Due COVID—19 pandemie sadly it was not possible to meet face to face, anyway German authors and producers continue(d) producing documentaries. Check out the new edition of the catalogue and meet them in online markets and festivals throughout the year. German producers get further informations 'zur Unterstützung bei internationealen Festivals & Märkten'  in German here .

Monday, May 9, 2022, 6 p.m. German documentaries representatives Sabine Pollmeier and Björn Jensen in an online meeting gave an overview of all events in the coming months in an online event. Download the used PowerPointFiles - German only - here.

 

European Film Market @ 73 BERLINALE, Februar 16—26, 2023
The 73nd Berlin International Film Festival will take place from February 16 to 20, 2023 as an in-person event.
The new edition of the german documentaries catalogue can be downloaded here.
68 BERLINALE 2018 | 69 BERLINALE 2019 | 70 BERLINALE 2020 | 71 BERLINALE 2021 | 72 BERLINALE 2022

HKTDC Hong Kong International Film and TV Market (FILMART) will return online from 14 to 17 March 2022. Registration is now open for exhibitors and buyers. The latest edition of FILMART Online 2021 showcased over 2,200 film and TV productions and brought together close to 8,000 participants from 81 countries and regions in the 4-day marketplace, some 2,600 online business-matching meetings were arranged for networking and business discussions. 
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen 
More informations ___ German only ____

CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, March 15—26, 2022
The deadlines for submitting a film to CPH:DOX 2023 is September 1 for films finished by that date, and December 1 for films finished after after September 1, 2022. [Regulations] All submitted films will be notified by mid-February 2023.
CPH:MARKET features the line-up of the five CPH:DOX competitions – DOX:AWARD, NEW:VISION AWARD, F:ACT AWARD, NORDIC:DOX AWARD, and NEXT:WAVE AWARD – as well all special programmes. The Market is primarily targeted to international TV buyers, sales agents, festivals, curators, journalists and distribution companies. CPH:FORUM taking place March 21-23, 2023 in Copenhagen and online. The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2022.
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen  
More information — German only —
__ Report2021 by Björn Jensen German only __
__ Report2022 by Björn Jensen German only __
__ CPH:DOX2022___CPH:DOX2021___CPH:D2OX2020___CPH:DOX2019___

iREP International Documentary Film Festival, (Lagos, Nigeria)
The festival has been attended by a delegation of German documentary filmmakers for many years.
Representative german documentaries: Bärbel Mauch bamauch@yahoo.de

MIPTV | MIPDOC   April 04—06, 2022, Cannes, France
The two largest and most important markets for the distribution of films take place in Cannes every year in spring.
Björn Jensen, Representative german documentaries
More information – for submission German only –
• Report of MIPTV2021 • Report of MIPTV2022 • von Björn Jensen.

Visions du Réel, International Film Festival Nyon, April 7-17, 2022
Visions du Réel is one of the only Swiss film festivals to present a majority of its films as world or international premieres. The Festival also has a film market with Industry activities, one of the most important in Europe and it may invite films that have not been selected for the official programme to be entered in the Visions du Réel Media Library to be viewed by buyers and professionals. 
From April 10–14, 2022 VdR–Industry will take place in Nyon, Switzerland. Pursuing our commitment to being one of the key places for meetings and exchanges within the creative documentaries industry.

Hot Docs Toronto,  April 28 - May 8, 2022, Toronto, Canada
The 29th edition Hot Docs Festival will screen films in cinemas across Toronto in accordance with public safety protocols, as well as offering selection of Festival films online on Hot Docs at Home to audiences across Canada. Hot Docs Industry LIVE: a selected number of passes have been reserved until April 10 for members of the German delegation, participating the festival with a dozen german documentaries.
This year again, there wil be a German delegation - more information —German only—.
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen  
REPORT of HotDocs22 by Björn Jensen __German only__
REPORT of HotDocs21 by Björn Jensen __German only__

NEWS of ___HotDocs22___HotDocs21_____HotDocs20_____HotDocs19___

CoPro 25 | Israeli Documentary Screen Market May 11 — 20, 2023 in Tel Aviv _
Submissions open now.
Early submission: December 9, 2022 – for films completed by November 2022
Final Deadline: January 12, 2023 – for films to be completed by April 1st 2023
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen, 
Further information____  German only  _____
• Report CoPro24_2022
• german documentaries NEWS 2018— CoPro20. >

30 Sheffield Documentary Filmfestival, June 14—19, 2023. Festival submissions will open in the Autumn 2022. Lightning Industry Passes for the celebratory 30th edition are now on sale. Book now to get the best rate of £180 (+VAT) ahead of the price changes at 17:00 BST on 30 September, 2022. The Industry Pass gives you access to the full festival programme of films, exhibitions, talks, panels, industry sessions and live pitches, networking events and parties; plus access to DocPlayer, our industry video on demand platform.
More information __ German only __
Keep updated by visiting the website of the festival.
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen   
Report german documentaries on SheffieldDocFest 2022 • _Sheffield Doc|Fest 2019_ •
NEWS on Sheffield DocFest 2022 • Sheffield DocFest 2021 • Sheffield DocFest 2020 • Sheffield Doc|Fest 2019 • Sheffield DocFest 2018 •

MIPChina, June 28 - July 11, 2022 online only for foreigners
Where the Global and Chinese Content meet. The most efficient way to business networking in Asia. Started in 2017 by the organisers of world’s global TV Content Markets MIPTV and MIPCOM, MIP China Partnership Forum is your mid-year opportunity to discover, buy, sell, finance or produce content in Asia. 
Contact: Marc Wessel: wessel@runze-casper.de
More information ___German only___

ECRANS NOIRS . The festival has been attended by a delegation of German documentary filmmakers for many years.
Representative german documentaries: Bärbel Mauch bamauch@yahoo.de

33 Sunny Side of the Doc, June 20—23, 2022
Submit your project to Sunny Side of the Doc’s pitching sessions and join one of the most impactful markets for documentary storytelling in La Rochelle from 20 to 23 June 2022.
Pitch Deadline was April 7, 2022. 
More information —German only—
The final report of
• 2022 - German only _ here .
• 2021 - German only - here .
• 2019 here and ____2019 Germany COUNTRY in FOCUS___

38 MIPCOM,  October 17—20, 2022 Cannes, Frankreich, [Hybrid Event] German Booth P-1.K19.
MIPCOM CANNES – the 38th International Co-Production & Content Market – is the world’s greatest gathering of television and media professionals and the most anticipated week on the global industry calendar. Each October, decision makers from over 100 countries converge on the world’s red-carpet capital of Cannes, France to compete for new series, source international production partnerships and set the development agenda for 2022 and beyond. You will find the German Booth at Level -1: P-1.K19.
For more information please download the PDF with informations here:
MIPCOM 2022 _ German only _

• Report MIPCOM 2020 by Björn Jensen • Report MIPCOM 2021 by Björn Jensen •
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen,

23 MEDIMED, The European Docs Market, Sitges, October 13—16, 2022
[Submission for projects starts May and ends June 30, 2022. Accreditation deadline September 15, 2022]
MEDIMED focuses mainly on Euro-Mediterranean creative projects, with documentary producers and directors developing their own creative projects. The participation of both (director and producer) at the Workshop and Pitching Forum is highly recommended. All professionals involved in the documentary industry are very welcome to register, whether as an independent producer with a project, a commissioning editor, financier, distributor, sales agent, digital platform, or fund. It is also possible for producers to register for attendance as an observer. The knowledge of English is a condition.
German representative Björn Jensen jensen@gingerfoot.de
More Information about MEDIMED__German only___

NEW PLAYERS PITCH:
MEDIMED DOC MARKET is willing to offer innovative opportunities to give market-entry chances for compelling projects from Low Production Capacity Countries and other excluded groups.
To structure this commitment a new activity was introduced last year.
NEW PLAYERS PITCH: This section pairs producers from under-represented regions and a selection of experienced independent producers. The aim is to build new professional networks that can be beneficial for both parties. The MEDIMED team is inviting professional producers to be part of the select group of European producers that will attend an online pitching-panel to know more about a selection of 12 projects in development from nine different countries, seeking international co-production on Tuesday 11 October from 10:00am to 1:30pm on Zoom. The session will be moderated by John Marshall and it will be less formal than the usual pitching formats. Only professional producers are invited to join and send an email to medimed@apimed.org before September 30, 2022. [Download infromation as PDF]

5th IDF West Lake Int. Documentary Festival, Hanzhou - China, October 22—25, 2021
IDF is an International Doc Festival organized by the China Academey of Arts. It takes place in Hanzhou, one of the allegedly most beautiful cities in China, about 1.5 hours by express train from Shanghai. It has a competition program (D20), a forum, a pitching event and a training program (IDF Academy). Strong focus on films with Chinese reference. The festival is open to all lengths and genres, including Doc series.
More information ___German only___
Representative german documentaries Björn Jensen, 

Gold Panda Sichuan International TV Festival, November 16—18 in Sichuan, China
Representative german documentaries Björn Jensen, more information German only. 

 

Asian Side of the Doc, will not take place 2021.
The Asian branch of the Sunny Side of the Doc Events. The Sunny Side Events belong to the most effective markets for international projects in the financing phase. With intensive networking opportunities, a pitching forum and sales booths for finished films. German Documentaries will be represented there with its own booth, where participating companies can hold meetings and display press material. We also organize a networking event. Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen

35 IDFA / Forum Amsterdam, November 9—20, 2022, Amsterdam, Niederlande.
Submissions are now open for IDFA 2022! For all important information and deadlines, read the overview below. The 35th edition of the festival takes place November 9–20, 2022.
GUEST MEETS GUEST hosted by german documentaries is sheduled for Sunday November 13, 2022.
NEWS IDFA 2022 browse here.
As the festival approaches, keep an eye on this page for a complete overview of the main industry venues at IDFA 2022.
Submission deadlines:
• May 5, 2022 – early deadline for films _
• June 28, 2022 – for all performances and interactive/immersive new media projects _
• July 14, 2022 – final deadline for films _
___submission___
___34 IDFA 2021___33 IDFA 2020___32 IDFA 2019___

World Congress of Science and Factual Producers, November 28 -December 1, 2022, Glasgow
The 30th anniversary Congress will be held in Glasgow, UK from November 28 to December 1. Congress '22 is generously supported by host sponsor BBC Studios Productions and will coincide with BBC's centenary.
Congress offers a full slate of dynamic and engaging sessions exploring the latest programming trends, industry intelligence and technology impacting the factual community. Taking full advantage of Glasgow, a city known for its rich history, stunning architecture and remarkable friendliness, Congress '22 will offer members exciting events to socialize and network after two years apart.

Submit to The Buzzies . Deadline September 20, 2022
Submissions are now open for The Buzzies, celebrating excellence in science and factual storytelling. There are awards for long, short and multiplatform formats, individual achievements, and innovation and impact. Winners will be announced during the 2022 event, which will take place November 28 to December 1 in Glasgow, UK. Each winner will receive a signature statue and registration for a future Congress. All who submit are eligible for a Congress '22 registration discount.

WCSFP is the very meeting place for 'Science and Factual' producers and broadcasters. Next to the SUNNY SIDE our most visited international event. It offers networking events, round-table talks and above all an excellent program with panels and workshops. It is held in a different country every year.
Representative german documentaries Björn Jensen.
Further informations — INFO 2  — German only — —
Report of 2019 — German only.
Report of 2021 — German only.

Is not included any more in our list of activities:   The focus of the festival has been shifted to China, the International Producers Day has been abolished, and the number of international participants has been continuously. That's the reason why, German Films & AG DOK / German Documentaries have no longer offered to organize a delegation to GZDOC. More information  —German only—.

#NYFF60 takes place at Film at Lincoln Center and in venues in all five boroughs

 

 

17 DAYS | 120 FILMS | 40 COUNTRIES

As part of its 60th anniversary celebration, the New York Film Festival will offer festival screenings in all five boroughs of New York City in partnership with Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (Staten Island), BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) (Brooklyn), the Bronx Museum of the Arts (Bronx), Maysles Documentary Center (Harlem), and the Museum of the Moving Image (Queens). Each venue will present a selection of films throughout the festival. NYFF60 tickets, including those for partner venue screenings, will go on sale to the General Public on September 19 at noon.

The CURRENTS slate includes 15 features and 44 short films [including 16 German productions or co-productions], representing 23 countries and complements the MAIN SLATE tracing a more complete picture of contemporary cinema with an emphasis on new and innovative forms and voices. The section presents a diverse offering of short and feature-length productions by filmmakers and artists working at the vanguard of the medium.

 LineUp of German documentary as well as hybrid productions and co-productions

• THE DAM | LE BARRAGE by Ali Cherri, 80min, coP: Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, WS: INDIESALES, [CURRENTS] North American Premiere · Q&As with Ali Cherri on Oct. 1 & 2


• HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH by Helena Wittmann, P: Fünferfilm, [CURRENTS] North American Premiere · Q&As with Helena Wittmann on Oct. 10 & 11


• IN THE BEGINNING, WOMAN WAS THE SUN by Sylvia Schedelbauer, 18min, Sylvia Schedelbauer, [CURRENTS SHORTS]


• RENATE by Ute Aurand, 6min [CURRENTS SHORTS]


• REWIND & PLAY by Alain Gomis, coP: Die Gesellschaft DGS, [CURRENTS] Q&As with Elisabeth Subrin and Alain Gomis on Oct. 8 & 10


• SLAUGHTERHOUSES OF MODERNITY | SCHLACHTHÄUSER DER MODERNE by Heinz Emigholz P: Filmgalerie 451, [CURRENTS] World Premiere · Q&As with Heinz Emigholz on Oct. 8 & 9

“Each CURRENTS lineup is an attempt to distill the spirit of innovation and playfulness in contemporary cinema, and this is, by design, the most expansive section of the festival,” said Dennis Lim, artistic director, New York Film Festival. “There are familiar names here—including multiple filmmakers who will be known to NYFF and FLC audiences—as well as some electrifying new talents, all testing and stretching the possibilities of the medium.”

Find the list of the total number of 16 German film productions and co-productions at #NYFF60 here.

Recomended 'just to remember' by the editor of german documentaries:
The Film at Lincoln Center podcast, with a special archival panel discussion on the late filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard from the 52nd New York Film Festival. Listen to a special panel, including The New Yorker’s Richard Brody, former MoMA curator Lawrence Kardish, Goodbye to Language star Héloise Godet, and critic Max Nelson, discuss Godard’s work and career with moderator Eric Kohn from IndieWire. 

Doclisboa Festival Internacional de Cinema, October 6-16, 2022 

 

 

celebrates its 20th anniversary, with a huge amount such as 15 German productions & co-productions in the programm. Two decades imagining a space of meeting and sharing between spectators and filmmakers that this year comes true in a special edition.

LineUp German productions and co-productions

• ARALKUM by Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko, 14min, P: HFF Munich, [DOC ALLIANCE]


• AURORA'S SUNRISE | ARSHALUYSI LUSABACY by Inna Sahakyan, 97min, P: Gebrüder Beetz, [FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON]


• BETTINA by Lutz Pehnert, 107min, P: solo:film GmbH, [HEART BEAT]


• CONGRESS OF IDLING PERSONS by Bassem Saad, 36min, [NEW VISIONS]


• CROSSING VOICES | XARAASI XANE by Bouba Touré, Raphael Grisey, 123min, coP: weltfilm GmbH, [RETROSPECTIVE THE COLONIAL VOICES]


• DANCING PINA by Florian Heinzen-Ziob, 112min, D: mindjazz pictures UG, [HEART BEAT]


• ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED | ELFRIEDE JELINEK – DIE SPRACHE VON DER LEINE LASSEN by Claudia Müller, 97min, coP: CALA Filmproduktion GmbH, D: sixpackfilm, [INTERNATIONALE COMPETITION]


• EUROPE by Philip Scheffner, 105min, P: pong film, [NEW VISIONS]


• FATIMA by Bruno Sukrow, 40min, [NEW VISIONS]


• A FLOWER IN THE MOUTH | UNE FLEUR A LA BOUCHE by Eric Baudlaire, 67min, [NEW VISIONS]


• MANGROVE SCHOOL by Filipa César, Sónia Vaz Borges, 35min, [RETROSPECTIVE THE COLONIAL QUESTION]


• PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK by Naam Heiman, 46min, P: KHM, [GREEN YEARS]


• SUN UNDER GROUND by Alex Gerbaulet, Mareike Bernien, 39min, [From the Earth to the Moon]


• SECRET FRIEND | AMIGO SECRETO by Maria Auguste Ramos, 122min, [FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON]


• UNTERROTENSTEIN by Sophia Schiller, 26min, [GREEN YEARS]

Find the full lineup at 20doclisboa22 here or browse full programm and download the programm as PDF...

... and THE MISSING FILMS OF ŽELIMIR ŽILNIK
In 2015, Doclisboa organised the first complete retrospective of Želimir Žilnik, a key figure of Yugoslav Black Wave. These four short films, made between 1973 and 1975 in West Germany, were considered lost and, therefore, weren’t shown. The miracle happened: they were recently rediscovered, as well as the material for his second feature, Freedom or Cartoons. Journal About Želimir Žilnik follows the efforts to finish this film fifty years later.
• FAREWELL | ABSCHIED 9min, © 1975, [NEW VISIONS]
• HOUSE ORDERS | HAUSORDNUNG 11min, ©1975 [NEW VISIONS]
• REQUEST | ANTRAG 9min, © 1974 [NEW VISIONS]
• UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE STATE | UNTER DENKMALSCHUTZ 11min, © 1975 [NEW VISIONS]
•••• JOURNAL ABOUT ZELIMIR ZILNIK by Janko Baljak, Serbia [NEW VISIONS] ©2021

...as well as
• REDEMPTION by Miguel Gomes, 27min [GREEN YEARS] © 2013
• ROSTOV-LUANDA by Abderrahmane Sissako, 60min © 1997

NEBULA

It is a group of activities, gatherings, opportunities and people for the advancement of the creation, production and dissemination of independent film. In 2022, Nebulae will take place on-site between the 11th and 16th October. Programm as PDF for download.

'European Documentary'

| ANGELS OF SINJAR | HOW TO SAVE A DEAD FRIEND |  MARIUPOLIS 2 | REPUBLIC OF SILENCE |

#efa2022

 

The European Film Academy reveals the titles of this year’s feature-length documentary films that have been recommended for a nomination for the 35 European Film Awards 2022. A committee consisting of a diverse range of invited European experts has chosen 13 films to be part of the Academy´s Documentary Film Selection 2022. The European Film Awards, honouring the greatest achievements in European cinema, will be presented on 10 December in Reykjavík. Find here more information on the four shortlisted german documentaries:

• ANGELS OF SINJAR by Hanna Polak, 109min, P: SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT, WS: Deckert Distribution , more...


• HOW TO SAVE A DEAD FRIEND by Marusya Syroechkovskaya, 103min, WS: LIGHTDOX, more...


• MARIUPOLIS 2 by Mantas Kvedaravicius, Hanna Bilobrova, 112min, WS: The Match Factory, more...


• REPUBLIC OF SILENCE by Diana El Jeiroudi, 183min, D: Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH,

In the coming weeks, the 4,400 members of the European Film Academy will start to watch the selected films and after the final announcement of all films vote on the nominations in the category ‘European Documentary’. Based on the votes of all members, the nominations will be made public on 8 November 2022. The members of the European Film Academy will then vote for the winners who will be announced at the European Film Awards ceremony in Reykjavík on 10 December 2022.

STAY TUNED
@EuroFilmAwards #efa2022

 

with 255 films and XR experiences from 55 countries in Leipzig venues, as well as Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022, because the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival could not be held in Kyiv this past March due to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Therefore, in a show of solidarity, DOK Leipzig will be providing a venue for the 19th edition of that festival.

LineUp German documentary productions and co-productions 65 DOK Leipzig:

• 5 DREAMERS A HORSE | 5 YERAZOGHNERY YEV DZIN by Vahagn Khachatryan, Aren Malakyan, 95min, coP: COLOR OF MAY, [Doc Alliance Award]


• BARRICADE – PICTURES OF A FOREST OCCUPATION | BARRIKADE – BILDER EINER WALDBESETZUNG by David Klammer, 83min, [Time to Act! Our House Is on Fire]BLUE SKY WHITE CLOUDS by Astrid Menzel, 91min, [German competition]


• BEING THAT BOY AGAIN | EINMAL WIEDER DIESER JUNGE SEIN by Jan Koester, 7min, [German competition short]


• BLUE SKY WHITE CLOUDS | BLAUER HIMMEL WEISSE WOLKEN [AT: FLAUSEN IM KOPF] by Astrid Menzel, 91min, [German competition]


• BORDER CONVERSATIONS by Jonathan Brunner, 30min, [German competition short]


• THE CORNER | DIE ECKE by Christa Pfafferott, 90min, P: SINN Filmp. [MDR special screening]


• DEAD SEA DYING by Rebecca Zehr, Katharina Rabl, 29min, coP: HFF Munich, [Time to Act! Our House Is on Fire]


• DEAD BIRDS FLYING HIGH | DIE TOTEN VÖGEL SIND OBEN by Sönje Storm, 83min, [German competition]


• THE HOMES WE CARRY by Brenda Akele Jorde, 85min, P: FILM FIVE, [German competition]


• HYSTERESIS by Robert Seidl, 5min, [Tanz in der Dunkelheit]


• I WILL TAKE YOUR SHADOW by Ayala Shoshana Guy, 19min, [German competition short]


• KAYU BESI by Max Sänger, Andrianus 'Oetjoe' Merdhi, 28min, [German competition short]


• MAKE OR BREAK by Falk Schuster, Mike Plitt, 8min [German competition short]


• MAMANI IN ElALTO by Heinz Emigholz*, 95min, P: Filmgalerie 451, [Camera Lucida]


• MARINE TARGET by Lukas Marxt, 10min, [German competition short]


• MISS GINKO (Chapter1) by Tang Han, 5min, [Animation Perspectives]


• MIYAMA, KYOTO PREFECTURE by Rainer Komers, 97min, [German competition]


• MODERAT – THE LAST DAYS by Alexandre Powelz, Elisa Mishto, 21min [Audience Award competition short]


• OASIS by Veneta Androva, 15min, [Animation Perspectives]


• ONE OF US NOW | ACHSHAV AT AHAT MISHELANU by Maya Steinberg, 30min [German competition short]


• ORO BLANCO by Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez, 23min, coP: HFF Munich, [Time to Act! Our House Is on Fire]


• PASTOR LOTHAR STOPS | KÖNIG HÖRT AUF by Tilman König, 85min, P: Neue Bioskop, [German competition]


• PINK MAO by Tang Han, 22min, [Animation Perspective]


• THE POETS WIFE | DIE FRAU DES DICHTERS by Helke Misselwitzn 94min, [Audience Award competition]


• REBELS | REBELLINNEN – Fotographie. Underground. DDR. by Pamela Meyer-Arndt, 88min, P: Medea Film Factory, D: SALZGEBER [Audience Award competition]


• SALAMONE, PAMPA by Heinz Emigholz*, 62min, P: Filmgalerie 451, [Camera Lucida]


• SHE CHEF | WANDERJAHRE by Gereon Wetzel, Melanie Liebheit, 100min, WS: MAGNETFILM, [German competition]


• SLAUGHTERHOUSES OF MODERNITY | SCHLACHTHÄUSER DER MODERNE by Heinz Emigholz*, 80min [German competition]


• SILENT LOVE by Marek Kozakiewicz, 72min, P: Tondowski Films, [Panorama]


• THREE WOMEN | DREI FRAUEN by Maxim Melnyk, 85min, P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, [Audience Award competition]


• UNCANNY ME by Katharina Pethke, 45min, P: Filmgarnitur, [German competition]


• YONII by Julius Gintaras Blum, 23min, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg [Audience Award competition short]

 Browse the full LineUp of the festival here.

*Architecture Film Art – Heinz Emigholz in Conversation
Heinz Emigholz’s oeuvre includes a number of cinematic investigations of architecture as a carrier of historiographical and biographical traces. Three of his latest works on the subject are being screened at DOK Leipzig 2022 – the occasion for a conversation between curator and publicist Ralph Eue and the media and film artist.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 16:30, Zeitgeschichtliches Forum

 

DOK Leipzig Retrospective to recognise female documentary filmmakers of the GDR

Films by Helke Misselwitz, Petra Tschörtner and Angelika Andrees headline the programme, which focuses on a neglected part of German film history.

The six shows of the retrospective include portraits of institutions, essays and observations of everyday life – including DEFA, university and TV productions dating from the founding of the German Democratic Republic in 1949 to the year the Wall fell.
Many of these films exhibit a personal approach, examining the experiences of individuals in the socialist system. They are devoted to such themes as work and art, childhood and motherhood. They explore the perspectives of women as well as the male-dominated world of the National People’s Army. Female directors also made films, however, on which the dictatorship of the Socialist Party (SED) left a distinct mark. The retrospective will therefore also present films that were made in support of the state as well as lesser-known and rediscovered works by women filmmakers.

