Michael Koch – About

Michael Koch (*1982) works as a writer and film director. From 2003 to 2008 he studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. His graduation film POLAR received a Special Mention at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival and won both the German Camera Award and the German Short Film Award 2009.

Koch’s debut film MARIJA (2016) premiered in the international competition at the Locarno Film Festival. DRII WINTER (A Piece Of Sky) premiered in the international competition at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2022 and was awarded with a Special Mention by the jury. The film screened at over 50 international film festivals and won numerous awards. It was submitted as Switzerland’s official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards®.

Koch teaches regularly at the Internationale Filmschule Köln (IFS), Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHDK) and Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB). He lives with his wife and three children in Berlin and Basel.