FILIP GRUJIC - Director

Filip Grujic was born in Freiburg in 1991 as the son of two violinists, which came to West Germany from the former Yugoslavia. He grew up bilingually in a household characterized by art and music, started to play the violin at the age of four and switched to the guitar when he turned nine. He won the German Federal music competition for classical guitar. Nevertheless, he decided against music studies and applied for acting at the film university KONRAD WOLF at Babelsberg, from which he graduated in 2016. While he studied acting, he already became more and more interested in directing and making his own movies.

Inspired by directors like Krzysztof Kieślowski, Andrej Tarkowski, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Aki Kaurismäki and others, he participated in a tendering procedure by the film university in co-operation with the tv-channel rbb (Radio Berlin Brandenburg) on the topic “Home”. As a result, he shot his first documentary called “Domoy” (“Homebound”), which was broadcast on the rbb. During this time, he also shot some music videos to promote his own compositions as a singer-songwriter, as well as he performed in some short movies and tv-shows as an actor. He also worked together with a traveling theater group of refugees. In 2017 he made his first fictional short movie “Ahoi”, which was shot in Bosnia. The movie was shown at several festivals, got four nominations and won two prizes. From 2018 to 2022, he was employed with the “Theater an der Parkaue” (Young State Theater Berlin). In the beginning of 2022, he shot his second fictional short movie “Escort Driver”. At this time, Filip together with Miriam Margraf as screenwriter and his longtime teammate Marcus Lauterbach as cinematographer started implementing his first feature-length film “Wende Letters”.

Filip is father of a daughter and lives and works in Berlin.

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