LineUp of German documentaries by female directors made in the GDR, newly discovered and rediscovered works of GDR film history in the sections
• RETROSPECTIVE: The Female Documentarists of the GDR,
• DEFA Matinee: Angelika Andrees – The Empathetic Eye,
• Matinee Saxon State Archive: Socialist Women’s Images – The Female GDR.

• [AN INTERVIEW WITH INGEBORG TÖLKE] | INTERVIEW MIT INGEBORG TÖLKE]  7min, ©1963, [Matinee Sächsisches Staatsarchiv]


• ABLINGA by Dagnija Osite-Krüger 13min, ©1977, [Retrospective]


• BEHIND WINDOWS | HINTER DEN FENSTERN by Petra Tschörtner, 43min,©1984 [Retrospective]


• BECAUSE I’M FAT | WEIL ICH EIN DICKER BIN by Christiane Hein, 20min, ©1988 [Retrospective]


• THE BRIDGE OF CAPUTH by Eva Fritzsche, 15min, 1949 [Retrospective]


• DIALOGUE | DIALOG by Roza Berger-Fiedler, 27min, ©1978 [Retrospective]


• DIARY OF A GERMAN WOMAN | DU BIST MIN. EIN DEUTSCHES TAGEBUCH by Michael Englberger, Hans-Joachim Funk, Manfred Krause, Andrew Thorndike, Annelie Thorndike [Retrospective]


• DIARY OF A NARROW-GAUGE FILMMAKER | TAGEBUCH EINES SCHMALFILMERS, 10min, ©1975 [Matinee Sächsisches Staatsarchiv]


• FRIEDRICHSTADTPALAST by Angelika Andrees, 20min, ©1980 [DEFA Matine]


• HAVING BABIES? | KINDER KRIEGEN? by Sibylle Schönemann, 18min, ©1976 [Retrospective]


• HELP, I’M A WOMAN! | HILFE, ICH BIN EINE FRAU! by Edith Schneider, Joachim Schneider, 10min, ©1981, [Matinee Sächsisches Staatsarchiv]


• HOME | HEIM by Angelika Andrees, Petra Tschörtner, 26min, ©1978 [DEFA Matine]


• JACKI by Angelika Andrees, 30min, ©1976, [DEFA Matine]


• KOLLWITZ AND HER CHILDREN | DIE KOLLWITZ UND IHRE KINDER by Christa Mühl, 10min, ©1971 [Retrospective]


• LIGHTERS (DEFA-KINOBOX 1985/43) | FEUERZEUGE (DEFA-KINOBOX 1985/43) by Angelika Andrees [DEFA Matinee]


• LIVING MOOR | LEBENDES MOOR by Ingeborg Tölke, 11min, ©1962, [Matinee Sächsisches Staatsarchiv]


• ONCE I WAS A CHILD | ICH WAR EINMAL EIN KIND by Tamara Trampe, 17min, ©1986 [Retrospective]


• ONCE YOU’VE WORN OUT THE FIRST PAIR OF WODDEN SHOES… | WER EIN PAAR HOLZSCHUHE ABGELAUFEN HAT… by Gabriele Denecke, 33min, ©1976 [Retrospective]


• PEACE POSTERS | FRIEDENSPLAKATE (DEFA-KINOBOX 1983/21) by Angelika Andrees [DEFA Matine]


• PETRA’S ADVENTURE | PETRA’S ERLEBNIS by Ingrid Reschke, 6min, ©1956 [Retrospective]


• REMEMBERING MEANS LIVING | ERINNERN HEISST LEBEN by Roza Berger-Fiedler, 59min, 1987 [Retrospective]


• UNIMA FESTIVAL (DEFA-KINOBOX 1984/38) byAngelika Andrees, 4min [DEFA Matinee]


• VIVOS VOCO – I CALL THE LIVING | VIVOS VOCO – ICH RUFE DIE LEBENDEN by Dagnija Osite-Krüger, 22min, 1981, [Retrospective]


• WOMEN IN NEUROPIN | FRAUEN IN NEURUPIN by Karola Hattop, 29min, ©1972, [Retrospective]


• WOMEN OF OUR TIME | FRAUEN UNSERER ZEIT by Hanna EMUTH, 15min, ©1969 [Matinee Sächsisches Staatsarchiv]


• WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BOGEYMAN | WER FÜRCHTET SICH VORM SCHWARZEN MANN by Helke Misselwitz, 52min, ©1989 [Retrospective]


• WE AND OUR ENVIRONMENT | WIR UND UNSERE UMWELT by Hanna Emuth, 27min, ©1971, [Matinee Sächsisches Staatsarchiv]

 Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022

The DocuDays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival could not be held in Kyiv this past March 2022 due to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Therefore, in a show of solidarity with the Docudays UA team, DOK Leipzig is providing a venue for the 19th edition of that festival. This programme presents the four films selected for the DOCU/UKRAINE national competition along with the opening film BONEY PILES. Download the PDF with the documentaries here.

• BONEY PILES by Taras Tomenko, 80min


• INFINITY ACCORDING TO FLORIAN by Oleksly Radynski, 70min


• MOUNTAINS AND HEAVEN IN BETWEEN by Dmytro Hreshko, 70min


• PLAI. A MOUNTAIN PATH by Eva Dzhyshyashvill, 75min


• PRYVOZ by Eva Neymann, 72min

 

 

 

DOK Industry .

Every year, about 1,600 professional guests from more than 80 countries come to Leipzig to participate in over 50 events under the umbrella of DOK Industry. DOK Industry starts October 13 with Industry first timer tour as a ZoomEvent.

DOK Co-Pro Market
The 18 DOK Co-Pro Market is taking place October 17–18, 2022 in Leipzig, featuring 34 international documentary projects from 32 countries – including 5 from Germany – in development and matches project holders with new partners for co-production, financing and distribution in two jam-packed days in October.
Download the press release DOK Co-Pro Market 2022 project selection as PDF here.

Selected documentary projects with German authors and/or produktions companies involved are:

• BECOMING KIM by Susanne Kim, P: Neufilm, Germany


• BLUM by Jasmila Zbanic, P: Deblokada, Produkcija Živa, Razor Film, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany


• THE GOD MUST BE MISTAKEN by P: Nosorogi, Neue Celluloid Fabrik, Slovenia, Germany


• THE HAZING by Elyor Nematov, P: Einbahnstraße Productions, Uzbekistan, Germany


• HOW TO TALK TO LYDIA? by Rusudan Gaprindashvili, P: Black Market Film Production, Germany


• ON THE EDGE OF MY SHADOW by Ziad Kalthoum, P: Kaske Film, IDA Films, Odeh Films, Germany, France, Palestinian Territories


• SUPERPOSITION by Gesa Hollerbach, P: CORSO Film, Germany

Awards presented at the 2022 edition are:

• Saxon Award for the Best Documentary Project by a Female Director
  (along with 5,000 EUR)


• Current Time TV Award (along with 1,500 EUR)


• The EWA Diverse Voices Award (along with 1,000 euros and a year-long mentorship by DOK Leipzig)


• Unifrance Doc Award (along with subtitling services sponsored by TitraFilm and a Unifrance membership for its French producer)

DOK Preview Germany
• Feature-length documentaries
• Works-in-Progress
• with majority German participation  
DOK Preview Germany is a showcase for 6 to 7 German productions that will be in their final stages in October 2022 and would like to present themselves to international buyers, editors, world sales, festivals and distributors. With the project presentation and subsequent opportunity for networking and exchange, DOK Preview Germany wants to support the selected projects on their journey to international distribution.

RETROSPECTIVE 

DOK Leipzig Retrospective to recognise female documentary filmmakers
of the GDR – German Democratic Republic

Films by Helke Misselwitz, Petra Tschörtner and Angelika Andrees headline the programme The Female Documentarists of the GDR, which focuses on a neglected part of German film history.

The six shows of the retrospective include portraits of institutions, essays and observations of everyday life – including DEFA, university and TV productions dating from the founding of the GDR in 1949 to the year the Wall fell.
Many of these films exhibit a personal approach, examining the experiences of individuals in the socialist system. They are devoted to such themes as work and art, childhood and motherhood. They explore the perspectives of women as well as the male-dominated world of the National People’s Army. Female directors also made films, however, on which the dictatorship of the Socialist Party (SED) left a distinct mark. The retrospective will therefore also present films that were made in support of the state as well as lesser-known and rediscovered works by women filmmakers.
Discover the Retrospective films by downloading the PDF here, as well as the the filmlist of the Matinee Saxon State Archive: Socialist Women's Images – The Female GDR here.

Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022

The DocuDays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival could not be held in Kyiv this past March due to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Therefore, in a show of solidarity, DOK Leipzig will be providing a venue for the 19th edition of that festival.
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•  63 DOK Leipzig 2020 •
•  62 DOK Leipzig 2019 •
•  61 DOK Leipzig 2018 •

CALL FOR SOLIDARITY Iranian filmmakers are calling their friends, colleagues, the global film industry and the press to continue supporting the Iranian people’s fight for freedom. A letter from Shirin Neshat, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Pegah Ahangarani, Bahman Ghobadi, Abdolreza Kahani, Ali Abbasi, Kaveh Farnam, Farzad Pak, Ali Ahmadzadeh, because "...Your direct and public support offers hope to our youths.Reporting on the news of violence used against our people can prevent more violence and bloodshed."

BACK TO THE CINEMA WITH VERVE

 #FFHH22

30 FILMFEST HAMBURG Sept 29 – Oct 8, 2022

 

Every autumn, FILMFEST HAMBURG attracts more than 45,000 cinema fans. Over ten days, around 130 national and international feature films and documentaries are shown on 14 screens. The programme spectrum in ten sections ranges from cineastically sophisticated art house films to innovative mainstream cinema and a colourful film and event programme for the youngest cinema-goers. FILMFEST HAMBURG presents the first productions of young German and international filmmakers as well as the films of established directors. In addition, it brings television productions to the big screen before they are broadcast on TV.
As a platform for cultural exchange and dialogue, the majority of the films are presented by the filmmakers themselves in Hamburg. Numerous events make FILMFEST HAMBURG an important meeting place for cinema enthusiasts and the film industry alike. FILMFEST HAMBURG visits the city district cinemas – with cinema enthusiasm and exciting guests, the festival can be experienced in all corners of Hamburg. From Blankenese to Winterhude to Wandsbek – from west to east, from the centre to the north, FILMFEST UMS ECK presents unique festival cinema from 1 to 7 October. You can download a PDF version of the catalogue here.

The Industry Days will take place from Friday, 30 Septmeber to Friday, 7 October as part of FILMFEST HAMBURG. They are the hub for filmmakers and industry professionals to make contacts, exchange ideas and get inspired.

LineUp of German documentary productions and co-produktions #FFHH22

• AURORA'S SUNRISE | AURORA STAR WIDER WILLEN by Inna Sahakyan, 96min, P: Gebrüder Beetz,


• DOUGLAS SIRK – HOPE AS IN DESPAIR by Roman Hüben, 76min, coP: berlin producers,


• FIRST TIME [The Time for All but Sunset – VIOLET] + CINEMOON by Nicolaas Schmidt, 50min


• FCK 2020 – 2 AND A HALF YEARS WITH SCOOTER | FCK 2020 – ZWEIEINHALB JAHRE MIT SCOOTER by Cordula Kablitz-Post, 112min, P: avanti media fiction,


• LARS EIDINGER – TO BE OR NOT TO BE | LARS EIDINGER – SEIN ODER NICHT SEIN by Reiner Holzemer, 93min, P: Reiner Holzemer Film,


• ONE IN A MILLION by Joya Thome, 84min, P: Flare Film,


• REEPERBAHN SPEZIALEINHEIT FD65 by Georg Tschurtschenthaler, Carsten Gutschmidt, Ina Kessebohm, 90min, P: Gebrüder Beetz,

••• just to remember the developement of AURORA'S SUNRISE production
Sunny Side of the Doc Prize handed out at E-Meeting Point Vilnius 2021

E-Meeting Point Vilnius closed with an Awards Ceremony gathering more than 20 selected debut films from late development to post-production presented in the Work in Progress pitching session Coming Soon. Project’s holders had the opportunity to pitch their project & set individual meetings with a large audience of decision makers. Aurora’s Sunrise - a documentary animated film featuring a teenage girl’s dream to become a Hollywood star after surviving a genocide – wins two online passes for #SSD21 and will have the chance to be part of the Rough Cut – Central & Eastern Europe selection.

Patrizia Mancini: "Creating a perfect harmony between a gorgeous animation, intertwined with Hollywood and historical archives, the director Inna Sahakyan, delicately sketches the life and odyssey of Aurora, from Turkey to Hollywood, telling the story of the Armenian genocide. When #StorytellingMatters means to not forget our history and how important is to keep the memory and the legacy which comes with it. A new 'Valzer with Bashir' through the look of a talented woman filmmaker telling the story of a great woman”.

••• the editor also recommends

• HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH by Helena Wittmann, 106min, P: fünferfilm,

Save the dates:

• GUESTS MEET GUESTS hosted by german documentaries is sheduled for Sunday November 13, 2022 at Felix Merits, Keizersgracht 324.


• The annual IDFA press conference, in which the opening film and all competition films are revealed, will take place on Thursday October 20 at 10:30am in De Balie, Amsterdam. The press conference can also be attended online via this page.


• ...view the growing list of accredited guests attending IDFA 2022.

35 IDFA 2022, November 9–20 at Amsterdam

With THE HAMLET SYNDROME by Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski, winner of Roman Brodmann Prize as well as Grand Prix Semaine de la critique – 75 Locarno IFF,  on Wednesday evening September 28, 2022 IDFA's Fall Special is taking place in Pathé Tuschinski in Amsterdam with the Dutch premiere of the documentary. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Elwira Niewiera.

LineUp of German productions and co-productions [work in progress]

• AURORA'S SUNRISE | AURORA STAR WIDER WILLEN by Inna Sahakyan, 96min, coP: Gebrüder Beetz, Armenia, Germany, Lithuania [BEST OF FESTS]


• BLACK MAMBAS by Lena Karbe, 81min, P: Karbe Film, WS: auTLOOK FILMSALES, [BEST OF FESTS]


• THE HAMLET SYNDROM | SYNDROM HAMLETA by Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski, 86min, P: Kundschafter Filmproduktion, [BEST OF FESTS]


• HOW TO SAVE A DEAD FRIEND by Marusya Syroechkovskaya, 103min, WS: LIGHTDOX , [BEST OF FESTS]


• MIDWIVES by Hnin Ei Hlaing, 92min,  coP: AMA FILM, WS: dogwoof, [BEST OF FESTS]


• THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION by Sergei Loznitsa, 110min, Germany, Netherlands, P: LOOKSfilm , [MASTERS]


• THE RIVER IS NOT A BORDER by Alassane Diago, 105min, coP: ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions, [BEST OF FESTS]


• SILENT LOVE by Marek Kozakiewicz, 73min, coP: Tondowski Films,   [BEST OF FESTS]


• A SOUND OF MY OWN by Rebecca Zehr, 53min, P: HFF Munich, [BEST OF FESTS]

Meet producers, sales agents and directors from Germany among others:

Arne Birkenstock [Fruitmarket Kultur und Medien GmbH]
Antje Boehmer, Neke Huff [Docdays Productions]
Lina Dinkla [gmfilms]
Anja Dzierks, Stefan Kloos [Rise and Shine World Sales]
Georg Gruber [MAGNETFILM - World Sales]
Michael Höffer [GMfilms]
Lena Karbe [Karbe Film GmbH]
Katharina Pethke [director of ©2022 Uncanny Me, ©2021 Everyman and I, ©2019 Elsa In-Between, ©2011 Louisa, ©2009 Burning within]

This year marks the 35th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, with a trend-setting program of films, talks, performances, and interactive and immersive projects throughout the town. For professionals, markets and talks program will return in full swing, with plenty of goodies to be announced in the lead-up to the festival. Klick herefor KEY-DATES.

As the festival approaches, keep an eye on this page for a complete overview of the main industry venues at IDFA's 2022 website here.

IDFA's markets

IDFA hosts a dynamic marketplace that caters to filmmakers, producers, and industry professionals throughout the full life cycle of documentary film. For three decades, our array of market services has a proven track record in the international documentary industry, whether you are looking to form new partnerships, initiate dialogue, find financial support, meet distribution partners, or gain knowledge about the current documentary climate. Get an overview of the various market activities to find the one that best suits your needs here.

DOCS FOR SALE
The upcoming edition of Docs for Sale takes place Friday, November 11 to Wednesday, November 16, 2022.
Docs for Sale facilitates the sales and distribution of high-end documentary films, providing one-on-one meetings, bespoke services, and strategic know-how for IDFA-selected films as well as other outstanding titles on today's market. Over the years, it has grown into one of the world’s premier markets and distribution incubators for documentary cinema, welcoming artistic documentary films from all over the world. Please note the submission deadline is September 8, 2022.
The market is open to films that target cinema, television, and online audiences, facilitating one-on-one meetings between film teams and buyers, festival programmers, sales agents, and distributors, in addition to offering bespoke services for films looking to maximize their launch and exposure at IDFA. Now housed under the same roof as IDFA Forum, in Amsterdam's Felix Meritis, Docs for Sale has become the integral final stop for films looking for distribution.

IDFA FORUM takes place from Saturday, November 12 to Wednesday, November 16.
• Submission open: June 13
• Submission deadline: August 1, 23:59 CEST
• Accreditation opens: July 1
• Observer accreditation deadline: October 1
• Producers Connection presentations: Saturday, November 12
• Producers Connection meetings: Sunday, November 13 to Tuesday, November 15
• Rough Cut Presentations: Sunday, November 13
• Forum Pitch presentations: Sunday, November 13 to Tuesday, November 15
• IDFA DocLab Forum presentations: Monday, November 14 to Tuesday, November 15
• IDFA Forum & IDFA DocLab Forum meetings: Monday, November 14 to Wednesday, November 16

IDFA DocLab Forum takes place November 14-16, 2022.
• Project submissions open: June 13
• Project submissions deadline: August 1
• Presentations & Pitches: November 14-15 (mornings)
• One-on-one meetings: November 14-16

IDFA PROGRAM SECTIONS
are a testament to the evolving world of documentary film. From emerging art forms to established cinematic traditions, our slate of competitions and non-competitive sections offer something for every filmmaker and film lover.

• International Competition
  The best of the art. Singular films that are artistically confident, well-rounded, and universally relevant. An international jury of five jurors will award the best film as well as other films that champion the craft and innovation of filmmaking.


• Envision Competition
  With stylistic integrity and courage, these films traverse our current reality, offering visions of a documentary art form that can, might, and will be. An international jury of five jurors will award the best film as well as other films that champion the craft and innovation of filmmaking.


• IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction
  A testament to the power of exceptional non-fiction storytelling across media and technologies, the selected works for the IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction reveal the full spectrum of immersive art. An international jury of three jurors will award the best project in addition to handing out a special jury award.


• IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
  The selected projects in the IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling illustrate all the different ways to create stories in new ways to innovate and re-imagine the potential of interactive storytelling, often moving between the digital and the physical. An international jury of three jurors will award the best project in addition to handing out a special jury award.


• IDFA Competition for Short Documentary
  The IDFA Competition for Short Documentary has titles that showcase a healthy boom for the short film form. A mosaic of styles and themes defines this selection, exploring everything a short documentary can be. An international jury of three jurors will award the best film.


• IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary
  The IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary (formerly the IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs) presents a world-class offering of documentary films for audiences aged eight to thirteen. An international jury of three jurors will award the best film.


• Luminous
  The premiere-only section’s lineup includes a wide range of styles and formalist approaches, from observational to personal to experimental.


• Frontlight
  The premiere-only section take an artistic approach to exploring the urgent issues of our time.


• IDFA on Stage
  The IDFA on Stage selection presents a boundary-breaking program of live cinema events—bridging film, new media, and the performing arts.


• IDFA DocLab Spotlight
  Documentary art across disciplines, presenting emerging media works and research projects by masters and new talents.


• Paradocs
  Pushing the limits of the documentary form. A showcase of the year’s best experimental documentary art.


• MASTERS 
  The latest films by today’s auteurs of documentary cinema, whose renowned names and careers never disappoint.


• BEST OF FESTS
  Prize-winners, public favorites, and high-profile titles from the international festival circuit.


• Top 10
  Ten films selected by IDFA’s Guest of Honor, from influential masterpieces to hidden documentary gems.


• Focus Programs
  A selection of new and canonical films curated around a thematic point of focus.

DOCS FOR SALE CATALOGUE 2022 [WORK IN PROGRESS]
including German productions and co-productions such as:

• HOW TO SAVE A DEAD FRIEND by Marusya Syroechkovskaya, 103min, Sweden, France, Norway, Germany, 103 min, WS: LIGHTDOX


• LOVING HIGHSMITH by Eva Vitija, 83min, P: Ensemble Film, Lichblick Film, D: Salzgeber & Co. Medien Berlin, WS: auTLOOK FILMSALES,

as single page
• IDFA 2022
• IDFA 2021
• IDFA 2020
• IDFA 2019
• IDFA 2018
• IDFA 2017

 BEST DOCUMENTARY — GERMAN FILM AWARD

 goes to  Antonia Kilian, Guevara Namer, Frank Müller for THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER.

 Berlin, June 24, 2022 award ceremony

 

 The three nominees Best Documentary are:
• Antonia Kilian, Guevara Namer, Frank Müller with THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER by Antonia Kilian 
• Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken with WE ARE ALL DETROIT – WHAT STAYS AND WHAT DISAPPEARS
• Marcel Lenz, Guido Schwab with WHO OWNS MY VILLAGE by Christoph Eder

• ...and nominated for best Sound Design is a.o. INSIDE THE UFFIZI .

Sandra Maischberger announcing the nominees:
• Michael Loeken, Ulrike Franke
• Antonia Kilian, Guevara Namer, Frank Müller
• Marcel Lenz, Guido Schwab

 

 

• THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER by Antonia Kilian, P: Frank Müller, Antonia Kilian, Doppelplusultra Filmproduktion, Guevara Namer – Pink Shadow Films


• WE ARE ALL DETROIT – WHAT STAY AND WHAT DISAPPEARS | WE ARE ALL DETROIT – VOM BLEIBEN UND VERSCHWINDEN by Michael Loeken, Ulrike Franke, 118min, P: Michael Loeken, Ulrike Franke,  Filmproduktion Loekenfranke.


• WHO OWNS MY VILLAGE | WEM GEHÖRT MEIN DORF by Christoph Eder, 96min, P: Marcel Lenz, Guido Schwab, ostlicht filmproduktion GmbH

and one of the nominees Best Sound Design are – Andreas Hildebrandt, Filipp Forberg, Matthias Lempert – for the documentary

• INSIDE THE UFFIZI | IN DEN UFFIZIEN by Corinna Belz, Enrique Sánchez Lansch, 96min P: Thomas Kufus, zero one film,

 A total number of 17 german documentaries have been shortlisted —VORAUSWAHL— for DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS 2022. The nominees have been announced May 12, 2022.

shortlisted #lola22 Deutscher Filmpreis Dokumentarfilm are:

GERMAN FILM AWARD DUCUMENTARY SHORTLIST

• THE CASE YOU by Alison Kuhn, 80min,  P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Luis Morat


• CHADDR – A RIVER BETWEEN US | CHADDR – UNTER UNS DER FLUSS by Minsu Park, 88min, P: Lena Karbe, Minsu Park, Karbe Film GmbH


• COURAGE by Aliaksei Paluyan, 90min, P: Jörn Möllenkamp, LPP Living Pictures Production GbR


• A GERMAN PARTY | EINE DEUTSCHE PARTEI by Simon Brückner, 110min, P: Hubertus Siegert, spicefilm GmbH .


• GENDERATION by Monika Treut, P: Monika Treut, Hyena Films e.K.


• I AM THE TIGRESS by Dino Osmanovic, Philipp Fussenegger, 80min, P: Philipp Fussenegger, Michael Steinwand, fffyeah gmbh.


• INSIDE THE UFFIZI | IN DEN UFFIZIEN by Corinna Belz, Enrique Sánchez Lansch, 96min P: Thomas Kufus, zero one film,


• LIFE ON TAPE | BILDER (M)EINER MUTTER by Melanie Lischker, 79min P: Maria Wischnewski, KOBERSTEIN FILM .


