Young talent Oscar: Jens Kevin Georg: Show your wounds

What were you mainly occupied with when you were twelve? Biting your nails, gambling, getting sweets or gelling your hair? Twelve-year-old Fabi has to achieve it: he finally wants to be recognized. Not from his classmates or friends, but from his family. And for that he needs an impressive scar, which is what his grandfather and father told him. But first you need a wound, which then crusts over. His sister already has one and she’s younger. What should he do now? Fabi stands in front of the roller coaster at the amusement park that his grandpa owns and wonders if his family is worth the pain. Or is this exaggerated macho stuff from yesterday? What do his surreal visions tell him?

The half-hour short film “Kruste,” with which Jens Kevin Georg won a student Oscar, revolves around these questions, as the Oscar Academy announced on Tuesday in Los Angeles. Which one exactly won’t be announced until October: there will be gold, silver or bronze. The 30-year-old graduate of the Babelsberg Film University doesn’t care which one it will be. “I’m color blind,” he says. There were a total of 2,683 submissions from all over the world.

“Kruste” is about questions of identity and belonging. For Georg, whose parents came to Germany from Transylvania in Romania, it is an “outsider’s story.” For a long time he believed that “feeling alone was just punk,” he told the Tagesspiegel. It doesn’t have to be: Well-known Hollywood directors who once won the student Oscar include John Lasseter, Spike Lee and Robert Zemeckis.

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