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

European Film Market – efm ONLINE March 01—05, 2021 due to the current COVID-19 situation,  the AG DOK/german documentaries booth here.
From June 9-20, the Summer Special will give the general public the opportunity to see the majority of the 2021 film selection at numerous cinema screenings. An industry accreditation for the Summer Special is not planned.
Unlike in the years before the next edition of the german documentaries catalogue will be not available here at our booth at the GROPIUS BAU as a printed matter. But nevertheless the 25th edition of our catalogue is available  as PDF to download here.
68 BERLINALE 2018 | 69 BERLINALE 2019 | 70 BERLINALE 2020 | 71 BERLINALE 2021 |

CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, is one of the biggest documentary film festivals in the world. The festival is postponed to April 21 — Mai 12, 2021, industry activities April 26—30, 2021, online April 21 — May 5, in selected cinemas May 6—12.
ACCREDITATION here.
Submission for CPH:FORUM until November 15, 2020.
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen  
More information — German only —
__ Report2021 by Björn Jensen German only __
__CPH:DOX2021___CPH:D2OX2020___CPH:DOX2019___

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

MIPTV | MIPDOC   April 12—16, 2021, Cannes, France
The two largest and most important markets for the distribution of films take place in Cannes every year in spring – and 2021 worldwide online... April 2021 MIP|DOC will be part of MIP|TV. There will be a German delegation. To be enlisted, please send an Email to Björn Jensen, Representative german documentaries
More information – for submission German only – Report of MIPTV2021 - here.

Visions du Réel, International Film Festival Nyon, April 15—25, 2021
Visions du Réel is one of the only Swiss film festivals to present a majority of its films as world or international premieres. The Festival also has a film market with Industry activities, one of the most important in Europe and it may invite films that have not been selected for the official programme to be entered in the Visions du Réel Media Library to be viewed by buyers and professionals.
Submission open now.
More information — German only —

Hot Docs Toronto,  April 29 - May 9, 2021, Toronto, Canada
At this time, the festival aims to present a hybrid festival, offering audiences online streaming only. Submissions for the 2021 Hot Docs Festival are open. For more information and details, please download the PDF __ German only __
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen  
REPORT of HotDocs21 by Björn Jensen __German only__
NEWS of ___HotDocs21_____HotDocs20_____HotDocs19___

CoPro 22 | Israeli Documentary Screen Market May 31 — June 06, 2021 in Tel Aviv _
INSIDE OUT— Spotlight on Germany:   In a collaboration with German Films and AG DOK, CoPro offers in 2021 a framework for German filmmakers to present their “homegrown” initiatives for consideration. Through the Inside Out track, we offer German projects with an Israeli or Jewish thematic connection a chance to access the Israeli film documentary network through on-one-one meetings with Israeli producers and distributors, whom enable the co-productions between Israel and Germany.
The track will be accompanied by the mutual German-Israeli masterclass about the budgeting for co-producers. COPRODUCING WITH GERMANY panel co-moderated by Julia Teichmann, german films. The selected projects will participate in the CoPro Market in Israel, which will take place online between May 31 - June 4, 2021 and will get an access to all different CoPro pitching forums and industry events.
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen, 
Further information____  German only  _____
• Report CoPro22 2021
• Report_CoPro21_2019 
• german documentaries NEWS 2018— CoPro20. >

28 Sheffield Documentary Filmfestival, June 4—13, 2021 is open now for entries from around the world that wish to be considered for launching or premiering as part the Sheffield Doc|Fest 2021 official selection, within either our film programme or our arts programme. FIRST CALL 2021 _ UPDATE May 18, 2021 _
Keep updated by visiting the website of the festival.
and more information __ German only & additional___
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen   
Report german documentaries at
__Sheffield Doc|Fest 2019_

MIPCHINA, June 28-30, 2021 online only
Where the Global and Chinese Content meet. The most efficient way to business networking in Asia. Started in 2017 by the organisers of world’s global TV Content Markets MIPTV and MIPCOM, MIP China Partnership Forum is your mid-year opportunity to discover, buy, sell, finance or produce content in Asia. Based on MIP’s signature 1-to-1 pre-scheduled meetings format, MIP China guarantees online meetings to boost sales and co-productions. Interested German producers in attending may contact the German representative office of MIP.
Contact: Marc Wessel: wessel@runze-casper.de
More information ___German only___

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

32 Sunny Side of the Doc, June 21—24, 2021 goes digital worldwide from La Rochelle, Frankreich.
Submission starts February 18, 2021. More Information — German only as May 24, 2021 — here.

Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen
The final report of 2019 here and ____2019 Germany COUNTRY in FOCUS___

MIPCOM,  October 11—14, 2021 Cannes, Frankreich, [Hybrid Event]
....we are planning to attend with a german documentaries booth...
for more information please download our FIRST CALL for MIPCOM 2021 _ German only _
Report MIPCOM 2020 by Björn Jensen.
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen,

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

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

 

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

34 IDFA / Forum Amsterdam, November 17—28, 2021, Amsterdam, Niederlande.
with a revamped program structure with two main competitions at the forefront and and revitalized awards.
Submission deadlines:
• May 1, 2021 – early deadline for films _
• July 1, 2021 – for all performances and interactive/immersive new media projects _
• July 15, 2021 – final deadline for films _
___submission___
Representative german documentaries: Cay Wesnigk
___33 IDFA 2020___32 IDFA 2019___

World Congress of Science and Factual Producers, November 30 -December 2,
Congress'21 will take place November 30-December 2 as a hybrid event with online sessions and live networking events. More information on this year’s format will be announced when registration opens in late July. German Documentaries is planning to participate with a delegation at the CONGRESS'21, which is to take place in Strasbourg at the end of the year. Calls will follow as soon as the modalities with the WCSFP have been clarified.

•The Emerging Producers Bursary Program offers up-and-coming producers and content creators working in science, history, wildlife and non-fiction media a range of support including accreditation and networking opportunities for Congress '21, presented by the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP). 
Applications are open with a final deadline of September 3, 2021.

• The Buzzies celebrate excellence in science and factual storytelling, and recognize short-form, long-form and multiplatform science, history and natural history projects, as well as awarding projects for innovation and impact. At the 2021 event, 14 winners will be announced and each will receive a signature awards statue and a free registration to a future Congress (valid for three years).
Submissions are open with a deadline of September 10, 2021.

WCSFP is the very meeting place for 'Science and Factual' producers and broadcasters. Next to the SUNNY SIDE our most visited international event. It offers networking events, round-table talks and above all an excellent program with panels and workshops. It is held in a different country every year.
Representative german documentaries Björn Jensen.
Further informations — INFO 3  — German only — —
Report of 2019 — German only.

Guangzhou International Dokumentary Filmfestival, December 14—17, 2020, Guangzhou, China
International Documentary Film Festival for documentaries in China with lots of workshops, a pitching forum and one-to-one meetings. The film projects in the pitches, as well as the panels and workshops, are mainly related to China nowadays. We organize a networking event.
More information here - German only -
Report of the event of Dec 2019 __German only__
Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen 

From this preselected documentaries, the more than 2000 members of the German Film Academy choose the nominations until August 19, 2021.
The DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS awarding ceremony will be held October 01, 2021.

And as Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters explains "In the coming months, the Corona pandemic will continue to be a huge challenge for all cinemas, producers and distributors. For this reason, together with the German Film Academy, we have decided to hold the German Film Awards ceremony in the fall of 2021 rather than in the spring as usual. In this way, we are creating greater planning security for producers and distributors when submitting their films to the German Film Awards. We look forward to the coming year with hope – and are doing all we can to support cinemas and the film industry in weathering and overcoming the crisis."

 #lola21
SHORTLIST German Film Award — DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS

• DOCUMENTARY


• ALL IS ONE. EXCEPT 0. | ALLES IST EINS. AUSSER DER 0. by Klaus Maeck, Tanja Schwerdorf P: Klaus Maeck, [Interzone Pictures]


• AWARE – GLIMPSES OF CONSCIOUSNESS | WARE – REISE IN DAS BEWUSSTSEIN by Frauke Sandig, Eric Black, P: Frauke Sandig [Umbrella Films]


• BEHIND THE HEADLINES | HINTER DEN SCHLAGZEILEN by Daniel Sager, P: Marc Bauder [bauderfilm]


• BEYOND THE VISIBLE – HILMA AF KLINT | JENSEITS DES SICHTBAREN – HILMA AF KLINT by Halina Dyrschka, P: Eva Illmer, Halina Dyrschka, [Ambrosia Film]


• A BLACK JESUS by Luca Lucches, P: Wim Wenders, Léa Germain [Road Movies GmbH]


• BODY OF TRUTH by Evelyn Schels,   P: Arek Gielnik, Sonia Otto [INDI FILM GmbH, DokLab GmbH]


• CHICHINETTE – THE ACCIDENTAL SPY | CHICHINETTE – WIE ICH ZUFÄLLIG SPIONIN WURDE by Nicola Alice Hens, P: Amos Geva [Amos Geva, Mérovée Film Production]


• FEMOCRAZY | DIE UNBEUGSAMEN by Torsten Körner, P: Leopold Hoesch, [BROADVIEW TV]


• GARAGE PEOPLE | GARAGENVOLK by Natalija Yefimkina, P: Andrea Schütte, Dirk Decker, [Tamtam Film GmbH]


• THE LAST REPORTERS | DIE LETZTEN REPORTER by Jean Boué, P: Jean Boué, [JABfilm]


• MR. BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS | HERR BACHMANN UND SEINE KLASSE by Maria Speth, P: Maria Speth [Madonnen Film GmbH]


• THE NEW GOSPEL | DAS NEUE EVANGELIUM by Milo Rau, P: Arne Birkenstock, Sebastian Lemke, Olivier Zobrist, [Fruitmarket Kultur und Medien GmbH, Langfilm AG, IIPM]


• OECONOMIA by Carmen Losmann, P: Hannes Lang, Mareike Wegener, [Petrolio Film]


• SCARS by Agnieszka Zwiefka, P: Stefan Kloos, Michaela Pnaceková, [Kloos & Co. OST, Chilli Productions, Witfilm]


• SPACE DOGS by Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter,  P: Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter, Annekatrin Hendel, [RAUMZEITFILM, IT WORKS Medien]


• A SYMPHONY OF NOISE - Matthew Herbert's Revolution  by Enrique Sánchez Lansch, P: Stefan Kloos, [Kloos & Co. Medien, Kloos & Co. NORD]


• WALCHENSEE FOREVER by Janna Ji Wonders, P: Martin Heisler [Flare Film GmbH]

• KINDERFILM


• CABINETS OF WONDER | MEINE WUNDERKAMMERN by Susanne Kim, P: Holm Taddiken [Neufilm GmbH]


• GLITTER AN DUST | GLITZER UND STAUB by Julia Lemke, Anna Koch, P: Katharina Bergfeld, Martin Heisler [Flare Film GmbH]

download the SHORTLIST GERMAN FILM AWARD #lola21 as PDF.

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

taking place in Sheffield, in cinemas across the UK, and online.

The LineUp includes 55 world premieres, 22 international premieres, 15 European premieres and 59 UK premieres, from 57 countries around the world, with 63 languages represented across our newly introduced International and UK Competitions and first ever Northern Focus, as well as curated strands. 
Find the programmguide here.

LineUp of german documentaries @ 28 Sheffield DocFest 2021

• FROM THE 84 DAYS by Philipp Hartmann, 105min, P: flumenfilm, [International Competition]


• BORDERLAND | GRENZLAND by Andreas Voigt, 97min, [Into the World]


• COURAGE by Aliaksei Paluyan, 90min, P: LPP Living Pictures Production, [Rebellions]


• THE FIRST 54 YEARS – An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation by Avi Mograbi, 110min, P: ma.ja.de., 24images,  [Into the World]


• LIFT LIKE A GIRL by Mayye Zayed, 96min, P: JYOTI Film, Rufy's Films, [Rhyme & Rhythm]


• TWO MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT by Yael Bartana, 48min, P: Yael Bartana, Naama Pyritz, [Rebellions]


• WHO WE WERE | WER WIR WAREN by Mac Bauder, 110min, P: bauderfilm, [DocFest Exchange]

"We are very proud to present a programme that brings together a multitude of forms, landscapes and visions, with a myriad of incredible talent to whom we deeply thank for their trust. We are excited about holding this festival in a way that welcomes everyone - online and in Sheffield, and also across the UK. The importance and urgency of cinema has only grown since we last saw a film on the big screen." – Cíntia Gil, Festival Director

 This year, for the first time, Sheffield DocFest goes nationwide with five premiere screenings showing in up to 16 partner cinemas in cities around the UK, and online, followed by pre-recorded Q&As: the European Premiere of The Summer of Soul by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson (Opening Film), the World Premiere of The Story of Looking by Mark Cousins (Closing Film), the UK Premiere of Lift Like a Girl by Mayye Zayed (in partnership with Birds Eye View's Reclaim the Frame), the European Premiere of My Name is Pauli Murray by Betsy West & Julie Cohen, and a timely presentation of the UK Premiere of The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation by Avi Mograbi, a critical focus on the history of the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Watch 2021 Q&As 2021 Sheffield DocFest online here. 70+ recordings which give insight into the filmmaking process, inspiration and ideas behind the films.

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• 28 Sheffield Doc|Fest 2021 •
• 27 Sheffield Doc|Fest 2020 •
• 26 Sheffield Doc|Fest 2019 •
• 25 Sheffield Doc|Fest 2018 •
• 24 Sheffield Doc|Fest 2017 •

Almost 71,000 viewers watched the 131 films in the programme, the live film talks and award ceremonies as well as the DOK.forum and DOK.education events.
The industry platform DOK.forum was also a great success online: 2,417 guests and 221 experts from the international film and media industry took part, and a total of 58 events took place. The film literacy programme DOK.education had a larger online audience than ever before, with over 4,000 viewers nationwide.

