One night, in the darkness of an alienating city, Theo is confronted with his own fragility. Longing for closeness, he travels to the countryside to visit his friend Ida.

Director: Carlos Pereira
Producers: Carlotta Cornehl and Clara Puhlmann
Editor / Sound Designer: Vanessa Heeger
Production: DFFB and Angst & Drang

Locarno Film Festival – Pardi di Domani
Max Ophüls Preis – Short Film Competition
Achtung Berlin [Jury Special Mention]
Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival
German Short Film Awards 2025 (DKFP) [Nomination]
Sicilia Queer Filmfest
Queer Lisboa 2025
The Norwegian Short Film Festival
Rio LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Tabor New Frame Film Festival
TiSFF – Thessaloniki International Short Film
Bolton International Film Festival

In a Germany in the not too distant future, queer people have become even more marginalized and under threat. On the last day of winter, Omar is released from prison and, unannounced, visits Ava.

Director: Carlos Pereira
Producers: Carlotta Cornehl and Clara Puhlmann
Editor: Vanessa Heeger 
Production: DFFB and Angst & Drang

Locarno Film Festival – Pardi di Domani
San Sebastián Film Festival – NEST
Preis der deutschen Filmkritik (Prize of the German Film Critics Association) [Best Short Film 2023]
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival [Special Mention]
Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival [Take One! Competition Best Film]
achtung berlin Film Festival [Best Short Film]
Adelaide Film Festival – World Shorts
Festival International du Film de la Roche-Sur-Yon
Drama International Short Film Festival – International Student Competition
 Queer Student Award “Loud & Proud” 
Short Waves Festival – RAW Competition
Dresden International Short Film Festival – National Competition
CurtaCinema Rio De Janeiro International Short Film Festival
IndieLisboa – National Competition
Sicilia Queer Filmfest [Best Short Film from Festival Circut Jury & Special Mention from Palermo Pride Jury]
Hamburg International Short Film Festival
Generation Film Festival
INTERFILM Berlin International Short Film Festival – German Competition
porto/post/doc – Cinema Novo Competiton
London Short Film Festival

An Iranian couple clings to parenthood as a possible means to stay in Germany, unraveling a web of uncertainty and sacrifice in their desperate quest for asylum.

Director: Hoda Taheri
Producer: Julia Rose Gostynski
Sound Designer: Vanessa Heeger
Production: DFFB

Locarno Film Festival: Pardi di Domani
German Short Film Awards [Nomination]
INTERFILM Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Berlin – Confrontations
Winterthur International Short Film Festival – International Competition
Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival
Las Palmas International Film Festival
Berliner Kurzfilmrolle 2024
Concorto Film Festival
Drama International Short Film Festival
FilmSchoolFest Munich
Max Ophüls Film Festival

The flowers on top of the flower-headed boy’s head always brought him smiles but everything changed when he encountered bullies on his first day of school.

Writer / Director / Editor / Sound Designer: Vanessa Heeger
Production: Universidad del Cine

64 Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage
32 Mar del Plata International Film Festival
Mostra Internacional de Cinema Infantil Florianópolis [Jury’s Honorable Mention]
CCK Centro Cultural Kirschner – Ciclo Cantera
LoboFest Brasília [Best National Short Film]
Mostra Lugar de Mulher é no Cinema [Best National Children Short]
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival Münster / Berlin
Mostra Itaú Cultural de Cinema Latinoamericano Mostra Itaú Cultural Curta Curtinhas
Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage – Der Andere Blick – Geflüchtete kuratieren
SHNIT Buenos Aires
Quito International Film Festival
Anim!Arte Co Production award
AnimaLatina
Muestra Cine en Grande Tierra del Fuego
Mostra Cultural Audiovisual Campinas
VIDEOMEDEJA International Film Festival
ANIMAÍ – Encontro Baiano de Animação e Games [Honorable Mention – Young Filmmaker]
Mostra Luz Mágica de Cinema Infantil
Brasilianisches Kulturfestival Wien
TVE Bahia (Public Television Broadcast Brazil, 2021)
Mostra Matinê Imbassaí
Centro Cultural Borges - Cuadro a Cuadro (2026)

Two friends share the same body in virtual reality as they travel back to their home country to relive good and bad memories and reopen wounds.

Director: Eric Bitencourt
Producer: Eric Bitencourt and Tetyana Gryniva
Editor / Sound Designer: Vanessa Heeger

Max Ophüls Preis – Short Film Competition
Interfilm Berlin [1st Prize German Competition]
German Short Film Awards 2025 (DKFP) [Nomination]
Sunny Bunny LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Xposed Queer Film Festival Berlin

A guy meets a girl. They roam the city as they get to know each other. Through a series of ups and downs they build and deconstruct a relationship that presents itself as out of the ordinary.

Director: Kevin Zayat
Producer: Tadeo Pestaña Caro and Rogelio Navarro
Sound Designer / Production Sound Mixer: Vanessa Heeger
Production: Universidad del Cine

BAFICI – Competencia Nacional de Cortometrajes
Curta Cinema – Panorama Latinoamericano

Director: Dominik Annies
Producer / Director: Janna Fodor
Editor: Vanessa Heeger

Director: Magdalena Jacob
Producer: Clara Puhlmann
Editor: Vanessa Heeger

When a girl notices a shadow following her, she tries to run away from it.

Director / Editor / Sound Designer: Vanessa Heeger
Production: HfbK Hamburg and Universidad del Cine

50 Sehsüchte – International Student Film Festival
21 Mostra de Cinema Infantil de Florianópolis
17 Festival de Cine Inusual de Buenos Aires
20 Anilogue International Animation Festival
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival Berlin
zeitimpuls shortfilm
Centro Cultural Recoleta, Festival Clave 13/17
Palacio Libertad: ¡Cortos, cortos, cortos! – Ciclos de cortometrajes de la Universidad del Cine
Animaphix International Animated Film Festival
Mostra Luz Mágica de Cinema Infantil
Brasilianisches Kulturfestival Wien
Mostra Lugar de Mulher é no Cinema
Anim!Arte – Festival Internacional de Animação do Brasil
Madeira Curtas
Animex International Festival of Animation, VFX and Games
Max3Min
Klappe Auf! Short Film Festival
Ciclo ‘Colón Cinema’ Vértigo Cine
Centro Cultural Borges - Cuadro a Cuadro (2026)
Open Studios – Art School Alliance, HfbK Hamburg (Germany, 2018) as a Work in Progress

Two girls meet. Even though they don’t speak the same mother language, they remain in each other’s company.

One day, a woman gives birth to a vacuum cleaner instead of a human baby, which she is now supposed to raise like a normal child. She tries to play along, but the more she tries, the more she understands the absurdity of her world.

Director / Producer: Jonas Nemela
Editor: Vanessa Heeger 
Production: Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) and DFFB

Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival
FEST – New Directors / New Films 
Utopiales – France [2023 Best International Short Film]

The summer of 2019 in Berlin: Overlooking the rooftops of the city, Aimee and Anissa are forging their plans for the future, wondering when puberty will end, how to have good sex, and what their plan might be after graduating from high school. Lea is similarly disoriented. When she’s not in school, she works at a supermarket and likes to go dancing in the evenings.

Director: Marlena Molitor
Production Sound Mixer: Vanessa Heeger
Production: HFF München

55. Internationalen Hofer Filmtagen [Best Short Film]
SHORTS Trinationales Filmfestival [Winner Short Doc]
20. Bogoshorts – Bogotá Short Film Festival
Achtung Berlin
LAKFF Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival
Durban International Film Festival
Kortfilm Festivalen, Norway