Directed by Hanna Antonina Wojcik-Slak | Germany, France 2023 | 87 min // TIFF // A shooting star in her field, conductor Nina Palcek (Maren Eggert) is diligently preparing for a concert of Mahler’s 5th Symphony at the Berlin Philharmonic. With the highly anticipated performance on the horizon, rehearsal is abruptly interrupted by news that her teenage son, Lars (Jona Levin Nicolai), has been injured at school — perhaps by his own hand. [sound design, dialogue editing]

Directed by Henrika Kull | Germany, 2023 | 92 min // Filmfest Munich // Anne and Nuri have only just been introduced by a mutual acquaintance when they travel to Nuri’s parents’ house in the mountains between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. As the conflict between the Israeli army and Hamas escalates, they spend two intimate days by the pool under the protection of the Iron Dome missile defense system as an escape from the nightly bomb alerts in the city. [sound design, dialogue editing]

Directed by Igor Buharov, Ivan Buharov | Hungary, Slovakia, 2021 | 82 min. // FID Marseille 2021 // The Buharovs, as the harbingers of a supra-human world, blend their instinctive cosmos with a kind of quiet poetry to lead the viewer into the Land of Warm Waters and onwards to new dimensions of storytelling. [sound design, mix]

Directed by Roser Corella | Germany, Austria, 2021 | 73 min. // CPH DOX 2021 // A thought-provoking gaze of the exploitative migration and the terrible dilemmas facing women who must choose between earning and caring their own children. The film drives the realities underlying the domestic work and care solutions found by Middle Eastern countries, as Lebanon. These solutions do not address continuing gender inequalities, and all too often rest on the exploitation and even dehumanization of the women who actually provide the care of children and do all the domestic work in the houses of middle and upper-class families. [sound design, mix]

Directed by Louis Henderson, Olivier Marboeuf | France, United Kingdom, 2019 | 132 min. // Berlinale Forum 2020 // Reflecting on the legacy of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture, follows a collective’s process of translating Édouard Glissant’s play Monsieur Toussaint from French to Creole. The result is an experiment in three parts: a study retracing Louverture’s steps, an analysis of shared authorship and collective filmmaking and finally the outburst of a magical reality in which the spirits of the dead are alive. [sound design, dialog editing]

Directed by Filipa César | Germany, France, 2020 | 40 min. // Forum Expanded Exhibition 2020 // Quantum Creole is an experimental documentary film of collective research into creolization, addressing its historical, ontological and cultural forces. [sound design, mix]

Directed by Beina Xu | Germany, 2020 | 19 min. // IFFR 2020 // A film crew retraces the path of a refugee’s journey. They hope to reconstruct a memory landscape, but are instead confronted by the artifice of documentary. Bystanders interject with their opinions on how to make better use of their time. What is a story, and whose right is it to tell? [sound design, mix]

Directed by Robert Schlicht, Romana Schmalisch | France, Germany, 2019 | 85min. // Berlinale Forum Expanded 2019 // A new production center, maybe set in an undetermined future. What is being produced here? We shall find out by following the given traces. Two pairs of hands trying to untangle themselves. A human sheep virtually cut into pieces. A warm welcome to the authors and actors of their lives. Stories being told, their narrators dissected. When the gates open, those leaving Labour Power Plant have been made fit for the demands of the labour market. The next production cycle begins… Meanwhile, the management is introducing new methods to enrich the products with the innovative features of ‘self-evaluation’, ‘self-optimisation’, and, most importantly, ‘self-fulfilment’. A series of interventions are performed, leading to an assembly that may appear strange at first sight. [sound design, dialogue editing]

Directed by Louis Henderson, Filipa César | Portugal, France, 2018 | 30 min. // IFFR 2018 // Incorporating 16mm celluloid images, digital desktop captures and 3D CGI, Sunstone explores how optical technologies of military and colonial design – from lighthouse Fresnel lenses to global satellite navigation systems – both inform and are informed by Western models of knowledge. [mix]

Directed by Hanna Antonina Wojcik-Slak | Slovenia, Germany, 2017 | 98 min. // Warsaw International Film Festival 2017 // The year is 2007. Mehmedalija Alić comes from Bosnia and is a miner, a Bosnian immigrant, as they call him here. He has been working at Slovenian mines for 30 years, most recently in extremely dangerous conditions, risking his life. There is a crisis and mines are being closed down. [sound design, dialogue editing]

Directed by Karam Ghossein | Lebanon, Germany, 2017 | 22 min. // Berlinale Shorts 2017 // In Street of Death the narrator revisits the site of his youth – a lawless slum suburb pushed up against Beirut airport, where vendettas, crime, displays of power and raucous street weddings punctuate daily life. [sound design, mix]

Directed by Cyrill Lachauer | Germany, 2017 | 22 min. // Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2017 // The film begins in Los Angeles und retraces the field trips into the Southwest assumed to have been taken by the controversial anthropologist Carlos Castaneda, a founder of the New Age movement. [sound design, mix]

Directed by  Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca | Germany, 2017 | 21 min. // Münster Kulturprojekte 2017 // Bye Bye Deutschland! Eine Lebensmelodie / Bye Bye Germany! A Life Melody follows the life of a couple of singers from Münster who became known for covering the most prominent voices of distinct eras of Schlager music. Combining the conventions of Documentary and Musical, the film approaches the rebirth of an industry that, in the public image, is often associated to a collective day-dreaming of foreign lands, simple texts with nationalist imaginary or heavy duty sentimentalism. Schlager as a music genre is as hard to define as it is unproductive to simplify the contexts in which it has been produced over the last 50 years. Today it divides opinions and touches both those who love it and those who don’t. [sound recording,sound design, mix]

Directed by Hilla Peleg | Germany 2016 | 70 min. // Berlinale Forum Expanded 2016 // Sign Space follows the installation of an art exhibition. From the building of false walls up to the moment the exhibition opens its doors to the public, the film tracks the many considerations, both formal and procedural, that go into staging an art show.  An exhaustive observation of this process reveals how, in providing a highly codified type of setting for our apprehension of art, contemporary exhibition spaces are as much a deliberate construction as any artwork. [sound design, mix]

Directed by Clémentine Roy, Gústav Geir Bollason | France, Iceland, 2017 | 60 min. // IFFR 2017 // On a deserted peninsula, a group lives amidst relics from contemporary society. Part of a plane serves as a sheep shed, a car inner tube as futuristic Tupperware. [sound design, mix]

Directed by Elise Florenty, Marcel Türkowsky | Germany, Japan, 2017 | 40 min. // IFFR 2017 // A documentary that investigates experiments into conversing with plant matter, and asks the question whether a cactus could have given crucial evidence in the suspicious death of a reporter investigating the Fukushima meltdown. [sound design, mix]

Directed by Szabolcs Tolnai | Serbia, Hungary, 2016 | 47 min. // IFFR 2016 // The son of the family disappears in the war turmoil in Kosovo, in the late nineties. His parents accuse each other for not being able to protect him. In search and anticipation of finding her son, the mother comes across a strange group of neo-avant-gardists. [sound design, dialogue editing]

Directed by Szabolcs Tolnai | Serbia, Hungary, 2014 | 75 min. // Cinema City 2015 // After sending their son to rehab from drug abuse, they find out that he has run away from the rehab center and that he has a dept to a local drug boss, which may be the reason he is on the run. His parents start blaming each other for their son’s mistakes, and the father decides to leave their family home. In the next few days they both are trying to find their son, and they both face the brutal reality of life in Serbia on their own way. [sound design, dialogue editing]