• All awards and jury statements at one glance.


• The award winners of DOK.forum 2021.

 
The award winning german documentaries are:

VIKTOR DOK.deutsch goes to ZUHUR'S DAUGHTERS by Laurentia Henske, Robin Humboldt
Jury statement: "They put on make-up, they listen to music, they talk about boys. Samar and Lohan long to have a real life. The right life in the right body. The two sisters are trans. In their home country of Syria, that would have meant certain death. 'f your son or wife does something forbidden and you don't kill them, you have to leave', their father explains. So he fled to Germany with his two wives and four children. Because "who is capable of killing their own child? Your child is part of your soul," he says. Talib and his wife Zuhur do not understand their children, but mostly they worry about them. Filmmakers Laurentia Genske and Robin Humboldt show all this with great empathy. Their film follows and documents in the best sense the transwomen's path to the life they hoped for – with all its hurdles and difficulties. And at the same time it reveals to the audience what it means to be a foreigner, a refugee and a woman."

FFF Talent Award Documentary goes to  STORIES OF DADS | VÄTER UNSER by Sophie Linnenbaum
Jury statement: "With a simple concept, Sophie Linnenbaum succeeds in opening up entire life worlds that burn themselves into the memory. In formal terms, VÄTER UNSER is characterised by a reduced, relaxed and concentrated setting. The outstanding montage opens up life worlds with an enormous range; stories that life writes, told without pathos, with human warmth and dignity. The stories about fathers are funny, sad, shocking, astonishing and touching. Documentary cinema that takes time for its protagonists and tells the often sorrowful and painful, but also beautiful and tender moments between daughters and sons and their fathers through faces and words in such a way that intense images inevitably arise in the mind. This film is an enrichment for all who engage with it."

megaherz Student Award goes to THE CASE YOU by Alison Kuhn
Jury statement: "THE CASE YOU literally shines a spotlight on one of the most pressing issues within our industry today. The film impresses with the precision with which it depicts and accuses abuse of power. It is loud and poignant at the same time and convinced us with its relevance, the courage of the protagonists, but also with its cinematic realisation. The criticism the film makes is not only directed against the power structures within the film industry, but it is aimed at a larger problem inherent in the system. THE CASE YOU is an ode to community cohesion, to 'sisterhood'. We hope to see brave projects like this from our fellow students and filmmakers in general in the future."

VFF Documentary Film Production Award goes to THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER
by Antonia Kilian; Producers: Frank Müller (Doppelplusultra Filmproduktion), Guevara Namer and Antonia Kilian (Pink Shadow Films)
Jury statement: "The director and producer Antonia Kilian lived in northern Syria for a year, gave film workshops for young women there and made short films with them on women's rights. Meanwhile, Frank Müller and his Hamburg-based Doppelplusultra Filmproduktion tried to secure international financing for the film by applying for funding, at workshops, pitching events and co-production meetings. Certainly, this early effort to internationalise the project has left its mark on the dramaturgy of the film. At the same time, however, it reinforces the remarkable production achievement, which involved a great deal of personal commitment, considerable up-front work and an initially high financial risk – and which also has a virtually model character in other respects: People from the crisis region, all with a history of flight, were significantly involved in the project creatively and organisationally and were fairly remunerated in accordance with the problematic production conditions."

UpDated May 16, 2021.

Christina Wolf and Daniel Sponsel open the festival from the (empty) Deutsches Theater, with several guests joining in via video. 

BEHIND THE HEADLINES

HINTER DEN SCHLAGZEILEN | BEHIND THE HEADLINES by Daniel Andreas Sager, produced by Marc Bauder, bauderfilm and distributed in Germany by RFF - Real Fiction Filmverleih, World Sales by NEW DOCS will be the opening film of the 36 DOK.fest Munich @home.

Daniel Sponsel, CEO of DOK.fest Munich: “We are happy to open the 36th DOK.fest München with BEHIND THE HEADLINES. In this film, everything comes together: a highly relevant topic, strong protagonists and outstanding cinematic craftsmanship. Daniel Sager lets us witness at first hand how European history is being written.”  Director Daniel Sager and the film's protagonists Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer will talk with presenter Christina Wolf and festival director Daniel Sponsel about the film, its making and the Ibiza affair during the opening ceremony.

The 36 DOK.fest Munich 2021 - entirely online

The 36. DOK.fest München, Germany’s biggest documentary film festival, presents its entire programme online. Until most recently, the DOK.fest München team had been preparing for a dual edition, planning to show films both on location in cinemas in Munich as well as online. In light of the current state of the corona pandemic this dual concept is no longer viable. The festival's management has decided to host this year's event, as has been done last year, exclusively online. It will be extended for one week and takes place from 5 – 23 May.

Save the Date: Press conference on 27 April 11 a.m. online at www.dokfest-muenchen.de.

131 films from 43 countries including 38 German productions and coproductions with a selection of the best socially relevant and artistically outstanding documentaries of the year. Browse the programme now!

LineUp of German productions and co-production:

• ARCTIC – A REFUGE IMPERILED | AMERIKAS ARKTIS – EIN PARADIES IN GEFAHR by Martin Mészáros, 50min, WS: Servus TV [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award] 


• THE ART OF INCONSEQUENTIALITY | DIE KUNST DER FOLGENLOSIGKEIT by Jakob Brossmann, Friedrich von Borries, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• BEHIND THE HEADLINES | HINTER DEN SCHLAGZEILEN by Daniel Sager, 90min,  P: Bauderfilm, [opening film]


• THE CASE YOU by Alison Kuhn, 80min, P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award] 


• CAFE ZELIG | DAS ZELIG by Tanja Cummings, 96min, P: Weltfilm GmbH, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• CLASS STRUGGLE | KLASSENKAMPF by Sobo Swobodnik, 79min, P: Guerilla Film Koop., [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• DANCING ABDULLAH by Marco Giacopuzzi, 26min, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award] 


• DIE KUNDIN [CUSTOMER] by Camilo Berstecher Barrero, 65min,  [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• FREAKSCENE – THE STORY OF DINOSAUR JR. by Philipp Reichenheim, 82min, P: Rapid Eye Movies, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• GURBET IS A HOME NOW | GURBET ARTIK BIR EV by Pinar Ögrenc, 63min, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• HERZLICHE LETZTE GRÜSSE, KAI by Catherina Conrad, Bernd Thomas, 89min,  [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• HUNTER FROM ELSEWHERE – A JOURNEY WITH HELEN BRITTON by Elena Alvarez Lutz, 97min, P:ochobarcos / eightboats filmproduction e.K. [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• INSTRUCTIONS FOR SURVIVAL by Yana Ugrekhelidze, 73min,  P: Fortis Fem Film, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• INSIDE THE UFFIZI | IN DEN UFFIZIEN by Corinna Belz, 96min, P: zero one film, D: Piffl Medien, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• THE LASTING FORMATION | HEIMATKUNDE by Christian Bäucker, 88min, P: 5R Filmporoduktion, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award] 


• LIFE ON TAPE | BILDER (M)EINER MUTTER by Melanie Lischker, 78min, P: KOBERSTEIN FILM,  [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• MONOBLOC by Hauke Wendler, 90min, P: PIER 53 Filmproduktion, WS: Deckert Distribution, D: Salzgber [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• MY VIETNAM | MEIN VIETNAM by Hien Mai, 70min, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH. , [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• NO NEWS | NICHTS NEUES by Lennart Hüper, 81min, WS: sixpackfilm, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER by Antonia Kilian, P: DOPPELPLUSULTRA , Pink Shadow Films, WS: Syndicado Distribution, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• A PORTRAIT ON THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS by Benjamin Rost, 73min, P: MSZ,  [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• SLOWLY FORGETTING YOUR FACES | LANGSAM VERGESSE ICH EURE GESICHTER by Daniel Asadi Faezi, 80min [Student Award]


• SOLDIERS | SOLDATEN by Christian von Brockhausen, 102min, P: Timo Großpietsch/NDR, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• SOUL SETTLEMENT | HEIMAT SUCHT SEELE by Hille Norden, 97min, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• STORIES OF DADS | VÄTER UNSER by Sophie Linnenbaum, 76min, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• A SYMPHONY OF NOISE by Enrique Sánchez Lansch, P: Kloos & Co. , WS: Rise & Shine, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• TAMING THE GARDEN by Salomé Jashi, P: CORSO Film, Mira Film Basel, Sadoc Film [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• TEACHERS FOR LIFE – LEARNING IN HARMONY by Julian Wildgruber, Kathrin Höckel,  P: MadeVision GmbH,  [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• URBAN AMAZONS | AMAZONEN EINER GROSSSTADT by Thaïs Odermatt, 62min, P: maximage,  [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• VAKUUM by Kristina Schranz, 82min, P: Stella Luce Film, HFF Munich., [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• WHEN A FARM GOES AFLAME by Jide Tom Akinleminu, 111min, P: Film Five GmbH, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• WHO OWNS MY VILLAGE? | WEM GEHÖRT MEIN DORF? by Christoph Eder, 96min, P: ostlicht filmproduktion GmbH [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• WHO WE WILL HAVE BEEN | WER WIR GEWESEN SEIN WERDEN by Erec Brehmer, 81min, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• WHY CAN'T THE DEVIL BE BEAUTIFUL | WARUM KANN DER TEUFEL NICHT SCHÖN SEIN by Danial Shekar, P: Red Anvil Pictures, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• THE WILD HEART OF EUROPE | DER WILDE WALD by Lisa Eder, Composition: Sebastian Fillenberg, P: Lisa Eder Film GmbH, Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald, Distribution Germany: mindjazz pictures Filmverleih, WS: ALBATROSS, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• WOOD: GAMECHANGERS UNDER COVER | WOOD – DER GERAUBTE WALD by by Monica Lazurean-Gorgan, Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• THE WORLD BEYOND SILENCE | DIE WELT JENSEITS DER STILLE by Manuel Fenn, P: Sunday Filmproduktions GmbH, [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• ZINDER by Aïcha Macky, coP: CORSO Film,  [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]


• ZUHUR'S DAUGHTERS | ZUHURS TÖCHTER by Laurentia Genske, 89min, P: CORSO Film, D: Camino Filmverleih [nominated for KinoKino Audience Award]

The VFF Documentary Film Production Award is sponsored by the VFF Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film und Fernsehproduzenten mbH. It is endowed with 7,500 euros. Unique in Germany, it focuses on the work of documentary film producers. The award will be awarded for the fourth time in 2021. And as April 16, 2021 announced - the winner are the producers of THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER,  Frank Müller (DOPPELPLUSULTRA Film & TV Produktion), Guevara Namer & Antonia Kilian (Pink Shadow Films).

The nominees are:

• ANAMNESIS | ANMAßUNG by Chris Wright, Stefan Kolbe
  Producer: Heino Deckert, ma.ja.de Filmprod.


• COURAGE by Aliaksei Paluya
  Producer: Jörn Möllenkamp, LPP Living Pictures Productions GbR, 


• THE WORLD BEYOND SILENCE | DIE WELT JENSEITS DER STILLE by Manuel Fenn
  Producers: Thomas Jeschner, René Frotscher, Volker Zobelt, Sunday Filmproduktion,


• ETERNITY AT LAST | ENDLICH UNENDLICH by Stephan Bergmann
  Producers: Melanie Andernach, Knut Losen, Made in Germany Filmproduktion,


• FREAKSCENE — THE STORY OF DINOSAUR JR by Philipp Reichenheim
  Producers: Antoinette Köster, Stephan Holl, Philipp Reichenheim,  Rapid Eye Movies,


• GLITTER & DUST | GLITZER & STAUB by Anna Koch, Julia Lemke (Badabum Duo)
  Producers: Martin Heisler, Katharina Bergfeld, Flare Film GmbH,


• HELMUT NEWTON – THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL by Gero von Boehm
  Producer: Felix von Boehm, LUPA FILM GmbH,


• MR BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS | HERR BACHMANN UND SEINE KLASSE by Maria Speth
  Producer: Maria Speth, Madonnen Film GmbH,


• JIMIS LAST FESTIVAL | JIMIS LAST BLUES by Rasmus Gerlach
  Producer: Rasmus Gerlach, Kinoki GmbH,


• OECONOMIA by Carmen Losmann
  Producers: Mareike Wegener, Hannes Lang,


• PURPLE SEA | DAS PURPURMEER by Khaled Abdulwahed, Amel Alzakout
  Producers: Alexandra Gerbaulet, Ines Meier, pong film GmbH,


• THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER by Antonia Kilian
  Producers: Frank Müller, Antonia Kilian, DOPPELPLUSULTRA Film und TV Produktion, Pink Shadow Films, Greenlit Productions Oy


• WHO WE WILL HAVE BEEN | WER WIR GEWESEN SEIN WERDEN by Erec Brehmer
  Producer: Erec Brehmer 

The German Documentary Film Music Award is unique in the German-speaking territories in recognizing the original score for a feature-length documentary and considered as a platform for the work of composers and the value of music as a narrative layer in documentaries. The award is endowed with 5,000 € and is sponsored by the Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung and goes to the composer of the original score. The award ceremony will take place for the ninth time as part of DOK.fest München.
...and the winner is  Christoph Schauer with his original score for SOLDIERS | SOLDATEN by Christian von Brockhausen, Willem Konrad, produced by NDR/RBB

The nominees are:

• 972 BREAKDOWNS – ON THE LANDWAY TO NEW YORK | 972 BREAKDOWNS – AUF DEM LANDWEG NACH NEW YORK by Daniel von Rüdiger, Composition: Daniel von Rüdiger, Stefan Carl (0101), P: leavinghomefunktion GbR


• THE WILD HEART OF EUROPE | DER WILDE WALD by Lisa Eder, Composition: Sebastian Fillenberg, P: Lisa Eder Film GmbH,  Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald, Distribution Germany: mindjazz pictures Filmverleih,


• A CLOWN, A LIFE | EIN CLOWN, EIN LEBEN by Harald Aue, Composition: Ernst Molden, Nino Mandl (Der Nino aus Wien), P: Neue Vitaskop Film e. U., Vienna, Austria


• GLITTER & DUST | GLITZER & STAUB by Anna Koch, Julia Lemke, (Badabum Duo), Composition: Peta Devlin, Thomas Wenzel, Paul Eisenach, P: Flare Film GmbH


• CLASS STRUGGLE | KLASSENKAMPF by Sobo Swobodnik, Composition: Elias Gottstein, P: Guerilla Film Koop.


