While in rehab, a young man recounts his descent into gambling addiction. The animated documentary KING offers an intimate insight into a psychological illness that is often overlooked.
Emily Ufken, born 1997 in Weilburg, is currently living in Marburg where she is studying psychology for her master's degree. She also works as a freelance artist. While her beginnings were in drawing with pencils and watercolours, her current focus is on digital illustrations and motion graphics.
2011 to 2015 took film studies and audiovisual publishing at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz;
2015 to 2017, freelance commercials filmmaker;
2017 to 2021, studies in creative producing at the ifs internationale filmschule köln school;
winner of the 2018 Youth Film Award and the 2019 German Up-and-Coming Award
Filmography
2017 Sardinien
2018 Happy Birthday
2019 Löwin
2020 #couplegoals
