Silent Night

13´40 / Germany / 2024

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Crew •

Director and Producer JONATHAN SCHALLER & PHILLIP SCHAEFFER

Editor: JOURI DAHO & JONATHAN SCHALLER

Sound Design JAN ERIC HEITLAND

Poster Design MARIE TEIGLER

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Festivals •

world premiere at CPH:DOX in the New:Vision section
Film Festival Dresden
Huesca Festival International de Cine
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg

Fünf Seen Filmfestival
Kasseler Dokfest
Intl. Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg

Izmir Intl. Short Filmfestival with "Short Export"

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Selected for Short Export by AG Kurzfilm

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Synopsis •

In spring of 2022, a group of international tourists take a half-day trip to Bethlehem to see religious sites. But something is strange: the cheeseburgers for lunch cannot be delivered as planned and the souvenir shops are closed. The tour guide duo, one Israeli, the other Palestinian, won´t tell us what’s going on – for differing reasons. As the tourists enter the Church of Nativity to visit the birthplace of Jesus, there’s a murmur among the street merchants about an incident the day before.