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JUNK SPACE BERLIN

Welcome to the marginal deviation of reality. An inexplicable crack runs through the dystopian Berlin of tomorrow, where four outsiders venture on a mission to find their missing friend and Artificial Intelligence "Billie".
But where does Billie's trail lead? And is all this even real?

  • Juri Christopher Padel
    Director
  • Vera Schindler
    Writer
  • Juri Padel
    Producer
  • Clemens Rehbein
    Producer
  • Tamara Semzov
    Key Cast
    "BLUE"
  • Otiti Engelhardt
    Key Cast
    "MARION"
  • Selin Kavak
    Key Cast
    "AKIRA"
  • Thomas Schimanski
    Key Cast
    "BIRD"
  • Marta Sroka
    Key Cast
    "Crazy"
    Kleo, Netflix
  • Komi Togbonou
    Key Cast
    "Kato"
  • Carolin Haupt
    Key Cast
    "Homeless"
  • Mano Thiravong
    Key Cast
    "The New One"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    JUNK SPACE BERLIN
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    Mystery, Drama, Sci-Fi
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 45 minutes 27 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 15, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    100,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    English, German
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 29th International Filmfest Oldenburg
    Oldenburg
    Germany
    September 16, 2022
    Official Selection
  • TFF
    Turin
    Italy
    September 28, 2023
    European Premiere
  • TUC Torino Underground Cinefest
Distribution Information
  • UCM.ONE
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Juri Christopher Padel

Juri Padel, german theatre director, filmmaker and actor additionally studied media science, classical literature and philosophy at the University of Cologne.
As an actor, on stage and on screen, his prestigious credits include productions at the Schaubühne Berlin with Thomas Ostermeier and series such as "The Queen's Gambit" by Frank Scott. His first feature film JUNK SPACE BERLIN, funded by the Senate of Berlin, premiered at the 29th International Filmfest Oldenburg, September 2022.

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Director Statement

Oscillating between drama, fantasy and science fiction, JUNK SPACE BERLIN deals with social division and nationalism, with marginalization and abuse, and explores the dangers but also the opportunities of digitalization and artificial intelligence.

With a team that comes from the most diverse art forms, we developed an idiosyncratic style and produced a film that partly was AI generated and combines the power and abstraction of theatrical material with the possibilities of the screen.
On the one hand, the film Junk Space Berlin is a child of its time; on the other hand, I think its a radically free and courageous work that has already completed its own turnaround, creating a first "subversive" place where the "new" people experience their future wonderland.

Let me just put it like that: In JUNK SPACE BERLIN „stranger things“ happen, it’s a modern Shakespearean Drama which unfolds in a frightening „Inland-Empire- Dystopia“, where four outsiders „Enter The Void“ to finally celebrate in a utopian nigthclub.