Maximilian Karakatsanis is a film director and writer born in Germany in 1994.
Four young friends with different life perspectives venture out of the suburbs and are confronted by a tragic fate, questioning everything and themselves.
My grandfather was one of the very first labour migrants of the recruitment agreement between Germany and Greece. A short poetic documentary about longing, family and being a so-called guest worker.
An actor meets a subversive journalist in Budapest, and they have to decide between love in political resistance and artistic self-realization. Shot on flickering VHS, the film reflects an oversaturated, stylized and staged idea of romance.