CRYPTID (Germany, 2023, 7′)

Friday, October 4, at 5 pm, Cinema Massimo, Screen 3

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Director: Amina Krami
Screenplay: Samuel Gheist
Producers: Timothée Cliquet, Sophie Misaki Horstmann
Photography: Aljoscha Wuzella
Editing: Raquel Caro Nuñez
Music: Kilian Oser

Yanna’s crypto startup is in desperate need of money, so much so that she asks for help from a pseudo-spiritual fund. In the hall, before getting in, Yanna meets Theo, a successful colleague, who suggests her to pretend to be a spiritually-inspired genius. At first, Yanna doesn’t take him very seriously, but in any case, she decides to wear a black turtleneck to complete the “Silicon Valley” look. When her proposal is welcomed with great enthusiasm, Yanna finds out that this was more than just simple “spirituality”. National preview.

Amina Krami (Salzburg, Austria, 1992) has been studying direction at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg since 2020. In 2014, her studies in scenic arts in Hildesheim with Professor Uwe Schrader led her to deal with 16mm analogue cinema for the first time. She then produced other digital short films. Since then, she has been directing many films together with Nola Anwar, among others, the medium-length movie Tell Me Something Nice (2023) premiered at Max Ophüls Festival. In 2022, Amina Krami studied at Paris school of cinema, La Femis thanks to the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung scholarship. She directed Cryptid (2023) with the support of Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris, an innovative programme for young international producers developed by La Femis, Filmakademie and London NFTS.

Filmography: Salad Days (s.f., 2020), Nur Haare (s.f., animation, 2021), Literatur auf der Leinwand, Exhibition Film Literature Museum Marbach (s.f., 2022), Tell Me Something Nice (s.f., 2023), Prince de la ville (s.f., 2024), Cryptid (s.f., 2024).