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TRUST

We flirt with our bodies and faces. TRUST creates a playful variation of the classical initial contact of heterosexual Europeans. A creative man courts a woman with long hair. Would you do the same in this situation?

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  • Dave Lojek
    Director
    120+ short films: http://j.mp/D_Lojek
  • Verena Schuleman
    Writer
    8 short screenplays
  • Dave Lojek
    Producer
    120+ short films
  • Florence Bebic
    Key Cast
    theater and shorts
  • Uriel Jaouen Zrehen
    Key Cast
    many shorts
  • Nika Kushnir
    Key Cast
    Paradise Beach, Sick City, many other short films
  • Ralph Fellows
    Key Cast
    many shorts
  • Mirko Rizzello
    Music
    TRUST, Severin & Alegra, Focus Pocus, Zombies, The Tenant, Psychic Sue, REC, Hair, The Need
  • Benjamin Morel
    Director of Photography
    several shorts, features
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Romance, Flirt, Comedy, silent movie
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 25 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 5, 2011
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • about 51 film festivals
    see https://vimeo.com/25041883
    premieres on many continents
Director Biography - Dave Lojek

Dave Lojek loves filmmaking and belongs to the prolific and most often selected directors of the 21st century with over 1897 premiere screenings of his distributions at international film festivals worldwide. His favorite genres are comedy, parody, fantasy, romance, poetry, sci-fi and experiment. Dave also directs documentaries, dramas, portraits, and music videos. His works and distributions won 237 film awards. Dave Lojek graduated with an MA in English / American and Cultural Studies from Humboldt-University in his hometown Berlin.

In terms of content and style, Dave's poetic films are about magic, love, death, friendship, loneliness, artists, oddities, escapism, mythology and the everyday. Based on the Homo-Ludens-principle, Dave clearly focuses his often-cheerful work on the universal and timeless. His motivation is intrinsic.

As independent producer, he created 178 movies in 26 cities in 12 European countries by 2024. Mr. Lojek hosts monthly open cinema screenings in Germany’s oldest cinema and annual film workshops called KinoKabarets with his initiative KinoBerlino. Dave works as film distributor and president of a Film Association. The productions of APEIRON FILMS and KinoBerlino have been broadcast weekly since 2008 (ca. 11.982 times) on German TV and viewed online over 2 million times.

Selected Filmography (23% of the total œvre) of Director and Producer Dave Lojek

2024: TRACES OF GRIEF
2023: EGGSPRESSION • OSMOSIS • UMBRA OF DECEIT
2022: CALXOPHOBIA
2021: FUCHS & PINGUIN
2020: OCCURRENCES OF QUESTIONABLE SIGNIFICANCE
2018: I CAME FROM THE FUTURE • SNITCH • THE LAST SUPPER • KEEPER
2017: ARACHNE
2016: SAMA SŁODYCZ • DAS SPRICHWÖRTLICHE GLÜCK • REFUGEE POETRY
2015: FRUWAJĄCA FORTUNA • KINSKISCHRAUBE
2014: THE PRINCESS STRIKES BACK • FILM KITCHEN
2013: HEK TICK TACK • PSYCHIC SUE • PARADISE BEACH • FOCUS POCUS
2012: TWO TOO ODD • MADEMOISELLE NIMSI • SICK CITY
2011: TRUST • BELIEVE • METEORITES
2010: DER MIETER • PERSPECTIVE • MARIES STIMME • FLUSSAUFWÄRTS
2009: KIT & SUKA • MUSE • SERENDIPITY • INDECISION
2008: ROFL • ANGELS • PHOBIEN
2007: PROJEKTION • EVERMORE • FUTILITY • PELT PEOPLE
2006: PARLANDO
2005: DYSFUNCTION
1998-2000: SELBST UND FREMDBILDER IN DER WERBUNG Teil 1-3

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FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

1. interfilm - Berlin International Short Film Festival, Germany 2011
2. FrIKK - Festival für freie Kunst und Kultur Berlin, Germany 2011
3. International KinoKabaret Hamburg, Germany 2011
4. interPLAY Film Festival Fort Mac, USA 2011
5. International KinoKabaret Berlin, Germany 2011
6. CINEBITES Film Festival Denver, USA 2011
7. International KinoKabaret Prague, Czech Republic 2011
8. Cinema Perpetuum Mobile – International Film Festival Minsk, Belarus 2012
9. Bamberger Kurzfilmtage Film Market, Germany 2012
10. Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival Market, France 2012
11. International Film Festival "ZOOM - ZBLIŻENIA" Jelenia Góra, Poland 2012
12. Independent Days Karlsruhe, Germany 2012
13. Dragon Award online competition Gothenburg, Sweden 2012
14. Ascona Film and Video Art Festival, Switzerland 2012
15. Videonale Berlin, Germany 2012
16. The SERGE SHARRINOVSKY SUNDOWN Film Festival, Perth, Australia 2012
17. Moving Silence Festival Athens, Greece 2012
18. ClipClub Berlin, Germany 2012
19. West-Östliches FilmFestival Berlin, Germany 2012
20. Brussels Short Film Festival Market, Belgium 2012
21. Golden Anteaters Festival Lublin, Poland 2012
22. Film Sharing - International Low & No-Budget Videofilm Festival Tour Heilbronn 2012
23. Video Festival Imperia, Italy 2012
24. Kino Otok Izola Cinema - Video on the Beach - Ljubljana, Slovenia 2012
25. Once A Week - Online Video Festival, 2012
26. SHORTini Film Festival Augusta, Italy 2012
27. Международный Фестиваль Кинолюбителей БЕЛЫЕ НОЧИ – White Nights International Filmfestival Petersburg, Russia 2012
28. San Giò Video Festival Verona, Italy 2012
29. Krivoy Rog Film Festival "Кино под звездами | Cinema under the Stars", Ukraine 2012
30. Portobello Film Festival London, United Kingdom 2012
31. Premio Cinematografico Palena, Italy 2012
32. Film Festival of Laughter Zagreb, Croatia 2013
33. LAKINO Latin American Film Festival Berlin, Germany 2013
34. Muestra Internacional de Cortometrajes - San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina 2013
35. KO & DIGITAL - Festival Internacional de Cine Solidario Barcelona, Spain 2013
36. NOFI World Festival Glendale, USA 2013
37. Saltburn Film Festival, UK 2014
38. Little Shows Online Film Festival, India 2014
39. Part of Dave Lojek's APERON FILMS retrospective for MACHT GELD - Art Exhibition at Schalterraum Berlin Schöneweide, Germany 2014 facebook.com/schalterraum
40. Siliguri International Short Film and Documentary Contest West Bengal, India 2014
41. International Film Festival Detmold, Germany 2015
42. Golden Diana International Film Festival St. Kanzian am Klopeiner See, Austria 2015
43. Blackbird Film Festival Cortland, USA 2015
44. Golden Anteaters Film Festival Lublin, Poland 2015 (Retrospective of Dave Lojek)
45. Biesdorfer Dokumentar- und Kurzfilmforum, Germany 2015
46. Golden Sun Short Film Festival, Malta 2016
47. Nairobi Film Festival, Kenya 2014 - 2015
48. Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival Pune, India 2016
49. Warsaw Short Framing, Poland 2017
50. Aab International Film Festival, India 2017 (Best Film of May)
51. Huhtamo International Film Festival, Finland 2017
52. Short Film Program of Wordfest Berlin, Germany 2019
53. Videomedeja International Video Festival Novi Sad, Serbia 2019 – Retrospective of Dave Lojek’s films