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THE WAITING Short Film Competition

THE WAITING

Description

North American Premiere

Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2

Karen Lips is a researcher living in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica observing frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest and returns, the frogs are gone. All of them. Karen sets out to find them – and encounters a horrible truth.

Bios

Volker Schlecht works as an illustrator, artist and filmmaker in Berlin. Since March 2022, he’s worked as a Professor of Drawing and Design Foundations in the Architecture department at the Hochschule Anhalt in Dessau. Together with Alexandra Kardinar he founded their collaborative label Drushba Pankow in 2002.

Details

Country: Germany

Year: 2023

Director: Volker Schlecht

Screenwriters: Max Mönch, Alexander Lahl

Producers: Volker Schlecht, Alexander Lahl, Max Mönch

Executive Producer: Volker Schlecht

Director of Photography: Volker Schlecht

Editor: Volker Schlecht

Music: Hannes Schulze

Cast/Featuring: Karen Lips

Running Time (minutes): 16

Language: English

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