Meet face to face our representatives and some of the producers of German documentaries, check out the new edition of the catalogue at markets and festivals throughout the year. German producers get further informations zur Unterstützung bei internationealen Festivals & Märkten  in German here .

FIPADOC BIARRITZ International Documentary Festival, January 22 - 27, 2019
Representative german documentaries Cay Wesnigk. More informationan German only here.

Asian Side of the Doc, January 30 - February 02, 2018 [2019?] Bangkok, Thailand with pitch sessions and one-to-one meetings. Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen

European Film Market – efm, BERLINALE, February 7 - 17, 2019 Berlin, Germany
booth 17 with representative Kordula Hildebrandt, t. +49 30 220088416 first appearance of the annual edition of the german documentaries catalogue & more information of the LineUp german documentaries @ 69 BERLINALE

Free submission for 20 german productions — first come, first served !
Contact: Björn Jensen

MIPDOC/MIPTV  April 08 - 11, 2019, Cannes, France
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen   
more infomation - German only - here.

RIO CONTENT MARKET®,   April 23 - 28, 2019 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Representative german documentaries: Teresa Curzio | tcurzio@gmx.net

Hot Docs Toronto,  April 25- May 05, 2019, Toronto, Canada
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen   
Get more infomation - German only - here.

CoPro 20 | Israeli Documentary Screen Market , June 02 - 06, 2019, Tel Aviv, Israel
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen, 
further information - German only

Sheffield Documentary Filmfestival, June 06 - 11, 2019,  Sheffield, UK
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen   
further information – German only.

This alternates and can be extended on other festivals.
Representative german documentaries: Bärbel Mauch.
For dates and further information please visit our info-site International Film Festivals at AFRICA or download the German only PDF. )
 

30th Sunny Side of the Doc, June 24 – 27, 2019, La Rochelle, Frankreich
Country of Honour is Germany.
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen
more information – German only – here and here.

MIPCOM,  October 14 - 17, 2019 Cannes, Frankreich
Representative german documentaries: Bernhard Simek, German Films

IDFA / Forum Amsterdam, November 20 - December 1, 2019, Amsterdam, Niederlande.
Representative german documentaries: Cay Wesnigk
german films – representative Bernhard Simek – offers German producers collective submission
Let's get face to face!

World Congress of Science and Factual Producers, November 27 - 30, 2018, Brisbane, Australien
Representative german documentaries Björn Jensen .
Further informations — German only

Guangzhou International Dokumentary Filmfestival, December 10 - 13, 2018, Guangzhou, China
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen

AND THE WINNERS ARE…

• The Glashütte Original – Documentary Award goes to TALKING ABOUT TREES by Suhaib Gasmelbari Mustafa. This international co-production was awarded as well by the Panorma Audience. All Berlinale visitors can use the voting cards to choose the winners of the Audience Award in the Panorama section. The Panorama Audience Award was inaugurated in 1999 and is presented by radioeins radio station, rbb television and the Panorama section.


• Both german documentaries in the section of 69 Berlinale SHORT are awarded with a Bear. Silver Bear for BLUE BOY by Manuel Abramovich and Golden Bear for UMBRA by Johannes Krell, Florian Fischer.


• Thomas Heise is awarded with the Caligari Film Prize for HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME | HEIMAT IST EIN RAUM AUS ZEIT.  The prize is sponsored by the "German Federal Association of Communal Film Work" and filmdienst.de.


• The Heiner Carow Prize for the promotion of German cinematic arts to a documentary, feature or essay film in the Panorama section, sponsored by the DEFA Foundation goes to BEAUTY & DECAY – SVEN MARQUARDT | SCHÖNHEIT & VERGÄNGLICHKEIT by Annekatrin Hendel. The prize honours films that address the social and political issues of today and in history with extraordinary aesthetic means. 


• The Compass-Perspektive-Award for the best film in the programme goes to Maryam Zaree for her film BORN IN EVIN. "In Born in Evin, Maryam Zaree takes us along on a search for her own past, in a gruesome chapter of Iranian history. Resolute and sincere, brave and moving, the filmmaker relentlessly hunts for answers to unasked questions, in the process drawing us ever-deeper into her story and to a collective blind spot. She takes a stand, undaunted, and assumes responsibility for breaking the silence for an entire generation." Jury statement, February 15, 2019 By the way, the project was participent of the 12th International DOK Leipzig Co-Pro Market in autum 2016. Produced by Tondowski Films.

Let's get face to face at the Gropius Bau,
booth 17,  European Film Market,
t. +49 30 220088416
February 7—15, 2019

or join us at the events

• Deutschland—Doku-Land with FRITZ WOLF, hosted bei AG DOK
Feb. 7, 2—4 p.m. at the Landesvertretung des Freistaats Thüringen Mohrenstraße 64, 10117 Berlin (U2/Mohrenstraße)

• AG DOK Berlinale Party Feb. 7, 7 p.m. at BABYLONcinema,
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, Berlin Mitte
(U2/Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz)

The Berlin International Film Festival is very committed to documentaries and diverse documentary forms, as evident from the programmes of the different sections, initiatives and special series, as well as the European Film Market (EFM). In recent years, the number of long and short documentaries screening at the festival has continually increased. In 2018, the Berlinale has published a brochure titled 'Focus on Docs' for the very first time. It gives an overview of the many documentary film activities at the festival, and sparks interest in the films and events at the upcoming Berlinale.

This year, for the third time, the Berlin International Film Festival will present the Glashütte Original – Documentary Award, which was established in 2017 thanks to the support of watch manufacturer Glashütte Original from Saxony. The Glashütte Original – Documentary Award is endowed with € 50,000, funded by Glashütte Original. The prize money will be split between the film’s director and producer. A total of 17 documentary entries from the current programmes of the Panorama, Forum, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino sections and the special series Culinary Cinema are nominated for the Glashütte Original – Documentary Award.
The prize will be presented during the official Award Ceremony in the Berlinale Palast on February 16. In addition to the prize money, Glashütte Original will also provide the trophy, which will be finely crafted in the company’s manufactory in Saxony. Maria Bonsanti, Gregory Nava and Maria Ramos are the jury picking the winner. More information here.

LineUp german documentaries at the 69th BERLINALE

Berlinale Shorts

• BLUE BOY by Manuel Abramovich, produced with grant by Werkleitz Gesellschaft e. V. Winner of the Siver Bear for SHORTS


• UMBRA by Johannes Krell, Florian Fischer, P: ROSENPICTURES Filmproduction GbR, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Winner of the Golden Bear for SHORTS

Berlinale Special

• LAMPENFIEBER | KIDS IN THE SPOTLIGHT by Alice Agneskirchner, P: Gebrüder Beetz Media GmbH


• ES HÄTTE SCHLIMMER KOMMEN KÖNNEN – MARIO ADORF | IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE – MARIO ADORF by Dominik Wessely, P: COIN Film GmbH


• WEIL DU NUR EINMAL LEBST – DIE TOTEN HOSEN AUF TOUR | DIE TOTEN HOSEN ON TOUR – YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE by Cordula Kablitz-Post, Paul Dugdale, P: avanti media fiction GmbH


• PETER LINDBERGH – WOMEN STORIES by Jean Michel Vecchiet, P: DCM & B | 14 FILM

Perspektive Deutsches Kino is coming of age. For the past 18 years, the Berlinale has dedicated itself with this section to supporting promising German filmmakers and talents who are self-confidently searching for their own form of artistic expression.

• BERLIN BOUNCER by David Dietl, P: Flare Film GmbH


• BORN IN EVIN by Maryam Zaree, P: Tondowski Films, Golden Girls, nominated for Glashütte Original Award, winner of the Comapass-Perspektive-Award


• THE INNER LIGHT | DAS INNERE LEUCHTEN by Stefan Sick, P: AMA FILM GmbH


• TACKLING LIVE by Johannes List, P: if... Productions e.K., HFF Munich  ....


• THE PIT | DIE GRUBE by Hristiana Raykova, P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, nominated for Glashütte Original Award.


• 6Minutes66 | 6Minuten66 by Katja Feldmeier, Julius Feldmeier, P: TriebKraft Film

Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus, two competition programmes screening state-of-the-art international cinema. For young audiences and for everyone else. Epic narratives and fleeting moments, flights of fantasy and bitter realities. Coming-of-age stories: awesome, wild and angry, heartfelt and headstrong.

• KIDS | KINDER by Nina Wesemann, P: Leykauf Film GmbH & Co. KG


• RINGSIDE | IM RING by André Hörmann, P: Sutor Kolonko, Germany & Motto Pictures, USA; nominated for Glashütte Original Award


• CITY PLAZA HOTEL by by Anna Paula Hönig, Violeta Paus, P: Triade Films (France, Germany, Chile)

PANORAMAdocuments

2019 marks the 40th edition of the PANORAMA section of the Berlinale. Since its initiation in 1980 under the title Info-Schau, the section has presented films intended to inspire and provoke, and to challenge the audience’s viewing and thinking habits. The film selection is simultaneously an offering and a call to look at cinema differently. On the occasion of the section’s 40th anniversary, Panorama presents a special programme from its 40-year history within two 'german documentaries'.

• In 1992, film pioneer Monika Treut completed what was likely the first portrait of a transgender man in the history of cinema. MAX is the story of a journey to another sex, of experiences with the male sex hormone testosterone, and of hostility within one’s own community.


• One rare testimonial of the German ACT UP movement is Jochen Hick’s short film WILLKOMMEN IM DOM | WELCOME TO THE DOME: A spectacular protest against HIV and AIDS discrimination by the Catholic Church during the German Bishops’ Conference in Fulda in 1991.

• BEAUTY & DECAY – SVEN MARQUARDT | SCHÖNHEIT & VERGÄNGLICHKEIT by Annekatrin Hendel. Winner of the Heiner Carow Prize.


• THE BREATH | DER ATEM by Uli M Schueppel, P: Schueppel Films


• SEARCHING EVA by Pia Hellenthal, P: CORSO Film-&Fernehprod., nominated for Glashütte Original Award.


• TALKING ABOUT TREES by Suhaib Gasmelbari Mustafa, P: Made in Germany Filmprod. Germany, Agat Films, France & Goï Goï Productions. Winner of the Panorama Audience Award as well as of the Glashütte Original – Documentary Award . 
  

 49th FORUM  Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art is putting on the Forum as part of the Berlinale for the 49th time. The Forum 2019 main programme doesn’t consider itself some sort of ‘best of’ list, but rather gathers together a selection of films that try things out, take a stance and refuse to compromise. Some look back at the history of the 20th century, while others focus on what’s to come, even as they remain anchored in the here and now. Numerous films take the written word as their starting point, drawing on or making explicit reference to literature or working with letters, poems and other writings.

• PROGRESS IN THE VALLEY OF THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW | FORTSCHRITT IM TAL DER AHNUNGSLOSEN by Florian Kunert, P: StoryBay Cinema, khm - Academy of Media Arts Cologne


• HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME | HEIMAT IST EIN RAUM AUS ZEIT by Thomas Heise, P: ma.ja.de. Filmprod. Leipzig, Germany & Navigator Film Wien, Austria; Winner of the Caligari Film Prize.


• OLANDA by Bernd Schoch, P: fünferfilm - Krause & Scheuffele GbR


• YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION | BAUJAHRE by Heinz Emigholz P: PYM Films, Filmgalerie 451

LOLA@Berlinale 2019 — shortlisted for German Film Award 2019, section documentary are:

• B12 – LEAVE DYING FOR ANOTHER LIFE | B12 – GESTORBEN WIRD IM NÄCHSTEN LEBEN by Christian Lerch
  Production: Johannes Kaltenhauser, Patrick Lange | Südkino Filmproduktion GmbH


• outside | draußen by Johanna Sunder-Plassmann, Tama Tobias-Macht
  Production: Titus Kreyenberg | unafilm


• PARENTS’ SCHOOL | ELTERNSCHULE by Ralf Bücheler, Jörg Adolph
  Production: Ingo Fliess | if... Productions


• HE SHE I | ER SIE ICH by Carlotta Kittel
  Production: Carlotta Kittel, Isabell Wackers | Kittel & Wackers GbR, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF


• FLY ROCKET FLY by Oliver Schwehm
  Production: Markus Hilß | Lunabeach TV und Media GmbH, novak film


• Hi, A.I. | WIR SIND DIE ROBOTER (AT) by Isa Willinger, Production: Stefan Kloos | Kloos & Co. Medien GmbH; shortlisted for the German Film Award LOLA@Berlinale


• LITTLE GERMANS | KLEINE GERMANEN by Mohammad Farokhmanesh, Frank Geiger
  Production: Mohammad Farokhmanesh, Frank Geiger, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Armin Hofmann | brave new work GmbH, Little Dream Entertainment, Golden Girls Filmproduction & Filmservices GmbH


• OF FATHERS AND SONS by Talal Derki
  Production: Tobias N. Siebert, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, Hans Robert Eisenhauer | Basis Berlin Filmprod. GmbH


• PARTISAN by Lutz Pehnert, Matthias Ehlert, Adama Ulrich
  Production: Susann Schimk | solo:film GmbH


• SHUT UP AND PLAY THE PIANO by Philipp Jedicke
  Production: Stephan Holl, Antoinette Köster | Rapid Eye Movies, Gentle Threat


• TALKING MONEY by Sebastian Winkels
  Production: Susann Schimk | solo:film GmbH, Catpics AG, Zazarfilm Ltd.


• EVERYWHERE WE ARE | ÜBERALL WO WIR SIND by Veronika Kaserer
  Production: Veronika Kaserer, Jan Zabeil


• THE BEES AND THE BIRDS | VON BIENEN UND BLUMEN by Lola Randl
  Production: Henning Kamm | Detailfilm GmbH, Tohuwabohu GmbH

 ...just to remember 68th BERLINALE

 

 • Best Documentary: Hi, A.I. by Isa Willinger
 • Audience Award: CONGO CALLING by Stephan Hilpert
 • Best Score in a documentary by Jonathan Ritzel for LET THE BELL RING 

For 40 years, the Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival has been dedicated to the presentation and promotion of young German-language films. With its focus exclusively on works by new talents from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg, the Max Ophüls Prize is regarded as the most important young film festival in the German-speaking world.

LineUp of German productions and co-productions competition documentary

• LAST YEAR IN UTOPIA | LETZTES JAHR IN UTOPIA by Jana M. Keuchel/Katharina Knust, P: Werkleitz Gesellschaft e. V.


• THINKING LIKE A MOUNTAIN by Alexander Hick, P: HFF-Hochschule für Fersehen und Film


• CONGO CALLING by Stephan Hilpert, P: HFF Munich winner of AUDIENCE AWARD


• HELMUT BERGER, MY MOTHER AND I  |  HELMUT BERGER, MEINE MUTTER UND ICH by Valesca Peters P: Kobalt Productions GmbH


• LET THE BELL RING by Christin Freitag, P: DFFB - Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (winner of) BEST SCORE IN FEATURE DOCUMENTARY  for composer Jonathan Ritzel.


• Hi, A.I. by Isa Willinger, P: Kloos&Co. Medien GmbH  (winner of) BEST DOCUMENTARY PRIZE


• PLAYLAND USA by Benjamin Schindler, P: zeitgebilde Filmproduktion & Hübner/Wallenfels


• ESTÁ TODO BIEN - IT'S ALL GOOD by Tuki Jencquel, WS: MagnetfilmGmbH


• THE CANDIDATES | DIE KANDIDATEN by Michael Schwarz P: nachtschwärmerfilm


• DOES IT MAKE ANY SENSE AND IF IT DOES, WHY DOES IT TAKE SO LONG? | MACHT DAS ALLES EINEN SINN? – UND WENN JA, WARUM DAUERT ES SOLANGE? by Andreas Wilcke, P: weltfilm GmbH


• MY BROTHER IS A DANCER | MEIN BRUDER KANN TANZEN by Felicitas Sonvilla, P: HORSE&FRUITS, HFF Munich

MOP-Shortlist

• SOMMER IM GARTEN by Nora Mazurek


• EL PESO DEL ORO – The Weight of Gold | – Das Gewicht des Goldes by Yves Itzek & Milos Zmiejewski, coP: Academy of Media Arts Cologne


• A PLACE IN THE SUN – 110 YEARS AFTER THE GENOCIDE | PLATZ AN DER SONNE – 110 JAHRE NACH DEM VÖLKERMORD by Christian Zipfel, P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF &  Deutsche Filmakademie


• WALL CALLS | MAUERRUFE by Katharina Bintz, P: Katharina Bintz, HFBK Hamburg


• WE WILL SURVIVE by Nele Dehnenkamp, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH


• REGIMES by Maja Tschumi, P: Academy of Media Arts Cologne, FILMGERBEREI


• TRACING ADDAI by Esther Niemeier P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

and

• THE BITTER AND THE SWEET by Ann Sophie Lindström


• JOMI'S SPHERE OF ACTION by Sebastian Voltmer


• CREDO by DIE REDNER & Gordian Arneth

Download the PDF of the program of the 40th edition of the Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis here

The nominated documentaries are
• OF FATHERS AN SONS • PARENT'S SCHOOL • HI, AI
...and the winner will be announced in a gala ceremony on May 3, 2019 in Berlin at the Palais am Funkturm

• OF FATHERS AND SONS by Talal Derki
  Production: Tobias N. Siebert, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, Hans Robert Eisenhauer Productioncompanies: BASISberlin Filmprod. & Ventana Film
  and Anne Fabini the editor of the documentary is one of the nominees Best Editing.


