A War I've Never Seen

film type documentary film Production Country Germany production year 2024 runtime 29'27 colour Color
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby Surround original-language French subtitles German, English

Decades after World War II, Julia is standing in a field in Normandy wearing a German Wehrmacht uniform. She is representing an ideology she does not believe in, from a world she was never part of. Julia, of Russian origin, is impersonating a German anti-aircraft assistant - a character she invented for her reenactment hobby. A film that raises the question of whether you become the role you play.

director Fariba Buchheim DOP Manuel Lübbers Production Fariba Buchheim, Tamara Aul Script Fariba Buchheim Editing Sophie Oldenbourg Original Score Martin Linka Sound Design Gerhard Auer, Arash Akrami film school Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
Festivals
2024 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
2024 Filmfestival Kitzbühel, Austria
2024 FILMZ – FESTIVAL DES DEUTSCHEN KINOS, Mainz, Germany
2024 blicke filmfestival des ruhrgebiets, Bochum, Germany
2024 Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival, Kraków, Poland
School
  • Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
  • Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1
  • 80333 München
  • Germany
  • http://www.hff-muc.de
Production
  • NOZY Films GmbH
  • Fariba Buchheim
  • https://www.instagram.com/faribabuchheim/
Distribution
  • Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
  • Tina Janker
  • Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1
  • 80333 München
  • +49 89 689578510
  • http://www.hff-muc.de
Sales
  • Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
  • Tina Janker
  • Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1
  • 80333 München
  • +49 89 689578510
  • http://www.hff-muc.de

Fariba Buchheim

Fariba Buchheim was born in Switzerland in 1995 and works as a director on documentaries and commercial films. After completing her studies at the Bavarian Academy for Television, she began studying documentary film directing at the HFF Munich. Her films have been shown and awarded at numerous film festivals worldwide.

Filmography
2018 Unheilbar
2018 FORMEN
2019 Work for Him
2019 Dr. Hauschka - Skin
2019 August Everding - First Step
2021 Wolf of Candystreet
2021 Alina
2021 Auction Spotter - Find your Art
2022 Bruder Julian
2022 Mehr Stadtgrün - Grün in die Stadt
2022 SOS Kinderdörfer weltweit - Geschichten aus Serbien
2023 A War I’ve Never Seen
2023 EXIT - Selbstbestimmt
2024 Dear Pancreas
2025 MILK
2025 DKMS - A Bond Beyond Friendship