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  • latest edition of our catalogue german documentaries
    latest edition of our catalogue german documentaries
    published February 11, 2023
  • 73 BERLINALE – EFM, European Film Market
    73 BERLINALE – EFM, European Film Market
    meet us at GROPIUS BAU booth18
  • 73 BERLINALE February 16-26, 2023
    73 BERLINALE February 16-26, 2023
    GROPUIS BAU #18
  • Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and the Media meets
    Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and the Media meets
    Simone Baumann, CEO German Films @ GROPIUS BAU #18 efm
  • Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and the Media meets
    Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and the Media meets
    Simone Baumann, CEO German Films @ GROPIUS BAU #18 efm
  • 73 BERLINALE February 16-26, 2023
    73 BERLINALE February 16-26, 2023
    premiering 17 german documentaries
  • Kompass-Perspektive-Award 2023 goes to SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHERAN
    Kompass-Perspektive-Award 2023 goes to SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHERAN
    by Steffi Niederzoll, here with jury members Anne Fabini and Dela Dabulamanzi
  • 34 Sunny Side of the Doc June 19-22, 2023
    34 Sunny Side of the Doc June 19-22, 2023
    with 6 German projects in the official selection
  • Reyhaneh Jabbari an Iranian woman sentenced to death at the age of 19.
    Reyhaneh Jabbari an Iranian woman sentenced to death at the age of 19.
    SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHERAN by Steffi Niederzoll gets awarded
  • HELKE SANDER: CLEANING HOUSE by Claudia Richarz
    HELKE SANDER: CLEANING HOUSE by Claudia Richarz
    wins Audience Award — Frauen Film Fest Dortmund+Köln
  • #lola DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS – German Film Award
    #lola DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS – German Film Award
  • #lola2023: Ansgar Frerich, Martin Farkas, Annekatrin Hendel, Felix Grassmann, Karsten Aurich,
    #lola2023: Ansgar Frerich, Martin Farkas, Annekatrin Hendel, Felix Grassmann, Karsten Aurich,
    Ursula Höf, Lorenz Dangel, Mirjam Leuze, Antonia Kilian, Mohammad Farokhmanesh [commission documentary]
  • SHORTLIST #lola23 GERMAN FILM AWARD 2023
    SHORTLIST #lola23 GERMAN FILM AWARD 2023
  • NOMINEES #lola23 GERMAN FILM AWARD 2023
    NOMINEES #lola23 GERMAN FILM AWARD 2023
  • German Film Award Documentary #lola23 is announced by
    German Film Award Documentary #lola23 is announced by
    Sara Mardini, the long distance swimmer
  • German Film Award Documentary #lola23 goes to
    German Film Award Documentary #lola23 goes to
    ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED
  • german documentaries awarded with GRIMME PRIZE 2023
    german documentaries awarded with GRIMME PRIZE 2023
    in the section INFORMATION & CULTURE
  • german documentaries awarded with GRIMME PRIZE 2023
    german documentaries awarded with GRIMME PRIZE 2023
    in the section INFORMATION & CULTURE
  • 38 DOK.fest Munich, May 3–14, 2023
    38 DOK.fest Munich, May 3–14, 2023
    VFF Documentary Film Production Award Winner 2023
  • 38 DOK.fest Munich, May 3–14, 2023
    38 DOK.fest Munich, May 3–14, 2023
    VFF Documentary Film Production Award Nominees 2023
  • 38 DOK.fest Munich, May 3–14, 2023
    38 DOK.fest Munich, May 3–14, 2023
    German Documentary Film Music Award Nominees 2023
  • VIKTOR DOK.deutsch of the 38 DOK.fest Munich for best documentary
    VIKTOR DOK.deutsch of the 38 DOK.fest Munich for best documentary
    of the German competition goes to GRETA'S BIRTH by Katja Baumgarten
  • DOK.forum @ 38 DOK.fest München 2023
    DOK.forum @ 38 DOK.fest München 2023
  • 38 DOK.fest Munich, May 3-14, 2023
    38 DOK.fest Munich, May 3-14, 2023
  • GERMAN DOCUMENTARY AWARD NOMINEES
    GERMAN DOCUMENTARY AWARD NOMINEES
    SWR Doku Festival, June 27 – 30, 2023
  • 20 Millennium DOCS AGAINTS GRAVITIY May 12-21, 2023
    20 Millennium DOCS AGAINTS GRAVITIY May 12-21, 2023
    and May 23 – June 4, 2023 online all across Poland #20MDAG
  • Heba Khaled and Talal Derki recived The Golden Alexander at TiDF25
    Heba Khaled and Talal Derki recived The Golden Alexander at TiDF25
    at Greece, for UNDER THE SKY OF DAMASCUS
  • German filmmakers & German (co)productions
    German filmmakers & German (co)productions
    54 Visions du Réel, Nyon April 21—30, 2023
  • VdR Film Market, April 23—27, 2023 during
    VdR Film Market, April 23—27, 2023 during
    54 Visions du Réel Nyon, April 21—30, 2023
  • 30 HOT DOCS Toronto
    30 HOT DOCS Toronto
    April 27 to May 7, 2023
  • 30 HOT DOCS Toronto with 18 german documentaries
    30 HOT DOCS Toronto with 18 german documentaries
  • CoPro24, May 24–June 2, 2022
    CoPro24, May 24–June 2, 2022
    German Representative Björn Jensen
  • 29 Sheffield DocFest June 23—28, 2022
    29 Sheffield DocFest June 23—28, 2022
  • 29 Sheffield DocFest June 23—28, 2022
    29 Sheffield DocFest June 23—28, 2022
  • Simone Baumann & Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer, 64 DOK Leipzig 2021
    Simone Baumann & Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer, 64 DOK Leipzig 2021
    DOK Preview Germany by AG DOK and German Films
  • IDFA 2022 Guests Meet Guests at Felix Meritis Zuilenlounge
    IDFA 2022 Guests Meet Guests at Felix Meritis Zuilenlounge
    hosted by German Films & German Documentaries
  • IDFA 2022 Guests Meet Guests at Felix Meritis Zuilenlounge
    IDFA 2022 Guests Meet Guests at Felix Meritis Zuilenlounge
    hosted by German Films & German Documentaries
  • IDFA 2022 Guests Meet Guests at Felix Meritis Zuilenlounge
    IDFA 2022 Guests Meet Guests at Felix Meritis Zuilenlounge
    hosted by German Films & German Documentaries
  • IDFA International Documentary Filmfest Amsterdam
    IDFA International Documentary Filmfest Amsterdam
  • CPH:DOX at Copenhagen, Denmark
    CPH:DOX at Copenhagen, Denmark
  • EFM @ GROPIUS BAU #18
    EFM @ GROPIUS BAU #18
    Kordula Hildebrandt, Simone Baumann, CEO German Films
  • Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and the Media meets
    Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and the Media meets
    Simone Baumann, CEO German Films @ GROPIUS BAU #18 efm
  • 73 BERLINALE February 16-26, 2023
    73 BERLINALE February 16-26, 2023
    GROPUIS BAU #18
  • 73 BERLINALE – EFM, European Film Market
    73 BERLINALE – EFM, European Film Market
    meet us at GROPIUS BAU booth18
  • 73 BERLINALE February 16-26, 2023
    73 BERLINALE February 16-26, 2023
    premiering 17 german documentaries
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  • SCHEDULE 2023

    We started our activities 2023 @ GROPIUS BAU EFM #18 including a virtual stage, available until March 31, 2023 with publishing the latest edition ...

    We started our activities 2023 @ GROPIUS BAU EFM #18 including a virtual stage, available until March 31, 2023 with publishing the latest edition of the catalogue german documentaries 2023 promoting 249 new titles of German documentary productions and co-productions as PDF ready for download here.
    Find more information of enlisted films as well as on some of the lateast documentaries, which have premiered at international festivals [will be enlisted in the next annual PDFedition german documentaries] as single pages here.


     


     



     


     



     


     



    European Film Market @ 74 BERLINALE, Februar 15—25, 2024
    Visit our profile AG DOK / German Documentaries online or let's meet GROPIUS BAU #18 groundfloor under the umbrella of German Films, with Kordula Marisa Hildebrandt.
    European Film Market, booth 18 [German Films / AG DOK / German Documentaries]
    contact: Kordula Marisa Hildebrandt, GROPIUS BAU, Niederkirchnerstr. 7, 10963 Berlin, Germany


    NEWS on former editions of the BERLINALE & EFM
    68 BERLINALE 2018 | 69 BERLINALE 2019 | 70 BERLINALE 2020 | 71 BERLINALE 2021 | 72 BERLINALE 2022 | 73 BERLINALE |


     


     



    CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, March 13—24, 2024
    Submissions for the 21st edition CPH:DOX start May 15, 2023. The deadlines for submitting a film to CPH:DOX 2023 were September 1 for films finished by that date, and December 1 for films finished after the first deadline. Rules and regulation.
    Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen 
    More information — German only —
    __ Report2021 by Björn Jensen German only __
    __ Report2022 by Björn Jensen German only __
    __ Report2023 by Björn Jensen German only __
    ___CPH:DOX2023____ CPH:DOX2022___CPH:DOX2021___CPH:D2OX2020___CPH:DOX2019___


     


     



    iREP International Documentary Film Festival, March 16–19, 2023 (Lagos, Nigeria)
    IREP is conceptualized to create a platform of awareness and expression for filmmakers who are creating socially relevant films to impact our world. 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 17—19, 2023, Palais des Festivals de Cannes, France
    The two largest and most important markets for the distribution of films take place in Cannes every year in spring. MIPDOC, the 25th International Documentary & Factual Co-Production Market and Screenings offers 3 days of exclusive networking, conference, showcases, and screenings for the international documentary and factual community during MIPTV. The market features one of the world’s most important documentary and factual content offerings, as well as an inspiring conference programme, high-level networking events and a dedicated hub for international producers, buyers, commissioners and distributors.
    Björn Jensen, Representative german documentaries
    More information – for submission German only –
    • Report of MIPTV2021 • Report of MIPTV2022 • von Björn Jensen.


     


     


     


     



    Visions du Réel, International Film Festival Nyon, April 21-30, 2023
    Visions du Réel is one of the only Swiss film festivals to present a majority of its films as world or international premieres. The Festival also has a film market with Industry activities, one of the most important in Europe and it may invite films that have not been selected for the official programme to be entered in the Visions du Réel Media Library to be viewed by buyers and professionals. 
    From April 23-27, 2023  VdR–Industry will take place in Nyon, Switzerland. Pursuing our commitment to being one of the key places for meetings and exchanges within the creative documentaries industry.