• LAND by Timo Großpietsch, Composition: Vladyslav Sendecki (P: NDR)


• MARY BAUERMEISTER – ONE AND ONE IS THREE by Carmen Belaschk, Composition: Simon Stockhausen, P: Accentus Music, __ .


• SOLDIERS | SOLDATEN by Christian von Brockhausen, Willem Konrad, Composition: Christoph Schauer, (P: NDR/RBB)


• ZURICH DIARY | ZÜRCHER TAGEBUCH by Stefan Haupt, Composition: Tomas Korber, P: Fontana Film, Stefan Haupt, Zurich, Swiss

 OVERVIEW of all events.

Selected DOK.forum events online ready to stream since May 20, 2021

• Kill the Documentary As We Know It!
  Discrimination happens in front of and behind the camera. Structures continue to exist in which BIPoC, among others, are underrepresented and which offer too little space for discussion about racism and other forms of discrimination in the production of documentaries. The panel discussion aims to identify approaches on how all actors in the documentary industry can actively use their responsibility to enable a diverse, equitable and inclusive representation that benefits everyone. For a more practical approach you can also register for the workshop My vision – your reality. Anti-racist work in documentary film.


• KINO.visions – The Cinema of Tomorrow
  Discussion about the future of cinema in Germany in cooperation with AG DOK – in German language


• Case Study: Mind The Brain!
  From documentary to poetic images of the self


• Adobe Engineering Hour
  Meet the developers of Adobe software!


• Film Festivals – A Lobby For The Documentary Film Industry?
  Discussion about the future of film festivals

DOK.forum – The Industry Platform of DOK.fest München
Think tank for the documentary film industry and platform for projects in the development process.

In workshops and other public events, the DOK.forum Perspectives is a platform for the discussion of media-political, technical and narrative trends. With the programme series Re:arranging Reality, it will focus on post-production in documentary film in 2021 and the current media policy from the perspective of developments caused by the pandemic.

As a co-production and ideas market, the DOK.forum Marketplace — May 5-11, 2021 online only — offers various formats for the further development and realisation of 50 new documentary film projects in various stages of development – from the first idea to the rough cut. For the first time, the Master's Pitch will also take place online: Nine selected teams will present their documentary film in the making to an audience and receive valuable feedback. In other formats such as roundtables and screenings, as well as in four competitions with prize money, the project teams meet around 100 experts from production, editing, promotion and distribution.

Projects with German authors, German producers or coproducers:

• BIG OIL VS. THE LAW by Mette Reitzel, P: Nadja Smith, Inselfilm


• BUSHALTESTELLE: DONAU by Benjamin Rost, P: Mark Szilagyi,


• (RE)CREATING CULTURE by Lisa Plank, composer: Shafa Shaimemanya


• DANCING ON THE EDGE OF A VOLCANO by Cyril Aris, P: Katharina Weser, Reynardfilms


• DAS EVANGELIUM NACH CIRETTA – DER GUTE DIEB AUS NEAPEL by Caroline von der Tann, P: Elisa Inno, P: PARALLELO 41 PRODUZIONI,


• DAS GROSSE LOCH | THE GREAT VOID by Ben Voit, P:Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF 


• DER SIEBTE SOHN by Max Carlo Kohal, P: Cyrill Gerber


• DER STILLE PIONIER by Jona Salcher, P: HFF


• DREI BRÜDER (UND IHR ERBE) | THREE BROTHERS (AND THEIR INHERITANCE) by Jonas Egert,


• HOOD RIDERS by Florian Baron, P: Dimitri Hempel, Hiua Aloji


• IN SEARCH OF HISTORY by Katey Carson, P: Alina Schäfers, TimePrints KG


• JENSEITS VON SCHULD | BEYOND GUILT by Katharina Köster, Katrin Nemec, P: Isabelle Bertolone, Trimafilm


• LIFE IS NOT A COMPETITION, BUT I'M WINNING by Julia Fuhr Mann, P: Sophie Ahrens, Melissa Byrne, Schuldenbergfilm


• MAY IT BE A GIRL by Katerina Suvorova, P: Viktoriya Kalashnikova,


• MOTHERING IN THE MOVEMENT by Laurie Townshend, P: Alison Duke, Ngardy Conteh George


• MOVIE KINTSUGI by Eva Knopf, P: Maxi Haslberger


• RAÍCES by Lisa Bühl, Rossana Montoya, P: El Navegante Cine


• RASTA GLENN by Matthias Wilfert, P: Matthias Wilfert, Frank Amann


• RDM by Randy M.Salo, P: Blake Ryan Lewis


• SAG MIR WO DU STEHST | WHICH SIDE YOU ON? by Marius Böttcher, P: Ralf Kukula Balance Film GmbH


• SCHOOL FOR PEACE by Guy Wasserman, Nir Dvortchin, P: Elad Peleg, Daroma Production Israel,  Moritz Bundschuh, Kick Film GmbH,


• SILVER'S UPRISING by Dan Shadur, P: Dan Shadur, Ido Mizrahy, Alex Tondowski


• THE WOLVES ALWAYS COME AT NIGHT by Gabrielle Brady, Julia Niethammer, Chromosom Film GmbH


• VILLAGE X by Dominik Bretsch, Simon Hufeisen, P: Dominik Bretsch, Simon Hufeisen, weltrecorder story GmbH


• WHAT ABOUT THE MARABOU STORK? by Julia Groteclaes, Ntale Bahana, P: Peter Niwagaba


• WÜSTENWELTEN by Philipp Schäffer, P: Paul Hartmann, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

DOK.edit Award – presented by Adobe
At DOK.forum Munich, the DOK.edit Award – presented by Adobe, endowed with 5,000 euros, will be awarded for the first time.

The nominated German documentary production is
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SURVIVAL | ANLEITUNG ZUM ÜBERLEBEN by Yana Ugrekhelidze, 73min Editing: Agata Wozniak,  P: FORTIS FEM FILM
Berger, Kruglova & Ugrekhelidze GbR,

KINO.visions – The cinema of tomorrow

MONDAY May 10, 2021, 10 a.m.

An event of the AG DOK about the future of cinema view online here.

Documentary Film as Cultural Practice in the Digital Age? In these Input Talks the future of documentary film as a cultural practice in the digital age will be discussed. Questions about the role of politics, funding structures and festivals in rethinking cinema culture are posed and attempted to be answered.

Moderation
Dr. Thorolf Lipp, AG DOK

Speaker
Prof. Martin Hageman, Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Sanne Kurz, Bündnis90/Die Grünen MdL
Verena von Stackelberg, Wolf Kino Berlin
Lars Henrik Gass, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

The event will be held in German. For more information, please switch to German page. To take part in this event, please log into your account and register. All information about registration for events can be found here.

REVIEW of 36 DOK.fest Munich 2021 @home _
and here is the RECAP video.

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• 36 DOK.fest Munich 2021 •
• 35 DOK.fest Munich 2020 •
• 34 DOK.fest Munich 2019 •
• 33 DOK.fest Munich 2018 •

next DOK.fest München from 4 to 15 May 2022 – then hopefully again in the cinemas!

In times of crisis nothing is more important than solidarity and exchange. Support the festival now with your membership in the DOK.fest München Circle of Friends and become part of our network! Join now!

The CoPro, Israeli Content Marketing Foundation wants to create collaborations between Israeli filmmakers and their counterparts abroad. CoPro revolutionizes international co-productions of the Israeli film industry, increasing their sales worldwide through promotion, marketing and networking events.

This year with  SPOTLIGHT ON GERMANY
In a collaboration with the Israeli Film & Television Producers Association, German Films, and AG DOK — the German Documentary Association, CoPro offers in 2021 a framework for German filmmakers to present their 'homegrown' initiatives for consideration. Through the INSIDE OUT track, CoPro23 offers four German projects with an Israeli or Jewish thematic connection a chance to access the Israeli film documentary network through on-one-one meetings with Israeli producers and distributors, whom enable the co-productions between Israel and Germany. Please note that the submitted films must be in early development stage. The track is relevant for projects seeking for Israeli co-producers, and preferably planning to shoot in Israel or seeking for archival materials. The selected projects will participate in the CoPro Market in Israel, which will take place online between May 31 and June 4, 2021 and will get an access to all different CoPro pitching forums and industry events.

The track is accompanied by the mutual German-Israeli masterclass about the budgeting for co-producers. COPRODUCING WITH GERMANY will be moderated on the panel by Tina Leeb from fastforward, Liran Atzmor from Atzmor Production, and Julia Teichmann from German Films.

Julia Teichmann 
Head of Documentary & Regional Desk Central and Eastern Europe
German Films Service + Marketing GmbH

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.

The Eurimages Co-production Development Award goes to TATA/FATHER by Radu Ciorniciuc, Lina Vdovîi & Monica Lazurean (Gorgan / Romania / Italy / Germany)
Jury statement: “We first wanted to congratulate all the participants for the wonderful stories and presentations, and we really look forward to watching all your films in the cinema soon. The Eurimages Co-production Development Award of 20.000 Euros goes to a project which takes on a complex personal story with depth, trying to understand the cycle of violence and its mechanisms. Most importantly, it took on the subject with honesty and heart, and shows great potential to benefit from the award. The award goes to TATA/FATHER by directors Lina Vdovîi & Radu Ciorniciuc, and producer Monica Lazurean-Gorgan”

...and all the other the winners of CPH:DOX 2021 are...

CPH:DOX with a total of 180 international documentaries. The digital programme also consists of 40 live debates that can be experienced throughout the festival, a five-day media conference, an interactive art programme, talks with more than 80 filmmakers and much more. Everything is available online until May 5. From May 6 to May 12, a selection of films will be screened in movie theaters in Copenhagen as well.

 

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CPH:DOX to launch Big Digital Live Platform. Tine Fischer, director of CPH:DOX, says:
“Denmark is still affected by the COVID-19 lockdown, and the cultural sector – including movie theatres – will still be closed for the public when CPH:DOX is launching this year’s festival on April 21. Therefore, I am very excited that we can present a large and ambitious digital programme that will be accessible for a big, hungry audience. Our digital platform will feature an ambitious film programme, important live panels and Q&As with filmmakers. We are creating a digital space where we meet and listen to great artists, innovative scientists, and also some of those marginalized voices that really need to be heard.”

In addition to online screenings of 180 new documentary films, CPH:DOX will offer an abundance of digital live events when the festival kicks off on April 21.
A large debate programme with 40 digital live talks and panels will pass the mic to both well-established names and new voices. With large TV studio broadcasts and interactive formats, audiences can expect a festival of live conversations and encounters between people with experiences and opinions.

 LineUp German productions, co-productions, and German directors:

• ANAMNESIS by Chris Wright, Stefan Kolbe, 111min, P: ma.ja.de. [ARTISTS&AUTEURS]


• AS I WANT by Samaher Alqadi, 88min,  coP: Kaske Film, Germany, [FA:CT AWARD]


• BEHIND THE HEADLINES by Daniel Andreas Sager, 90min, P: bauderfilm,  [FA:CT AWARD]


• A BLACK JESUS by Luca Lucchesi, 92min, P: Road Movies, [HIGHLIGHTS]


• THE CASE YOU by Alison Kuhn, 80min, P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, [CHANGE MAKERS & JUSTICE]


• COURAGE by Aliaksei Paluyan, 90min,  P: LPP Living Pictures Production GbR, [CHANGE MAKERS]


• DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN by Franz Böhm, 89min, P: Schubertfilm, WS: Magnetfilm, [CHANGE MAKERS]


• FIREBALL: VISITORS FROM DARKER WORLDS by Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer, 98min,  [SCIENCE]


• THE FIRST 54 YEARS. AN ABBREVIATED MANUAL FOR MILITARY OCCUPATION by Avi Mograbi, 110min, coP: ma.ja.de., [ARTISTS&AUTEURS & JUSTICE]


• FROM WHERE THEY STOOD  by Christophe Cognet, 107min, coP: OVALmedia, [HIGHLIGHTS]


• GIRLS | MUSEUM by Shelly Silver, 71min, [ARTISTS&AUTEURS]


• MR BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS by Maria Speth, 217min, P: Madonnen Film, [HIGHLIGHTS]


• NIGHT SPLITTER by Kaari Upson, 16min, [NEW:VISION AWARD]


• NOTTURNO by Gianfranco Rosi, 100min,  WS: The Match Factory, coP: No Nation Films, [ARTISTS&AUTEURS]


• NUCLEAR FOREVER by Carsten Rau, 94min, P: PIER 53,  [SCIENCE]


• THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER by Antonia Kilian, 91min, P: DOPPELPLUSULTRA Film und TV, Pink Shadow Films [FA:CT AWARD]


