Posts in Sound
Was von der Liebe bleibt

Sound designer/ Supervising sound editor

2023; Rohfilm/ ZDF (Germany); Drama; 100 mins; German

Ein Mord aus dem Nichts, und das bisherige Leben ist von einer Sekunde auf die andere vorbei. Das intensive Drama versucht Licht in eine unfassbare Tat zu bringen und führt durch ein Dickicht aus Mutmaßungen und Unterstellungen.

Directed by Kanwal Sethi.

World premiere at Filmfest Hamburg (2023).

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Sound design, SoundAdrian Lo
Until the Sun Dies

Sound design & Re-recording mixer

2023; Urua Films & K13 Studios (Germany); Documentary; Spanish

“Until the Sun Dies” tells the condition of a whole country: the beauty of life and resistance falling in a heartbeat into death and destruction. In their search for peace and justice, two important social leaders of Colombia find themselves trapped in an endless tension between violence and hope.

Directed by Jonas Brander.

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Manity

Re-recording mixer

2023; Les films de l'Altaï (Lebanon); Drama; Arabic

On a sunny day, Firas, an 11-year-old boy accompanies his father Tayseer and his father's friend Rayan to a bird-hunting jaunt in the Lebanese mountainside. What is supposed to be a calm hunting trip turns into an unforgettable experience.

Written & directed by Hussen Ibraheem.

Premiered at Festival Côté Court (Paris, 2023)

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The Gate

Sound designer

2023; Ma.ja.de/ ZDF & 3SAT (Germany); Documentary; 90 mins; English

In the middle of the barren Utah desert is the Dugway Proving Grounds, a top-secret military testing facility. Bound to this place are the lives of a soldier, a military chaplain, a father searching for his missing son, and a survivor of the atomic bomb. Their fates and fortunes reveal a country scarred by war.

Directed by Jasmin Herold & Michael Beamish.

World premiere at DOK Leipzig (2023).

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300 Trillion – The Debt Trap

Re-Recording mixer

2022; (Germany); Documentary; 58/ 83 mins; German, English, French, Spanish

The worldwide mountain of debt is more than 300 % of the world’s annual economic output. Since the pandemic, debt expansion is out of control. Will the system collapse under its weight? 

The film explores the significance of our debt situation, looking at true stories behind the situation, from a debtors' prison in Mississippi to the world’s most notoriously indebted country.

Directed by Rudolph Herzog.

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Thunder In My Heart

Re-recording mixer (German Version)

2023; Viaplay/ SWR (Sweden, Germany); Series 1, 8 x 30 mins; Swedish, German

Die 22-jährige Sigge (Amy Deasismont, "Gösta") wünscht sich nichts Sehnlicheres als ein selbstbestimmtes Leben. Doch dann wird sie, wie ihre Freunde Sam (Alexander Abdallah, "Snabba Cash") und Antonia, vom Alltagswahnsinn und den Schicksalsschlägen des Erwachsenwerdens eingeholt.

Exclusive in Germany on ARD Mediathek.

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A Provincial Hospital

Re-recording mixer

2022; Agitprop, Chaconne Films, Sutor Kolonko (Bulgaria, Germany); Documentary; 105 mins; Bulgarian

A provincial hospital in Bulgaria, COVID ward. A skilfully constructed survey of the bleak goings-on in an underfunded facility where, even when looking death in the face, people still manage to find their sense of humour.

Directed by Ilian Metev, Ivan Chertov, Zlatina Teneva

World premiere at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (2022)

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Algiers Confidential

Foley Editor

2022; ARTE (France & Germany); Series 1; 4 x Episodes

When two of his countrymen - arms dealers - are kidnapped, a German police investigator is sent to Algiers in search of them. Beginning a steamy affair with an Algerian prosecutor investigating the case for her country probably wasn't the best idea, but as the pair go deeper, they uncover a corruption scandal testing their loyalty to their nations and to each other.

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Foley, Sound, TelevisionAdrian Lo
Eat Your Catfish

Sound designer | Re-recording mixer

2021; Zela Film (United States, Spain, Turkey); Documentary; 74 mins; English

Kathryn’s ALS has left her paralyzed and her family’s relations in tatters, but she holds on to see her daughter’s wedding. With humor and extraordinary intimacy, this film probes the breakdown of a family’s bonds and of a woman’s will to live.

Co-directed and co-produced by Adam Isenberg, Noah Amir Arjomand, and Senem Tüzen.