     


     



    Hot Docs Toronto,  April 27 - May 7, 2023, Toronto, Canada
    The 30th anniversary Hot Docs Festival will screen films in cinemas across Toronto, as well as offering selection of Festival films online on Hot Docs at Home to audiences across Canada. Hot Docs Industry LIVE: a selected number of passes have been reserved until March 10 for members of the German delegation, participating the festival.
    This year again, there will be a German delegation - more information —German only—.
    Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen  
    REPORT of HotDocs22 by Björn Jensen __German only__
    REPORT of HotDocs21 by Björn Jensen __German only__

    NEWS of ___HotDocs23___HotDocs22___HotDocs21_____HotDocs20_____HotDocs19___


     



    CoPro 25 | Israeli Documentary Screen Market June 5-8, 2023 in Tel Aviv _
    Submissions open now. Deadline March 31, 2023
    Early submission: December 9, 2022 – for films completed by November 2022
    Final Deadline: January 12, 2023 – for films to be completed by April 1st 2023
    Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen, 
    Further information ___German only ___
    • Report CoPro24_2022
    • german documentaries NEWS 2018— CoPro20. >


     


     



    30 Sheffield Documentary Filmfestival, June 14—19, 2023.
    • Entries for 2023 Film and Alternate Realities programmes started in October 2022. Deadline for all projects: January 13, 2023, 12:00 Noon GMT.
    • The Industry Pass gives you access to the full festival programme of films, exhibitions, talks, panels, industry sessions and live pitches, networking events and parties; plus access to DocPlayer, our industry video on demand platform.
    More information __ German only __
    Keep updated by visiting the website of the festival.
    Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen   
    Report german documentaries on SheffieldDocFest 2022 • _Sheffield Doc|Fest 2019_ •
    NEWS on Sheffield DocFest 2022 • Sheffield DocFest 2021 • Sheffield DocFest 2020 • Sheffield Doc|Fest 2019 • Sheffield DocFest 2018 •


     


     



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


     


     



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


     


     



    34 Sunny Side of the Doc, June 19—22, 2023 live in La Rochelle.
    Sunny Side of the Doc ist the international Marketplace for documentary and narrative Experiences. Through year-round activities and a landmark international event, SSD provides a unique space for industry professionals to co-create, co-finance and share a diversity of compelling stories with the world. The marketplace’s 34th edition will take place on 19-22 June 2023 live in La Rochelle.Submit your project to Sunny Side of the Doc’s pitching sessions and join one of the most impactful markets for documentary and digital storytelling.
    Opening date for submissions & accreditations: Thursday 16 March
    Closing date for submissions: Thursday 6 April, 11pm GMT
    More Information _German only_


    • #34ssd #SSD23 • #33ssd #SSD22 • #30ssd #SSD19 •


    The final reports by the german documentaries representative Björn Jensen
    • 2022 - German only _ here .
    • 2021 - German only - here .
    • 2019 here and ____2019 Germany COUNTRY in FOCUS___


     


     



    39 MIPCOM,  October 16—19, 2023 Cannes, Frankreich
    MIPCOM CANNES – the 39th International Co-Production & Content Market – is the world’s greatest gathering of television and media professionals and the most anticipated week on the global industry calendar. Each October, decision makers from over 100 countries converge on the world’s red-carpet capital of Cannes, France to compete for new series, source international production partnerships and set the development agenda for 2022 and beyond.

    • Report MIPCOM 2020 by Björn Jensen • Report MIPCOM 2021 by Björn Jensen • Report MIPCOM 2022 by Björn Jensen •
    Representative german documentaries: Björn Jensen,


     


     



    23 MEDIMED, The European Docs Market, Sitges, October 12—15, 2023 [Submission for projects starts May and ends June, Accreditation deadline September]
    MEDIMED focuses mainly on Euro-Mediterranean creative projects, with documentary producers and directors developing their own creative projects. The participation of both (director and producer) at the Workshop and Pitching Forum is highly recommended. All professionals involved in the documentary industry are very welcome to register, whether as an independent producer with a project, a commissioning editor, financier, distributor, sales agent, digital platform, or fund. It is also possible for producers to register for attendance as an observer. The knowledge of English is a condition.
    German representative Björn Jensen jensen@gingerfoot.de
    Report of MEDIMED 2022 ___German only____


     


     


     

    36 IDFA / Forum Amsterdam, November 8—19, 2023, Amsterdam, Niederlande.
    KEYDATES are published here at the website of the festival.
    Festival submissions starts March 14. Entry Regulations with different deadlines/fees and final entry deadline for films July 13.
    Contact: Julia Teichmann Head of Documentary Marketing & Subtitling Support, German Films GmbH.
    Find reports of past editions here:
    ___35 IDFA 2022___34 IDFA 2021___33 IDFA 2020___32 IDFA 2019___


     


     



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


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


    WCSFP is the very meeting place for 'Science and Factual' producers and broadcasters. Next to the SUNNY SIDE our most visited international event. It offers networking events, round-table talks and above all an excellent program with panels and workshops. It is held in a different country every year.
    Representative german documentaries Björn Jensen.
    Further informations — INFO 2  — German only — —
    Report of 2019 — German only.
    Report of 2021 — German only.
    Report of 2022 — German only.


     


     



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


     


     


     


     



     


    https://www.facebook.com/germandocs 


    Redaktion / Editor german documentaries Ingrid Molnar

     


     

  • Thomas Kufus awarded with Carl Laemmle Producer Prize

      The renowned director Andres Veiel, a long-time companion and close friend of Thomas Kufus, gave a moving laudation for the award winner ...

     


    The renowned director Andres Veiel, a long-time companion and close friend of Thomas Kufus, gave a moving laudation for the award winner, in which he recounted the life of an ever-curious, often courageous and, above all, passionate 'man of conviction' who wants to enlighten and bring about change: "Even with your first films, you set milestones that are still valid 30 years later: With documentaries and, increasingly, fiction feature films that question familiar points of view, that cause offence, that initiate debates. They explore new territory in terms of form and content. At the same time, you're taking a risk: you're constantly leaving the safe standards of convention – which means, especially with documentaries, traveling into the open, letting the film develop bit by bit in the editing room. Your projects have thus repeatedly pushed you and your company into risk zones that others wouldn't have entered in the first place."


     


     



    Ingo Bergmann, Christine Strobl, Thomas Kufus, Andres Veiel, Björn Böhning

     

     


     


      


    "Thomas Kufus is one of the most influential independent producers in Germany today. He was born in Essen in 1957 and began his career as a director (including MEIN KRIEG ©1990). In the past 25 years, he has produced over 120 documentaries, series and feature films with the Berlin-based production company zero one film, including award-winning films such as Regina Schilling's KULENKAMPFFS SCHUHE | KUHLENKAMPFF'S SHOES (Grimme Award and German Television Award 2019), Andres Veiel's BEUYS (German Film Award Best Documentary 2018), Anne Zohra Berrached's 24 WOCHEN (German Film Award in Silver 2017), Lars Kraume's DER STAAT GEGEN FRITZ BAUER (German Film Award 2016), Julia Albrecht's DIE FOLGEN DER TAT (Grimme Award 2016), Markus Imhoof's MORE THAN HONEY (German Film Award 2013 as well as Austrian and Swiss Film Awards), WESTEN by Christian Schwochow (German Film Award for Jördis Triebel), Corinna Belz's GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING (German Film Award 2012), Arnon Goldfinger's DIE WOHNUNG | THE FLAT (Ofir Award), and BLACK BOX BRD by Andres Veiel (European and German Film Awards). He is also a co-production partner of several films by renowned Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov (including MOLOCH, FATHER AND SON, FRANCOFONIA). Together with business partner and director Volker Heise, Thomas Kufus realized groundbreaking documentary television formats such as 24H BERLIN - EIN TAG IM LEBEN | 24H BERLIN – A DAY IN THE LIFE and 24H JERUSALEM (both German Television Award) as well as SCHWARZWALDHAUS 1902. For 24H JERUSALEM he received the Producer Award of the German Academy for Television. The format was continued with the projects 24H BAYERN and 24H EUROPA. Currently, the feature fiction film DER VERMESSENE MENSCH | MEASURES OF MEN  (D: Studiokanal, WS: Picture Tree International) by director Lars Kraume is in theaters. Thomas Kufus is a member of the German Film Academy. He was also its chairman from November 2009 to early 2015." [source: PR May 26, 2023 PRODUZENTENALLIANZ]


     


     


    Produced or co-produced by Thomas Kufus in our catalogue a.o.



    • TIPPING POINT by Britt Beyer, 86min, D: RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih,

    • IGOR LEVIT – NO FEAR by Regina Schilling, 118min, D: Piffl Medien,

    • THE FOREST MAKER with Tony Rinaudo by Volker Schlöndorff, 87min, WS: Patra Spanou Film, D: Weltkino Filmverleih GmbH,

    • INSIDE THE UFFIZI by Corinna Belz, Enrique Sánchez Lansch, 96min, WS: MAGNETFILM GmbH, D: Piffl Medien,

    • PARIS CALLIGRAMMES by Ulrike Ottinger, 129min, WS: LIGHTDOX, D: RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih,

    • BERLIN 1945 by Volker Heise, 180min, WS: Autentic GmbH,

    • SING ME A SONG by Thomas Balmés, 99min, WS: dogwoof,

    • WINTER JOURNEY | WINTERREISE by Anders Østergaard, 88min, D: RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih,

    • THE FEVER by Katharina Weingartner, 99min, WS: filmdelights - Christa Auderlitzky,

    • KUHLENKAMPFF'S SHOES | KUHLENKAMPFFS SCHUHE by Regina Schilling, 92min,

    • ELDORADO by Markus Imhoof, 92min,

    • BEUYS by Andres Veiel, 107min, WS: Autentic GmbH,

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

    • WRONG ELEMENTS by Jonathan Littell, 133min, WS: Le Pacte,

    • PETER HANDKE – in the woods, might be late | PETER HANDKE – Bin im Wald. Kann sein, daß ich mich verspäte by Corinna Belz, 89min, WS: The Match Factory GmbH, D: Piffl Medien,

    • 4x PARIS – PAULA MODERSON-BECKER by Corinna Belz, 27min,

    • ZUD by Marta Minorowicz, 85min,

    • TITO'S GLASSES | TITOS BRILLE by Regina Schilling, 94min, WS: Ruth Diskin Films Ltd.,

    • MILES & WAR by Anne Thoma, 78min, WS: T&C FILM AG,

    • BALKAN MELODY by Stefan Schwietert, 92min, WS: auTLOOK FILMSALES,

    • GOLDRUSH – HOW TO SELL OF A COUNTRY edited by Andrew Bird, 90min, WS: GLOBAL SCREEN GmbH,

    • THE FLAT | DIE WOHNUNG by Arnon Goldfinger, 97min, WS: Ruth Diskin Films Ltd.,

    • GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING by Corinna Belz, 97min, WS: The Match Factory GmbH,

    • THE BOY WHO WAS A KING by Andrey Paounov, 90min,

    • THE GUANTANAMO TRAP by Thomas S. Wallner, 90min, WS: First Hand Films,

    • LULLABY | WIEGENLIEDER by Tamara Trampe, Johann Feindt, 98min,

    • BIERBICHLER by Regina Schilling, 90min, D: RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih,

    • MY CLASS – FROM RUSSIA WITH RELATIVITY by Ekaterina Eremenko, 90min,

    • 24h – A DAY IN BERLIN by Volker Heise, 24 Hours, WS: Celluloid Dreams,

  • DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS – German Film Award 2023

      Presented by longdistance swimmer Sara Mardini the GERMAN FILM AWARD DOCUMENTARY #lola23 goes to  ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED by ...

     


    Presented by longdistance swimmer Sara Mardini the GERMAN FILM AWARD DOCUMENTARY #lola23 goes to  ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED by Claudia Müller, produced by  Martina Haubrich and Claudia Wohlgenannt.


     


     



    Volker Schlöndorff, the director of THE FOREST MAKER, gets awarded for his lifework with the EHRENPREIS, laudatio by John Malkovich videoconferencing.


     


     


     


     


     



    #lola23 Nominees

    • KALLE KOSMONAUT • LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH • ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED • 

      The award ceremony will take place May 12, 2023. Invitees only.


     


     


     



    • KALLE KOSMONAUT by Tine Kugler, Günther Kurth, Producers: Tine Kugler, Günther Kurth, Production Company: KMOTO Medienproduktion, [LOLA TALK]

    • LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH | LIEBE, D-MARK UND TOD by Cem Kaya, 96min, Producers: Claus Reichel, Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, Florian Schewe, Stefan Kauertz, Production Companies: filmfaust, Film Five, Distribution Germany: Rapid Eye Movies, [LOLA TALK]

    •  ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED | ELFRIEDE JELINEK – DIE SPRACHE VON DER LEINE LASSEN by Claudia Müller, Producer: Martina Haubrich, Claudia Wohlgenannt, Production Companies: CALA , Plan C Filmproduktion and Editor Mechthild Barth is nominated for best editing as well. Mechthild Barth has already successfully edited German documentaries for many years and the editor of german documentaries is therefore particularly pleased that she has been nominated this time with a documentary for this section. The montage of archive material with voiceovers and interviews, some of them recently recorded, is told from Jelinek’s point of view. [39 FFMUC] [LOLA TALK]


     


     


     



     
    GERMAN FILM AWARD DOCUMENTARY

    SHORTLIST | VORAUSWAHL



     


     



    Ansgar Frerich, Martin Farkas, Annekatrin Hendel, Felix Grassmann, Karsten Aurich, Ursula Höf, Lorenz Dangel, Mirjam Leuze, Antonia Kilian, Mohammad Farokhmanesh [preselection comission documentary]

     © 2022 Florian Liedel | Deutsche Filmakademie e.V.