• PARIS CALLIGRAMMES by Ulrike Ottinger, 129min, P: zero one film, [ARTISTS&AUTEURS]


• PRIVY TO: EXPLORATIONS IN INTIMACY AND ISOLATION by Michelle Leddon, Julia Scott-Stevenson, Liz Steininger, Jason J. Snell, 30min, [INTER:ACTIVE]


• ROOM WITHOUT A VIEW by Roser Corella, 73min, P: Florian Kläger  [FA:CT AWARD]


• SILENCE OF THE TIDES by Pieter-Rim de Kroon, 103min, P: WINDMILLFILM, BILDERSTURM , [HIGHLIGHTS]


• THE SMALLEST OF WORLDS – A SOCIAL LANDSCAPE OF COLLECTED PRIVACY by Uwe Brunner, Bettina Katja Lange, Joan Soler-Adillon, 45min,  [INTER:ACTIVE]


• A SYMPHONY OF NOISE by Enrique Sánchez Lansch, 93min, P: Kloos&Co. Medien, [SOUND&VISION]


• TAMING THE GARDEN by Salomé Jashi, 91min, coP: CORSO Film, [ARTISTS&AUTEURS]


• TWO MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT by Yael Bartana, 47min, [NEW:VISION AWARD]


• WHEN A FARM GOES AFLAME  by Jide Tom Akinleminu, 112min, P: Film Five, [DENMARK 2021]


• WHO WE WERE by Marc Bauder, 110min, P: bauderfilm, WS: FILMS Boutique, [SCIENCE]


• ZINDER by Aicha Macky, 85min, coP: Corso Film, WS: Andana Films [CHANGE MAKERS]

CPH:INDUSTRY

CPH:FORUM takes place from April 26 — 30, 2021
In context of the ongoing pandemic situation, CPH:FORUM will play out as a digital event, taking the opportunity to develop the event’s format in response to the changed marketplace online. The selected projects will be highlighted in individually curated pitch setups and introduced to cherry-picked financing partners. A brand new catch-up platform is being developed to facilitate follow-ups between producers, buyers and distributors in the months to come.

CPH:FORUM
with German productions and coproductions such as

• CARROPASAJERO Juan Pablo Polanco Carranza, Cesar Alejandro Jaimes León, [Colombia, Argentina, Germany]


• DE ANIMA Clara Jo, [Germany]


• H for Hoax: The Phantasmagorically True Story of the Stone Age Tasadays, Khavn De La Cruz, [Philippines, Germany]


• RISING UP AT NIGHT, Nelson Makengo, [Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Germany]


• TATA/FATHER, Radu Ciorniciuc, Lina Vdovîi & Radu Ciorniciuc, P: Monica Lazurean-Gorgan [Gorgan, Romania, Italy, Germany] winner of Eurimages Co-production Development Award.


• THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM, Eugene Jarecki, [Germany, United States]

CPH:WIP Projects
For the fifth year running, as a part of CPH:FORUM, CPH:WIP is a curated collection of eight works in progress from high-profile Nordic producers and directors looking for gap financing or a launch pad for further distribution, with German productions and coproductions such as

• INTO THE ICE, Lars Ostenfeld, [Denmark, Germany]


• THE SKY ABOVE ZENICA, Nanna Frank Møller, Zlatko Pranjic, [Denmark, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany]

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   • CPH:DOX 2021
   • CPH:DOX 2020
   • CPH:DOX 2019 

The 2021 Hot Docs Festival will be available for audiences across Canada to stream April 29 to May 9, with 219 films from 66 countries, including 14 German productions and co-productions:

• BEHIND THE HEADLINES by Daniel Andreas Sager, 90min,  P: bauderfilm . [SPECIAL PRESENTATION]


• A BLACK JESUS by Luca Lucchesi, 90min, P: Road Movies GmbH, [THE CHANGING FACE OF EUROPE]


• COURAGE by Aliaksei Paluyan, 90min, P: LPP Living Pictures Production, WS: RISE AND SHINE , [ARTSCAPES] 


• DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN by Franz Böhm, 89min, WS: MAGNETFILM GmbH .[WORLD SHOW CASE]


• DON’T GO TELLIN’ YOUR MOMMA by Simon Davis, Jason Sondock, Topaz Jones, 36min,  [ARTSCAPES]


• DYING TO DIVORCE by Chloe Fairweather, 81min, P: Elisabeth Kleppe, Norway [PERSISTER]


• THE NEW PLASTIC ROAD by Myrto Papadopoulos, Angelos Tsaousis, 66min, [THE CHANGING FACE OF EUROPE] is a Greece documentary production, coproduced with ZDF/arte


• RIFT FINFINNEE by Daniel Kötter, 79min, P: Blinker Filmproduktion [MARKERS]


• ROOM WITHOUT A VIEW by Roser Corella, P: Moving Mountains films, 73min, [SYSTEMS DOWN]


• THE STORY WON’T DIE by David Henry Gerson, 83min [ARTSCAPES]


• TAMING THE GARDEN by Salomé Jashi, 91min coP: CORSO Film, Mira Film Basel, Sadoc Film, WS: Syndicado Distribution, [THE CHANGING FACE OF EUROPE]


• TERMS AND CONDITIONS by Amelie Befeldt, 20min, P: worklights media production GmbH . [PERSISTER]


• VIRAL by Sagi Bornstein, Udi Nir, 75min, P: Gebrüder Beetz Media, udiVsagi [SPECIAL PRESENTATION]


• ZUHUR’S DAUGHTERS by Laurentia Genske, Robin Humboldt, 89min, P: CORSO film, [WORLD SHOW CASE]

HOT DOCS FORUM

with 36 projects — including 3 german productions — participating in #HotDocs21's Deal Maker pitch program. This year’s selection, which includes 20 BIPOC directors, 23 projects directed or co-directed by women, and seven projects directed by first-time filmmakers, will pitch to over 90 international decision makers during virtual meetings held online from May 6 to 19

• THE EYES OF DANTE by Adolfo Conti
  Production Companies: Doc Art srl (Italy), Leonardo Film (Germany)
  Producers: Amalia Carandini, Ilaria Sbarigia, Elmar Bartlmae


• LIFE IS ABOUT LOSING EVERYTHING by Stefan Ramírez Pérez, Benjamin Ramírez Pérez
  Production Company: Schalten und Walten GbR (Germany)
  Producers: Miriam Gossing, Lina Sieckmann


• NO MERCY – THE FEMALE GAZE by Isa Willinger
  Production Company: Tondowski Films GbR (Germany)
  Producers: Alex Tondowski, Ira Tondowsk

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

REPORT by Björn Jensen _German only June 7, 2021_

52 Visions du Réel will present 142 films originating from 58 countries. 41% of the films selected were directed by women; 31 films are first films. While the International Film Festival Nyon will be held predominantly in a virtual format, its official selection emphasises its pioneering role when it comes to exploring the spectrum of documentary filmmaking practices. Moreover, with 26 Swiss (co)productions, the Festival affirms itself as an essential partner of national creation.

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

• 27 STEPS by Andrea Schramm, 21min, [Compétition Internationale Moyens & Courts Métrages]


• COURAGE by Aliaksei Paluyan, 90min, P: LPP Living Pictures Production GbR [Compétition Internationale Longs Métrages]


• THE FIRST 54 YEARS  by Avi Mograbi, coP: ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions,  [Compétition Internationale Longs Métrages]


• GARDERIE NOCTURNE – NIGHT NURSERY by Moumouni Sanou, 67min, coP: Blinker Film [LATITUDES]


• THE GREAT VOID | DIE GROSSE LEERE by Sebastian Mez, 86min  [Compétition Burning Lights]


• KHAN'S FLESH | TELO KHANA by Krystsina Savutsina, 57min,  [Compétition Internationale Moyens & Courts Métrages]


• LANDSCAPES OF RESISTANCE by Marta Popivoda, 95min,  [LATITUDES]


• THE ORPHANAGE by Teboho Edkins, 8min,  [Compétition Internationale Moyens & Courts Métrages]


• SORTES by Mónica Martins Nunes, 38min [Compétition Internationale Moyens & Courts Métrages]


• ZINDER by Aïcha Macky, 82min, coP: CORSO Films   [Compétition Internationale Longs Métrages]

VdR–Industry will take place from April 14 to April 22, both online and in person.
Dedicated to cinema professionals, VdR–Industry and its activities represent a springboard for future films to find support in every stage of their production.

VdR-Pitching
The Wolves Always Come at Night by Gabrielle Brady Germany, Australia, Mongolia, P: Julia Niethammer with CHROMOSOM FILM GmbH ,

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• 52 Visions du Réel, Nyon 2021
• 51 Visions du Réel, Nyon 2020
• 50 Visions du Réel, Nyon 2019
• 49 Visions du Réel, Nyon 2018

Chile's Official Oscar submission, directed by Maite Alberdi. Congratulations to the German co-producer Ingmar Trost, CEO of SUTOR-KOLONKO and the whole team of the Chilean film production EL AGENTE TOPO | DER MAULWURF | THE MOLE AGENT , an 83-year-old man poses as a resident in a Chilean nursing home to see if he can find signs of abuse. 

 Q&A with the team
• at SUNDANCE
• at DOC NYC

NOTTURNO by Gianfranco Rosi, an Italian, French, German coproduction has been shortlisted for the 93rd Academy Awards Documentary Feature as well.

The winners of the 93rd edition of the Academy Awards will be announced on Sunday, April 25

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  • OSCARS 2021 •
  • OSCARS 2020 •

....and the SILVER BAER Jury Prize goes to Maria Speth, who produced, directed, and edited MR BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS. 

 “In a film, you can draw attention to deep problems by sticking your finger into the wound or showing hope and giving inspiration as how to achieve a positive change. The latter is the strategy that the director of this tenderly powerful documentary chose to follow.
Always keeping the right distance, the film focuses on one of those ‘field workers’ of our society who defines the most formative years of our children, influencing deeply their attitude towards life. As seen through the eyes of the director, this teacher is unique: he reshapes, softens, and makes more human, and through that humanity makes much more efficient a system in crisis — our European educational system.
The film shows how far you can go simply with true respect, sincere communication, and with that magic all great teachers possess: sparking the fire of passion in their students by activating their fantasy.” (71 BERLINALE Jury statement)

 Maria Speth accepting the SILVER BEAR

The Kompagnon-Fellowships 2021 by Perspektive Deutsches Kino and Berlinale Talents [DocStation] goes to the German documentary production WIR WAREN KUMPEL | ONCE WE WERE PITMEN by Jonas Matauschek and Christian Johannes Koch, production company elemag pictures GmbH.
The jury's statement word for word:
WIR WAREN KUMPEL tells of a paradigm shift and brings the present into the coal mine. Against the background of the closure of the last coal mine in Germany, this artistic documentary aims to show changes and new beginnings using a trans* woman miner and diverse miners: Not only is the working world in mining about to disappear as a result of the climate policy, but also the self-image of gender and role models is changing. What does masculinity look like today, and how is it manifested? In the interplay of large arrangements in cinematic images and the close documentary accompaniment of the protagonists, the reinvention of the characters and their handling of the crisis is traced. In addition to this swan song for an old form of manhood, attention is also drawn to the decline of the industry. We are excited about a film that combines intimate insights with structural questions in a multi-layered way. 

71 BERLINALE 2021 is a festivals in two stages. An INDUSTRY EVENT and a SUMMER SPECIAL. Visit our virtual booth at the EFM, March 1-5, 2021 for shortcuts to the Screening Dates of the german documentaries [festival  and market screenings as well] and come back for the Summer Special June, 9-20 in selected venues in the City of Berlin. Meamtime download the 25th edition of the catalogue german documentaries 2021 and former editions as PDF here.

...will be a festival in two stages.

Due to the current COVID-19 situation, the 71 Berlin International Film Festival will unfortunately not be able to take place from February 11-21, 2021.
The Competition, Berlinale Special & Berlinale Series, Encounters, Berlinale Shorts, Panorama, Forum & Forum Expanded, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino sections will have a reduced selection of films at the 71 Berlinale due to the pandemic. The great majority of them will be available online for industry professionals during the European Film Market [with industry accreditation only] in the first week of March 2021.

