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Feb 9, 2024 · Drifter: Directed by Hannes Hirsch. With Lorenz Hochhuth, Cino Djavid, Gustav Schmidt, Oscar Hoppe. Moritz has moved to Berlin to be with his boyfriend, but their relationship soon ends.
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- Hannes Hirsch
- 2024-02-09
In his feature debut, director Hannes Hirsch tells the story of a young man’s coming-of-age in the Berlin party scene as a sort of second coming-out. A journey through loneliness, excess and kink, „Drifter“ deals with gay body image issues and questions of queer kinship while painting an authentic portrait of Berlin’s queer community.
Feb 2, 2023 · Screen can reveal the trailer for Hannes Hirsch’s debut feature Drifter which has its world premiere at Berlinale’s Panorama strand. After breaking up with his boyfriend, a 22-year-old man is...
Hannes Hirsch was born in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Drifter (2023), Beach Boy (2011) and Boys Feels: High Tide (2021).
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With a documentary-like sensibility, Hannes Hirsch’s feature-length debut sensitively depicts a new start in Berlin’s gay scene. Body images and notions of masculinity are constantly being negotiated, sexual constellations and identities are changing, and insecurities are sedated with the intoxicating rush of the next encounter.
Director Hannes Hirsch describes Moritz’s navigation of self and search for connection a “kind of second coming out” — one which has become a rite of passage in recent years for young queers shortly after arriving in Berlin. But Drifter is hardly the cautionary tale of innocence lost we’ve all seen or heard before.
Hannes Hirsch and River Matzke, respectively the director and the co-screenwriter of German film Drifter [+. ], presented in the Panorama section of the Berlinale, discuss "gay loneliness" and personal experiences and how it all became a sensitive feature debut.