     


     


     



    • ANIMA – MY FATHER'S DRESSES | ANIMA – DIE KLEIDER MEINES VATERS by Uli Decker, 94min, Producers: Katharina Bergfeld, Martin Heisler, Production Company: Flare Film,

    • BELLEVILLE BELLE ET REBELLE by Daniela Abke, 98min, Producer: Daniela Abke, Pierre-Olivier Bardet, Productioncompanies: Coccinelle Films, Idéale Audience, Distribution Germany: RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih,

    • DANCING PINA by Florian Heinzen-Ziob, 111min, Producers: Florian Heinzen-Ziob, Georg Heinzen, Productioncompany: Fontäne Film, Distribution Germany: mindjazz pictures UG,

    • ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED | ELFRIEDE JELINEK – DIE SPRACHE VON DER LEINE LASSEN by Claudia Müller, Producer: Martina Haubrich, Production Companies: CALA Filmproduktion, Plan-C Filmproduktion OG,  Distribution Germany: Farbfilm Verleih,

    • EUROPA PASSAGE | EUROPA PASSAGE by Andrei Schwartz, 90min, Producer: Stefan Schubert, Production Company: Wüste Film, Distribution Germany: imFilm Agentur+Verleih,

    • IGOR LEVIT – NO FEAR by Regina Schilling, 118min, Producer: Thomas Kufus, Production Company: zero one film, Distribution Germany: Piffl Medien,

    • KALLE KOSMONAUT by Tine Kugler, Günther Kurth, Producers: Tine Kugler, Günther Kurth, Production Company: KMOTO Medienproduktion,

    • KÖY by Serpil Turhan, Producer: Barbara Groben, Production Company: LUZID FILM, Distribution Germany: Salzgeber,

    • LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH | LIEBE, D-MARK UND TOD by Cem Kaya, 96min, Producers: Claus Reichel, Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, Florian Schewe, Stefan Kauertz, Production Companies: filmfaust, Film Five, Distribution Germany: Rapid Eye Movies,

    • LUCHADORAS by Paola Calvo, Patrick Jasim, 92min, Producers: Phillip Kaminiak, Patrick Jasim, Paola Calvo, Production Companies: TUMULT Film, Sutor Kolonko, WS: RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES U.G, Distribution Germany: missing films,

    • MIDWIVES by Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing, 89min, Producers: Ulla Lehmann, Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing, Mila Aung-Thwin, Production Companies: AMA FILM, EyeSteelFilm, Snow Films Production, WS: dogwoof,

    • SLAUGHTERHOUSES OF MODERNITY | SCHLACHTHÄUSER DER MODERNE by Heinz Emigholz, 80min, Producers: Frieder Schlaich, Irene von Alberti, Production Company: Filmgalerie 451,

    • THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE | VOLKSVERTRETER by Andreas Wilcke, Producer: Andreas Wilcke, Production Company: wilckefilms, 94min,

    • WHO WE WILL HAVE BEEN | WER WIR GEWESEN SEIN WERDEN by Erec Brehmer, Producer: Erec Brehmer, Distribution DVD: good!movies,

    • WEATHERMAKER | WETTERMACHER by Stanislaw Mucha, 92min, Producers: Markus Belde, Kurt Otterbacher, Rudi Teichmann, Production Companies: Zinnober Film, strandfilm, B&T Film, Distribution Germany: W-film,

    • A WOMAN | EINE FRAU by Jeanine Meerapfel, 104min, Producer: Titus Kreyenberg, Production Company: unafilm, Malena Filmproduktion, Distribution Germany: RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih, 

    • and last but not least to mention

    • MOTHER | MUTTER [hybrid and shortlisted for fiction] by Carolin Schmitz, 85min, Producer: Ingmar Trost, Production Company: Sutor Kolonko, Distribution Germany: mindjazz pictures UG,


     


     


     


     


     


     


       • German Film Award | LOLA 2023
       • German Film Award | LOLA 2022
       • German Film Award | LOLA 2021
       • German Film Award | LOLA@Berlinale 2020
       • German Film Award | LOLA@Berlinale 2019
       • German Film Award | LOLA@Berlinale 2018

  • ANSELM by Wim Wenders at 76 Festival de Cannes

                          Wim Wenders shot this 93minutes portrait over the course of two years in stunning 3D.     This unique film experience ...

     


     



     

     

     


     


     


     


     



     

      Wim Wenders shot this 93minutes portrait over the course of two years in stunning 3D.

     


     


    This unique film experience delves deep into an artist's work, revealing their journey through life, inspiration and creative process. It explores his fascination with myth and history. Past and present intertwine to blur the line between film and painting and allow the audience to be fully immersed in the remarkable world of one of the greatest contemporary artists, Anselm Kiefer.


    The festival will take place May 16 – 26, 2023, download the PDF with screening times here.


     


     


     


     



     German Films happy hour at the Pavilion #124

     

     Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes
    German Pavilion #124
    Village International - Riviera
    1 Boulevard de la Croisette
    06400 Cannes, France
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    The nominees for the 2023 Doc Alliance Award are announced.


    In 2023, each of the Doc Alliance festivals has nominated one feature-length and one short film, both eligible for two respective feature and short prizes. The selection of 16 films has been revealed at Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes, May 23, 2023. Discover all nominees here. The award ceremony will take place at DokuFest in Prizren in August 2023.


    This year’s jury members are:
    • Jonathan Ali, programmer and curator (Locarno, Open City Docs, True/False and Sheffield Doc/Fest, Third Horizon Film Festival)
    • Anna Berthollet, CEO, Lightdox (sales and distribution)
    • Arnaud Hée, programmer (Bibliothèque publique d’information in Centre Pompidou) 


     Nominated by DOK Leipzig are the two german documentaries



    • WAKING UP IN SILENCE by Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi for Best Short

    • THREE WOMEN | DREI FRAUEN by Maksym Melnyk for Best Feature



    More information..

  • 38 DOK.fest Munich, May 3-14, 2023 [May 8-21 @home]

         • VIKTOR DOK.international Competition goes to  THEATRE OF VIOLENCE by Lukasz Konopa, Emil Langballe   • VIKTOR DOK.deutsch Competition ...

      


     



    • VIKTOR DOK.international Competition goes to  THEATRE OF VIOLENCE by Lukasz Konopa, Emil Langballe  

    • VIKTOR DOK.deutsch Competition goes to GRETA'S BIRTH by Katja Baumgarten


     


    19 festival days with 28 world premieres, 13 international premieres and 45 German premieres. Among the directors, men are only slightly in the majority this year with 51 percent. 45 percent of the filmmakers are female, 4 percent diverse. Find the entire programme here. 


    The main award VIKTOR of the DOK.international Competition, sponsored by BR – Bayerischer Rundfunk, is endowed with 10,000 Euros and will be awarded – among other prizes – at the festive awards ceremony on May 13, 2023 at Deutsches Theater München. Among the 12 nominated films are four german documentaries:
    • BE WATER – VOICES FROM HONG KONG by Lia Erbal, 94min.
    • JACKIE THE WOLF by Tuki Jencquel, 93min.
    • LA EMPRESA by André Siegers, 90min.
    • THEATRE OF VIOLENCE by Lukasz Konopa, Emil Langballe, 104min.


     



    38 DOK.fest München, May 3–14, 2023 [May 8–21 @home]

     


     


    LineUp German productions and co-productions:



    • 27 STOREYS by Bianca Gleissingery, 90min, P: EGOLI TOSSEL FILM, mischief, DFFB, [BEST OF FESTS]

    • 5 SEASONS OF REVOLUTION by Lina, 95min, WS:Deckert Distribution, [DOK.focus Power of Media?]

    • ALL ROADS LEAD TO MORE by Afraa Batous, 78min, P: Tondowski Films, [Student Award]

    • BE WATER – VOICES FROM HONG KONG by Lia Erbal, 94min, P: HANFGARN & UFER Filmproduktion, [DOK.international Competition]

    • BORDER CONVERSATION by Jonathan Brunner, 30min, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH, [Student Award]

    • BREAKTHROUGH STAGE | SPIELEN ODER NICHT SPIELEN by Kim Münster, Sebastian Bergfeld, 80min, P: NEW DOCS, [DOK.special]

    • CAPITAL B. WHO OWNS BERLIN? | CAPITAL B. WEM GEHÖRT BERLIN? by Florian Opitz, 5x50min, P: Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion GmbH, Fruitmarket Arts & Media GmbH, [DOK.serie]

    • DORPIE by Julia Jaki, 77min, P: Film Five, [DOK.horizonte Competition]

    • EIGENTLICH EIGENTLICH JANUAR by Jan Peters, 100min, P: Jan Peters Filmproduktion, [BEST OF FESTS]_

    • EINZELTÄTER TEIL 1: MÜNCHEN by Julian Vogel, 90min, P: CORSO Film- und Fernsehproduktion, 90min, [DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb]_

    • EREN by Maria Binder, 95min, P: Film Five GmbH, [DOK.guest Turkey]

    • FACING TIME by Annett Ilijew, 82min, P: Annett Ilijew Filmproduktion, [DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb]

    • FLOATING ISLANDS by Nicolas Humbert, Simone Fürbringer, 95min, WS: Nicolas Humbert, [Munich Premieres]

    • FOLLOWING VALERIA by Nicola Fegg, 33min, P: Chromosom Film, [DOK.education]

    • FOR EVER | FÜR IMMER by Pia Lenz, 87min, P: PIER 53, [DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb]

    • FRAUEN IN LANDSCHAFTEN by Sabine Michel, 90min, P: solo:film, D: jip film & verleih, [DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb]

    • GOLDHAMMER by André Krummel, Pablo Ben Yakov, 93min, P: GLOTZENOFF Leers / Ben Yakov GbR,   [DOK.focus Power of Media?]

    • GRETA'S BIRTH | GRETAS GEBURT by Katja Baumgarten, 96min, P: viktoria11.de, [DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb]

    • HEAVEN CAN WAIT – WE LIVE NOW | HEAVEN CAN WAIT – WIR LEBEN JETZT by Sven Halfar, 120min, P: Heimathafen Film & Media GmbH, D: Mindjazz Pictures, [DOK.panorama]

    • I FEEL YOUR SILENCE | ICH FÜHL' DEINE STILLE by Laura Heinig, 17min, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH,  [Student Award]_

    • IRON BUTTERFLIES by Roman Liubyi, 84min, coP: Trimafilm GmbH, [DOK.focus Power of Media?]