From June 9-20, the Summer Special will give the general public the opportunity to see the majority of the 2021 film selection at numerous cinema screenings. The city of Berlin once again will become the physical venue for the BERLINALE and the cinema will be a place of encounter and discussion. An industry accreditation for the Summer Special is not planned.

german documentaries @ 71 BERLINALE 2021

LineUp german documentaries

• AHORITA FRAMES by Angelika Levi, 22min, P: celestfilm, weltfilm [FORUMexpanded] __SD__


• ANAMNESIS | ANMAßUNG by Chris Wright, Stefan Kolbe, 11min, WS: Deckert Distribution [51FORUM] __SD_


• AS I WANT by Samaher Alqadi, 88min, coP: Kaske Film, [ ENCOUNTERS ]


• COURAGE by Aliaksei Paluyan, 90min, P: Living Pictures Production, WS: RISE AND SHINE [SPECIAL] _SD_


• THE FIRST 54 YEARS – An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation by Avi Mograbi, coP: ma.ja.de, WS: The Party Film Sales, [51FORUM] __SD__


• FATHERLAND | ZAHLVATERSCHAFT by Moritz Siebert [FORUMexpanded] __SD__


• FROM WHERE THEY STOOD | A PAS AVEUGLES by Christophe Cognet, coP: OVALmedia [51FORUM] __SD__


• GARDERIE NOCTURNE – NIGHT NURSERY by Moumouni Sanou, cop: Blinker Filmprd. [51 FORUM] __SD__


• GENDERATION by Monika Treut, 88min, P: Hyena Films, WS: Salzgeber Medien [PANORAMA] __SD__


• INSTRUCTIONS FOR SURVIVAL | ANLEITUNG ZUM ÜBERLEBEN by Yana Ugrekhelidze, 72min, P: FORTIS FEM FILM [PERSPECTIVE] __SD__


• KEEP MOVING | IN BEWEGUNG BLEIBEN by Salar Ghazi, 139min 45sec [PERSPECTIVE] __SD__


• MIGUEL'S WAR by Eliane Raheb, 128min, coP: Kabinett Filmproduktion, [PANORAMA] __SD__


• MR BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS | HERR BACHMANN UND SEINE KLASSE by Maria Speth, 217min P: Madonnen Film, WS: Films Boutique [COMPETITION] __SD__


• THE SONG OF THE SHIRT by Kerstin Schroedinger [FORUMexpanded] __SD__


• TAMING THE GARDEN by Salomé Jashi, 91min, coP: CORSO Film, WS: Syndicado [51FORUM] __SD__


• VOICES AND SHELL by Maya Schweizer, 17min [FORUMexpanded]


• WHEN A FARM GOES AFLAME by Jide Tom Akinleminu, 112min, P: Film Five GmbH [PERSPECTIVE] __SD__


• WHO WE WERE | WER WIR WAREN by Marc Bauder, 110min, P: Bauderfilm [SPECIAL] __SD__

 [ __SD__ leads participants of the EFM to the Screening Dates ]

 71 BERLINALE Film Selection 2021 of all sections and countries click here.

 

EFM MARKETSCREENINGS [click on SD for the Screening Dates)

• A BLACK JESUS  by Luca Lucchesi, 92min, WS: filmdelights, P: Road Movies _SD_


• A SYMPHONIE OF NOISE by Enrique Sánchez Lansch, 93min, WS: Rise&Shine _SD_


• BEEWILDERED COMPANIONS | EINE FRAGE DER HALTUNG by Felix Remter, Miriam Remter, 87min, WS: mindjazz pictures UG  _SD_


• BEYOND THE VISIBLE – HILMA AF KLINT | JENSEITS DES SICHTBAREN by Halina Dyrschka, 93min, WS: mindjazz pictures UG  __SD__


• THE LAST REPORTERS by Jean Boué, 96min, P: JABFILM - Jean Boué   _SD_


• LUCHADORAS by Paola Calvo, Patrick Jasim, 92min, WS: RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES U.G. __SD_


• SILENCE OF THE TIDES by Pieter-Rim de Kroon, 103min, WS: The Party Film Sales, __SD__


• AUNT ÜMMÜ by Orhan Çalisir, 33min, P: strombuch __SD__

As the first international film market of the year, the European Film Market is where the film industry starts its business of the year. The 2021 edition of the EFM will take the form of an online market, offering a platform for sales agencies and institutions, online screenings and the EFM Industry Sessions: cutting-edge and interactive talk formats, workshops, matchmaking and networking events. The new dates of the European Film Market are March 1—5, 2021.

AG DOK / German Documentaries is our virtual booth under the umbrella of German Films Service + Marketing GmbH. Please visit us there.

IT ALL STARTS HERE

as single page
• 71 BERLINALE 2021
• 70 BERLINALE 2020
• 69 BERLINALE 2019
• 68 BERLINALE 2018

...and single pages of DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS #lola
   • German Film Award _ LOLA 2021
   • German Film Award | LOLA@Berlinale 2020
   • German Film Award | LOLA@Berlinale 2019
   • German Film Award | LOLA@Berlinale 2018

...and the winners are:

• AFGHANISTAN. THE WOUNDED LAND | AFGHANISTAN. DAS VERWUNDETE LAND, series in four parts by Marcel Mettelsiefen , Mayte Carrasco, P: LOOKSfilm for NDR/ARTE


• THE BRANCH I AM SITTING ON – A Tax Haven in Switzerland | DER AST AUF DEM ICH SITZE by Luzia Schmid, P: Bildersturm, Dschoint Ventschr for ZDF/3sat


• LOST TRACES – A FAMILY HISTORY FROM THE HOLOCAUST | VERNICHTET – EINE FAMILIENGESCHICHTE AUS DEM HOLOCAUST by Andreas Christoph Schmidt,  P:Schmidt & Paetzel Fernsehfilme for rbb/HR/NDR


• LOVE PARADE – THE TRIAL | LOVEPARADE – DIE VERHANDLUNG by Dominik Wessely, P: DOCDAYS Productions & ARPA FILMS for WDR, Televisió de Catalunya (TVC)

GRIMME PREIS is the German equivalent of the Emmys. Only movies that have been broadcasted by a public or private TVstation or provided in the internet in Germany can be nominated or awarded. Therefore some of the nominated documentaries for Grimme Preis 2021 you'll knew from former edtions of our catalogue, because they have been shown at festivals and German cinemas for about two years, the common usage of the retention period for coproductions with TVstations before broadcasted in German speaking territories. 

The nominated german documentaries are:

• AFGHANISTAN. THE WOUNDED LAND | AFGHANISTAN. DAS VERWUNDETE LAND, series in four parts by Marcel Mettelsiefen , Mayte Carrasco, P: LOOKSfilm for NDR/ARTE


• BERLIN 1945 – Diary of a Metropolis | BERLIN 1945 – Tagebuch einer Großstadt by Volker Heise, P: Zero One Film, Bauderfilm for rbb/ARTE


• PURPLE SEA | DAS PURPURMEER by by Khaled Abdulwahed , Amel Alzakout, P: pong Film for ARTE


• THE BRANCH I AM SITTING ON – A Tax Haven in Switzerland | DER AST AUF DEM ICH SITZE by Luzia Schmid, P: Bildersturm, Dschoint Ventschr for ZDF/3sat


• HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME | HEIMAT IST EIN RAUM AUS ZEIT by Thomas Heise P: ma.ja.de. / Navigator Film for ZDF/3sat


• OBON  by Andre Hörmann, Samo, P: Hörmann Filmprod,  Vizion Filmprod., Tiger Unterwegs Filmprod,


• A PERFECT CRIME | ROHWEDDER – EINIGKEIT UND MORD UND FREIHEIT by  Jan Peter, Georg Tschurtschenthaler, P: Gebrüder Beetz for Netflix


• LOST TRACES – A FAMILY HISTORY FROM THE HOLOCAUST | VERNICHTET – EINE FAMILIENGESCHICHTE AUS DEM HOLOCAUST by Andreas Christoph Schmidt,  P: Schmidt & Paetzel Fernsehfilme for rbb/HR/NDR


• LOVE PARADE – THE TRIAL | LOVEPARADE – DIE VERHANDLUNG by Dominik Wessely, P: DOCDAYS Productions & ARPA FILMS for WDR, Televisió de Catalunya (TVC)

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• 57 GRIMME PRIZE 2021  _

ALL NOMINEES 2021 click here_

 ...and the

• Audience Award goes to DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN by Franz Böhm, 


• Best Documentary is STOLLEN by Laura Reichwald


• Best Music Documentry goes to Dascha Dauenhauer for the original score of THE CASE YOU by Alison Kuhn

The online edition opens on January 17, 2021 with A BLACK JESUS, the debut film by Luca Lucchesi. In the documentary produced by honorary prize winner Wim Wenders, Lucchesi sheds light on the veneration of a Black Jesus statue in his native Sicilian village. The desire of a group of refugees from Africa housed there to participate in the religious tradition leads to tensions among the villagers.

COMPETITION DOCUMENTARY
Ten documentaries from german speaking countries, as Germany, Austria and Switzerland are competing for three prizes:

• the MAX OPHÜLS PRIZE: BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM, endowed with 7,500 euros, provided by Saarland Medien GmbH,


• and the MAX OPHÜLS PRIZE: BEST FILM MUSIC, endowed with 5,000 euros, offered by Saarland Medien GmbH and provided by the Strecker Foundation.


• The MAX OPHÜLS PRIZE: PUBLIC PRIZE DOCUMENTARY FILM is endowed for the third time by Dillinger and Saarstahl with 5,000 euros and awarded by the festival audience.

The nine German documentary productions and co-productions are:

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


• I AM THE TIGRESS by Philipp Fussenegger, Dino Osmanovic, 80min


• MY VIETNAM | MEIN VIETNAM by Tim Ellrich, Thi Hien Mai, 79min


• NO NEWS | NICHTS NEUES by Lennart Hüper, 81min, P:Fachhochschule Dortmund, WS: sixpackfilm


• STOLLEN by Laura Reichwald, 85min, P: Neue Celluloid Fabrik, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF


• THE CASE YOU by Alison Kuhn, 80min, P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF


• STORIES OF DADS | VÄTER UNSER by Sophie Linnenbaum, 76min, P: Sophie Linnenbaum


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


• WE THE VILLAGE | WIR ALLE. DAS DORF by Antonia Traulsen, Claire Roggan, 90min, P: Koberstein Film

 and • SCHÖNBORN by Maxim Melnyk, 63min, P: Katzentisch Filmprod. [in the section festivalexchange Cottbus]

MOP—WATCHLIST
with German productions and co-productions such as

• DISPLACED by Sharon Ryba-Kahn, 90min, P: Tondowski Films, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF


• KING BANSAH AND HIS DAUGHTER by Agnes Lisa Wegner, 86min, P: kurhaus production Film & Medien GmbH


• WITH ONE'S OWN EYES by Miguel Müller-Frank, 108min, P: 2Pilots Filmproduction

 MOP—SHORTLIST
with German productions and co-productions such as

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


• INNDEPENDENCE by Michael Schwarz, 15min, P: nachtschwärmerfilm


• AUS DEN AUGEN AUS DEM SINN | OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND by Anna-Maria Dutoit, 11min, P: HFF Munich


• CUNTVIEW by Sarang Nes, 10min, P: Filmuniversität Babelsber KONDRAD WOLF


• DIE FRAU OHNE EIGENSCHAFTEN by Siwei Li, 11min, P: HBKsaar


• UNDENKBAR by Katharina Schacke, 22min,

Oliver Baumgarten and Svenja Böttger invite the audience to stream the selected films at home. https://ffmop.cinebox.film/

 

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• 42 FF Max Ophüls Preis 2021
• 41 FF Max Ophüls Preis 2020
• 40 FF Max Ophüls Preis 2019

Nov 16 — Dec 06 2020 in cinemas and online

runs November 18 to 29 in Amsterdam venues. Until December 6 you can enjoy more than 200 documentary films and participate in discussions with filmmakers, protagonists, and experts. Screenings will take place online and in theaters.

Alina Gorlova won the IDFA Award for Best First Appearance (€ 10,000) for the German CoProduction THIS RAIN WILL NEVER STOP. "A striking, beautifully shot and edited film that embarks on the disaster of war through a personal journey and rocks the spectator between furtive moments of joy and pain. This moving film encompasses traditions, modernity, death, and the power of moving forward. This Rain Will Never Stop is a powerful story that does not allow us to escape from the destruction and heart-wrenching losses of wars," the jury reported.

November 26, IDFA announced the winners of the competition programs during the IDFA 2020 Awards Ceremony. The ceremony took place both in Amsterdam's Vlaams Cultuurhuis De Brakke Grond and online, making it available to viewers all over the world. With 10 more days to go, the on-site part of the festival, in cinemas and venues, was almost sold out. To date, IDFA has received over 62,000 online film views. IDFA 2020 welcomed more than 3000 online guests.

In presenting the complete selection of 258 titles, IDFA offers its unwavering support to the filmmakers and industry leaders who are fighting for the future of cinema. The festival also extends a call to act together and act now for the film industry that the world cannot lose—one that values high-quality exhibition as much as inclusion, transparency, and accountability. On October 28, the IDFA 2020 press conference took place via livestream from De Balie in Amsterdam. Missed the event? Watch the video to learn all about the festival program, including exclusive details of the competitions and opening film. 

GUEST OF HONOR GIANFRANCO ROSI The only filmmaker to win top awards at two A-list festivals with documentary films, Rosi's work will be in the spotlight at 33 IDFA 2020 with a Retrospective and a Top 10 program of his favorite films. The Italian-German-French coproduction, his latest longterm documentary NOTTURNO premiered September 2020 in Venice is part of this program.

IDFA COMPETITION FOR DUTCH DOCUMENTARY one of the eight  documentaries  from both emerging filmmakers and masters of documentary cinema is the Dutch/German co-production of Windmill& Bildersturm SILENCE OF THE TIDES by Pieter-Rim de Kroon and stunnig pictures by cinematographer Dick Harrewijn.

IDFA COMPETITION OF FEATURE-LENGHT DOCUMENTARY
12 films by some of the world's leading filmmakers are selected for the IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary. The selection includes giants of documentary film, but also theater and visual art. The lineup's diversity is a force to be reckoned with, both in terms of regional spread and stylistic choices. With strong artistic concepts and bold formalist approaches, each title displays the mark of an auteur, from hybrid films to cinéma vérité. Such a selection, in this year especially, affirms the significance of documentary film for the world. • THE NEW GOSPEL by Milo Rau is a German/Swiss coproduction of a hybrid looking for the answers of questions such as: What would Jesus preach in the 21st century? Who would his disciples be? And how would today’s bearers of secular and spiritual power respond to the return and provocations of the most influential prophet and social revolutionary in human history? With THE NEW GOSPEL, Milo Rau is staging a 'Revolt of Dignity'.

