Deep Dive Genre

First a Best Director-award for his co-writer and director of Vaterland/Fatherland Pawel Pawlikowski in Cannes and now their film opens the Munich film festival. We talk to writer Henk Handloegten how Vaterland/Fatherland came about, the writing process, the influence of Edgar Reitz’ “Heimat” on his choice of career, the responsibility of a writer (hint: accuracy matters, but so does perspective) and we speculate how AI might change the business. It was a pleasure - Enjoy!

Find out more about Henk and his latest work:

https://players.de/writers/henk-handloegten/

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Prolific director Adolfo Kolmerer talks to us about his series Oderbruch, going all in with frequent collaborators Arend Remmers & Christian Alvart and why German filmmakers tend to approach genre wrong. We discuss the widely unloved second screen rule, exposition dialogue, plus a Shoutout to strong female leads (#Arrival) and the three projects he ‘d like to do. Enjoy!

Find out more about Adolfo and his latest work:

https://www.talentrepublicagency.de/directors/adolfo-j-kolmerer

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We talked to the wonderful Caro Braun about how acting expands one’s own reality and lets you be a different version of yourself. The inspiration her theatre-teacher-father was - and of course about her terrific film Rose (German cinema release: 30.04.2026) and its female perspective. Plus, the joy of acting opposite five Babies, Sandra Hüller & American Gang signs. It was a pleasure - Enjoy!

Find out more about Caro and her latest work:

https://www.agentur-schneider-berlin.de/caro-braun

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We had a fun and interesting conversation with storyboarder and 3D-Layout artist Maike Ramke-Lassahn about her creative process. How time intensive the work is, the shifts in the animation industry due to AI - and her love for Walter Moers’ novel Rumo (and hope for a possible animated adaptation – we’re putting it out there, universe!). We laughed a lot and got to learn some things - Enjoy!

Find out more about Maike and her latest work:

https://storyboard-mrl.de/resume/

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Crazy turn-around times? Not unusual in Filmmaker/Animator/Illustrator Raman Djafari’s working life. We had a very interesting talk with the multi-hyphenate in our latest #DeepDiveGenre episode. About his creative process, how to be resilient against the allure of beautiful opportunities, the joy of writing his own film - and the inherent magic of animation. Enjoy!

Find out more about Raman and his latest work:

https://www.instagram.com/ramandjafari/

https://www.fabianfred.com/throwing-sticks-at-the-sun/

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