Dave Lojek

Birthday: 1975-10-05
Birthplace: Berlin, East Germany
Gender: Male

Dave Lojek loves filmmaking. He belongs to the prolific and most often selected directors of the 21st century with over 1963premiere screenings of his distributions at international film festivals worldwide. His favorite genres are comedy, parody, fantasy, romance, poetry, sci-fi and experiment. Dave also directs documentaries, dramas, portraits, and music videos. His works and distributions won 242 film awards. Dave Lojek graduated with an MA in English / American and Cultural Studies from Humboldt-University in his hometown Berlin.

In terms of content and style, Dave's poetic films are about magic, love, death, friendship, loneliness, artists, oddities, escapism, mythology and the everyday. Based on the Homo-Ludens-principle, Dave clearly focuses his often-cheerful work on the universal and timeless. His motivation is intrinsic.

As independent producer, he created 181 movies in 26 cities in 12 European countries by 2024. Mr. Lojek hosts monthly open cinema screenings in Germany’s oldest cinema and annual film workshops called KinoKabarets with his initiative KinoBerlino. Dave works as film distributor and president of a Film Association. The productions of APEIRON FILMS and KinoBerlino have been broadcast weekly since 2008 (ca. 11.982 times) on German TV and viewed online over 2 million times.

Credits

Year Title
Traces of Grief
2024-10-04 Julienne d’Ampoules
2023-08-28 EGGspression
2023-08-13 Osmosis
2023-07-20 Umbra of Deceit
2022-07-23 Calxophobia
2021-07-17 Fox & Penguin
2020-04-11 Occurrences of Questionable Significance
2018-10-20 The Last Supper
2018-07-22 Keeper
2018-07-21 Snitch
2018-03-03 I Came From The Future
2017-08-12 Fortune Flies
2016-07-23 Fainting Flicker
2016-07-18 Pure Sweetness
2016-04-02 Refugee Poetry
2016-03-05 Proverbial Luck
2014-07-19 The Princess Strikes Back
2013-11-15 Hec Tic Tac
2013-11-07 Psychic Sue
2013-06-08 Paradise Beach
2012-05-15 Two Too Odd
2011-06-04 Trust
2010-09-25 Perspective