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One Happy Customer 2024
The daily routine of an older sex worker. Luring clients in, snatching up their cash, and using her special trick to leave them satisfied and more importantly, to get them out of her hair as quickly as possible.

The Lesbian Bar Project: FLINTA 2024
The Lesbian Bar Project: FLINTA documents the complex and triumphant stories of the FLINTA communities in Cologne & Berlin; a reflection of where the queer community is headed internationally. Despite Lesbian Bars disappearing in Germany, there’s a growing FLINTA movement that epitomizes the evolution of queer culture. Featuring Boize Bar owner Payman Neziri, comedian Ricarda Hofmann, human rights activist Anbid Zaman, politician Tessa Ganserer, and party collectives Bebex and Girlstown.

Split Second 2023
Sometimes a fraction of a second is all it takes to change the world forever. The film Split Second tells the backstories of three of the most influential photographs in human history. In three intercut episodes, we follow the photographers who captured these historic moments in iconic pictures and made them visible to the world.

Bluesman 2018 star_border 9
What is being a “Bluesman”? It’s been the opposite of what “others” think. It’s going against the current, being your own strength, your own roots. It’s knowing we where neve an automatic reproduction of a submissive image created by them.

Becky and the Birds 2018
A short film based on the self-titled extended play album “Becky and the Birds” by Becky and the Birds (Thea Gustafsson).

The Ayes Have It 2017
The inaugural short film for Season 8 of Motionpoems, themed: "Dear Mr. President." This is a visual poem dedicated to "Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin and every family denied justice," adapted from the prose of the same name by writer Tiana Clark.

King Jack 2015 star_border 6.5
Growing up in a rural town filled with violent delinquents, Jack has learned to do what it takes to survive, despite having an oblivious mother and no father. After his aunt falls ill and a younger cousin comes to stay with him, the hardened 15-year-old discovers the importance of friendship, family, and looking for happiness even in the most desolate of circumstances.

Lilting 2014 star_border 7
A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.

Meat 2014 star_border 1
If you don't like the reflection. Don't look in the mirror. I don't care. A promo-film for the 240 hours performance installation at Schaubühne, Berlin.

Little Secret 2013 star_border 7
LITTLE SECRET is a short, suspenseful drama about a fifteen year old boy and his inner struggles. A son tells his mother an innocent lie as an excuse. We've all covered things up, but what happens when the consequences begin to snowball, and every minute it becomes harder and harder to take back the lie. Little Secret is inspired by a true story that happened in April 2012 in the Czech Republic and became a national scandal and media sensation for weeks. It started a huge racist backlash in the country.