2024 (2023)

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In 2024 (2023), Stefan Hayn unpeels layer by layer what he sees, where he is and what he does. He paints the city in which he lives, Berlin. He portrays his family. His daughters are used to it, they don’t pose. It’s a relationship-based interaction that is reflected in his painting and a struggle for the image. Wouldn’t it be easier just to take a photo? Painting takes time and gives you time, it shows how differently we see things and how important it is to be within reach of what is being depicted. What shows through? Hayn also addresses and depicts this struggle for the visible – every day, for hours on end. He himself becomes a motif, as a street painter with a large canvas, in front of the Jewish Museum, the Haus der Deutschen Wirtschaft, the Amerika-Gedenk-Bibliothek. In 2024 (2023), his first film shot solely on a smartphone, the ‘painting-on-film’ director takes diary-like and very personal snippets of the two years that give the film its title. Without forcing a specific reading, he uses light, weather, turpentine, tired limbs and fleeting encounters to create an airy, sharp critique of the availability of images. A social medium.

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by Stefan Hayn (Director, Screenplay) Germany 2025 German 64' Colour World premiere | Documentary form

Crew

Director	Stefan Hayn
Screenplay	Stefan Hayn
Cinematography	Stefan Hayn
Editing	Stefan Hayn
Sound Design	Steffen Martin, Jochen Jezussek
Producer	Stefan Hayn
Executive Producer	Stefan Hayn

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Stefan Hayn Filme und Malerei

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Stefan Hayn Filme und Malerei

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Stefan Hayn

Stefan Hayn was born in Rothenburg ob der Tauber in 1965. He works in Berlin as a painter and filmmaker (including in collaboration with Anja-Christin Remmert). He studied at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, and is a fellow at the UdK’s graduate school, the Künstler*innenhaus Büchsenhausen in Innsbruck, and Franklin Furnace in New York. He has released paintings, drawings, texts, and films since 1989. He has been invited internationally for fellowships and exhibitions, and to present his films in cinemas, on TV, and in festivals.

Filmography (selection)

1992 Fontvella’s Box; short film 1994 What to Put on Top of Jack Smith’s Memorial Christmas Tree?; short film 1996 Am Israel Chai – Bericht von Dr. Ursula Bohn (Am Israel Chai – A Report by Dr. Ursula Bohn) 1997 Ein Film über den Arbeiter (A Film about the Worker); short film 1998 Dreizehn Regeln oder Die Schwierigkeit sich auszudrücken (Thirteen Rules or The Difficulty of Sexpressing Oneself) 2002 Gespräche mit Schülern und Lehrern (Conversations with Pupils and Teachers); co-directed with Anja-Christin Remmert · Schuldnerberichte (Debtor Reports); co-directed with Anja-Christin Remmert 2005 Malerei Heute (Painting Now); co-directed with Anja-Christin Remmert 2007 Als Landwirt (As a Farmer); co-directed with Anja-Christin Remmert 2009 Weihnachten? Weihnachten! (Christmas? Christmas!); co-directed with Anja-Christin Remmert 2014 S T R A U B; co-directed with Anja-Christin Remmert 2015 Nie Wieder Klug (Never Ever Clever); short film 2016 Dahlienfeuer (Dahlia Fire) 2019 Pain, Vengeance? (Bread, Revenge?) 2025 2024 (2023)

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025