BLESSING IN DISGUISE

Kevin Hines hears voices due to auditory hallucinations that one day order him to end his life. A hand-drawn documentary about one of the few people to survive a jump from the Golden Gate Bridge.

Directors: Kevin Koch, Emma Holzapfel
Germany, 2021
4:32 min | trailer

Kevin Koch, born in 1995, traveled around the world once after graduating from high school to surf the best waves in the world and then studied media science in Bayreuth. There he discovered his love for documentary film and has been studying directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg since 2020. Through an exchange program he attended the film school La Fémis in Paris.

Emma Holzapfel has been studying montage at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg since 2020 and visited the film school La Fémis in Paris as part of an exchange program.

Director of Blessing in Disguise (2021)
Director of Blessing in Disguise (2021)

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