Director Daniel Theiler introduces his film TOP TOWN MEMORY, screening across the US via KINO! Germany Now! 2021 Discover New Talent, presented by the German Film Office, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut and German Films: http://bit.ly/kinotopdown.

Daniel Theiler is a German-Turkish visual artist, filmmaker, and architect. He graduated as a Meisterschüler of Nina Fischer in art and media from UdK Berlin. He also studied fine art at the Bauhaus University in Weimar; film, video, and new media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and architecture at TU Berlin, ETH Zurich, and the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. His filmography includes the shorts When Feathers Fly (2018) and Top Down Memory (2019).

In a time of uncertainty and new challenges for our film community, the German Film Office is pleased to offer a new opportunity for theaters across the United States to present a curated selection of new fllms from Germany. KINO! Germany NOW! enables art-house cinemas and film festivals to book recent films fresh from the international festival circuit for both virtual and in-person screenings.