38th edition
17-25 january 2026
Image Heimkommen
Germany
2012 Fiction 24 min
Jo (11) is a slowpoke. When she misses her bus (again) she calls her big brother Robert to pick her up as usual. Instead, his girlfriend Caro comes. An accident on the way home changes Jo's and Robert's lives forever.
With : Mia Plappert, Alexander Martschewski, Cynthia Cosima
Screenplay : Magdalena Grazewicz
Image : Raphael Beinder
Sound : Maurizius Staerkle-Drux
Editing : Lorna Hoefler-Steffan
Production : Friederike Sophie Steinbeck, Dffb
Micah Magee grew up in Texas and came to Berlin in 2001 with a Fulbright Fellowship for Journalism. In addition to filmmaking, Micah has worked as co-director of Cinematexas International Short Film Festival, pirate radio programmer and (currently) full-time mom. Her films have been supported by grants/awards from the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, New York Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council for the Arts. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Troy, New York.