poster by Siva Chand M. S.
Warum ist nicht schon alles verschwunden (Why hasn’t everything disappeared yet)
2025 / 98min / Bulgarian, Korean, German / fiction / 5.1 Dolby Surround
with Juho Lee, Laura Schroeder, Dana Kantardzhieva & Bojan Kantardzhiev, Kihuun Park,
Chanmin Kim, Jae Sun Lee, Uwe Pargen, Philine Reimer, Yuna-Lee Pfau, John Bergerhausen
SYNOPSIS
Two young siblings from Bulgaria realise they are all alone on the wrong bus heading to Cologne. For now, their story ends and a new one begins: Sori has been working aimlessly as a gallery assistant after dropping out of university and hiding the truth from his family back in Seoul. All by himself in Germany, he finds comfort in drawing intricate worlds of sketches, while drifting through an urban life of fleeting encounters that only mimic belonging but never quite fulfil it. As Sori’s military service at the North Korean border resurfaces evermore, the waning days of a slow summer take over the narration: Childhood memories shift to the next estranged everyday object, encounters unfold from one character to another location with no point of return. The more Sori turns himself over to the life around him, the more it asks where home is.
written, directed and edited by Stefan Koutzev
cinematography Bernard Mescherowsky
original sound Farah Wind, Andreas Hermann
sound design Gerrit Kuge & Stefan Koutzev
drawings Juho Lee
assistant director Yonca Yildirm
script/ continuity Eva Swiatkowsky
dramaturgical advising Laura Schroeder
steady cam Patrick Gregg
light Paul Hüpel
set producer Youssef Mahfouz
production Stefan Koutzev (Lautmalfilm) / Academy of Media Arts Cologne
consultants Alejandro Bachmann, Geraldine Bajard, Rita Schwarze
set & costume design Thera de Freitas, Laurin Weber
focus puller Ha Neui Kim, Marja Funke, Jan Karger
second camera assistants Kris Bublevskaya, Heorgie Biba
lights Ayham Khalifeh, Paul Hüpel, Niels Gössel
sound assistants Anastasia Osoianu, Nils Kammerloch, Shokoufeh Eftekhar, Neutron Aung, Roman Trost
set producer Youssef Mahfouz, Matthias Tharang
location manager Miri Klischat, John Bergerhausen
runner Justus Hanfland, Lucas Dülligen
editing consultants Laura Schroeder, Rita Schwarze, Almourad Aldeeb, Renxing Zhou
field recordings & foley Hyemin Jung, Stefan Koutzev, Farah Wind, Gerrit Kuge
dialogue editing Johannes Grote
sound design Gerrit Kuge & Stefan Koutzev
sound mix Judith Nordbrock, Ralf Schipke
color grading Fabiana Cardalda
vfx & retouch Pavel Hernandez Méndez
poster design Siva Chand M. S.
and more
© Stefan Koutzev link on request