• NUCLEAR FOREVER | ATOMKRAFT FOREVER by Carsten Rau, 94min P: Hauke Wendler, Carsten Rau, PIER 53 Filmproduktion


• THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER by Antonia Kilian, P: Frank Müller, Antonia Kilian, Doppelplusultra Filmproduktion, Pink Shadow Films


• STAND UP MY BEAUTY by Heidi Specogna, 110min, P: Heino Deckert, Rolf Schmid, Ma.ja.de Filmproduktion, Fama Film.


• TACHELES – THE HEART OF THE MATTER | ENDLICH TACHELES by Jana Matthes, Andrea Schramm, 104min, P: Gunter Hanfgarn, Jana Matthes, Andrea Schramm, HANFGARN & UFER Filmproduktion GbR, Schramm Matthes Film .


• WE ARE ALL DETROIT – WHAT STAY AND WHAT DISAPPEARS | WE ARE ALL DETROIT – VOM BLEIBEN UND VERSCHWINDEN by Michael Loeken, Ulrike Franke, 118min, P:Michael Loeken, Ulrike Franke,  Filmproduktion Loekenfranke.


• WHO OWNS MY VILLAGE | WEM GEHÖRT MEIN DORF by Christoph Eder, 96min, P: Marcel Lenz, Guido Schwab, ostlicht filmproduktion GmbH


• ZUHUR'S DAUGHTERS | ZUHURS TÖCHTER by Laurentia Genske, Robin Humboldt, 89min, P: Erik Winker, Martin Roelly, Ümit Uludag, CORSO Film- und Fernsehproduktion

   • German Film Award | LOLA 2022
   • German Film Award | LOLA 2021
   • German Film Award | LOLA@Berlinale 2020
   • German Film Award | LOLA@Berlinale 2019
   • German Film Award | LOLA@Berlinale 2018

Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022

The DocuDays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival could not be held in Kyiv this past March 2022 due to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Therefore, in a show of solidarity with the Docudays UA team, DOK Leipzig is providing a venue for the 19th edition of that festival. This programme presents the four films selected for the DOCU/UKRAINE national competition along with the opening film BONEY PILES [image above and PDF with the loglines of all five films here] These works paint a nuanced portrait of the country, telling of property disputes in Kyiv and flea markets in Odesa, of first responders amid the pandemic in rural Transcarpathia, and also of the consequences of the war that has been going on in eastern Ukraine since 2014.

• BONEY PILES by Taras Tomenko, 80min


• INFINITY ACCORDING TO FLORIAN by Oleksly Radynski, 70min


• MOUNTAINS AND HEAVEN IN BETWEEN by Dmytro Hreshko, 70min


• PLAI. A MOUNTAIN PATH by Eva Dzhyshyashvill, 75min


• PRYVOZ by Eva Neymann, 72min

THE HAMLET SYNDROME

 Kundschafter Filmproduktion | BALAPOLIS sp.zo.o.

 

 IDFA's FALL SPECIAL Wedensday evening September 28, 2022.

With THE HAMLET SYNDROME by Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski, winner of Roman Brodmann Prize as well as Grand Prix Semaine de la critique – 75 Locarno IFF,  on Wednesday evening September 28, 2022 IDFA's Fall Special is taking place in Pathé Tuschinski in Amsterdam. IT's the Dutch premiere of the documentary. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Elwira Niewiera.

#lola22 DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS — German Film Award

with Marina Stepanska and Alisa Kovalenko live from Ukraine

Sandra Maischberger announced the award ceremony of BEST DOCUMENTARY #lola22 streaming two video from the Ukraine.

1. Wladimir Klitschko very much regrets that the circumstances are so bad, that he cannot be in Berlin to discuss the importance of documentaries with the filmmakers on site.


2. Marina Stepanska thanked for the donations from Germany, which were made on the basis of an initiative by AG DOK members, to which the German Film Academy, Producers' Association, German Academy for Television, Crew United and from Austria the interest group documentary dok. at, the Producers' Alliance The producers and the Academy of Austrian Film joined to support Ukrainian documentary filmmakers with protective vests and equipment in their work.
   Alisa Kovalenko, who many of us know from her documentary ALISA IN WARLAND premiering at IDFA 2015.

 Source FB: Alisa Kovalenko at work, May 27, 2022

ALISA IN WARLAND IDFA 2015 catalogue: Alisa is a 26-year-old student at the film academy in Kiev. Her life is pretty normal until the day that President Viktor Yanukovych refuses to sign the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. Suddenly, everything changes: protests erupt in the capital, with the inhabitants demanding the president’s resignation. Alisa witnesses the demonstrations and embarks on a trip through Ukraine in an attempt to understand the war. Her journey takes her to the east of the country, where she comes across demonstrations again, this time of a pro-Russian character. Along the way, she faces shootings, explosions and the searing consequences of the war for the people of her country. Very much against her will, Alisa is then personally caught up in the war when she is arrested by separatists for spying. The risks she is taking also jeopardize her romantic relationship with a French journalist. This candid self-portrait shows us a sensitive, concerned woman in search of answers. The direct, often handheld camerawork gives us an impression of Ukraine in the wake of the protests and of the tensions that arose among the various population groups. 

WHAT'S AT STAKE IN UKRAINE a Filmmaker's Conversation

—Industry Insights—
The EFM Podcast  published
March 11, 2022

 This podcast episode is a special edition dedicated to the current invasion of Ukraine. Tamara Tatishvili (Head of Training - MEDICI the Film Funding Journey) is moderating this episode and speaks with Julia Sinkevych (Producer, Ukraine), Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer (Producer, Germany), and Keti Machavariani (Producer/ Director, Georgia). They talk about the fact that the war in Ukraine did not start on 24 February, but eight years ago with the annexation of Crimea. We hear four women and their fear on the one hand and their will to stand up for peace on the other. Film and cinema have enormous power; those have to be used and supported in the right way. Because the misuse for propaganda purposes is a real a danger. In this time more than ever the film industry needs to stand together. Filmmakers have the tools to reach a big audience. The industry should endorse Ukrainian film projects from the past to achieve awareness and gather financial resources to support the fight for freedom in Ukraine.

Industry Insights – The EFM Podcast is presented by the European Film Market of the Berlinale.

The podcast is available on all major podcast platforms, e.g. Spotify or Apple Podcasts

UKRAINE FOCUS @ Sheffield DocFest, June 23—28 June, 2022

Sheffield DocFest in solidarity with Ukraine Password: Palianytsia launch a collaborative documentary programme with Docudays UA, which will launch the British Council and Ukrainian Institute's 'UK/Ukraine Season of Culture'. The focus will launch with the World Premiere of One Day in Ukraine, by media activist and filmmaking collective Babylon'13. This co-created film centres on a single day during the war in Ukraine, March 14 2022.

The Ukraine focus includes work across the Film programme, Alternate Realities exhibition, Industry programme and Talks & Sessions with:

• 4 feature documentaries in the Official Selection
  • FRAGILE MEMORY by Igor Ivanko, Ukraine, Slovakia
  • ONE DAY IN UKRAINE by Volodymyr Tykhyy, Ukraine, Poland
  • OUTSIDE by Olha Zhurba, Ukraine, Netherlands, Denmark
  • OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS by Kinodopomoga, Ukraine


• 4 feature documentaries from Docudays UA Official Competition
  Docudays UA is the leading international human rights documentary film festival in Ukraine. Prevented from taking place in Kyiv in March this year, due to the war, Docuday’s presents the four Ukrainian films in its Official Competition selection at Sheffield DocFest:
  • INFINITY ACCORDING TO FLORIAN by Oleksiy Radynski
  • MOUNTAINS AN HEAVEN IN BETWEEN by Dmytro Hreshko
  • PLAI. A MOUNTAIN PATH by Eva Dzhyshyashvili
  • PRYVOZ byEva Neymann


• Docudays curated screening with talk that contextualises Russia’s current military aggression against Ukraine, looking at how Ukrainian documentary filmmakers have experienced and comprehended the years since the Revolution of Dignity (Maidan), follows the screening of two films:
  • PEACE & TRANQUILITY by Myro Klochko 
  • BONEY PILES by Taras Tomenko


• VR, art and TikTok works in our Alternate Realities exhibition
  Alternate Realities exhibits and showcases innovative non-fiction and immersive documentary in all forms with a flagship exhibition at Sheffield’s Site Gallery and other works across the city.


• 5 projects in development selected for our MeetMarket
  • INTERCEPTED by Oksana Karpovych, Producers: Giacomo Nudi, Rocío Barba Fuentes, Ukraine/Canada
  • IVAN & MARTA A DAY BEFORE THE WAR by Sergey Bukovsky, Producer: Oksana Ivaniouk, Ukraine
  • SHUT THE FUCK UP! by Taisiia Kutuzova, Producers: Stephane Siohan, Olga Beskhmelnytsina, Ukraine/France
  • UP IN THE AIR by Oksana Syhareva, Producers: Oksana Syhareva, Nataliia Pogudina, Karla Stojakova, Ukraine/CzechRepublic


• 3 projects in Works-in-Progress in partnership with Ukrainian Institute
  • EXPEDITION 49 by Alisa Kovalenko, Producers: Stephane Siohan, Valery Kalmykov, Tomek Morawski, Ukraine/France/Poland
  • FRAGMENTS OF ICE by Maria Stoianova, Producers: Alina Gorlova, Maksym Nakonechnyi, Ukraine
  • IRON BUTTERFLIES by Roman Liubiy, Ukraine/Germany/France

This comprehensive programme is an expression of solidarity with Ukraine. It provides a powerful encounter with contemporary Ukrainian life – including the horrific reality of this war. It creates a space in which Ukrainian filmmakers and artists can continue to have their work seen, develop new projects, and keep Ukrainian culture alive.

MARIUPOLIS 2 by Mantas Kvedaravicius

Sadly, the Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius, who directed MARIUPOLIS ©2016, was captured and murdered by the Russian army in Mariupol in early April 2022. His fiancée, Hanna Bilobrova, who was with him at the time, was able to bring back the footage filmed there and edited it with Mantas' editor Dounia Sichov. The film is entitled MARIUPOLIS 2 and premiered May 19 at 75 FESTIVAL DE CANNES 2022
.

 Mariupolis 2: footage saved from the ravages of the war in Ukraine written by Tarik Khaldi

VIKTOR DOK.international, the main award of 37 DOK.fest Munich goes to the French production TRENCHES by Loup Bureau, who accompanied Ukrainian soldiers fighting Russia-backed separatists in the Donbass. He shows how the soldiers try to lead a reasonably normal everyday life between explosions and enemy attacks. The Berlin based company FILMS BOUTIQUE is in charge of World Sales of the awarded documentary.

TRENCHES by French director Loup Bureau

Photo © 2021 FILMS BOUTIQUE World Sales

VIKTOR DOK.international jury:
"For weeks, months, years they have been living in their trenches. Loup Bureau accompanied them there. This commitment alone is prize worthy. But TRENCHES is also a beautiful film: without any grandstanding, with a lot of respect for its protagonists and in a black and white that emphasizes the timelessness of war, Bureau documents life in the trenches, the daily shoveling and fastening, but also cooking, cutting hair, talking. The calmness that Bureau's pictures radiate is, of course, a deceptive one, which we – even as viewers – cannot forget for a second. At any time another attack can occur. And it takes place. The urgency of the film has increased immeasurably since its completion in 2021."

PUSHING BOUNDARIES by Lesia Kordonets, 102min

Foto: 2021 DSCHOINT VENTSCHR FILMPRODUKTION AG 

The Ukrainian director Lesia Kordonets receives the megaherz Student Award for PUSHING BOUNDARIES at the 37 DOK.fest Munich. The documentary follows five Ukrainian athletes preparing for the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro when suddenly Putin's Russia annexes the Crimea, where the Ukrainian team's new training center is located. But the athletes don't want to give up their dream, continue their work out in other places under the most adverse conditions and, despite everything, try to qualify for the next Paralympic Games.

Jury: "Lesia's athletes are everyday heroes who suddenly come up against sporting, political and existential limits and yet tirelessly give everything to achieve their goals. In the film, every story is told unobtrusively and at eye level. PUSHING BOUNDARIES, that means pushing boundaries, expanding boundaries. The sensitive editing pushes boundaries as well and shows us that there are no disabled people – only people whith handicap. We learn what it means when we play down wars as 'conflicts'. The documentary is also about addressing uncomfortable truths, which was important to us in our decision, but PUSHING BOUNDARIES is not only an important film in this respect."

The film was also awarded with Prix Zonta 2021 at Nyon, Visions du Réel, Nyon, Best Directing Documentary –Zürcher Filmpreis 2021, as well as Brave Rebels Award 2022 at Budapest International Documentary Film Festival.

The Roman Brodmann Prize was awarded for the first time April 28, at the Roman Brodmann Colloquium in Berlin, honoring an outstanding political-investigative documentary film, is endowed with €10,000,  and goes to the Polish/German co–production The Hamlet Syndrome depicting the young Ukrainian generation scarred by war and political breakthroughs.

THE HAMLET SYNDROME | DAS HAMLET-SYNDROM by Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski, 85min P: BALAPOLIS sp.zo.o., Kundschafter Filmprod, Neue Celluloid Fabrik

In view of Russia’s brutal war of aggression on Ukraine, the 37th DOK.fest München is showing five films that deal with its background: four current films from Ukraine as well as the opening film NAWALNY about Russia’s most important opposition figure Alexei Nawalny, which is running in the international competition.
Festival directors Daniel Sponsel and Adele Kohout: “The opening film comprehensively outlines that our expectation that stable democratic structures would be established in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet system did not come true. The idea of partnership oriented towards the economy and the market is also proving to be obsolete. The flourishing landscapes in the East are more or less reserved for the oligarchs, and the country under Putin remains trapped in the Soviet Union’s claims to world power. The brutal present follows its long shadow of the past, which we did not want to see for so long. The first casualties of any war are truth and humanity. The films from and about Ukraine in our programme impressively testify to how the weakest members of a society are affected.”

Online Talk : Ukraine : Filming in resistance.
THU 14.04 | 16:00-17:30pm | Online only visionsdureel.ch
Since 24 February, the war in Ukraine has also been conducted through the images that report on it or distort its reality. Visions du Réel wishes to offer a platform to young Ukrainian filmmakers and producers who are currently standing alongside their compatriots under the Russian bombs, to reflect and debate with them on the possibility of resisting the ongoing onslaught with images that document it. 

ICFR launches "Emergency Fund for Filmmakers" in Wake of Ukraine War.

The International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk has set up a special "Emergency Fund for Filmmakers" for film practitioners directly in danger due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. The Coalition and the Fund have been canvassing for funding and donations as soon as war broke out. In the past days, significant financial contributions have been pledged by Germany's key national and regional film funding bodies (100K EUR), by La Scam*, the Netherlands Film Fund, and by many individual donors.

The German funds include Filmförderungsanstalt FFA, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, HessenFilm und Medien, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MFG - Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, MV Filmförderung, nordmedia - Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen.

see also PR by IDFA .

The NGO Docudays and Docudays UA festival team has initiated a fund to support Ukrainian filmmakers who are bravely and daringly documenting the events of the war in Ukraine right now: recording war crimes, filming footage for the international media and for their future films which will later give the world a more in-depth perspective on the situation in our country. Darya Bassel, producer and festival representative is one of eight on the board with the German Filmmakers SUPPORT FILMMAKERS UKRAINE, as well as Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer.

• Patrick Frater [VARIETY]: Ukraine Filmmakers Unite to Send Everything From Bulletproof Vests to Power Banks to Those Documenting War.


• GERMAN FILMMAKERS [Produzentenverband, AG DOK, Deutsche Filmakademie, Deutsche Akademie für Fernsehen, crew united] support Ukrain Filmmakers with video channels such as:
  • • #BABYLON'13 •
  • • KINODOPPMONA •
  • • Olha Zhurba & Slava Tsvetkov •

• MARIUPOLIS by Mantas Kvedaravicius © 2016  Everyday life is defined by bomb threats in Mariupol, a city in the Ukraine, situated to the east of the Crimea and once populated by Greeks. It is a visually powerful homage to a city in crisis, dedicated to its poets and shoemakers. 
  April 3, 2022. While trying to leave Mariupol, the occupiers killed Mantas Kvedaravicius.


• THIS RAIN WILL NEVER STOP by Alina Gorlova ©2020
  Filmed in striking black-and-white, This Rain Will Never Stop observes the endless cycle of war and peace, in which we meet 20 year-old Andriy Suleyman. Fleeing the Syrian civil war, Andriy and his Kurdish family start a new life in a small town in Eastern Ukraine, only to be caught up in another military conflict. [CPH:DOX]*


• RODNYE - CLOSE RELATION by Vitaly Mansky ©2015
  Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family.


• PIPELINE by Vitaly Mansky ©2013
  Has not only connected but also inextricably merged
  'this' Russia with 'that' Europe.
  


• COURAGE by Aliaksei Paluyan @2021
  During the presidential elections in Belarus, three actors from an underground theatre in Minsk are caught up in the wake of mass protests. It draws them onto the open streets of Minsk to protest for freedom of speech and the long-awaited change of power. But the people's voice is brutally crushed by the regime's security apparatus. Members of the theatre group are arrested.


• COLOURS IN THE SNOW – BELARUSIAN WOMEN IN RESISTANCE by Juliane Tutein ©2021
  Belarus in December 2020. It has become quiet on the streets of Minsk, where just a few months ago thousands of demonstrators were protesting against the outcome of the presidential elections. Lukashenko used all the force he could muster against the demonstrators, and many of the participants are now in prison. In public, only the red-white-red colours symbolizes still that the resistance against the autocratic regime nevertheless continues.


• ANYA AND SERYOZHA by Ivette Löcker ©2018
  Anya and Seryozha, eighteen and nineteen years old, have been close friends since school. They live in Mariupol, an industrial city in southeastern Ukraine.


• SCHÖNBORN  by Maxim Melnyk © 2020
  Two villages with the same name: Schönborn. One located in Transcarpathia in Ukraine, the other one in Brandenburg in Germany. They are both struggling to find their identity, almost 30 years after the fall of communism in Germany and the founding of independent Ukraine.


• SUMMERWAR by Moritz Schulz © 2019
  The war has been going on for five years now, and there are many Ukrainians who want to do something for their country. The right-wing Azov Regiment offers training for citizen militias, partly through summer camps for thousands of children. We follow two of the star candidates.


• BOY OF WAR by Cyprien Clement-Delmas, Igor Kosenko ©2018
  "Why are you here? Are you mentally sick? Do you want to kill people?“ the Ukrainian military commander asks the 18-year-old recruit Artiom.


• THE LAST TAPE by Igor Kosenko, Cyprien Clement-Delmas ©2016
  As Artiom prepares to fight for the Ukrainian army Anatoly his 88-year-old grandfather and war veteran records their diminishing time together and questions his choice.


• LEARNING TO MILK A COW by Juliana Saragosa ©2016
  A 64min experimental documentary about my grandmother's personal experiences of being stolen from her family in Soviet Ukraine and taken to work for German farmers under National Socialism.


• POSTCARD FROM UKRAINE by Sieva Diamantakos ©2016
  From the suburbs of Donetsk and the separatists camps in Lugansk, to the block posts in Mariupol and Crimea, passing by the still occupied Maidan Square in Kiev, Postcards From Ukraine sheds light on the country’s new generations – their values, their dreams – and the class tensions in the biggest crisis between East and West since the collapse of Soviet Union.


• LANGES ECHO | LONG ECHO by Veronika Glasunowa, Lukasz Lakomy ©2017
  LONG ECHO – does it refer to the explosion not far from the town? Or to the time when people searched for a new idea for their country? Or is it rather the long echo of Soviet mentality that led to this bloody conflict? The film portrays the town Dobropolye, in Eastern Ukraine – 70 km from the border with the breakaway republics – and some of its people against the backdrop of the war. 


• KHAN'S FLESH by Georg Kussmann, Krystsina Savutsina ©2021
  ...Like a Dziga Vertov on Lexomil, Krystsina Savutsina’s camera captures a series of gestures, micro non-events and simultaneous rituals, like so many daily choreographies to which the inhabitants of this Belarusian village, from every generation, devote or submit themselves... [Emmanuel Chicon, Visions du Réel] 


• THE MYTH OF ODESSA by Inga Wolfram ©2017
  Odessa is a city of tradition and recommencement. Even the political dispute between Ukraine and Russia isn’t as present as somewhere else. Odessa is a multicultural microcosm since 225 years.


• DONBAS DAYS by Philipp Schaeffer © 2021
  A short portrait of a young man, who choses Ukraine as the destination for his year abroad so he can teach juggling to children who have been affected by war. Surrounded by trenches, he confesses that he feels more comfortable here than in Czech Republic because the people are so kind-hearted. With great sensitivity the film shows a search for meaning surrounded by gunfire.

• Are there still heroines in Putin’s Russia?
  FAITH HOPE LOVE by Katja Fedulova ©2017
  She finds three young, beautiful women, each fighting for their own vision of what their country should be. Their struggle offers a complex picture of modern Russian – full of dramatic, desperate, absurd and funny moments.


• WEATHERMAKER by Stanislaw Mucha ©2021
  The loneliest workplace in the world on a weather station on the edge of the Russian polar sea.


• MOSCOW – ART AND THE CITY by Inga Wolfram ©2020
  We introduce Moscow artists, designers and dancers to shed light on this latest chapter in the city’s art history. Moscow’s cultural scene dazzles these days with its splendid diversity.

 

• POLISH SOLO – HOW DEMOCRACY IS DISMANTELED by Andrzej Klamt ©2021
  The documentary analyses the new 'Polish Order' in its effects, with a special focus on Poland's conflict with the EU, the systematic dismantling of press freedom and women's rights in the country.

• ICE OF CHERNOBYL by Maryna Dymshyts ©2019
  Ice of Chernobyl is the treatise on the thrill of the forbidden: entering the restricted zone of a damaged nuclear power plant. 33 years after the disaster.?5 days and nights illegally in the restricted area, in Pripyat and on the Duga-1 antenna.?


• CHERNOBYL THE INVISIBLE THIEF by Christoph Boekel ©2006
  April 26th 1986. The day a nightmare scenario became horrific reality: the day reactor block 4 of the Chernobyl atomic power station exploded. The early summer heat, insufficient security measures and lack of knowledge and training exposed the emergency workers to extreme risk. One of them was the young artist Dmitrij Gutin. During the last days of his military service he was posted to the highly contaminated 30 km. zone around Chernobyl. He died just short of his 40th birthday, after many painful years of suffering the effects of radiation poisoning.

recomended Ukrainian films:

• THE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE by Iryna Tsilyk, 74min “War is when some people shoot. And other people shoot the people who shot first. When they start to shoot, mum wakes us up and we go to the corridor. And when they stop, we go back to sleep.” © 2020 [source 70 BERLINALE Generation 14plus, WS: CAT&Docs][CPH:DOX]*


• A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS by Simon Lereng Wilmont, 87min, ©2022, Tears turn to soap bubbles and hugs turn to fights in this award-winning film about an orphanage in eastern Ukraine. Eminently observed, and with unforgettable moments of hope.WS: RISE AND SHINE [CPH:DOX]*


• NOVOROSSIYA by Luca Gennari, Enrico Parenti, 64min, ©2022, takes us into the grey zone of war in Donetsk, where we meet an American communist and foreign fighter in the bitter conflict, alongside a heavy metal band and two elderly women in their eighth year living in a Soviet bunker. Life in the borderlands continues despite the bombings, but the future is as uncertain as ever. P: elliot films, Susanna Trojano [CPH:DOX]*


• MAIDAN by Sergei Loznitsa, The 2014 Ukrainian uprising depicted as a powerful historical fresco by director Sergei Loznitsa, a maestro of the contemporary and historical chronicle. Ukraine/Netherlands © 2014, 130 min [CPH:DOX]*


• OUTSIDE by Olha Zhurba, As a 13-year-old boy, he became the poster boy of the Ukrainian revolution. Now Roma is back on the streets with nothing in his pocket but a lighter and a knife. Can he get his life together before it’s too late? Ukraine, Denmark/Netherlands ©2022, 79 min  [CPH:DOX]*


• THE TREASURES OF CRIMES by Oeke Hoogendijk. A collection of historical artefacts from Ukraine is stranded in a museum in Amsterdam as Russia annexes Crimea. For to whom should they be returned? A deep dilemma turns courtroom drama. Netherlands © 2021, 82 min [CPH:DOX]*

[CPH:DOX]*: 'Before the full-scale Russian invasion, Ukraine was sadly underrepresented in Western media. We have selected a number of strong films offering a range of views on life in the independent state whose existence is now threatened by Putin and his army.'

