Andreas Dresen (born 16 August 1963) is a German film director.

His directing credits include Cloud 9, Summer in Berlin, Grill Point and Night Shapes.

From 1984-1986 he was a trainee at East Germany's DEFA Studio for Feature Films as an assistant director to Günter Reisch.

Between 1989-91 he studied directing at the Konrad Wolf College of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg and was a Master student in Günter Reisch's class at the Berlin Art Academy.

It had taken Dresen twelve years to get funding for the film, which ended up focussing on Gundermann as a spy for the East German secret service instead of his spokesmanship for East German grievances both before and after 1989, his innovative concepts of theater and performance, or his staunchly leftist political ideas that included alternative visions of globalization and democracy.