IDFA COMPETITION FOR FIRST APPEARANCE
cinema of feelings, a cinema of facts: The IDFA Competition for First Appearance explores both. The 12-title selection includes 10 world premieres and a notable presence of female filmmakers from lower-volume production countries, heralding a promising future for documentary film. The two German co-productions in this programm are

• 5 HOUSES | 5 CASAS | 5 HÄUSER by Bruno Gularte Barreto, 85min, Brazil, Germany, P: Vulcana Cinema, TAG/TRAUM Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. KG, Estranho Produções


• THIS RAIN WILL NEVER STOP by Alina Gorlova, 104min, Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Qatar, P: Bulldog Agenda, TABOR Production & Avantis Promo

In the MASTERS section, IDFA selects 18 titles from today’s auteurs of documentary cinema, whose renowned names and careers never disappoint. Three of them are german documentaries as:

• NARDJES A. by Karim Aïnouz, 80min P: watchmen productions GmbH, MPM Film


• PARIS CALLIGRAMMES by Ulrike Ottinger, 129min, P: zero one film GmbH, Ideale Audiénce


• VIVOS by Ai Weiwei, 112min, WS: Cinephil

BEST OF FESTS with 30 films that lit up the selections of Berlin, Sundance, Cannes, and many more, the Best of Fests program applauds the irreplaceable work of film festivals today. This year more than ever, IDFA honors the festivals that, in spite of incredible circumstances, continue to champion the art of documentary filmmaking. The initial Best of Fests selection highlights both audience favorites and award-winning masterpieces including the german documentaries such as:

• ACASA, MY HOME by Radu Ciorniciuc, 86min, P: CORSO Film


• THE ART OF LIVING IN DANGER by Mina Keshavarz, 75min, TAG/TRAUM Filmprod. GmbH&Co.KG


• GARAGE PEOPLE by Natalija Yefimkina, 95min P: Tamtam Film GmbH


• THE MOLE AGENT by Maite Alberdi, 90min, Chile, United States, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, P: Micromundo Producciones, Motto Pictures, Sutor Kolonko, Volya Films, Malvalanda, WS: dogwoof


• OECONOMIA by Carmen Losmann, 89min P: Petrolio Film GmbH

In the PARADOCS section, IDFA showcases 11 of the year’s best experimental documentary artworks. Pushing time to its cinematic limits. Peeling back layers of representation. These films will make you question what you’re really seeing like • PURPLE SEA by Amel Alzakout, Khaled Abdulwahed, 67min, produced by pong film GmbH out of the german documentareis catalogue.

What does it feel like to be alive today? The 20 films selected for the non-competitive section LUMINOUS answer this question from a kaleidoscope of perspectives and shifting certainties. All of them give cause to pause and reflect, prompting audiences to consider lives that aren’t their own.
The German documentary production • THE CASE YOU by Alison Kuhn, 80min in this section is a student film of Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.

12 titles are selected for the IDFA COMPETITION OF SHORT DOCUMENTARY, exhibiting ambitious approaches to filmmaking and the utmost respect for the short documentary format. Collectively, the selection is a reminder of how much artistry can be expressed in just a few minutes—it is an ode to duration, even in the shortest form. The German Anima-Doc in this section is • HOTEL ASTORIA by Alina Cyranek, Falk Schuster, 28min, P: hug films GbR Alina Cyranek & Falk Schuster

The 11 titles selected for the STUDENT COMPETITION raise the bar of student filmmaking, illustrating focused, conscious intentions behind every shot. Traveling hundreds of meters underground and to the darkest corners of the human mind, these young filmmakers are asserting who they want to be, offering glimpses of brilliance in the process. Two German documentary productions will premiere in this section.

• TABOR by Stanislav Danylyshyn, 45min, Germany, United States, CoP: DFFB — German Film and Television Academy Berlin & Crystal Goose


• UGKU TOKAI — MOVING CITY by Lars Ostmann, 45min P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

With 13 titles from a wide range of countries, the KIDS & DOCS COMPETITION invites young audiences to discover art of documentary film. Difficult subject matter and vast artistic expression are the cornerstones of this selection, which caters to both preteens and young adults for the first time. Shorts, feature-length films, and virtual reality all find a home in the selection, broadening the horizons of what a documentary can be. Collectively the titles speak loud and clear: Imaginative young audiences are to be taken seriously. The German productions in this section are

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


• CABINETS OF WONDER | WUNDERKAMMERN by Susanne Kim, VR 15min [or 80min DCP] P: Neufilm .

IDFA DocLab Competitions Each year an international jury is invited to give out the IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling, the IDFA DocLab Immersive Non-Fiction Award as well as the Special Jury Award for Creative Technology, which is granted in both competition programs. The two competitions are open to all sorts of interactive and immersive projects, ranging from web docs, audio experiences, apps, and XR projects to data art, multimedia journalism, installations, live performances and fulldome.

• BRIDGE TO SOVIETOPIA by Marie Alice Brandner-Wolfszahn, 16min, Austria, Germany, Ukraine


• CORPUS MISTY by Aubrey Heichemer, Germany


• REPLACEMENTS by Jonathan Hagard, 12min, Japan, Indonesia, Germany


• THE LEAKED RECIPES COOKBOOK by Gabriela Ivens, Demetria Glace, JBE Books, Paris, 45min, France, Germany

28 IDFA Forum, the festival’s co-production and co-financing market. The selection welcomes both established filmmakers and new voices to the international stage, with a total number of 63 projects selected to pitch including German productions and co-productions as:

• AFRICAN SPACE MAKERS by Vincenco Cavallo, P: Kenya, Germany, P: Vincenzo Cavallo Faras,TheNrbBus & Sönke Kirchhof, INVR, Germany


• AMALIE'S SHADOW by Ester Niemeier, Germany


• F@ck This Job by Vera Krichevskaya, CoP: NDR, UK/Germany


• JUST FOR ONE DAY by Dale Herigstad, Johannes Brandrup, P: ZAUBAR, Germany/UK


• LOVING HIGHSMITH by Eva Vitija, Switzerland/Germany, P: Ensemble Film CoP: Lichtblick Film,


• THE PULP by Aubrey Heichemer, Germany [in Developement]


• QUEEN OF CHESS by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter, CoP: ma.ja.de. Filmprod., Hungary/Germany


• SONG OF SUMMER AND WINTER by Talal Derki, Denmark/Germany


• A SYMPHONY OF NOISE by Enrique Sánchez Lansch, Germany, P: Kloos & Co. Medien

DOCS FOR SALE Every year, more than 300 TV buyers, sales agents, distributors and festival programmers convene in Amsterdam to watch a selection of the very latest and best documentaries available to the international market. The Docs for Sale Lounge, Meet the Professionals sessions and various other activities offer great networking opportunities. Throughout the year, the market's catalogue is available to registered buyers through Docs for Sale online.
This year, current distancing and crowd limitations mean that Docs for Sale will take place online [November 16-20], ensuring that accredited guests all over the world can participate. Nevertheless, guests who can travel in November will be welcome to watch films in cinemas and participate in additional industry activities (apart from Docs for Sale) in Amsterdam.

• 5 HOUSES | 5 CASAS | 5 HÄUSER by Bruno Gularte Barreto, 85min, WS: Vulcana Cinema, P:TAG/TRAUM Filmprod. GmbH&Co.KG


• ACASA, MY HOME by Radu Ciorniciuc, 86min, P: CORSO Film


• THE ART OF LIVING IN DANGER by Mina Keshavarz, 75min, TAG/TRAUM Filmprod. GmbH&Co.KG


• AUTOMOTIVE by Jonas Heldt, 80min, P: HFF Munich, NEOS FILM GMBH & CO. KG


• BEEWILDERED COMPANIONS by Miriam Remter, 87min WS: mindjazz pictures UG


• BEHIND THE HEADLINES | HINTER DEN SCHLAGZEILEN by Daniel Sager, 90min, P: Bauderfilm


• BEYOND THE VISIBLE — HILMA AF KLINT by Halina Dyrschka, 93min, WS: mindjazz pictures UG


• A BLACK JESUS by Luca Lucchesi,  92min, P: Road Movies, WS: Filmdelights


• BODY OF TRUTH by Evelyn Schels, 95min, WS: auTLOOK FILMSALES


• BREAD by Harald Friedl, 94min WS: MAGNETFILM GmbH


• BUTENLAND by Marc Pierschel, 82min, mindjazz pictures UG


• THE CASE YOU by Alison Kuhn, 80min, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.


• CHADDR - A RIVER BETWEEN US by Minsu Park, 88min, P: Karbe Film GmbH


• DISCOUNT WORKERS by Christopher Patz, 60min, P: Stefan Kloos for Kloos & Co. Medien, WS: Rise and Shine World Sales


• GARAGE PEOPLE by Natalija Yefimkina, 95min, WS: Rise and Shine World Sales


• HONG KONG GA YOU by Marco Di Noia, 41min, P: Marco Di Noia


• HOTEL ASTORIA by Alina Cyranek, Falk Schuster, 28min, P: hug films GbR Alina Cyranek & Falk Schuster


• A HOUSE IN PIECES by Jean Claire Dy, Manuel Domes, 65min, WS: Stories Beyond


• HUNTER FROM ELSEWHERE - A JOURNEY WITH HELEN BRITTON by Elena Alvarez Lutz, 97min,


• THE LETTER TO MY MOTHER by Amin Maher, 19min, P: Maherfilm,


• MEMORIES OF A RIVER by Antonia Kilian, 90min, WS: Doppelplusultra Filmproduktion GmbH,


• MENSCH HORST by Mounaim Rhozyel, 44min, P: Filmkollektiv Unterholz


• THE MOLE AGENT by Maite Alberdi, 90min, WS: Dogwoof


• MONOBLOC by Hauke Wendler, 90min, WS: Deckert Distribution GmbH


• THE NEW GOSPEL by Milo Rau, 107min, WS: CAT&Docs, P: Fruitmarket Arts & Media GmbH


• OECONOMIA by Carmen Losmann , 89min, P:Deckert Distribution GmbH ,


• OMAR SHARIF — THE LIFE OF A NOMAD by Jascha Hannover, 52min, P: Florian Fim GmbH,


• PARIS CALLIGRAMMES by Ulrike Ottinger, 129min, WS: Lightdox,


• PURPLE SEA by Khaled Abdulwahed , Amel Alzakout, 67min, P: pong film GmbH,


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


• THE SECOND LIFE by Davide Gambino, 90min, P: THURN FILM | Valentin Thurn, WS: NEW DOCS


• THE CHURCH – THERE IS NO SUCH PLACE by Anat Tel, 52 or 71min, coP: Ventana Film, WS: go2films


• TOWN OF GLORY by Dmitry Bogolyubov, Anna Shishova-Bogolyubova, 80min, WS: First Hand Films


• UGOKU TOKAI — MOVING CITY by Lars Ostmann, 45min, P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF


• THE WALL OF SHADOWS by Eliza Kubarska, 94min, WS: Rise and Shine


• WAR IS OVER by Stefano Obino , 74min, P: obino production, Nukleus Film,


• WE HOLD THE LINE by Marc Wiese, 93min, WS: Magnetfilm GmbH,


• WOOD by Monica Lazurean-Gorgan, Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger, 98min, WS: Magnetfilm GmbH

INDUSTRY PROGRAM AT IDFA 2020 . Get inspired and stay up to date with seven days of Industry Talks, Consultancies, Meetups, Hangouts and more. Everything is available online and freely accessible to guests around the world. Explore the Industry Program.

••• KEY DATES
• IDFA Forum and IDFA DocLab Forum: November 16-20
• Live online presentations of projects: Novemberb16-18, 14-18 Amsterdam time
• One-on-one meetings for selected projects: November 19-20, various time zones
• Expert meetings for observers: November 19-20, various time zones
• Social events: November 16-20, exact times to be announced

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• IDFA 2020
• IDFA 2019
• IDFA 2018
• IDFA 2017

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• The GRANIT – Hof Documentary Award 2020 goes to the film KING BANSAH AND HIS DAUGHTER by Agnes Lisa Wegner.


• HALDERN POP – VILLAGE WITH FESTIVAL by Monika Pirch receives an honorable mention.

The 54th Hof International Film Festival goes Double Feature!

The 54th Hof International Film Festival 2020 will take place as a dual model. That means there will be two festival components: Screenings in the cinema in accordance with the applicable hygiene regulations, and an extension of the festival experience with films on demand via an on-demand platform, until 1 November 2020.