• PARENTS’ SCHOOL | ELTERNSCHULE by Ralf Bücheler, Jörg Adolph, Production: Ingo Fliess | if... Productions


• Hi, Ai | WIR SIND DIE ROBOTER (AT) by Isa Willinger, Production: Stefan Kloos | Kloos& . Medien GmbH

Thirteen German documentaries have been shortlisted – in der Vorauswahl – and screened at the 69th Berlinale | European Film Market, section LOLA@Berlinale a joint project of the Berlin International Film Festival, the German Film Academy and German Films.

Members of the selection panel German Film Award Documentary 2019 are Jan Tilman Schade, Catrin Vogt, Anne Misselwitz, Alexander Riedel, Marcel Kurth, Britte Wauer, Jamila Wenske, Klaus Stern, Stefan Biebl, Lothar Segeler [From left to right in the photo © 2018 Florian Liedl - Deutsche Filmakademie] 

 LOLA@Berlinale 2019
shortlisted for German Film Award 2019, section documentary are:

• B12 – LEAVE DYING FOR ANOTHER LIFE | B12 – GESTORBEN WIRD IM NÄCHSTEN LEBEN by Christian Lerch
  Production: Johannes Kaltenhauser, Patrick Lange | Südkino Filmproduktion GmbH


• outside | draußen by Johanna Sunder-Plassmann, Tama Tobias-Macht
  Production: Titus Kreyenberg | unafilm


• PARENTS’ SCHOOL | ELTERNSCHULE by Ralf Bücheler, Jörg Adolph
  Production: Ingo Fliess | if... Productions


• HE SHE I | ER SIE ICH by Carlotta Kittel
  Production: Carlotta Kittel, Isabell Wackers | Kittel & Wackers GbR, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF


• FLY ROCKET FLY by Oliver Schwehm
  Production: Markus Hilß | Lunabeach TV und Media GmbH, novak film


• Hi, Ai | WIR SIND DIE ROBOTER (AT) by Isa Willinger
  Production: Stefan Kloos | Kloos & Co. Medien GmbH


• LITTLE GERMANS | KLEINE GERMANEN by Mohammad Farokhmanesh, Frank Geiger
  Production: Mohammad Farokhmanesh, Frank Geiger, Ali Samadi Ahadi, Armin Hofmann | brave new work GmbH, Little Dream Entertainment, Golden Girls Filmproduction & Filmservices GmbH


• OF FATHERS AND SONS by Talal Derki
  Production: Tobias N. Siebert, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, Hans Robert Eisenhauer | Basis Berlin Filmproduktion, Ventana Filmproduktion


• PARTISAN by Lutz Pehnert, Matthias Ehlert, Adama Ulrich
  Production: Susann Schimk | solo:film GmbH


• SHUT UP AND PLAY THE PIANO by Philipp Jedicke
  Production: Stephan Holl, Antoinette Köster | Rapid Eye Movies, Gentle Threat


• TALKING MONEY by Sebastian Winkels
  Production: Susann Schimk | solo:film GmbH, Catpics AG, Zazarfilm Ltd.


• EVERYWHERE WE ARE | ÜBERALL WO WIR SIND by Veronika Kaserer
  Production: Veronika Kaserer, Jan Zabeil


• THE BEES AND THE BIRDS | VON BIENEN UND BLUMEN by Lola Randl
  Production: Henning Kamm | Detailfilm GmbH, Tohuwabohu GmbH

 LineUp of German productions and co-productions

• ARBEITEN ZU KLASSENVERHÄLTNISSE | CLASS RELATIONS by Harun Farocki, 65min, 1983 Germany (the making of cinema)


• BERLIN BASED by Vincent Dieutre, 90min, 2019 France/Germany (French selection)


• BLUE BOY by Manuel Abramovich, 18min, 2019 Germany/Argentina (international competition)


• BACKYARD by Khaled Abdulwahed, 26min, 2018 Germany - pong film GmbH (special screenings)


• I HAD NOWHERE TO GO  – Jonas Mekas  by Douglas Gordon, 100min, 2016 Germany (the making of cinema)


• OUR NAZI | UNSER NAZI by Robert Kramer, 114min, 1984 Germany/France


• STILL RECORDING by Ghiath Alhaddad Ayoub, Saeed Al Batal, 123min, 2018 Lebanon/France/Germany (popular front(s))


• VIDEOGRAMS OF A REVOLUTION by Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica, 107min, 1992 Germany (popular front(s))

 filmlist A—Z   at 41 CINEMA DU REEL

Programme announcement and start of ticket sales for the 50th edition of Visions du Réel April 5-13 on 11 March 2019 in Nyon and online.

Program 2019 - download here.

Visions du Réel, International Film Festival Nyon, will pay tribute to one of the world’s major filmmakers during its 50th edition. It is Werner Herzog who will be awarded the Sesterce d’or Prix Raiffeisen Maître du Réel during the 2019 edition of the Festival (5—13 April 2019). In partnership with the Cinematheque suisse and the ECAL, several events are being organised to give the audience the opportunity to meet the legendary film director: a Masterclass on 9 April and screenings of a selection of films as well as his latest feature-length film, MEETING GORBACHEV  co-directed with André Singer, as a Swiss premiere.

LineUp German productions and co-productions:

• HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME by Thomas Heise, 218min, 2019 Germany


• OUT OF PLACE by Friederike Gussefeld, 86min, 2019 Germany


• ANIMALS by Jonas Spriestersbach, 73, 2019


• IN THE NAME OF SCHEHERAZADE OR THE FIRST BEERGARDEN IN TEHRAN by Narges Kalhor, 75min, 2019 Iran/Germany


• A DONKEY CALLED GERONIMAO by Arjun Talwar, Bigna Tomschin, 80min, 2018 Germany


• TASTE OF HOPE by Laura Coppens, 70min, 2019, Switzerland/Germany


• AGAIN by Mario Pfeifer, 39min, 2019 Germany


• RIAFN by Hannes Lang, 29min, 2019 Germany


• TRANSIT CIRCLE by Stephan Knauss, 40min, 2019 Germany/China


• Hi, Ai by Isa Willinger, 87min, 2019 Germany


• KABUL, CITIY IN THE WIND by Aboozar Amini, 88min, 2019 Netherlands/Japan/Germany/Afghanistan


• DEAD SEA DYING by Katharina Rabl, Rebecca Zehr, 30min, 2019 Germany

• MEETING GORBACHEV by Werner Herzog, André Singer 90min, 2018 USA/UK/Austria/Germany


• FATA MORGANA by Werner Herzog, 73min, 1970 Germany


• LA SOUFRIERE by Werner Herzog, 31min, 1977 Germany


•  GASHERBRUM - THE DARK GLOW OF THE MOUNTAINS by Werner Herzog, 45min, 1984 Germany


• INTO THE INFERNO by Werner Herzog, 104min, 2016 UK/Canada/Germany


• among others.


• THE GREAT ECSTASY OF WOODCARVER STEINER by Werner Herzog, 44min, 1974, Germany

21th ONE WORLD International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
March, 5 - 14, 2018 in Prague and 35 other cities

One World in safe proximity!

Identity and the various forms it takes in the globalized world of the 21st century – this is the subject explored by this year’s One World film festival under the motto Safe Proximity. In addition to its traditional competitions and thematic categories, the festival program will thus also include two categories on the subject of searching for and defining one’s identity – both individual and on across society. “The protagonists of these films are either struggling to figure out where they belong, or they know it but find it difficult to understand their surroundings or society. Some of their stories take place on the other side of the planet, but thanks to film we learn that we have much in common,” says the festival’s programming director Ondrej Moravec. This year’s 21st One World film festival is held in Prague from 6 to 17 March and subsequently in another 35 cities throughout the Czech Republic.

german documentaries LineUp

• ALL CREATURES WELCOME by Sandra Trostel (Category: One Zero)


• AMAL by Mohamed Siam (Category: Journeys to freedom)


• BEFORE FATHER GETS BACK by Mari Gulbiani (Category: Panorama)


• ESTA TODO BIEN – IT'S ALL GOOD by Tuki Jencquel (Category: Right to know)


• EXIT – Leaving Extremism Behind by Karen Winther (Category: ???)


• FAR. THE STORY OF A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD by Gwendolin Weisser, Patrick Allgaier (Category: Long Live Life)


• HAMADA by Eloy Dominguez Seren (Category: !!!)


• ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS by Gabrielle Brady (Category: Panorama)


• TACKLING LIFE by Johannes List (Category: ???)


• VILLAGE OF SWIMMING COWS by Katarzyna Trzaska (Category: Long Live Life)

 

CPH:DOX is back with an artistic cross section of the world in 2019. From March 20-31, the festival will unspool with an ambitious programme of 200 films, debates, conferences, concerts, art exhibitions, VR installations and parties. Counting 110,000 guests in 2018, CPH:DOX is now one of the world’s largest documentary film festivals, and the five international competitions are heavy with premieres to discover...

Parallel to the festival from March 25-29 runs CPH:INDUSTRY hosting the financing and co-production market CPH:FORUM, the work-in-progress section CPH:WIP, the pitching event Science Film Forum, the 5-day conference in partnership with Documentary Campus CPH:CONFERENCE and the screening market CPH:MARKET.

LineUp German documentary productions and co-productions:

• AQUARELA by Victor Kossakovsky, 89min


• BAUHAUS SPIRIT by Thomas Tielsch, Niels Bolbrinker, 90min


• BERLIN BOUNCER by David Dietl, 87min


• BEYOND THE VISIBLE | JENSEITS DES SICHTBAREN - Hilma af Klint by Halina Dyrschka, 94 min


• Hi, Ai by Isa Willinger, 85min


• KABUL, CITY IN THE WIND by Aboozar Amini, 88min


• LITTLE GERMANS | KLEINE GERMANEN by Frank Geiger, Mohammad Farokhmanesh, 90min


• MEETING GORBACHEV by Werner Herzog, André Singer, 90min


• PETER LINDBERGH – WOMEN'S STORIES by  Jean Michel Vecchiet, 113min


• SEARCHING EVA by Pia Hellenthal, 83min


• and
  SORRY with no further infomation until now at www.german-documentaries.de


• DAS TOTALE TANZTHEATER Interactive Media Foundation _ 


• easy love by Tamer Jandali, 89min


• •by Ezekiel Morgan, 13min 


• CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE by Marc Zimmermann, 13min


• JONATHAN AGASSI SAVED MY LIFE by Tomer Heymann, 106min,


• LOS REYES by Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff, 78min


• OUR TIME by Carlos Reygadas, 173min


• PROPERTY by Matthias Lintner, 85min• DFFB


• RESISTANCE FIGHTERS by Michael Wech, 99 min•


• THE LAST MALE ON EARTH by Floor van der Meulen, 72min


• THE MASTER'S VISION by Harmke Heezen, Mike Robbins & Chloé Jarry, 11 + 6 + 8min


• THE REST by Weiwei Ai, 79min • AWW Germany GmbH

  CPH:DOX Trailers at YouTube

Meet us at MIPDOC & MIPTV, April 8—11, 2019 in Cannes, France.

More information - German only - here.

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Björn Jensen, Anja Unger, Simone Baumann

With exceptional professional development, networking, and business opportunities, Hot Docs is perfect for doc professionals at all career levels. Make the right connections and secure critical financing for your film with Hot Docs exclusive market programs, including the renowned Hot Docs Forum, and the one-on-one pitch meeting services Hot Docs Deal Maker and Distribution Rendezvous.

Meet German producers in Toronto April 30 & 1 May 1, 2019 at the
FORUM PITCH
• 1001 NIGHTS APART by Sarvnaz Alambeigi (DE/US/UK/IR, Filmpunkt)
• MISSION SEX-ED by Cosima Dannoritzer (DE/ES, Tondowski Films)
• COLOUR OF THE WIND by Claire Sanford (CA/DE/FI, Alias film und sprachtransfer)
• MIDWIVES by Hnin Ei Hlaing (CA/DE/MM, AMA FILM)
• ZINDER by Aicha Macky (FR/NE/DE, Corso Film)

Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival, offers an outstanding selection of over 200 films from Canada and around the world to Toronto audiences of more than 200,000. This year again with a stunning LineUp of German productions and co-productions!

• BORN IN EVIN by Maryam Zaree P:Tondowski Films, Golden Girls DE/AT (Persister)


• BEAUTY AND DECAY by Annekatrin Hendel P: IT WORKS! Medien (Artscapes)


• BEYOND THE VISIBLE – HILMA AF KLINT by Halina Dyrschka P: Ambrosia Film (Artscapes)


• DEAR BROTHER | BRUDERLIEBE by Julia Horn P: CORSO FILM (World Showcase)


• #FEMALE PLEASURE by Barbara Miller P: INDIFILM, CH/DE (The Changing Face of Europe)


• GODS OF MOLENBEEK by Reetta Huhtanen, co-P: Tondowski Films, FI/BE/DE (World Showcase)


• HI, AI by Isa Willinger P: Kloos & Co. Medien (World Showcase)


• HOME AFTER WAR by Gayatri Parameswaran, Felix Gaedtke (US/DE/IQ) (DOCX)


• ISIS, TOMORROW. THE LOST SOULS OF MOSUL by Francesca Mannocchi und Alessio Romenzi (IT/DE, Cala Filmproduktion (Made in Italy)


• LORD OF THE TOYS by Pablo Ben Yakov P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (The Changing Face of Europe)


• PROPAGANDA: THE ART OF SELLING LIES by Larry Weinstein P: Taglicht Media CA/DE (Making Believe)


• THE REST by Ai Weiwei P: AWW Germany (Special Presentations)


• RIOT NOT DIET by Julia Fuhr Mann (HFF Munich, WildBird Film (Shorts)


• SEARCHING EVA by Pia Hellenthal P: CORSO FILM (World Showcase)


• UNA PRIMAVERA by Valentina Primavera, AT/DE/IT, (Made in Italy)

HotDocs_info german films.

Theme of the festival is LAYERS OF HISTORY | SCHICHTEN VON GESCHICHTE
History that inscribes itself - in biographies, landscapes, urban topographies. The open wounds leave behind or the present covers up like snow. Numerous films in the programme pursue an archaeological agenda. They open the surface and remove layer after layer in order to come to a beginning. To reconstruct one's own family history, as Thomas Heise does in his new film, which tells the lives of his relatives along the lines of historical upheavals. Or Andreas Goldstein, who digs for his father, also to better understand himself. It's about identity and regaining the power of interpretation over one's own history. Sometimes the sovereignty of interpretation also becomes a new story - as in the Macedonian capital Skopje, where an ancient centre without any historical reference is created. History as the present. Without layers.

Opening film is FREIER FALL: JOHANNA K. by Klaus Wildenhahn, in honour of the documentary filmmaker who sadly died last year and who accompanied the festival for many years. The documentary FREIER FALL: JOHANNA K. from 1992 is a formally courageous portrait that has lost none of its intensity and vitality to this day.

RETROSPECTIVE

• Dokumentarfilm-Kombattanten: HEYNOWSKI & SCHEUMANN 
  Under the label 'Studio H&S' Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann made over 70 films between the mid-1960s and the end of the 1980s. Filming under privileged financial, political and technical circumstances, their films were successful both nationally and internationally, and became the flagship of a documentary productions of the GDR. Whether H&S's works were documentary or propaganda films, films serving a political idea or independent works of art has always been questioned. The retrospective is intended to continue the discussion.


