World premiere
First Feature Winner 2024: No Dogs Allowed
Without a doubt not your ordinary coming-of-age film that will leave no one indifferent.
Fifteen-year-old Gabo seems like a regular teenager who goes to school, plays video games with his best friend and does other things a normal teenager would do – except he’s not. He has tendencies he knows to be wrong, but cannot control.
He befriends Dave, a much older man with his own fantasies. Lines soon start to blur between a trusting friendship and being groomed. Once Dave is arrested on suspicion of statutory rape, Gabo must suddenly decide whether to testify against his mentor with the risk of exposing his own secret.
Director Steve Bache’s debut is not your ordinary coming-of-age film, confronting taboo subjects that will shake the viewer to the core, asking questions about what we are born as and what life can turn us into.
Triin Tramberg
Steve Bache (1990) is a German filmmaker born in Pirna, Saxony. After finishing high school, he worked as an Assistant Director on several film productions. His documentary animation film “Eye for an Eye” was nominated for a Student Academy Award in the international animation category in 2016. Bache graduated from the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in 2021 and works as a writer and director. His graduation project was the short drama “Fatjona”, which made it to the finals of the BAFTA Student Award competition in 2022. “No Dogs Allowed” is his first feature film.
Eye for an Eye (2016, short), Fatjona (2022, short), No Dogs Allowed (2024)
Award for the best film, grant of 5000€ by
