Director of
DIE ANDERE SEITE
Mariko Minoguchi is half German, half Japanese and was born in Munich in 1988. She made her first short film at the age of 18. Her feature debut MEIN ENDE. DEIN ANFANG. premiered in 2019 at the Munich International Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival, and subsequently screened at festivals worldwide; the film received the German Film Critics' Award for Best Debut Film and Best Screenplay. Together with director Tim Fehlbaum (SEPTEMBER 5), she wrote the screenplay for his film TIDES (2021), which premiered at the Berlinale and reached number one on the US Netflix charts. In 2023, she directed the anthology series ZEIT VERBRECHEN: DEZEMBER, whose four episodes premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlinale in 2024 and were subsequently named German Crime Series of the Year; they received the German Actor Award for Best Ensemble as well as the German Television Award for Best Newcomer Actor. Her new feature film DIE ANDERE SEITE will be released in cinemas in fall 2026.
Films (selection): MEIN ENDE. DEIN ANFANG. (2019), ZEIT VERBRECHEN: DEZEMBER (2024), DIE ANDERE SEITE (2026)