Florian Cossen was born in Tel Aviv/Israel in 1979 and spent his childhood in Israel, Canada, Spain and Costa Rica before completing high school in Germany. He began working as an assistant director on advertising, television and feature films, before studying Film Directing at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy from 2002-2009. During that time he made several short films, including "Wolf’s Night" (Wolfsnacht) and "L’oubli", shot in Montreal and co-directed by French-Canadian director Antonin Monmart. He was a visiting student at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires for six months in 2006 and received a scholarship to attend a Hollywood Perspective workshop at the University of California in Los Angeles (2005). "The Day I Was Not Born" (Das Lied in mir) is his first feature.

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH