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The idea for BELEAF is based on true, real facts and events and quickly showed me that this will not be a classic paranormal horror movie.
 
Many cooks spoil the broth, they often say, when you want too much of something. I disagree. Many incompetent cooks spoil the broth. Many different opinions, approaches, views, information, however, can help to make approaches bigger, more interesting and weightier.
 
Already in the preparation I quickly noticed that BELEAF will serve three main genres. That authenticity, zeitgeist, own notes, content, visuals and storytelling twists are necessary to bring an even more than 4.5 stars horror movie to life.
 
I have been thinking for a long time about whether I want too much when I plan to create something big, impressive, real. Do I want too much if I want to tell classic killers but also fantasy? When I want to show other sexualities, non-commercial life models and really real guys, people who could really be our neighbors?
 
Do I have to decide between the paranormal and the real world? Can I let the final girl with big breasts run for her life in the forest and be taken seriously as a storyteller at the same time? When dark corridors meet spherical futures, is it still scary enough for the mainstream viewer?

I thought back to movies that impressed me. Movies that are different. Filmmakers with guts. Actors who go beyond boundaries and want to go further than the written word. I've seen hundreds of horror films. From zero to ten stars. From independent to big production houses. I can't say if there's a recipe for success for me at shows.
 
When I am surprised, when I feel that there were filmmakers sitting together who believe in and fight for art, for their story, for the images in their minds and hearts. If that transports, then a film is great for me.
 
Therefore, I decided to trust and follow my feelings and to let all influences, inspirations and preferences flow in and develop.
 
BELEAF is a new film. It is a film about a stoner who believes in the paranormal and always felt that there is more to him. But BELEAF is also a film full of fear, uncertainty and doubt. Questions about life, questions about yourself. It is a slit throat and melancholic pain of separation. Love and brutality. Visually a highlight and emotionally a corset.

BELEAF is everything that has been going on in my head, every day, since my first own television set. BELEAF is the film in my head and it knows no boundaries. Fantasy should never have a limit.
 
To understand BELEAF, it is important to know the following references. It is elementary to get an impression of how we see BELEAF and how it should be seen by others.
 
BELEAF uses three main genres: ACTION, HORROR and COMEDY.
 
The humor is sleek, real and unfiltered. Controversial, stoned and visionary. Deliberately borderline and slightly insane. But most important is the authenticity. The language and thinking of today, without censorship.
 
The following titles have influenced BELEAF.
 
SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004) | (humor, acting, dialogues, self-irony)
SMILEY FACE (2007) | (Stonerism, acting, body language, the vibe in her head and feeling everything with her)
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS (2008) | (Stonerism, acting, dialogues)
THIS IS THE END (2013) | (humor, dialogues, energy)
ABSOLÉTUHLY ANYTHING (2005) | (humor)
ZOMBILAND (2009) | (Action, acting, camera, dialogues)
HOTT FUZZ (2007) | (humor, action, self-irony)
WHY HIM? (2016) | (humor, language, directness)
SPRING BREAKERS (2012) | (camera, light, dynamics, speed)

The action in the first part of the movie takes place almost the whole time in MATT's head and his thoughts. In his visions and his high, stoned state. Therefore, it can and may be over the top, because in some people's heads it is simply over the top. In the later course of time MATT, LIZ, PAUL and MYLO will be confronted with real fights, noticeable pain and heavy loss. DIE HARD meets MATRIX, meets INSEDIOUS, meets JASON VORHEES.
 
Horror, creepiness, spookiness and uncomfortable feelings can be communicated in so many ways. Open wounds, dripping blood, screams and pain, are served as well as the supernatural, unexplainable, extraordinary, psychoses, panic, mental horror. A mixture of classic, functional horror moments (jump scares, demonic nightmares and terror), but also futuristic insecurity, uncertainty, isolation and insignificance. BELEAF is in places very calm, quiet, clean. Sometimes nothing is so much more frightening than a chainsaw in the head. Sometimes the reflection, the mirror to oneself, is what scares us the most. Something we all push away. Sometimes it does not need big gestures or loud effects, but looks, breathes and an extraordinary, impressive cinematic realization.
 
MATT has visions, stoner visions of mysterious shapes, colors and meanings. Gentle impulses with burning heat. He throws himself into a world, his world, which is not understood or comprehensible by everyone. A world of escape, of answers, of calm. A world in which he feels comfortable - his thoughts. A world, however undiscovered. A challenge of letting go, of trust, of pain and loss. A challenge of growing.

We believe that a movie only becomes good if its story is good. Any story can be good if you can tell it well and excitingly. How you tell it and what you tell is as different as we humans are different. How we creative people are different. There is not that one way. The task is to create the most exciting, most entertaining way that you can only create yourself.
 
We want to tell the story from the perspective of a stoner. A mid-30s, creative, gay man and experience his world exactly as he experiences it. All those fabulously glorious thoughts. The paranoia and fear. The reality behind the façade of a free spirit without any borders.
 
But we also want to tell a story in which the viewer feels our love. Our heart's blood, our work. Feel us. Feel how much fun it is to dive down and let it happen. How beautiful it is to create something that starts to move. We want to move.
 
I think if an idea hits you hard, you stick with it and make it yours. Be yourself. Be brave and simply believe in what you are doing!

This is BELEAF.

Kay Becker was born in Potsdam in 1985 and grew up as a classic fringe child. Having moved several times between Berlin and Brandenburg, he decided to finish high school in Falkensee rather than emigrate to Switzerland with his family.

Since the age of 15, Kay has been working continuously on his professional career. After a few detours in front of the film and photo camera, he successfully completed his training as an event manager in 2009, followed by his editorial traineeship. The following years were peppered with editorial film and television experience as a producer. He worked on various projects, film sets and national and international film premieres.

