//work in progress//

//work in progress//

OKTOPUS (WT)

Experimental fiction feature film, centred around the life of a Ukrainian refugee filmmaker aimlessly roaming around Berlin.

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90 min, release early 2027

OKTOPUS (WT)

Experimental fiction feature film, centred around the life of a Ukrainian refugee filmmaker aimlessly roaming around Berlin.

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90 min, release early 2027

THIS IS NO CHARACTER, THIS IS BETRAYAL

A young author's first reading of his debut novel. In attendance: oh no, his mother.

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13 min, 2.38:1, color, 2024

THIS IS NO CHARACTER, THIS IS BETRAYAL

A young author's first reading of his debut novel. In attendance: oh no, his mother.

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13 min, 2.38:1, color, 2024

CHEMKIDS

While the youth of Chemnitz are looking for their way into adulthood, the former GDR industrial metropolis is struggling to guide them along their way.

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27 min, color, 2.35:1, 2022

CHEMKIDS

While the youth of Chemnitz are looking for their way into adulthood, the former GDR industrial metropolis is struggling to guide them along their way.

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27 min, color, 2.35:1, 2022

CHEMKIDS

While the youth of Chemnitz are looking for their way into adulthood, the former GDR industrial metropolis is struggling to guide them along their way.

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27 min, color, 2.35:1, 2022

GENE:SIS

Lab rats are born under neon lights, in endlessly stacked plastic trays. Here, the relationship between man and animal is ambivalent: tenderness comes gloved in latex, and the violence of experiments looms on the horizon.

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17 min, color, 2.38:1, 2024

GENE:SIS

Lab rats are born under neon lights, in endlessly stacked plastic trays. Here, the relationship between man and animal is ambivalent: tenderness comes gloved in latex, and the violence of experiments looms on the horizon.

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17 min, color, 2.38:1, 2024

©2026 Philipp Schaeffer

©2026 Philipp Schaeffer