    • JACKIE THE WOLF by Tuki Jencquel, 93min, WS: Deckert Distribution, P: Orinokia Filmproduktion UG, Les Films du Balibari, [DOK.international Competition]

    • JONNY ISLAND by Petra Mäussnest, 94min, P: DOCDAYS, [DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb]

    • JUAN CARLOS – DOWNFALL OF THE KING | JUAN CARLOS – LIEBE, GELD, VERRAT by Anne von Petersdorff, Georg Tschurtschenthaler, 4x43min, P: gebrueder beetz filmproduktion, WS: NBCUniversal Global Distribution, [DOK.serie]_

    • KICK IT LIKE A GIRL | KICKEN WIE EIN MÄDCHEN by Karin de Miguel Wessendorf, 2x45min, P: Karin de Miguel Wessendorf, [DOK.serie]

    • LA EMPRESA  by André Siegers, 94min, P: FÜNFERFILM UG, [DOK.international Competition]

    • LIMINAL SPACE: DIVING WITHIN | LIMINAL SPACE: INS INNERE EINTAUCHEN by Anahita Safarnejad Choobary, 22min, P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, [Student Award]_

    • LIGHT FALLS VERTICAL | ARE LA ILUM CAU VERTICAL  by Efthymia Zymvragaki, 83min, coP: ThurnFilm GmbH, [DOK.panorama]

    • METAL BATTLE GIRL by Andreas Wolff, 78min, P: Andreas Wolff Film, [Munich Premieres]

    • NELE IN THE CLOUDS | NELE IN DEN WOLKEN by Bernadette Hauke, 24min, P: Pangolin Doxx Film,  [DOK.education]

    • ONCE WE WERE PITMEN | WIR WAREN KUMPEL by Christian Johannes Koch, Jonas Matauschek, 105min, Elemag Pictures, [DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb]

    • PLASTIC FANTASTIC by Isa Willinger, 102min, P: Trimafilm, [DOK.panorama]

    • #RACEGIRL – THE COMEBACK OF SOPHIA FLÖRSCH | #RACEGIRL – DAS COMEBACK DER SOPHIA FLÖRSCH by Sonia Otto, 95min, P: gebrueder beetz filmproduktion, [Munich Premieres]

    • SEVEN WINTERS TEHERAN by Steffi Niederzoll, 87min, P: Made In Germany, WS: Cercamon, [BEST OF FESTS]

    • SHE CHEF | WANDERJAHRE by Melanie Liebheit, Gereon Wetzel, 100min, P: Horse&Fruits Filmproduktion OG, WS: MAGNETFILM, [Munich Premieres]

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

    • TANJA – UP IN ARMS | TANJA – TAGEBUCH EINER GUERILLERA by Marcel Mettelsiefen, 84min, Dreamer Joint Venture Filmprod., [DOK.horizonte Competition]

    • THEATRE OF VIOLENCE by Lukasz Konopa, Emil Langballe, 104min, coP: CORSO Film, WS: dogwoof, [DOK.international Competition]

    • THIS KIND OF HOPE by Pawel Siczek, 83min, composer: David Langhard, P: A Film Company GmbH, Departures Film GmbH, [German Documentary Film Music Prize]

    • THOMAS SCHUETTE, I AM NOT ALONE | THOMAS SCHÜTTE, ICH BIN NICHT ALLEIN by Corinna Belz, 94min, P: Corinna Belz Filmproduktion, D: Real Fiction Filmverleih, [DOK.panorama]

    • TRAINED TO SEE – THREE WOMEN AND THE WAR | DREI FRAUEN – EIN KRIEG by Luzia Schmid, 106min, WS: NEW DOCS, [BEST OF FESTS]

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

    • WAKING UP IN SILENCE by Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko, 17min, WS: Square Eyes, [Student Award]

    • TIPPING POINT | AUF DER KIPPE by Britt Beyer, 86min, P: zero one film, D: RFF – Real Fiction, [DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb]

    • THE UNICORN IN SNOWPANTS SUDDENLY RAN OFF | DAS EINHORN MIT DER SCHNEEHOSE RANNTE PLÖTZLICH LOS by Philipp Schaeffer, 18min, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH, [Student Award]

    • US AND THE ANIMAL – A SLAUGHTERHOUSE MELODRAMA | WIR UND DAS TIER – EIN SCHLACHTHAUSMELODRAM by David Spaeth, 90min, P: EIKON Media, [DOK.deutsch Wettbewerb]

    • VIENNA CALLING by Philipp Jedicke, 83min, P: Fruitmarket, AMOUR FOU Vienna, WS: FilmDelights, D: mindjazz pictures UG, [DOK.music]

    • VON VIELEN by Eva Hartmann, 79min, P: Luzid Film GmbH [Munich Premieres]_


      


     


    The guest country at DOK.fest München 2023: TURKEY
    Between tradition and modernity, secularism and religiosity: at DOK.guest this year we look east to Turkey. With five films, the festival illuminates various facets of life in Turkey, a country of contrasts that has recently distanced itself politically more and more from Europe. Discover the films, including the German production EREN by Maria Binder.


     


     


     



     


    The award winning projects with German participation of the 38th DOK.fest München



    • VIKTOR DOK.international Competition goes to  THEATRE OF VIOLENCE by Lukasz Konopa, Emil Langballe, 104min. Jury statement: 'In their carefully constructed film, Emil Langballe and Lukasz Konopa create a more complex space with each new scene in which we, as viewers, ask ourselves question after question about international law in a post-colonial framework, about the challenges of doing justice while threatening to reopen old wounds and about guilt, forgiveness and reconciliation.'

    • VIKTOR DOK.deutsch Competition goes to GRETA'S BIRTH | GRETAS GEBURT by Katja Baumgarten, 96min. From the jury statement: 'From an unpretentious and feminist standpoint, she tells the story of a progressive midwife and doctor whose life becomes a nightmare as a result of the trial. We become witnesses to a tendentious and unprecedented verdict that not only destroys an entire existence but also advances long-standing efforts to limit the work of independent midwives. With GRETAS GEBURT the filmmaker succeeds in making an essential contribution to this highly sensitive topic and impressively demonstrates the social relevance of documentary film work.'

    • The megaherz Student Award goes to BORDER CONVERSATION by Jonathan Brunner, 30min. From the jury statement: 'Through text messages, still tableaux and a camera that is in the right places at the right time, the film allows us to sense and feel how terrible the circumstances on the border between Belarus and Poland must be. Here, Europe’s external border becomes the setting for the dissolution of the very values that Europe is meant to represent. Without losing touch with its subject matter, the film portrays the work of the two activists Kornelia and Karolina. In its sensitive devotion to the protagonists, the film does not leave us alone but becomes a manifesto for humanity and justice.'

    • The VFF Documentary Film Production Award 2023 goes to the producers Carsten Rau, Hauke Wendler, PIER 53  with the German documentary FOR EVER | FÜR IMMER. The jury says: 'Intended as a long-term observation, which according to the basic idea was to continue until the death of one of the two spouses, the project was difficult to calculate in terms of the effort and costs involved. The impossibility of naming a clear completion date defies the procedures in the German film industry. (...) With clever interventions in the calculation and in the funding applications, the Hamburg production company managed to realize a project with an open outcome and temporal unpredictability - and without allowing the creative participants to exploit themselves in the process.'

    • The FFF Talent Award Documentary goes to SHE CHEF by Melanie Liebheit, Gereon Wetzel, 100min. From the jury statement: 'In a direct cinema style, always remaining close to the protagonists, the co-director Melanie Liebheit takes the audience behind the scenes of 'Haute Cuisine', with an exciting, entertaining narrative approach and clear dramaturgy. Little by little, different working cultures are revealed and Agnes asks herself how she would like to work in the future: what kind of working environment is important to her? Which is right? And how can you combine family and career? Agnes represents a generation of young women who no longer take a back seat in male domains.'

    • The German Documentary Film Music Award goes to composer  David Langhard for original score of THIS KIND OF HOPE by by Pawel Siczek, 83min. Jury statement: 'With his work on THIS KIND OF HOPE, David Langhard has succeeded in what this award seeks to honor: a composition that combines with the documentary narrative in an outstanding way - and at the same time shapes and contrasts it as an independent artistic design element,' says Barbara Schulte, Managing Director of the Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung. 'It is a matter of concern to our foundation to promote the encounter between artistic documentary film and contemporary music. For this, we can't think of a better partner than DOK.fest Munich, and I'm very pleased that we can jointly present this award for the ninth time.'

    • DOK.digital – Award for New Narrative Formats goes to TRUTH DETECTIVES – SERIOUS GAME by Anja Reiss and Raphael Perret. From the jury statement: The prototype for this contemporary and innovative serious game has a high social relevance, shows the potential when journalistic and interactive skills are combined and complemented with scientific expertise. It can sustainably promote the media competence of users by enabling them to learn journalistic research using real image sources, to uncover fake news or even to become online investigators beyond the game in order to uncover human rights violations.

    • DOK.talent Award [offers students to present their current projects to industry experts] goes to A SMALL MOMENT | EIN KLEINER MOMENT by von Daniela Magnani Hüller. From the jury statement: A Small Moment' by Daniela Magnani Hüller tells from the inside perspective of all the small but very significant moments that happened to the filmmaker after she survived an attempted murder. There are many films that are told from the perspective of the perpetrator, but only a few that are from survivors. (...) Courageously, bluntly and with a lot of heart, Daniela addresses an important social issue with her film: In Germany, a femicide happens every third day. Above all, however, the film sheds light on how the actions of one individual can decisively change the life of another person.

    • DOK.archive Award [promotional prize for compilation films in development] goes to BERLIN CHIC by Sigal Rosh. From the jury's statement: In 1933, there were 2,700 brands in German-Jewish ownership; in 1939, there were only 120 left in Germany. With a wealth of new information and archive images – film footage, photographs, sketches, drawings and fashion magazines – the team brought to life the colourful Berlin fashion industry of the 1920s and 30s and showed how the glamorous "Babylon" Berlin became a fashionable backwater.

    • Doc Around Europe Award & Visioni dal Mondo Award goes to HEADSHOTS – ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS, FOTOGRAFIN | HEADSHOTS – ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS, PHOTOGRAPHER by Sonya Winterberg

    • Nebulae Project Selection Award goes to SURROGAT (WT) by Benedikt Schulte

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    An award for courageous documentary film producers: The VFF Documentary Film Production Award, unique in Germany, recognises the passionate commitment and the role of production in the creation of current cinema documentary film projects. The process of making a documentary film is difficult to plan, often involves great uncertainty and requires courage. The award is sponsored by the VFF Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film und Fernsehproduzenten mbH and comes with prize money of 7,500 euros. The award goes to the producer of the film. Jury for this year's VFF Documentary Film Production Award.


    Eight productions have been nominated for this year's VFF Documentary Film Production Award:



    • EINZELTÄTER TEIL 1: MÜNCHEN by Julian Vogel, 90min, producers: Ümit Uludag, Martin Roelly, Erik Winker, CORSO Film- und Fernsehproduktion,

    • FOR EVER | FÜR IMMER by Pia Lenz, producers: Carsten Rau, Hauke Wendler, PIER 53 Filmproduktion,

    • GRETA'S BIRTH | GRETAS GEBURT by Katja Baumgarten, 97min, producer: Katja Baumgarten, viktoria11. de Dokumentarfilm,

    • METAL BATTLE GIRL by Andreas Wolff, producers: Andreas Wolff, Andreas Wolff Film,

    • ONE IN A MILLION by Joya Thome, 84min, producers: Katharina Bergfeld, Martin Heisler, FLARE FILM GmbH,

    • LONG DISTANCE SWIMMER – SARA MARDINI | SARA MARDINI – GEGEN DEN STROM by Charly Wai Feldmann, producers: Antje Boehmert, Anna von Dziembowska, 89min, DOCDAYS Productions GmbH & Safe Passage Films, WS: NEW DOCS, D: Mindjazz pictures,

    • STORYBOX UKRAINE – VOICES OF WAR | STIMMEN AUS DEM KRIEG – UKRAINE 2022 by David Belton, 80min, producers: Regina Boucheri, Gunnar Dedio, LOOKSfilm, [ARDmediathek, press]

    • TOTAL TRUST by Jialing Zhang, 97min, producers: Michael Grotenhoff, Knut Jäger, Saskia Kress, Thomas Tielsch, Jialing Zhang, Filmtank GmbH


     


     


     



     


     


    Young documentary filmmakers who are from Bavaria or live or have studied in Bavaria, and whose films are shown at the festival: The FFF Documentary Film Talent Award (Förderpreis Dokumentarfilm), sponsored by FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, honours local up-and-coming directors at DOK.fest München. The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros. In 2023, the jury members are Hannes Kaltenhauser, Martin Blankemeyer und Elina Kewitz.


    The nominees are:



    • PLASTIC FANTASTIC by Isa Willinger, 102min, original with English subtitles.
      Plastic is designed to last for eternity. Only where should all the hazardous plastic waste go?

    • SHE CHEF by Melanie Liebheit, Gereon Wetzel, 100min, original with English subtitles. The male-dominated world of high-end cuisine: the young chef Agnes is determined to do things the way she wants to.

    • STIMMEN AUF DEM DACH DER WELT by Patrick Ranz, Felix Möller, 55min, original with German subtitles. High altitude music lessons between Sichuan and Eastern Tibet. A film like a fortune cookie.

    • VON VIELEN by Eva Hartmann, 79min, original with English subtitles. Rainer Von Vielen – a music band during the pandemic. What remains when the essence of your job disappears?


