Warum ist nicht schon alles verschwunden
(Why hasn’t everything disappeared yet)

2025 / 97min / 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 Bulgarian children travel by coach until they realise they are alone on the wrong bus heading to Cologne. Here their story ends and a new one begins: Sori has been working aimlessly as a gallery assistant after secretly dropping out of university and hiding the truth from his family back in Seoul. All by himself, 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 fulfill it. As Sori’s growing memory of his military service at the North Korean border resurfaces evermore, the waning days of a slow summer take over the narration, shifting from one childhood memory to the next estranged item, from one character to the next location with no point of return. The more he turns himself over to the life around him, the more it seems impossible returning home.

written, directed and edited by Stefan Koutzev
cinematography Bernard Mescherowsky
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