Mo, whose name actually is Mohammad, works as a fast-food delivery driver. He shares a cramped, dark basement flat with four other drivers. At 21, Mo moved from Iran to Berlin. Since then, he has been battling the challenges of everyday life. Time and again, he is confronted with the temptations of clan life. He manages to resist for a long time — until he encounters his customer Jan and his contempt.

During a bike ride through the forest, the dreamy Andre tries to convince his acquaintance Agatha — and himself — that he is over his past relationship. A montage of present, dream, and memory.

Actress Helena Zengel on growing up on film sets, being and becoming a woman, working with Tom Hanks, Willem Dafoe, and others, and her perspective on the future of film.

The amateur boxer, Sprosse, parts ways with his longtime trainer Kalle to begin training with celebrity coach Igor. A difficult conversation unfolds between two hardened men.

ReFOCUS Media Labs is a media school for asylum seekers and people with refugees backgrounds. They empower young people to tell their own stories by teaching life-changing media skills. We visited ReFOCUS in Athens to listen and support the opening of the Berlin Lab.

Anton is living past his own life. His brother, on the other hand, is balanced and content. In a brief, loving confrontation, he tries to convince Anton to adopt a different, calm lifestyle. After a blow of fate, a process of reflection begins. In search of happiness, life, and the self.

This research contains personal accounts and explicit content regarding sexist behavior and abuse of power. Honest conversations with German film professionals, including Katja Riemann (mood still).

Inspired by the film Le Sang de Bêtes (1949) which was also used in selected excerpts, the film brutally engages with individual meat consumption and, in doing so, plays with both the aspect of self-reflection and that of awareness. 

Every day feels the same as a soul drifts through the monotony of routine, searching for meaning in a fractured montage of imaginings, illusions and intoxication lead by an emotional state of fear and exhaustion.

John Seelandt (1999) is a Director and Creative Director working across commercial and narrative projects - experienced in leading creative campaigns, directing selected productions, and developing high-concept storytelling. He studied at the University of the Arts Berlin and, during that time, worked on various film and music video productions, commercials, documentaries and television formats. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam while developing and directing commercials and short films.

E-Mail: john.seelandt@filmuniversitaet.de

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