My Blind Date with Life

My Blind Date with Life (Mein Blind Date mit dem Leben, 2017), directed by Marc Rothemund, is a German comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM, drawn from a true story. Saliya Kahawatte's vision deteriorates to near-zero just as he lands a shot at a coveted internship in a top Munich hotel. He decides to tell no one.

Kostja Ullmann plays Saliya without leaning on sympathy — the character runs on stubbornness, quick thinking and a network of quietly loyal friends, and that energy keeps the film from ever feeling like a tearjerker. The hotel setting gives the story its best moments: each shift is a fresh obstacle course that Saliya navigates through memory, sound and nerve. Director Rothemund keeps the tone calibrated — light enough to be funny, grounded enough to carry weight.

Stream My Blind Date with Life (2017) on iFILM for 111 minutes of warm, fact-based German cinema about getting somewhere on sheer will.