With the founding of HIMHIMHER in 2013, Kay bundled everything his past taught him and helped him along the way. He produced dozens of online and offline spots for well-known brands (Mercedes-Benz, Ferrero, Audi, Netflix, Vattenfall, etc.), created online shows and directed a wide variety of projects.

In 2018, his feature documentary dream #nippoff came true and since then Kay worked on three scripts, develops reality shows and dreams himself to the beach by writing songs and poems on the side.

www.himhimher.com | www.nippoff.com

The idea for BELEAF is based on true, real facts and events and quickly showed me that this will not be a classic paranormal horror movie.
 
Many cooks spoil the broth, they often say, when you want too much of something. I disagree. Many incompetent cooks spoil the broth. Many different opinions, approaches, views, information, however, can help to make approaches bigger, more interesting and weightier.
 
Already in the preparation I quickly noticed that BELEAF will serve three main genres. That authenticity, zeitgeist, own notes, content, visuals and storytelling twists are necessary to bring an even more than 4.5 stars horror movie to life.
 
I have been thinking for a long time about whether I want too much when I plan to create something big, impressive, real. Do I want too much if I want to tell classic killers but also fantasy? When I want to show other sexualities, non-commercial life models and really real guys, people who could really be our neighbors?
 
Do I have to decide between the paranormal and the real world? Can I let the final girl with big breasts run for her life in the forest and be taken seriously as a storyteller at the same time? When dark corridors meet spherical futures, is it still scary enough for the mainstream viewer?

I thought back to movies that impressed me. Movies that are different. Filmmakers with guts. Actors who go beyond boundaries and want to go further than the written word. I've seen hundreds of horror films. From zero to ten stars. From independent to big production houses. I can't say if there's a recipe for success for me at shows.
 
When I am surprised, when I feel that there were filmmakers sitting together who believe in and fight for art, for their story, for the images in their minds and hearts. If that transports, then a film is great for me.
 
Therefore, I decided to trust and follow my feelings and to let all influences, inspirations and preferences flow in and develop.
 
BELEAF is a new film. It is a film about a stoner who believes in the paranormal and always felt that there is more to him. But BELEAF is also a film full of fear, uncertainty and doubt. Questions about life, questions about yourself. It is a slit throat and melancholic pain of separation. Love and brutality. Visually a highlight and emotionally a corset.

BELEAF is everything that has been going on in my head, every day, since my first own television set. BELEAF is the film in my head and it knows no boundaries. Fantasy should never have a limit.
 
To understand BELEAF, it is important to know the following references. It is elementary to get an impression of how we see BELEAF and how it should be seen by others.
 
BELEAF uses three main genres: ACTION, HORROR and COMEDY.
 
The humor is sleek, real and unfiltered. Controversial, stoned and visionary. Deliberately borderline and slightly insane. But most important is the authenticity. The language and thinking of today, without censorship.
 
The following titles have influenced BELEAF.
 
SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004) | (humor, acting, dialogues, self-irony)
SMILEY FACE (2007) | (Stonerism, acting, body language, the vibe in her head and feeling everything with her)
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS (2008) | (Stonerism, acting, dialogues)
THIS IS THE END (2013) | (humor, dialogues, energy)
ABSOLÉTUHLY ANYTHING (2005) | (humor)
ZOMBILAND (2009) | (Action, acting, camera, dialogues)
HOTT FUZZ (2007) | (humor, action, self-irony)
WHY HIM? (2016) | (humor, language, directness)
SPRING BREAKERS (2012) | (camera, light, dynamics, speed)

The action in the first part of the movie takes place almost the whole time in MATT's head and his thoughts. In his visions and his high, stoned state. Therefore, it can and may be over the top, because in some people's heads it is simply over the top. In the later course of time MATT, LIZ, PAUL and MYLO will be confronted with real fights, noticeable pain and heavy loss. DIE HARD meets MATRIX, meets INSEDIOUS, meets JASON VORHEES.
 
Horror, creepiness, spookiness and uncomfortable feelings can be communicated in so many ways. Open wounds, dripping blood, screams and pain, are served as well as the supernatural, unexplainable, extraordinary, psychoses, panic, mental horror. A mixture of classic, functional horror moments (jump scares, demonic nightmares and terror), but also futuristic insecurity, uncertainty, isolation and insignificance. BELEAF is in places very calm, quiet, clean. Sometimes nothing is so much more frightening than a chainsaw in the head. Sometimes the reflection, the mirror to oneself, is what scares us the most. Something we all push away. Sometimes it does not need big gestures or loud effects, but looks, breathes and an extraordinary, impressive cinematic realization.
 
MATT has visions, stoner visions of mysterious shapes, colors and meanings. Gentle impulses with burning heat. He throws himself into a world, his world, which is not understood or comprehensible by everyone. A world of escape, of answers, of calm. A world in which he feels comfortable - his thoughts. A world, however undiscovered. A challenge of letting go, of trust, of pain and loss. A challenge of growing.

We believe that a movie only becomes good if its story is good. Any story can be good if you can tell it well and excitingly. How you tell it and what you tell is as different as we humans are different. How we creative people are different. There is not that one way. The task is to create the most exciting, most entertaining way that you can only create yourself.
 
We want to tell the story from the perspective of a stoner. A mid-30s, creative, gay man and experience his world exactly as he experiences it. All those fabulously glorious thoughts. The paranoia and fear. The reality behind the façade of a free spirit without any borders.
 
But we also want to tell a story in which the viewer feels our love. Our heart's blood, our work. Feel us. Feel how much fun it is to dive down and let it happen. How beautiful it is to create something that starts to move. We want to move.
 
I think if an idea hits you hard, you stick with it and make it yours. Be yourself. Be brave and simply believe in what you are doing!

This is BELEAF.