Moritz (22) follows his boyfriend Jonas to Berlin, only to be abandoned by him within a few weeks. He changes his looks and dives into the city’s vibrating techno world. He learns to express his repressed desires, but he also starts to lose himself in drugs and emotional alienation. With the help of his queer friends, Moritz develops his own ideas of sexuality and masculinity, leading him a little closer to himself.

In his feature debut, director Hannes Hirsch tells the story of a young man’s coming-of-age in the Berlin party scene as a sort of second coming-out. A journey through loneliness, excess and kink, Drifter deals with gay body image issues and questions of queer kinship while painting an authentic portrait of Berlin’s queer community.

No Dutch no problem!
This movie is spoken in German with English subtitles. The aftertalk will be in Dutch.

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