54 Hof IFF 2020 CATALOGUE as PDF for download

LineUp of German documentary productions and Co-productions

• SHORTS •
  


• TOUCH ME | BERÜHR' MICH by Hendrik Ströhle, 28min


• DIE GEWICHTHEBERIN [out of the series ab 18!]  by Constantin Hatz, Annelie Boros, 40min


• FRAGMENTS OF WOMEN: GALILA | FRAUENGRAGMENTE: GALILA by Sophie Gmeiner, 9min


• INNdependence by Michael Schwarz, 15min


• PROUD OF YOU | STOLZ AUF DICH by Jens Schanze, 30min


• THE VOID INSIDE by Julian Dieterich, 18min, P: Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF


• WITHIN WALLS by Marina Schulz, 47min, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH


• RESIDENT GROUND FLOOR | WOHNHAFT ERDGESCHOSS by Jan Soldat, 58min


• THE WALK by Michael Jung, 12min 13sec


• WORK FOR HIM by Fariba Buchheim, Hilarija Locmele, 30min P: HFF Munich

•  FEATURE •


• AWARE — GLIMPSES OF CONSCIOUSNESS | AWARE – REISE IN DAS BEWUSSTSEIN by Frauke Sandig, Eric Black, 102min, P: Umbrella Films


• A BEE'S DIARY | TAGEBUCH EINER BIENE by Dennis Wells P: taglicht media & eva-verein


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


• CARBON CON SANGRE | BLUTIGE KOHLE by Christopher Stöckle, Paolo Tamayo, 51min


• CHANGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT THING by Christoph Fleischer, 75min


• CICERO by Tina Freitag, 113min  P: Latemar Film


• GERMANY JOURNEY | DEUTSCHLANDREISE by Wolfgang Ettlich, 87min


• THE WHISPER OF THE MARIMBA | EL MURMULLO DE LA MARIMBA | DAS FLÜSTERN DER MARIMBA  by Greta-Marie Becker, 79min, P: KHM — Academy of Media Arts Cologne


• FIVE FINGERS NO SAME by Regina Wiebe, Johanna Reimann, 70min


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


• ISHOULD HAVE HELD ON THE CHANDELIER | ICH HÄTTE AM KRONLEUCHTER HÄNGEN BLEIBEN MÜSSEN by Diego Hauenstein, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH


• MR CINEMA | KINOMANN by Matthias Ditscherlein


• KÖNIG BANSAH UND SEINE TOCHTER | KING BANSAH AND HIS DAUGHTER by Agnes Lisa Wegner, 85min


• PASTA IMPERIALE  by Peter Heller P: filmkraft


• A PORTRAIT ON THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS by Benjamin Rost, 76min, P: MSZ – Production & Consulting Márk Szilágyi,


• THE RENEGADES — A LONG WAY HOME | DIE HEIMKEHR - LEBEN NACH DEM TERROR by Mariam Noori, Lisa Maria Hagen, 76min


• UFERFRAUEN by Barbara Wallbraun, P: Sunday Filmproduktion


• WOOD by Monica Lazurean-Gorgan, Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger, CoP: FILMTANK GmbH

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The Golden Dove in the German Competition Long Documentary and Animated Film in conjunction with 3,000 euros was presented to LIFT LIKE A GIRL, a joint Danish-Egyptian-German production by Mayye Zayed. The filmmaker follows Asmaa, aged 14 at the start, for four years. With the help of her coach, a former professional athlete, Asmaa makes her way to the top league in weightlifting in the streets of Alexandria.
The Silver Dove in the German Competition Short Documentary and Animated Film, in conjunction with 1,500 euros in prize money, has been awarded to ERWIN by Jan Soldat, a Austrian-German co-production.
For all the winners of the Golden and Silver Doves visit the page of the festival or watch the ceremony here.

The recipients of the partnership awards are:
• DEFA Sponsoring Prize (4,000 euros): RIFT FINFINNEE by Daniel Kötter, Ethiopia, Germany
• Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize (2,000 euros): THE GUARDIAN by Martina Priessner, Germany
• ver.di Prize for Solidarity, Humanity and Fairness (2,500 euros): 80.000 SCHNITZELS by Hannah Schweier, Germany.
• Young Eyes Film Award (2,000 euros): OPERATION MOONBIRD by Dustin Lose, Germany 
• Gedanken-Aufschluss — Short Film: RIVEN THREADS by Deborah Jeromin, Germany
for all partnerships awards visit the page of the festival or watch the ceremony here.

All of the award-winning films as well as the remaining films offered online will continue to be available to audiences in Germany the streaming platform dok-leipzig.culturebase.org. The final films of the festival will be shown online on 14 November.

GERMAN COMPETITION: 
 The selection committee has chosen a total of 17 productions for the German Competitions for Long and Short Documentary and Animated Films, including works by Andreas Voigt, Jan Soldat, Carsten Rau, Martina Priessner, Bettina Ellerkamp and Jörg Heitmann. The filmmakers take a close look at Germany and are just as curious about local stories outside of Germany.

• 80.000 SCHNITZELS | 80.000 SCHNITZEL by Hannah Schweier, 102min, P: Zum Goldenen Lamm .


• AIVA by Veneta Androva, 13min


• APPROPRIATION TAKES YOU ON A WEIRD RIDE by Nina Fischer, Maroan el Sani, 20min


• BIBI MUST GO | ELEFANTIN by Marie Zrenner, Johanna Seggelke, 29min [DOK Bildung]


• BORDERLAND | GRENZLAND by Andreas Voigt, 100min


• THE CHIMNEY SWIFT | DER SCHORNSTEINSEGLER by Frédéric Schuld, 5min, P: Fabian&Fred .


• DARK MATER by Viktor Brim, 19min52sec, P: Viktor Brim .


• ERWIN by Jan Soldat, 16min, P: Jan Soldat


• THE GUARDIAN | DIE WÄCHTERIN by Martina Priessner, 87min, P: inselfilm produktion


• HAEBERLI by Moritz Mueller-Preisser, 45min, P: HFF Munich


• LIFT LIKE A GIRL | STARK WIE EIN MÄDCHEN by Mayye Zayed, 96min P: Mayye Zayed, Cleo Media


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


• OPERATION MOONBIRD by Dustin Lose, 22min


• RIFT FINFINNEE by Daniel Kötter, 79min, P: Blinker Filmproduktion .


• RIVEN THREADS | VERWUNDENE FÄDEN by Deborah Jeromin, 40min, P: Deborah Jeromin


• THERE IS | ES GIBT [Portrait of Margaret Raspé] by Lena Ditte Nissen, 16min


• WE WANTED TO KILL ALL NASTY ONES | WIR WOLLTEN ALLE FIESEN KILLEN by Bettina Ellerkamp, Jörg Heitmann, 91min, P: home productions GmbH, silent green Kulturproduktionen GmbH + Co KG

 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS .
The films in the International Competitions tell the stories of Congolese war-disabled people struggling for compensation, of a legal and medical scandal in Argentina around an abortion and of the London lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic. Some further films focus on the United States and use various approaches to provide a cinematic commentary on the state of the country. Shelly Silver returns to our festival with her new film GIRLS/MUSEUM that follows girls from seven to nineteen years of age looking at works of arts in the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (MdbK), most of which were created by men.

THE GOLDEN SECTION  — COMPETITION FOR THE AUDIENCE AWARD

• THE BLUNDER OF LOVE by Rocco Di Mento, 84min, P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD


• A BLACK JESUS by Luca Lucchesi, 92min, P: Road Movies GmbH


• GIRLS/MUSEUM by Shelly Silver, 74min


• LONELY CITY | EINE EINSAME STADT by Nicola Graef, 90min, P: Lona•media


• HOTEL ASTORIA by Falk Schuster, Alina Cyranek, 28min, P: hug films GbR Alina Cyranek & Falk Schuster

 Kids DOK

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


• PROUD OF YOU | STOLZ AUF DICH by Jens Schanze, 29min, P: maschafilm .


• STUMM by Anna Theil, 7min  

DOK Industry

 VIRAL by Udi Nir & Sagi Bornstein, 8x10 or 90min

DOK Preview  Germany Live Presentation
Monday, 26 October, 15:30 – 17:00 (CET)
Moderated by: Simone Baumann ( german films) & Tanja Georgieva (Elemag Pictures, Gera)
DOK Preview Germany is brought to you together with AG DOK & German Films.

• A SYMPHONY OF NOISE by Enrique Sánchez Lansch P: Kloos & Co. Medien


• AWALATJE — DIE HEBAMMEN by Sarah Noa Bozenhardt, P: Evolution Film


• FOLLOW ME by Joya Thome P: Flare Film GmbH


• GO HEAL YOURSELF (WT) | HEIL DICH DOCH SELBST (AT) by Yasmin C. Rams, 105min, P: Yasmin C. Rams / Perennial Lens


• IM DIESEITS by Laurentia Genske & Robin Humboldt, P: CORSO Film


• MR. CINEMA | KINOMANN by Matthias Ditscherlein, P: Kippelsteiner Filme 


• VIRAL by Udi Nir, Sagi Bornstein, P: Gebrueder Beetz Filmprod. & udiVsagi


• WE WANTED TO KILL ALL NASTY ONES by Bettina Ellerkamp, Jörg Heitmann, P: silent green Kulturproduktionen GmbH + Co KG

DOK Industry: Every year, more than 1,800 professional guests from more than 60 countries come to Leipzig to participate in over 50 events under the umbrella of DOK Industry.
Up-and-coming filmmakers gaining their first experiences as well as award-winning, veteran filmmakers from across the globe mingle with the highest-quality German and international decision makers and funders in a cosy, laid back atmosphere. This is the meeting place for artistic documentary and a growing hub for interactive and immersive arts practitioners and experts.
• 120+ festival programmers
• 300+ commissioners, buyers, distributors, sales agents and funders
• 350+ producers
• More than 1,100 scheduled individual meetings at the Co-Pro Market and Meet the Experts Meetings
• Daily networking Get Together cocktails and parties
• Over 20,000 € in services and prizes to win
• Interactive Conference Day with 80 immersive artists and experts

Due COVID-19 crisis head of DOK Industry Brigid O'Shea is preparing the very first online edition of the DOK Industry Programme at DOK Leipzig 2020.

 WEBINAR: Get to know your DOK Co-Pro

• DOK Co-Pro Market
  Due to the ongoing public health crisis COVID-19 and its impact on the audiovisual industry, the DOK Industry Programme will be an online offering in 2020. This includes the DOK Co-Pro Market. Feature-length documentaries, interactive works and series that contain creative documentary elements are welcome to submit.
  35 projects in development or early stages of production will meet online on October 26 & 27, 2020 to meet potential co-producers, co-financiers, broadcasters, funds, distributors and sales representatives. The goal is to expand networks, create fruitful opportunities to finance new creative documentaries and face the radical challenges that have presented themselves this year head on.
  Submissions ends August 1, 2020.


• DOK Film Market
  Discover more than 200 new documentary and animation titles ready for international circulation and distribution in our curated video library. Rights holders can also take advantage of priority access to the DOK Industry Services.[ DOK Film Market Catalogue]


• Interactive Conference Day
  Take a day for inspiration and community at the DOK Interactive Conference Day if you are curious about new ways of telling stories and forms of artistic expression. Look here for connection with peers also working in the fields of immersive arts!


• DOK Short n’ Sweet
  3 minutes to convince a panel of experts to finance your next short! Open for animation, documentary and whatever border-pushing format you can dream of. The pitch will take place online like the complete DOK Industry programme. The call for short films will open in September 2020.


• DOK Preview Germany
  Discover fresh new German titles ready for international audiences: DOK Preview Germany will give you a small taste of what is to come. Carefully curated with international distribution in mind, this presentation includes a mix of work-in-progress, newly completed films and world premieres from the DOK Leipzig competition. Take a guided tour through the German creative documentary landscape and stay for a drink and a snack to network with the rights holders’ of the films and your international colleagues.
  DOK Preview Germany Live Presentation
  Monday, 26 October, 15:30 – 17:00 (CET)
  Moderated by: Simone Baumann ( german films) & Tanja Georgieva (Elemag Pictures, Gera)
  DOK Preview Germany is brought to you together with AG DOK & German Films.
  
  


• DOK Preview Training Projects
  Get a small taste of excellent new films looking for festival premieres, gap financing and distribution partners in collaboration with 8 different training initiatives from across Europe. DOK Leipzig selects one outstanding project from each training initiative to participate in a presentation refresher workshop and networking events, culminating in a lively presentation. Each project, often helmed by self-confident new talents, shows exciting ambition and beautiful cinematic handwriting. We are very happy to share them with you, and give a final push for their successful global circulation.
  
  
  
  


• ...for more information please visit the website DOK Industry or DOK Industry FB

© 2017 Thomas Dietze - DOK Leipzig

  

DOK Leipzig Guest List .

This year again, AG DOK will host/hosted an event at DOK Leipzig. Due to the pandemic, it will take/took place online as all the others DOK Industry events on Monday, October 26, 2020 with the Topic FILM FESTIVALS: FRIEND OR FOE? / FESTIVALS: FREUND ODER FEIND? 
[The event has been recorded and is available in the youtube channel of AG DOK: https://youtu.be/AhGgqpGx63Q]
In the internal part in the morning there will be a discussion with filmmakers, producers, distributors and cinema operators about the increasing relevance of festivals for the exploitation chain of documentary films and the consequences of digitalisation in this area. Together there will be explored how the festival world must look like in order to provide the ideal basis for the successful exploitation of cinema documentaries.

The results of the workshop will be presented in a publicly accessible [ZOOM]webinar in the afternoon:
14:00 h to approx. 15:00 here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88516226867
Spectators* can participate via the chat function. The presentation is recorded and will be available on the websites of AG DOK and DOK Leipzig.

With directors and producers susan gluth (gluthfilm) & Hauke Wendler (Pier 53), producers Ira Tondowski (Tondowski Film) & Erik Winker (CORSO Film), cinemamanagers Christian Pfeil (AG-Kino) & Petra Rockenfeller (Lichtburg Filmpalast Oberhausen). World Sales agents Elina Kewitz (New Docs) und Stefan Kloos (Rise and Shine World Sales), distributers Holger Recktenwald (mindjazz pictures) & Joachim Kühn (RFF — RealFiction Filmverleih). Further with Simone Baumann (German Films) & Katrin Mersmann (FFHSH) .

FESTIVALS: FREUND ODER FEIND?

You can find more about the workshops and their guests here—German only—.

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•  63 DOK Leipzig 2020 .
•  62 DOK Leipzig 2019 .
•  61 DOK Leipzig 2018 .

For the first time two documentaries receive the Deutschen Dokumentarfilmpreis:
• LOVEMOBIL by Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss was given back March 24, 2021
• THE CAVE by Feras Fayyad.
The jury of the SWR Doku Festival 2020 found the documentaries so impressive that they awarded them both the main prize of the festival. Fayyad and Lehrenkrauss share the prize money of 20.000 Euro. The German Documentary Award is donated by SWR and the Media and Film Society Baden-Württemberg (MFG).

