A spoiled rich gay man is confronted with financial disaster that force him and his posse to leave their life of comfort at a luxury hotel in Rio and resort to a Favela, learning that true love is worth more than a billion bucks.

Queen of Rio

Ulli Lommel was an obsessive and productive filmmaker of the Fassbinder era. He died in December 2017 leaving behind his 64th film, an angry but not entirely gloomy satire about the state of his adopted country, the USA.

America: Land of the Freeks

Based on Ulli Lommel's biography "Factory Fame - Working with Warhol" (Belleville Publishing 2015), the story, written by Irene Höfer and Ulli Lommel, focuses on Warhol's Factory life in Manhattan during the late 70s and Ulli Lommel's and Joe Dallesandro's memories. It also interprets Warhol's belief (as confided on his 50th birthday to Ulli Lommel) that "Legends don't die, they're at the beach in Rio". Filmed between October, 2016 and November, 2017 on location in New York City, Hollywood, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, Bremen, Esslingen and Munich on 57 days of shooting.