Locally Grown Films

Two school friends who have drifted apart over the course of adulthood spontaneously arrange to have dinner together. What starts off as an innocent attempt to get back in touch develops into a renegotiation of their shared past, estranged relationship and lost future.

Memories are created and preserved when a boy paints a porcelain cup, a grandfather tells his grandchildren about two birds, and a grandmother reminisces about an unremarkable summer afternoon.

A mockumentary made by Nicolas Frenzel's friends for his 23rd birthday, comically retelling the life of a fictitious Nicolas.

The broody and beaten-down Noah Philm encounters peculiar characters while wandering through a dark city night in search of some flavorful cheese.

A lone vampire wanders through nighttime Mainz to find something that makes him feel alive again.

The life of a couple is observed through the home they have left behind.

A melancholic look at Mainz's Jubiläumsbrunnen, whose decayed charm is in a state of conflict with other buildings in Mainz.