38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Teresas Zimmer

Constanze Knoche

Image Teresas Zimmer
Germany
2006 Fiction 38 min
Teresa, 15, has met her Syrian cousin, 32, just once in her life. Surprisingly he appears in Berlin and needs to stay in her flat for one night. After a cramped day and a sleepless night they start to become friends.
With : Mehdi Nebbou, Sophie Charlotte Conrad
Screenplay : Leis Bagdach
Image : Kirsten Weingarten
Sound : Michal Krajczok
Editing : Kai Minierski
Production : HFF Konrad Wolf
Constanze Knoche was born in Magdeburg in 1975. From 1996 to 2000, she studied dramaturgy in Leipzig and Vienna. Between 2000 and 2002, she worked as a drama advisor for various films and theatre productions. In 2002, she began studying directing at the Konrad Wolf Film School in Potsdam-Babelsberg, where she directed various short films, such as Effi, selected in Angers in 2005. Teresas Zimmer is her latest film.