Déjà-vu - memory, emotion or delusion

"I think it is wrong to call the sensation of having already experienced something an illusion. The sensation of déjà vu corresponds, in short, to the memory of an unconscious fantasy"
(Sigmund Freud - 1904)

We have all probably already gotten to know the feeling that occasionally comes over us, as if something had been said and done long before, as if we had experienced the same faces, objects and conditions in old-grey times and knew exactly what will happen in the next moment, also from old memories

The aim of my film is to bring together neuro-scientific research, personal accounts of people with epilepsy and the artistic issues and to give a current overall picture on the subject of déjà-vu.

  • Malte Füllgrabe
    Director
  • Malte Füllgrabe
    Writer
  • Malte Füllgrabe
    Producer
  • Andreas Spengler
    Producer
    Executive Producer
  • Konstantin Reinhart
    Key Cast
    DoP
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short, Other
  • Completion Date:
    July 11, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Austria, Germany
  • Language:
    German
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Prague International Monthly Film Festival
    Prague
    Poland
    July 31, 2020
    Wordl Premiere
    Finalist
  • Kosice International Monthly Film Festival
    Košice
    Slovakia
    July 27, 2020
    Premiere Slovakia
    Finalist
  • Focus International Film Festival

    United States
    October 1, 2021
    United States Premiere
    Official Selection
  • The NEXT International Short Film Festival 2021
    Kalkutta
    Iraq
    December 15, 2021
    Premiere India
    Winner
  • Festival RENUAC
    Santiago
    Chile
    January 22, 2022
    South American Premiere
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • Füllgrabe Filmproduktion
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Malte Füllgrabe

Malte Füllgrabe (born 1985, Germany), is a filmmaker and producer in Hannover. He studied media sciences and art science at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig. After graduating in 2012, he became a Filmmaker and Producer, strongly influenced by Alfred Hitchock and François Truffaut. Since 2005 he has made over twenty short films and documentaries. His works that have been shown in cinemas, art galleries and on television and nominated and awarded at many film festivals.
Malte Füllgrabe lives and works in Hamburg (Germany).

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Director Statement

WHY I MADE THIS FILM

A few days ago, after having spent the afternoon strolling around Hamburg
was, by the Elbe, looking at the water. And there it was again, that feeling
scenery before. A deep feeling seized me. I was already
ever been here before? Where did this feeling of deep familiarity come from? Played
my brain prank me?
This experience has awakened in me the desire to delve deeper into the subject.
And as a filmmaker, it suggests itself to approach this subject
documentation. Because, this much is certain, many questions about déjà-vu are
has remained unanswered to this day. The aim of my film is to show scientific research, personal reports of and the artistic questions flow together and create a new, more give an up-to-date overall picture on the subject of déjà-vu.