BIOGRAPHY

Oswaldo Díaz Medina

Born in Lima, Perú. Oswaldo is a queer-afro Peruvian, Berlin-based film director, graduate of the German Film and Television Academy of Berlin - dffb. In 2016 Oswaldo released YOUKALI, his academic feature film, which participated in several international film festivals.

After receiving German public funding for his screenplay, THE PLANET HUACHIMAMORA, he has been developing this new feature film project since 2024, as an international co-production.

In 2026 Oswaldo will celebrate the world premiere of his first live-action short film, THE BELT, at the 43rd Busan International Short Film Festival.

This same year he will release his first documentary feature film, based on the life of Rani, an acid attack survivor from Odisha, India.

FILMOGRAPHY

DROPS

2001 - Peru

A girl stays home alone just with her puppy. But meanwhile she sleeps, someone else will prepare an unexpected end.

Cast: Melania Urbina

Cinematography: Alvaro de los Ríos

Shortfilm / Horror / 5' / 16 mm

The Last Dinner

2002 - Peru

Alejandra will be inducted by ghosts into the house where she was originally born. There she will find out how her family was slaughtered by terrorists as she was a baby.

Cast: Karen Spano, Rosa Wunder, Elí Miñano

Cinematography: Alvaro de los Ríos

Shortfilm / Horror / 16' / 35 mm

Half an hour

2011 - Germany

Adam tries to help Gio after this one got fired. Slowly, both colleagues will deeply fall into a dark journey of violence and manipulation.

Cast: Bozidar Kocevski / Thomas Kolasa

Cinematography: Richard Marx

Medium-length film / Suspense / 45' / HD

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Behind the door

2012 - Germany

Alex visits a darkroom, where he finds out by himself, the reasons why he would never find the love he expects.

Cast: Bozidar Kocevski / Janet Rothe / Hans Hendrik Trost / Agnes Krasznahorkai

Cinematography: Richard Marx

Medium-length film / Experimental drama

YOUKALI, a world for foreigners

2016 - Germany

Kenny (31) from Sri Lanka tries to further his career as a musician in Berlin.

He rents a spare room from Rola (80) who lives alone in a big house on the outskirts of Berlin.

In living together these two completely different individuals experience, besides all prejudgements, an unexpected magical connection.

Cast: Kenebert Stanley / Rola Radsey / Tatjana Novikova / Ulices Flores / Komet Bernhard / Jean-Denis Römer

Cinematography: Paul Rohlfs

Producer: Tara Biere

Feature film / Drama / 73' / HD

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