Julian Pörksen

Born in 1985, he worked as an assistant to Christoph Schlingensief, studied history and philosophy in Berlin and dramaturgy in Leipzig. His first short film Sometimes We Sit and Think and Sometimes We Just Sit premiered at the 2012 Berlinale. In 2013 his non-fiction book “Verschwende Deine Zeit” was published by Alexander Verlag in Berlin and is now in its third edition. It was followed in 2016 by a book of plays, “Wir wollen Plankton sein”; his play of the same name premiered at Schauspiel Köln in 2017. Whatever Happens Next is his debut feature film. He works as a writer, director, producer and dramatic advisor.

Berlinale