Night Forest
Paul (12) leaves home with his best friend Max (12) on the first day of summer vacation. Following in the footsteps of Paul’s missing father, the boys venture into the forest of the Swabian Alb and into a mysterious cave. Children feel freer and more carefree in the forests and mountains than ever before in their lives. But the challenges of their adventure are much bigger than they thought.
Documentary filmmaker Andre Hörmann studied Social Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin, film directing at Potsdam Film University and is an alumni of the Professional Program in Screenwriting at UCLA, Los Angeles. Hörmann has received scholarships from the Goethe Institut’s Villa Kamogawa, from the Villa Aurora and the DAAD. He has taught film at Babelsberg Film University, at the Universities of Marburg and Ulm, and in Mumbai and Chicago. His films have been screened at international film festivals, such as Sundance, IDFA, DOK Leipzig, Hiroshima Int. Animation Festival, DocAviv, Sydney IFF, TIFF Toronto, SXSW, Doc NYC, Chicago IFF, Palm Springs Shortfest, and IFFK Krakow, and garnered various awards. His latest documentary RINGSIDE premiered at Berlinale 2019 in the generation 14plus section. He lives and works in Munich and Los Angeles.
Die Berliner Nouvelle Vague (2016, doc), Ringside (2019, doc)
Katrin Milhahn was born 1975 in Munich. She went to a journalist school and studied screenplay and dramaturgy at HFF Potsdam.
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