Tim Ellrich is a young german filmmaker, who is currently studying „Fiction Directing“ at the „Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg“ in Ludwigsburg. Since his childhood, he was fascinated by movies and started early to work in a cinema in his hometown. After some traineeships at professional film productions, he began to produce his own films and moved to Vienna, where he studied „Theatre-, Film- and Mediascience”. He passed with distinction and applied afterwards at the „Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg“. In his films Ellrich tries to deal with the absurdities of the daily life. His films were represented on more than 100 film festivals around the world. He is highly influenced by the works of Roy Andersson, Luis Bunuel, Aki Kaurismäki and Terry Gilliam.