He moved to Berlin in 2000 and got an internship at the production company X-Filme. Subsequently, he worked as personal assistant to director Wolfgang Becker on the box office hit Good Bye, Lenin! (2003). At the end of 2003, Gerster enrolled at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie in Berlin, majoring in screenwriting and directing. During his studies, he completed several shorts and — together with Wolfgang Becker— co-wrote the script for Krankes Haus, which became part of the compilation film Deutschland 09 - 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation (2009). In 2010, he started working on his graduate project, the tragicomedy Oh Boy, that was premiered in 2012 at the Munich Film Festival. Lara is her first feature film and it won the Special Prize of the Jury and the Best Actress Award at Karlovy Vary IFF.
Seminci - Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid
