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Muito Romântico

Forum Expanded Anniversary 2025
© Distruktur, If You Hold a Stone, 2016
The adventure of Melissa and Gustavo starts aboard a red cargo ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean. It takes them from Brazil to Berlin, a city of perpetual movement, where the old constantly has to give space to the new. The couple finds a home and transforms it into the center of their own universe. As time passes and seasons change, life and cinema become interchangeable and their apartment evolves into an ever-changing stage, where friends are invited to play their own roles and reality and fiction merge. Until one day a cosmic portal appears in their home, opening connections between the past, the present, and the future. Drawing from autobiography as well as fantasy, Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn weave their experiences in Berlin into a colorful tapestry of memories, encounters, and dreams. The duo poses filmmaking as a communal as well as a personal endeavor, and themselves as travelers between distant places, both geographically and temporally, on a journey transcending space and time.
by Melissa Dullius (Director, Screenplay), Gustavo Jahn (Director, Screenplay)
with Melissa Dullius, Gustavo Jahn, Lilja Löffler, Nikolaus Tscheschner, Mei Wright, Steve Nietz, Annika Sörling, Friederike Frerichs, Eckhard Stritzel Brazil / Germany 2016 Portuguese, German, English, Japanese 72'

With

  • Melissa Dullius
  • Gustavo Jahn
  • Lilja Löffler
  • Nikolaus Tscheschner
  • Mei Wright
  • Steve Nietz
  • Annika Sörling
  • Friederike Frerichs
  • Eckhard Stritzel

Crew

Directors Melissa Dullius, Gustavo Jahn
Screenplay Melissa Dullius, Gustavo Jahn
Cinematography Ville Piippo

Produced by

Distruktur

If You Hold a Stone

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Melissa Dullius

Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn have formed the artist duo Distruktur since 2006, when they moved together from southern Brazil to Berlin. Two of their films have been shown at Forum Expanded.

Filmography

2006 Éternau 2008 Triangulum 2011 Cat Effekt 2012 Don't Look Back / Labirinto 2013 In the Traveler's Heart 2014 A Máquina do Tempo 2016 Muito Romântico 2018 El Meraya 2020 Levantado Do Chão 2021 Oráculo

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025

Gustavo Jahn

Gustavo Jahn and Melissa Dullius have formed the artist duo Distruktur since 2006, when they moved together from southern Brazil to Berlin. Two of their films have been shown at Forum Expanded.

Filmography

2006 Éternau 2008 Triangulum 2011 Cat Effekt 2012 Don't look back / Labirinto 2013 In the Traveler's Heart 2014 A Máquina do Tempo 2016 Muito Romântico 2018 El Meraya 2020 Levantado Do Chão 2021 Oráculo

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025