London

Panorama 2026

Bobby is constantly in his car, driving back and forth on the autobahn linking Vienna and Salzburg. Other people travel the same route. Bobby picks them up to help with the petrol money and talks to them along the way: the soldier questioning what it means to fight; the supermarket trainee going to visit family; the academic researching the road’s history; the queer woman about to get married. Many different paths, different accents and different stories, most of them true. Bobby listens, but also talks about himself, about his youth, about aging, about his friend in a coma in Salzburg who is the reason for all his trips. Mountains and forests pass by outside, broken up by junctions, barriers and bridges; the quality of light shifts along with the seasons. Neither a documentary, nor entirely fiction, London is a quietly political portrait of today’s Europe via its in-between spaces and those passing through them. Even in these strange times, anonymity and kindness can still go hand in hand.

by Sebastian Brameshuber (Director, Screenplay), Anna Lehner (Screenplay)
with Bobby Sommer Austria 2026 German, English, Romanian 122' Colour World premiere

With

Bobby Sommer (Bobby)

Crew

Director	Sebastian Brameshuber
Screenplay	Sebastian Brameshuber, Anna Lehner
Cinematography	Klemens Hufnagl, Patrick Wally
Editing	Dane Komljen, Sebastian Brameshuber
Sound Design	Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer, Aleksa Stojanovic
Costumes	Bárbara Palomino-Ruiz
Casting	Henri Steinmetz
Producers	David Bohun, Lixi Frank
Co-Producer	Sebastian Brameshuber

Produced by

Panama Film

Wien, Austria

World Sales

Square Eyes

Wien, Austria

Photos

Sebastian Brameshuber

Born in 1981, the director studied stage and film design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and film at Le Fresnoy in France. Since 2004, his works have screened and won awards at festivals including the Berlinale and Viennale and in Marseille, Sarajevo and London. In 2019, Bewegungen eines nahen Bergs won the Grand Prix at Cinéma du Réel in Paris. Retrospectives of his work have been presented by the Austrian Film Archive in Vienna and the Anthology Film Archives in New York. He also teaches documentary directing at the Film Academy Vienna.

Filmography (selection)

2010 Muezzin; documentary 2014 Of Stains, Scrap and Tires; short film · Und in der Mitte, da sind wir (And there we are, in the Middle); documentary 2015 In, Over and Out; short film 2019 Bewegungen eines nahen Bergs (Movements of a Nearby Mountain); documentary 2026 London

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2026