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Thomas van Luyn

Actor

Films

Lockbuster

Lockbuster

By Jonathan Elbers

2015 | 9 min | Shorts

When all his colleagues leave the office for exciting holidays, office clerk Joost locks himself in the storage room. The only way to escape is to unleash the hero within himself.

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I Follow You

I Follow You

2015 | 3 min | Shorts

One morning Anna bumps into Jesper on the morning train. She’s never seen him before, but it turns out he knows everything about her. A short film about social media and surveillance in postmodern society. I FOLLOW YOU won Audience Awards at both the Osnabruck Film Festival and the TweetFest UK festival.

MPA - Medical Psychological Assessment

MPA - Medical Psychological Assessment

2011 | 6 min | Shorts

Robert Bohrer's short comedy looks at the bête noire of many a drunk driver in Germany, MPU - MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT. Two years of preparing for the MPU to get back a driver’s license and two years of being sober... well, not really... and today is the final test and the most important conversation with the psychologist. Hold on: today? TODAY??? On this Monday morning, as Frankie leaves a Berlin club with his girlfriend Lanka, he realizes that he has totally forgotten about his big MPU ...

The Jackpot

The Jackpot

2015 | 13 min | Shorts

Hansi picked six numbers right and wins the lottery. His friend Frankie is excited and wants half of the winnings. But, where's the darn lottery ticket? Together Hansi and Frankie set out to find the lost ticket, but everyone they ask about it know shockingly little, until the truth comes out. Apparently more than one person had their eyes on claiming the jackpot. And what exactly does Sabine have to do with all of it? (Generale Festival)

Rot

Rot

2004 | 3 min | Shorts

A woman who has a penchant for the color yellow loves a man who only has eyes for the color red. To win him over, she comes up with a few ideas to convince him of her merits. Will her love be reciprocated? Malte Wirtz is a German filmmaker and theater director known for his experimental and independent work. With a background in theater studies and directing, Wirtz often combines socio-critical topics with unconventional aesthetic approaches in his works. His style is characterized by a clear handwriting ...

Rosa

Rosa

2004 | 2 min | Shorts

Eduard is afraid of the color pink. Sabine likes Robert and the color pink. Will that work out? Malte Wirtz is a German filmmaker and theater director known for his experimental and independent work. With a background in theater studies and directing, Wirtz's works often combine socio-critical topics with unconventional aesthetic approaches. His style is characterized by a clear handwriting that combines minimalism and intense character studies. In addition to feature films, he has also made short ...

I Knew You Were My Kind

I Knew You Were My Kind

2023 | 18 min | Shorts

Set in the deserted off-season on the Italian coast, caregivers Anca and Zoya meet at a bus stop shortly before returning home and decide to visit a client's abandoned beach house. A brief vacation turns into a moment of solidarity and tenderness that challenges the structural norms that govern their daily lives. “The discourse on the inner-European class question has never been more present and at the same time more repressed. As a German-Romanian, I encounter these socio-economic conditions every ...

So bright the night

So bright the night

2019 | 14 min | Documentary

As night advances and the darkness overtakes the light, tranquility reigns. But when most peolpe are drifting off to sleep, others are awaken by the ringing of their alarm clocks. Night workers are on the job from sunset to sunrise. SO BRIGHT THE NIGHT is both a short documentary and a 5-minute piano piece. "A beautiful and lovingly crafted documentary that focuses on various professional groups who work night shifts. The film provides an insight into a strange world in the dark that silently masters ...

Hither And Thither

Hither And Thither

1985 | 80 min | Comedy

HITHER AND THITHER was filmed in Wolfsperger's hometown of Constance with the participation of many local amateur actors. Frieder Witz was embodied by the town's true master baker, Richard Gandor. Chubby baker Frieder Witz is having a bad day. Supermarket bakeries are taking away his customers, he hasn't yet paid off the loan for his bread mixer, he has no money for his upcoming vacation and working all the time is no longer fun. So doughboy fakes a fall down the stairs and plays dead. Before his ...

Robin

Robin

2008 | 21 min | Shorts

The film was shot on the "Kölnberg" high-rise complex in Cologne-Meschenich, which is considered a social hotspot. Hanno Olderdissens's graduation film from the International Film School Cologne was awarded more than ten prizes internationally. Robin is eight when his mother Sabine becomes pregnant again. Because Sabine is overwhelmed with child, new boyfriend and pregnancy, Robin has to go to a foster home. When he returns after three months, the situation has not improved at all. The mother's new ...

Solomon's Stone

Solomon's Stone

2015 | 25 min | Drama

Hussein, a Palestinian young man, receives a letter from the Israeli post office to appear in person to receive a package. He has to pay the sum of 20.000 $ US dollars in order to collect that package. Hussein’s curiosity to find out what the package contains drives him to sell everything he owns, despite the outright rejection of his mother, the matter that changes their lives afterwards. "Ramzi Maqdisi’s black-comedy short, “Solomon’s Stone,” could be considered a parable of present-day Jerusalem ...