SEBASTIAN SCHIPPER
Sebastian was born in 1968. After studying Theatre at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich (1992-1995), he took on minor film parts in addition to his engagements at the Munich Kammerspiele. Sebastian recently celebrated the biggest international hit of his career with "Victoria" (2015), his fourth film as a director. The film, shot in one take, about a fateful night in Berlin won six German Film Awards, including Best Motion Picture and Best Director, and was nominated for three European Film Awards. "Victoria" celebrated its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in the competition. Director of photography Sturla Brandt Grøvlen received a Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement.

Director's statement
"I didn’t want to make a film about refugees. ROADS was not supposed to be anything exemplary or generalizing. The refugees are simply a reality that my protagonists can’t avoid. But it was important to me not to show an amorphous mass. The refugees in the film all have individual traits. […] Life and the world are beautiful despite everything. I wanted to make a film about these two boys whose paths cross and who experience their journey together. This develops into a friendship and all that entails. It is literally a journey of discovery. We see what they experience through their eyes. […]. Experiencing and understanding the pain of the other is something that makes us human. Empathy".