Nicola von Leffern is a director from Hamburg, living in Vienna. Her work focuses on female empowerment, state-of-the-art short films, music videos, commercials and documentaries. Jakob Carl Sauer is an Austrian director and cinematographer. His signature work are dreamy fiction films and cinematic documentaries.

Their documentary “To Close your Eyes and See Fire” premiered at ZFF on October 6th. It won the Max Ophüls Film Festival – Film Critics’ Award Best Documentary & Best Music in a Documentary Film.