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CHASING KITES

Partner: Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg

Director: Anna Niebert
Filmmaker's profile

As their flat turns into a sea of paper kites, a young teenager faces the impossible challenge of being there for his younger brother without losing parts of himself.

Details

Duration: 8min.

Country: Germany

Language: German

Year: 2025

Genre: Fiction (Drama)

Topic: Adolescence, Brotherhood, Childhood, Children, Coming of age, Family, Grief, Loneliness, Memories, Mourning, Summertime, Teenagers, Youth, Youth/Teen

Cast & Crew

Director: Anna Niebert

Production company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Writer: Darlien Alica Schürmann

Cinematographer: Laura Köhler

Editor: Imanuel Thiele

Music: N/A

Actors: Nico Marischka , Xavier Ziegler-Ribeiro

Festivals & Awards

2026

Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis

Flickerfest

Thomas Edison Film Festival

BUFF – International Film Festival for Children and Young People

Sehsuechte International Student Film Festival

Filmfest Dresden

Medina del Campo Film Festival

Thalmässinger Kurzfilmtage

Mumbai International Film Festival

Sarajevo Film Festival

Alpinale

Imagine India

Butoni Film Fest

International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino!

Bundesfestival Junger Film St. Ingbert

Athens International Children's Film Festival

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