• and JONAS MEKAS FILMDIARIES a lecture by Eva Kuhn.

LineUp of german productions and co-productions:

• 27. FEBRUAR by Marie-Thérèse Jakoubek, 43min


• BACKYARD by Khaled Abdulwahed, 26min
  


• BARSTOW CALIFORNIA by Rainer Komers, 76min


• BIGGER THAN LIFE by Adnan Softic, 30min


• CAST AWAY SOULS by Stanley Edwards, Nanna Katrine Hansen, Markus Fiedler, 35min


• CHINAFRIKA MOBIL by Daniel Kötter, 75min


• THE COMMUNIST | DER FUNKTIONÄR by Andreas Goldstein, 72min


• EIFFE FOR PRESIDENT – ALLE AMPELN AUF GELB by Christian Bau, Barbara Metzlaf, 65min


• FREISTAAT MITTELPUNKT by Kai Ehlers, 79min


• HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME | HEIMAT IST EIN RAUM AUS ZEIT by Thomas Heise, 218min


• JONAS MEKAS IN THE JUNGLE by Peter Sempel, 98min


• LIKE THE DOG WITH THE CAT by Olga Kondyli Roussou, 17min


• MISSED EMBRACE by Faezeh Nikoozad, 58min


• NACHBARN by Pary El-Qalqili, 28min


• PICTURES I DIDN'T TAKE by Anna Grabo, 35min


• SEC ROUGE by Kate Tessa Lee, 26min


• UNAS PREGUNTAS by Kristina Konrad, 237min

The program as PDF - German only. 

CONGRATULATIONS to Talal Derki, BASISberlin Filmproduktion & Ventana Film for the OSCAR®NOMINATION with their co-production OF FATHERS AND SONS.

And congratulations to the winners of the award the filmteam and the protagonist Alex Honnold of FREE SOLO 

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, led by its Future of Film Committee, will present “Oscars® Spotlight: Documentaries” a new program showcasing the 15 shortlisted documentary feature films in contention for the 91st Oscars. The films will screen theatrically in 13 cities nationwide starting December 31, 2018 through January 21, 2019. Participating theaters include AMC Theatres, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Laemmle Theatres.

“The Academy is thrilled to be collaborating with exhibitors and distributors to shine a light on the best documentaries of the year,” said Albert Berger, Academy governor and chair of the Future of Film Committee. “We want to encourage moviegoing and engage audiences across the country in our process as we move through the shortlists, nominations and towards the Oscars.”

One hundred sixty-six films were originally submitted in the category. Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees:

“Charm City”
“Communion”
“Crime + Punishment”
“Dark Money”
“The Distant Barking of Dogs”
“Free Solo”
“Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
“Minding the Gap”
“Of Fathers and Sons”
“On Her Shoulders”
“RBG”
“Shirkers”
“The Silence of Others”
“Three Identical Strangers”
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”

Talal Derki posted: Yeeeees we made it to the Oscar shortlist for the best documentary award, this moment is pure happiness for me and I want to share it with the team of the film, and everyone who supported us and votes for us to get this big achievement, Heba Khaled, Tobias N. Siebert, BASIS BERLIN Filmproduktion Ansgar Frerich, Dan Cogan, Jenny Raskin, Sonja Heitmann, Eva Kemme, Thomas Lütz, Ziad H Hamzeh, Firas Fayyad, Meghan Monsour, Lissi Muschol, Joan Churchill, Gudrun El Ghomri, Claudia Bucher, Salma Abdalla, Autlook Films, Hans Robert Eisenhauer, Anna Fabini, Khalil Benkirane, the PR Nancy Willen, and the distributor in USA Kino Lorber Lorber, Wendy Liddel and every one from this great team. congratulations all, we made it.

Record-breaking 14 259 submissions from 152 countries and one of the chosen 112 feature lenght films is the documentary GAZA a co-production of gebrueder beetz filmproduktion, Real Films, Filmoption International, Fine Point Films and ZDF in cooperation with ARTE.

Photo©2018 Andrew Mc Connell

 

"In Gaza, war has become so familiar, it is almost ordinary".

The documentary GAZA by Garry Keane & Andrew McConnell brings us into a unique place beyond the reach of television news reports to reveal a world rich with eloquent and resilient characters, offering us a cinematic and enriching portrait of a people attempting to lead meaningful lives against the rubble of perennial conflict. (sundancePR)

FIPADOC, festival international documentaire January 22–27, 2019 in Biarritz successor to Fipa, brings narrative, sound, and vision professionals together.
FIPADOC has besides the three major award categories as
• International Documentary
• French Documentary
• Musical Documentary
non-competition categories, such as Focus on a country of honour.
This year Germany has got the honour as partner country of FIPADOC and C. Cay Wesnigk from AG DOK board is in charge of the moderation of the panel discussion with representatives of international film festivals in Germany. The expected panelist will be Leena Passanen for DOK Leipzig, Adele Kohut for DOKfest Munich and  Gerhard Wissner for Kasseler Dokfest. Date: Friday, January 25, 2019 followed by the German Reception in the evening.

FIPADOC hosts several pitch sessions for new projects. Representatives of successful projects have the opportunity to pitch to a panel of selected professionals. One of them is an introduction to ARTEs new Grand d'accord Documentary Format and a panel on coproducing between France and Germany, where also some case studies will be presented on Thursday January 24, 2019.

Pitch and Promote Your Documentary a workshop by La Fémis Film School is offering the chance for directors, writers, producers, and representatives of documentary projects the chance to sharpen their promotional skills to better pitch their films to potential partners and investors. After working on the spoken and written aspects of promotion, participants will present their projects during one of FIPADOC’s pitch sessions.

FIPADOC’s film library provides on-demand viewing of any film from the official selection to accredited professionals, who can also access a complementary collection of standout films, handpicked by FIPADOC, exclusively available in the film library.

FIPADOC showcases a selection of more than 100 documentary films. The selections include all screen and writing formats, both in and out of competition: short, mid- or feature-length individual films and series including this LineUp of German documentary productions and co-productions.

International Documentary

• Jeszcze dzien zycia | ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE by Raùl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow
  Poland, Spain, Belgium, Germany, 2018, 85min.  The story of Polish journalist Kapuscinski, sent to cover the Angolan civil war and returning a different man. An animated account of a forgotten war. 

Musical Documentary

• FUCK FAME by Lilian Franck, Robert Cibis
  Germany, 2019, 80min. P: OVALmedia Berlin GmbH An unfiltered dive into the life of electro-rap curio UFFIE – a young woman who feels lost in a chaotic world of her own creation.


• GOING FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE – The Conductor Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla by Daniela Schmidt-Langels
  Germany, Lithuania, 2018, 87min. P: EuroArts Music International GmbH  Mirga is THE shooting star on the classical music scene today. Experience the most extraordinary conductor during her first term in the Birmingham Orchestra.

Jeune Création

• DUBITO ERGO SUM - ICH ZWEIFLE ALSO BIN ICH | I DOUBT HENCE I AM by Florian Karner
  Germany, 2017, 15min.   In times of social division and the post-truth debate, we follow conspiracy theorist Dr. Harald Daub into his world and way of thinking. A subtle portrait of clinical depression that deals with the question where doubt originates from.


• EGAL GIBT ES NICHT | I DON'T CARE DOESN'T COUNT by Florian Hoffmann
  Germany, 2017, 45min.   A crash course in politics: Paulina is the spokeswoman of the initiative <5 – KLEINER FÜNF – , committed to preventing hard-right populists (AfD)getting elected into the German House of Parliament.


• LA BESTIA – TRAIN OF THE UNKNOWNS by Manuel Inacker
  Germany, 2018, 23min. P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF   A film about a Mexican shelter where migrants stay for 2 days before they go on with their route to the U.S. with a train called 'La Bestia', the beast.


• LUCY & LLIBERT by Vincent Hannwacker
  Germany, 2018, 10min.  A documentary portrait of Lucy and Llibert and their young love.


• RIOT NOT DIET by Julia Fuhr Mann
  Germany, 2018, 17min.  The fat women and queers in this movie are not ashamed of their expansive body dimensions, but use their bodies to blow up patriarchal structures.


• TRACING ADDAI by Esther Niemeier P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  Germany, 2018, 30min.  A true story about a war and the tragic impact it has on the lives of three people.

Focus Allemagne

• AUF DER JAGD – Wem gehört die Natur? | WHO OWNS NATURE? by Alice Agneskirchner
  Germany, 2017, 100min. P: Broadview TV GmbH   Who owns nature? Are we nature’s protectors or its destroyers? The film initiates a social discourse about humanity’s role in nature.


• ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS by Gabrielle Brady
  Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, 2018, 93min. Christmas Island, Australia, is home to 40 million crabs but also to a high-security facility that indefinitely detains individuals seeking asylum.


• SANDMÄDCHEN | SANDGIRL by Mark Michel
  Germany, 2017, 84min. The documentary essay is a cinematic journey to the young author’s wondrous secret and captivating world.


• THE CLEANERS by Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck
  Germany, Brazil, 2018, 88min.  When you post something on the web, can you be sure it stays there? Enter the shadow industry of digital cleaning.


• WEIT. Die Geschichte von einem Weg um die Welt | FAR. The Story Of a Journey Around the World by Patrick Allgaier, Gwendolin Weisser
  Germany, 2017, 127min. Without ever taking any planes, the filmmaker couple embarks on a 50,000 km journey around the world.


• ZENTRALFLUGHAFEN THF | CENTRAL AIRPORT THF by Karim Aïnouz
  Germany, France, Brazil, 2018, 97min.  A young Syrian narrates a year in the life of refugees in the temporary shelter set up at Tempelhof, Berlin’s famous former airport.

Courts-Métrages [Shorts]

• KAPUTT | BROKEN - The Women’s Prison at Hoheneck by Volker Schlecht, Alexander Lahl
  Germany, 2016, 7min. This animated documentary provides a glimpse into the most notorious women’s prison in East Germany. A film about political imprisonment and forced labour under the socialist regime.


• LA VILLE MONDE | WORLD CITY  by Antarès Bassis
  France, Belgium, Germany, 2018, 104min. Array March 2016—facing a huge influx of refugees, the mayor of Grande-Synthe creates the first UNHCR camp in France. The consultant architect, full of idealism and determination, tries to convince those involved to envisage the camp as a neighbourhood; […]


• MENNESKESMUGLERNE | HUMAN SMUGGLERS by Poul-Erik Heilbuth, Georg Larsen
  Denmark, Germany, 2017, 60min.  A documentary revealing the well-organized world of human smugglers. For the first time some of them will reveal – on camera – the secrets of their trade. (Involved TV Channel ZDF, SVT, NRK, RTS)

...and

• BEYONCE by Lisa Dreykluft, Germany, 2013, 5min.


• FFRANKFURTER STRASSE 99a | 99A, FRANKFURT STREET by Evgenia Gostrer
  Germany, 2016, 5min. A dustman at work. A cat on its ramble through the city. A story unfolds dealing with the rituals of the everyday in just a few clay strokes to unite the form and subject.


• HOME AFTER WAR by Gayatri Parameswaran, Felix Geadtke, 
  Germany, 2018, 18min. What if home becomes the place you fear? An Iraqi father returns to Fallujah to face the threat of Improvised Explosive Devices. Join him in his home and discover the unfolding of a tragic event.


• HOMO MACHINA France, Germany, 2018, 90min. A fantastic journey through the human body factory, inspired by Fritz Kahn’s medical illustrations.

 will take place from 23 January to 3 February 2019.

As a central part of the festival the IFFR Short Film – Ammodo Tiger Short Competition – is a unique showcase of artists’ moving image and experimental film for works under 60 minutes. Below you will find the (until Jan 1, 2019 confirmed) selection of German documentary productions and co-productions for IFFR 2019 in this section:

• FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT by Nina Fischer, Maroan el Sani, 30min. P: Nina Fischer, Maroan el Sani


• MAMAN MAMAN MAMAN by Lucia Margarita Bauer, 37min. P: joon film Berlin


• CROWTRAP by Callum Hill, 15min P: Callum Hill


• FOREST ON LOCATION by Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukács, 12min.


• WALLED UNWALLED by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, 21min. P: Studio Lawrence Abu Hamdan


• SOUVENIR by Miriam Gossing, Lina Sieckmann, 24min. P: Schalten und Walten, Elbe Stevens Film, Coin Film GmbH

The Deutsche Akademie für Fernsehen – DAfF (The German Academy for Television) has awarded talents in 22 categories at a ceremony in Berlin on November 30, 2018.

In the category 'documentary' the award went to FAITH HOPE LOVE | DREI ENGEL FÜR RUSSLAND – GLAUBE, LIEBE, HOFFNUNG by Katja Fedulova and Calle Overweg.

The two other nominees are REGGAE BOYZ by Till Schauder and INSCHALLAH by Judith Keil and Antje Kruska

More info: www.daff.tv

The German/Danish/Scottish/US documentray co-production is filmed with 96 frames-per-second and offers a overview of water in its shifting array of forms. Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, Scandinavia, South Africa, and India and is planning planning to release AQUARELA in 2019.

"Film artist Victor Kossakovsky pays tribute to water in all its forms with this documentary, filmed in such diverse locations as Greenland, Venezuela, Siberia's Lake Baikal and the middle of the Atlantic." (Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter)

For all those who cannot wait to dive in, throughout Autum 2018 the film will be screened at various festivals for example:
• 62nd BFI London Film Festival
• 14th Zurich Film Festival
• Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival 2018
• 61st DOK Leipzig – International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
• 31st IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

More infomation about AQUARELA by Victor Kossakovsky, co-produced by Aconite Productions Ltd., ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH , Danish Documentary Production & Louverture Films   _______here.

Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival China, December 10 - 13, 2018

4,542 submissions from 122 countries/regions! The festival organizing committee gathered 60 experts who specialize in production management, film study, film production, theatre distribution, media review, and documentary industries to launch first-round selection. As a result of intense selection, 204 documentaries from 49 countries/regions are qualified to be the semi-finalists for the Golden Kapok Award Competition.

LineUp of German documentary productions and co-productions in the GZDOC 2018 Golden Kapok Award Competition:

• A WOMAN CAPTURED by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter P: ÉCLIPSE FILM | CORSO FILM (Hungary/Germany)


• BERLIN"s TREASURE TROVE by Dag Freyer  P: Berlin Producers Media


• EVERYWHERE WE ARE by Veronika Kaserer


• ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS by Gabrielle Brady P: Chromosom Film (Germany, UK, Australia)


• OF FATHERS AND SONS by Talal Derki, P: Cinema Group Production | Basis Berlin Filmproduktion GmbH | Ventana Film GmbH | Cinema Group Production (Germany, Syria, Lebanon, Qatar)

 DocuMart includes Pitching, Doc Shop and Networking Event, becoming the most important documentary film market in China. By showcasing the selected projects and completed films of high quality to the audience and potential funders and buyers, GZDOC has stimulated the international cooperation. Meet German producers there.

The 31st edition of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, November 14-25, offers an independent and inspiring meeting place for audiences and professionals to see a diverse and high-quality program.

In addition to the festival, IDFA has developed several professional activities, contributing to the development of filmmakers and their films at all stages. At co-financing and co-production market IDFA Forum filmmakers and producers pitch their plans to financiers; at Docs for Sale new documentaries are on offer to programmers and distributors. The 2018 Docs for Sale catalogue will be online Monday, November 5; the IDFA Bertha Fund supports filmmakers and documentary projects in developing countries; and the IDFAcademy offers a international training programs for up-and-coming doc talents. 

UpDate November 21, 2018
Congratulations to the directors of german documentaries – Aboozar Amini, Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff as well as Mahdi Fleifel. 

Aboozar Amini won the IDFA Special Jury Award for First Appearance, in memory of Peter Wintonick (€ 2.500) for Kabul, City in the Wind (Netherlands, Afghanistan, Japan, Germany).

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary: I Signed the Petition (United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland) by Mahdi Fleifel won the IDFA Award for Best Short Documentary (€ 5.000).

