#19 SLEEPER (D: Benjamin Heisenberg, 100 MIN, GER, 2005)

A conversation with director Benjamin Heisenberg about his debut film SLEEPER. SYNOPSIS  Postgraduate Johannes (Bastian Trost) moves to Munich to take up a new job at the department of virology of the Technical University. There, he meets Farid (Mehdi Nebbou), a Persian, who attends to the same research project as Johannes does. Despite their competition, both men become friends. But then the secret service gets in contact with Johannes. They ask him to provide reports on Farid who is suspected to be a terrorist. At first, Johannes vehemently refuses to do so but agrees to spy on Farid when he gathers possible evidence of his friend’s terrorist intentions. Later, when the two friends encounter a work-related conflict, Johannes uses his position of power to cut his rival off of the research project. ABOUT   Benjamin Heisenberg was born in 1974 in Tübingen, Germany. After finishing school in 1993 he went to study at the academy of fine arts in Munich. He exhibited several art videos before he came to write, direct and shoot his first narrative short film TERREMOTO in 1996. These first experiences with film convinced him to go into filmmaking. From 1997 to 2005 Benjamin Heisenberg studied film directing at the Munich Filmschool. Since then he has written and directed a number of feature films that have won a variety of international film awards. His film SLEEPERR was screened in the “Un Certain Regard” section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. More about 35K https://www.35-k.de https://www.instagram.com/35kfilmclub/ Please donate <3 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=CSRWWVWV2CCKN

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