Feature Film: “Lost & Found”
Feature Film: 90 min/English
Music Drama
The story:
When a diligent but unfulfilled clerk at Berlin's bustling lost and found office stumbles upon a forgotten voice recorder, she is intrigued by the song’s haunting allure and embarks on a quest to find the anonymous singer, uncovering her own forgotten dream along the way.
“She lives the song she cannot sing.”
“Everything I lose creates space for everything I need.”
“Sometimes when you think you want to disappear, all you really want is to be found.”
“Everything returns, but what returns is not what went away. “(Louise Glück)
“Lost & Found” is an ode to autumn, a time when old things die and new opportunities arise. A time when seasons change and maybe people too.
Screenwriter/Director Statement:
Short Version:
“Lost & Found” tells the story of a woman who spends her days cataloging other people’s forgotten belongings while quietly living with the ache of her own abandoned life. When she discovers a discarded voice recorder with a haunting anonymous song, it awakens not just her curiosity, but the echo of who she once longed to be.
As she searches for the singer, she is really searching for the version of herself she lost. Set against an autumn backdrop of endings and renewal, the film explores invisibility, longing, and the courage it takes to finally be seen.
Longer Version:
I wanted to tell the story of a woman who spends her days cataloging other people’s forgotten belongings, while quietly living with the unspoken ache of her own abandoned life. When she discovers a discarded voice recorder containing a haunting, anonymous song, it does not simply awaken her curiosity, it awakens the echo of something she once longed to be. The film lives inside that echo.
The voice on the recorder becomes both a mystery and a mirror. As she searches for the singer, she is really searching for the version of herself she left behind.
I wanted Lost & Found to feel like an ode to autumn, a season that holds both mourning and promise. Autumn teaches us that loss is not only an ending, but also a clearing, a quiet invitation to begin again. In that spirit, the film asks: What if the things we think we’ve lost are simply waiting for us to notice them again?
At its heart, this is a story about invisibility, longing, and the courage it takes to be seen, even, and especially, by ourselves. It is for anyone who has ever wanted to disappear, only to discover that what they really wanted was to be found.
Themes: lost dreams, obsession, self discovery, new beginnings
No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.
The wind is a gentle reminder that what cannot be seen can still be felt.
