Since 2002 the Berlin International Filmfestival has an official festival trailer. The 50-second computer animation is the opener for every film screening during the Berlinale programme of all sections, the Retrospective excluded. Director Uli M Schüppel conceived and created the trailer, the music was composed by producer/writer team raccoons@work, consisting of Xaver Naudascher and Johannes Koeniger, the animation was realized by “das werk berlin”. 

Uli M Schüppel  www.schueppel-films.de directed numerous internationally awarded fiction films (e.g. planet alex, Vaterland) and documentaries (e.g. The Road to God knows where, Frozen Stories, Der Platz). As a digital film maker he joins music clips, documentary essays and fiction film skills. The Berlinale trailer was his first purely digital animation. 

 

As composers, producers, engineers and programmers Xaver Naudascher  www.xaver.net and Johannes Koeniger
 www.panambient.com have been involved in countless projects. Their musical and audio-technical input is much sought after in music productions, commercials and scores for films: Heaven, Goodbye Lenin, Run Lola Run, and a wide range of commercial and music clips. Under the name of Raccoon Brothers and In Sate Of Flux they release their own records and are present in the club scene as DJs and performers. 

 

The specialists from "das werk berlin" have created the digital firework for the Berlinale Bears. Computer animated films and digital post-production for the cinema are their main fields. In recent years “das werk berlin” was responsible for the digital post-production of films such as Good Bye, Lenin!, Viel passiert - Der BAP Film by Wim Wenders, The Pianist, Lola rennt, The Million Dollar Hotel and Enemy at the Gates. 

 

If you would like to use our Berlinale trailer on television or the theme music on radio, please contact the Berlinale’s TV/Radio Office.