Love Me Then

Overview

One night. Two strangers. One who never loved. One who just needs to know it exists.

A woman walks into a bar. A bartender asks her a question she wasn't expecting. What follows is one night, one conversation, and a game that neither of them will forget. Nothing left to lose and nowhere left to hide.

Challenges & Approach

We shot the entire film on location over four nights at a bar in Kreuzberg, working around the venue's hours, the noise of a living space (a Kindergarten right next to it), and the pressure of leaving before the bar’s opening hours. There was no studio safety net. 

The visual language was something we built by hand. To get the warmth and the dreaminess we were after, we worked with DIY lenses and in-camera light leaks. Everything’s imperfect by design, because the story needed that texture. Nothing should be too clean or too controlled.

And then there was the script itself: A two-hander. One conversation. Every pause, every look, every cut had to carry weight, because when a film lives entirely inside one location and one night, the craft either holds or it doesn't.

The Result

A quiet, intimate Berlin indie short film about two people who meet exactly when they need to. Grounded and tender, with moody lighting and light leaks that make the bar feel like its own small world.

Love Me Then is currently in post-production.