World premiere at IDFA, Envision Competition (The Netherlands, 2021); Winner of Best Documentary at Istanbul Film Festival (2022)

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Descent

Composer | Sound designer | Re-recording mixer

2021; Phantom Films (Malaysia); Fiction; 16 mins; Malay, English

Love and adulation has long turned into bitter frustration for the struggling and ageing musician Mark. Pandemic plunges his city into lockdown leaving him adrift and delirious. Desperately searching for new inspiration, will he succeed and rediscover his sense of purpose, or is he simply driving recklessly toward the abyss?

Directed by Damian Antochewicz.

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Rhino

Sound designer

2021; (Ukraine, Poland, Germany); Drama; 101 mins; Ukrainian, Russian

Starting out as an aggressive delinquent, a young man nicknamed “Rhino” quickly works his way up the criminal hierarchy in 1990’s Ukraine. Rhino has only known power and cruelty, but with nothing left to lose, could he finally find a chance at redemption?

Directed by Oleh Sentsov.

World premiere at Venice International Film Festival (2021)

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Sound, Sound design, FilmAdrian Lo
Invisible to the Eye

Sound designer

2020; (Turkey); Documentary; 85 mins; Turkish

Inspired by Eremya Çelebi Kömürciyan's book “History of Istanbul: Istanbul in the Seventeenth Century”, Invisible to the Eye traces this particular itinerary in contemporary Istanbul and opens up an endless path into the multifaceted visual history of this long-standing city.

Directed by Zeynep Dadak.

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Sound design, Sound, FilmAdrian Lo
Para: Wir Sind King

Dialogue & ADR Editor

2021; Warner TV, Amazon (Germany); Series 1; 6 x Episodes

Vier junge Frauen, beste Freundinnen: Jazz, Fanta, Hajra und Rasaq sind auf den Straßen des rauen Berliner Wedding groß geworden. An der Schwelle zum Erwachsenwerden blicken sie in eine ungewisse Zukunft. Nur eines ist sicher: sie haben große Träume. Ein zufälliger Fund macht Hoffnung auf schnelles Geld und ein besseres Leben. Hin- und hergerissen zwischen Vernunft und der Lust auf mehr Spaß und mehr Perspektive, wird ihre Freundschaft auf eine harte Probe gestellt.

Directed by Özgür Yildirim.

Winner of ‘Best Drama Series’ at Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2021.

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Dunkelstadt

Sound design

2020; ZDF; Series 1; 6 x Episodes

Im Mittelpunkt der Krimi-Serie steht die rebellische Privatdetektivin Doro Decker. Nichts an ihrer Arbeit ist Routine, denn die scheinbar harmlosen Fälle neigen stets zu bedrohlichen Eskalationen.

Directed by Asli Özge.

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Sound design, SoundAdrian Lo
Mein Opa, Karin und ich

Sound design

2020; ZDF (Germany) Documentary; 90 mins; German

The grandfather was in the Hitler Youth and the Waffen SS; his daughter rebelled and experimented with alternative family structures. The grandson distances himself. Then he comes back: to talk about the important things before it is too late.

Directed by Moritz Springer.

Premiered at DOK.fest München (2020)

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Sound design, SoundAdrian Lo
The Taste of Pho

Sound designer

2019; (Poland, Germany); Drama; 84 mins; Polish, Vietnamese

A Warsaw-based Vietnamese cook struggles to fit into the European culture, which his ten-year-old daughter has already embraced as her own. A story about love, misunderstanding and food.

Written & directed by Mariko Bobrik.

Premiered at San Sebastian International Film Festival (Spain, 2019)

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Sound design, SoundAdrian Lo
Shooting Stars

Foleys | Re-recording mixer

2019; (Germany); Documentary; 16 mins

The viewer is an observer of one night at one street. The filmmaker is an observer of one night at one street. The distant eye is getting closer and makes the images sharper but the interpretation stays inside the observer's head. What one makes out of that night is his/her own story. The starting point is an image provided by the observing eye. The eye is a guide. The viewer gives the night a meaning.

Directed by Magdalena Jaroszewicz.

Winner of Grand Jury Award at Slamdance (US, 2020); Jury Prize at KFFK (Germany, 2019); Special Mention at Achtung Berlin Film Festival (2020); Official selection at Clermont-Ferrand ISFF Lab Competition (France, 2019)

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The Cost of Bronze

Composer | Sound designer | Re-recording mixer

2019; Creative Roots (UK); Drama; 13 mins; English

A film about the experience of grief, the price we pay to be ourselves and the sacrifices we make for our families.

Written & directed by George Magner.

Winner (Best Narrative Short) at Venice Fine Arts Film Festival (US, 2020); Official selection at Underwire Film Festival (UK, 2019), Budapest Independent Film Festival (Hungary, 2020)

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