GLOBAL FAMILY wins the Max Ophüls Prize in Saarbrücken.

  Melanie Andernach and Andreas Köhler's GLOBAL FAMILY produced by MADE IN GERMANY Filmproduction is the winner of the best documentary award, at the 39th Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize in Saarbrücken, Germany. GLOBAL FAMILY offers insight into the fate of the many people who have had to leave their homeland – for whatever reasons. They hope for a life together with their families, but have to live separated from one another, spread out all over the world. 

Composer Matthias Lindermayer won the prize for the best original score for a documentary for GERMANIA by director Lion Bischof, HFF Munich. In observing scenes, the film approaches the members of the student fraternity Corps Germania. "...A soundtrack that takes on the role of a director's commentary instead of a mere acknowledgement of emotion, yet leaves the viewer room for interpretation..." (39thMOPjury)

Now in its 39th edition, the FF Max Ophüls Prize is the most important film festival for emerging filmmakers in the German-speaking world. A list of all winners from this year's festival can be found here.

The LineUp of the german documentaries at the 39th FF Max Ophuels Prize

FAREWELL YELLOW SEA by Marita Stocker
FOLLOWING HABECK by Malte Blockhaus
GERMANIA by Lion Bischof
GLOBAL FAMILY by Melanie Andernach, Andreas Köhler
A GOD'S SHADOW by Bernhard Hetzenauer
KINDSEIN – Unadulterated by Lilian Nix
RUDEL by Simon Ostermann
SILENT COMRADE by Leonhard Hollmann
SUCH SWEET MEADOW by Jasmin Preiß
VILLAGE OF THE FORGETFUL by Madeleine Dallmeyer
EL MANGUITO by Laurentia Genske
INTO THE UNKNOWN by Inigo Westmeier
SWIMMING POOL AT THE GOLAN by Esther Zimmering
SCHMITTCHEN, OETSCH AND PRINCE RAMIGANI by Stefan Eisenburger, Hannah Dörr, Janina Jung, Carina Mergens (Maybe there is no English version of the 80 mins edition shown at the festival available right now. But there is a 60 min. version the 'directors cut' ©2015. Sadly Stefan Eisenburger met with an accident whilst swimming at the Canary Islands and died 2016. Hannah Dörr, Janina Jung, Carina Mergens completed the 80mins version entitled ERICH UND SCHMITTE – ENTSCHEIDEND IS AM BECKENRAND for German cinema.