In addition, the jury presented the IDFA Special Jury Award for Feature-Length Documentary (€ 2.500) to Los Reyes (Chile, Germany) by Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff. In this almost fairy-tale-like film, the phenomenal, dreamlike camerawork centers almost entirely on the subtle interaction between two dogs, as they play with a ball, a stick, a stone, and each other.
...and all the other winners are >>>

LIVE  at IDFA 2018 | Doc Talk: Karim Aïnouz on “Central Airport THF”

 

GET TOGETHER
Meet the German filmmakers, producers and commissioning editors with drinks and finger food on Sunday, November 18, 2018, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at  ESCAPE Caffé & Lounge, upstairs in the Lounge in Rembrandtplein 15, 1017 CT Amsterdam.

This year's Feature-Length competition includes 12 titles by established filmmakers, and is characterized by a diversity of styles and forms.  The First Appearance competition showcases emerging filmmakers who pour everything into their debut film. In the Dutch competition, award-winning filmmakers criss-cross with promising new talent. The IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling showcases 10 of the best interactive stories and unexpected artistic applications, while makers in the IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction defy the definitions of documentary with wide-ranging sensory experiences and experimental technology. Beyond the competitions, IDFA DocLab Spotlight presents documentary art from across many disciplines, embracing surprising new talent and exceptional research projects. Meanwhile, our new focus program Serialized explores the omnipresent serial format, and the place it occupies within documentary film art. 10 films are nominated for the Amsterdam Human Rights Award this year, to be presented November 20th by the city of Amsterdam. Read all the details here.

LineUp of the German documentary productions and co-productions:

IDFA's feature-length competition contains titles from established filmmakers

• THE HIDDEN CITY by Victor Moreno, 80min, Spain/France/Germany, P: Dirk Manthey Film


• JONATHAN AGASSI SAVED MY LIFE by Tomer Heymann, 106min, Israel/Germany, World Sales: auTLOOK Filmsales


• LOS REYES by Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff, 78min, Chile/Germany, Production: Maite Alberdi / Perut + Osnovikoff Ltda., Co-Production: Dirk Manthey Film

IDFA Competition for First Appearance

• CLOSING TIME by Nicole Vögele, 116min, Germany/Switzerland, P:Aline Schmid/Beauvoir Films, Co-P: Filmakademie Beaden-Wurttemberg


• HAMADA by Eloy Domínguez Serén, 88min, Sweden/Norway/Germany, P: David Herdies & Michael Krotkiewski / Momento Film Co-P: Heino Deckert, ma.ja.de. Filmproduktion GmbH, Fuglene


• Opening Film: KABUL, CITY IN THE WIND by Aboozar Amini, 88min, The Netherlands/Afghanistan/Japan/Germany, P: Jia Zhao / Silk Road Film Salon, Co-P: NHK Enterprises, Color of May (Eva Blodiau & Elmar Imanov), Kino Kabul

IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling with interactive stories and unexpected artistic applications

• EARN A LIVING by Yuval Orr, 90min, France/Germany/The Netherlands/US, interactive, P: Upian

IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction

• LEAKED RECIPES by Gabriela Ivens, Germany, Performance

DocLab Humanoid Cookbook

• EARN A LIVING by Yuval Orr, 90min, France/Germany/The Netherlands/US, interactive, P: Upian


• EYE OF THE DREAM by David O’Reilly Japan, Germany (JP/DE)


• LEAKED RECIPES by Gabriela Ivens, Germany, Performance

 IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

• DOROTCHKA by Olga Delane, 20min,  Germany, P: Doppelplusultra Film und TV Produktion, BILDSCHÖN FILMPRODUKTION


• I SIGNED THE PETITION by Mahdi Fleifel, 10min Germany/UK


• ONCE UPON A TIME IN SHANGHAI by Leyli, 35min, Gafarova, Azerbaijan, Germany, P: Veit Helmer Filmproduktion)

 IDFA Competition for Student Documentary An international jury will evaluate the films and select the winners of the ARRI IDFA Award for Best Student Documentary and the IDFA Special Jury Award for Student Documentary. 

• IN SEARCH… by Beryl Magoko, 90min, Germany, P: Academy of Media Arts Cologne


• LA BESTIA – TRAIN OF THE UNKNOWNS by Manuel Inacker, 24min, Germany, P: University Babelsberg 'Konrad Wolf'

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs

• 199 LITTLE HEROES by Sigrid Klausmann, 14min,  P: Gemini Film & Library, Schneegans Productions


• CROWLEY – COWBOY UP by André Hörmann, 15min, Germany, P: telekult Film- und Medienproduktion GmbH

Frontlight  honors the political activists and whistle-blowers of our time. 

• THE PATRIOT by Katja Fedulova, 35min, Germany, P: Tondowski Films?, Fedulova Films

Luminous is offering up the gravity of personal experience as a window into contemporary society. These documentaries are character-, story- or author-driven, and make the universal tangible through the individual.

• LOST REACTOR by Alexandra Westmeier, 77min, Germany, P: LINGER ON Filmproduction?


• UNDERDOWN by Sarah Kaskas, 72min, Lebanon/Qatar/Germany, P: Karaaj Films, pong film, Lichtung

Best of Fests:  Striking documentary films from the international festival circuit are central to Best of Fests. The program showcases prize-winners, public favorites, and high-profile titles from the past year.

• #FEMALE PLEASURE by Barbara Miller, 97min, Switzerland/Germany, P: Mons Veneris Films GmbH, Das Kollektiv fur audiovisuelle Werke GmbH, co-P: Indi Film GmbH


• CHRIS THE SWISS by Anja Kofmel, 90min, Switzerland, Croatia, Germany, Finland,  P: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, Nukleus Film, IV Films, ma.ja.de. Filmproduktion


• ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS by Gabrielle Brady, 94min, Germany/United Kingdom/Australia, IDFA history, P: Chromosom Film, World Sales: auTLOOK Filmsales


• IT’S ALL GOOD by Tuki Jencquel, 70min, Venezuela/Germany P: Orinokia Filmproduktion, Hekura Films


• THE RAFT / DAS FLOSS) by Marcus Lindeen, 97min, Sweden/Denmark/Germany/United States, P: Motto Pictures, Fasad, Bulitt Film, Sutor Kolonke


• THEATRE OF WAR by Lola Arias, 81min, Argentina/Spain/Germany,  P: Gema Films, BWP, Sake Argentina, Sutor Kolonko)


• TOUCH ME NOT by Adina Pintilie, 125min, (Romania/Germany/Czech Republic/Bulgaria/France, P: Les Films de l'Etranger, Manekino Film, Rohfilm Productions)

Masters  includes the latest films by auteurs whose work IDFA closely follows, and who have an unmistakable cinematographic signature.

• AQUARELA by Victor Kossakowsky, 90min, UK/Germany/Denmark, P: Aconite Productions, ma.ja.de Filmproduktion GmbH, Danish Documentary


• CENTRAL AIRPORT THF by Karim Ainouz, 97min,  Germany/France/Brazil, P: Lupa Film, Les Films d'Ici, Diane Maia


• SEARCHING FOR INGMAR BERGMAN /AUF DER SUCHE NACH INGMAR BERGMAN  by Margarethe von Trotta, Germany/France, P: C-Films


• THE TRIAL by Maria Ramos, 140min, Brazil/The Netherlands/Germany, P: Nofoco Filmes, Conijn Film, Autentika Films


• VICTORY DAY by Sergei Loznitsa, 94min, Germany, P: Imperativ Film, Taura Ltd.

Paradocs moves between film and art.

• BACKYARD by Khaled Abdulwahed, 26min, Germany, P: pong film GmbH


• EXTINCTION by Salomé Lamas, 86min,  Portugal/Germany, P: O Som e a Fúria & Lamas for Lamaland, co-P: Mengamuk Films, Bikini, Screen Miguel Nabinho, Walla Collective

IDFA School Program

• OVER THE LIMIT by Marta Prus, 74min, Poland/Germany/Finnland, P: Telemark, co-P: Ventana Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Marianna Films


• WATANI MY HOMELAND by Marcel Mettelsiefen, 76min, Germany/UK, P: Marcel Mettelsiefen Films

and  ME & IDFA history  with
        •  NEWS FROM HOME by Chantal Akerman, 90min, ©1977, France/Belgium/Germany

IDFA Forum 2018 - the international documentary co-financing and co-production market takes place November 18-21. The Rough Cut Screenings take place on November 18 and will be followed by three days of pitches and meetings. Project selection of German productions & co-productions:

• CABINETS OF WONDER (WT) - Created with, for and by Children by Susanne Kim, P: Holm Taddiken for Neufilm GmbH, Alex Herrmann / expanding focus GmbH


• THE OTHER HALF by Ayse Toprak P: Ayse Toprak for Toprak Film, Christine Kiauk for COIN FILM GmbH


• THE WAY WE WERE by Marten Persiel, P: Katharina Bergfeld & Martin Heisler for Flare Film GmbH


• THE YES MEN BUILT A WALL by Jan Tenhaven P: Christian Beetz for Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion Berlin GmbH & Co. KG & Michael McMahon for Primitive Entertainment, Maurício Dias for Grifa Filmes

The 61st International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film from October 29 to November 4, 2018 presents a grand total of 306 great films from 50 different countries in different sections. A full 50% of the films in the Official Selection with 160 films come from female directors.
All AWARD WINNERS 2018 here.

Werner Herzog is without a doubt among the most influential German filmmakers in the history of cinema. Over the course of his career as a director, he has made more than 60 documentary and feature films. At DOK Leipzig, he is not only presenting his new film MEETING GORBACHEV as the opening film – his documentary work is also the focus of a Homage bearing the title 'Estatic Truths'.

LineUp of german documentary productions and Co-productions, nomination and awards.

GERMAN COMPETITION | DEUTSCHER WETTBEWERB
with a total number of nine german documentaries.

• BREATHING LIFE INTO STONE | DER STEIN ZUM LEBEN by Katinka Zeuner
  is the winner of The ver.di Prize for Solidarity, Humanity and Fairness as well as The Honorary Mention (Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize)


• THE COMMUNIST | DER FUNKTIONAER by Andreas Goldstein


• A DONKEY CALLED GERONIMO | DER ESEL HIESS GERONIMO by Arjun Talwar, Bigna Tomschin
  Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize


• IN SEARCH... by Beryl Magoko
  Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize, the Film Prize Leipziger Ring and the Young Eyes Film Award


• LE CIEL, LA TERRE ET L'HOMME by Caroline Reucker


• LORD OF THE TOYS by Pablo Ben Yakov
  Winner of The Golden Dove in the German Competition Long Documentary and Animated Film


• NIGHTWANDERER | NACHTWANDERER by Benjamin Rost


• THE SECOND ATTACK by Mala Reinhardt
  Honorary Mention - ver.di Prize for Solidarity, Humanity and Fairness.


• THE SYMPHONY OF UNCERTAINTY | DIE SINFONIE DER UNGEWISSHEIT by Claudia Lehmann
  Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME
with German documentary productions and co-productions 

• (M)OTHER by Antonia Hungerland
  Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize


• ALL CREATURES WELCOME by Sandra Trostel
  Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize


• CHRIS THE SWISS by Anja Kofmel
  Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize and the MDR Film Prize


• DREAMAWAY by Marouan Omara, Johanna Domke (Egypt, Germany)
  Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize


• EXIT by Karen Winther
  Winner of Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize, and the Young Eyes Film Award as well as Gedanken-Aufschluss [mindopener] to one of the films nominated for DOK Im Knast.


• IN THE CLAWS OF A CENTURY WANTING by Jewel Maranan, P: Sutor Kolonko
  Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize


• ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS by Gabrielle Brady
  Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize


• LIVING THE LIGHT - ROBBY MüLLER by Claire Pijman
  Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize


• MEETING GORBACHEV by Werner Herzog, André Singer
  The opening documentary of the festival is the international - UK, USA, Germany - co-production.


• PALACE FOR THE PEOPLE by Boris Missirkov, Georgi Bogdanov, P: Filmtank GmbH
  Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize and the MDR Film Prize


• THE PRICE OF PARADISE / Was kostet die Welt by Bettina Borgfeld, P: Filmtank GmbH
  Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize and the Film Prize Leipziger Ring


• SPREELAND FONTANE by Bernhard Sallmann
  Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize


• UNA PRIMAVERA by Valentina Primavera
  Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize


• THE WAIT | DIE FRIST by Karin Becker, P: HFF Munich
  Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize


• THE WAR ON MY PHONE by Elke Sasse, P: Berlin Producers
   Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME SHORT FILM
with German documentary productions and co-productions

• APPALACHIAN HOLLER by Matthias Lawetzky


• By Counting the votes of the audience the mephisto 97.6-Publikumspreis goes to
  CARLOTTA'S FACE by Valentin Riedl, Frédéric Schuld


• OASIS by Veneta Androva


• OBON by André Hörmann, Anna Bergmann


• TRANSIT - GEORG KORNER AT WORK by Axel Geiss


• THE BIG RIP (9min) by David Buob


• THE WAVE by Sae Yun Jung

GERMAN COMPETITION SHORT
with German documentary productions and co-productions

• BACKYARD by Khaled Abdulwahed, P: pong film GmbH


• DOPPELGÄNGER by Michaela Taschek


• MAN ON BLUE | MANN AUF BLAU by Friedrich Tiedtke


• MARINA by Julia Roesler, P: Werkgruppe2
  Winner of the Golden Dove for the best German short documentary and animated film as well as Healthy Workplaces Film Award.


• A MYTHOLOGY OF PLEASURE by Lara Rodríguez Cruz


• NO END by Jakob Krese, Germanny, Slovenia


• ORO BLANCO by Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez
  Nominated for the Healthy Workplaces Film Award


• SORGE 87 by Thanh Nguyen Phuong

NEXT MASTERS COMPETITION
with the German/USA documentary co-production

• STRESS by Florian Baron
  Winner of the DEFA Sponsoring Prize – for an outstanding long German documentary film

LATE HARVEST
with German documentary co-productions

• The Special Prize of the Interreligious Jury goes to the Swiss/Gewrman co-production
  #FEMALE PLEASURE by Barbara Miller


• AQUARELLA by Victor Kossakovsky.


• TOUCH ME NOT by Adina Pintilie

Kids DOK

• CROWLEY - COWBOY UP by André Hörmann


• WHY I AM HERE / Warum ich hier bin by Mieko Azuma, Susanne Mi-Son Quester

The DOK Co-Pro Market returns for its 14th edition in 2018. 35 projects from 30 countries will participate in 900+ individual meetings over 2 days. Each meeting, carefully curated, should open doors to new possibilities, creative partnerships, and inspiration.

DOKindustry continues the partnerships with EWA – the European Women’s Audiovisual Network – awarding once again the development prize for the best female-driven documentary, and the talent-development prize, courtesy of the Zonta Club Leipzig-Elster.
The Current Time TV and DOK Co-Pro Development Prize is endowed with prize money in the amount of 2,000 US dollars.
And there is a new prize at the DOK Co-ProMarket!
DOK Leipzig and the Russian-language network Current Time are teaming up to present a new award together. The prize, honouring an outstanding documentary film project from Central or Eastern Europe, will be awarded during the 14th edition of the DOK Co-Pro Market, which is to take place at the beginning of the festival on 29th and 30th October.
DOK Leipzig and EWA Development Prize of the DOK Co-Pro Market goes to the Lebanon/German co-production WE ARE INSIDE by Farah Kassem
EWA – the European Women’s Audiovisual Network has awarded the EWA Development Prize for the best female-driven documentary project for the third year in a row. The prize comprising financial support as well as assistance to further develop the project for one year, goes to We Are Inside by Farah Kassem. Once again, Saxon State Minister for Science and the Arts Dr. Eva-Maria Stange is the patron of the prize.

Last but not least we recommend the event of the German Documentary Association

AG DOK Talk • Zeitgeschichtliches Forum • Tuesday Oct 30, 2018 • 16:00

FRAUEN.DOK.FILM.REGIE.
was sich dringend ändern muss
[what needs to be changed]
On average, 70 percent of cinema films in Germany are financed by public funds, while many German television films are paid for almost entirely by radio contributions from ARD and ZDF. But although men and women pay equal taxes and radio contributions, it is mainly men who benefit from the awarding of contracts. Several studies in recent years have shown that in the fiction sector, both in cinema and on television, the majority of directorial commissions go to men. But what about the documentary sector?

