CORTEX

Leading German actor Moritz Bleibtreu made his directorial debut this spring with the psychological thriller CORTEX, produced by his own company Paloma Entertainment together with Warner Bros. Germany and Berlin-based Port au Prince Film & Kulturproduktion.

Based on Bleibtreu’s own screenplay, the film also sees him appearing in front of the camera as a 50-year-old man haunted by un­controlled phases of sleep and unable to recognize the difference between dreaming and reality. His wife’s affair with a small-time criminal marks the beginning of a disturbing chain of events, drastically changing the two men’s lives and resulting in a never-ending nightmare between reality and dream.