Rüdiger Görlitz was born in Erlangen in 1983. He studied Cultural Sciences, Philosophy and Psychology, and has been writing and directing a variety of shorts over the last years. A selection of his films in cludes: the shorts "Transit" (2002), "Dunkles Jetzt" (2003), "Systemfehler" (2003), "Endlich?"(2005), "Is it Magic?" (2007), "Vollwaschgang" (2008), "Alle guten Dinge" (2009), "Bipolar" (2010, in co-direction with Eva Kallweit), "Der letzte Pazifist" (2011), and his feature debut "Not Far from Me" (2011).

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