Manuel Liebscher

Manuel Liebscher was born in Eastern Belgium. After a design apprenticeship, he studied drawing, animation and dramaturgy at the "Institut Supérieur des Arts St.-Luc de Liège". For several years he worked for production companies in Cologne, Munich and Berlin. Afterwards he made his first short feature and discovered his passion for directing. Back in Belgium, he spent nearly a decade working as a videographer, photographer and digital film editor at an audiovisual media enterprise, next to the German border. From 2019 to 2023 he studied film directing at the ifs International Film School in Cologne. ​He is married and lives in Eupen, Belgium with his wife and their kid. Manuel's professors and lecturers at the ifs International Filmschool Cologne: Directing: Philip Gröning Ruth Olshan Katalin Gödrös Volker Schlöndorff Dominik Graf Nicole Weegmann Nikolai "Niko" Karo Jan Bonny Cinematography: David Slama Hajo Schomerus Julla Pohlmann Anthony Dod Mantle Axel Block VFX: Rolf Mütze Editing: André Bendocchi-Alves Barbara Hennings Gesa Jäger Yana Hönerbach Writing: Mika Kalwass Stephan Brüggenthies Film Studies: Dr. Gundolf S. Freyermuth Dr. Ulrike Hanstein Natalie Lettenewitsch Production: Peter Herrmann Production Design: Uli Hanisch