Vera Linß based Berlin journalist will host the dicussion with:
• Leena Pasanen, CEO DOK Leipzig
• Prof. Dr. Karola Wille, CEO MDR/ARD
• Christine Berg, CEO FFA, Berlin
• Prof. Claudia von Alemann, director, Cologne
• Daniel Sponsel, CEO DOK.fest Munich
• Britta Wauer, producer & director, Berlin
• Barbara Teufel, director, Pro Quote Film
• Antonia Hungerland, director
• Esther Niemeier, director

The DOK Industry Programme is online for download here.

The Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival is a yearly six day event and takes place in Mid-November. The Filmladen Kassel – an organization which is nationally acclaimed for its engaged work in cinema every year – is the organizer of the festival.

The film program, which includes short and feature documentary films and artistic- experimental productions, is the center piece of the festival. During the six festival days about 300 films are shown. The festival’s profile also encompasses the trans-media section Monitoring, an exhibition of current video and media installations, the expert symposium interfiction, the DokfestLounge, the film educational side program junges dokfest, the DokfestGeneration for elder film fans as well as the DokfestForum.

The Golden Key, worth 2,500 Euros, for the most impressive short documentary by an up-and-coming filmmaker, which is supported by the city of Kassel, goes to Agnes Lisa Wegner for her film No Fucking Ice Cream

The Golden Key, worth 2,500 Euros, for the most impressive long documentary by an up-and-coming filmmaker goes to Jasmin Preiß for her film Sweet Meadow.
Johanna Sunder-Plassmann and Tama Tobias-Macht received a special mention for their film outside.

The Golden Hercules honors the best cinematic production from Northern Hesse. The prize is worth 3,500 Euros and is sponsored by the Machbar GmbH, Kassel. This traditional prize of the Kassel Dokfest goes to Frauke Lodders for her film Inseparable.
Maryna Miliushchanka receives a special mention for Säen. 

All awardees of the 35th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival - here.

LineUp German documentary productions and co-productions:

• ADELHEID, KORNELIUS & THE DEATHS | ADELHEID, KORNELIUS & DIE TÖDE by Kirstin Schmitt, 91min (Germany/Spain)


• DEN' POBEDY | VICTORY DAY by Sergei Loznitsa, 94 min


• THE SECRETS OF THE HANDSOME LEO | DIE GEHEIMNISSE DES SCHÖNEN LEO by Benedikt Schwarzer, 80min


• MAMACITA by José Pablo Estrada Torrescano, 75min (UK/Mexico/Germany - Fruitmarket Arts & Media GmbH)


• SWIMMING POOL AT THE GOLAN | SWIMMINGPOOL AM GOLAN by Esther Zimmering, 89min


• B12 - Gestorben wird im nächsten Leben by Christian Lerch, 90min


• ASI MIT NIWOH – Die Jürgen Zeltinger Geschichte by Oliver Schwabe, 91min


• MEETING GORBACHEV by Werner Herzog, André Singer, 92min (UK/US/Germany)


• FAREWELL YELLOW SEA by Marita Stocker, 91min


• INSEPERABLE | UNZERTRENNLICH by Frauke Lodders, 91min


• A WOMAN CAPTURED by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter, 89min (Hungary/Germany)


• OF FATHERS AND SONS by Talal Derki, 99min (Syria/Lebanon/Germany)


• ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS by Gabrielle Brady, 94min (Germany/UK/Australia)


• SHUT UP AND PLAY THE PIANO by Philipp Jedicke, 82min (Germany/UK)


• 3 LAYERS OF WORK | 3 Schichten Arbeit by Christine Schäfer, 79min


• STRESS by Florian Baron, 83min (Germany/USA)


• BARSTOW, CALIFORNIA by Rainer Komers, 76min


• AGGREGATE | AGGREGAT  by Marie Wilke, 94min


• sooner or later | früher oder später by Pauline Roenneberg, 120min


• WILD RELATIVES by Jumana Manna, 66min (Germany/Lebanon/Norway)


• KOLYMA - ROAD OF BONES | Kolyma - Straße der Knochen by Stanislaw Mucha, 85min


• DARK EDEN by Jasmin Herold, Michael Beamish, 80min


• THE NEW CHILDREN OF GOLZOW | Die neuen Kinder von Golzow by Simone Catharina Gaul, 90min by Simone Catharina Gaul, 90min


• EVERYWHERE WE ARE | Überall wo wir sind by Veronika Kaserer, 92min


• THE STRANGE SOUND OF HAPPINESS by Diego Pascal Panarello, 90min (Italy/Germany)


• SWEET MEADOW | Diese süße Wiese by Jasmin Preiß, 71min


• CASANOVA GENE | CASANOVAGEN by Luise Donschen, 67min


• ONE YEAR IN GERMANY  by Christian Weinert, Ferdinand Carrière, 82min


• OF NEONAZIS AND SUPERHEROES – How the far right is changing a small German town | VON NEONAZIS UND SUPERHELDEN - Die Kleinstadt Themar und der Rechtsrock by Adrian Oeser, 56min


• OUTLINES | KONTUREN by Karsten Krause, 20min

Download the PDF of the program of 35th KASSEL DOKFEST here.

60th Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Ocotober 30 - Novenber 4, 2018

FILMFORUM is a showcase for North German filmmaking, offering both established filmmakers and young talents the opportunity of presenting their films to an international audience on home ground. Thanks to FILMFORUM , several filmmakers have subsequently been invited to other festivals, both in Germany and abroad, and many have found national and worldwide distributors here. The FILMFORUM section is very popular with the audience and its presentations are often sold out. All short films presented in FILMFORUM are in competition for the CineStar Prize, which was awarded for the first time in 2012 and it's endowed now with 5,000 € since 2018.

LineUp of German documentary productions and co-productions in the section FILMFORUM

• 1918. Aufstand der Matrosen / 1918: The Sailors' Revolt by Jens Becker, 90min


• A Year Along the Geostationary Orbit by Felix Dierich, 16min


• All Creatures Welcome by Sandra Trostel, 87min


• An den Rändern der Welt / At the Edges of Our World by Thomas Tielsch, 90min


• Another Day of Life by Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow, 85min (coproduced by Wüste Film)


• Auch Leben ist eine Kunst - Der Fall Max Emden / Also Life Is an Art - The Case Max Emden by Eva Gerberding, André Schäfer, 90min


• Blaue Flecken / Bruises by Martin-Oliver Czaja 16min


• Blaue Stunde / Blue Hour by Pia Lamster, 14min


• Chinesische Radikale / Chinese Radicals by Maria Hemmleb, Artur Dieckhoff, 24min


• Das Leben vom Diwan aus / Looking at Life from the Divan by Maria Manasterny, 22min


• Die Hälfte der Welt gehört uns - Als Frauen das Wahlrecht erkämpften / The Victory of Women by Annette Baumeister, Carsten Gutschmidt, 102min


• Die Spieler / The Players by Samuel Auer, 24min


• Es ist Zeit. Der Maler Klaus Fußmann / It's Time. The Painter Klaus Fussmann by Wilfried Hauke, 68min


• Gelato - Die sieben Sommer der Eisliebe / Gelato - Seven Summers of Ice Cream Love by Daniela Opp, 12min


• HANS BLUMENBERG - Der unsichtbare Philosoph / HANS BLUMENBERG - The Invisible Philosopher by Christoph Rüter, 102min


• HolsteinHerz / Heart of Holstein by Jess Hansen, Johanna Jannsen, 90min


• Im Land meiner Kinder / Land of My Children by Darío Aguirre, 88min


• Khello Brüder / Khello Brothers by Hille Norden, 76min


• Mann auf Blau / Man on Blue by Friedrich Tiedtke, 12min


• Nach dem letzten Schuss ist der Krieg noch nicht vorbei / War Does Not End With the Final Shot by Kay Gerdes, Jess Hansen, 38min


• Nach Parchim / Nach Parchim / To Parchim Johanna Huth, Julia Gechter, 22min


• Sankt Paulis Starke Frauen - Reeperbahner*innen  / Sankt Pauli's Strong Women by Rasmus Gerlach, 72min


• Schatten eines Gottes / La sombra de un dios / La sombra de un dios - A God's Shadow by Bernhard Hetzenauer, 20min


• Steine / Stones by Jörn Staeger, 8min


• Türen / Doors by Claire Walka, 25min


• Tracing Addai by Esther Niemeier, 30min


• Von Bienen und Blumen / The Bees and the Birds by Lola Randl, 96min


• Welcome to the New World by Anni Sultany, Jerry Suen, 11min

2018 the GRANIT – Hof Documentary Film Award goes to RAUS by Matthias Wilfert.
Since 2015, the Hof-based Hermann and Bertl Müller Foundation donates a prize endowed with 7,500 euros for the Best German Documentary feature. 

The 52nd Hof International Film Festival takes place from 23 to 28 October 2018. As one of the leading film fests in Germany, the Hof International Film Festival [HOFER FILMTAGE] has become well-established as a platform for young German directors and is widely regarded as important arena for discovering new talents, second only to Berlin. Of equal importance, however, are the independent movies from all over the world that make up roughly half the program consisting of 130 odd feature films, documentaries and shorts.

22 documentary film will be in this year’s program at the 52nd Hof International Film Festival. The focus is on humanity, in all of its facets – as an emotional, vulnerable individual and as a political, self-important resident of a planet whose rapid social and ecological developments are questioned. They deal with questions of how one can follow one’s own dreams into old age and what these dreams are made of. These observations are made within the intimate framework of the family structure as well as in a comprehensive, global context.

The German documentary productions premiering in Hof this year are:

• #resistance | #widerstand by Britta Schoening, 60min,  Special Mention GRANIT


• FINDING THE BEAUTY by Lennart Brede, 74min, Germany/USA


• FOLLOW THE RIVER – SEARCHING FOR FREEDOM IN ALASKA by Tilo Mahn, 67min, Germany __


• FROM MUSLIM TO MUSLIM by Niko Apel, 54min, Germany, P: AMA FILM GmbH


• HORST by Lisa Bühl, 72min, Germany


• THE ILLEGALE FILM by Martin Baer & Claus Wischmann, 84 min, Germany


• RAUS by Matthias Wilfert, 83min, Germany, awarded with the GRANIT - Best German Documentary Feature


• STAMMTISCH by Constantin Hatz, 92min, Germany


• SUNSET OVER HOLLYWOOD by Uli Gaulke, 97min, Germany


• WHO I AM by Agnese Grieco & Lucia Chiarla, 74min, Germany

 The awards were presented in a ceremomy on June 29 during the 2nd SWR DOKU FESTIVAL 2018, June 27—30 in Stuttgart.  The nominated documentaries are presented alongside others during the festival, with Q&A after the screenings.

 The German Documentary Award goes to  OF FATHERS AND SONS by Talal Derki, P: BASIS BERLIN Filmprod.

The STZ Leserjury Prize goes to SYSTEM ERROR by Florian Opitz, P: Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion GmbH

The Supporting Award of HDF—Haus des Dokumentarfilms goes to SHUT UP AND PLAY THE PIANO by Philipp Jedicke, P: Rapid Eye Movies

The Award of the 'Norbert Daldrop Förderung für Kunst und Kultur' goes to THE POETESS by Stefanie Brockhaus, Andreas Wolff, P: Brockhaus/Wolff Films

The Prize of the Opus GmbH goes to CONNY PLANK – THE POTENTIAL OF NOISE by Reto Caduff, Stephan Plank, P: Sugar Town Filmprod.

The Nominees Deutscher Dokumentarfilmpreis | German Documentary Award 2018 are:

• THE CLEANERS by Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck, P: Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion


• ELDORADO by Markus Imhoof P: zero one film GmbH


• FAMILIENLEBEN | FAMILY LIFE by Roswitha Ziegler, P: Wendländische Filmkooperative


• A GRAVAME – DAS STAHLWERK, DER TOD, MARIA UND DIE MÜTTER VON TAMBURI | A GRAVAME - THE BURDEN by Peter Rippl P: best before filmproduktion


• OF FATHERS AND SONS by Talal Derki, P: BASIS BERLIN Filmprod.


• THE POETESS by Stefanie Brockhaus, Andreas Wolff, P: Brockhaus/Wolff Films


• SEWOL - DIE GELBE ZEIT | SEWOL – PAUSED IN TIME by Minsu Park P: NOMINAL FILM, HFF


• SHUT UP AND PLAY THE PIANO by Philipp Jedicke, P: Rapid Eye Movies


• SYSTEM ERROR by Florian Opitz, P: Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion GmbH


• TASTE OF CEMENT by Ziad Kalthoum; P: BASIS BERLIN Filmproduktion GmbH


• WENN GOTT SCHLÄFT | WHEN GOD SLEEPS by Till Schauder, P: PARTNER PICTURES


• as well as the Austrian production
  WALDHEIMS WALZER | THE WALDHEIM WALTZ by Ruth Beckermann, P: Ruth Beckermann

The Nominated Music Documentaries for the Prize of the Opus GmbH are:

• BUNCH OF KUNST by Christine Franz, WS: Magnetfilm


• CONNY PLANK – THE POTENTIAL OF NOISE by Reto Caduff, Stephan Plank, P: Sugar Town Filmprod.


• SHUT UP AND PLAY THE PIANO by Philipp Jedicke, P: Rapid Eye Movies


• WENN GOTT SCHLÄFT | WHEN GOD SLEEPS by Till Schauder, P: PARTNER PICTURES


• YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE by André Schäfer, P: FLORIANFILM


• DER KLANG DER STIMME by Bernhard Weber, P: Artisan Films 

Other Documentaries of the Program a.o.:

• 1968MM by Felix Kriegsheim, Jerry Rothwell, Stefano Strocchi, P: BOEKAMP & KRIEGSHEIM


• DIE AKTE OPPENHEIMER – Das dunkle Erbe antisemitischer Fake News | Jew Süß and The Long Shadow of Anti-Semitic Nazipropaganda by Ina Knobloch P: City Media


• ALL DER JAZZ by Andreas Ammer, P: SWR


• BRIAN AUGER LIFE ON TOUR by Michael Maschke, P:LIFEONPIX


• CHICKS ON BOARD (series) by Dörthe Eickelberg, P: LaBom, 


• DEMOCRACY by David Bernet, P: INDI FILM


• ESKIMO LIMON – Eis am Stiel, von Siegern und Verlierern by Eric Friedler, P: Bakery Films


• FAREWELL YELLOW SEA by Marita Stocker,  P: INIDI FILM


• INS SCHWARZE GETROFFEN – Die deutsche Blindenfußballnationalmannschaft by Rebekka de Buhr, Ulf Puntschuh, Bastian Wagner


• KRIEG UND FRIEDEN by Artem Demenok, Andreas Christoph Schmidt, P: SCHMIDT & PAETZL


• KÖNIG CLAUS – Peymanns Leben für das Theater by Andreas Ammer, P: SWR


• KULENKAMPFF'S SHOES | KULENKAMPFFS SCHUHE by Regina Schilling, P: Zero One film GmbH


• LOUIS ARMSTRONG by Harald Letfuß, P: SWR


• REGGAE BOYZ by Till Schauder, P: Partner Pictures LLC


• SANDMÄDCHEN | SANDGIRL by Mark Michel, P: worklights media production GmbH


• SALAAM SCHALOM by Janos Fischer, Frieder Schmalzhaf


• SPK COMPLEX by Gern Kroske, P: realistfilm


• THE SUMMIT – PERFORMING G20 by Rasmus Gerlach, P:Kinoki GmbH


• EIN TIER SCHAUT ZURÜCK by Dieter Zimmermann, P: Zimmermannfilm


• WAS WAR LINKS by Andreas Christoph Schmidt (©2003)


• WIR LASSEN DICH NICHT ALLEIN – Unerwegs mit dem Kriseninterventinsteam Stuttgart by Samuel Härtl


• ZEUGEN GEGEN ASSAD by Tina Fuchs, P: Michael Hofmann


• ZWISCHENSTATION by Alexander Bambach, P: Alexander Bambach 

Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg GmbH presents:

• GALAMSEY by Johannes Preuss


• HASSJÜNGER by Julia Knopp, Maximilian Damm


• NOLLYWOOD (work in progress) by Johannes Preuss


• UNGARISCHE WUNDEN by Cécilia Marchat


• OF NEONAZIS AND SUPERHEROES | VON NEONAZIS UND SUPERHELDEN - Die Kleinstadt Themar und der Rechtsrock by Adrian Oeser

...and 

The 14th edition of this annual event for professionals focuses on the productions of non-fiction series. Authors, editors, directors and producers give an account of the making of these documentaries and series:

• 1968mm a three-part series by Felix Kriegsheim, Jerry Rothwell, Stefano Strocchi, P: BOEKAMP & KRIEGSHEIM 


• 18 – KRIEG DER TRÄUME | CLASH OF FUTURES an eight-part series by Jan Peter, Frédéric Goupil, P: LOOKSfilm & Les Films d’Ici


• DER KRIEG UND ICH – Kindheit im 2. Weltkrieg | KIDS OF COURAGE – Childhood during WWII an eight-part series by Matthias Zirzow, P: LOOKSfilm


• DAS KONGO TRIBUNAL | THE CONGO TRIBUNAL  by Milo Rau, P: Fruitmarket Arts & Media GmbH


• WER WAR HITLER | THE HITLER CHRONICLES by Hermann Pölking-Eiken, P: EPOCHEmedia


• HÖLLENTAL (AT work in progress) a six-parts series by Marie Wilke, P: Kundschafter Filmproduktion GmbH


• THE PROMISE — Killing for Love by Marcus Vetter & Karin Steinberger, P: Filmperspektive GmbH

…and others. For the full program of 14th DOKVILLE please click here. For more information and updates please visit the website www.dokville.de and/or the FB-Profile  

The PDF of the SWR DOKU FESTIVAL PROGRAMM 27-30 JUNE 2018 for download here.