     


     


     



    nominees of the DOK.edit Award – presented by Adobe 

     


    Focus on editing: with the DOK.edit Award – presented by Adobe, an editing award will be given for the third time at DOK.fest München in 2023. The award is donated by Adobe and endowed with 5,000 euros. The award is intended to shed light on the post-production of documentaries and to honour the work of editors. It was developed in cooperation with Adobe. Films with outstanding editing work are nominated across all sections. The nominated films will be presented at the festival with extended Q&As with the DOK.edit jury and the respective editor. One of the three nominated productions is the German production #RACEGIRL – THE COMEBACK OF SOPHIA FLÖRSCH by Sonia Otto, edited by Finbarr Willbrink, Karoline Schulz, 95min, P: Gebrüder Beetz.


     


     



     


     


    Every year, the German Documentary Film Music Award honours a composition that combines in an outstanding way with the documentary film narrative. It sees itself as a platform for the work of the composers and the value of music as a narrative level in documentary films. The award is endowed with 5,000 euros. The composer of the film is being honoured. It is donated by the Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung and supported by the Förder- und Hilfsfonds des Deutschen Komponistenverbandes DKV.  Members of the jury 2023 are...


     


     The nominated German documentary productions and co-productions are:



    • FITNESS CALIFORNIA by Nadine Zacharias, 104min, composer: Sebastian Scheipers für Frische Luft, P: Behring Film & Klotz Media GbR,

    • PLASTIC FANTASTIC by Isa Willinger, 100min, composer: Damian Scholl, P: Trimafilm GmbH,

    • THIS IS OUR EVERYTHING by Frederik Subei, 81min, composer: Ulrich Kodjo Wendt,

    • THIS KIND OF HOPE by Pawel Siczek, 83min, composer: David Langhard, P: A Film Company GmbH, Departures Film GmbH,

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    • the Swiss production FAMILIENLOS by Angela Spörri, Günther Kurth, 98min, composer: Yukio Elien Lanz,


     


     



     

     

     


     


     


     


    DOK.forum Marketplace


    As the market for co-creation and co-production of DOK.fest München, the DOK.forum Marketplace invites around 45 selected, strong documentary film projects in the development stage to Munich every year. At pitching events, Roundtable Sessions and One-to-One Meetings the project teams meet around 250 experts such as commissioning editors, producers, funding representatives, distributors and sales agents. The aim is to provide a forum for relevant ideas through targeted matchmaking, to provide valuable feedback, to enable and new partnerships, and thus help the projects to get realised. The next edition of DOK.forum Marktplatz will take place from 3 to 8 May 2023.


    Schedule 2023 Format- and Award Pitchings of DOK.forum Marketplace:
     
    • Pitching DOK.digital: 3 May
     • Pitching DOK.archive: 5 May
     • Pitching DOK.talent: 7 May (tbc)
     • Pitching DOK.composition: 7 May
     • Master's Pitch: 6 May
     • Roundtable Sessions: 6 and 7 May
     • One-to-One Meetings: 7 May (on site) and 8 May (online)


     


     


    out of the newsletter April 30, 2023:


    For the first time, the DOK.forum Perspectives also invite you to two major conferences to discuss the future of documentary film in all its facets: Under the motto "It's a Match! Connecting Formats to Audiences", we will be focusing on the interplay between programme content and viewers from 4 to 5 May; at the conference "Perspektive Kino! Concepts for a Future-proof Practice" we will explore possible synergies between regular cinema and festival operations, also from 4 to 5 May.


    The project selection for the DOK.forum Marketplace is ready: This year they welcome 42 exciting documentary projects in various stages of development – from the first idea to the rough cut – which will meet relevant experts from the industry in various pitching and meeting formats.


    SUCH AS:


    • A SIMPLE PLACE
    Director Etna Ozbek, Producer Burak Karamete for Zug Film,


    • A SMALL MOMENT
    Director Daniela Magnani Hüller, winner of DOK.talent Award by Haus des Dokumentarfilms.
    From the jury statement: A Small Moment' by Daniela Magnani Hüller tells from the inside perspective of all the small but very significant moments that happened to the filmmaker after she survived an attempted murder. There are many films that are told from the perspective of the perpetrator, but only a few that are from survivors. (...) Courageously, bluntly and with a lot of heart, Daniela addresses an important social issue with her film: In Germany, a femicide happens every third day. Above all, however, the film sheds light on how the actions of one individual can decisively change the life of another person.


    • AUF BEWÄHRUNG / ON PROBATION
    Director Jan Prazak, Producer I am looking for a producer.


    • BERLIN CHIC
    Director Sigal Rosh, Producer Michal Weits- HSCC, winner of DOK.archive Award by British Pathé.
    From the jury's statement: In 1933, there were 2,700 brands in German-Jewish ownership; in 1939, there were only 120 left in Germany. With a wealth of new information and archive images – film footage, photographs, sketches, drawings and fashion magazines – the team brought to life the colourful Berlin fashion industry of the 1920s and 30s and showed how the glamorous "Babylon" Berlin became a fashionable backwater.


    • DIE VERSTOSSENEN (AT) / HOUSE 4 (WT)
    Director Philipp Schaeffer, Producer Paul Hartmann, Franziska Unger


    • EATENFISH
    Director Daniel Nils Roberts, Producer Anne Köhncke,


    • EIN KLEINER MOMENT / A SMALL MOMENT
    Director Daniela Magnani Hüller, Producer HFF München,


    • EISFRAUEN / ICEWOMEN (AT / WT)
    Director Jens Becker, Producer Dorothea Braun,


    • FIRST TASTE
    Director Sorina Gajewski, Producer Milena Krmek


    • HARVEST MOON
    Director Rama Ayasra, Producer Mariam Salim & Asmahan Bkerat, Composer Zeina Azouqah, winner of DOK.composition Award by Sonoton Music.
    From the jury statement: The jury finds the approach of combining Arabic sound systems with tempered, modern soundscapes and using authentic instruments convincing. The film material is appropriately arranged, the score fits the location of the action perfectly. The sounds of sowing and harvesting are harmoniously integrated.


    • HEADSHOTS - ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS, FOTOGRAFIN // HEADSHOTS - ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS, PHOTOGRAPHER
    Director Sonya Winterberg, Producer Birgit Schulz, BILDERSTURM Filmproduktion GmbH,
    [winner of Doc Around Europe Award as well as Visioni dal Mondo Award ]


    • HOLY DOGS
    Director Adrian Huber, Producer Zündholzfilm,


    • I HAVE NEVER BEEN ON AN AIRPLANE
    Director Redon Kikaj, Producer Dardan Hoti and Luca Tesei Li Bassi Composer N/A


    • IN A NUTSHELL
    Director Johann Schilling, Producer Julius Wieler, Composer Kilian Oser


    • KIZILTOPRAK
    Director Irmak Karasu, Producer Zeynep Ekmekçi


    • LETTERS FROM MS. IRAN
    Director Farahnaz Sharifi, Producer Anke Petersen, Composer Atena Eshtiaghi, JYOTI Film,


    • MAKING GOOD AGAIN
    Director Gilad Baram Producer Gilad Baram – Nowhere Films UK, Composer Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari,


    • OURS TO OWN
    Director Nuno Escudeiro, Producer Andreas Pichler,


    • OUT OF JOINT
    Director and Producsér Miriam Jakobs and Gerhard Schick,


    • PORTRAIT EINER FREUNDSCHAFT
    Director Faezeh Nikoozad Producer Julia Cöllen, Karsten Krause, Frank Scheuffele,


    • QUEEN OF THE EIGER / DIE KÖNIGIN DES EIGERS (WT)
    Director Michael Bühler, Producer Martin Schilt,


    • SHADOW RUNNER
    Director Karanja Ng'endo, Producer Joan M. Njeri


    • SHE SINGS OF MURDER AND LOVE
    Director Virginia Heath, Producer Grant Keir, Faction North, Alex Tondowski, Tondowski Films, David Power & Ciaran Deeney, EZ Films, Dublin, Composer David McAulay (Tondowski Films)


    • SON OF THE STREETS
    Director Mohammed Almughanni, Producer Rashid Abdelhamid,


    • STATEFREE (WT)
    Director Annelie Boros, Christiana Bukalo Producer Lea Neu, Katharina Kolleczek,


    • SURROGAT (AT)
    Director Benedikt Schulte Producer Christoph Menardi, NEOS Film,


    • THE GODS MUST BE MISTAKEN
    Director Jakob Krese Producer Jürgen Kleinig (Neue Celluloid Fabrik)


    • THE PREMIERE
    Director Luyao Zhang,  Producer Julien Coquet, 


    • THE SREBRENICA TAPE
    Director Chiara Sambuchi Producer Antje Boehmert (DOCDAYS)


    • THE VALLEY OF THE WIDOWS
    Director Miro Jelok, Producer Katarina Jonisova, Miro Jelok


    • THE VISITOR
    Director Zvi Landsman, Producer Zvi Landsman


    • TINNER FILES (WT)
    Director Adrian Winkler, Producer Laurin Merz


    • TO THE BIRDS
    Director Daniel Froidevaux, Producer Marc Serpa Francoeur, Ben Lenzner, Julian Carrington, Composer Joseph Shabason


    • TRANSITER
    Director Arata Mori, Producer Arata Mori, Andreas Hartmann


    • TRASH CEMETERY
    Director Firas Rebiai, Producer Dhia Rebiai, Firas Rebiai,


    • TRUTH DETECTIVES
    Directors Raphael Perret, Anja Reiss, winner of DOK.digital Award by Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue Medien BLM
    From the jury statement: The prototype for this contemporary and innovative serious game has a high social relevance, shows the potential when journalistic and interactive skills are combined and complemented with scientific expertise. It can sustainably promote the media competence of users by enabling them to learn journalistic research using real image sources, to uncover fake news or even to become online investigators beyond the game in order to uncover human rights violations.


    • UNDINE*
    Director Felix Rier, Producer Helios, Sustainable Films – Martin Rattini, Petra Forer; Torero Film – Rouven Rech
    [winner of the DAE Talent Award, Documentary Association of Europe]


    • VOI COME NOI / YOU AS US
    Director Lilian Sassanelli,


    • VOLLKONTAKT / FULL CONTACT
    Director Denis Pavlovic, Producer Julia Meyer-Pavlovic, Denis Pavlovic (Glass Frog Films)


    • WOMEN ON THE MOVE
    Director Jana Stallein, Producer Charlotte Peters,


     


     


     


     


     


    DOK.forum is looking forward to a lively exchange with the (inter)national industry and invites filmmakers to take advantage of the diverse range of events.


    To the events of DOK.forum


     


     


    AG DOK members SAVE THE DATE:



    The 2023 AG DOK memebers' meeting starts 2:00 p.m. @ HFF MUNICH, May 4, 2023

     

     


     


     


    as single page:
    • 38 DOK.fest Munich 2023 •
    • 37 DOK.fest Munich 2022 •
    • 36 DOK.fest Munich 2021 •
    • 35 DOK.fest Munich 2020 •
    • 34 DOK.fest Munich 2019 •
    • 33 DOK.fest Munich 2018 •


     


    ...by the way


    Daniel Roher's film NAWALNY celebrated its German premiere May 2022 as the opening film of 37 DOK.fest Munich 2022. March 2023, the movie won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. The documentary follows prominent Russian opposition figure and Putin opponent Alexei Nawalny from the Russian secret service assassination attempt to his return to Moscow and imprisonment. Among the five feature documentaries nominated for Oscars were two other works that screened at last year's 37 DOK.fest Munich: A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS and FIRE OF LOVE. 

  • 40 FILMFEST MÜNCHEN Juni 23 - July 1, 2023

        #40FFMUC     "The Filmfest is turning 40 this year — and our audience is the one getting the presents! For this festive occasion, we’ve ...

     



      #40FFMUC

     

     


    "The Filmfest is turning 40 this year — and our audience is the one getting the presents! For this festive occasion, we’ve put together an online review of the four decades of the Filmfest. Our team has dug through the extensive Filmfest archive and unearthed the best finds for you."


