Florian Gallenberger

Florian Gallenberger
Occupation(s)	Director, Writer
Years active	1990 - present

Florian Gallenberger (born 1972, Munich) is an Academy Award-winning German film director.

Career

Gallenberger appeared in various roles in feature films, TV productions and theater plays from the age of five. From 1992 to 1999, he studied Direction at the University of Television and Film Munich. In 2001, he won the Honorary Foreign Film Award at the Student Academy Awards and an Oscar in the Best Live Action Short Film category for his short film Quiero Ser which is set in Mexico.

In 2004 he made his first feature-length film with Shadows of Time starring Indian actress Tannishtha Chatterjee a sad love story which is set in India and filmed in Bengali. The saga begins in the 1940s and is spread over 60 years.

He is currently working on a movie about John Rabe.

Filmography

Feature Films

• Schatten der Zeit (2004)
• John Rabe (2009)

Short Films

• Der Schlag ans Hoftor (1990)
• Mysterium einer Notdurftanstalt (1993)
• Tango Berlin (1997)
• Hure (1997)
• Buck (1997)
• Quiero ser (I want to be ...) (1999)
• Honolulu (2001/anthology film)

Awards and nominations

Won

• 2000: Student Academy Award for Best Foreign Film - Quiero ser (I want to be ...)
• 2001: Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film - Quiero ser (I want to be ...)
• 2005: Bavarian Film Award for Best New Director - Schatten der Zeit

Nominated

• 2005: Best Film (Golden Star) at the International Film Festival of Marrakech - Schatten der Zeit

External links

• Florian Gallenberger at IMDb