Ungewollte Verwandtschaft
Unwanted Kinship

Ungewollte Verwandtschaft | Unwanted Kinship by Pavel Mozhar
DEU 2024, Berlinale Shorts
© Jonas Römmig

Ungewollte Verwandtschaft | Unwanted Kinship by Pavel Mozhar
DEU 2024, Berlinale Shorts
© Konrad Waldmann

Ungewollte Verwandtschaft | Unwanted Kinship by Pavel Mozhar
DEU 2024, Berlinale Shorts
© Jonas Römmig

Ungewollte Verwandtschaft | Unwanted Kinship by Pavel Mozhar
DEU 2024, Berlinale Shorts
With
- André Mewis (Army Instructor)
- Christiane Sill (Civilian 1)
- Steffen Roll (Civilian 2)
- Iryna Poplavska (Narrator 1)
- Oleksandr Kryvosheiev (Narrator 2)
Crew
Director | Pavel Mozhar |
Screenplay | Pavel Mozhar, Kolja Volkmar |
Cinematography | Jonas Römmig, Konrad Waldmann |
Editing | Florian Seufert |
Sound Design | Jonas Vicent |
Sound | Moritz Zuchantke, Thilo Jacks |
Sound Mixing | Bertold Budig |
Production Design | Friederike Meisel |
Costumes | Friederike Meisel |
Animation | Laura Därr |
Producers | Kolja Volkmar, Pavel Mozhar |
Produced by
Mozhar & Volkmar Film

Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck, Pavel Mozhar
The head of Berlinale Shorts and the filmmakers during Q&A.
Ungewollte Verwandtschaft · Berlinale Shorts · Feb 20, 2024

Group Picture
The film teams at Sinema Transtopia for Berlinale Goes Kiez.
Tako Tsubo · City of Poets · Ungewollte Verwandtschaft · Berlinale Shorts · Berlinale Goes Kiez · Feb 22, 2024

Akihito Izuhara, Yuyan Wang, Pavel Mozhar, Philip Ullman
The directors with posters of their short films.
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Pavel Mozhar
Ungewollte Verwandtschaft · Berlinale Shorts · Feb 20, 2024

Screening Room
Ungewollte Verwandtschaft · Berlinale Shorts · Feb 20, 2024
Pavel Mozhar

Born in Minsk, Belarus in 1987, he grew up in and around Berlin from the age of ten. From 2009 to 2012, he studied philosophy and economics at the University of Bayreuth. In 2015, he took up a film directing degree with a focus on documentary at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. His short documentary Handbook, about the protests in Belarus in August 2020, won numerous awards, including Best Short Film at the IDFA in 2021 and at the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg in 2022.
Filmography
2019 Vizitator (Visitor) 2021 Handbuch (Handbook); short film 2024 Ungewollte Verwandtschaft (Unwanted Kinship); short film
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2024