Leander Behal (b. 1998 in Berlin, Germany) is a director and screenwriter with a particular fondness for surrealism, magical realism and dark humor. In 2022, his 9-minute short "Taximan" opened the renowned Hof International Film Festival and won its Audience Award for Best Short Film. His latest outing "Heartware" (2024) is an offbeat sci-fi short about androids working in a retrofuturistic ice cream parlor.
Formerly a student of Film Studies at the Free University of Berlin, Leander currently studies Directing Fiction under the tutelage of Maren Ade ("Toni Erdmann") and Nico Hofmann at the Filmakademie Baden-Würtemberg in Ludwigsburg.