(2025, Germany, 153')
An urban melodrama rooted in rural stories of debt, usury, and disappearance, set against a feverish, hallucinatory Bangkok. Jen, a hotel receptionist, ekes out a living by petty hustles and by posing as a “temporary” girlfriend for hire. After a botched robbery, she vanishes without a trace, driving her partner Wason into a desperate search through the city’s shadowy streets. Echoing ghost cinema and the Eastern fascination with the double, the film weaves together pure romanticism and socio-political reality, offering a peculiar and unsettling portrait of the city, offering a peculiar and unsettling portrait of the city.
A German director and screenwriter (Cologne, 1983). Together with Timm Kröger, he wrote Zerrumpelt Herz, presented in the Venice Critics’ Week in 2014, and Die Theorie von Allem, competing at the Venice International Film Festival in 2023. He made his directorial debut in 2017 with 2557, selected at BAFICI, and in 2020 co-wrote the screenplay for The Trouble with Being Born with Sandra Wollner, awarded the Thomas-Pluch-Preis. His cinematic language moves between emotional disturbance and existential reflection, with a strong focus on identity and memory. He currently lives and works in Berlin.
