Biography
Till Cöster was born in Hamburg in 1982. After studying German language and literature and visual communication in Hamburg, he was accepted into the Munich University of Television and Film (HFF). As part of a DAAD scholarship, he spent a year abroad at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico City (majoring in documentary film). There he shot his first documentary film "Gone Missing - The Final Journey of Old John" (MX/DE 2014), about a European who went into the jungle of Guatemala six years earlier to die there. Among others, the feature-length film was shown at the Munich DOK.fest 2014.
In 2017, while still a HFF student, Cöster made the documentary "Super Friede Liebe Love" ("Super Peace Love Amour"), about the residents of the homeless shelter "Haus an der Kyreinstraße" in Munich, for the public broadcaster ZDF. The film was shown on ZDF in December 2017; in 2018 it was awarded the Karl Burchrucker Prize for publications that "deal in a special way with social and diaconal issues". Also in 2018, Cöster shot his HFF graduation film, the 45-minute fiction film "Ein Spiel mit drei Regeln I" (2018). In September 2018, "Super Friede Liebe Love" was released in German cinemas.