2014
Synopsis: Johannes, fresh released from prison, hit a lot of snags by trying to readapt a normal life in his old environment.
Production: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Director: Christos Netsos
DoP: Miriam Kolesnyk
Editor: Alfredo Castro
* 7. Empfang der Filmhochschulen
* 21. Auteur Film Festival Belgrad
* 57. Thessαloniki Internationαl Film Festivαl. Agora Film Market
DER LETZTE BUS
The Last Bus
Fiction | 15 Min | Germany | 2014
Synopsis: Miso misses her bus to Paris. Luckily, George is around doing slow- motion dance.
Production: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Director: Dieu Hao Do
DoP: Martin Gasch
Editor: Alfredo Castro
* Camerimage Film Festival / Panorama, Poland
BUBENÍČEK
16 mm | Documentary | 17 Min | Germany | 2013
Synopsis: “Bubeníček” is a personal portrait of the amazing Czech twins Jiří and Otto Bubeníček, world-class classical and contemporary ballet dancers. When you see someone dance, you can see his soul.
Production: Filmuniversität Babelsberg „Konrad Wolf“
Director: Dieu Hao Do
Cinematography: Omri Aloni
Editor: Alfredo Castro
*Tel Aviv 16th International Student Film Festival 2014
*San Francisco Dance Film Festival 2014
Best Documentary
Open Eyes Filmfest, 2014, Marburg, Germany
MÄDCHENFLÜGEL
GIRL’S WINGS
Documentary | 80 Min | Germany | 2014
Synopsis: During an International Youth Dance Exchange Program, the lives of two young women come together: Hiba (17 years old) from Sheikh Dannoon, a Muslim village in Israel, and Laura (18 years old) from Berlin. Soon it becomes evident that the two girls are united by a strong spiritual rapport.
Production: Filmuniversität Babelsberg „Konrad Wolf“
Director: Hanna Salzer
Cinematography: Omri Aloni
Editor: Alfredo Castro
MILLIMETERARBEIT
Millimeter precision
Fiction | 20 Min | Germany | 2013
Synopsis: The jung boxer Sonja meets after long time her twin brother Roland. This encounter revives an old family-drama that will change their lives.
Production: Filmuniversität Babelsberg „Konrad Wolf“
Director: Brigitte Maria Bertele
Cinematography: Christoph Rohrscheidt
Editor: Alfredo Castro
PUEBLOS UNIDOS
THE FARMS
Documentary | 60 Min | Mexico | 2009
Synopsis: In 1994, the U.S. transnational company Granjas Carroll began operations in the valley of Cofre de Perote, in Veracruz. At the beginning, the farmers thought the Company would benefit the community with the pig farm, but as time went on they realized they had been deceived: the farm contaminated the air, the land and the water. The farmers got organized to protest, but the inevitable effects would develop into a terrible Swine Flu in 2009: it began in the village La Gloria and spreads throughout the world.
Director: Felipe Casanova, Miguel Díaz
Agraviados Films
*7. International Film Festival Morelia, Mexico, 2009.
*DOCSDF 4. International Documentary Film Festival Mexico City, 2009.
* Latin American Film Festival Itinéraires. Brussels, Belgium, 2009.
*18. Latin American Film Festival, Biarritz France, 2009.
*Havana Film Festival Cuba, 2009.
LOS AGRAVIADOS
THE AFFECTED
Documentary | 50 Min | Mexico | 2007
Synopsis: 2006 was a decisive year in Mexico‘s modern history. The extreme violent repressions against the peasants in Atenco, the teacher’s movement against the Governor Ulises Ruiz in Oaxaca and the citizen movement against the fraudulent presidential election illustrate a devastating panorama of the social and political crisis in Mexico.
Production: Agraviados Films
Director: Felipe Casanova, Miguel Díaz
*Festival de la Memoria Tepoztlan, Morelos, Mexico, 2007
SENSOPERCEPCIÓN
Video Installation | 8 Min | Mexico | 2007
Synopsis: Video Installation for three video channels on the theme of audiovisual perception of time and space.
Production: FONCA-CONACULTA
Director and Editor: Alfredo Castro
EPITAFIO
EPITAPH
Video art | 3 Min | Mexico | 2001
Synopsis: Life, dreams and survival in parallel realities.
Production: CAAV Centro de Arte Audiovisual, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Director and Editor: Alfredo Castro
* CHROMA 03. International Festival for Audiovisual Arts. Guadalajara, Mexico, 2001. Winner of the People's Choice Award.
* V.A.I.A Videoart Filmfestival Alcocer, Spanien, 2004