21 min, 2021
On the first day of the Corona lockdown, the director’s father is picked up by an ambulance. He dies shortly thereafter.
Mother and daughter mourn in the parental apartment, isolated on 49 square meters — and connected to the outside world only by telephone. With painful intimacy, these phone calls exemplify the loneliness of the mourners in pandemic times. Photographic images of the desolate apartment are marked by an intense geometric strictness, which, in spite of the confinement, also creates a certain distance to the inevitable.
“27 STEPS“ thus leaves room for interpretation and deals with a universal question: How does isolation affect us when we are dependent on solace and help? This is a very personal film which puts a magnifying glass on the circumstances that we are all experiencing right now.
Festivals
- Best International Documentary Short Film
Jakarta International Independent Film Festival 2021 - Jury Award in the category „Venture“
Flensburger Kurzfilmtage 2021 - Best Covid19 Short Film
Hollywood Golden Age Film Festival 2021 - Querkopf Award Brücke e.V. Flensburg 2021
- World Premiere Visions du Réel, Nyon 2021
- German Premiere International Short Film Festival
Oberhausen 2021 - Concorto Film Festival, Piacenza
- Cannes: Shortfilm Corner
- Attention Berlin Film Festival
- KFFK Short Film Festival Cologne
- Dublin World Film Festival
- Paris Woman Festival
- Toronto Independent Film Festival of Cift
- New York Nile Gallery
- San Francisco Indie Short Festival
- Berlin Shorts Award
- International Short Film Week Regensburg
- Reykjavik Film Festival
- Budapest Independent Film Festival
- Close Up: San Francisco Short Film Festival
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Director: Andrea Schramm
Camera: Sebastian Mez
Editor: Grete Jentzen
Sounddesign: Michal Krajczok