Different Countries – Different people – but a same daydream: A taxi travels between Sao Paulo (Brasil) and Kiel (Germany). What happens if you get an unexpected very short look into another part of the world? …
In an international cooperation between Brazil and Germany the first part of the film was shot from German filmmakers with a brazilian team from „oficinas kinoforum“, a filmproject for young filmmakers out of the Favelas. One of this brazil group traveled to Germany to direct the second part of the story in Kiel (Germany).
“Taxi to Daydream” is the first international coproduction of the project DAYDREAMS The following project between Berlin and Warsaw has already started.

coloured | germany 2007 | length: 11 min | format: 35mm 1:1,85 (shot on DV-Cam) | sound: Dolby SR (optical)

Team
Producer: Dirk Manthey / Ansgar Ahlers
Co-Producer Brasil: Zita Carvalhosa / Christian Saghaard
Production manager: Jorge Guedes (SP) / Dirk Manthey (Kiel)
Music / Sound Design: Jan Doddema
Sound: André Oliveira (SP) / Joerg Berger (Kiel)
Production Designer: Björn Holzhausen
Costume: Vanessa D. Sobral (SP) / Romana Burgemeister (Kiel)
Make up & Hair: Kirsten Knoop (Kiel)
Editor: Sammy Mettwalli / Sebastian Matthäus
Director of Photography: Eder Augusto (SP) / Claus Oppermann (Kiel)
Written by: Ansgar Ahlers
Directed by: Eder Augusto (Kiel) / Dirk Manthey / Ansgar Ahlers

Cast
Taxidriver: Pierre Semmler
Dio: Daniel Torres
Fabio: Adriano Veríssimo
Drunk: Guntbert Warns
Brasilian Woman: Isabella Parkinson

This film was founded/supported by
FFA Filmförderungsanstalt, Kulturelle Filmförderung Schleswig-Holstein e.V., Goethe Institute Sao Paulo; German Films/AG Kurzfilm; Kinoforum/Festival international de curtas-metragens de Sao Paulo; Interfilm Berlin; Spooky Cecile

 

GG 19 is a cinematic journey through Germany within 19 articles. Á la short cuts, in 19 stories, the fundamental rights of the Federal Republic of Germany become an emotional experience. Not didactic or even edifying, but always experience-oriented, the spectator is sent to an exciting tour through Germany with humorous, dramatic, also absurd, but unfailingly with stories that are obliged to the acting characters. An experiment, 1 film with 19 stages, an adventure for every participant and a totally new experience with the own home country, with Germany - a tour d'Allemagne.
(written by Harald Siebler)
Ansgar Ahlers developed and directed part 19. 10minutes about article 19. of the german law with relations to Kafkas short „Before the law“.

coloured | germany 2004-7 | length part 19: 10 min | format: 35mm (shot on 16mm) | sound: Dolby SR

Team (part19)
Production: movie members film
Producer: Harald Siebler
Production manager: Marcus Loges
DOP: Christopher Rowe
Camera operator: Marcus Schlicht
Production Designer: Jens Löckmann
Cut: Oliver Kless
Continuity: Caroline Veyssière
AD: Christine Rogoll
Script Consultant: Philip Parker
Autor: Ansgar Ahlers in cowork with Harald Siebler based on an idea of Bettina Klimaschewski
Director: Ansgar Ahlers

Cast (part19)
Herr S: George Lenz
Cleaning lady: Dorkas Kiefer
Old public official: Hans-Peter Korff
World execution officer: Helene Grass
public officals: Steffen Scheumann, Robert Meller
buying women: Brigitte Zypries
Gatekeepers: Nils Helmuth, Steffen Lemke
Child: Nina Monka

 

This two sligthly different social spots were produced for the "DAHW- German Leprosy and TB Relief Association (GLRA)".
The idea and slogan for the leprocy-spot and poster-campain  „How much would you pay for a smile“/ „Was ist Ihnen ein Lächeln wert?“ was developed by forseesense.

coloured | germany/india 2006 | length:30sec (each) | format: 35mm 1:1,85 (photo based) | sound: Dolby Stereo (optical)

Team Tuberculosis
Producer: Ansgar Ahlers
Photos: Ursula Meissner
Cut/Animation: Sebastian Matthäus
Cut pre-version: Markus Ulrich
Sounddesign: Jan Doddema

Team Lepra
Producer & director: Ansgar Ahlers
Photos: Marcus Schlicht
Cut/Animation: Sebastian Matthäus
Sounddesign: Jan Doddema

 

Wildly scurrying chocolate whips coated in three different colours of chocolate get into a vicious fight until they are smashed to pieces showing that they are all alike inside. The aim of this film is a unanimous appeal for greater tolerance and understanding throughout the world.
This film is part of a project promoting tolerance.

coloured | germany 2001 | length: 1 min | format: 35mm 1:1,66 (1,85) | sound: Dolby Stereo SR / Digital

Executive Producer: Dirk Moritz
DOP: Torsten Hauer
Sound: Jan Doddema - Arkamys sound mixed by Moins de Bruit - Sacha Semeria
Animation: Daniel Höpfner
Production design: Hannes Jung
Voice marshmallows:
Hannes Jaenicke (english), Minh-Khai Phan-Thi (vietnamese), Altay Ünsal (turkish)
Written, produced and directed by Ansgar Ahlers

 

What are the bride and groom dreaming about in those last moments
in front of the altar, before their lives change forever?
Suddenly three beautiful dream-girls appear behind the priest.
The groom gets increasingly nervous…
"Wedding Daydreams" is the first short film of the planned series of
shorts for the multimedia-project DAYDREAMS.

coloured | germany 2004 | length: 10 min | format: 35mm 1:1,85 | sound: Dolby Digital (optical)

Production: forseesense
Coproduction: die drei !!!
Executive & Co-Producer: Dirk Moritz
Music (inspired by Mendelssohns “Wedding March”): Jan Doddema
Sound Supervisor: Ed Cantu
Production Designer: Kay Schilling
Editor: Sylvain Coutandin
Steadicam Operator: Patrick - D. Kaethner
Director of Photography: Roman Nowocien
Written, produced and directed by Ansgar Ahlers
Cast: Anneke Kim Sarnau, George Lenz, Pastor Rüdiger Dambroth, Evelyn Meyka, Hans Peter Korff, Uta Kargel, Noemi Gonzales, Franziska Schulz
This film was founded by nordmedia Fonds GmbH in Lower Saxony and Bremen, FFA, Oldenburgische Landesbank, INTERREG III A-Program of the Ems-Dollart-Region

 

A cellist is not disturbed by the noise coming from his neighbour’s room until…
"Low Volume" shows one way that impaired hearing might affect a normal live.
By playing with the audience’s prejudices this short film finds a humorous way
to appeal to everyone to spare a thought for all those who are hard of hearing.
This social spot was produced for the "Association of Hard of Hearing People in Germany"

coloured | germany 2005 | length: 1 min | format: 35mm 1:1,85 shoot on HD | sound: Dolby Surround

Production: forseesense
Co-Producer: Marcus Loges
Sound Design: Jan Doddema
Sound: Raoul Grass
Production Designer: Björn Holzhausen
Animations & Graphics: Sebastian Matthäus
Editor: Matthew Newmann
Director of Photography: Roman Nowocien
Written, produced and directed by Ansgar Ahlers
Cast: George Lenz, Dorkas Kiefer
Special thanks to Vanessa Mae & Giles Holland
This film was founded by nordmedia Fonds GmbH in Lower Saxony and Bremen, FFA, Sennheiser Vertriebs GmbH,
Oldenburgische Landesbank, Med-el