Save the date Meet&Greet at the AG DOK & german documentaries booth C21, Friday, June 27, 2018 from 17 until 19 o'clock.

29th Sunny Side of the Doc, June 25-28, 2018, La Rochelle, France.
This is the place where the international documentary sector gathers over four days to sell or buy projects and programmes, and to find partners.
Challenging and thought-provoking conference sessions, pitch competitions with prizes, presentations by broadcasters from around the world, screenings and special events, all in a large exhibition and conference venue Espace Encan on the harbour side of La Rochelle in France. 

Here some pics of the SSD17.

 

For 28 years, Sunny Side of the Doc has become a major international marketplace for documentary and specialist factual content across all platforms.
Each year, the 4-day event brings together broadcasters, decision makers, financing bodies, distributors, content creators and producers from around the world to sell or buy projects and programmes, and to find coproduction partners.
Sunny Side of the Doc creates unique opportunities for all +2,000 professionals from 60 countries, to follow the latest industry trends, present 700 untold stories, make new connections and embrace interactive forms of storytelling including virtual reality, through a variety of high-level pitching sessions, panel discussions, networking activities and the added value of an exhibition space.

Meet&Greet german doumentaries directors and producers
Sunday, June 10, 2018 from 16:30 - 18:39 o'clock at Rutland Arms, 86 Brown Street, Sheffield.

 
The 25th edition of the Doc|Fest programme is made up of thematic strands creating an expansive spectrum of subject matter and form in non-fiction. The six main programme strands celebrate the best international documentaries ranging from deep journalism, to music docs and wild experiments in storytelling.

Doc|Adventure : Take a ride through thrilling tales, dramatic challenges, sports documentaries, and road trips.
Doc|Expose : Thrilling investigations exposing corruption, crime, and injustice, from frontlines to headlines.
Doc|Love : Pulsating, intimate stories celebrating the power of love, family, and friendship. 
Doc|Rhythm :  Move to the rhythm with energetic portraits of dance, music, and contemporary culture.
Doc|Think :  Intriguing new ways of seeing and thinking about the world – from politics to science to philosophy.
Doc|Visions : Open your eyes to inspiring, radical artists, and bold cinematic visions.

Step into the brave new world Alternate Realities, hear from the creators of unique virtual and augmented reality experiences that transport us to and help explore the inner workings of the mind.
As part of the Alternate Realities Exhibition The World Unknown To You  invites You to step into the lives of others and journey into new story worlds that use the latest immersive and interactive art forms.

LineUp german documentaries @ Sheffield Dok|Fest 2018:

· AMAL by Mohamed Siam [Youth Award Nominee | Doc|Love]

· BEFORE FATHER GETS BACK by Mari Gulbiani [Doc|Adventure]

· BERLIN PARIS TERROR by Jürgen Brügger, Jörg Haaßengier, Astrid Schult, Ricarda Saleh [Alternate Realities Competition | Better Known Truths]

· CENTRAL AIRPORT THF by Karim Aïnouz [ Doc|Think]

· THE CLEANERS by Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck [Doc|Think]

· COMMANDER ARIAN by Alba Sotorra [Tim Hetherington Award Nominee | Doc|Expose]

· THE CONGO TRIBUNAL by Milo Rau [Doc|Expose]

· ESTÁ TODO BIEN – IT'S ALL GOOD Tuki Jencquel [Doc|Think]

· EBRAHIM by Elliott McKee [Doc|Expose]

· GERMAN CLASS every beginning is hard by Florian Heinzen-Ziob [Doc|Think]   

· A GOD'S SHADOW by Bernhard Hetzenauer [Doc|Visions]

· HOMO MACHINA by Marc Lustigman, Noam Roubah, Olivier Bonhomme [interactive documentary | The World Unknown To You]

· KINSHASA MAKAMBO by Dieudo Hamadi [Tim Hetherington Award Nominee | Doc|Expose]

· LAST YEAR IN UTOPIA by Jana Magdalena Keuchel, Katharina Knust [Doc|Visions]

· THE LONELY BATTLE OF THOMAS REID by Feargal Ward  [Doc|Adventure]

· LOVERS OF THE NIGHT by Anna Frances Ewert [Doc|Love]

· MASKIROVKA by Tobias Zielony [Doc|Visions]

· OF FATHERS AND SONS by Talal Derki Grand Jury Award Nominee [Doc/Expose]

· ONE OR TWO QUESTIONS by Kristina Konrad [Doc|Expose]

· OVER THE LIMIT by Marta Prus [Youth Award Nominee | Doc|Adventure]

· PARALLEL PLANES by Nicole Wegner [Doc|Rhythm]

· UNAS PREGUNTAS – ONE OR TWO QUESTIONS by Kristina Konrad

· A WOMAN CAPTURED by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter [Grand Jury Award Nominee | Doc|Expose]

 

MeetMarket Projects 2018

· Angels of Sinijar. Yazidis - 21st Century Genocide
Poland, Germany / Saxonia Entertainment GmbH  / Director: Hanna Polak; Producer: Simone Baumann

· Brazil – The Rise and Fall of Lila da Silva
Germany, Brazil / gebrueder beetz filmproduktion / Director Cesar Charlone; Producer: Christian Beetz

· Digital Dictatorship China (WT) Digital Dictatorship China (WT)
Germany, Italy, France / Filmtank GmbH / Director: Andreas Pichler; Producer: Michael Grotenhoff, Thomas Tielsch

· Garage People 
Germany / Tamtam Film GmbH  / Director: Natalija Yefimkina; Producers: Andrea Schütte & Dirk Decker

· Liberace – The King of Bling
Germany / Kinescope Film / Director: Jeremy Fekete; Producer: Matthias Greving

· Miss Holocaust Survivor
Turkey, Germany, Denmark, Israel / Kamara / Director: Eytan Ipeker; Producer: Yoel Meranda; Co-producers: Katrin Pors, Eitan Mansuri & Ingmar Trost 

Alternate Realities Market Projects 2018

· A Symphony Of Noise VR 
United Kingdom, Germany / Up Creatives, Kloos & Co / Producers and creators: Jamie Balliu & Michaela Pnacekova, VR Director: Anrick Bregmann

· Inside Tumucumaque
Germany / Filmtank GmbH, Interactive Media Foundation gGmbH / Director: Ina Krüger; Producers: Michael Grotenhoff & Diana Schniedermeier

 

Meet producers of german documentaries and world sales companies distributing them in the GERMAN PAVILION or in the Pavilion for CREATIVE EUROPE MEDIA and get your own printed copy of the german documentaries catalogue 2018 at the booth of GERMAN FILMS SERVICE & MARKETING GMBH, Bernhard Simek, in the German Pavilion.

Confirmed companies among others are

in the German Pavilion

•  ALBATROSS WORLD SALES GMBH


•  MEDIA LUNA NEW FILMS


•  SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT GMBH


•  ZIEGLER FILM GMBH & CO. KG


•  SPIEGEL TV GMBH


•  EUROARTS MUSIC INTERNATIONAL GMBH

in the Pavilion for Creative Europe Media

•  LOOKS FILM & TV PRODUKTIONEN GMBH


•  MAGNETFILM GMBH


•  DOCS DE COLOGNE UG


•  FILMS BOUTIQUE


•  NEW DOCS E.K.


•  FIRST HAND FILMS


•  RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES UG

NaturVision Filmfestival July 19-22 2018   
Central Theater Ludwigsburg | Open-air cinema & market

NaturVision is THE film festival for nature and the environment. With an international film competition, each year the festival showcase the latest films around nature, wildlife and the environment, honouring the best among them with prestigious awards. NaturVision brings the beauty of nature to the big screen, shows the vulnerability of our world, and reports on new and promising solutions for environmental issues. NaturVision stands for the art of film, sustainability and future-proof development with unforgettable film images, emotional moments and critical information.
The festival attracts many visitors from the industry, as directors, editors and other media representatives. Their interaction with the public and each other enriches the event no end! Accredited visitors get access to workshops and other events, all film showings which are part of the festival and all events for trade visitors.

Competition categories and awards: 

The productions submitted in the categories shown here are reviewed by a selection panel and the best ones are nominated. After the festival the winner will be published here.

• German Conservation and Sustainability Film Award: This award goes to the film that promotes sustainable handling of our environment in a memorable and outstanding way, presents ecological relationships in a way that we can understand, and is considered to be the best self-contained complete work. Worldwide submissions welcome.
  Prize money: €10,000 | sponsored by Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector, Baden-Württemberg


• German Wildlife Film Award: This award goes to the film chosen by the jury as the best self-contained complete work on nature and wildlife themes.
  Worldwide submissions welcome. Prize money: €10,000 expected


• German Biodiversity Film Award: This award goes to the film that highlights the issue of biodiversity most impressively and intelligibly. Worldwide submissions welcome.
  Prize money: €10,000 | Sponsored by HAHN+KOLB Werkzeuge GmbH


• NaturVision Short Film Award: The (In)Finite Nature of Plastic: This award honours the film that best critically examines the use of plastic, its prevalence in the ground and water, and its threat to living creatures – thus highlighting the devastating impact of our lifestyles. The tackling of potential solutions to the problems of plastic waste and alternatives to the use of plastic are also considered. The film can be any genre.
  Prize money: € 5,000 | Sponsored by Audi Umweltstiftung


• NaturVision Camera Award: This award goes to the film in which the camera work contributes most uniquely to the artistic and aesthetic quality of the film.


• NaturVision Best Story Award: This award goes to the film with the most exceptional narrative perspective and unconventional dramatisation.


• NaturVision Film Music Award: This award goes to the film whose specially composed and produced score stands out most impressively through its dramatic and emotive arrangement.
  Prize money: €1,000, Private donation


• NaturVision Bavarian Film Award: This award honours the best Bavarian competition entry – either a Bavarian production or a film made by a Bavarian filmmaker or exploring a genuine Bavarian theme.
  Prize money: €3,000 | Sponsored by FilmFersehFonds Bayern and will be presented in Bavaria.


• NaturVision Children’s Film Award: This award goes to the film that best introduces children to the complex relationship between nature and the environment and raises their awareness of the issues.
  Prize money: €2,000| Sponsored by Wiedeking Stiftung Stuttgart


• NaturVision Newcomer Award: This award goes to a newcomer whose work is considered especially innovative and convincing. Films of any length or genre are considered. The award is aimed at students/trainees in media professions, or graduates/career-changers during their first two productions.
  Prize money: €1,000 | Sponsored by dieUmweltdruckerei


• NaturVision Youth Jury Award: A jury of youngsters select their favourite film. It is not possible to apply for this competition category; the youth jury selects its winners on its own.
  Prize money: €2,000 | Sponsored by Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector, Baden-Württemberg


• NaturVision Audience Award: All visitors to the festival have the opportunity to vote for their favourite film from the competition programme.


• NaturVision Honorary Award: This award goes to a person or organisation that has made a significant contribution – normally in the media – to the subject area people/nature/environment/conservation over a long period. The award is not given regularly and cannot be applied for.

NaturVision Filmfestival 2018 program as PDF click here.

FILMFEST MÜNCHEN is one of Europe's biggest summer film festivals. More than 2,000 German and international professionals from film, TV and media gather for the festival each year. Find out more about FILMFEST MÜNCHEN: profile, awards, sponsors and news and sections.

LineUp German Documentary Prodcutions and Co-productions:

• THE BEES AND THE  BIRDS by Lola Randl, P: DETAiLFILM GmbH, [New German Cinema]


• THE BRASCH FAMILY by Annekatrin Hendel, P: IT WORKS! Medien GmbH [New German Cinema]


• FLY ROCKET FLY by Oliver Schwehm, P: Lunabeach TV und Media GmbH, [Spotlight]


• IT MUST SCHWING - THE BLUE NOTE STORY by Eric Friedler, P: Neue Road Movies & NDR [Spotlight]


• LIFE AS IT IS: MILOŠ FORMAN ON MILOŠ FORMAN by Robert Fischer, P: Fiction Factory Robert Fischer Filmproduktion [Lights! Camera! Action!]


• OF FATHER AND SONS by Talal Derki, P: BASIS BERLIN Filmprod., Ventana Film GmbH, Cinema Group Production [International Independents]

 In the section FILMMAKERS LIVE  you can find among others NEUES DEUTSCHES KINO 1: DIE DOKUMENTARFILME. A panel with filmmakers on current trends in documentary filmmaking from Germany. With: Lola Randl (VON BIENEN UND BLUMEN | THE BEES AND THE  BIRDS), Annekatrin Hendel (FAMILIE BRASCH | THE BRASCH FAMILY), Eric Friedler (IT MUST SCHWING)

Also in the section Filmmakers Live Margarethe von Trotta, the German director talks about her documentary on the Swedish master: AUF DER SUCHE NACH INGMAR BERGMAN | SEARCHING FOR INGMAR BERGMAN

CoPro - Documentary Marketing And Animation Foundation has been promoting and marketing the Israeli documentary films outside of Israel since 1999. Its primary goal is to promote collaborations between Israeli filmmakers and their counterparts abroad. CoPro has revolutionized the scope of international co-productions of Israeli documentaries and increases the sales abroad.

CoPro's Tracks

Developement Stage Marketing

Production Stage Marketing

Distribution Stage Marketing

Selected Projects (WT) from Germany at CoPro20 in Tel Aviv, June 3-7, 2018. Some of the German producers were also involved in further co-productions with Israel. 

• ANGELS OF SINJAR  by Hanna Polak, P: Simone Baumann, Saxonia Entertainment


• SCARS by Agnieszka Zwiefka, P: Stefan Kloos, Kloos&Co. Medien GmbH
  


• LEBANON WAR: GAME OF CHAOS P. Reinhard Beetz, Gebrüder Beetz Media GmbH


• NICE JEWISH BOY by Isri Halpern, P: Jürgen Kleinig, Neue Celluloid Fabrik


• WHO KILLED JESSICA? by Yulie Cohen, P: Ümit Uludag,  CORSO Film- and Television Produktion

Members of the German Delegation CoPro20:

• Simone Baumann, Saxonia Entertainment


• Reinhard Beetz, Gebrüder Beetz


• Igor Fürnberg, Neue Celluloid Fabrik


• Jürgen Kleinig, Neue Celluloid Fabrik


• Ümit Uludag, Corso Film and Television Production


• Björn Jensen, german documentaries 


• Gerhard Schick

More Information on CoPro's Tracks

• Pitching Forum – Up to 20 projects are selected by a committee of international professionals, out of hundreds of proposals submitted to CoPro every year. Following a rigorous process of master-class sessions and simulations during the months before the market, the selected projects are presented publicly to commissioning editors, network executives, film fund managers and producers seeking for international co-productions, followed by private meetings. 