     


    LineUp German documentary productions:



    • BOYZ by Sylvain Cruiziat, 72min, P: HFF Munich, madfilms Cruiziat & Egert GbR, [New German Cinema]

    • THE COMBINE | DAS KOMBINAT by Moritz Springer, 90min, P: IT WORKS! Medien GmbH, [New German Cinema]

    • WAKING UP IN SILENCE | IM STILLEN ERWACHEN by Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi, 17min 40sec, WS: Square Eyes [Kinderfilmfest]

    • WAR AND JUSTICE by Marcus Vetter, Michele Gentile, 96min, P: Filmperspektive GmbH, Elsani Film WS: ATLAS INTERNATIONAL [New German Cinema]


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     

  • 20 Millenium DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY May 12-21, 2023

          in cinemas across the eight Polish cities Warsaw, Wroclaw, Gdynia, Poznan, Katowice, Lódz, Bydgoszcz and Lublin, and online all across ...

     



     


     


    in cinemas across the eight Polish cities Warsaw, Wroclaw, Gdynia, Poznan, Katowice, Lódz, Bydgoszcz and Lublin, and online all across Poland May 23 – June 4, 2023 online — #20MDAG


     


    LineUp of german documentaries



    • THE 3 ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA by Pirjo Honkasalo, 110min, WS: Deckert Distribution GmbH, [20MDAG]

    • ANHELL69 by Theo Montoya, 72min, WS: Square Eyes, [20MDAG]

    • AURORA'S SURISE by Inna Sahakyan, 96min, coP: Gebrüder Beetz, [20MDAG]

    • BORDER CONVERSATION by Jonathan Brunner, 30min, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH, [20MDAG]

    • DANCING PINA by Florian Heinzen-Ziob, 112min, P: FONTÄNE FILM D: mindjazz pictures, [20MDAG]

    • ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED | ELFRIEDE JELINEK – DIE SPRACHE VON DER LEINE LASSEN by Claudia Müller, 96min, P: CALA Filmproduktion, Plan-C Filmproduktion OG,  D: Farbfilm Verleih, [20MDAG]

    • IRON BUTTERFLIES by Roman Liubyi, 84min, P: Babylon '13, Trimafilm GmbH, [20MDAG]

    • MARIUPOLIS 2 by Mantas Kvedaravicius, 112min, WS: The Match Factory GmbH, [20MDAG]

    • THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION by Sergei Loznitsa, 109min, P: LOOKSfilm, [20MDAG]

    • ONE IN A MILLION by Joya Thome, 84min, P: Flare Film, WS: Sydicado, [20MDAG]

    • THE SALT OF THE EARTH by Wim Wenders, 110min, [20MDAG]

    • SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHERAN | SIEBEN WINTER IN TEHERAN by Steffi Niederzoll, 97min, P: MADE IN GERMANY Filmprod, [20MDAG]

    • THEATRE OF VIOLENCE by Lukasz Konopa, Emil Langballe, 104min, coP: CORSO Film, WS: dogwoof, [20MDAG]

    • THREE WOMEN | DREI FRAUEN by Maksym Melnyk, 85min, P: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, [20MDAG]

    • TOTAL TRUST by Jialing Zhang, 97min, WS: Cinephil, [20MDAG]

    • TRAINED TO SEE – THREE WOMEN AND THE WAR by Luzia Schmid, 106min, WS: NEW DOCS, [20MDAG]

    • UNDER THE SKY OF DAMASCUS by Heba Khaled, Talal Derki, Ali Wajeeh, 88min, P: Real Lava, Jouzour Film, WS: Submarine Entertainment, [20MDAG]

    • VERIFIED COUPLE | PORNFLUENCER by Joscha Bongard, 74min, WS: First Hand Films, [20MDAG]

    • WAKING UP IN SILENCE by Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi, 17min 40sec, WS: Square Eyes, [20MDAG]

    • THE WALL OF SHADOWS by Eliza Kubarska, 98min, WS: RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES U.G., [20MDAG]

    • WERNER HERZOG: RADICAL DREAMER by Thomas von Steinaecker, 103min, P: 3B-Produktion GmbH, D: RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih,[20MDAG]


     


    Download the catalogue of 20 MDAG here.

  • 30 Sheffield DocFest June 14—19, 2023

         37 World Premieres, 20 International Premieres, 10 European Premieres, 47 UK Premieres and 8 retrospective films, from 52 countries of ...

     



     


     37 World Premieres, 20 International Premieres, 10 European Premieres, 47 UK Premieres and 8 retrospective films, from 52 countries of production
     


    The 30th edition of Sheffield DocFest will take place in Sheffield from Wednesday 14 June to Monday 19 June 2023. The MeetMarket will take place on Thursday 15 June and Friday 16 June, allowing Industry Professionals the opportunity to experience the opening of the Festival. Browse information on the full public programme for Sheffield DocFest 2023 here.


     


    LineUp German documentary productions and co-productions:



    • ANHELL69 by Theo Montoya, 72min, WS: Square Eyes, [Jurneys]

    • FOLLOWING VALERIA by Nicola Fegg, 33min, P: Chromosom Film, [International Short Film Competition]

    • LONELY OAKS | VERGISS MEYN NICHT by Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl, Jens Muehlhoff, 102min, P: Made in Germany Filmproduktion GmbH, [International First Feature Competition]

    • DANCING WITH DEATH ANIMALS by Maarten Isaäk de Heer, [Alternate Realities]

    • LONG DISTANCE SWIMMER – SARA MARDINI | GEGEN DEN STROM – SARA MARDINI by Charly Wai Feldman, P: DOCDAYS Productions GmbH, WS: NEW DOCS, [Jurneys & Conversation]

    • MONEY, FREEDOM, A STORY OF CFA FRANC | L'ARGENT, LA LIBERTÈ, UNE HISTOIRE DU FRANC CFA by Katy Lena Ndiaye, 104min, coP: Film Five GmbH, [Memories]

    • TOTAL TRUST by Jialing Zhang, P: filmtank, [Tim Hetherington Award]

    • UNDER THE SKY OF DAMASCUS by Heba Khaled, Talal Derki , Ali Wajeeh, 88min, WS: Submarine Entertainment, [Rebellions]

    • WILDERNESS AUGMENTED REALITY APP | WILDNIS AR APP by Lisa Eder, Andrea Zimmermann, Rico Reitz, Björn Jensen, P: Lisa Eder Film GmbH, punchin.pictures GmbH, [Alternate Realities]


    Browse all films A-Z in the programme of 30 Sheffield DocFest here.


     


     


    There wil be a German delegation. More Information ___German only___ here.


     


     


    2023 MeetMarket Projects:


    The selection for the 18th edition of the pitching forum, the MeetMarket, which will take place on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 of June 202 is published here. The slate includes 48 documentary projects – 5of them with German participation – , in development or at production stage, to be pitched in one-to-one meetings to international and UK industry representatives and experts.
    The 48 projects in the 2023 edition encompass 35 countries of production/co-production: Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Norway, Palestine, Philippines, Poland, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, and Venezuela.
    Drawn from over 500 submissions, new work will be presented from directors including: ... Ike Nnaebue of No U-Turn, a project developed as part of Generation Africa, screened at 72 BERLINALE, Docs Against Gravity, 29 Sheffield DocFest, HRWFF – Human Rights Watch FF  a.o.


     


     


    The five projects with German participation are:


     



    • CASAS MUERTAS  rough cut project
      Venezuela submerged and dark. The present of Venezuelans trapped in exile in their own country, drowned by the whim of some barbarians who rule it. Isabel, Jesús, Darwin and Juan Pablo's parents survive by resisting, desperate and cornered between flight, hunger and resilience.
      Director: Rosana Matecki | Producers: Rosana Matecki, Natalia Imaz (Parabellum Film), Claudia Lepage | Executive Producers: Rosana Matecki, Natalia Imaz (Parabellum Film), Claudia Lepage [Venezuela, Ecuador, Germany, Spain]

    • FINDING EL DORADO 
      Finding El Dorado is a journey through Europe, portraying the lives of Westafrican migrants who (seemingly) made it – in the eyes of the ones back home. Was it all worth it? What is their perspective?
      Director: Ike Nnaebue | Producers: Asbirg Naranjo (Andersona Films & Amuché prod),  Ike Nnaebue [Germany, Nigeria]

    •  MOLKA 
      Two filmmakers follow South Korean survivors and activists in their fight against Korea's 'spy-cam epidemic', only to discover the issue is closer to home than they could have ever imagined. 
      Directors: Ieva Zellite, Olivia Neller | Producer: Andrew McLain [South Korea, United Kingdom, Germany]

    • MOSCOW NIGHTS
      How could the current war in Ukraine have been prevented?  Thirty years ago, the New Thinking of Mikhail Gorbachev was dismissed as a utopian fantasy, but a chance for long-lasting peace was lost forever in the pursuit of short-term gain.
      Director: Irina Maldea | Producers: Brendan Culleton (Akajava films), Sorin Manu, Ralitsa Golemanova [Ireland, Germany, Bulgaria]

    • TENS ACROSS THE BORDERS
      Four Southeast Asian youth discover the colorful and dynamic vogue and ballroom subculture. We witness their journey to build their own ballroom families, connect with voguing’s source in New York City, and grow a flourishing queer community across the region.
      Director: Chan Sze-Wei | Producers: Alemberg Ang (Daluyong Studios), Chan Sze-Wei | Executive Producers: Daniel Karslake, Derren Lawford (DARE Pictures) [Philippines, Singapore, Germany, United Kingdom]


     


    Discover the range of venues across Sheffield city centre, most within walking distance from the train station.


     More information ___German only___


     


    as single page:
    • 30 Sheffield DocFest 2023 •
    • 29 Sheffield DocFest 2022 •
    • 28 Sheffield Doc|Fest 2021 •
    • 27 Sheffield Doc|Fest 2020 •
    • 26 Sheffield Doc|Fest 2019 •
    • 25 Sheffield Doc|Fest 2018 •
    • 24 Sheffield Doc|Fest 2017 •

  • 34 Sunny Side of the Doc June 19-22, 2023

            This year, 42 projects from 23 countries – including 6 projects from Germany – will have the privilege to compete for the best pitch ...

     



     

     

     


    This year, 42 projects from 23 countries – including 6 projects from Germany – will have the privilege to compete for the best pitch prize in each category. Discover the official selection of the 7 pitching sessions such as GOBAL ISSUES | NATURE & CONSERVATION | SCIENCE | HISTORY | ARTS & CULTURE | IMPACT CAMPAIGNS | NEW VOICES.


     



     

     

     



    •  APOLLO 1: ETERNAL FLAME by Mark Craig, P: Seventyone Films, [history]
      A the story of the world’s first space tragedy – which took the lives of three exceptional astronauts. It tells of the devastating impact on their families, and the lasting influence the accident has had on all space flights since, as Artemis prepares to return humans to the Moon. 

    • CLIMATE WARS by Johan Gabrielsson, P: Tremoniamedia Filmproduktion GmbH [global issues]
      A soldier-turned-activist explores future security threats and the military’s increasing role within a changing climate.

    • FATMA SAID – REVIVING A FORGOTTEN TREASURE by Ralf Pleger, P: 3B-Produktion GmbH, [arts&culture]
      A colorful, touching, and entertaining documentary and film musical that bridges the cultures of the Middle East and Europe. The film follows acclaimed soprano Fatma Said on her mission to save a treasure of Arab culture that is in danger of disappearing: the astonishing work of Mohamed Abdelwahab.

    • THE PICKERS by Elke Sasse, P: Berlin Producers Media GmbH, [impact campaigns]
      We want cheap fruit and veg, all year. No problem. The Pickers deliver, but they are paying the price for us: Exploited migrants harvest our tomatoes, strawberries, carrots and other fruit and vegetables in Greece, Spain, Italy, Germany, or Portugal. Our impact campaign raises awareness among consumers about their personal 'slaves' on the fields.

    • THE SREBRENICA TAPE by Chiara Sambuchi, P: Docdays Productions GmbH [history]
      In possession of a rare VHS tape shot by her father during the enclave years of Srebrenica, Alisa goes on a journey to uncover the history of her war-torn family, in search of understanding and healing. An intimate search for traces and a journey back to the enclave years of Srebrenica and the massacre of July 1995.

    • VIETNAM by Lucio Mollica, P: LOOKS Film & TV Produktionen GmbH [history]
      Between 1945 and 1975, the Vietnamese fought against the French, the Americans and among themselves, in fratricide wars that changed the world. With unprecedented access to Vietnamese archives and witnesses from all sides, the series looks at the history of this country from the perspective of the Vietnamese women and men who lived through it.



