Il Giardino

film type fiction Production Country Germany production year 2008 runtime 11'00 colour
screening format 35mm aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby Digital languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch
screening format DigiBeta aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby Digital languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch

An overweight man has been invited by a friendly couple to a posh restaurant. He keeps on complaining that all other people are doing better than himself and that fate has obviously denied him a happy life professionally and emotionally. Meanwhile, the interpersonal relations of the guests at the adjacent tables become a little troublesome as well and the tension seems to rise.

director Michael Ester Animation Michael Schwertel (blur media/ power toons) Besetzung / Cast Daniel Wiemer, Dirk Bach, Dirk Mühlbach, Ercan Durmaz, Guido Renner, Julia Beerhold, Mirco Reseg, Sven Martinek, Tanja Wenzel Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Tom Dokoupil Schnitt / Editing Tom Dokoupil, Michael Ester Produktion / Production Michael Ester Bildgestaltung / DOP Ernst Kubitza Drehbuch / Script Torsten Wacker Tongestaltung / Sound Design Alexander Weuffen, Patrick Höderath
Festivals
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken, Germany
Kinofest Lünen, Germany
Filmfestival ContraVision Berlin, Germany
Short Film Festival Opere Nuove No Words, Bolzano, Italy
Biberacher Filmfestspiele, Germany
Flensburger Kurzfilmtage, Germany
Short Cuts Cologne, Köln, Germany
Fantasy Filmfest, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Köln, München, Nürnberg und Stuttgart, Germany
exground filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany (1. Preis Deutscher Kurzfilm Wettbewerb)
Production
  • Michael Ester
  • Römerweg 41
  • 67157 Wachenheim
  • +49 177 5354711
  • http://www.ilgiardino-derfilm.de
Distribution
  • Michael Ester
  • Römerweg 41
  • 67157 Wachenheim
  • +49 177 5354711
  • http://www.ilgiardino-derfilm.de
Sales
  • Michael Ester
  • Römerweg 41
  • 67157 Wachenheim
  • +49 177 5354711
  • http://www.ilgiardino-derfilm.de

Michael Ester

Born in 1972;
2001 diploma from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne;
works as a lecturer at the Film Acting School Cologne, as continuity/first AD;
organiser of the Cine Cum Vinum Festival;
since 2010, Michael Ester Filmproduktion film company

Filmography
1999 BLASSE SCHIMMER
2000 STUNDENHOTEL
2001 VIKTOR
2003 KARLCHENS PARADE