• Inside Out: Co Producing with Israel – Since 2009 CoPro has offered foreign documentary filmmakers a framework to present their initiative projects to Israeli broadcasters, as well as film fund representatives and producers, in order to increase reciprocity of the collaboration. Foreign delegations in this track are from the countries that have a co-production treaty with Israel.
  Through this platform CoPro hopes to create mutual Israeli and foreign co-productions and expose the Israeli industry to filmmakers from abroad.
  So far, CoPro has hosted delegations of producers from Germany, Poland, Canada, France, the United Kingdom and Austria.


• Close Encounters – Personal encounters between filmmakers and foreign producers, network commissioning editors from countries that have co-production agreements with Israel. They receive, in advance, a catalogue of the projects, selected by a committee of international professionals and coordinated by CoPro, and they meet with Israeli filmmakers. These meetings create new opportunities for the Israelis for additional funding channels and access to cultural foundations from abroad.


• Docs & Cuts – Rough Cut Screenings – CoPro provides Israeli documentarians with the opportunity to screen selected projects in the rough-cut stage, knowing it is the last chance to get international co-producers on board. These projects tend to be, but are not limited to, documentaries that were pitched at previous CoPro editions.


• DocuShuk Screening Market – International buyers and content providers interested in acquiring recently completed Israeli documentaries receive in advance a catalogue of around 120 titles, from which they select those they would like to watch in a private screening booth. The catalogue is fitted to the needs of the international buyers’ market and is updated every year.


• New Media Pitch – For the last 8 years CoPro has offered a unique framework for Israeli documentarians to present their cross-media storytelling ideas. Specially selected by a panel of foreign professionals, the filmmakers get the chance to present their projects to new-media experts and entrepreneurs, for possible collaborations.


• CoPro Campus – In an effort to help film school graduates integrate into the local industry and get acquainted with the international market, CoPro invites film students to submit their documentary proposals to a special selection committee. While the best proposal receives a production grant from The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts and post-production services from Edit Studios, the other projects receive one-on-one consultancies with leading foreign professionals.


• Master Classes – Held before the pitching sessions and during the Market by foreign and Israeli professional representatives. The Master Classes, as part of the Pitching Track, offer young talented filmmakers the tools they need to translate their ideas into the leading international network executives’ language. The classes give the filmmakers the means to develop and improve their art form.


• DocuChild – A biennial program in collaboration with Goethe-Institute Tel Aviv and Prix Jeunesse Germany regarding the quality of children’s television programs. CoPro encourages Israeli filmmakers to pitch their ideas for children’s documentaries to local and foreign broadcasting channels, in order to create collaborations. In 2015 DocuChild combined for the first time special apps for children alongside the documentary and television programs.


• Animadoc – The latest addition to CoPro aims to strengthen the intersection of animation and documentary filmmaking. Selected projects are invited to a tailored incubator program during the year, in which the documentary filmmakers receive mentorship and tools to develop the animation as part of their film. The peak of the process is at the market where they pitch publicly to an international panel of professionals in both fields. [ In cooperation with the GOETHE INSTITUTE]

...and

The 20th edition of the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival doc aiviv took place some days before CoPro20, May 17-26, 2018 with 12 German productions and co-productions. 

TRACING ADDAI by Esther Niemeier won the Best Short Film Award.
"The winner of the Docaviv Shorts Competition is a true story about a son who disappeared without a trace. Addai, a young man, leaves his mother’s home to join a group of Salafi Syrian fighters and disappears, never to return. The director pieces together fragmented memories, facts and moments into a gentle, story loaded with emotion, yet manages to avoid pathos. The storylines converge into an honest examination of grief, regret and lost hope." Jury's justification.
For the announcment of all DOCAVIV 20TH EDITION WINNERS click here.

LineUp german documentaries @ 20 | doc aviv

• A WOMAN CAPTURED by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter


• ELDORADO by by Markus Imhoof


• THE DISAPPEARED by Gilad Baram, Adam Kaplan


• KINSHASA MAKAMBO by Dieudo Hamadi


• OBON by Andre Hörmann, Samo 


• OVER THE LIMIT by Marta Prus


• THE PRINCE AND THE DYBBUK by Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski


• THE POETESS by Stefanie Brockhaus, Andreas Wolff


• THE STRANGE SOUND OF HAPPINESS by Diego Pascal Panarello


• A MODERN MAN by by Eva Mulvad


• MRS FANG by by Wang Bing


• TRACING ADDAI by Esther Niemeier

SEARCHING FOR INGMAR BERGMAN || AUF DER SUCHE NACH INGMAR BERGMAN by Margarethe von Trotta (DE/FR, C-Films) [Cannes Classics]
He is considered the most important filmmaker of all time. In 2018 Ingmar Bergman would have turned 100 years old. On this occasion, the internationally known and well-respected German director Margarethe von Trotta approaches the work and the person of Ingmar Bergman, under whose film heritage talks to a new generation of filmmakers.

POPE FRANCIS – A MAN OF HIS WORD || PAPST FRANZISKUS – EIN MANN SEINES WORTES by Wim Wenders (IT/CH/DE/FR, Neue Road Movies) [Special Screenings]
Pope Francis – A MAN OF HIS WORD is a personal journey with Pope Francis rather than a traditional biographical film about him. A rare co-production with the Vatican, the pope’s ideas and his message are central to this documentary, which sets out to present his work of reform and his answers to today’s global questions from death, social justice, immigration, ecology, wealth inequality, materialism, and the role of the family.

CARLOTTA'S FACE by Valentin Riedl, Frédéric Schuld (DE, Fabian&Fred GmbH) [Cannes Corner]
As a child, Carlotta didn’t expect the people around her to have faces. She doesn’t even recognize her own face. Years later, she learns about a rare, untreatable deficit in her brain. It was art, after all, that offered her a way to finally recognize herself.

CHRIS THE SWISS by Anja Kofmel (CH/HR, DE/FI. Ma.ja.de. Filmproduktion, Dschoint Ventschr) [57th Semaine de la Critique]
Croatia, January 1992. In the midst of the Yugoslav Wars, Chris, a young Swiss journalist is found dead in mysterious circumstances. He was wearing the uniform of an international mercenary group. Anja Kofmel was his cousin. As a little girl, she used to admire this handsome young man; now a grown-up woman, she decides to investigate his story, trying to understand what really was the involvement of Chris in the conflict…

A total number of three german documentaries are awarded with the GRIMME PREIS in the section for INFORMATION & CULTURE  with four awards. The productions are:

YOU WERE MY LIFE. A Reunion With a Sea View | DU WARST MEIN LEBEN. Ein Wiedersehen mit Blick aufs Meer by Rosa Hannah Ziegler, produced by Wendländische Filmkooperative, broadcasted by Ab 18! 3sat/ZDF.   _jury_

I'M OKAY | ALLES GUT – Ankommen in Deutschland by Pia Lenz produced by PIER 53, Carsten Rau und Hauke Wendler GbR, broacasted by NDR/SWR.  _jury_

CAHIER AFRICAIN by Heidi Specogna, DoP Johann Feindt, coproduced by Stefan Tolz, FILMPUNKT, broadcasted by 3sat/ZDF.  _jury_ as well as Best Director of Photography (the third time) for Johann Feindt.

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 documentaries mentioned here for 2018 Grimme Preis 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 NOMINEES:

LUISE & MOHAMED - Leaving for Algiers | – Aufbruch nach Algier by Beatrix Schwehm
[LUISE – EINE DEUTSCHE MUSLIMA won a 2007 Grimme Preis]
YOU WERE MY LIFE. A Reunion With a Sea View | Du warst mein Leben. Ein Wiedersehen mit Blick aufs Meer. by Rosa Hannah Ziegler
I'm okay | ALLES GUT - Ankommen in Deutschland by Pia Lenz
CAHIER AFRICAIN by Heidi Specogna
DIL LEYLA by Asli Özarslan
OVERGAMES by Lutz Dammbeck
PETER HANDKE – In the woods, might be late | - Bin Im Wald. Kann sein, dass ich mich verspäte... | by Corinna Belz
CIVIL SERVANTS | STAATSDIENER by Marie Wilke
DRAWING A LINE | STRICHE ZIEHEN by Gerd Kroske

The awards were presented by Annette Gerlach at a gala ceremony in the Theater of the City of Marl on April 13, 2018.
Here the very moments in some pictures by ©® Michael Neuhaus posted with the friendly permission of the Grimme-Institut. [FB]

Rosa Hannah Ziegler for YOU WERE MY LIFE

 

Pia Lenz for I'M OKAY

 

Heidi Specogna for CAHIER AFRICAIN 

 

© Johann Feindt, Best DoP for CAHIER AFRICAIN 

 

CINEMA AT IT'S BEST!

The 33rd DOK.fest Munich celebrates the cinema experience. See nine strong films from the festival programme on five evenings in the auditorium of Deutsches Theater. Only premieres will be presented for this extraordinary occasion. After the screening, the stage will be handed over to the directors and their team so they can present their film in person. The public, international guests and industry representatives will have the possibility to connect with each other at reception events and to round off the evening's viewing in the Deutsches Theater's courtyard.
The german documentaries in this venue are:

 ·  OVER THE LIMIT by Marta Prus [DOK.international]

 ·  SYSTEM ERROR by Florian Opitz [DOK.international]

 ·  EINEN SOMMER LANG by Georg Michael Fischer [Münchner Premieren]

 ·  THE CLEANERS by Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck [DOK.international]

 ·  FOR IN MY WAY IT LIES by Lukas von Stein [DOK.deutsch]

Cinema history at it's best: 
MAXIM & DOK.fest Munich
From the late 1970s, under the direction of Sigi Daiber, the MAXIM, one of Munich’s oldest cinemas, became a stronghold of alternative film culture and played a part in the beginnings of DOK.fest Munich. When the end of the venue seemed to be inevitable, four cinema enthusiasts reinvented the MAXIM.
The Munich based director & producer Peter Heller tells about it: CINEMA FOR LIFE [MAXIM LEBEN – EIN ALTES KINO ERZÄHLT] More information and pics of the new venue NEUES MAXIM are just one click away. 
Here are some distribution companies [A-Z] engaged to bring german documentaries to the big screen to the cinephile audience:  Basis-Film Verleih Berlin || déjà-vu FILM UG || farbfilm verleih GmbH || FILMGALERIE 451 || Kinostar Filmverleih GmbH || KFA shortfilmagency Hamburg || mindjazz pictures UG || Neue Visionen Filmverleih GmbH || RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih e.K. || RISE AND SHINE CINEMA UG || SALZGEBER & Co.Medien GmbH || W-film Filmproduktion & Filmverleih || ZORRO FILM GMBH || || || ||

Retrospective Helga Reidemeister
In her films Helga Reidemeister contrasts the inflation of what is factual with the reality of experience: her precise and unerring view of the apparently insignificant reveals the crux of human relationships. The 2018 retrospective presents a cross-section through four decades of her filmic achievements.

Award winners 2018

The FairFilmAward Non Fiction goes to  Marianne Schäfer & André Schäfer, FLORIANFILM GMBH. (By the way, the awardwinning team is  looking for a new member)

The three nominees for the first FairFilmAward Non Fiction by different organizations: FLORIANFILM GmbH  ||  Flare Film GmbH  ||  zero one film GmbH

Photo©2018 DOK.fest Munich. With Vincent Lutz & Christian Dosch (Crew United), Oliver Bätz (team member of FLORIANFILM GMBH), Nicole Leykauf (laudatio, CEO Leykauf Film GmbH), and Daniel Sponsel (CEO DOK.fest Munich).

 The first VFF Documentary Film Production Award, goes to Birgit Schulz, CEO of Bildersturm Filmprod. GmbH  for her work BEYOND BORDERS – STORIES OF FREEDOM & FRIENDSHIP  [WT Missing Movies]

Photo©2018 DOK.fest Munich. With Birgit Schulz right in the middle, with jury members Thomas Frickel (CEO German Documentary Association AG DOK), Dagmar Biller (TANGRAM International GmbH) Prof. Karin Jurschick (HFF Munich) and Daniel Sponsel (CEO DOK.fest Munich)

"The (FFF supporting)award goes to (Pauline Roenneberg for sooner or later) a director who shows a great talent for storytelling and pursues a bold visual concept in her ambitious project. Her attempt to document everyday events and incorporate them with a fictional narrative structure has been achieved with a great atmospheric intensity. She laconically and humorously portrays people without ever showing them up." The jury of FFF Förderpreis Dokumentarfilm
Photo © 2018 DOK.fest Munich

The BR kinokino Audience Award is won by the film that has received the most votes in relation to its audience. TACKLING LIFE by Johannes List was able to get 83 percent of its viewers to vote. A total of 11,352 votes were submitted in the context of the Audience Award, presented by BR Filmmagazin kinokino.
Photo©2018 DOK.fest Munich, Q&A after the screening of TACKLING LIFE by Johannes List, with film crew and members of the BERLIN BRUISERS.
 

German Documentary Film Music Award goes to Damian Scholl & Ulrich Reuter for the original score of BEUYS by Andres Veiel
„The multi-layered music of the two composers Ulrich Reuter and Damian Scholl not only congenially complements Andres Veiel's cinematic view of Joseph Beuys, but also interprets his artistic work in its own way. The miniatures, some of them purely analog, almost classically designed, in combination with the electronic passages, deliberately refuse to allow any clear access and repeatedly open up Beuys' perspectives on film and art with curiosity." The jury of Deutscher Dokumentarfilm-Musikpreis 
Photo©2018 DOK.fest Munich

LineUp of German documentary productions and co-productions 

 
·  ABOVE THE TIMBERLINE by Marina Hufnagel [Student Award]

 ·  AMAL by Mohamed Siam [DOK.horizonte & Nomine DOK.fest Award of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit  ]

 ·  THE ART OF ARGUMENT by Melanie Liebheit, Gereon Wetzel [DOK.deutsch]

 ·  B12 – GESTORBEN WIRD IM NÄCHSTEN LEBEN by Christian Lerch [DOK.deutsch]

 ·  BAUHAUS SPIRIT by Niels Bolbrinker, Thomas Tielsch [DOK.special]

 ·  BEYOND BORDERS – STORIES OF FREEDOM & FRIENDSHIP by Johanna Bentz, Camilo Colmenares, Sandra Dajani, Madeleine Dallmeyer, Nazgol Emami, Diana Menestrey, Khaled Nawal, Birgit Schulz [DOK.special]

 ·  BISS UND DIE ANGST VORM FLIEGEN by Wolfgang Ettlich [Münchner Premieren]

 ·  THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR LIFE by Zita Erffa [Student Award]

 ·  BEUYS by Andres Veiel [DOK.special]

 ·  BLIND MAN WATCHING by Fausto Molina [DOK.deutsch]

 ·  CENTRAL AIRPORT THF by Karim Aïnouz [Best of Fests]

 · CINEMA FOR LIFE  by Peter Heller [Münchner Premieren]

 ·  THE CLEANERS by Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck [DOK.international]

 ·  DARK EDEN by Jasmin Herold, Michael Beamish [DOK.international]

 ·  EINEN SOMMER LANG by Georg Michael Fischer  [Münchner Premieren]

 ·  ETHIOPIQUES – REVOLT OF THE SOUL by Maciek Bochniak [DOK.panorama]

 ·  FEBRUAR by Marlena Molito [Student Award]

 ·  FOR IN MY WAY IT LIES by Lukas von Stein [DOK.deutsch]

 ·  FOREVER FLÜCHTLING 1 by Dirk Schäfer [DOK.special]
 ·  FOREVER FLÜCHTLING 2 by Alex Schaad [DOK.special]

 ·  FRAUD by David Spaeth [Münchner Premieren]

 ·  THE GARDEN by Francesca Bertin [Student Award]

 ·  A GERMAN YOUTH by Jean-Gabriel Périot [DOK.special]

 ·  GERMANIA by Lion Bischof [Münchner Premieren]

 ·  GET ME SOME HAIR! by Lars Barthel [DOK.panorama]

 ·  GLOBAL FAMILY by Melanie Andernach, Andreas Köhler [Best of Fests]

 ·  GOTTESZELL - A WOMEN'S PRISON by Helga Reidemeister [Retrospektive]

 ·  GUARDIANS OF HERITAGE – CULTURE CLASH by Emanuel Rotstein [DOK.special]

 ·  HERE AND THERE by Bettina Renner [DOK.deutsch]

 ·  IMPREZA – THE CELEBRATION by Alexandra Wesolowski [Münchner Premieren]

 ·  INK OF YAM by Tom Fröhlich [DOK.special]

