Actor (m/d) as "Marius" for the student short film "Perception Game"

Perception Game is a psychological short film psychodrama with a twist ending that deals with the themes of trauma, manipulation and subjective perception.

The focus is on Mira, a young woman who tries to reconstruct repressed memories after a tragic accident. As therapeutic sessions and fragmented flashbacks reveal her past, the boundaries between reality, memory and imagination become increasingly blurred.

The film deliberately plays with perspectives, uncertainty and gaslighting. Both at character level and in the staging. The aim is to draw the audience emotionally into Mira's world of perception and leave them in doubt as to what is true until the end.

📍 Shooting location: Rhine-Main area (Wiesbaden, Mainz, Frankfurt)
📅 Shooting period: 29.05.2026 - 05.06.2026

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Marius (28) Mira's friend and antagonist - charming, attractive and very convincing at first glance. He is manipulative and a master of gaslighting, alternating between closeness and insecurity. His behaviour fluctuates between affection and cold, destabilizing provocation to impulsiveness. A toxic, mysterious character who is simultaneously attractive and threatening.

• strong emotional expressiveness

• charismatic presence with a subtly threatening effect

• convincing play between charm, Control and inner coldness

• multi-faceted portrayal of manipulation, anger and emotional pressure

• ability to switch between vulnerable and dominant sidescamera experience an advantage, but not a must