Benjamin Bay
Actor
The director and writer Benjamin Bay, born in 1989, studied documentary film directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. His graduation film, the feature-length documentary 'Krähen und Kalifen' (Crows and Caliphs, 2018), was nominated for the FIRST STEPS Award. Furthermore, the film was screened in competition at the 2019 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis. His earlier works during his studies include the documentary 'Valentin' from 2016.
Films on Sooner
Bonbon

2020
16 mins
Shorts
Jannis Alexander Kiefer's short, presented as an interfilm 2025 highlight on Sooner, follows a child searching for his father at a carnival parade.