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WHY HASN’T EVERYTHING DISAPPEARED YET Germany, 2026, 98 min, color

Artist Moon Sori is traumatised by compulsory military service and feels lost in his new country of residence. Where to put all this pain and longing? An intricate play between (auto)biography and fiction, done in a lyrically ascetic, audiovisually rich and seductive fashion.

The first time Stefan Koutzev filmed a scene with fellow Cologne media arts school student Lee Juho, an animation filmmaker and painter, was for a different version of this work – shorter and more scripted. Lee’s cinégénie, though, stuck with Koutzev, out of which he developed the idea for his debut feature Why hasn’t everything disappeared yet, named after Jean Baudrillard’s final essay.

Stefan Koutzev

Stefan Koutzev

Stefan Koutzev is a Bulgarian filmmaker working and living in Cologne, Germany. He is focused on narrative storytelling at the intersection of screenwriting, fiction and documentary practices, as well as the production of experimental films. His short films have screened at international film festivals such as DOK Leipzig, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Beijing International Short Film Festival and Stockholm International Film Festival. Why hasn’t everything disappeared yet is his debut fiction feature.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

2019 It’s okay to eat fish, because they don’t have any feelings / short

2020 Swarm / short

2023 Requisit / short

2024 Houseprints / doc., short, co-dir

2025 Unsold Copies / short

2026 Why Hasn’t Everything Disappeared Yet

DIRECTOR
Stefan Koutzev
SCRIPT
Stefan Koutzev
CAMERA
Bernard Mescherowsky
MUSIC
Georgia Koumará, Chanmin Kim, Stefan Koutzev
CAST
Lee Juho, Dana Kantardzhieva, Bojan Kantardzhiev, Laura Schroeder, Chanmin Kim
PRODUCERS
Stefan Koutzev
PRODUCTION
Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Lautmalfilm

WHY HASN’T EVERYTHING DISAPPEARED YET Germany, 2026, 98 min, color

PROGRAM

French institute - "Slaveykov" Cinema
20:30 h

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