 [#dokfest2022 _ 37 DOK.fest Munich]

• A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS by Simon Lereng Wilmont, 87min, DNK, SWE, FIN, UKR 2022, P: Cinephil, Final Cut for Real,
• DONBAS DAYS by Philipp Schaeffer, 16min, UKR, DE 2021, streetsfilm.
• NAWALNY by Daniel Roher, 98min, USA 2022, WS: Dogwoof
• PUSHIING BOUNDARIES by Lesia Kordonets, CH 2021, 102min, P: Dschoint Ventschr
• TRENCHES by Loup Bureau, FRA 2021, Loup Bureau, 85min, WS: Films Boutique

 

 

LETsDOK all across Germany September 12–18, 2022

The German nationwide documentary filmdays LETsDOK 2022, organized by the Association for the Promotion of Documentary Film Culture [Verein zur Förderung der Dokumentarfilmkultur] in Cologne and Partners all over Germany, take place for the third time and started as documentary day celebrating the 40th anniversary of the AG DOK, German Documentary Association in September 2020.
2022, the third edition of LETsDOK with more than 300 screenings and events of 129 different documentaries in 150 cinemas and locations.

LineUp german documentaries in the programm of LETsDOK 2022
Klick the German titles for the LETsDOK screeningdates, a soon as confirmed.

• 10 BILLION – WHAT WILL WE EAT TOMORROW? | 10 MILLIARDEN – WIE WERDEN WIR ALLE SATT? by Valentin Thurn, 100min, P: THURN FILM,


• 18 IN GERMANY | 18+ DEUTSCHLAND by Lukas Ratius, Philipp Majer, 90min, P: Bunkhouse Film,


• 80.000 SCHNITZELS | 80 000 SCHNITZEL by Hannah Schweier, 105min, P: Zum Goldenen Lamm,


• 972 BREAKDOWNS ON THE LANDWAY TO NEW YORK | 972 BREAKDOWNS AUF DEM LANDWEG NACH NEW YORK by Daniel von Rüdiger, 110min, D: DIE FILMAGENTINNEN GmbH,


• ALICE SCHWARZER by Sabine Derflinger, 136min, WS: filmdelights, Dates at LETsDOK .


• AND GENTLY FLOWS THE RHINE | UND RUHIG FLIESST DER RHEIN by Volker Klotzsch, Oliver Matthes, 104min, P: Rootfilms,


• ASK ME ANYTHING – A PERSONAL JOURNEY THROUGH GERMAN FILM HISTORY | DU KANNST MICH FRAGEN WAS DU WILLST – FRANZ SEITZ by Anni Seitz, 90min, P: Seitz GmbH Filmproduktion,


• THE BAREFOOT JAZZ TOUR | AUF TOUR Z'FUASS by Walter Steffen, 108min, P:Konzept+Dialog.Medien,


• BELLEVILLE – BELLE ET REBELLE by Daniela Abke, 98min, D: RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih e.K., Dates at LETsDOK .


• BETTINA by Lutz Pehnert, 107min, P: solo:film GmbH. Dates at LETsDOK .


• BORDERLAND | GRENZLAND by Andreas Voigt, 97min, WS: missingFILMs Acrivulis & Severin GbR,


• BREAD | BROT by Harald Friedl, WS: MAGNETFILM,


• BUT BEAUTIFUL by Erwin Wagenhofer, 116min, WS: The Match Factory GmbH, Dates at LETsDOK .


• BUTENLAND by Marc Pierschel, 82min, WS: mindjazz pictures UG,  Dates at LETsDOK .


• CABINETS OF WONDER | MEINE WUNDERKAMMERN by Susanne Kim. 80min, P: Neufilm,


• CAFE ZELIG | DAS ZELIG by Tanja Cummings, 96min, P: weltfilm GmbH,


• THE CASE OF JOHANNA LANGEFELD – THE FEMALE GUARD | DIE AUFSEHERIN – DER FALL JOHANNA LANGEFELD by Gerburg Rohde-Dahl, Wladek Jurkow, 90min [or 52min], WS: NEW DOCS.


• THE CASE YOU by Alison Kuhn, 80min, D: MindJazz, P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Dates at LETsDOK.


• CHAMPAGNE FOR THE EYES – POISON FOR THE REST | CHAMPAGNER FÜR DIE AUGEN - GIFT FÜR DEN REST by Klaus Lemke, 90min,


• CHANGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT THING by Christoph Fleischer, 75min, Dates at LETsDOK .


• COME WITH ME TO THE CINEMA – THE GREGORS | KOMM MIT MIR IN DAS CINEMA – DIE GREGORS by Alice Agneskirchner, 155min, D: RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih, 


• COURAGE by Aliaksei Paluyan, WS: RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES U.G., Dates at LETsDOK .


• COWS ON THE ROOF | KÜHE AUF DEM DACH by Aldo Gugolz, 82min, WS: First Hand Films, 


• DANCING ALONE | ALLEINE TANZEN by Biene Pilavci, 98min, P: Telekult,


• DANCING PINA by Florian Heinzen-Ziob, 111min, D: mindjazz pictures UG, Dates at LETsDOK .


• DRAGAN WENDE – WEST BERLIN by Lena Müller, Dragan von Petrovic, Vuk Maksimovic, 88min, Dates at LETsDOK .


• DREAM BOAT by Tristan Ferland Milewski, 90min, P: Gebrüder Beetz, D: RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih,


• EUROPA PASSAGE by Andrei Schwartz, 90min, Dates at LETsDOK .


• FACING DOWN UNDER by Chris Hartung, D: BUSCH Mediagroup, Dates at LETsDOK .


• FEMOCRAZY | DIE UNBEUGSAMEN by Torsten Körner, 99min, D: MAJESTIC Filmverleih, P: BROADVIEW TV GmbH,


• FOOTBALL UNDER COVER by Ayat Najafi, David Assmann, 86min, WS: Illumina Films, Dates at LETsDOK .


• THE FOREST MAKER | DER WALDMACHER by Volker Schlöndorff, 88min, P: Zero One, D: Weltkino Filmverleih,


• FRITZ BAUER'S LEGACY | FRITZ BAUERS ERBE – GERECHTIGKEIT VERJÄHRT NICHT by Sabine Lamby, Cornelia Partmann, Isabel Gathof, 98min, D: RealFiction, WS: MAGNETFILM,


• GARAGE PEOPLE | GARAGENVOLK by WS: RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES U.G., P: Tamtam Film GmbH , D: missingFILMs,


• A GERMAN PARTY | EINE DEUTSCHE PARTEI by Simon Brückner, 110min, D: Majestic Filmverleih GmbH


• GO HEAL YOURSELF | HEIL DICH DOCH SELBST by Yasmin C. Rams, 105min,


• HALDERN POP – VILLAGE WITH FESTIVAL | HALDERN POP – DORF MIT FESTIVAL by Monika Pirch, 85min


• HEAPS OF LOVE | EIN HAUFEN LIEBE by Alina Cyranek, 91min,


• THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES | DAS GEHEIME LEBEN DER BÄUME by Jörg Adolph, 96min, WS: GLOBAL SCREEN GmbH,


• HUNTER FROM ELSEWHERE – A Journey with Helen Britton by Elena Alvarez Lutz, 97min, P: ochobarcos / eightboats filmproductions e.K., Dates at LETsDOK.


• IN THE MAELSTROM OF WAR | DER SOG DES KRIEGES – EINE FAMILIENGESCHICHTE by Christoph Boekel, 90min, P: BAUM FILM,  COIN FILM,


• INTO THE ICE by Lars Henrik Ostenfeld, 85min, WS: RISE AND SHINE, Dates at LETsDOK.


• IT'S RAINING WOMEN [THE GLASS CEILING – WT] | DIE GLÄSERNE DECKE  by Mari Sopella, 90min, coP: Tondowski Films,


• THE LASTING FORMATION | HEIMATKUNDE by Christian Bäucker, 88min, P: 5rFilmproduktion,


• LONG ECHO | LANGES ECHO by Veronika Glasunowa, Lukasz Lakomy, 87min, P: COLOR OF MAY Imanov & Blondiau , D: JIP Film und Verleih GbR,


• LOOSERS AND WINNERS by Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken, 96min, P: filmproduktion loekenfranke,  Dates at LETsDOK,


• LOST IN FACE by Valentin Riedl, 84min, WS: NEW DOCS ,  Dates at LETsDOK


• LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH | LIEBE, D-MARK UND TOD by Cem Kaya, P: filmfaust GmbH & Film Five GmbH,


• THE MAN THEY CALLED FORREST GUMP ALEMAN | JONAS DEICHMANN – DAS LIMIT BIN NUR ICH by Markus Weinberg, Steffi Rostoski, 105min, P: ravir film, WS: RISE AND SHINE,


• MARIUPOLIS 2 by Mantas Kvedaravicius, 112min, WS: The Match Factory GmbH, Dates at LETsDOK,


• MEETING WITH A POET – MICHAEL KRÜGER | VERABREDUNG MIT EINEM DICHTER – MICHAEL KRÜGER by Frank Wierke, 91min,  D: RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih, P: if… Productions Film GmbH,


• MONOBLOC by Hauke Wendler, WS: Deckert Distribution GmbH, Dates at LETsDOK,


• THE MOON CONSPIRACY | DIE MONDVERSCHWÖRUNG by Thomas Frickel, 86min, P: HE-Filmproduktion,


• MY STRANGE HOMELAND | MEIN FREMDES LAND by Johannes Preuss, Marius Brüning, 94min, P: DOKblick Filmproduktion GbR, Dates at LETsDOK,


• NEPAL – SO CLOSE TO HEAVEN (series in two parts) | MAHENDRA HIGHWAY – QUER DURCH NEPAL by André Hörmann, 84min, D: SALZGEBER, Dates at LETsDOK.


• NAMSTE HIMALAYA by Anna Baranowski, Michael Moritz, 93min, D: mindjazz, Dates at LETsDOK. 


• NASIM by Ole Jacobs, Arne Büttner, 123min, P: ROSENPICTURES Filmproduktion GbR, Dates at LETsDOK.


• NOTHING, NOTHING AT ALL | FÜR NICHTS UND WIEDER NICHTS by Gisela Tuchtenhagen, Margot Neubert-Maric, 80min, P: Utbüxen Filmproduktion GbR.


• THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER by Antonia Kilian, 93min, WS: Syndicado Distribution, P: DOPPELPLUSULTRA Film und TV Produktion, Dates at LETsDOK


• PORNFLUENCER by Joscha Bongard, 74min, Dates at LETsDOK. D: SALZGEBER, Dates at LETsDOK.


• PROGRESS IN THE VALLEY OF THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW | FORTSCHRITT IM TAL DER AHNUNGSLOSEN by Florian Kunert, 67min,


• RADIANT GREEN FIELD | STRAHLEND GRÜNE WIESE by Sophie Hilbert, 26min, 


• RED CUNT – RECONSIDERING PERIODS by Toti Baches, 86min, P: Toti Baches, LUCA FILM, Dates at LETsDOK.


• THE RED RING | BORRELIOSE – ODYSEE EINES PATIENTEN by Joonas Berghäll, 88min, coP: Tondowski Films,


• RODNYE – CLOSE RELATION by Vitaly Mansky, 112min, WS: Deckert Distribution GmbH , Dates at LETsDOK.


• ROOF OF LEAVES | BLÄTTERDACH by Anna Caroline Arndt, 105min,


• SEASIDE SPECIAL by Jens Meurer, 91min, P: EGOLI TOSSEL FILM , Dates at LETsDOK,


• SILENT LOVE | STILLE LIEBE by Marek Kozakiewicz, 72min, coP: Tondowski Films,


• STARTING WITH FRAGMENTS by Robert Dobe, Omar Shalash, 81min, Dates at LETsDOK.


• STILLE WASSER | STILL WATERS by Kevin Koch, 29min, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH


• THE STRAIT GUYS by Rick Minnich, 99min, P: HANFGARN & UFER, Dates at LETsDOK,


• TOTAL THRASH – THE TEUTONIC STORY by Daniel Hofmann, 107min, D: mindjazz, Dates at LETsDOK,


• WALCHENSEE FOREVER by Janna Ji Wonders, 110min, WS: Deckert Distribution GmbH, Dates at LETsDOK. 


• WAS TUN by Michael Kranz, 73 or 50min, WS: Journeyman P: Sparkling Pictures GmbH & Co. KG, HFF Munich, D: FILMPERLEN. Dates at LETsDOK.


• WALTER KAUFMANN – WHAT A LIFE! | WALTER KAUFMANN – WELCH EIN LEBEN by Karin Kaper, Dirk Szuszies, 99min, P: Karin Kaper Film .


• WE ARE ALL DETROIT – WHAT STAYS AND WHAT DISAPPEARS | WE ARE ALL DETROIT – VOM BLEIBEN UND VERSCHWINDEN by Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken, 119min, P: Filmproduktion Loekenfranke, WS: NEW DOCS, D: RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih,


• THE WHALE AND THE RAVEN by Mirjam Leuze, 101min, D: NFB, Dates at LETsDOK.


• WHAT TO DO WITH ALL THIS LOVE | WOHIN MIT ALL DER LIEBE by Marita Stocker, 80min, P: Accentus Music


• WOOD – GAME-CHANGERS UNDERCOVER | WOOD – DER GERAUBTE WALD by Michaela Kirst, Monica Lazurean-Gorgan Ebba Sinzinger, 96min, WS: MAGNETFILM, D: filmdelights.


• WOODLAND | WOID by Verena Wagner, 41min, P: HFF Munich,


• WORKING WOMEN | ARBEITERINNEN | PRACUJCE KOBIETY by Julia Roesler, 72min, P: werkgruppe2 Filmprod.


• THE WORLD BEYOND SILENCE by Manuel Fenn, 119min, P: Sunday Filmproduktions GmbH , Dates at LETsDOK.


• YES WE CAN ... Agricultural Change NOW! | Und es geht doch... Agrarwende JETZT! by Bertram Verhaag, 101min, P: DENKmal-Film, Munich, [English version in progress]


• THE YOUNG KADYAS | DIE JUNGEN KADYAS by Yvonne Andrä, Eyal Davidovitch, 103min, P: 1meter60 Film,

YES WE CAN ... Agricultural Change NOW!

© 2022 DENKmal-Film Verhaag GmbH

producer of ©2014 THE FARMER AND HIS PRINCE [King Charles III now]  

 

 

 

LETsDOK all across Germany 2022

more German [version only] or international productions
[...https://letsdok.deor just not mentioned in the german documentaries catalogue]

• 700km Harz by Enno Seifried, 98min, P: Enno Seifried, Dates at LETsDOK.


• ABSCHIED UND ANKUNFT by Beate Kunath, 104min, Dates at LETsDOK.


• ALLES WANDELT SICH by Egon Bunne, 8min


• ALPENLAND by Robert Schabus, 88min, D: Filmladen Austria.


• AUF EINE TASSE KAFFE MIT DER STASI by Johanna Pohland, 90min,


• DER BAUER UND DER BOBO by Kurt Langbein, 96min, P: Langbein & Partner Media GmbH & Co KG, D Germany: 24 Bilder Film GmbH.


• BILDUNGSGANG – BILDUNG NEU DENKEN by Simon Marian Hoffmann, 96min,


• blick.berlin.dok 1+2 by Gerlinde Böhm, Gerd Conradt, Ortrud Rubelt, 2x60min von 5x60min, Dates at LETsDOK.


• BORN FOR KORN by Niclas Reed Middleton, Elmar Szücs, 78min


• CERRO RICO – THE SILVER MOUNTAIN by Armin Thalhammer, 30min, Dates at LETsDOK.


• A DANCING NOMAD by Simon Rauh, 75min, Dates at LETsDOK.


• DEMENZDOKU by Günter Roggenhofer, Thomas Bogner, 90min, [demenzdoku.de]


• DER ENTSCHLUSS by Nancy Brandt, Thomas Beckmann, 62min, P: Nancy Brandt Film,


• DER FALL ASSANGE: eine Chronik by Clara López Rubio & Juan Pancorbo, P: WDR / inselfilm produktion, __, Dates at LETsDOK.


• FIRE OF LOVE by Sarah Dosa, 93min, USA, Canada


• FRIDA KAHLO by Ali Ray, 90min,


• FOOD COOP by Tom Boothe, 97min, D: films for the earth,


• GIRL GANG by Susanne Regina Meures, 98min, Switzerland, WS: RISE AND SHINE


• HALLELUJAH: LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG by Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine, 115min, USA, D: Polyfilm,


• HOCH HINAUS HANNOVER by Bredero, Kröpcke und Ihme-Zentrum, 3 short documentaries, 18min, Dates at LETsDOK.


• HOMO COMMUNIS – WIR FÜR ALLE by Carmen Eckhardt, 97min, DVD,


• DAS LEBEN IST EIN TANGO by Catalina Florez Ibarra, 62min, Dates at LETsDOK.


• DAS LEICHENSCHAUHAUS | EL CUARTO DE LOS HUESOS by Marcela Zamora, 60min, Dates at LETsDOK.


• MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA | DER MANN MIT DER KAMERA by Dziga Vertov, 68min, Dates at LETsDOK. [presents urban life in Moscow and the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Odesa during the late-1920s]


• NOTHING IN THIS WORLD CAN TAKE THE PLACE OF PERSISTENCE by Silke Schönfeld, 24min, Dates at LETsDOK.


• QUERFELDEIN by Christoph Schuch, 79min


• RAULIENS REVIER by Alice Agneskirchner, 87min


• RITUAL DER SCHWARZEN SONNE by Gerd Roscher, 86min


• THE REASON | JUMP  | WARUM ICH EUCH NICHT IN DIE AUGEN SCHAUEN KANN – EIN AUTISTISCHER JUNGE ERKLÄRT SEINE WELT by Jerry Rothwell, 82min


• THE SANCTITY OF SPACE | DIE UNENDLICHE WEITER DES HIMMELS by Renan Ozturk, D: DCM,


• DER SCHNEELEOPARD | LA PANTHERE DES NEIGES by Marie Amiguet, Vincent Munier, 92min, D: Polyfilm,


• SCHAUPLATZ EBERTPLATZ by Heinrich Pachl, Christian Maiwurm, 44min, Dates at LETsDOK,


• A THOUSAND GIRLS LIKE ME by Sahra Mani, 76 or 52min, Dates at LETsDOK, WS: FIRST HAND FILMS.


• TÜRKENSTRASSE by Gerhard Ledebur, 28min


• UNRECHT UND WIDERSTAND – ROMANI ROSE UND DIE BÜRGERRECHTSBEWEGUNG by Peter Nestler, 113min,


• VERSCHIEDENE ARTEN DER LIEBE by Sarah Moll, 29min, Dates at LETsDOK.


• WIE WIR WOLLEN by Sara Dutch, 100min, Dates at LETsDOK.


• WARTEN AUF DIE WELT by Ralph Etter, Rouven Rech, 78min, C: Bauhaus Archiv, Dates at LETsDOK.


• YOU LOOK SO GERMAN by Nirit Ben-Josephm 55min, Dates at LETsDOK.


• YOUTH UNSTOPPABLE by Slater Jewell-Kemker, 88min, Dates at LETsDOK.


• ZEITENWENDE IN GIESING by Morgane Remter, 52min, Dates at LETsDOK.


• ZUR PERSON by Oguzhan Baran, 25min, Dates at LETsDOK.

 PRESS:

• Visit Berlin YESTERDAY - TODAY - TOMORROW .
  In Berlin, thirteen cinemas are bringing film contributions to LETsDOK to the big screen:
  ACUDkino, Aquarium, Brotfabrik, Bundesplatz Kino, City Kino Wedding, Intimes, KLICK Kino, Krokodil Kino, Lichtblick-Kino, Moviemento, Tilsiter Lichtspiele, Wohnzimmer-Kino, Wolf Kino.
  Download the PDF with the programme LETsDOK Berlin/Brandenburg with a total number of 38 screenings in 17 venues in 5 cities here.


• From 16.9.-18.9. there will also be a free documentary film workshop for 14-17 year olds at Moviemento, led by director Tanja Brzakovic. Download the PDF for the JUGENDLICHE – MORGEN here.

Trailer LETsDOK 2021.

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• LETsDOK 2022 •
• LETsDOK 2021 • D •

showcasing six German documentary productions and co-productions...

and THE HAMLET SYNDROME is the winner of Grand Prix Semaine de la critique.

 

 

 

 Over the course of its 75-year history, the Locarno Film Festival has become one of the most important film events in the world, in one of the most charming locations. Situated between the lake and the mountains, every summer the entire Swiss-Italian city, in the heart of Europe, turns into the capital of international cinema, bringing the most innovative visions to the screen. It’s eleven days of stars, new talents, professionals and, most importantly, the audience.

German documentary productions and co-productions:

• THE ART OF SILENCE | L'ART DU SILENCE by Maurizius Staerkle Drux, 81min, CH/DE, P: Beauvoir Films, Lichtblick Film, WS: Magnetfilm [Panorama Suisse]


• DOUGLAS SIRK – HOPE AS IN DESPAIR by Roman Hüben, 76min, P: berlin producers Media GmbH, [Homages]


• EVERYTHING ABOUT MARTIN SUTER. EVERYTHING BUT THE TRUTH. | ALLES ÜBER MARTIN SUTER. AUSSER DIE WAHRHEIT. by André Schäfer, 90min, P: Filmgerberei, Florianfilm, WS: DCM  [Piazza Grande]


• THE HAMLET SYNDROME | SYNDROM HAMLETA by Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski, 85min, POL/DE, P: Kundschafter Filmproduktion, Neue Celluloid Fabrik [Semaine de la critique]


• LOVING HIGHSMITH by Eva Vitija, 83min, CH/DE, P: Lichtblick Film , WS: auTLOOK FILMSALES, [Panorama Suisse]


• THE RIVER IS NOT A BORDER | MAAYO WONAA KEEROL | LE FLEUVE N'EST PAS UNE FRONTIÈRE by Alassane Diago, 105min, FR/SEN/DE, P: Les films Hatari, IndigoMood Films, L'Atelier Documentaire, ma.ja.de. [Semaine de la critique]
  
  

The Semaine de la critique is an independent section, created in 1990 by the Swiss Association of Film Journalists in partnership with the Locarno Film Festival. Every year, the Semaine de la critique showcases seven documentary features, all world or international premieres. The section promotes these innovative films whose themes and styles diverge from conventional trends. These are auteur films that strive to explore different realities, as well as push the boundaries of their audiovisual representation. They are bold, sometimes rough-edged works, always seeking to spark debate of our world and how it is perceived.  

PIAZZA GRANDE

 

 

 8,000 viewers a night, the Piazza Grande is both the Festival’s heart and its showcase. With its giant screen, one of the biggest in Europe, endowed with truly exceptional projection quality, the Piazza Grande is one of the finest open-air venues in the world. This magnificent and unique setting is where every night all the many and diverse festival audiences come together for a big cinematic event. The programming on the Piazza Grande offers prestigious screenings, most of them world, international or European premieres, introduced by the director and the cast.
The Piazza Grande audience also serves as the biggest jury on the planet, voting for the renowned “Prix du Public UBS” (Audience Award). In addition, there is the Variety Piazza Grande Award, chosen by a panel of film critics, and intended to assist the international career of a film in the selection.

Panorama Suisse showcases films that have enjoyed festival success, found an audience in cinemas or are currently unreleased. Film lovers from all over the world can thus discover contemporary Swiss productions at the Locarno Film Festival, through a specially curated section. A committee of representatives of the Solothurn Film Festival – Solothurner Filmtage, the Swiss Film Academy and SWISS FILMS is in charge of the selection.

Find the full programme of the 75th edition Locarno Film Festival, August 3–13, 2022 here and the description of all sections here.

as single page:
• 75 Locarno FF 2022 •

GERMAN DOCUMENTARY AWARD

 

• 2022 the shared main award goes to Maria Speth's MR BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS and Franz Böhm's DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN .


• The Audience Award goes to DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN by Franz Böhm.


• The Promotial Award by HAUS DES DOKUMENTARFILMS goes to Antonia Kilian's THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER.


• The Prize of the Norbert Daldrop Förderung für Kunst und Kultur goes to Ruth Rieser's INTERPRETATION OF REALITY – GEORG STEFAN TROLLER, an Austrian coproduction with the SWR.


• The Music Award SWR goes to Enrique Sánchez Lansch's A SYMPHONY OF NOISE – MATTHEW HERBERT'S REVOLUTION .
  

Prof. Dr. Kai Gniffke, Franz Böhm, Carl Bergengruen, Maria Speth

Video of the award ceremony, June 24, 2022

 

• The Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 goes to WERNER HERZOG .
  "...a great personality whose work inspires and inspires generations of filmmakers. For almost six decades now, he has taken his camera into parts of our world where no other director has dared to go, to tell stories in a way that no one else even considered. His films impressively demonstrate why Werner Herzog is regarded as one of the boldest and most visionary filmmakers of our time – a director whom both Milos Forman and Francois Truffaut described as 'the greatest living filmmaker'. On behalf of the SWR Doku Festival, I would like to congratulate Werner Herzog on receiving the Honorary Award of the German Documentary Award." CEO of SWR, Prof. Dr. Kai Gniffke says.

