Benjamin Rost
Benjamin Rost studied film directing at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg after previously studying philosophy and TV journalism. His films have been shown and awarded at international festivals such as DOK Leipzig, DOK.fest Munich, Filmfest Munich and Camerimage. He is a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and the state scholarship ‘Young Art and New Paths’. Between 2017 and 2019, he lived in Rwanda and South Africa, where he supported the youth TV channel ‘Iwacu’ of the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) and at the same time shot his graduation film A Portrait on the Search for Happiness, which was funded by ARD / MfG and is available on Amazon Prime. His debut film Harraga – Those Who Burn Their Lives was released nationwide in cinemas and was nominated for the German Documentary Film Award. In collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, he founded the Pitch_It-programme and the FILM IT animation workshop for refugee children from Ukraine. His latest film, Born to Fake, received numerous positive reviews (including in Tagesthemen, Capriccio and TTT - Titel Thesen Tempramente) and won the One Future Award at the Munich Film Festival.
