Tim Ellrich

Tim Ellrich is a young German filmmaker, who is currently studying Fiction Directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. At an early age, he began working in a cinema of his hometown and finished traineeships at professional film productions. Ellrich then moved to Vienna, where he studied Theatre, Film and Media Studies. He graduated with distinction and applied afterwards at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. In his films Ellrich tries to deal with the absurdities of the daily life. They were screened at more than 350 international film festivals and his live-action short Die Badewanne won the «Special Prize of the Jury» at the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival in 2016.