German Actor Jonathan Berlin Sets Directorial Feature Debut ‘Mio’ With Taddeo Kufus, Barbara Auer and Godehard Giese to Star (EXCLUSIVE)

Jun 23, 2026 3:34am PT German Actor Jonathan Berlin Sets Directorial Feature Debut ‘Mio’ With Taddeo Kufus, Barbara Auer and Godehard Giese to Star (EXCLUSIVE)

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German actor and director Jonathan Berlin (“The Forger”) is set to write and direct his first feature “Mio”, a queer coming of age drama about a teenager who must embark on a journey into the unknown after his parents disappear. Set in a small Spanish town, Mio undertakes an odyssey between childhood and adolescence that demands everything of him in his quest to find himself.

Taddeo Kufus (“Les Rascals”, “1917”), Barbara Auer (“Miroirs No. 3” and a German Film Award winner for “My Daughter Belongs To Me”) and Godehard Giese (“Rose”, a German Film Award for “Sad Jokes”) will star in the feature. Behind the camera, Gesa Jäger (a German Film Award winner for “The Teacher’s Lounge”) and Raffaéllo Lupperger (“Marzahn Mon Amour”) will edit, while Manuel Mack (German Film Critics Award for “Gun-Shy”) is on board as director of photography.

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