Centrifugal Force

Matthias has spent five months in solitary confinement, sentenced by the GDR authorities for illegal border crossing. Deprived of sleep and social contact, cut off from the outside world, he lived on his mere daydreams, yearning to catch a glimpse of the sky or to smell the scent of the ocean… Even after 23 years, Matthias can`t escape from his former cell.

Marie Elisa and Alexandra Wesolowski study at Academy for TV and Film in Munich, Dept. of Documentary Film and TV Journalism.

This film has been selected because it was part of “Soirée Allemande – A Crush on German Short Films” at the 34th International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand, France, on January 30, 2012.

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