Interview with director Felix Freidlein and screenwriter Johannes (Johnny) Rockstuhl on Walz Alone (Walzer Allein, 2025) The fiction short film Walz Alone (Walzer Allein, 2025), directed by Felix Freidlein from HFF film school in Munich, was screened in Bratislava at the Visegrad Film Forum at the Film and Television Faculty VŠMU. After the projection, we talked with Felix and Johnny ...
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...