Wim Wenders presents the Ehrenpreis – Deutscher Dokumentarfilmpreis to 

WERNER HERZOG

Out of 100 submissions an independent jury, Prof. Regina Ziegler, Gero von Boehm, Prof. Aelrun Goette, Prof. Astrid Pellengahr and Prof. Bettina Reitz nominated twelve documentaries for the German Documentary Award as well as three documentaries for original score in a German documentary production. Interview with Prof. Regina Ziegler __German only__
 

The Nominees are:

• INTERPRETATION OF REALITY – GEORG STEFAN TROLLER | AUSLEGUNG DER WIRKLICHKEIT – GEORG TROLLER by Ruth Rieser [SWR/ORF]


• DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN by Franz Böhm, 89min, WS: MAGNETFILM GmbH


• HARALD NAEGELI – THE ZURICH SPRAYER | DER SPRAYER VON ZÜRICH – HARALD NAEGELI by Nathalie David, 97min, WS: PS Films Peter Spoerri 


• IN SEARCH OF MONSTERS | SLAHI UND SEINE FOLTERER by John Goetz, 87min, P: Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbH  [3sat, NDR/arte]


• MONOBLOC by Hauke Wendler, 90min, WS: Deckert Distribution, P: PIER 53 Filmproduktion


• MR BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS | HERR BACHMANN UND SEINE KLASSE by Maria Speth, 217min, WS: FILMS Boutique


• THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER by Antonia Kilian, 92min, WS: Syndicado Distribution,


• STORIES OF DADS | VÄTER UNSER by Sophie Linnenbaum


• WHO OWNS MY VILLAGE? | WEM GEHÖRT MEIN DORF? by Christoph Eder, 96min, P: ostlicht filmproduktion GmbH ,


• WIRECARD – DIE MILLIARDEN-LÜGE by Benji Bergmann, Jono Bergmann, 99min [RBB, NDR, SWR, BR, Sky Studios, ARTE]


• ZINDER by Aicha Macky, 85min, P: CORSO Film


• ZUHUR'S DAUGHTERS | ZUHURS TÖCHTER by Laurentia Genske, Robin Humboldt, 89min, P: CORSO Film
  
  

2022 the members of the jury Music Award SWR are Fola Dada, Rainer Homburg and CAMPINO aka Andreas Frege. __Interview German only___

• GLOBAL WAGNER | WAGNER, BAYREUTH UND DER REST DER WELT by Axel Brüggemann, 98min


• A SYMPHONY OF NOISE – MATTHEW HERBERT'S REVOLUTION by Enrique Sánchez Lansch, 93min


• ROSENSTOLZ: LIEBE IST ALLES by Tim Evers, 89min [MDR/ARD-Mediathek]

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• German Documentary Award 2022 •
• German Documentary Award 2020 •
• German Documentary Award 2019 •
• German Documentary Award 2018 •

ReConnect with Documentary:

• 135 films —including seven German Documentaries— 38 World Premieres, 22 International Premieres, 11 European Premieres including new works by Emma Davie, Werner Herzog, Rodrigo Reyes.


• 5 World Premieres, 6 International Premieres, 3 European Premieres in the Alternate Realities programme of technologically innovative non-fiction and immersive documentaries including new works by Jad Abumrad, Dries Depoorter and Rachel Briscoe.


• Headline talks from Guest Curator Asif Kapadia with editor Chris King; Brett Morgen (Moonage Daydream), Pratibha Parmar (My Name is Andrea) and David Olusoga: (StoryTrails).


• Key Broadcaster talks include the BBC Interview: with the renowned journalist, newsreader and presenter; Clive Myrie; the Channel 4 Interview: with Will Young who will be discussing the recent documentary Losing My Twin Rupert; and the ITV Interview: with the British Paralympian swimmer, Ellie Simmonds.


• 3 Live Pitches in the Industry programme: The Whickers Pitch, Channel 4 First Cut Pitch, and BBC Three Northern Docs Pitch. Works in Progress screenings, networking events and more.


• Memories Spotlight: Premiering of the French, English, Swiss, US-American co-production THE FIRE WITHIN: REQUIEM FOR KATIA AND MAURICE KRAFFT followed by a conversation with the director Werner Herzog, a pioneer of New German Cinema. 
  'Mt. Unzen, Kyushu, Japan. At 3:18pm, on June 3rd 1991, a pyroclastic flow – a cloud of superheated gases and particles – descended at over 100mph from the peak of the volcano, consuming everything in its path. It instantly killed Katia and Maurice Krafft, volcanologists and filmmakers from the Alsace region in France... The Kraffts left an archive of over 200 hours of footage, unprecedented in its spectacular and hypnotic beauty. Werner Herzog who had access to the entire archive, created a film that cannot be categorized. It is not a biography. It is a rather a requiem celebrating the legacy of Katia and Maurice Krafft.' source: AMR.  4K, 90mins, produced by Brian Leith Productions , Bonne Pioche Television, Titan Films, edited by Marco Capalbo, scored by Ernst Reijseger, written and narrated by Werner Herzog. Sales Agent/International Distribution: Jonathan Ford, Abacus Media Rights. 


• #StandWithUkraine: Ukraine focus: 'Password Palianytsia' as well as five Ukrainian projects in the MeetMarket project selection.


• The 17th edition of the pitching forum, the MeetMarket, is taking place on 27-28 of June 2022 with 35 international documentary projects in development or at production stage, to be pitched in one-to-one meetings to international and UK decision-makers and experts. The event will be staged in-person for the first time since 2019 and will move online in the days following the Festival.


• The Juries include BAFTA-winning filmmakers Emma Davie and Cherish Oteka, RTS-winning composer Nainita Desai and renowned lawyer and human rights advocate Philippe Sands, QC.
  — International Competition Jury: Emma Davie, Ike Nnaebue & Raymond Phathanavirangoon;
  — International First Feature Competition Jury: Roman Bondarchuk, Nainita Desai & Natasha Gadd;
  — International Short Film Competition Jury: Zeynep Güzel, Cherish Oteka & Saskia Wilson;
  — Tim Hetherington Award Jury: Elena Consentino, Akuol De Mabior & Philippe Sands;
  — Alternate Realities Award Jury: Dr Rob Eagle, Sherani Fernando & Irini Papadimitirou;
  — Youth Jury: Emma Morgan-Bennett, Esme Haddrill Selman, Hannah Jackson, Mie Murasa & Xaymaca Awoyungbo.
  Winners will be revealed during the Awards Ceremony at Sheffield City Hall's Memorial Hall on Tuesday 28 June.

LineUp of german documentaries @ 29 Sheffield DocFest

• DANCING PINA by Florian Heinzen-Ziob, 111min, P: Florian Heinzen-Ziob, Fontäne Film [Rhythms]


• GEAMAUNA by Matthäus Wörle, 30min, P: HFF Munich, [Unknown Natures]


• LADIES ONLY by Rebana Liz John, 79min, P: KHM – Academy of Media Arts Cologne, [Journeys]


• LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH | ASK, MARK VE ÖLÜM | LIEBE, D-MARK UND TOD by Cem Kaya, 98min, P: Filmfaust, Film Five  [Memories]


• MIDWIVES by Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing, 91min, WS: Dogwoof [People&Community]


• NO U-TURN by Ike Nnaebue, 94min, WS: Don Edkins, STEPS [Journeys]


• ONE IN A MILLION by Joya Thome, 84min, P: Flare Film, WS: Sydicado [International First Feature Competition]


• 1 KILO – 3 EUROS by Ani Mrelashvili, 16min, P: Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF [International Short Competition]
   
  
  

MeetMarket Projects with German participation:

• THE JOURNALIST AND THE JAILER by Adithya Sambamurthy, P: Alex Tondowski [Germany]
  Luna Watfa, a Syrian journalist living as a refugee in Germany, reports on the men who oversaw her detention and abuse, at the world’s first trial against members of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, for crimes against humanity.


• TIME HUNTER by Daniel Chein, Mark Mushiva, P: Daniel Chein, Mark Mushiva, David Felix Sutcliffe, [Namibia, Germany, USA]  
  A revolutionary agent is dispatched to steal technology from his colonial oppressors to use against them. Can he help his people without losing himself in the maze of the diaspora?

 

#StandWithUkraine

UKRAINE FOCUS @ Sheffield DocFest, June 23—28 June, 2022

Sheffield DocFest in solidarity with Ukraine Password: Palianytsia launch a collaborative documentary programme with Docudays UA, which will launch the British Council and Ukrainian Institute's 'UK/Ukraine Season of Culture'. The focus will launch with the World Premiere of One Day in Ukraine, by media activist and filmmaking collective Babylon'13. This co-created film centres on a single day during the war in Ukraine, March 14 2022.

The Ukraine focus includes work across the Film programme, Alternate Realities exhibition, Industry programme and Talks & Sessions with:

• 4 feature documentaries in the Official Selection
  • FRAGILE MEMORY by Igor Ivanko, Ukraine, Slovakia
  • ONE DAY IN UKRAINE by Volodymyr Tykhyy, Ukraine, Poland
  • OUTSIDE by Olha Zhurba, Ukraine, Netherlands, Denmark
  • OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS by Kinodopomoga, Ukraine


• 4 feature documentaries from Docudays UA Official Competition
  Docudays UA is the leading international human rights documentary film festival in Ukraine. Prevented from taking place in Kyiv in March this year, due to the war, Docuday’s presents the four Ukrainian films in its Official Competition selection at Sheffield DocFest:
  • INFINITY ACCORDING TO FLORIAN by Oleksiy Radynski
  • MOUNTAINS AN HEAVEN IN BETWEEN by Dmytro Hreshko
  • PLAI. A MOUNTAIN PATH by Eva Dzhyshyashvili
  • PRYVOZ byEva Neymann


• Docudays curated screening with talk that contextualises Russia’s current military aggression against Ukraine, looking at how Ukrainian documentary filmmakers have experienced and comprehended the years since the Revolution of Dignity (Maidan), follows the screening of two films:
  • PEACE & TRANQUILITY by Myro Klochko 
  • BONEY PILES by Taras Tomenko


• VR, art and TikTok works in our Alternate Realities exhibition
  Alternate Realities exhibits and showcases innovative non-fiction and immersive documentary in all forms with a flagship exhibition at Sheffield’s Site Gallery and other works across the city.


• 5 projects in development selected for our MeetMarket
  • INTERCEPTED by Oksana Karpovych, Producers: Giacomo Nudi, Rocío Barba Fuentes, Ukraine/Canada
  • IVAN & MARTA A DAY BEFORE THE WAR by Sergey Bukovsky, Producer: Oksana Ivaniouk, Ukraine
  • SHUT THE FUCK UP! by Taisiia Kutuzova, Producers: Stephane Siohan, Olga Beskhmelnytsina, Ukraine/France
  • UP IN THE AIR by Oksana Syhareva, Producers: Oksana Syhareva, Nataliia Pogudina, Karla Stojakova, Ukraine/CzechRepublic


• 3 projects in Works-in-Progress in partnership with Ukrainian Institute
  • EXPEDITION 49 by Alisa Kovalenko, Producers: Stephane Siohan, Valery Kalmykov, Tomek Morawski, Ukraine/France/Poland
  • FRAGMENTS OF ICE by Maria Stoianova, Producers: Alina Gorlova, Maksym Nakonechnyi, Ukraine
  • IRON BUTTERFLIES by Roman Liubiy, Ukraine/Germany/France

This comprehensive programme is an expression of solidarity with Ukraine. It provides a powerful encounter with contemporary Ukrainian life – including the horrific reality of this war. It creates a space in which Ukrainian filmmakers and artists can continue to have their work seen, develop new projects, and keep Ukrainian culture alive.

as single page:
• 29 Sheffield Doc|Fest 2022 •
• 28 Sheffield Doc|Fest 2021 •
• 27 Sheffield Doc|Fest 2020 •
• 26 Sheffield Doc|Fest 2019 •
• 25 Sheffield Doc|Fest 2018 •
• 24 Sheffield Doc|Fest 2017 •

 ...•30 Sheffield DocFest June 14—19, 2023 and the MeetMarket will take place on Thursday 15 June and Friday 16 June 2023, allowing for Industry Professionals opportunity to experience the opening of the festival. Lightning Industry Passes for our celebratory 30th edition are now on sale. Book now to get the best rate of £180 (+VAT) ahead of the price changes at 17:00 BST on 30 September 2022.
The Industry Pass gives you access to the full festival programme of films, exhibitions, talks, panels, industry sessions and live pitches, networking events and parties; plus access to DocPlayer, our industry video on demand platform. Find out more.

Last but not least, the 2022 Festival Report by Sheffield DocFest from September 8, 2022:
After two years of significant pandemic impact, we were delighted to 'reconnect' with the documentary community and audiences alike in Sheffield. The Festival attracted 25,424 in-person attendances, as well as a further 4,899 admissions online. We welcomed public audiences from Sheffield (61%), Yorkshire (12%) and across the UK (27%); and 47% of our public audiences attended the Festival for the first time.
We screened 135 films from 55 countries; 29 projects were exhibited in our Alternate Realities programme; we presented headline talks from Guest Curator Asif Kapadia with Chris King, Brett Morgen, Pratibha Parmar and David Olusoga; and broadcaster talks included interviews with Clive Myrie, Will Young, and Ellie Simmonds.

 

 

 

STAY TUNED!

Open call for submissions to the Ji.hlava New Visions Forum & Market 2022. The event will take place during the 26th Ji.hlava IDFF on October 25–30. The deadline for submissions is August 22.

The 26th Ji.hlava IDFF will take place in Jihlava in the Czech Republic on October 25–30, 2022. Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival is a leading European documentary festival and the largest event of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe. The festival retains distinctive and progressive programming, focusing on a creative artistic approach to film and critically reflective documentary works that deal with significant themes.

Ji.hlava IDFF is also behind innovative industry projects for film professionals such as the EMERGING PRODUCERS programme, Ji.hlava New Visions Forum & Market, Docu Talents from the East presentation, and Ji.hlava Film Fund.

Ji.hlava New Visions is especially focusing on diverse audiovisual formats such as fiction with documentary aspects, hybrid, experimental, short films, docu and web series, cinema expanded projects, games with documentary aspects, and VR / AR / Live documentaries. The forum and market are accessible to over 1,300 film professionals expected to attend the 26th Ji.hlava IDFF.

Ji.hlava New Visions Forum: Europe
The event is dedicated to the new generation of European producers, new formats, innovative trends, and visions for the future. The call is open to diverse audiovisual formats.

At the core of the Ji.hlava New Visions Forum 2022 will be pitching of 18 European documentary projects – both in the development stage and in production / post-production stages. The event will take place place on October 26–28 during the 26th Ji.hlava IDFF attended by film professionals and other stakeholders in the film industry accredited at the festival. The presentations will take place in person.
The call is open not only documentary films but also diverse audiovisual formats such as fiction with documentary aspects, hybrid, experimental, short films, docu and web series, cinema expanded projects, games with documentary aspects and VR / AR / Live documentaries.
In our selection process, we focus on the artistic vision of the project, its originality and author-driven character, visual style and fresh spirit, international potential in terms of financing and development of collaboration, openness for sharing the project with other partners, as well as diverse modes of distribution.
The call for submissions to the Ji.hlava New Visions Forum 2022 is now open, with a deadline on August 22. The submission is free of charge.

The Ji.hlava New Visions Forum 2022 will be accompanied with the Ji.hlava New Visions Market (October 26–29, 2022). The projects for the Market will have an opportunity to take part in the Ji.hlava Matchmaking Accelerator, which features several hundred accredited film professionals – festival representatives, curators, distributors, sales agents, commissioning editors and journalists from across the world.
The goal of the Matchmaking Accelerator is to help interconnect filmmakers and producers with festival representatives, distributors, and other film professionals. Before the festival, film professionals accredited at Ji.hlava can fill in the application form and the Industry Matchmaker will recommend his/her meetings with experts representing various fields of film industry.
During the Ji.hlava IDFF 2020 online edition, almost 100 experts were available and altogether 538 meetings took place in the 4 days of the matchmaking service.
Matchmaking Accelerator is supported by the International Visegrad Fund.

Filmsubmission for the 26 Ji.hlava IDFF
Film submission deadlines:
• March 31, 2022 | films released in 2021
• May 31, 2022 | films completed in 2022 and released by May 31, 2022
• July 31, 2022 | rough cuts and films that have so far not had a festival world premiere

Despite the deadlines, the team of 26 Ji.hlava IDFF kindly ask you to submit your films continuously throughout the whole period starting February 2022.

 #SSD22

This year, 48 projects from 22 countries –including 6 projects with German participation– will be presented across 8 pitching sessions split into three major categories, and supported or sponsored by major industry partners. The best projects from each session will be chosen by a jury of international industry experts. And the eight winners will each receive a cash prize of €3,000 from the respective pitch session sponsors. For the official pitch selection click here.
Follow their global journey through the Observatory Programme available here.

• Genres: Global Issues, Nature & Conservation, Science, History, Arts & Culture


• Création Digitale: Immersive Experiences, Digital Na(rra)tive Stories


• Talent Hub New Voices 

The 33rd edition of the international marketplace for documentary and narrative experiences will take place from 20 to 23 June 2022 in La Rochelle, Espace Encan, Quai Louis Prunier, 17000 La Rochelle. 

 

 LineUp of selected projects with participation of German producers:

• SCIENCE OF BATS by Marion Poellmann [Science]
  Produced by: Blue Paw Artists (Germany)
  A mix of nature, science and investigative story, this film follows four teams of researchers as they use cutting-edge science to unravel the mysteries of how bats operate and live across three continents. Stunning wildlife footage and superb animation reveal a new world as seen through a bat’s eyes.


• WAR BABY by Natasha Cox [Global Issues]
  Produced by: Miss Guided Films (United Kingdom) , DOCDAYS (Germany) and Mongoose Pictures (United Kingdom)
  War Baby is the story of Lejla Damon, a young British woman born on Christmas Day 1992 in besieged Sarajevo. Child of a rape victim of war, this is Lejla’s extraordinary journey as she returns to Bosnia to discover what happened to her birth mother and come face to face with the ghosts that still haunt the women of Bosnia today.


• TRAVELING WITH TROTSKY by Vincenzo Cavallo [Immersive Experiences]
  Produced by: CULTURAL VIDEO PRODUCTION/THENRBBUS COLLECTIVE and INVR.SPACE (Germany)
  When Trotsky wakes up in the metro of Berlin, 80 years after his death, he realizes that his motherland Ukraine is still struggling against Russians, that his enemy Stalin is dead but that in its place there is another dictator called Putin. The only solution is to reach Lviv to join the resistance.


• 71% AND RISING by Hendrik S. Schmitt [Immersive Experiences]
  Produced by: SEETREE GmbH (Germany)
  In the decade of the Ocean comes a project that will follow the Ocean’s currents, unravel the problems, show solutions, and connect the dots on a global level. Join us on a life-changing adventure, investigating the biggest Ocean emergencies and identifying (and living) the solutions that can help to restore the health of the Ocean.


• BLOWING UP AMERICA by Veit Bastian [Arts & Culture]
  Produced by: Heimatfilm GmbH + CO KG (Germany)
  An unlimited budget of millions, an Art House Italian arthouse director, a first time lead actor with a history of psychiatric problems, riots, the Black Panthers, FBI wire taps and a house to explode. What could possibly go wrong? --- Blowing Up America tells the extraordinary true story of director Antonioni and the making of Zabriskie Point.


• THE BUTTERFLY MURDERS by Michaela Kirst [Nature & Conservation]
  Produced by: sagamedia (Germany)
  The world’s most iconic butterfly migration is under threat of extinction. Yet the human guardians of their sanctuaries are being murdered. Why? In a True Crime of Nature, we find the answers along the incredible 6,000 mile annual odyssey of the Monarch Butterflies, investigating deaths of both man and nature in search of a brighter future.

Sadly, there are still a lot of untold stories, and three projects of the history section deal with the very German topics NS-POLITICS | ORAL HISTORY

• THE FACTORY’S BASEMENT by Gustavo Ribeiro [History]
  Produced by: Grifa Filmes (Brazil)
  During the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985), a Nazi criminal established a security division inside a Volkswagen plant in São Bernardo do Campo. The company collaborated with the repressive forces to persecute, arrest and torture workers. More than 40 years later, Volkswagen finally admitted its responsibility for human rights violations......
  Awarded with BEST HISTORY PITCH. An award sponsored by PBS International with 3,000 Euros in cash. Jury's Quote: "A very original project on a not well known story. It mixes archives, investigation, incredible characters and questions topics which resonate today."


• LIBERATION DIARIES by Matteo Parisini [History]
  Produced by: Saxonia Entertainment (Italy)
  End of WWII, 3 women from 3 cities — Milan, Paris and Berlin — give us their account of Europe’s turbulent liberation in their diaries. Their personal stories expand the big historical picture and make LIBERATION DIARIES a story of female self-empowerment, resistance, and resilience.


• SNATCHED FROM THE SOURCE by Maja Weiss [History]
  Produced by: SENCA STUDIO / BELA FILM (Slovenia)
  A documentary about children of the infamous Nazi program Lebensborn, the search for their origins, their alienation, and reconcilement.

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Just to remember Germany country in focus, June 2019 #30ssd, 2 of the participating projects are available now:

• AFGHANISTAN. THE WOUNDED LAND by Marcel Mettelsiefen , Mayte Carrasco, 4x52min P: LOOKSfilm


• LONDON CALLING by Christian Hans Schulz, 58min, WS: NEW DOCS

 and CoPro24 May 31 – June 1, 2022

LineUp German productions and co-productions
DOCAVIV May 26 – June 5, 2022

• International Competition: Bold, important, and extraordinary documentaries from around the world, carefully selected from this year’s releases
• Depth of Field Competition: Films that push the envelope of the genre, redefining the word “documentary”
• Beyond the Screen Competition: Films that drive social, environmental, and political change  

• EVERYMAN AND I by Katharina Pethke, 65min, P: Fünferfilm [Depth of Field Competition]


• GEAMAUNA by Matthäus Wörle, 30min, P: HFF Munich,


• HOW TO SAVE A DEAD FRIEND by Marusya Syroechkovskaya, 103min, WS: LIGHTDOX [International Competition]


• LO QUE QUEDA EN EL CAMINO | WHAT REMAINS ON THE WAY by Jakob Krese, Danilo do Carmo, 93min, coP: MAJMUN FILMS [Beyond the Screen Competition]


• LOVE, DEUTSCHMARK AND DEATH by Cem Kaya, 96min, P: filmfaust, Film Five, [Music]


• LOVING HIGHSMITH by Eva Vitija, 83min, P: Ensemble Film, Lichtblick Film, WS: auTLOOK [Arts and Culture]


• MARINER OF THE MOUNTAINS by Karim Aïnouz, 98min, WS: The Match Factory GmbH, [Masters]


• MIDWIVES by Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing, 89min,  [Beyond the Screen Competition]


• REWIND & PLAY by Alain Gomis, 65min, [Depth of Field Competition]


• THIS STOLEN COUNTRY OF MINE by Marc Wiese, 93min, WS: MAGNETFILM [Beyond the Screen Competition]

German delegation at CoPro24, May 24–June 2, 2022

• Tina Leeb, Fastforward

• Reinhardt Beetz, Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion

• Nicole Joens, Cindigo

• Jürgen Kleinig, Neue Celluloid Fabrik

• Gerhard Schick, Film und Kontext

• Dirk van den Berg, Outremer Filmproduktion

 Report CoPro24, May 24–June2, 2022 by Björn Jensen __German only__

all CoPro24 PROJECTS .
PRESS:  Business Doc Europe: Israeli CoPro24 in full swing by Nick Cunningham .

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• DOCAVIV 2022 •
• DOCAVIV 2018 •

The 25th Docaviv – the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival will take place May 11th to 20th, 2023. Submissions open now. We encourage you to apply as soon as you are ready in order to have more chances of selection.

Submission deadlines for international films:
Early submission: December 9th, 2022 – for films completed by November 2022
Final Deadline: January 12th, 2023 – for films to be completed by April 1st 2023

#39FFMUC with seven German documentary productions and co-productions, including MARIUPOLIS 2 by Mants Kvedaravicius, Hanna Bilobrova.

FILMFEST MÜNCHEN, Germany’s largest summer film festival, which screens some 200 films annually. Countless filmmakers come to Munich from all over the world to present their latest work in person and interact directly with audiences in a relaxed summertime setting. FFMUC is also a major event for representatives of the film industry, who come together to exchange ideas and initiate new projects. This is the place to explore the whole spectrum of contemporary global cinema, from independent gems to star-studded German and international films.

