Anja Gurres

Birth : 1994-10-29, Kaiserslautern, Germany

History

Anja Gurres started making short films at the age of 17 in school. From 2014 she studied directing for fictional film at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. In the summer semester 2018 she visited the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires for one semester. In 2020 she finished her studies with the diploma short film "The Glare".

Movies

Balconies
Writer
The balcony as a stage for the absurdities of everyday life: In six episodes, different people find themselves on their balconies in Hamburg – in both tragic and comical situations.
Balconies
Director
The balcony as a stage for the absurdities of everyday life: In six episodes, different people find themselves on their balconies in Hamburg – in both tragic and comical situations.
Balconies
Producer
The balcony as a stage for the absurdities of everyday life: In six episodes, different people find themselves on their balconies in Hamburg – in both tragic and comical situations.
The Glare
Writer
A 15-year-old mute girl, suspected of having been raped, is placed in a shelter. But is she really the helpless teenager everyone sees in her ?
The Glare
Director
A 15-year-old mute girl, suspected of having been raped, is placed in a shelter. But is she really the helpless teenager everyone sees in her ?
Give Me a Smile
Writer
For the first time since her husband's death, Ute visits their former FKK-club. Curiously she enters this familiar place and immediately receives a warm welcome. However, she painfully has to realise that in the eyes of her old friends she primarily has become the widow. Unintentionally she finds herself involved in a group game in which you have to make your teammates laugh by saying one simple sentence.
Give Me a Smile
Director
For the first time since her husband's death, Ute visits their former FKK-club. Curiously she enters this familiar place and immediately receives a warm welcome. However, she painfully has to realise that in the eyes of her old friends she primarily has become the widow. Unintentionally she finds herself involved in a group game in which you have to make your teammates laugh by saying one simple sentence.
Bubble Gummed Girl
Writer
Emma is addicted to chewing gum and in the middle of puberty, but doesn't really want to admit it. She doesn't want to do anything with her sandpit friend Lasse other than swinging, playing with her father's railroad world and chewing gum - nothing should change. But Lasse suddenly has a girlfriend and, even worse, he's also interested in sex.
Bubble Gummed Girl
Director
Emma is addicted to chewing gum and in the middle of puberty, but doesn't really want to admit it. She doesn't want to do anything with her sandpit friend Lasse other than swinging, playing with her father's railroad world and chewing gum - nothing should change. But Lasse suddenly has a girlfriend and, even worse, he's also interested in sex.
Get Away
Director
The two teenagers Melek and Fabio couldn't be any more different. But they have one thing in common that brings them together: Both want to get away from home. Fabio because he is gay and Melek because her Turkish parents limit her dreams. Together they learn to face their problems. A film about understanding, being gay and migration.