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 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 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 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 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]