LineUp German documentary productions and co-productions:

• BALANCE OF THE FIVE ELEMENTS | 5 ELEMENTE DER UNENDLICHKEIT by Jan Hinrik Drevs,  100min, P: Gebrüder Beetz, [SPOTLIGHT]


• A BREATH OF LIFE | EIN HAUCH LEBEN | C'È UN SOFFIO DI VITA SOLTANTO by Daniele Coluccini, Matteo Botrugno, 95min, P: Blue Mirror, Bielle Re, Tama Filmproduktion, Kimera Film [International Independents]


• CHAMPAGNE FOR THE EYES – POISON FOR THE REST | CHAMPAGNER FÜR DIE AUGEN – GIFT FÜR DEN REST by Klaus Lemke, P: KLF Klaus Lemke Filmproduktion [SPOTLIGHT]


• ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED | ELFRIEDE JELINEK – DIE SPRACHE VON DER LEINE LASSEN by Claudia Müller, P: CALA Filmprod., Plan-C Filmproduktion OG [New German Cinema]


• LIEBE ANGST by Sandra Prechtel, P: Freischwimmer Film with IT WORKS! Medien, D: Real Fiction Filmverleih e.K.   [New German Cinema]


• MARIUPOLIS 2 by Mants Kvedaravicius, Hanna Bilobrova, 112min, WS: The Match Factory GmbH [SPOTLIGHT]


• ONE IN A MILLION by Joya Thome, 84min, P: Flare Film GmbH, WS: Syndicado Distribution [KINDERFILMFEST]

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• INSIDE CHARITE: COVID ICU-43 | CHARITÉ INTENSIV: STATION 43 by Carl Gierstorfer, series 4x30min, P: Docdays Productions


• OECONOMIA by Carmen Losmann, 84min, P: Petrolio Film


• SEAHORSE | SEEPFERDCHEN by Nele Dehnenkamp, 16min, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg


• UNA PRIMAVERA by Valentina Primavera, P: Johannes Schubert Produktion


• BLACK EAGELS | SCHWARZE ADLER by Torsten Körner, 100min, P: Broadview Pictures

'The award-winning productions make it clear that entertainment in its multifaceted form is an indispensable part of television. This applies not only to the private broadcasters, but also to the public ones, whose programming mandate is currently being reformed'. Source Press Release by GRIMME INSTITUT __German only__

...more information about the other winners

The awards will be presented at the Theater Marl, August 26, 2022.

 

GRIMME PREIS is the German equivalent of the Emmys. Only movies that have been broadcasted by a public or private TVstation or provided in the internet in Germany can be nominated or awarded. Therefore some of the nominated documentaries for Grimme Preis 2022 you'll knew from former edtions of our catalogue, because they have been shown at festivals and German cinemas for about two years, the common usage of the retention period for coproductions with TVstations before broadcasted in German speaking territories.  

 

The nominated german documentaries:

• DEAR BROTHER | BRUDERLIEBE by Julia Horn P: CORSO Film, Hornfilm


• INSIDE CHARITE: COVID ICU-43 | CHARITÉ INTENSIV: STATION 43 by Carl Gierstorfer, series 4x30min, P: Docdays Productions


• SEAHORSE | SEEPFERDCHEN by Nele Dehnenkamp, 16min, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg


• UNA PRIMAVERA by Valentina Primavera, P: Johannes Schubert Produktion


• OECONOMIA by Carmen Losmann, 84min, P: Petrolio Film


• BLACK EAGELS | SCHWARZE ADLER by Torsten Körner, 100min, P: Broadview Pictures


• UFERFRAUEN by Barbara Wallbraun, 117min, P: Sunday Filmproduktion


• WIRECARD – DIE MILLIARDEN-Lüge | WIRECARD – THE BILLION EURO LIE by Jono Bergmann, Benjamin Bergmann, 98min, P: BABKA, SFFP filmcontact,


• idea & concept by Johannes Unger/solo:film/ChronicTV BERLIN: SCHICKSALSJAHRE EINER STADT | BERLIN – FATEFUL YEARS OF A METROPOLIS by Gabriele Denecke, Tim Evers, Thomas Zimolong, Karoline Kleinert, Lutz Pehnert, Artem Demenok, Ulrike Gerster, Ulf Kalkreuth, Karin Reiss, Anna Bilger, Peter Scholl, Dagmar Wittmers, Reinhard Joksch, Dagmar Wittmers, 540min [6x90min English ST]  WS: Autentic Distribution

further German documentaries attractive for the international market [...but until yet not mentioned in the catalogue. Maybe because no English version available until yet. Stay tuned.]

• A WAR ON TRIAL – JUSTICE FOR EX–YOGOSLAVIA | KRIEG VOR GERICHT – DIE JUGOSLAWIEN-PROZESSE by Lucio Mollica, 2x52 or 90min P: LOOKSfilm


• HÖLLENTAL True Crime Series by Marie Wilke [an English version is planned] P: Kundschafter Filmproduktion  [ Trailer German only ]


• JEMEN – DIE MÜTTER DER ENTFÜHRTEN by Sabrina Proske, 60min, P: Aviv Pictures/Schwenk Film [for Junger Dokumentarfilm SWR]


• DIE SACHE MIT DEN JUDEN by Richard C. Schneider, series 4x23min, P: Autentic Production [for BR/ARD]

... find all 58 GRIMME PRIZE 2022 Nominees here ...

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• 57 GRIMME PRIZE 2021 •

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with two German documentaries in the SPECIAL SCREENINGS section:

• MARIUPOLIS 2 by Mantas Kvedaravicius, Hanna Bilobrova, 112min, WS: The Match Factory.


• THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION by Sergei Loznitsa, 112min, P: LOOKSfilm.

The films of NEXT GENERATION SHORT TIGER 2022 presented at the Festival de Cannes include two documentary productions:

• HOW SUCH AN ANNOYING DRIZZLE CAN BE SILENT | WIE EIN SO LÄSTIGER REGEN SCHWEIGEN KANN) by Jakob Werner, 5min, P: University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, WS: interfilm Berlin Management GmbH


• WHY WE JUGGLE by Felix Länge, 12min, P: HFF Munich

GERMAN PAVILLON at the international filmmarket Marché du Film with FOCUS GERMANY at Village International, Festival de Cannes where accredited visitors  have the opportunity to make contacts, make appointments or get advice on the German film industry. Focus Germany provides filmmakers with all the important information about the film financing structures in Germany and on the various funding and production opportunities in Germany. Focus Germany establishes all the important contacts to the industry and service providers, ranging from location scouting through to postproduction. Moreover, Focus Germany supports the German film industry in its presence at the major international film festivals, the Berlinale and the Festival de Cannes.

Editor german documentaries Ingrid Molnar 

with 226 films from 63 countries across 15 programs – including a dozen german documentaries – in cinemas across Toronto as well as online to audiences across Canada.

The three awarded german documentaries are:

• Best Mid-Length Documentary Award: REWIND & PLAY by Alain Gomis, 65min [artscapes]
  "The jury was impressed by the innovative use of archival, the rigorous cutting, and the relentless quest for intimacy with a subject on the brink of alienation."
  Sponsored by British Pathé, the award includes a $3,000 cash prize.


• Audience Award International Spectrum: WHO WE WILL HAVE BEEN by Erec Brehmer, 81min [international spectrum]


• Don Haig Award for Producer Mila Aung-Thwin with MIDWIVES by Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing, 91min [special presentation] The award is given to an outstanding independent Canadian producer with a film in the Festival in recognition of his/her creative vision, entrepreneurship and track record for nurturing emerging talent and comes with a $5,000 cash prize, courtesy of the Don Haig Foundation.

Find out more about the Hot Docs AWARDS information here.

LineUp of German productions and co-productions

• 5 DREAMERS AND A HORSE by Vahagn Khachatryan, Aren Malakyan, 80min, [international spectrum]


• ANGELS OF SINJAR by Hanna Polak, 109min, WS: Deckert Distribution GmbH, [special presentation]


• THE ART OF SILENCE by Maurizius Staerkle Drux, 81min, [artscapes]


• IL BUCO by Michelangelo Frammartino, 93min, WS: Coproduction Office [markers]


• MIDWIVES by Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing, 91min, WS: dogwoof, [special presentation]


• NASIM by Ole Jacobs, Arne Büttner, 123min, P: ROSENPICTURES Filmproduktion GbR, [the changing face of Europe]


• REWIND & PLAY by Alain Gomis, 65min, coP: Die Gesellschaft DGS, [artscapes]


• SIGURIMI by Luigjina Shkupa, 29min P: HFF Munich [shorts]


• SILENT LOVE by Marek Kozakiewicz, 72min, coP: Tondowski Films,  [world showcase]


• VIBRATIONS – INNER MUSIC by Cadenza Zhao, 15min, WS: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, [shorts]


• WHO WE WILL HAVE BEEN by Erec Brehmer, 81min [international spectrum]


• XARAASI XANNE | CROSSING VOICES | VOIX CROISÉES by Raphaël Grisey, Bouba Touré, 122min, P: welt|film spectre productions, The Dark [markers]


• and the Swiss Production, GIRL GANG by Susanne Regina Meures, 96min [world showcase] a portrait of the Berlin based Leonie, a successful teen influencer, known as Leoobalys. WS: Rise and Shine World Sales U.G,

Industry Programs
Hot Docs helps get film made—from grants for projects in development and production to connecting filmmakers with leading industry experts.

• Distribution Rendezvous: Pre-arranged, one-on-one online meetings with distributors and sales agents for finished, nearly finished and rough-cut films. Submission close: March 10, 2022


• Hot Docs Conference & Market: With exceptional professional development, networking, and business opportunities, Hot Docs is perfect for doc professionals at all career levels.


• 20 Forum projects representing 19 different countries and 26 filmmakers, 14 of whom are women and 15 of whom are BIPOC, will pitch to international decision makers, including
  • GABRIEL by Daniel Carsenty,  P: Nicklas Krüger, Laia Gonzalez, Ingrid Bragemann, CHUNK Filmproduktion GmbH (Germany), Avalia Studios GmbH (Germany), Tantor Films LTDA (Chile), Saboteur Media LLC (USA) The new 36-year-old president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, will never be able to change his country by himself, but if he installs hope, the courage of his people to change their society will be without limits.
  • THE JOURNALIST AND THE JAILOR by Adithya Sambamurthy, P: Alex Tondowski, Ira Tondowski Tondowski Films GbR.  ...reveals how this court case could provide some measure of justice for the tens of thousands of Syrians who have been detained, tortured and disappeared by Bashar al-Assad’s government, and perhaps even revolutionize war crimes prosecutions worldwide.
  • THE MISSING PLANET by Marouan Omara, Tom Rosenberg, P: Marouan Omara, Tom Rosenberg, Die Gesellschaft DGS (Germany), Figleaf Studios (Egypt) ...is a creative documentary, set in the future on a distant planet. As the planet’s inhabitants experience a wave of memory loss, the film reconstructs the people, places, and events that have disappeared. THE MISSING PLANET is a journey through the surreal landscapes and fragmented memories of another world that mirrors our own.


•  and more at the website of the festival


•  and more in the PRESS...

Hot Docs’ LIVE program reshapes the Industry Conference and market into an intensive three-day in-person gathering offering inspiring sessions, connection to colleagues and community, and the serendipitous moments that are only possible live. Plus, attend in-cinema Festival screenings at venues across Toronto, and access all the market content available in Hot Docs’ online hub. 
More Information —German only—.

 REPORT by Björn Jensen _____German only_____

 

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• 28 Hot Docs 2021 •
• 27 Hot Docs 2020 •
• 26 Hot Docs 2019 •
• 25 Hot Docs 2018 •

Editor german documentaries Ingrid Molnar

Let's meet at 38 MIPCOM, October 17—20, 2022, France,
Palais des Festivals, Cannes level-1 at the GERMANY BOOTH.
MICOMtrailer.

FIRST CALL for attending the German delegation –German only– here

Björn Jensen, Eva-Maria Pellikan, Simone Baumann

 

 

The picture was taken at the 37 MIPCOM 2021 with
• Björn Jensen, representativ German Documentaries,  AG DOK
• Eva-Maria Pellikan, Head of Communications & Marketing, Liasion TV & Series German Films
• Simone Baumann, Managing Director German Flms

37 MIPCOM 2021 a.o. with

• ALBATROSS WORLD SALES GMBH
• AUTENTIC GMBH
• FIRST HAND FILMS
• NEW DOCS E.K.
• RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES UG

Find the Report 2021 MIPCOM 2021 by Björn Jensen —German only— here.

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• VIKTOR DOK.international Main Competition: TRENCHES by Loup Bureau, France
• megaherz Student Award: PUSHING BOUNDARIES by Lesia Kordonets, Switzerland
• GOETHE INSTITUT Documentary Award: LIEBE, D-MARK UND TOD | LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH by Cem Kaya, Germany
• VIKTOR DOK.deutsch: ZUSAMMENLEBEN by Thomas Fürhapter, Austria
• VIKTOR DOK.horizonte: NO SIMPLE WAY HOME by Akuol de Mabior, Kenya, South Sudan, South Africa
• FFF-Promotional Award Documentary: HOAMWEH LUNG | HOME SICK LUNGS by Felix Klee, Germany

VIKTOR DOK.international, the main award of 37 DOK.fest Munich goes to the French production TRENCHES by Loup Bureau, who accompanied Ukrainian soldiers fighting Russia-backed separatists in the Donbass. He shows how the soldiers try to lead a reasonably normal everyday life between explosions and enemy attacks. The Berlin based company FILMS BOUTIQUE is in charge of World Sales of the awarded documentary.

TRECHES by Loup Bureau

© 2021 FILMS BOUTIQUE World Sales

 

From the jury statement: "For weeks, months, years, they have been holed up in their trenches. Loup Bureau accompanies them. This undertaking alone is worthy of a prize. But TRENCHES is also a very beautiful film: without any showmanship, with great respect for his protagonists and using black and white footage that emphasises the timelessness of war, Bureau documents life in the trenches, the shovelling of earth and securing of defences that takes place daily, but also the cooking, the cutting of hair, the talking. The calm that Bureau's images radiate is of course a deceptive one and this is something that we, even as viewers, cannot forget for a second. At any moment there can be another attack. And there is. The urgency of the film has increased immeasurably since its completion in 2021."

The Ukrainian director Lesia Kordonets receives the megaherz Student Award for PUSHING BOUNDARIES at the 37 DOK.fest Munich. Editor german documentaries congratulates her and the Swiss producers, AG DOK member Dschoint Ventschr Filmprod.

PUSHING BOUNDARIES by Lesia Kordonets

Foto: 2021 DSCHOINT VENTSCHR FILMPRODUKTION AG

 

 All awards and and winners of the 77th DOK.fest München as well as jury statements at one glance.

37 DOK.fest München, May 4 – 15, 2022 in the Munich venues

and May 9 – 22 May 2022 @home! DOK.fest München is taking place for the first time in a dual format, setting the course for the future of the festival: the 124 films from 55 countries will be shown both in Munich on the cinema screen and at home on the digital screen all over Germany. Meaning that the carefully curated film programme will be accessible to even more viewers this year.

LineUp German productions and co-productions

• 1001 NIGHTS APART by Sarvnaz Alambeigi, 80min, P: Filmpunkt GmbH [DOK.special]


• 75€! by Luigjina Shkupa, 27min, P: HFF Munich [Close Up: Poland]


• AFTER HAPPY END | NACH DEM HAPPY END by Katharina Köster, 90min, P: Tellux Next GmbH [Munich Premiere]


• ALICE SCHWARZER by Sabine Derflinger, 135min, WS: filmdelights [DOK.deutsch]


• ALL THAT SHINES | UNTERM GLANZ by Gregor Eppinger, 70min, P: sehstern Filmproduktion Spiess & Krausz GbR [DOK.horizonte]


• AMONG US WOMEN by Sarah Noa Bozenhardt, Daniel Abate Tilahun, 92min [Student Award]


• ANIMA – MY FAHTERS'S DRESSES | ANIMA – DIE KLEIDER MEINES VATERS by Uli Decker, 104min [Munich Premiere]


• DIE AUTOBAHN – KAMPF UM DIE A 49 by Klaus Stern, Frank Marten Pfeiffer, 86min [DOK.panorama]


• BERLIN BYTCH LOVE by Heiko Aufdermauer, Johannes Girke, 86min [DOK.deutsch]


• BLACK MAMBAS by Lena Karbe, 81min, P: Karbe Film GmbH [VFF Award, Munich Premiere]


• BLACK HOLE LEGION by Jonathan Omer Mizrahi, Ariel Sereni Brown, 12min [SHORTS]


• BORDERS | GRANICE by Nicole Huminski, 25min, P: HFF Munich, [Close Up: Poland]


• CAHIER AFRICAIN by Heidi Specogna, 119min, WS: RUSHLAKE MEDIA ©2016 [HOMMAGE]


• CARTE BLANCHE by Heidi Specogna, 91min, ©2011 [HOMMAGE]


• DEAR MEMORIES – A Journey With Magnum-Photographer Thomas Hoepker | DEAR MEMORIES – Eine Reise mit dem Magnum-Fotografen Thomas Hoepker by Nahuel Lopez, 98min, coP: Granvista Media GmbH [DOK.deutsch]


• DANCING PINA by Florian Heinzen-Ziob, 151min, P: FONTÄNE FILM [DOK.panorama]


• DONBAS DAYS by Philipp Schaeffer, 16min, coP: Streetsfilm,  Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH [Student Award]


• EUROPA PASSAGE by Andrei Schwartz, 90min, P: WÜSTE Film GmbH [DOK.deutsch]


• FRANCO ON TRIAL: THE SPANISH NUREMBERG by Lucia Palacios, Dietmar Post ©2018 [RETROSPECTIVE]


• GERMANY REPRESENT – YOUNG, FEMALE, POLITICAL | GERMANY REPRESENT – JUNG, WEIBLICH, POLITISCH by Jannika Quaas, 59min, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg [Student Award]


• THE GOALGETTER'S SHIP by Heidi Specogna, 91min, ©2010 [HOMMAGE]


• HOMESICK LUNGS | HOAMWEH LUNG by Felix Klee, 15min [Student Award]


• HOW TO SAVE A DEAD FRIEND by Marusya Syroechkovskaya, 103min, WS: LIGHTDOX, [DOK.international]


• JONAS DEICHMANN – DAS LIMIT BIN NUR ICH | THE MAN THEY CALLED FORREST GUMP ALEMAN by Markus Weinberg, Steffi Rostoski, 105min, WS: RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES U.G. [Munich Premiere]


• THE JOY OF SINGING | UNSERE HERZEN EIN KLANG by Simone Dobmeier, Torsten Striegnitz, 108min, P: Gebrüder Beetz Media GmbH [DOK.music]


• KALLE KOSMONAUT by Tine Kugler, Günther Kurth, 99min, P: KMOTO Medienproduktion GmbH [BEST OF FESTS]


• KASH KASH – WITHOUT FEATHERS WE CAN'T LIVE by Lea Najjar, 90min, WS: MAGNETFILM GmbH [DOK.horizonte]


• LE MALI 70 by Markus CM Schmidt, 92min [DOK.music]


• LO QUE QUEDA EN EL CAMINO by Jakob Krese, 93min, P: MAJMUN FILMS [BEST OF FESTS]


• LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH | LIEBE, D-MARK UND TOD by Cem Kaya, 96min, coP: filmfaust GmbH | Film Five GmbH  [DOK.special]


• LULLABY | WIEGENLIEDER by Tamara Trampe, Johann Feindt, 98min, P: zero one film GmbH © 2010 [DOK.special]


• MAXIM – THE GREATEST | MAXIM – DER GRÖSSTE by Katja Fedulova, 25min, P: telekult Film- und Medienproduktion GmbH [DOK.education]


• MIDWIVES by Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing, 91min, WS: dogwoof, P: AMA FILM  [Student Award]


• NACH DER ARBEIT by Alexander Riedel, 113min, P: PELLE FILM Riedel und Timm GbR [DOK.focus]


• THE ONE WHO RUNS AWAY IS THE GHOST by Qinyuan Lei, 72min, P: Moserfilm [DOK.panorama]


• PORNFLUENCER by Joscha Bongard, 74min [DOK.focus]


• REPUBLIC OF SILENCE by Diana El Jeiroudi, 183min, WS: Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH [BEST OF FESTS]


• REWIND & PLAY by Alain Gomis, 65min, coP: Andolfi  [DOK.music]


• SEAHORSE | SEEPFERDCHEN by Nele Dehnenkamp, 16min, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH [DOK.education]


• SOMMERFAHRT – ZEIT HEILT KEINE WUNDEN by Gereon Wetzel, 84min [Munich Premiere]


• SO ODER SO by Lea Tama Springer, Eva Gemmer, Hannah Jandl, 45min [DOK.focus]


• SORRY COMRADE | SORRY GENOSSE by Vera Brückner, 94min [DOK.focus]


• SOUND OF MY OWN by Rebecca Zehr, 52min [FFF Talent Award]


• STAND UP MY BEAUTY by Heidi Specogna, 110min [HOMMAGE]


• THE ONE WHO RUNS AWAY IS THE GHOST by Qinyuan Lei, 72min [DOK.panorama]


• THIS STOLEN COUNTRY OF MINE | MEIN GESTOHLENES LAND by Marc Wiese, 93min, P: DREAMER JOINT VENTURE Filmprod. GmbH  [DOK.panorama]


• TRACING TANGO ECHO TANGO by Ksenia Ciuvaseva, 30min, P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF [DOK.focus]


• VERABREDUNGEN MIT EINEM DICHTER – MICHAEL KRÜGER by Frank Wierke, 91min, P: if… Productions Film GmbH [DOK.special]


• VOICES FROM THE FIRE | STIMMEN VOM FEUER by Helen Simon, 92min, P: Filmallee GmbH [DOK.panorama]


• VOICE OF THE PEOPLE | VOLKSVERTRETER by Andreas Wilcke, 94min [DOK.horizonte]


• WHY WE FIGHT? by Alain Platel, Mirjam Devriendt, 97min, P: Gebrüder Beetz Media GmbH [DOK.panorama]


• WOODLAND | WOID by Verena Wagner, 41min, P: HFF Munich [Student Award]


• A WOMAN | EINE FRAU by Jeanine Meerapfel, 104min, P: unafilm  [DOK.international]
  
  

The complete program of the 37th edition DOK.fest Munich for download here.

https://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/Programmheft_2022

Who is Who 2022 @ DOK.forum

Find the DOK.forum events at 37 DOK.fest Munich here and/or as PDF here. 

37 DOK.fest Munich 2022 _ DOK.forum Awards

 

• DOK.series Award
• DOK.digital – Award für Neue Erzählformate,
• DOK.archive Award 
• DOK.talent Award vom Haus des Dokumentarfilms 
• DOK.composition Award 
• DOK.edit Award
• Mentoring- und Festivalawards such as DAE Talent Award, Doc Around Europe Award, Nebulae Project Selection Award und Sunny Side of the Doc Award 
• more information here.

 

New Markets, New Players, New Demands
THE BOOM OF DUCUMENTARIES
Neue Märkte, neue Player, neue Anforderungen - Der Boom des Dokumentarischen
A panel discussion by AG DOK – German Documentary Association

Hybrid German-speaking event | THURSDAY May 5, 5 p.m. | HFF KINO 1 [map]

ARD and ZDF are increasingly focusing on non-fictional content in all web channels - fuelled also by the ever-growing streaming competitors. What kind of media and democracy-creating TV world do we want? At what budgets do innovative narrative forms create access to the heterogeneous audience?
This hybrid event will be held in German. To attend on site, please book a free ticket in advance. To participate online, please log in to your account and register via the event page in order to receive the link.  

SPEAKERS:

• Sonja Scheider, Program Management Culture/Arte Editorial Department Bayerischer Rundfunk


• Christian Ansager, Vice President Entertainment SKY Germany


• Marc Lepetit, Managing Director and Producer UFA Documentary


• Prof. Jennifer Mival, Professor Entertainment Producing, Internationale Filmschule Cologne (ifs), formerly Netflix


• Georg Tschurtschenthaler, producer, beetz brothers film production.

 MODERATION: Valentin Thurn, AG DOK board member, CEO Thurnfilm.

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Diversity in documentary! But how?
Diversität im Dokumentarfilm! Aber wie
A collaborative session by AG DOK, Neue deutsche Medienmacher*innen and DOK.fest München on questions of diversity in the German documentary film business 

German-speaking event | SUNDAY May 8, 6 p.m. | HFF KINO 1 [map]

This panel takes a look closer look on structural deficits in the film industry and possible solutions. How can we achieve diversity behind the camera? Whose perspectives has been (re)presented so far and in what form?

