News
03/11/25 More Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen screenings this fall at IFFI Goa↩︎ (India) , Scanorama FF Vilnius↩︎ (Lithuania), AFI European Union Showcase Washington D.C.↩︎ (USA) , Braunschweig IFF↩︎(Germany), and Exground Wiesbaden↩︎(Germany).
02/11/25 A Spectre is Haunting Europe and A Proletarian Winter's Tale will be screening at Vórtice Festival de Cine↩︎ in Bogotá, Colombia.
09/10/25 Additional october screenings of Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen announced: Viennale↩︎, Underdox Munich↩︎, Biberacher Filmfestspiele↩︎
05/10/25 Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen (Phantoms of July) will celebrate its South American premiere at São Paulo IFF↩︎
02/10/25 Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen (Phantoms of July) won the Hamburg Producers Award↩︎ at Filmfest Hamburg.
01/10/25 Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen (Phantoms of July) will have its North American premiere at AFI Fest Los Angeles↩︎
23/09/25 New fall screenings announced: Adelaide Film Festival↩︎ (Australia), SEMINCI Valladolid↩︎ (Spain), Cinemateket Copenhagen↩︎ (Denmark), Altin Koza FF Adana↩︎ (Turkey) and Filmfestival Cologne↩︎ (Germany)
12/09/25 Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen (Phantoms of July) will have its Asian premiere at Busan Film Festival↩︎ and its German premiere at Filmfest Hamburg↩︎
15/08/25 Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen (Phantoms of July) will screen at Sarajevo Film Festival↩︎ in the Kinoscope Section
08/07/25 Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen (Phantoms of July) will have its world premiere in the International Competition of the Locarno Film Festival↩︎
10/11/24 Blutsauger ist now streaming on MUBI↩︎ in Brasil, France, Germany, India, Italy, Latin America, Netherlands, Turkey, and UK
30/07/24 We started shooting our new feature Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen
03/11/23 The poster of Blutsauger was selected for the exhibiton The Big Screen. Film Posters of All Time↩︎ at Staatliche Museen / Kulturforum Berlin (03/11/23-03/03/24)
12/09/23 I'll be screening and discussing my films at three universities in the USA (check links for details):
Columbia University↩︎ (Sep 26th, 5.15 pm)
Yale University↩︎ (Sep 27th, 6pm)
New York University↩︎(Sep 29th, 6pm)
Thanks to Fatima Naqvi (Yale) for the initiative and to Mark Anderson (Columbia) and Juliane Camfield (NYU) for hosting the additional events.
11/09/23 Blutsauger will also be broadcasted on ARD on 01/10/23 (00:35).
06/09/23 Blutsauger will have its German and French TV premiere on ARTE ↩︎ (22:45h). It is also available for free online streaming from 04/09 - 04/12/23 (German OV with French subtitles)
28/04/23 Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen received a project development funding by MDM - Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung↩︎
27/04/23 At the invitation of Filmhauskino Nürnberg↩︎, I'll introduce and discuss one of my favorite films, "Nicht versöhnt" (1965) by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. (19:00)
15/03/23 Bloodsuckers screens as part of the exhibition Phantoms of the Night. 100 Years of Nosferatu↩︎ at Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Staatliche Museen Berlin. (Free admission, 18:00)
09/03/23 Artist talk at Rutgers University, New Jersey, for the conference The Eternal Return of the Vampire↩︎. Thanks to organizers Artun Ak and Chaitrali Kulkarni.
19/12/22 Blutsauger released on DVD and VoD by GRANDFILM↩︎ (Germany and Austria, with English subs).
01/12/22 I was invited by Sight&Sound↩︎ magazine to vote in their "The Greates Film of All Time" poll