Auf den zweiten Blick / At Second Glance

92 min | Director and writer: Sheri Hagen | with Anita Olatunji, Michael Klammer, Ingo Naujoks, Nele Rosetz, Milton Welsh, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Zoe Hagen, and Ella-Sade Hagen-Janson | 2013 | Germany | German with English subtitles

At Second Glance is set in Berlin and features three couples living with vision loss. This thought-provoking movie about love and perception asks us to engage with, and expand, our understanding of diversity, including different abilities.

This award-winning film centers on Kay and Falk, Benjamin and Elena, Till and Pan in the big city juggernaut Berlin—who meet, discover and feel attracted to each other.   

Sheri Hagen is a director, screenwriter, and actress from Berlin. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, she grew up in Hamburg, trained at the Hamburg “Stage School of Dance and Drama” and at “Studio Theater an der Wien” in Vienna, Austria. Ms. Hagen has appeared in numerous works for film and television, e.g. The Lives of Others, Baal, and Tatort as well as in various theater productions.