SPEAKERS:

•  Fatima Abdollahyan, Commissioning Editor, Bayerischer Rundfunk


• Prof. Olaf Jacobs, producer and founding managing director,


• MV Filmförderung GmbH Biene Pilavci, director and co-founder, Neue deutsche Medienmacher*innen


• Dietmar Post, director and producer, Play Loud! productions

MODERATOR: Jochen Hick, director and producer, Galeria Alaska Productions

Diversity in documentary! But how?

Video recorded May 8, 2022

 

 

Heidi Specogna

Heidi Specogna at DOK.forum
In Heidi Specogna's on-site masterclass on 9 May at 10.00 a.m., the filmmaker opens the doors to one of the most intimate workplaces during the making of a documentary film: the editing room. The format is dedicated to the practical development of a documentary film between the first phase of rough editing and the final shooting. First montages of sequences and editing sketches form the basis for a working discussion between Heidi Specogna and the film team of #HARRAGA – THOSE WHO BURN.
To the MASTERCLASS.

This year DOK.fest München honours the great Swiss filmmaker Heidi Specogna in the HOMMAGE. A filmmaker who focuses on the global south in a special way and is committed to human rights in her films. Six films from four decades of her artistic work are part of the programme. They are Germany/Swiss co-production and four of them are listed in the german documentaries catalogue.

• STAND UP MY BEAUTY by Heidi Specogna, 110min, WS: Deckert Distribution ©2021


• CAHIER AFRICAIN by Heidi Specogna, 119min, WS: RUSHLAKE MEDIA ©2016


• CARTE BLANCHE by Heidi Specogna, 91min, ©2011


• DAS SCHIFF DES TORJÄGERS | THE GOALGETTER'S SHIP by Heidi Specogna, 91min, ©2010


• DAS KURZE LEBEN DES JOSÉ ANTONIO GUTIERREZ by Heidi Specogna, 94min ©2006


• TUPAMAROS by Heidi Specogna, 93min ©1997

RETROSPECTIVE 2022: The Long Shadow of Franco – On Telling the Untold Past

Franco's legacy – for a long time a culturally untouched, nationwide traume that has become a defining part of Spanish identitiy. Six documentaries from four decades of facing and coping with Franquismo. The programme includes FRANCO ON TRIAL – THE SPANISH NUREMBERG? by Lucia Palacios, Dietmar Post ©2018 The trial became known as the 'Argentine Prosecution', in which a judge from Buenos Aires issued several international arrest warrants against, in part, high-ranking representatives of the Franco dictatorship in 2010. A novelty – due to the 'Pact of Forgetting', all perpetrators have so far remained at large. The film accompanies the efforts to finally bring them to justice.

German Documentary Film Music Award 2022 WINNER.

For the original score to THIS STOLEN COUNTRY OF MINE, Alva Noto aka Carsten Nicolai receives the German Documentary Film Music Award 2022. The film shows the dawn of a new world order: the takeover of an entire country for ruthless economic exploitation. "Alva Noto's music subtly lends intense power to the struggle of a mountain village, sensitively and precisely accentuates the film's disturbing theme – and often brings us closer than we would like", the jury said in its statement. The German Documentary Film Music Award is endowed with 5,000 Euros, donated by the Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung and supported by the Förder- und Hilfsfonds des Deutschen Komponistenverbandes.

German Documentary Film Music Award 2022: THE NOMINEES
The German Documentary Film Music Award is sponsored by the Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung and endowed with 5,000 Euros.

• AMONG US WOMEN by by Sarah Noa Bozenhardt, Daniel Abate Tilahun, P: Evolution Film UG,
  Composer: Anna-Marlene Bicking, Germany/Ethiopia 2021, 93 min.


• WORKING WOMEN | ARBEITERINNEN | PRACUJACE KOBIETY by Julia Roesler,
  Composers: Insa Rudolph, Esra Dalfidan and Katrin Mickiewicz, Germany/Poland 2021, 73 min.


• SEARCHING FOR FRITZ KANN | AUF DER SUCHE NACH FRITZ KANN by Marcel Kolvenbach, P: publicnomad, Composer: Cassis B. Staudt, Germany 2021, 100 min.


• BURNING MEMORIES, Compostion and Direction: Alice Schmid, Switzerland 2020, 80 min. T


• KALLE KOSMONAUT by Tine Kugler, Günther Kurth, P: KMOTO Medienproduktion GmbH,
  Composer: Philip Bradatsch, Germany 2021, 98 min.


• BUTTERFLIES IN MIND | SCHMETTERLINGE IM KOPF by Sobo Swobodnik, Composers: Elias Gottstein, Lars Rudolph, Germany 2021, 100 min.


• A SOUND OF MY OWN by Rebecca Zehr, P: HFF München, taro films | Rebecca Zehr, Composer: Marja Burchard, Germany 2021, 52 min


• THIS STOLEN COUNTRY OF MINE by Marc Wiese, P: DREAMER JOINT VENTURE Filmprod. GmbH, Composer: Alva Noto aka Carsten Nicolai, Germany 2021, 93 min.

 

The VFF Documentary Film Production Award goes to 1001 NIGHTS APART

The award is sponsored by the VFF Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film und Fernsehproduzenten mbH and is endowed with 7,500 Euros. The award is the first in Germany to focus on the work of documentary film producers. In 2022 it will be awarded for the fifth time at DOK.fest München. This year the prize goes to the international co-production 1001 NIGHTS APART. The film was produced by Stefan Tolz and Thomas Riedelsheimer – Filmpunkt GmbH), co-producers are the director Sarvnaz Alambeigi – Rabison Art Production, and the American Louise Rosen. The award ceremony will take place on May 5th at 8:30 p.m. in the Deutsches Theater.

VFF Documentary Film Production Award 2022:
The process of making a documentary film is particularly difficult to plan and often involves great uncertainty. Yet time and again producers demonstrate great courage and show special creativity and commitment in project development and film financing. With the presentation of the VFF Documentary Film Production Award at DOK.fest München, we honour the passionate commitment and the role of producers in the development of current cinema documentary projects.
This year's jury was made up of Frank Müller (filmmaker, producer, editor), Anna Schoeppe (Managing Director of HessenFilm und Medien) and Thomas Frickel (author, director, producer).

 VFF Documentary Film Production Award 2022: The Nominees .

• 1001 NIGHTS APART by Sarvnaz Alambeigi, 80min, Produzent.innen: Stefan Tolz filmpunkt, Sarvnaz Alambeigi, Louise Rosen, Germany/Iran/USA


• AMONG US WOMEN by Sarah Noa Bozenhardt und Daniel Abate Tilahun, 93min, Produzentin: Sonja Kilbertus – Evolution Film UG, Germany/Ethiopia


• BERLIN BYTCH LOVE by Heiko Aufdermauer und Johannes Girke, 86min, Produzenten: Heiko Aufdermauer und Johannes Girke, Germany


• BLACK MAMBAS by Lena Karbe, 81min, Produzent.innen: Lena Karbe und Jan Vasak – Karbe Film GmbH , South Africa/Germany/France


• DEAR MEMORIES – Eine Reise mit dem Magnum-Fotografen Thomas Hoepker by Nahuel Lopez, 95min, Produzent.innen: Nahuel Lopez, Katrin Renz und Stefan Jäger, Germany/Switzerland


• KALLE KOSMONAUT by Tine Kugler und Günther Kurth, 98min, Produzent.innen: Tine Kugler und Günther Kurth – KMOTO Medienproduktion GmbH, Germany


• LIEBE, D-MARK UND TOD | LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH by Cem Kaya, 96min,
  Produzenten: Florian Schewe – filmfaust GmbH & Stefan Kauertz – Film Five GmbH, Germany


• VOLKSVERTRETER | VOICE OF THE PEOPLE by Andreas Wilcke, 94min, Produzent: Andreas Wilcke, Germany
  
  

 

Documentary Film Prize of the Goethe-Institut
From 2022 the Goethe-Institut's renowned documentary film award will be presented alternately at DOK.fest München, the DOK Leipzig festival, the Duisburger Filmwoche and the Kasseler Dokfest. The documentary film award of the Goethe-Institut honours an outstanding German documentary film of the current year and is endowed with 2,000 Euros. The Jury 2022: Ameer Masoud, Diana El Jeiroudi, Eva Lautenschlager.

Nominees for the Documentary Film Prize of the Goethe-Institut

• ALICE SCHWARZER by Sabine Derflinger, 135 min.


• ANIMA – DIE KLEIDER MEINES VATERS | ANIMA – MY FATHER'S DRESSES by Uli Decker, 94 min.


• BERLIN BYTCH LOVE by Heiko Aufdermauer, Johannes Girke, 86 min.


• DEAR MEMORIES – EINE REISE MIT DEM MAGNUM-FOTOGRAFEN THOMAS HOEPKER by Nahuel Lopez, 98 min.


• DIE AUTOBAHN – KAMPF UM DIE A 49 by Klaus Stern, Frank Marten Pfeiffer, 86 min.


• EUROPA PASSAGE by Andrei Schwartz, 90 min.


• KALLE KOSMONAUT by Tine Kugler, Günther Kurth, 99 min


• LIEBE, D-MARK UND TOD | LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH by Cem Kaya, 96min.


• PORNFLUENCER by Joscha Bongard, 74min


• SORRY GENOSSE by Vera Brückner, 94min

 

The FFF Talent Award Documentary Film, donated by FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, honours local up-and-coming directors at DOK.fest Munich. The award is given across all sections and is endowed with 5,000 Euros. The six nominated films A SOUND OF MY OWN by Rebecca Zehr, BLACK MAMBAS by Lena Karbe, HOAMWEH LUNG by Felix Klee, NACH DEM HAPPY END by Katharina Köster, SORRY GENOSSE | SORRY COMRADE by Vera Brückner, and WOID are online from 09 to 22 May online as well as from 04 to 15 May at the Munich venues during the 37 DOK.fest Munich.

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 The F:ACT AWARD goes to
BLACK MAMBAS by Lena Karbe.

“A seemingly simple story that quietly reveals its complex layers, BLACK MAMBAS touches upon a multitude of themes, acknowledging but also defying stereotypes. In an ideologically charged landscape we get to experience the struggles and empowerment of young women against the persisting power structures, within the frame of race, family dynamics and the tight grip of colonialism that refuses to let go.
With brilliant cinematography and an intimate eye for nuance we get to experience what sacrifices it takes for a woman to feed a family– we partake in the dream of becoming a decolonized body. The F:ACT AWARD goes to BLACK MAMBAS by Lena Karbe.”

The NEXT:WAVE AWARD goes to KASH KASH – WITHOUT FEATHERS WE CAN'T LIVE by Lea Najjar.
“From a tiny anecdote this film expands its cinematic universe and unveils the disillusionment of an entire city – an entire country. From the opening scene’s claustrophobic setting, to the final wide eye of an artificial pigeon, witnessing the place it took flight from. We, the jury, wish to give this year’s Next:Wave Award to a piece of delicate yet vigorous cinema: ‘Kash Kash – Without Feathers We Can’t Live’”

• 200 new films. 76 world premieres. 59 competition titles in six international competitions, including 20 German productions and co-productions. CPH:DOX presents a film programme with a diverse selection of films of artistic quality and contemporary relevance. Several films focusing on Ukraine and Russia will be premiering in the festival’s main competition, DOX:AWARD, as well as in other sections.


• CPH:DOX will be a hybrid festival in 2022. All films will be screened in the movie theatres between March 23 – April 3.


• In addition, a selection of 50-70 films are additionally invited to be a part of a nation-wide online festival from April 1-10 (geo-blocked to Denmark). The selection of films will be announced on March 30 on doxonline.dk.


• Accredited international guests will get access to the majority of all films in the festival programme via CPH:MARKET


• CPH:DOX will be hosting a lot of exciting in-person events in Copenhagen as well as online offers for both the industry and the audience.


• Ten projects have been selected for INTER:ACTIVE that can be experienced at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and at selected venues around Copenhagen from March 25 – April 3, 2022. The interactive exhibition line-up includes three German productions and co-productions.

LineUp German productions and co-productions

• BLACK MAMBAS by Lena Karbe, 81min, P: Karbe Film GmbH , Germany/France, [F:ACT AWARD]


• CAPTURED by Hanna Haaslahti, Finland/Germany [INTER:ACTIVE]


• CIVIL DUSK by David Uzochukwu, Germany/Nigeria [INTER:ACTIVE]


• CONSTANT by Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner, 40min P: Beny Wagner, Sasha Litvintseva,   Germany/UK, [NEW:VISION]


• THE DEAL by Chiara Sambuchi, 89min P: Arndt Fehl, Docdays Productions, WS: NEW DOCS, Germany [F:ACT AWARD]


• F@CK THIS JOB by Vera Krichevskaya, 104min, P: Mike Lerner, Jess Search , Vera Krichevskaya, UK/Germany, P: BBC & NDR _ [FOKUS: RUSLAND & UKRAINE]


• FREAKSCENE by Philipp Virus, 82min, Germany/US WS: Rapid Eye Movies [SOUND & VISION]


• GIRL GANG by Susanne Regina Meures, a Swiss poroduction with a German topic  (P: Switzerland, Christian Frei & SRF) WS: RISE AND SHINE [DOX:AWARD & POLITIKEN:DOX]


• INTO THE ICE by Lars Henrik Ostenfeld, Denmark/Germany, P: HANSEN & PEDERSEN, Kloos & Co., WS: Rise and Shine World Sales [DOX:AWARD]*


• KASH KASH – WITHOUT FEATHERS WE CAN'T LIVE by Lea Najjar, 90min P: FFL Film- und Fernseh-Labor, Matthias Drescher, Germany/Lebanon/Qatar [NEXT:WAVE]


• MANGROVE SCHOOL by Filipa César, Sónia Vaz Borges P: Olivier Marboeuf, Filipa César, Portugal/Germany/France, [NEW:VISION]


• MIDWIVES by Hnin Ei Hlaing, 89min, Myanmar/Germany  [DOX:AWARD]


• MYRIAD. WHERE WE CONNECT by Lena Thiele, Sebastian Baurmann and Dirk Hoffmann, Germany [INTER:ACTIVE]


• THE NORTH DRIFT by Steffen Krones, 92min, Germany, P: ravir film, WS: New Docs. [CPH:SCIENCE]


• REWIND & PLAY with Thelonious Monk by Alain Gomis, 65min, P: Andolfi | Arnaud Dommerc, Die Gesellschaft DGS, France/Germany,
   [SOUND & VISION]


• A SOUND OF MY OWN by Rebecca Zehr, 52min, Germany, P: HFF Munich, taro films  [SOUND & VISION ]


• THE SUBHARCHORD – A FUTURE THAT NEVER HAPPENED by Ina Pillat, 60min, Norway/Germany,
   [SOUND & VISION]


• THIS STOLEN COUNTRY OF MINE by Marc Wiese, 93min, P: Oliver Stoltz, P: DREAMER JOINT VENTURE Filmprod. GmbH [F:ACT AWARD]


• THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE by Andreas Wilcke, 94min [CPH:DOX]


• WIRECARD: THE BILLION EURO LIE by Jono Bergmann, Benji Bergmann, 99min, P: BABKA, [Special Premieres]


• THE WORM by Ed Atkins, 13min, P: Ed Atkins [NEW:VISION]

* The Danish/German co-production INTO THE ICE by Lars Henrik Ostenfeld has been selected as the opening film at this year’s CPH:DOX. It will furthermore compete in the festival’s main competition DOX:AWARD. The world premiere on 21 March 2022 will be held in Copenhagen.

 CPH:DOX FOR PROFESSIONALS

In 2022, CPH:DOX’s industry events will take place both physically in Copenhagen and online. These events include financing and co-production event CPH:FORUM, the CPH:CONFERENCE and an INTER:ACTIVE Symposium. The industry programme runs under the banner BUSINESS AS UNUSAL between 28 March and 1 April in 2022.
CPH:MARKET is a curated on-demand screening platform that reflects CPH:DOX’s commitment to visually and artistically strong documentary films. It offers professionals an access to the extensive line-up of +150 documentary titles selected for CPH:DOX 2022, and features the line-up of the five competitions – DOX:AWARD, NEW:VISION AWARD, F:ACT AWARD, NORDIC:DOX AWARD, and NEXT:WAVE AWARD – as well all special programmes. Primarily targeted to international TV buyers, sales agents, festivals, curators, journalists and distribution companies, the on-demand screening market is open to all accredited professionals. The titles are available from March 23 until 30 days after the festival May 3, 2022.
For more information please visit the website CPH:DOX for professionals !

The next edition of CPH:DOX is held from March 15-26, 2023.
SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
• September 1, 2022 (for films finished by that date)
• December 1, 2022 (for films finished after September 1)

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Visions du Réel expresses is joining the international movement of solidarity with the Ukrainian people, who are fighting for their freedom. The 2022 official selection notably includes A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS, presented in the GRAND ANGLE  Competition, a film about the fractures caused by the war in Eastern Ukraine. Moreover, the line-up will feature three other films directed and/or produced in Ukraine, such as THE EARTH IS SPINNING by Olena Kyrychenko, 20min in the section OPENING SCENES.

As a sign of solitarity VdR presets at the end of the festival THE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE by Iryna Tsilyk “War is when some people shoot. And other people shoot the people who shot first. When they start to shoot, mum wakes us up and we go to the corridor. And when they stop, we go back to sleep.” [source 70 BERLINALE Generation 14plus, WS: CAT&Docs]

Online Talk : Ukraine : Filming in resistance.
THU 14.04 | 16:00-17:30pm | Online only visionsdureel.ch
Since 24 February, the war in Ukraine has also been conducted through the images that report on it or distort its reality. Visions du Réel wishes to offer a platform to young Ukrainian filmmakers and producers who are currently standing alongside their compatriots under the Russian bombs, to reflect and debate with them on the possibility of resisting the ongoing onslaught with images that document it.

LineUp German productions and co-productions .

• 5 DREAMERS AND A HORSE by Aren Malakyan, Vahagn Khachatryan, 80min [International Feature Film Competition]


• DON'T WORRY ABOUT INDIA by Nama Filmcollective, 97min, co-P: Tamtam Film GmbH [National Competition]


• EUROPE by Philip Scheffner, 105min, using fiction to convey violence and absurdity [Burning Lights Competition]


• FIRST PACKAGE FOR HONDURAS by Jakob Krese, 23min, P: Majmun Films [International Medium Length & Short Film Competition]


• A GERMAN PARTY by Simon Brückner, 110min, P: spicefilm GmbH [GRAND ANGLE]


• HERBARIA by Leandro Listorti, 84min, coP: Weltfilm, WS: Kino Rebelde [Burning Lights Competition]


• HOW TO SAVE A DEAD FRIEND by Marusya Syroechkovskaya, 103min, WS: LIGHTDOX


• MARLENE by Barbara Marcel, 45min P: Arapuca Films [International Medium Length & Short Film Competition]


• REPUBLIC OF SILENCE by Diana El Jeiroudi, 183min WS: Salzgeber, [LATITUDES]


• SILENT LOVE by Marek Kozakiewicz, 72min, P: KOI STUDIO, Tondowski Films [LATITUDES]


• TARA by Volker Sattel, Francesca Bertin, 86min [International Feature Film Competition]

[ The full programme of 53 Vision du Réel you can find here ]

VdR-Industry April 10-14, 2022

From April 10 to 14, 2022 VdR–Industry will take place in Nyon, Switzerland. The most important activities and project presentations are set for April 10–14. The festival is pursuing its unique on-site format, while keeping the most useful tools from the online experience. The format of the 53rd festival will be even more intimate, based around its core values of conviviality and unique cinematic experience, set among the lake and mountains of Switzerland. Despite a difficult and evolving situation, it is with passion and enthusiasm that the Visions du Réel’s team is preparing the reunion of filmmakers, professionals and their public, in full respect of the measures that will be in place by the Swiss authorities this spring.

VdR-Industry Projects with German authors, German based authors or producers

• 5 SEASONS OF REVOLUTION  by Lina, Syria, Germany, Norway, Netherlands, Qatar [VdR–Work in Progress]


• THE MONSTER by Manuel Abramovich, Argentina, Germany [VdR-Pitching]


• SECRET FRIEND by Maria Ramos, Brazil, Netherlands, Germany [VdR–Work in Progress]


• KARATARA – PLACE OF DARK SHADOWS by Teboho Edkins, South Africa [VdR–Pitching]


• find all VdR-Industry projects here. 

VdR–Film Market is an online platform that offers key industry professionals the opportunity to view a selection of new creative documentaries. stay tuned for the LineUp of German productions and co-productions.

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AHOI!

War is raging in Ukraine. The dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg is part of an international community of cultural workers, and they are convinced that solidarity and debate in an open society are more than just a symbolic sign against tanks, bombs and a military understanding of politics. Even if there is no alternative to self-defence by the people of Ukraine, the current debates about rearmament are part of the problem and never the solution! In view of the concrete threat to human life posed by this war, this may seem insufficient. Nevertheless: together with the guests and the audience, the team of  dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg would like to make a contribution to continue working for a world without dictatorships, war, exploitation and displacement.
Most of the filmmakers of the documentaries in the programm will be present at the festival, and in anticipation of an eventful four and a half days of the 19th festival edition, they release you into the depths of the program catalogue with a quote from Lars von Trier: "Be prepared to take the Good with the Evil!"

LineUp German productions and co-productions:

• DER BERG, DEN ES NICHT GIBT by Leonid Kharlamov, Michael Steinhauser, 24min


• THE FIRST 54 YEARS – AN ABBREVIATED MANUAL FOR MILITARY OCCUPATION by Avi Mograbi, 110min


• DERWEIL by Samuel Parkes Heinrichs, 45min


• GENOSSE TITO, ICH ERBE by Olga Kosanovic, 27min


• KOEY | KÖY by Serpil Turhan, 90min


• LAGERHAUS G by Markus Fiedler, 102min


• THE MAP OF BEAUTY | DIE KARTE DER SCHÖNHEIT by Marco Kugel, 85min


• NIPPON-KOKU OGATA-MURA by Stefanie Gaus, 110min


• PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK by Naama Heiman, 46min


• A PLACE CALLED WAHALA | EIN ORT NAMENS WAHALA by Jürgen Ellinghaus, 56min


• SUN UNDER GROUND | SONNE UNTER TAGE by Mareike Bernien, Alex Gerbaulet, 39min


• UNGENORDET by Ruben van den Belt, 22min

The 24th PANORAMA AUDIENCE AWARD for the best documentary goes to  LOVE DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH by Cem Kaya. The prize is awarded by the Berlinale section Panorama together with radioeins and rbb television (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg). Cem Kaya’s dense documentary essay celebrates 60 years of Turkish music in Germany. An alternative post-war history that is at the same time a musical Who’s Who – from Yüksel Özkasap to Derdiyoklar and Muhabbet. The Panorama Audience Award has been bestowed since 1999. As of 2011, both the best feature fiction film and the best documentary have been honoured. During the Berlinale, all cinema-goers are invited to rate the films in the Panorama section on a voting card. In total around 8,000 votes were cast and evaluated.

BERLINALE DOCUMENTARY AWARD Special Mention goes to the German co-production NO U-TURN by Ike Nnaebue produced by Christilla Huillard-Kann, Okechukwu Omeire, Don Edkins, Tiny Mungwe, Teboho Edkins [Nigeria / South Africa / France / Germany]. Congratulation!

...and the winner are the members of an anonymous film collective in Myanmar for MYANMAR DIARIES  produced by Corinne van Egeraat. Even close family members of The Myanmar Film Collective do not know, 'they did it'. Congratulations to the members of this anonymous Myanmar film collective, who want neither to give up nor to be forced into the role of victims. This is exactly why this film was made and awarded. It is a document of resistance using the tools of cinema. 

Berlinale Documentary Award
For many years now, the Berlin International Film Festival has been committed to the diversity of documentary forms. A distinct award for the best documentary film was launched in 2017.
The Berlinale Documentary Award is endowed with 40,000 Euros in prize money sponsored by public broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb). The prize money is split between the winning film’s director and producer. Approximately 18 current documentary forms from the sections Competition, Encounters, Panorama, Forum, Generation, Berlinale Special and Perspektive Deutsches Kino are nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Award. [GUIDELINES] A three-member jury will pick the winner: Wang Bing (People’s Republic of China), Rana Eid (Lebanon), Susanne Schüle (Germany). More about the Documentary Award Jury.

All the awards of the Official Juries of the 72th Berlin International Film Festival here.
Please note: The Prizes of the Independent Juries will be announced on February 17, 2022.

