‘The Bachelor’ follows Misha, a failed writer in recovery from drug addiction, who gathers his closest friends to a retreat on the outskirts of Berlin for his bachelor party. Over the course of the evening, he leads them through games, rituals, as well as a session of constellations in which all participants take on the roles of Misha’s close family members, in an attempt to achieve emotional resolution and free him of past traumas.  

It looks to present an allegory for filmmaking and the creative process through the lens of performance and psychoanalysis, as well as examine the limitations and paradoxes of male bonding and masculinity. As tensions rise, the characters are forced to question their belief systems, and challenge Misha’s ethos to making art, and the clash between theory and learned experience.

The project began in 2023 with the idea of centering a film around a bachelor party. While some themes and narratives were outlined early on, casting was the priority. The first year focused on the people that inhabited the film, who they were, and their relationship to each other and to Misha, as once that was established, they would know how to act wherever the film may lead.

Shooting began in spring of 2024 in Grünewald, with Jean-Michel as the first camera, and Eva Romero as the second: this was done to add to the documentary aesthetic the film was going for, as well as to ensure that all reactions were captured given the size of the cast. The wedding scenes were shot in Hungary in summer of 2024. The final scenes will be filmed in in May 2025, marking the end of production and the start of the editing process.