I Have Never Been Here
Niko doesn’t really know what he should do in life. Should he keep working at his father’s shop or become an actor? Or maybe just do nothing at all? And then there’s his girlfriend Lilli – and David, whom he’s only just met. Everything could be fine, until a tragedy shakes up his life.
Cast
- Niko
- Talha Akdeniz
- David
- Gabriel Tauber
- Lilli
- Lisa Schenk
- Sami
- Roman Shamov
- Baptiste
- Jean Denis Römer
- Dario
- Markus Zollfrank
I Have Never Been Here
Tor Iben
- Fiction
- Production Country / Year
- Germany 2025
- Language
- dt. OF m. engl. UT
- Format
- Digital file, Color, 78min
1.78:1 (16:9), Stereo
- Original Title
- Hier war ich noch nie
Director & Crew
Tor Iben
Born in 1972 in Hagen in Westphalia. Self-taught filmmaker. Active as a director.
Filmography
| 2013 | The Passenger | Spielfilm | |
| Das Phallometer | Kurzfilm | 2013 | |
| 2015 | Wo willst du hin, Habibi? | Spielfilm | |
| 2017 | The Year I Lost My Mind | Spielfilm | 2017 |
| 2019 | Orpheus‘ Song | Spielfilm | |
| 2020 | Zeit der Monster | Spielfilm | 2020 |
| 2021 | Emre & Julia | Kurzfilm | |
| 2022 | We Will Never Die | Serie/Spielfilm | |
| 2025 | Hier war ich noch nie | Spielfilm | 2025 |
“About ten years ago, I found out that an acquaintance of mine, a young man, had been shot on the street and died shortly thereafter from his injuries. For a long time, no one knew who the perpetrator was or what the motive for this crime was. Of course, there were some immediate suspicions, some of which turned out to be true. Such an event stays with you for a long time, and the idea of making a film about it grew stronger. […]
When I met Talha Akdeniz in 2020, I had the feeling that I had found the right actor for this project […], and we brought something from our collaboration in the project: sadness! Sadness is a political feeling, possibly even more political than anger.
We quickly agreed that we wanted to portray a character who isn’t so easy to identify, neither in terms of his sexuality nor his background. We wanted to introduce a new social, political, but also emotional type into our film […]. This character wasn’t meant to represent any particular background, but rather to be an individual. Someone who has invented himself or is in the process of (re-)inventing himself. […]“
- Writer
- Tor Iben
- Director of Photography
- Tor Iben
- Editor
- Tor Iben
- Production Designer
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- Sound
- Jörg Klaußner
- Music Composer
- Thomas Yang De Pfeiffer
- Producer
- Tor Iben