The KOMPASS-PERSPEKTIVE-AWARD is awarded to the best film in the current Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme. The award includes 5,000 Euros in prize money and the director is given a trophy in the form of a compass. Perspektive Deutsches Kino and Berlinale Talents jointly award the annual Kompagnon-Fellowship. Eligible to apply are directors and screenwriters of short or feature films who were part of the last edition of Perspektive Deutsches Kino, as well as permanent residents of Germany who will participate in the Script Station, Doc Station or Short Film Station at the current edition of Berlinale Talents.

A jury, comprised of three film professionals, will select one winner from Berlinale Talents and one from Perspektive Deutsches Kino. In addition to a stipend of 5,000 Euros (2,500 Euros for short films) for the independent development of a screenplay or project, the Kompagnon also provides a mentoring programme to help strengthen the filmmaker’s artistic signature, alongside professional coaching and improved industry networking opportunities. ...and the winner is
Kompass-Perspektive-Award 2022 is LADIES ONLY by Rebana Liz John
The Compass-Perspektive-Award goes to Ladies Only, a raw, honest film that concentrates on the essentials, truly standing out with its decisiveness and clarity of form. A crowd of people push their way through the narrow door of a train compartment, and for 80 minutes a transitional location becomes intimate theatre, in which we get to know various women. Filmmaker Rebana Liz John asks questions about existential issues such as freedom, family and career, and we obtain personal insights into the lives of the protagonists. She has different generations read a poem out loud and comment on it, interrelating their differing points of view. Interview moments alternate with quietly observed situations. The montage creates visible emphasis and contrasts, and takes a firm standpoint. As a result, the public space of the train compartment becomes an intimate space. Numerous situations and times of day are interwoven, and the finely crafted sound design generates continuity and tension. It takes courage to tell such a reduced story, to take a close look and to produce a socially relevant film from everyday life.  (statement of the jury)

72 Berlinale 10-20 Feb 2022

 

The 72 BERLINALE has developed a new concept so that it can fly the flag for culture emphatically, even in these times of pandemic. The focus this year, therefore, will be on cinema screenings in the Berlinale venues. The health and safety of the audience at all events and strict compliance with the current hygiene regulations remain the top priority. Following recent decisions by the Federal Government and the Berlin Senate, the previously developed hygiene and security measures have been reviewed once again, so that the 2022 festival can be organised as an in-person 2G-plus event (additional masking and testing requirement).
Find the Press Release January, 12, 2022 here. More information here.

 LineUp german documentaries:

• BETTINA by Lutz Pehnert, 107min, P: solo:film GmbH, [Panorama Dokumente]


• COME WITH ME TO THE CINEMA – THE GREGORS | KOMM MIT MIR IN DAS CINEMA – DIE GREGORS by Alice Agneskirchner, 155min, P: Ehlermann & Agneskirchner GbR [Forum Special]


• A GERMAN PARTY | EINE DEUTSCHE PARTY by Simon Brückner, 110min, P: spicefilm GmbH [Berlinale Special]


• LADIES ONLY by Rebana Liz John, 79min, P: KHM; [Perspektive Talent documentary filmmaking: Rebana Liz John]


• THE LIGHTING by Musquiqui Chihying, 21min [Forum Expanded, 3 channel video installation]


• LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH | LIEBE, D-MARK und Tod | ASK, MARK VE ÖLÜM by Cem Kaya, 98min, P: filmfaust GmbH,  Film Five GmbH, [Panorama Dokumente]


• KALLE KOSMONAUT by Günther Kurth, Tine Kugler, 99min P: KMOTO Medienproduktion GmbH [Generation 14+]


• NO U-TURN by Ike Nnaebue, 90min, P: ELDA° productions, STEPS, Passion 8 Communication, Day Zero Films UG [Panorama Dokumente]


• RETREAT by Anabela Angelovska, 30min, P: Anabela Angelovska [Berlinale Shorts]


• REWIND & PLAY with Thelonious Monk by Alain Gomis, 65min P: Andolfi, coP Germany: Die Gesellschaft DGS [Forum]


• THE SONG OF THE SHIRT by Kerstin Schroedinger, 47min [Forum Expanded]


• SORRY COMRADE | SORRY GENOSSE by Vera Brückner, 94min, P: NORDPOLARIS; [Perspektive Talent Production: Fabian Halbig]


• SUN UNDER GROUND | SONNE UNTER TAGE by Mareike Bernien, Alex Gerbaulet, 39min, P: pong film GmbH [Forum Expanded]


• VOICES AND SHELLS by Maya Schweizer, 18min [Forum Expanded]

• and the fiction, that started as a documentary production and was part of several documentary film festivals 2022 ans ongoing:
  EUROPE by Philip Scheffner, 105min, P: pong film GmbH, WS: Square Eyes, [FORUM] [comment by the editor, September, 25, 2022]

14 german documentaries @ 72 BERLINALE, Feb.10-20, 2022

Berlinale Documentary Award

For many years now, the Berlin International Film Festival has been committed to the diversity of documentary forms. A distinct award for the best documentary film was launched in 2017.
The Berlinale Documentary Award is endowed with 40,000 Euros in prize money sponsored by public broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb). The prize money is split between the winning film’s director and producer. Approximately 18 current documentary forms from the sections Competition, Encounters, Panorama, Forum, Generation, Berlinale Special and Perspektive Deutsches Kino are nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Award. [GUIDELINES] A three-member jury will pick the winner: Wang Bing (People’s Republic of China), Rana Eid (Lebanon), Susanne Schüle (Germany). More about the Documentary Award Jury.

Berlinale Special makes room mainly to documentaries that are the best way to explore our world and its legacy. From a recording studio during the pandemic to the little-known industry of synthetic diamonds, from a microcosm to be found in and around an old oak tree in France to a controversial political party in Germany, with the title EINE DEUTSCHE PARTY | A GERMAN PARTY by Simon Brückner, ending with a take on the power and ethics of photography.
Berlinale Special comprises 15 films from twelve countries, among them six documentary forms and nine feature films as well as two short films. Twelve are world premieres. Find the international LineUp of this section here.

Panorama Dokumente .

Ten documentary works enrich this year’s programme with their stories and heterogeneous points of view. Many of them combine history and the present to open up new perspectives, make biographies visible and bring previously hidden subcultures to life. In Cem Kaya’s documentary essay ASK, MARK VE ÖLÜM | LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH | LIEBE, D-MARK UND TOD, the director orchestrates material from 60 years of alternative German post-war and Turkish-German cultural history. Berlin singer-songwriter Bettina Wegner is the focal point of the film portrait BETTINA in which Lutz Pehnert deploys meticulously researched and arranged archive material to tell not only the biography of an artist, but also the history of the divided Germany.
The camera as a tool for self-reflection and a way to search for clues is a recurring motif in films such as NO U-TURN from Nigeria, in which we set off with director Ike Nnaebue on a cinematic journey retracing his steps from Lagos to Tangier, the continent-traversing route he first travelled as a teenager in hope of a better life. Along the way, he draws a multinational and multilingual portrait of African migration.

Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2022: An Echo of the Past 

Seven feature films and documentaries have been invited to Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2022. From this year onwards, the section also wishes to draw attention to other skills that shape the creative process of filmmaking. In addition to the traditional appreciation of directing and production, in the future, there will also be a special talent in every Perspektive film presented from another discipline.
For the first time in 2022, the programme will therefore feature in addition to six female directors and a male director, Perspektive talents from the fields of documentary filmmaking, camera, editing, production and production design...

The two documentaries SORRY GENOSSE | SORRY COMRADE and LADIES ONLY make up the programme. SORRY COMRADE by Vera Brückner (P: NORDPOLARIS; Perspektive Talent Production: Fabian Halbig) introduces us to the incredible love story of the Thuringian medical student Hedi and the West German left-wing activist Karl Heinz. This playfully depicted story of a ludicrous escape opens up an unusual view of the German-German past. In the documentary LADIES ONLY by Rebana Liz John (P: KHM; Perspektive Talent documentary filmmaking: Rebana Liz John), we become acquainted with women in the women's compartments of local trains in Mumbai who give us an insight into their perspectives, hopes and anger and create a colourful picture of the faces, languages and cultures of Indian society shining in a stylish black and white film.

Generation

Angry and free, courageous and tender, eloquent and introverted. Shining the spotlight on fresh, untamed, resonant voices in the world of young cinema, the selection of this edition’s two competition programmes Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus comprises 24 feature-length films and 28 short films. 12 feature film debuts, more than 50% female directors, a wide range of cinematic forms and perspectives.
The cinematic forms and imageries are as creative, free and unconventional as the protagonists themselves. In addition to numerous fictional works, eight documentary forms enrich this year's feature film competitions. By virtue of animation or staging, the filmmakers experiment with the concept of hybridity and thereby focus on questions of framing and the ethics of their work processes. KALLE KOSMONAUT by Günther Kurth, Tine Kugler, the German documentary production in this section, is a long-term documentary about Kalle, a boy from the prefabricated housing projects along the Allee of the Cosmonauts, paints a different picture of Berlin: 'Poor' is not 'sexy' here, it means: bad opportunities. The directing duo respectfully accompanies Kalle and leaves the charismatic boy to speak, supplementing scenes with animated sequences by Alireza Darvish where background knowledge is meaningful.

25 International Forum of New Cinema © 1995 Marian Stefanowski
out of the film COME WITH ME TO THE CINEMA – THE GREGORS

52 Forum and Forum Expanded

The selection process for the 52nd Berlinale Forum made one thing very clear: however much the pandemic may have paralysed life in our societies, filmmakers worldwide have lost none of their inventiveness and artistic desire. The works selected - 27 feature-length works in the main programme, 14 feature-length works and shorts in the Forum Special programme - are a dazzling demonstration of this, among them the German/French documentary co-production – an archival explorations by Alain Gomis’ REWIND & PLAY with THELONIUS MONK.

Many films from the Forum and Forum Expanded programmes are subtitled. After the festival, they can remain in Berlin and potentially be distributed. This means that the works can equally enjoy a life beyond the festival itself, finding their way into the non-commercial cinema landscape and other festivals, biennales and exhibitions across the world. In the long term, they are also added to Arsenal’s Living Archive.

Forum also takes a look at its own history. Alice Agneskirchner’s film portrait KOMM MIT MIR IN DAS CINEMA – DIE GREGORS | COME WITH ME TO THE CINEMA – THE GREGORS is dedicated to Ulrich und Erika Gregor. With film excerpts, archive footage, re-enacted scenes and interviews, the Berlin director examines the biographies and considerable impact of these two legendary film curators without whom Forum would not exist.

An Awareness of History. Nine Film Programmes showing as a Forum Special, are including German documentary productions in the programm Fiktionsbescheinigung. Movies, that are either historical works now available in newly restored prints or reflect on the history of Forum, such as:

• DILIM DÖNMÜYOR – MY TONGUE DOES NOT TURN | MEINE ZUNGE DREHT SICH NICHT by Serpil Turhan © 2013
  Serpil Turhan’s grandparents gave up Kurdish for Turkish and the village for the city, just as her mother gave up Turkish for German and Istanbul for Berlin in turn. The director gently compiles fragments from the life of a family marked by migration. P: Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe


• DIRT FOR DINNER | DRECKFRESSER by Branwen Okpako 75min, © 2000
  Born in Saxony, Afro-German Sam Meffire has had a chequered life. At the start of the 1990s, his face was used as the symbol of an open-minded state, before he became a police officer, friend of the minister of the interior and eventually a criminal. P: DFFB .


• THE EMPTY CENTER | DIE LEERE MITTE 62min, by Hito Steyerl © 1998
  Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz: in the 1990s, the former death strip became the site for emblematic construction projects and a new centre of power. Steyerl’s incisive essay reveals a whole nexus of political forces based on exclusion and suppression. [Courtesy the artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and Esther Schipper, Berlin]


• MERRY CHRISTMAS DEUTSCHLAND ODER VORLESUNG ZUR GESCHICHTSTHEORIE II by Raoul Peck, 18min © 1985
  Raoul Peck’s student film at the DFFB dips into the prevailing mood in Germany in 1984 and the conception of democracy of the time. Images of the grey city, people in a festive mood and clips from West German television exert an atmospheric pull.


• NORMALITY 1-X | NORMALITÄT 1-10 by Hito Steyerl © 1999-2001
  At the turn of the century, neo-Nazi marches, racist attacks and the defiling of Jewish graves formed part of everyday life in Germany and Austria. Steyerl’s series of essayistic shorts give an account of violence mistaken for normality. [Courtesy the artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and Esther Schipper, Berlin]

LineUp German documentary productions and co-Productions @efm'22

• DAUGHTERS OF REVOLUTION. ERITREA – PEACE IN TIME OF WAR | TÖCHTER DER REVOLUTION. ERITREA – EIN FRIEDEN IN DEN ZEITEN DER KRIEGE by Christine Vogelsang, 19min, Pilot of a five part series [efm screening]


• THE DEVIL'S DRIVERS by Daniel Carsenty, Mohammed Abugeth, 93min, WS: Films Boutique, [efm screening]


• LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES by Ahmet Necdet Çupur, coP: JYOTI Film, WS: Deckert Distribution [efm screening]


• INSIDE THE UFFIZI | IN DEN UFFIZIEN by Corinna Belz, Enrique Sánchez Lansch, 96min, coP: zero one film, WS: MAGNETFILM [efm screenings]


• LOST WOMEN ART by Susanne Radelhof, 104min, coP: Koberstein Film, WS: Rise and Shine World Sales [efm screening]


• LOVING HIGHSMITH with Gwendoline Christie by Eva Vitija, 83min, coP: LICHTBLICK Film– und Fernsehproduktion, Esemblefilm, – WS: Autlook Filmsales, [Berlinale Talents Alumni efm screening]


• MCAINE. An Anagram of CINEMA by Margarete Kreuzer, 89min, coP+WS: Medea Film Factory [efm screening]


• MIDWIVES by Hnin (Snow) Ei Hlaing, 92min, coP: AMA FILM, WS: Dogwoof [Sundance at EFM]


• MOM EATS DEATH – PORTRAIT MARTINA WERNER | MAMA ISST DEN TOD – PORTRAIT MARTINA WERNER by Monika B. Beyer, 87min, WS: netzgeflecht, [efm screening]


• REMEMBER ME by Kerstin Hamburg, Michael Baudenbacher, Paul White, 34min, WS: TANZRAUSCHEN [efm screening]


• THE SOUND WEAVERS: Ludovico Einaudi, Hauschka, Joep Beving, Hania Rani  | KLANGWEBER: DIE NEOKLASSIKER Ludovico Einaudi, Hauschka, Joep Beving, Hania Rani by Anne-Kathrin Peitz, 52min, WS: EuroArts Music Interntional, [efm screening]


• VILLAGE X [series 8x30min] by Dominik Bretsch, Simon Hufeisen, 64min, P: Weltrecorder, WS: Rise and Shine World Sales [efm screening]


• ZINDER by Aicha Macky, 82min, coP: Point du Jour - Les films du balibari, Tabous production, Corso films, WS: Andana Films [World Cinema Fund - efm screening]

NEW: EFM Documentary: Rough-Cut Presentations
In partnership with institutions and associations worldwide, the EFM is presenting a selection of documentaries in the rough-cut stage for the first time. Similar to the showcases at the Berlinale Series Market, the Rough-Cut Presentations provide a platform for documentary filmmakers to present, pitch and discuss excerpts from their films in a cinema on Potsdamer Platz for buyers, festival programmers and sales agents.

At the Berlinale Series Market, director Georg Tschurtschenthaler and producer Christian Beetz give a first look at their new true-crime series. REEPERBAHN Special Unit 65 tells the story of the fight of Germany's first special unit, Fachdirektion 65, against organized crime in the 1980s. The central setting is the red-light district of St. Pauli, where a brutal battle for money and power unfolds.

© 2022 NORDMEDIA | MOIN Film Fund | Gebrüder Beetz Filmprod.

European Film Market, Berlinale Co-Production Market, Berlinale Talents and World Cinema Fund to go online.
Traditionally at the beginning of the year, the central platform for trading in rights to films and audiovisual content gives an outlook on the production, evaluation and trading activities in the coming months, and makes Berlin the meeting place for producers, distributors, and sales agents from all around the world.
Visit our virtual booth under the umbrella of German Films @EFMonline, the easiest way to find out the screening schedule of german documentaries @EFM'22.

…by the way, there is no section LOLA@BERLINALE due COVID-19 regulations.

https://www.berlinale.de/en/press/press-releases/detail_138952.html

Exceptional Edition of European Film Market Comes to a Successful Conclusion [PR Februar 18, 2022] find all the other Press Releases 72nd Berlinale  here.

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• 72 BERLINALE 2022
• 71 BERLINALE 2021
• 70 BERLINALE 2020
• 69 BERLINALE 2019
• 68 BERLINALE 2018

COMPETITION DOCUMENTARY
Eight documentaries from German speaking countries compete for four prizes: 
• MAX OPHÜLS PRIZE: BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM, endowed with 7,500 Euros, provided by Saarland Medien GmbH, goes to ANIMA – DIE KLEIDER MEINES VATERS | ANIMA – MY FATHER'S DRESSES by Uli Decker, 104min, P: Flare Film
• MAX OPHÜLS PRIZE: BEST FILM MUSIC, endowed with 5,000 euros, offered by Saarland Medien GmbH and endowed by the Strecker Foundation goes to the Julia Kent for the original score of the Austrian production STORIES FROM THE SEA by Jola Wieczorek.
• MAX OPHÜLS PRIZE: PUBLIC PRIZE DOCUMENTARY FILM is endowed with 5,000 euros by Dillinger and Saarstahl. The prize is awarded to an entry from the Documentary Film competition by a vote of the festival audience, goes to ANIMA – DIE KLEIDER MEINES VATERS | ANIMA – MY FATHER'S DRESSES by Uli Decker, 104min, P: Flare Film 
• The award of the non-endowed MAX OPHÜLS PRIZE: PRIZE OF FILM CRITICS is decided by a three-member jury composed of the film critics' associations from Germany (BVMJ and VdFk), Austria (Austrian Film Critics' Guild) and Switzerland (SVFJ) goes to MAYOR, SHEPHERD, WIDOW, DRAGON by Eliza Petkova, 97min, P: Wood Water Films, DFFB

Grit Lemke, Hannah von Hübbenet, Melanie Andernach  

 

LineUp of German productions and co-productions competition feature documentary

• HOSPITALITY | 4 STERNE PLUS by Antje Schneider, 90min, P: Kloos & Co., WS: Rise And Shine


• ANIMA – DIE KLEIDER MEINES VATERS | ANIMA – MY FATHER'S DRESSES by Uli Decker, 104min, P: Flare Film .


• THE ART OF SILENCE | DIE KUNST DER STILLE | L'ART DU SILENCE by Maurizius Staerkle Drux, 81min P: Beauvoir Films, LICHTBLICK Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Ensemble Film, D: W-Film


• COLTAN-FIEBER: CONNECTING PEOPLE by Jan-Christoph Gockel & TD Jack Mahamba Muhindo, 77min, P: peaches&rooster, coP: Theater im Bauturm Köln, afroTopia e.V., Theater im Bauturm Köln, Schauspielhaus Graz


• MAYOR, SHEPHERD, WIDOW, DRAGON by Eliza Petkova, 97min, P: Wood Water Films, DFFB


• FAMILY LOVE – MY GRANDPA, NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND ME | NESTWÄRME – MEIN OPA, DER NATIONALSOZIALISMUS UND ICH by Eric Esser, 95min, P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

LineUp of German productions and co-productions MOP-SHORTLIST: Dok+

• ALLEINGANG | GOING ALONE by Raphael Schanz, 28min, P: panther reh GbR


• BLACK HOLE LEGION by Jonathan Omer Mizrahi, Ariel Sereni Brown, 12min


• JAHR DES KRANICHS | THE YEAR OF CRANE by Tianlin Xu, 12min P: Tianlin Xu


• NACHRUF | OBITUARY by Akin Sipal, 14min, P: Against Reality Pictures


• TÖCHTER | DAUGHTERS by Quynh Le Nguyen, Katharina Soon-Hi Thaler, Stella Deborah Traub, 20min44sec, P: HFF Munich .


• VIBRATIONS – INNER MUSIC by Cadenza Zhao, 15min, P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

Find more information on the eight competing documentaries at the website of 43 FF MOP 2022. Sorry, German only. Download 43 FFMOP information as PDF.

AWARD CEREMONY as online event

as single page:

• 43 FF Max Ophüls Preis 2022
• 42 FF Max Ophüls Preis 2021
• 41 FF Max Ophüls Preis 2020
• 40 FF Max Ophüls Preis 2019

THE GRANIT- for the best documentary goes to LUCHADORAS by Patrick Jasim and Paola Calvo.

The documentary film award GRANIT donated by the Hermann and Bertl Müller Foundation, is awarded for the best documentary of the festival and comes with a prize money of 7.500€. This year's jury have been Marcus Richardt, Cordula Kablitz-Post and Douglas Wolfsperger.

Again, the Hof International Film Festival will take place as a dual festival. Screenings in cinemas according to the hygiene regulations from 26 to 31 October, then plus7streamdays meaning one week until November 7 the films are available online in Germany.

IN MEMORIAM MIKIS THEODORAKIS the 55 Hof IFF screens again
DANCE FIGHT LOVE DIE - WITH MIKIS ON THE ROAD by Asteris Kutulas [51HOF IFF 2017]

LineUp German documentary productions and co-productions

• EVERYTHING YOU NEED | ALLES. WAS MAN BRAUCHT by Antje Hubert, 98min, D: Die Thede .


• AND GENTLY FLOWS THE RHINE | UND RUHIG FLIESST DER RHEIN by Volker Klotzsch, Oliver Matthes, P: rootfilms G.b.R.


• ELECTRA 21 by Asterius Kutulas, 60min, P: Asti Music


• BARRICADE – PICTURES OF A FOREST OCCUPATION | BARRIKADE – BILDER EINER WALDBESETZUNG  by David Klammer, 83min


• GO HEAL YOURSELF | GEH UND HEILE DICH SELBST by Yasmin C. Rams, 106min


• HEAVY METAL DANCERS by Gretta Sammalniemi, 79min, P: Elfenholz Film GmbH, HFF Munich


• HIGHFALUTIN by Hans Broich, 96min


• ISOLATION by Michele Placido, Julia von Heinz, Michael Winterbottom, Jaco Van Dormael, Olivier Guerpillon, 92min, WS: Notorius Pictures


• LUCHADORAS by Paola Calvo, Patrick Jasim, 92min


• MY STRANGE COUNTRY | MEIN FREMDES LAND by Marius Brüning, Johannes Preuß, 94min, P: DOKblick Filmproduktion .


• NACH DER ARBEIT by Alexander Riedel, 120min, P: PELLE FILM Riedel und Timm GbR


• SCHATTENKIND by Andreas Arnstedt, 51min, ___


• SEASIDE SPECIAL by Jens Meurer, 91min


• WEATHERMAKER | DIE WETTERMACHER by Stanislaw Mucha, 92min, P: Zinnober Film


• WE ARE ALL DETROIT – WHAT STAYS AND WHAT DISAPPEARS | WE ARE ALL DETROIT – VOM BLEIBEN UND VERSCHWINDEN by Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken, P: filmproduktion loekenfrank


• YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by André Schäfer, Hartmut Kasper, 90min, P: FLORIANFILM GMBH

SPEEDDATING @ 55 HOF IFF

Other events such as the HoF PLUS framework program as well as the HoF 7 Minutes Pitch for newcomers, will also be organized in accordance with the current pandemic requirements.

This year the pitching session 7 MINUTES even goes one step further. As part of HoF PLUS it offers up-and-coming filmmakers the chance to network in the industry and also find additional strong partners for the realization of their material.

The session will take place on Thursday, 28 October 2021 from 10:00-12:30 within the framework of the HoF PLUS program of the Hof International Film Festival. The pitching languages are German or English.

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• upcoming next 56 Hof IFF 2022 October 25—30, 2022 plus7streamdays •
• 55 Hof IFF 2021
• 54 Hof IFF 2020 _

The festivals with markets are:

BERLINALE | efm
DOK.fest Munich | DOK.forum
DOK Leipzig | DOK INDUSTRY   

Schedule of the international documentary festivals as well as festivals with sections of documentaries chronologic throughout the year.

44 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis January 23—29, 2023 [FB] ___Submission___ starts September 1 until End of October

 

72 BERLINALE – International Filmfestspiele Berlin, Feb. 10—20, 2022
BERLINALE goes open Air June 15-29, 2022 in Berlin
73 BERLINALE – International Filmfestspiele Berlin, Feb. 16—26, 2023
Online submission for 2023 will be activated in mid-September.

efm - European Film Market at the BERLINALE,   Feb. 10—17, 2022  [FB]

19.dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg, April, 20–24, 2022
Find out more information about 20. dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg at the festival's website:
https://dokfilmwoche.com/en/home/