Thousands of Nights

short - fiction - 2025 - 23 min - color - Switzerland / Germany

Rosa, a Romanian-born DJ and electronic music producer who recently moved to Berlin, is desperate for work. To make ends meet, she improvises as a sitter for the baby of an extravagant famous actress, Fazia. Against all odds, their destinies are woven together in the face of adversity and the difficulty of being a woman in each of their worlds.

CAST

Rosa : Cristina NEGUCIOIU

Fazia : Laura SCHWICKERATH

Simon : Philipp DROSTE

Baby: Amaury ANEX

Nick: Fabian RAABE

Jono : Rasmus Max WIRTH

Security Bouncer: Michael ZEMKE

Sound technician: Marco LITTA 

Man : David Garzón BARDUA

CREDITS

Written by Valérie Anex

Directed by Valérie Anex & Annie Gisler

Executive Producers: Heinz DILL, Robert CIBIS

Producer: Catherine MORAWITZ

Production manager : Felix BRIEGEL

Unit manager : Michael ZEMKE

Runner : Tim PREISS

Script : Amina GRUBER

Director of Photography : Jana PAPE

1st AC: Robert PRESCHEL

2nd AC : Noemi BRACHVOGEL

Underwater Cameraman :Jens WINKLER

Data wrangler : Tiwo DANNENBERG

Recordist : Timothée MONTANI

Production designer : Marijana RADOSAVLJEVIC

Costume artist : Anna-Sophie KOCH

Make-up artist : Karina EVDOKIMOVA

Gaffer : Pavel SHTURNEV

Best girl: Kristina MACA

Editor: Kevin SCHLOSSER

Editor assistant : Léon ORLANDI

Colorgrading : Sally SHAMAS

Video conformation and SFX: Jean-Baptiste PERRIN

Sound editor : Valentin DUPANLOUP

Sound mixing : Valentin DUPANLOUP

Music composer : Garance ZARN aka Garance

Music arranger: Ladislav AGABEKOV

Singer : Vera RACHMUTH

Festivals:

10. Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht (Berlin, 2025)
Tokyo International Short Film Festival - Official Selection (Tokyo, 2025)

Supported by

Federal Office of Culture (FOC)

RTS SSR -Radio Télévision Suisse

Cineforom

La Loterie romande

Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg

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