IFC presents Rooftop Films Short Film Showcase

BERLIN
(Jessica Duffin Wolfe | 3:49 | Drama)

Thursday, August 14, 2008 | 12:59 PM

She craves adventure. He wants to settle down. In order to win her over, he tries to do something spontaneous. But she knows that "Adventures are as common as rooftops."

Berlin, a point he picked out on a map--it came to embody all his hopes and dreams of adventure that he thought would make him more like the girl he loved. She was adventurous, but gave up her journey because she wanted to be with him. He wanted her, but was he good enough? He could not see adventure in the every day like she could.

This is the story of a breaking point in a relationship. He becomes jealous and spiteful that she'd had adventures, and makes a desperate and spontaneous choice to create his own in Berlin. He becomes swept away, and distances himself from the girl he wanted to please. He thinks it is because of his love of her that he could not stay, because he needed to find adventure to satisfy her, but he does not see, as she can, that the everyday adventures are all she really wanted; the ones she could share with him.

This film showed at Rooftop's "This is What We Mean by Short Films" program on June 6th, 2008. All the films in this program are about that core human value of friendship, about sticking together, staying loyal, and finding the magic of cinema with your friends, one quick glimpse at a time. The film also screened at the University of Toronto Film Festival in 2008.

Jessica Duffin Wolf, 24, was born in Paris, France, grew up in rural Ontario, lived four years in Montreal, and now teaches the history of printmaking and graphic design at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. She writes on film, new media, and public space for several Canadian magazines, and is working towards a PhD in English literature at the University of Toronto. BERLIN is her first movie.