     


    Sunny side of the doc has been bringing the international documentary community together for more than 30 years. It organises events and activities throughout the year, and its signature event – the international marketplace – is held live in June in La Rochelle. This year, Sunny Side of the Doc 2023 #ssd23 will put the spotlight on viewers.



    Who watches what, where and why?



    Documentary is currently enjoying a Golden Age. Streamers have certainly impacted the documentary space, by boosting the exposure and popularity of the genre and pushing for new forms of storytelling. At the same time, with a profusion of content and entertainment options, the audience is ever more fragmented.
    What does it take to address and reach an audience, particularly a younger and more diverse audience? We wish to provide the industry with key elements in order to adapt to a rapidly changing environment. To that extent, Sunny Side of the Doc will address this subject in all market activities: panels, discussions, workshops and even pitching sessions.


     


     


     as single page:
    • #34ssd #SSD23 •
    • #33ssd #SSD22 • REPORT _German only_
    • #30ssd #SSD19 •


     

  • German Documentary Award 2023

        DEUTSCHER DOKUMENTARFILM PREIS 2023        The 7th edition of the SWR Doku Festival will take place in Stuttgart from June 27 to 30, 2023. ...

     


     



    DEUTSCHER DOKUMENTARFILM PREIS 2023

     


      


     


    The 7th edition of the SWR Doku Festival will take place in Stuttgart from June 27 to 30, 2023. Twelve films have been nominated for the GERMAN DOCUMENTARY AWARD, covering a broad range of topics and creativity. The award ceremony will take place at the end of the film festival, on June 30, 2023 in Stuttgart.


     


    GERMAN DOCUMENTARY AWARD | DEUTSCHER DOKUMENTARFILM PREIS 2023 NOMINEES:



    • ANIMA – MY FATHER'S DRESSES | ANIMA – DIE KLEIDER MEINES VATERS by Uli Decker, 94min, P: Flare Film, 

    • BERLIN BYTCH LOVE by Heiko Aufdermauer, Johannes Girke, 86min, P: SILENTFILM,

    • BEYOND REVOLUTION – FIGHTING FOR DEMOCRACY | GENERATION EUROMAIDAN – SEHNSUCHT NACH DEMOKRATIE by Kristof Gerega, 90min, P: ThurnFilm GmbH, weltfilm GmhH, Schuldenberg Films, WS: NEW DOCS,

    • THE FOREST MAKER | DER WALDMACHER by Volker Schlöndorff, 87min, P: zero one film GmbH, WS: Patra Spanou Film,

    • KALLE KOSMONAUT by Tine Kugler, Günther Kurth, Producers: Tine Kugler, Günther Kurth, Production Company: KMOTO Medienproduktion,

    • KASH KASH by Lea Najjar, 90min, WS: MAGNETFILM GmbH,

    • LOVE, DEUTSCHMARK AND DEATH | LIEBE, D-MARK UND TOD by Cem Kaya, 96min, P: filmfaust GmbH, Film Five GmbH,

    • MIDWIVES by Hnin Ei Hlaing, 89min, P: AMA FILM GmbH, EYESTEEL FILM, WS: dogwoof,

    • NASIM by Ole Jacobs, Arne Büttner, 123min, P: ROSENPICTURES Filmproduktion GbR,

    • SORRY COMRADE | SORRY GENOSSE by Vera Brückner, 94min, P: NORDPOLARIS GmbH, HFF Munich,

    • VERIFIED COUPLE | PORNFLUENCER by Joscha Bongard, 74min, WS: First Hand Films,

    • WHEN SPRING CAME TO BUCHA | LEBEN NACH BUTSCHA – TRAUMA UND HOFFNUNG by Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz, 66min, P: wildfilms, WS: NEW DOCS,


     


     


     


    MUSIC AWARD SWR NOMINEES:



    • BETTINA by Lutz Pehnert, 107min, P: solo:film GmbH,

    • IGOR LEVIT – NO FEAR by Regina Schilling, 118min, P: zero one film GmbH,

    • KLASSIK UNTERM HAKENKREUZ – DER MAESTRO UND DIE CELLISTIN VON AUSCHWITZ | MUSIC UNDER THE SWASTIKA – THE MAESTRO AND THE CELLIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Christian Berger, 86min, P: 3B-Produktion, DW,


     


     


    as single page:


    • German Documentary Award 2023 •
    • German Documentary Award 2022 •
    • German Documentary Award 2020 •
    • German Documentary Award 2019 •
    • German Documentary Award 2018 •

  • ROMAN BRODMANN PREIS endowed by HDF

      April 27, 2023, Berlin       Steffi Niederzoll has received the Roman Brodmann Prize 2023 for SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHERAN.          The €10,000 ...

     



    April 27, 2023, Berlin

     


     


     



    Steffi Niederzoll has received the Roman Brodmann Prize 2023 for SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHERAN. 

     

     


     


     


    The €10,000 award recognizes politically and socially relevant documentaries. Around 110 submissions were received for the ROMAN BRODMANN PRIZE, which was awarded for the second time by the Haus des Dokumentarfilms - Europäisches Medienforum Stuttgart e.V. (HDF) and the Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationspolitik (IfM). A twelve-member selection jury – consisting of industry members and media journalists – has nominated eleven productions: seven feature-length documentaries, most of them with theatrical release, and one documentary series.


     


    The nominated german documentaries are:



    • AMONG US WOMEN | UNTER UNS FRAUEN – GEBURT IN MEGENDI by Sarah Noa Bozenhardt, Daniel Abate Tilahun, 92min, P: Evolution Film UG ,

    • ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED | ELFRIEDE JELINEK – DIE SPRACHE VON DER LEINE LASSEN by Claudia Müller, 96min, P: CALA Filmproduktion, Plan-C Filmproduktion OG,  D: Farbfilm Verleih,

    • THE JOURNALIST AND HER JAILERS | LUNA UND DIE GERECHTIGKEIT – SYRISCHE STAATSFOLTER VOR GERICHT IN DEUTSCHLAND by Adithya Sambamurthy, Luna Watfa, 82min, P: Tondowski Films, WS: First Hand Films,

    • LONELY OAKS | VERGISS MEYN NICHT – NUR DEIN LEBEN STEHT DAGEGEN by Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl, Jens Mühlhoff, 100min, P: MADE IN GERMANY Filmproduktion,

    • MIDWIVES by Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing, 89min, P: AMA FILM, EyeSteelFilm, Snow Films Production, WS: dogwoof,

    • MISSION KABUL–LUFTBRÜCKE by Vanessa Schlesier, Ronald Rist, Antje Boehmert, 4x30min, P: DOCDAYS Productions,

    • MURKY SKIES | TÖDLICHE FRACHT – MURKY SKIES by Noam Pinchas, 88min, P: Laughing Buddha, Saxonia Entertainment, WS: dogwoof,

    • SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHERAN | SIEBEN WINTER IN TEHERAN by Steffi Niederzoll, 97min, P: MADE IN GERMANY Filmprod,

    • WHEN SPRING CAME TO BUCHA | LEBEN NACH BUTSCHA – TRAUMA UND HOFFNUNG by Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz, 66min, P: wildfilms | Marcus Lenz,

    • WIRA'S WAR | UKRAINE – KRIEGSTAGEBUCH EINER KINDERÄRZTIN by Carl Gierstorfer, 59min, P: DOCDAYS Production,


    and until yet not mentioned in our catalogue



    • LAST EXIT: SPACE | LETZTE AUSFAHRT: WELTALL by Rudolph Herzog, P: Taglicht Media Film- & Fernsehproduktion GmbH, Gunpowder & Sky, Spring Films [discovery+]


     


    From the eleven nominations, the main jury will select one production to be awarded the Roman Brodmann Prize on April 27, 2023, at the Landesvertretung Rheinland-Pfalz in Berlin. In accordance with its statutes, the prize may not be shared. Jury members are:
    • David Bernet (director, AG DOK co-chairman)
    • Bettina Böhler (editor, director)
    • Elwira Niewiera (writer, director of THE HAMLET SYNDROM)
    • moderated by Ulrike Becker, HDF


     


     


     



     

     

     


     


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    • ROMAN BRODMANN PREIS 2023 •

  • 59 GRIMME PRIZE 2023

    CONGRATULATIONS to the juries for taking the opportunity to draw attention to current issues by awarding these four german documentaries. Between ...

    CONGRATULATIONS to the juries for taking the opportunity to draw attention to current issues by awarding these four german documentaries.



    • Between Carsten Rau, director and producer of the 94min documentary NUCLEAR FOREVER | ATOMIC POWER FOREVER, and the moderator Jo Schück, started a discussion on the efficiency and safety of nuclear power plants during the ceremony, less than a week later after the shut down of them in Germany.

    • Mila Teshaieva and Marcus Lenz continue to watch the war in the Ukraine. They are currently working on the next film, planned with a lenght of 90 minutes ore more. They have been awarded for the 60 minute documentary LEBEN NACH BUTSCHA – TRAUMA UND HOFFNUNG | WHEN SPRING CAME TO BUCHA.

    • Peter Nestler – together with Dieter Reifarth and DoP Rainer Komers – spent already more time to work through eight decades of injustice on two documentaries with Romani Rose in UNRECHT UND WIDERSTAND | INJUSTICE AND RESISTANCE with 116 minutes as well as some artists of the Sinti and Roma in DER OFFENE BLICK | AN OPEN MIND with 101 minutes.

    • Antonia Killian's film THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER is unfortunately an ongoing topical for more than one reason. Women who want to live self-determined in the Orient, forced marriage, warlike conflicts, education.... 91 minutes on the feminist movement in Kurdish regions.


     


    The editor of german documentaries congratulate the awarded filmmakers and wish them all the best for their current projects.


     


      


     



    ...and the Grimme Prize trophies go to

    • JUSTICE AND RESISTANCE • NUCLEAR FOREVER •
     THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER • WHEN SPRING CAME TO BUCHA •
     April 21, 2023 is the date of the award ceremony

     


    The awarded german documentaries are:



    • JUSTICE AND RESISTANCE – Romani Rose and the Civil Rights Movement | UNRECHT UND WIDERSTAND by Peter Nestler, 113min, P: strandfilm, Navigator Film, [GRIMME PRIZE for Peter Nestler]

    • NUCLEAR FOREVER | ATOMKRAFT FOREVER by Carsten Rau, 94min, P: PIER 53 Filmproduktion , WS: MAGNETFILM GmbH, D: camino Filmverleih, [Best Script for Carsten Rau as well as Best CoP for Andrzej Król]

    • THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER __ by Antonia Kilian, 91min 27sec P: DOPPELPLUSULTRA Film und TV, & Pink Shadow Films & Greenlity OY, D: JIP Flm & Verleih, WS: Syndicado Distribution, [GRIMME PRIZE for Antonia Kilian]

    • WHEN SPRING CAME TO BUCHA | LEBEN NACH BUCHA – TRÄUME UND HOFFNUNG by Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz, 66min, P: wildfilms, WS: NEW DOCS, [GRIMME PRIZE for Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz]

    • browse all awarded productions – German only – here.


     


     



     The award ceremony will take place at Theatre Marl April 21, 2023.

     

     


     


    '...The documentary NUCLEAR FOREVER | ATOMKRAFT FOREVER (PIER 53 Filmproduktion for SWR/NDR) follows the debate about nuclear energy, which has once again come into focus since the energy crisis resulting from the war in Ukraine. Images of partly immense destruction of the Ukrainian small town of Bucha are shown in the documentary WHEN SPRING CAME TO BUCHA | LEBEN NACH BUCHA – TRAUME UND HOFFNUNG (Wildfilms for WDR/Die Story im Ersten). Two other award-winning productions deal with resistance: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER (Doppelplusultra Filmproduktion/Pink Shadow Films/Greenlit Productions OY for ARTE) accompanies a Kurdish woman in autonomous Rojava, while the documentary JUSTICE AND RESISTANCE – Romani Rose and the Civil Rights Movement | UNRECHT UND WIDERSTAND (strandfilm/Navigator Film for ZDF/3sat) portrays the family of civil rights activist Romani Rose and their struggle against discrimination against Sinti and Roma....' [out of the PRtext GRIMME PREIS 2023]


     


     


     


    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 2023 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.  


