Walz Alone (Walzer Allein, HFF München, 2025), the short film by Felix Friedlein and Johannes Rockstuhl, has a shaky, lonesome, anti-musical starting point inside an empty — or what seems to be an empty — music bar. The building seems old and nostalgic. The lighting is soft, the furniture is worn down, the signs are handwritten. The protagonist, simply called ‘Gast’ (guest in English), ent...