The German Documentary Award used to be presented at the SWR Doku Festival in Stuttgart. Due COVID 19, this year's festival goes online, hosted by Max Moor. The award-winning documentaries as well as those nominated for the German Documentary Award can be viewed online here until 3 July 2020.

• PARIS CALLIGRAMMES by Ulrike Ottinger was awarded the Norbert Daldrop Prize.
• LOVE EATS UP LIFE  — Portrait of Tobias Gruben by Oliver Schwabe, was awarded with the Opus GmbH prize for best music documentary.
• LOST IN FACE by Valentin Riedl was awarded with the promotional prize

A total of 33,000 euros prize money in various categories. Out of 122 submissions, twelve productions were nominated for the main prize. In addition, three documentary films in the field of music were nominated by a jury of experts for the Opus GmbH prize.

Nominees German Documentary Award

• BAMBOO STORIES by Shaheen Dill Riaz P: Mayalok Filmproduktion


• DEAR BROTHER | BRUDERLIEBE by Julia Horn P: CORSO Film u.a.


• WE WANTED MORE - How on women's team changed the German football world | DAS WUNDER VON TAIPEH by John David Seidler P: CORSO Film


• GARAGE PEOPLE | GARAGENVOLK by Natalija Yefimkina P: Tamtam Film


• LITTLE GERMANS | KLEINE GERMANEN by Mohammad Farokhmanesh, Frank Geiger P: brave new work, Little Dream Entertainment, Golden Girls Film


• LOST IN FACE by Valentin Riedl P: CORSO Film, FILMSTAHL


• LOVEMOBIL by Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss, P: Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss


• PARIS CALLIGRAMMES by Ulrike Ottinger P: zero one film GmbH


• SUMMERWAR | SOMMERKRIEG by Tetiana Trofusha, Moritz Schulz, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg


• THE WHALE AND THE RAVEN by Mirjam Leuze, P: busse & halberschmidt .


• WALCHENSEE FOREVER by Janna Ji Wonders, Nico Woche P: FLARE FILM

Nominees Music Documentary—Prize of the OPUS GmbH

• LOVE EATS UP LIFE | DIE LIEBE FRISST DAS LEBEN — Tobias Gruben, seine Lieder und die Erde by Oliver Schwabe P: field recordings filmproduktion


• LUGAU CITY LIGHTS — Ein DDR-Dorf schreibt Popgeschichte [MDR/arte] by Alexander Kühne, P: Wilde.Stein Filmproduktion und Medienagentur UG


• WOLFGANG RIHM — DAS VERMÄCHTNIS [SWR] by Victor Grandits, Magdalena Adugna P: Tosca Media Fernsehproduktion GmbH

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

AGENDA OF SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC, JUNE 22—25, 2020

• With BERLIN 1945 produced by Zero One Film, Autentic Distribution presents a historic documentary that takes us into Berlin's most fateful year through the eyes of those who lived through it: the German population and the Allied soldiers.
The Archive Workshop #1: Sourcing with Patrick Hörl, Managing Director, Autentic GmbH - Autentic GmbH and Mirjam Strasser Head of Sales & Acquisitions - Autentic GmbH as well as the well known Filmeditor Andrew Bird hosted by Elizabeth Klinck, Archive Producer & Copyright Clearance Specialist - Elizabeth Klinck Research is scheduled for Monday, June 22 at 03:00pm. [source PR June16, 2020]
For more information and UpDates cklick here.

Information as May 28, 2020, download as PDF.

Sunny Side of the Doc‘s DNA goes digital: content, trends, networking

In response to the massive disruption brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and the importance of keeping the documentary community's activities alive, the 31st edition of Sunny Side of the Doc and the 4th edition of PiXii Festival will move to an exclusively online format for the very first time, taking place on 22nd to 25th June and streamed from La Rochelle, France.

As the virus forces us indoors, we have been thinking of ways to invest in our digital spaces, and build robust connections that can compensate some of the physical proximity we're losing. These measures demonstrate our long term commitment to sustaining the creative health of the industry and making sure WE return together to a rich and vibrant ecosytem at the end of the crisis.

In an interconnected world, this year's Connected Edition aims to provide the viable funding opportunities, valuable market intelligence, and networking services Sunny Side of the Doc is known for.
 
This unique platform will enable all major industry stakeholders to connect for a series of tailor-made activities including pitch sessions, one-to-one meetings and also a significant programming of video resources and topical webinars (livestreamed Q&A, hands-on workshops, case studies) designed by top-level experts to foster extensive interactions with professional peers. What's more, the new digital format allows for some of the online offerings to remain accessible beyond 25th June 2020.
 
The Sunny Side of the Doc Connected Edition is structured around three elements that are the foundation of this international marketplace's DNA:

• Content First: showcasing quality-driven projects and programmes through pitches and an online screening library;
• Trends and Industry Focused: having a finger on the pulse for the lastest trends and practices to help beat the crisis;
• Community Driven: strengthening our real-world ties and maintaining international collaboration between talent, production companies, distributors, broadcasters and cultural centres.

All our delegate passes will be streamlined into a new All Access - Connected Pass at a flat-rate fee of €200 (excl. tax) for the entire offering.

Sunny Side of the Doc will also host an online screening library where buyers can watch programmes from international distributors and find projects currently in development. The library will remain running until the end of 2020. A new Rough Cuts section for documentaries in production from Central and Eastern Europe will be launched, in preparation of its country focus in 2021. The screening room will also host a selection of documentaries from peer festivals which have gone digital, in order to increase the exposure of their top programmes.

Sunny Side of the Doc continues to provide a platform for exchanging crucial information to help navigate the international marketplace and anticipate developments during this current streaming age. History is this year’s theme of choice, running throughout the programme’s range of events from coproduction case studies, archives workshops and channel lineups, which have all been restructured and adapted for online viewing.

Furthermore, the new online format means there will be more 30-minute Meet The Execs interactive sessions, enabling decision-makers from channels, platforms and cultural stakeholders to share their programming, acquisitions and co-productions strategies, as well as their projects for the season to come.

As a physical showroom is no longer possible, the 2020 official selection will receive online exposure enabling creators from around the globe to showcase their immersive works via short video clips and targeted meetings.
A series of digital culture kickstarters will also help boost professional development and enhance collaborative partnerships.

• TRAILER •

An international jury of industry experts will award prizes to:
• The Best Immersive Experience
• The Best Educative Content
• The Best Museal Installation

...just to remember 30SSD in Summer 2019 when Germany was the COUNTRY in FOCUS

 Postponed due to COVID-19.

iREPRESENT International Documentary Film Festival is the only documentary genre-specific film festival in Nigeria. The festival has grown in popularity since its inception in 2011 and has been widely attended by filmmakers from different parts of the World.

The iRepresent International Film Festival
has announced the theme for it's 10th Anniversary.

AFRICA IN SELF-CONVERSATION

From March 19th to the 22nd, @irepfilmfestival will host the world with the foremost Documentary Film gathering in Lagos, Nigeria.
The Conceptual framework of iREPRESENT Documentary Film Forum is AFRICA IN SELF-CONVERSATION, and it is designed to promote awareness about the power of documentary format to serve as a means of deepening and sharing social and cultural education as well as encouraging participatory democracy in our societies.
iREP is conceptualized to create a platform of awareness and expression for aspiring and practising filmmakers who are creating socially relevant documentary films to positively impact our world. To fully engage an array of trans-cultural creativity, iREP will provide a forum for everyone’s ingenuity to be showcased without prejudice to style or subject. iREP celebrates the ever-expanding world of documentary films by inviting talents from across the globe to share ideas on trends and technological advancements in the format.

Johannes Preuss, producer and director of NOLLYWOOD — FILMBUSINESS AFRICAN STYLE is invited to attend the festival with his documentary.

Discussions
Keynote Presentations and Panel Discussions are important parts of the festival programming. Over the years, iREP has attracted some of the most brilliants minds in visual arts to speak at the festival, this includes Professor Manthia Diawara, Jane Mote, Jihan El Tahir, Professor Awam Amkpa, Professor Niyi Coker, Wehinmi Atigbi, Emeka Mba, Sandra Obiago, and many more.
Beyond keynotes and panel discussion, there is also "In-Conversation". This brings a leader of thought in filmmaking or film theory in conversation with the community of filmmakers present at the festival, it is an in-depth interaction that goes beyond the top-down approach of paper presentations.

Training and Workshops
Through the iREP Training and workshop platform, we have been able to train over 200 young and upcoming filmmakers in the rudiments of filmmaking and understanding of the documentary film art. The goal of the training is to introduce more young filmmakers in Nigeria to the art of documentary films and to increase their interest in the art form. Some of the participants in our workshops have gone on to make their own films with some of them winning awards.

Producers Round Table
The Producer's Round Table has come to be known for insightful discussions that are solution driven and engage producers in a pro-active prognosis into the opportunities that can grow impact of the documentary film genre. This is usually an idea exchange opportunity that filmmakers look forward to and it also provides a ground for international collaboration and co-production.

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8th iREPRESENT International Documentary Film Festival

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.

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 900 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

'Chairman & Managing Director Thomas Frickel did not want to be reelected after 34 years. We say THANK YOU! and WELCOME Chairwoman Susanne Binninger and Chairman David Bernet in this position including Managing Director.' [February 27, 2020]

The festivals with markets are:

BERLINALE | efm
DOK.fest Munich | DOK.forum
DOK Leipzig | DOK INDUSTRY   

Schedule of the international documentary festivals as well as festivals with sections of documentaries chronologic throughout the year.

42 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis January 18-24, 2021 [FB] ___Submission___ until End of October

 

71 BERLINALE - International Filmfestspiele Berlin, February 11—21, 2021 postponed to June 2021 in selected ciinemas as well as open air.

efm - European Film Market at the BERLINALE, February 11—19, 2021 [FB] postponed to March 1—5, 2021 as an online event.

18.dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg, Sept. 15.-19. 2021 
Submission until December 31, 2020.

INTERNATIONALES FRAUEN FILM FEST Dortmund+Köln, June 15—20, 2021 'online fest'   [FB]

   37 DOK.fest Munich, May 4—15, 2022
        [FB]
   ___36 DOK.fest Munich 2021@home

IKFF - 37 Hamburg International Short Film Festival, June 1—7, 2021
___Submission___ until February 14, 2021 [FB]

#FFMUC | 38 FILMFEST MÜNCHEN, Munich, June 25 - July 4, 2020. All films screened at FILMFEST MÜNCHEN are selected by the festival programmers. So it may be Summer 2021.

NaturVision Filmfestival, Ludwigsburg, July 14—18, 2021 [FB]
___Submission___ ends Januar 29, 2021 for internation competition. Others Februar 15, 2021.

29. FILMFEST HAMBURG, September 30 – October 9, 2021
#FFHH21 _ Submission _ until June 30, 2021. [FB]

55 Internatonale Hofer Filmtage | Hof International Film Festival, October 26—31, 2021
[FB] For futher Information please visit the website of the festival.

64 DOK Leipzig, October 25 - 31, 2021
International Leipzig Film Festival for Documentary and Animated Film [FB]  Submission until July 1, 2021
16 DOK Co-Pro Market, deadline for submission August 2, 2021. For further information regarding 64 DOK Leipzig please visit the website of the festival.

63 Nordic Filmdays Lübeck, November 3–7, 2021  [FB].
__ online submission until August 01, 2021 _ PLEASE DO NOT USE FIREFOX __

44 DUISBURGER FILMWOCHE, the festival of documentaries produced in Germany, Austria and Switzerland  in Duisburg, November 2-8, 2020. For further information concerning 45 DUISBURGER FILMWOCHE please visit the website of the festival.

19 doxs! festival - creative European documentaries for children and adolescents, Duisburg, November 3-8, 2020. For further information concerning 20 dox! please visit the website of the festival.

 

37 KASSELER DOK-FEST, Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Video Fest, November 17—22, 2020. For further information concerning 38 KASSELER DOK-FEST please visit the website of the festival.
[FB]

among others...

here some of our NEWS 2019

• 69 BERLINALE


• LOLA@Berlinale 2019


• FIPADOC 2019 with FOCUS ON GERMANY


• 40 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 2019


• 50 Visions du Réel, Festival international de Cinéma Nyon, April 5—13, 2019


• KOUDOUGOU|Doc April 23-27, 2019, Burkina Faso


• 30 SunnySide of the Doc | Germany Country in Focus


• 26 Sheffield Doc|Fest June 6-11 2019


• 26 Hot Docs, April 25-May 5, 2019


• 34 DOK.fest Munich


• 16 dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg 3-7 April 2019


• DEUTSCHER DOKUMENTARFILMPREIS 2019  Stuttgart, June 26—29
  German Documentary Award

here some of our NEWS 2018

• 68 BERLINALE.


• 20 ONE WORLD March 2018 Czech Republic


• CPH:DOX 2018, March 15 - 25


• Nominated for 90 OSCAR® - Documentary Feature Length


• GRIMME PREIS 2018


• LineUp german documentaries 40th CINÉMA DU RÉEL


• 49 VISIONS DU RÉEL, IFF Nyon 2018


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


• iRepresent International Documentary Film Festival 2018


• 71 FESTIVAL DE CANNEs & 57 Edition SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE 2018


• 29 Sunny Side of the Doc, 25-28 2018


• AQUARELA Premiering at 75 IFF Venice 2018


• 21 ONE WORLD IN SAFE PROXIMITY


• 15 dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg


• 33 DOK.fest Munich 2018


• 60 Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Ocotober 30 - Novenber 4


• German Documentary Award 2018


• FILMFEST MÜNCHEN 2018: June 28 - July 7

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...


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