The 48 Hour Film Project is a world-wide contest in which teams of filmmakers are assigned a genre, a character, a prop, and a line of dialogue, and have 48 hours to create a short film containing those elements. Shortly after the 48 hours of filmmaking, the films from each city are then screened at a theater in that city. The 2009 Berlin edition was produced by Christian managed to have an unheard number of 50 teams with more then 600 participants. An intense shooting weekend was followed by sold out screenings at the famous Babylon Movie theatre in Berlin Mitte. The winner movie was also the winner at the Best 48 hour Film Contest in Las Vegas where it won against movies from 70 different cities worldwide.

The Jury: Connie Walther, Greta Amend, Helene Hegemann, Hans Weingartner, Till Schmerbeck, Jan Henrik Stahlberg.

Sponsors: Skoda, Berliner Pilsener, Avid, Berlin loves you, ic! Berlin, 25p cine support, Alex, Crew united, Dinamix and The Babylon Berlin Movie Theatre