2024

SAD JOKES 

Writer I Director I Feature

Awards

German Film Critics Award - Fabian Stumm - Best Actor 2025

German Film Awards - Godehard Giese - Best Supporting Actor 2025

German Screen Actors Award - Haley Louise Jones - Best Supporting Actress 2025

German Film Festival Mexico City - Best Feature Film 2025

Munich Film Festival - Best Director & FIPRESCI Award 2024

Festivals

Munich Film Festival - New German Cinema 2024

TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival - Discovery 2024

German Film Festival x Kinofest Singapore 2024

Stockholm International Film Festival - Official Competition 2024

PÖFF - Tallinn Black Nights - German Focus 2024

Beijing Queer Film Festival - Official Selection 2024

Chéries Chéris Film Festival Paris - Official Competition 2024

FFI - Slovak Queer Film Festival - Official Selection 2024

Europa! Europa Film Festival Sydney & Melbourne - Official Selection 2025

BFI Flare London - Official Selection 2025

Roze Filmdagen Amsterdam - Official Selection 2025

New Directors I New Films - MOMA & Lincoln Center New York 2025

Lovers Film Festival Torino - German Focus 2025

Sunny Bunny Film Festival Kyiv - Official Selection 2025

Pink Apple Film Festival Zurich - Official Competition 2025

MIX Milano - Official Selection 2025

German Film Festival Mexico City - Official Competition 2025

Festival du Cinéma Allemand Paris - Focus 2025

German Currents Los Angeles - Official Selection 2025

MIX Copenhagen - Official Selection 2025

2022

KNOCHEN UND NAMEN I Bones and Names

Writer I Director I Feature

Awards

German Film Awards - Marie-Lou Sellem - Best Supporting Role - Nomination 2024

German Screen Actors Award - Marie-Lou Sellem - Best Supporting Role 2023

German Screen Actors Award - Haley Louise Jones - Best Cameo - Nomination 2023

Neisse Film Festival - Best Screenplay 2023

Heiner-Carow-Preis - Best Screenplay 2023

Kompass Perspektive Preis - Best Feature Film - Nomination 2023

Teddy Award - Best Feature Film - Nomination 2023

Festivals

Berlin International Film Festival - Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2023

Lichter Filmfest - Zukunft deutscher Film 2023

Lovers Film Festival Torino - Competition 2023

Filmkunstfest MV - Wettbewerb 2023

Neisse Film Festival - Wettbewerb 2023

Sunny Bunny Film Festival Kyiv - New Colors 2023

Outfest Los Angeles - Official Selection 2023

New Horizons - Official Selection 2023

Atlantida Film Fest Mallorca - Official Selection 2023

Fünf Seen Film Festival - Perspektive Spielfilm 2023

New Farm Queer Film Festival Brisbane 2023

Outfilm Film Festival Poznan 2023

TLV Queer Film Festival - Official Selection 2023

Mezipatra Film Festival Prage - Official Competition 2023

Beijing Queer Film Festival - New Voices 2023

Queersicht Film Festvial Bern 2023

TLV Film Festival - Official Selection 2023

Chéries Chéries Film Festival Paris - Official Selection 2023

Santiago International Film Festival 2024

QMTY - Queer Film Festival Nuevo León 2024

German Currents - German Film Festival Los Angeles 2024

Das Filmfest - Festival of German Cinema Prague 2024

Festival du Cinéma Allemand - Focus 2025

2021

DANIEL

Writer I Director I Medium-Length Film

Awards

Achtung Berlin - Best Medium-Length Film 2022

Festivals

Achtung Berlin - Official Competition - 2022

Split Film Festival Croatia - Official Selection 2022

Big Shorts Awards - Best Film Shortlist 2023

Arizona Short Film Festival - Official Selection 2023

2020

BRUXELLES

Writer I Director I Short

Festivals

Achtung Berlin - New Berlin Film Award - Nomination 2021