Turtle & Albion
Thirteen-year-old Albion cares for his seriously ill eight-year-old brother Mensur during the school holidays. Mensur suffers from a mysterious illness and is confined to a wheelchair. The two children create their only little wonderworld of video games, comics and boundless imagination. They try to ignore the fact that Mensur’s pain is becoming ever stronger.
When Mensur confides in Albion that he isn’t actually sick, but is instead turning into a turtle, Albion must face a decision: Should he believe his little brother and help him with the transformation, or should he take on responsibility and turn to adults for help?
Cast
- Albion
- Elias Córdoba Pimenidis
- Mensur
- Ilkay Yalcin
- Rina (Mutter)
- Jasmina Al Zihairi
- Sprecherin Schildkröten-Doku
- Svenja Niekerken
Turtle & Albion
Fitore Muzaqi
- Short film
- Production Country / Year
- Germany 2025
- Language
- dt. OF m. engl. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 18min
2.39:1, Discrete 5.1
Director & Crew
Fitore Muzaqi
Born in Kosovo. Studied Literature, Culture, Media and Social Sciences at Siegen University and Narrative Environments at the Braunschweig University of Art. Worked as a writer, director and creative producer for the public broadcaster WDR and various production companies. Studies Serial Storytelling at the ifs Internationale Filmschule Cologne. Active as a writer and director.
Filmography
| 2015 | Short documentary abroad | Kurzfilm | |
| 2021 | Hella & Bernd | Dokumentarfilm | |
| Meine Narbe | Web-Serie | ||
| 2022 | Im Leben von | Online-Serie | |
| 2023 | Fried Dreams | TV-Serie | |
| 2024 | Turtle & Albion | Kurzfilm | 2025 |
| 2025 | Geschmacklos, das Leben | Kurzfilm |
- Director of Photography
- Montell Taraschewski
- Editor
- Elias Ben Engelhardt
- Production Designer
- Wiebke Lyß
- Costume Designer
- Elena Wegner
- Casting Director
- Andrea Rodríguez
- Sound
- Max Sattler
- Sound Designer
- Christian Pössnicker
- Music Composer
- Christian Pössnicker
- Make-up
- Aljona Diordiew
- Producer
- Christopher Albrodt