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Sascha Weingarten

Actor
Sascha Weingarten is a German actor who has attracted attention for his powerful presence and versatile roles in independent and arthouse productions. With his authentic acting style and a flair for emotional depth, he embodies characters who oscillate between vulnerability and strength. His work is closely linked to the oeuvre of director Tor Iben, with whom he has collaborated on several occasions. In WIR WERDEN UNSTERBLICH SEIN (2022, directed by Tor Iben), Weingarten plays a central role in a story about love, death, and the search for redemption. The film deals with themes such as transience, longing, and the existential fear of loss, embedded in a poetic, visually dense production. Weingarten's performance was particularly praised for its emotional openness and subtle intensity. He previously worked with Iben on ORFEOS TRAUM (2018, directed by Tor Iben). The film reinterprets the ancient myth and translates it into a modern narrative about art, memory, and overcoming personal boundaries. Weingarten's character is at the center of an introspective journey that unfolds between reality and dream. In addition to his film career, Sascha Weingarten is also active in theater and short film productions, demonstrating his versatility within the performing arts. His collaboration with independent filmmakers underscores his commitment to artistically challenging material that goes beyond the mainstream.

Films

We Will Never Die

We Will Never Die

By Tor Iben

2023 | 86 min | Queer

A sexy gangster ballad full of suspense and romance from ORPHEUS' SONG director Tor Iben.

Orpheus' Song

Orpheus' Song

By Tor Iben

2019 | 72 min | Queer

A night together in hot Greece suddenly changes the relationship between two friends, Enis and Philipp.

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Philipp

Philipp

2010 | 41 min | Drama

Winner of the First Steps Award, PHILIPP is Fabian Möhrke's diploma film from the Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam. Philipp suffers from not being able to detach himself from his cool and friendly (and hovering) father. Philipp is fifteen. Bernd, Philipp’s dad, does what he can to be a good buddy to his son. He’s even full of understanding when Philipp steals from him. And it’s not just Philipp’s friends who think Bernd’s a really cool dad; even Caro, Philipp’s new girlfriend, takes a shine ...

Strassenkaiser

Strassenkaiser

2017 | 85 min | Crime

It's carnival time and Berlin is teaming with excitement. Noah, only 12 years old, has just arrived to visit his father when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of the action. Noah meets a bunch of Berlin street characters, including petty criminal Samuel, who gets him involved in a great adventure. Director Florian Peters' road movie takes viewers through Berlin streets and back courtyards and up to the top of a tower. "The characters are as colorful as the Carnival of Cultures in their ...

Talk to Me

Talk to Me

2023 | 79 min | Drama

Karo (28) is newly separated and struggling with the non-existent relationship with her father. When her mother Michaela (50) wants to go on vacation with her to the island of Rügen, Karo suspects another failed male story behind it. What starts as a spontaneous trip quickly turns out to be a journey into the past of two women who couldn't be more different: Michaela wants distraction, Karo wants peace. When they arrive at the hotel, they meet the newly divorced Jochen (60) and his teenage daughter ...

Sweat

Sweat

2014 | 30 min | Queer

Sweat tells of the last days of the friendship of two girls. Marion and Elisa live in a village that offers them nothing. They roam the neighborhood, go to the disco, watch videos, swim in the pond and fight. In search of emotion and boundaries, they dive into an aggressive world, where they give free rein to anger against the ordinary and learn about the new, unexpectedly erupting forces within themselves as a result. In the beautifully photographed vacuum of a village cosmos, director Iris Blauensteiner ...

HomeSick

HomeSick

2015 | 98 min | Independent

HOMESICK is a sensitive and disturbing psychological portrait of a young female musician who falls into a vortex of self-imposed pressures - and threatens to cave in. After his highly acclaimed debut film "Heile Welt" Jakob M. Erwa returns with his second feature film, the impressionistic psychodrama HOMESICK, which is also his first Berlin film. "A masterclass in nerve-jangling suspense from the young Austrian writer-director Jakob M. Erwa, HOMESICK is a classy psycho-thriller which makes effective ...

Blue Summer Symphony

Blue Summer Symphony

2017 | 29 min | Shorts

The open-air swimming pool, a sociotope and microcosm of society: different people, half naked in a confined space, share an afternoon, a moment with each other and as quickly as it has come, so quickly it has gone again. That's the poetry inherent in the banality of everyday life. For her third year project, Sinje Köhler observes the figures in the outdoor pool and also sheds light on the architecture of this special landscape.

Chasing Paper Birds

Chasing Paper Birds

2020 | 123 min | Drama

Mia, Keks, and Ian let go and immerse themselves in the Berlin nightclub jungle one warm summer night. A coming-of-age story for adults. Mia, an aspiring French dancer, reinvents herself after her love life and life dreams are in shambles. Keks, who has started making a name for herself as a DJ, takes refuge in Berlin's party scene. She's unsure whether she is ready to settle down with her boyfriend Flo. And Ian, a video performance artist, is throwing an extravagant party on his 30th birthday. ...

A Dog You Are

A Dog You Are

2021 | 12 min | Shorts

Set against the backdrop of a village swimming pool that becomes a focal point of daily peculiarities, Benjamin Laabmayr's first film delves into the unique blend of the mundane with the extraordinary. Through his lens, the everyday activities of the pool's visitors transform into a series of whimsical vignettes, weaving a narrative rich in humor and surreal observation. Laabmayr's work is a study in contrasts, blending documentary-style realism with elements of staged absurdity, challenging viewers ...

Pampa

Pampa

2017 | 18 min | Comedy

Lucie, a spirited young woman, ends up in the middle of nowhere. Wandering about in the sweltering midsummer sun, Lucie tries to make her way back home. When she stumbles upon a bus stop, the waiting game begins. The strange people she meets there – the man who lives on potato chips, the bickering hippies, the mysterious billboard man – are they real or are they creatures of her tortured mind? PAMPA by young German talent Martje Schreier, is a short comedy set in the sandy plains of Brandenburg, ...