The Boy in the Ocean

Friedrich Tiedtke, born in 1991 in Eckernförde/Schleswig-Holstein, has been making short films since childhood. After leaving school, Friedrich first lived in Berlin, where he was a guest student at the German Film and Television Academy (dffb), and later in Copenhagen/Denmark, where he worked as a trainee at ZENTROPA Productions. Since 2017 and until 2022 he studies directing at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF and is a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. His short films have received the Filmpreis Schleswig-Holstein, the Deutscher Jugendfilmpreis and the Deutscher Nachwuchsfilmpreis, among others.