The Color of Air

Feature Film – 88 min. – Germany – 2K digital – Dolby 5.1 – 2024

One summer's day, Freddy, Luise and Theo come together to clear out the family home. When Luise finds a photo of Sergei, her great love who died in a car accident years ago, she is puzzled: she cannot have taken the picture. Searching for its origin, she uncovers layer by layer a family history that has haunted the siblings all along.

Cast: Paul Boche, Bea Brocks, Odine Johne, Hannah Schutsch
Director: Oliver Moser
Screenplay: Linda König, Oliver Moser
Producer: Linda König, Oliver Moser
DOP: Malte Siepen
Editing: Isabella Kohl, Oliver Moser
Score: Matthias Petsche

Sounddesign: Nils Gradlowsky
Mixing: Alex Leser
Colorist: Susi Dollnig
Costumes: Muriel Cuissard
Production: German Film- and Television
Academy Berlin (dffb)
Co-Production: Rausch Film,
Jost Hering Filme

Festivals & Awards

Emden Screenplay Award (Grimme Institute), Germany, 2023 – nominated
Filmfest Hamburg, Germany, 2024 – Große Freiheit competition
Hamburg Producer Award for German cinema productions, 2024 – nominated
Achtung Berlin Filmfestival, Germany, 2025 – feature narrative competition
Bushwick Film Festival, New York, USA, 2025 – feature narrative competition — Best Feature Runner-Up

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Short – 15 min. – Germany – 2K digital – Dolby 5.1 – 2019

A couple prepares to move in together and give birth. In her childhood home, Paula persuades her father to let go of her, while Hector sneaks into town to track an old love affair.

Cast: Stellan Torrn, Kristin Suckow, Lena Reinhold, Michael Kind
Writer, Director, Editor: Oliver Moser
DOP: Moritz Friese
Music: Matthias Petsche

Producer: Romana Janik
Production: German Film- and Television Academy Berlin (dffb)
Co-Production: Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB); TV-Screening RBB, 2020

Steinbrecher Stonecrusher

Short – 11 min. – Germany – 2K digital – Dolby 5.1 – 2016

High cliffs and uninhabited wasteland. No escape. After an accident, the worker Kai stumbles into madness. Attempts to free himself lead him deeper and deeper into the pit.

Cast: Jakob Schneider, Merle Wasmuth, Martin Reik
Writer, Director, Editor: Oliver Moser
DOP: Konstantin Minnich
Producer: Gregor Sauter
Production: German Film- and Television Academy Berlin (dffb)

Festivals

Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, Germany, 2017
Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Landau, Germany, 2017
Wave of Films Festival Manila, Philippines, 2017
Lubuskie Film Summer, Poland, 2018
Festival de Cine de La Plata, Argentina, 2018

MARS

Short Film – 19 min. – Germany – Full HD – Stereo – 2012

A young makeup artist drifts through the city for a day, chasing after friends who always seem to be somewhere else. The deeper she goes into the night, the brighter the lights become.

Cast: Jamila Saab, Jördis Richter, Anna von Haebler, Eric Bouwer, Eddie Irle, Benno Lehmann
Writer, Director, Editor: Oliver Moser
DOP: Moritz Friese
Sound: Nils Strüven
Production: Filmarche, Bonuslevel

Festivals & Awards

20min|max Ingolstadt – Best Student Film
FiSH Rostock 2011 – Gold, Promotion Award
Deutscher Nachwuchsfilmpreis Hannover

About

Oliver Moser writes and directs. He studied fine arts at HBK Braunschweig before training in film directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). His feature debut “Die Farbe der Luft” (The Color of Air) was nominated for the Emden Screenplay Award, and premiered at the Hamburg Film Festival 2024. His short films have screened at festivals and on television. He is currently developing various new projects, often in collaboration, including feature films and an audio series, alongside work as a dramaturgical consultant.

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