A secret burden lies on the shoulders of the young Bosnian Amir. Through a job in the caregiving field he gets to know Mrs Osterloh who suffers from dementia. An encounter between two people on the fringe who hold on to each other for a moment and lose one another soon after.

61th Berlinale 2011, 41th MOLODIST Kyiv

Alpinale Short Film Festival 2011: best student film

Born in Kassel in 1978, grown up in Hanover. 1998-2003 studies of communication design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hanover. 2001 year abroad at the École des Beaux-Arts Saint-Étienne in France. From 2002 to 2004 various freelance activities at the Norddeutscher Rundfunk. 2004 internship in the story development department at Herrmannfilm Berlin. Since 2004 studies in documentary film and television journalism at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen in Munich. 2011 work experience at „Das kleine Fernsehspiel“, ZDF

Filmography:
Garçons manqués (2007)
Documentary about adolescents in a suburb of Paris | 34 min

Tarof (2005)
Fictional short film | 13 min

Kann man Musik sehen? (2003)
Documentary about blindness | 52 min