 ·  IRONHEAD by Tian Dong [Student Award]

 ·  JOE BOOTS by Florian Baron [DOK.education]

 ·  KREATURA by Viki Alexander [Student Award]

 ·  LA BESTIA – TRAIN OF THE UNKNOWNS by Manuel Inacker [Student Award]

 ·  LAST SHIP HOME by Michael Weber, Christian Ebert [DOK.panorama]

 ·  LEGACY by Gabriele Voss, Christoph Hübner [DOK.special]

 ·  LUCICA AND HER CHILDREN by Bettina Braun [DOK.deutsch]

 ·  MAMACITA by José Pablo Estrada Torrescano [DOK.female]

 ·  MIT STARREM BLICK AUFS GELD by Helga Reidemeister [Retrospektive]

  · THE MOTIVATION COACH by Martin Rieck, Julian Amershi [DOK.panorama]

 ·  MY RUSSIAN SPRING by Xenia Sigalova [Münchner Premiere]

 ·  NUMBER ONE – GERMANY’S GREATEST GOALKEEPERS by Gerhard Schick [Münchner Premieren]

 ·  OPERATION PROVIANT by Andreas Hancke, Michael Kloft [DOK.special]

 ·  OVER THE LIMIT by Marta Prus [DOK.international]

 ·  PARENTS' SCHOOL | ELTERNSCHULE by Jörg Adolph, Ralf Bucheler [DOK.deutsch]

 ·  REGGAE BOYZ by Till Schauder [DOK.panorama & DOK.music Open Air]

 ·  RIOT NOT DIET by Julia Fuhr Mann [Student Award]

 ·  RODINA MEANS HOME by Helga Reidemeister [Retrospektive]

 ·  THE SIXTH CONTINENT by Andreas Pichler [DOK.deutsch]

 ·  THE SECRETS OF THE HANDSOME LEO by Benedikt Schwarzer [DOK.deutsch]

 ·  SHADOWS OF THE DESERT by Franziska Schönenberger, Jay Subramanian [DOK.international]

 ·  SHUT UP AND PLAY THE PIANO by Philipp Jedicke [DOK.panorama & DOK.music Open Air]

 ·  SILENT COMRADE by Leonhard Hollmann [Student Award]

 ·  THE SIXTH CONTINENT by Andreas Pichler [DOK.deutsch]

 ·  SOONER OR LATER by Pauline Roenneberg & Britta Schwem [DOK.deutsch]

 ·  SPK COMPLEX by Gerd Kroske [DOK.special]

 ·  SYSTEM ERROR by Florian Opitz [DOK.international]

 ·  TACKLING LIFE by Johannes List [DOK.deutsch]

 ·  TEXAS—KABUL by Helga Reidemeister [Retrospektive]

 ·  TOUCHING CONCRETE by Ilja Stahl [Student Award]

 ·  TRACING ADDAI by Esther Niemeier [Student Award]

 ·  THE TRIAL | O PROCESSO by Maria Augusta Ramos [DOK.female]

 ·  VIOLENCE IS TO CHARGE 600 EUROS – PUBLIC LAND II by Elena Friedrich [Student Award]

 ·  THE VIOLIN'S VOICE by Benedikt Schulte [Münchner Premieren]

 ·  VON WEGEN SCHICKSAL by Helga Reidemeister [Retrospektive]

 ·  WAR AND LOVE IN KABUL by Helga Reidemeister [Retrospektive]

 ·  WE WERE REBELS by Katharina von Schröder, Florian Schewe [DOK.special]

 ·  WHERE ARE YOU, JOAO GILBERTO? by Georges Gachot [DOK.international & DOK.music Open Air]

 ·   A WOMAN CAPTURED by  Bernadett Tuza-Ritter [DOK.female]

  ·  ZEITENWENDE IN GIESING by Morgane Remter [DOK.special]

The DOK.forum sees itself as a think tank for the documentary film industry and marketplace for innovative projects. This year again we invite you to develop visions and impulses with a diverse programme of panels, workshops and case studies. Urgent media policy issues are discussed as well as technical trends and new formats. During the recent years, the DOK.forum has established itself as a meeting place for the German-speaking industry.
This year, the DOK.forum will focus on the future of a highly competitive format – the cinema documentary. We bring together decision-makers and filmmakers in Munich to draw up concrete proposals for action.
The DOK.forum programme 2018 for download.

The German Documentary Association AG DOK

among others invites to two conferences:

· GANZ GROSSES KINO? Konferenz zur Zukunft des deutschen Kinodokumentarfilms

· BILDET BANDEN!  Für mehr Frauen in der Dokumentarfilmbranche

DOK.forum Marketplace Projects 2018

May 3-5, 2018 University for Television and Film Munich
The DOK.forum Marketplace invites the most exciting concepts for documentary film, composition, series, webdoc, VR and interactive media to Munich. At moderated roundtables filmmakers discuss their projects in development with commissioning editors, producers and distributors – in the competition for prestigious awards and fundings. The events focuse on the German-speaking co-production area with special offers for international delegations. 

MARKETPLACE MASTER PITCH
The Marketplace Masters Pitch - the only public format of the Marketplace - offers interested guests the opportunity to get an insight into exciting project ideas and the development process of documentary films. Four filmmakers from Latin America are invited as this year's guest delegation.

COMPOSITION FUNDING PRIZE
Five teams of directors and composers pitch for the German Composition Funding Prize. The aim is to strengthen cooperation between directors and composers.

ROUNDTABLES
In moderated roundtable sessions, 25 teams present and discuss their projects with commissioning editors, producers, distributors, sales agents and funders at eye level.

SCREENINGS
Three rough cuts and two finished films from this year's festival programme are presented to distributors and sales agents.

PITCH AWARD
Nine students of our partner film schools get the special opportunity to present their projects to important decision-makers in a protected environment.

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PLAYGROUND DOCUMENTARY

Playground Documentary is a brand new format at DOK.forum, carefully developed for our international industry guests. This year's PLAYGROUNDS sheds light on distribution of documentaries in many different ways. In an informal atmosphere, speakers and audience will exchange ideas, talk about their projects and difficulties and concentrate on new possibilities and solutions. It aims at sharing expert's insights and giving space for an active audience to create visions for documentaries. The sessions will be held in English. Admission is free, please register here.
If you have any questions, please email forum@dokfest-muenchen.de

TELE.VISION
focuses on future formats and visions for TV. Together with Christian von Brockhausen (NDR, DIE BOX) and Nicole Baum (3sat), we explore both innovative and conventional formats on public TV, their target audiences and the way they work – or don't. Together, we can discuss visionary formats with the experts and maybe give an impulse to create a brand new documentary TV format! Speaker: Christian von Brockhausen, NDR DIE BOX, Nicole Baum, 3sat

INSIDE OUT
What is the essence of your film? How do you make sure it has what it takes to make people want to see it? In an extremely competitive and financially tight industry, success is only possible with a clear and cutting message that emerges from a constructive and productive cooperation between producer and distributor. In this session we will play the title game and compile efficient strategies for each program and its essence to be presented. You are welcome to bring your own (working) title, a key picture or a poster draft, and ideas on how to best make the essence of your film come out. Speaker: Esther van Messel, First Hand Films

SHIFT CINEMA!
An interactive conversation with applied examples about building social impact concepts, design and strategies for films, with an interdisciplinary and multimedia approach. Meet Marion Guth and Paula Onet from a_BAHN, specialized in impact designing and producing. By signing up for the workshop, you have the chance to submit a project for being selected for a first-impact examination during the workshop. Let's chill and shift cinema's boundaries! Speaker: Paula Onet, a_BAHN, Marion Guth, a_BAHN

 

May 8, 2018 DOK.forum press release:
After three intensive days, the DOK.forum Marketplace ended on Saturday, May 5th with 150 international guests, strong stories and newly formed partnerships. In addition to roundtables and open pitches, we were also able to offer curated one-to-one meetings for the first time this year. In partnership with Documentary Campus, the international Masters Pitch focused on German and Latin American projects and presented groundbreaking keynotes on the topic "Is TV now VoD?". We would like to thank the participants for their inspiring projects and passionate pitches, the experts for their valuable and concrete feedback and of course our partners who made the ideas and co-production market possible.

Doc Circuit Montréal, RIDM’s documentary forum, will grant for the first time full festival and industry accreditations to the filmmakers Teresa Camou Guerrero for the film project CRUZ as well as to director Eva Weber and producer Sonja Henrici for IN DER STILLE DER NACHT. Both projects had been chosen for the Marketplace Masters Pitch. The winners will get the chance to attend DCM’ Talent Lab and participate together with their teams in the industry event.
Stay updated about all DOK.forum events and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

 

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and much more...

March 22-25, 2018 documentary filmmakers and enthusiasts from all over the world converge in Lagos, Nigeria for the 8th edition of the annual iRep — International Documentary Film Festival. The festival is held at its traditional home, Freedom Park in central business district of Lagos Island.
The delegation from Germany takes part in the event with "MANAGING COLONIAL ARCHIVAL MATERIAL IN GERMANY" on the panel with moderator Bärbel Mauch are Jürgen Ellinghaus, Gregor Kasper, Chih Musquiqui, and with screenings of german documentaries as well as Q&A with the attending directors.

LineUp of the german documentaries:

CONGO TRIBUNAL by Milo Rau

THE FIRE, A FOWL AND (UN)FORGOTTEN PAST - TOGOLAND by Jürgen Ellinghaus

CAFÉ TOGO by Gregor Kasper and Chih Musquiqui

GALAMSEY - FOR A FISTFUL OF GOLD by Johannes Preuss

WHEN PAUL CAME OVER THE SEA by Jakob Preuss

For more information please download The iREP Report —published by GOETHE INSTITUT NIGERIA in Lagos— the PDF of the 2018 iREP Newsletter Vol. 7, Issue 1 with the very articles among others "German Films at IREP 2018: Echoes of a Violent Past and Present" by Aderinsola Ajao as well as "Documenting for the future: The Congo Tribunal" by Lucia Edafioka and the PDF of the 2018 iREPNewsletter Vol. 7 Issue 3 with "GALAMSEY: Actors in a Tale of Plundering" by IfeOluwa Nihinlola as well as "Archiving Africa’s Teutonic Remnants" by Adefoyeke Ajao.

The issue "Enabling a Universal Visual Narrative" by Aderinsola Ajao in 2018 iREPNewsletter Vol. 7 Issue 4 is the DOK.network Africa, May, 02-14, 2018, at the 33rd DOK.fest Munich, Germany.
DOK.network Africa is about conversations at eye level between Africa and Germany, between festival-teams and audiences about the concept of documentary film, filmmaking per se, the role of documentary film. It is about the perceptions of and relations to each other and the exchange of ideas. Partners of this project beside DOK.fest Munich and iRep IDFF are ZIFF - Zimbabwe International Film Festival as well as ENCOUNTERS South African International Documentary Festival.
Contact DOK.network Africa is Barbara Off, off@dokfest-muenchen.de

For over ten years, the 'german documentaries' catalogue has accompanied all activities of the German documentary film scene at markets and festivals. At first, the German Documentary Association AG DOK – with over 800 members, the largest German professional association of independent directors and producers – published the catalogue at its own expense. Then the film division of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology became a solid supporter.
Since 2004, 'german films,' the national information and advisory centre for the promotion of German films worldwide, has financed the publication of 'german documentaries,' whose content remains solely in the hands of filmmakers and producers, and not a publisher, sales department, or institution. In its twelve editions, 'german documentaries' has presented some 1000 films – from ten-minute shorts to feature-length theatrical documentaries, from artistically crafted film essays to documentary series – complete with photos, synopses, and contact information – to audiences worldwide.

Now, once again thanks to the support of German Films, we have been able to launch this german-documentaries website.

We are planning to make this site an ever-growing and invaluable source of information on the German documentary scene for you.

Hope to see you often!

With kind regards,

Thomas Frickel, Chairman of AG DOK

is the national information and advisory center for the promotion of German films worldwide.

German Films’ range of activities includes: Close cooperation with and presence at all major international film festivals and selected TV markets; hosting selection delegations from international festivals; PR and press work for all major national and international media representatives; information and advice for international buyers, German producers and exporters; publication of informational literature on current German films and the film industry; organization of the annual “Next Generation” short film program; administration of the selection procedure for the German entry for the OSCAR for Best Foreign Language Film; staging of “Festivals of German Films” worldwide and “German Premieres” in selected cities; collaboration with Deutsche Welle’s DW-TV KINO program; organization of the “German Films Previews”; selective financial support for the foreign releases of German films; organization with Unifrance of the annual German-French film meeting.

For additional information and a complete list of the current shareholders, board members and staff, please visit the German Films Website.

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.

4oth Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis January 14-20, 2019 [FB] ___Submission___ until October 31, 2018

 

69th BERLINALE - International Filmfestspiele Berlin, February 7 - 17, 2019
___Submission___ [Deadlines for Feature-length films: October 31, 2018
November 15, 2018 and for Short films: November 15, 2018

efm - European Film Market at the BERLINALE, February 7 - 15, 2019 [FB]
___Registration__ until January 6, 2019

 16th dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg, April 3 - 7, 2019
___Submission___ was until December 31, 2018 [FB]
Programm online NOW for download.

35th Internationales FrauenFILMfestival Dortmund|Köln, Dortmund, Cologne, April 9-14, 2019
The Dortmund|Cologne International Women’s Film Festival takes place annually, alternating between Dortmund and Cologne. [FB] ___Submission___ Section 'Film Education' until December 12, 2018.

   34th DOK.fest Munich, May 8-19, 2019  [FB]
___Submission__ November 7, 2018 - December 14, 2018.

IKFF - 35th Hamburg International Short Film Festival, June 4 -10, 2019
___Submission___ until February 15, 2019 [FB]

#FFMUC | 36th FILMFEST MÜNCHEN, Munich, June 27 - July 6, 2019
_ Submission _ [FB]

NaturVision Filmfestival, Ludwigsburg, July 11 -14, 2019 [FB]
___Submission___ November 1, 2018 - February 25, 2019

#FFHH18 | 26th Filmfest Hamburg, September 26 - October 5, 2019
_ Submission _ from Januar until July, 2019 [FB]

52nd Internatonale Hofer Filmtage | Hof International Film Festival, October 22 - 27, 2019
_ Submission _ until September 2, 2019 [FB]

62nd DOK Leipzig, October 28 - November 3, 2019
International Leipzig Film Festival for Documentary and Animated Film [FB]  Submission 3 March - 7 July 2019
15th DOK Co-Pro Market, 2019

60th Nordic Filmdays Lübeck, October 30 - November 4, 2018  [FB]

43rd duisburger filmwoche, the festival of germanspeaking documentaries,   Duisburg, November 4-10, 2019 Submission starts April 2019.

18th doxs! festival - creative European documentaries for children and adolescents, Duisburg, November 4-10, 2019 starts April 2019

 

36th KASSELER DOK-FEST, Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Video Fest, November 12 -17, 2019
[FB]

among others...

here some of our NEWS 2018

• 20th ONE WORLD March 2018 Czech Republic


• CPH:DOX 2018, March 15 - 25


• Nominated for 90 OSCAR® - Documentary Feature Length


• LineUp german documentaries 40th CINÉMA DU RÉEL


• 49th VISIONS DU RÉEL, IFF Nyon 2018


• iRepresent International Documentary Film Festival 2018

here some of our NEWS 2017

• German Documentaries and Co-productions in Shanghai,  June 17 - 26, 2017


• German Documentaries and Co-productions in Shanghai,  June 17 - 26, 2017


• Four German documentary and co-productions at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2017


• Two German documentaries and co-productions in Seattle, May 18 - June 11, 2017


• Large program of German documentaries and co-productions in Sheffield, June 9 -14, 2017


• Taste of Cement wins in Nyon


•  German Documentaries and Co-productions at Hot Docs 2017


• POWER TO CHANGE at Festival of German Films in New York


• LOLA@BERLINALE 2017


• Winners of Germany's top TVaward the Grimme Preis 2017 announced


• 67th Berlinale 2017 - and the winners are...


• Guest of Honour in Guadalajara, March 10 -17 2017


• German Documentaries and Co-Productions at the 67th Berlinale 


• German Documentary co-productions win in Sundance 2017


• Andreas Voigt wins Bavarian Film Prize 2017


• 25th Hot Docs April 26 - May 6, 2018