     



     2023

     

     


     


    The nominated german documentaries mentioned in our catalogue are:



    • AFTERMATH | NACHSPIEL by Christoph Hübner, Gabriele Voss, 94min, P: CORSO Film,

    • ALL IS ONE. EXCEPT 0. | ALLES IST EINS. AUSSER DER 0. by Klaus Maeck, Tanja Schwerdorf, 90min, Interzone Pictures | Klaus Maeck 

    • BETTINA by Lutz Pehnert, 107min, P: solo:film GmbH,

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

    • FOLLOWING VALERIA out of the series Ab 18! produced by Chromosom Film

    • GENDERATION by Monika Treut, 88in, P: Hyena Films e.K., D: Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH,

    • HABERMAS – PHILOSOPH UND EUROPÄER by Christian Bettges, 52min, P: Vincent Productions,

    • INJUSTICE AND RESISTANCE – Romani Rose and the Civil Rights Movement | UNRECHT UND WIDERSTAND by Peter Nestler, 113min, P: strandfilm, Navigator Film,

    • MISSION KABUL–LUFTBRÜCKE by Vanessa Schlesier, Ronald Rist, Antje Boehmert, 4x30min, P: DOCDAYS Productions,

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

    • THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER by Antonia Kilian, 91min 27sec P: DOPPELPLUSULTRA Film und TV, & Pink Shadow Films & Greenlity OY, Distribution Germany: JIP Flm & Verleih, WS: Syndicado Distribution,

    • TACHELES – THE HEART OF THE MATTER | ENDLICH TACHELES by Jana Matthes, Andrea Schramm, 104min, P: HANFGARN & UFER & SCHRAMM MATTHES FILM,

    • TRACES | SPUREN UND WUNDEN DER NSU-MORDE by Aysun Bademsoy, 84min, P: ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH, WS: Deckert Distribution GmbH,

    • WHEN SPRING CAME TO BUCHA | LEBEN NACH BUCHA – TRAUME UND HOFFNUNG by Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz, 66min, P: wildfilms, WS: NEW DOCS,


     


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



    • #UKRAINE – MEIN LAND IM KRIEG produced by BlindCat Documentary for ARD/Radio Bremen out of the series SCHAU IN MEINE WELT


     


     


    ... find all 59 GRIMME PRIZE 2023 nominees here ...


     


    as single page
    • 59 GRIMME PRIZE 2023 •
    • 58 GRIMME PRIZE 2022 •
    • 57 GRIMME PRIZE 2021 •


     


     


     


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  • 30 Hot Docs April 27 – May 7, 2023

          Celebrating the art of documentary for 30 years together with a German delegation, this year's festival features 214 outstanding documentaries ...

     



     


     


    Celebrating the art of documentary for 30 years together with a German delegation, this year's festival features 214 outstanding documentaries – including 18 german documentaries – from 72 countries.


     


     


    LineUp german documentaries



    • 5 SEASONS OF REVOLUTION by Lina, 95min, WS: Deckert Distribution GmbH, [PERSISTER]

    • AL DJANAT – THE ORIGINAL PARADISE by Chloé Aïcha Boro, 83min, P: Les Films de l’œil sauvage, [INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM]

    • ANHELL69 by Theo Montoya, 72min, WS: Square Eyes, [NIGHTVISION]

    • BLIX NOT BOMBS by Greta Stocklassa, 83min, P: PINK, CORSO Film, Sisyfos Film Production, WS: Syndicado FS, [Special Presentation]

    • CALLS FROM MOSCOW by Luis Alejandro Yero, 65min, coP: COSMIC PRODUCTIONS, [MARKERS]

    • THE ECHO by Tatiana Huezo, 102min, WS: The Match Factory, [WORLD SHOWCASE]

    • THE HOMES WE CARRY by Brenda Akele Jorde, 85min, coP: Film Five GmbH, [THE CHANGING FACE OF EUROPE]

    • IGOR LEVIT – NO FEAR by Regina Schilling, 118 min, P: zero one film, [Special Presentation]

    • IRON BUTTERFLIES by Roman Liubyi, 84min, P: Babylon '13, Trimafilm, [MADE IN UKRAINE]

    • JACKIE THE WOLF by Tuki Jencquel, 93min, WS: Deckert Distribution, P: Orinokia Filmproduktion UG, Les Films du Balibari, [WORLD SHOWCASE]

    • LA SINGLA by Paloma Zapata, 95min, P: La Fábrica Naranja, Malandar Films, inselfilm, [ARTSCAPES]

    • LONG DISTANCE SWIMMER – SARA MARDINI by Charly W. Feldman, 88min, WS: NEW DOCS, [PERSISTER]

    • MONEY, FREEDOM, A STORY OF CFA FRANC | L'ARGENT, LA LIBERTÉ, UNE HISTOIRE DU FRANC CFA by Katy Lena Ndiaye, 100min, P: Tact Production, Indigo Mood Films, Néon Rouge, Film Five, [WORLD SHOWCASE]

    • SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHERAN by Steffi Niederzoll, 97min, P: Made in Germany Filmproduktion, [PERSISTER]

    • SLEEPLESS BIRDS by Tom Claudon, Dana Melaver, 45min, P: Pangolin Doxx Film, [WORLD SHOWCASE]

    • TOTAL TRUST by Jialing Zhang, 97min, WS: Cinephil, P: FILMTANK, [Special Presentation]

    • TRAINED TO SEE – THREE WOMEN AND THE WAR by Luzia Schmid, 106min, WS: NEW DOCS, [ARTSCAPES]

    • WHEN SPRING CAME TO BUCHA | LEBEN NACH BUTSCHA – TRAUMA UND HOFFNUNG by Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz, 64min, WS: NEW DOCS, [MADE IN UKRAINE]


     


     



     


    30 HOT DOCS 2023
    Programme browse here
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    May 2 – 4, 2023 in-person at Toronto's Hart House 
    May 11, 2023 online meetings

     

     


     


     


    Deal Maker Projects


    35 documentary projects – including 3 German co-productions – from 25 countries, participate in the 2023 edition of Hot Docs Deal Maker and pitch to international decision makers at the 30th anniversary festival. Deal Maker returns in-person to Toronto's Hart House with pitches taking place from May 2 to May 4, and an additional day of online meetings on May 11.


     


     



    • HANNAH ARENDT: THINKING IS DANGEROUS
      Directors: Tia Lessin, Carl Deal  
      Producers: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin, Birgit Rasch  
      Executive Producers: Jeff Bieber, Gunnar Dedio, Regina Bouchehri, Michael Kantor  
      Production Companies: Jeff Bieber Productions, LLC (USA), LOOKSfilm GmbH (Germany), WNET/American Masters (USA), Elsewhere Films (USA)

    • LIFE IN THE SHADOWS
      Director: K.D. 
      Producers: Ilyas Yourish 
      Co-Producers: Anke Petersen, Lilian Tietjen  
      Executive Producer: Graeme Isaac  
      Production Company: Kamay Film (Afghanistan), Jyoti Film GmbH (Germany)

    • THE FIRST LADY
      Directors: Udi Nir, Sagi Bornstein
      Producers: Udi Nir, Sagi Bornstein, Georg Tschurtschenthaler, Christian Beetz
      Production Companies: udiVsagi production Ltd (Israel), gebrueder beetz filmproduktion GmbH (Germany)

    • explore all projects.


     


     


     


    Participating Deal Makers from Germany:
     • 3Boxmedia International Sales, J. Valentin Romero
     • MAGNETFILM, Georg Gruber, Frauke Knappke
     • NEW DOCS, Elina Kewitz
     • Rise And Shine World Sales, Stefan Kloos


     


     


     



     

     

     


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    • 30 Hot Docs 2023 •
    • 29 Hot Docs 2022 •
    • 28 Hot Docs 2021 •
    • 27 Hot Docs 2020 •
    • 26 Hot Docs 2019 •
    • 25 Hot Docs 2018 •


     


    More information ___German only___

  • Visions du Réel Nyon, April 21—30, 2023

        Special Mention for IN UKRAINE by Piotr Pawlus and Tomasz Wolski                 The 163 documentaries – including more than a dozen ...

     


     



    Special Mention for

    IN UKRAINE by Piotr Pawlus and Tomasz Wolski

     


     


     


     



     

     

     


     


    The 163 documentaries – including more than a dozen German productions and co-productions – offer a panorama that often challenges the boundaries between fiction and reality. 46 countries are represented in the the official selection for the 54th edition of Visions du Réel. The 2023 programme of the International Filmfestivl Nyon features an equal number of films from female and male directors, and is rich, with a wonderfully wide range of formats, approaches and countries represented. Visions du Réel will be held in Nyon and Gland from 21 to 30 April in person and online, with its streaming platform available from 24 to 30 April. Everyday, from Monday 24 April, a series of films from the official selection will be available online for a limited period. 


     


     


     


    LineUp of German productions and co-productions



    • AL DJANAT – THE ORIGINAL PARADISE by Chloé Aïcha Boro, 84min, [IFF COMPETITION]

    • THE AVALANCHE | ASIT by Pinar Ögrenci, 60min [Medium&Short]

    • BEHIND THE LINES by Alaa Amer, Alisar Hasan, 63min, CoP: ma.ja.de., WS: auTLOOK FILMSALES, [Grand Angle]

    • DREAMERS by Stéphanie Barbey, Luc Peter, 84min, WS: LIGHTDOX, [Burning Lights]

    • THE ECHO | EL ECO by Tatiana Huezo, 102min, WS: The Match Factory [Grand Angle]

    • FLOATING ISLANDS by Nicolas Humbert, Simone Fürbringer, 95min, WS: Nicolas Humbert, [National Competition]

    • IN UKRAINE | W UKRAINIE by Piotr Pawlus, Tomasz Wolksi, 82min, WS: TASKOVSKI FILMS LTD, coP: INDI FILM GmbH,  Kijora Film, [IFF COMPETITION]

    • LANDSHAFT by Daniel Kötter, 96min, WS: Syndicado, [Burning Lights]

    • SENSITIVE CONTENT by Narges Kalhor, 8min, WS: Oasysdigital, [Medium&Short]

    • SHE CHEF | WANDERJAHRE by Gereon Wetzel, Melanie Liebheit, 105min, WS: MAGNETFILM, [Grand Angle]

    • THREE WOMEN | DREI FRAUEN by Maksym Melnyk, 85min, P: Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, [Doc Alliance Selection]

    • THEATRE OF VIOLENCE by Emil Langballe, Lukasz Konopa, 106min, WS: dogwoof, [Highlights]

    • WAKING UP IN SILENCE by Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi, 17min 40sec, WS: Square Eyes, [Medium&Short]

    • WHEN SPRING CAME TO BUCHA | LEBEN NACH BUTSCHA – TRAUMA UND HOFFNUNG by Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz, 66min, [Highlights]

    • ••• browse the full programme here •


     


     



    Visions du Réel Industry, April 21-30, 2023

     

     


    VdR–Industry [April 23—27, 2023] is dedicated to cinema professionals and its activities represent a springboard for future films to find support in every stage of their production.


    PROJECTS with German participation:



    • GABIN, A YOUTH IN THE BAKLAND by Maxence Voiseux, France, Germany [pitching]

    • JUST LIKE A DREAM by Corine Shawi, Lebanon, Germany [VdR-Development Lab]

    • RISING UP AT NIGHT by Nelson Makengon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso [work in progress]

    • MISTY – THE ERROL GARNER STORY by Georges Gachot, Switzerland, France, Germany, [SWISS FILMS Previews]


     



     VdR Film Market

     

     


    The VdR–Film Market, formerly known as the Media Library, is an online platform that includes a selection of +400 new creative documentaries with international potential. It groups Visions du Réel’s Official selection as well as many more unreleased documentaries proposed by our own selection committee, partner institutions, sales agents and producers. The purpose of the Film Market is to facilitate exchanges, purchases and potential sales of new films. Here some of the German productions or co-production in the media library at the VdR-Film Market 2023. 



    • ABOUT WATER AND DREAMS by Christoph Fleischer, 91min,

    • DEAD BIRDS FLYING HIGH | DIE TOTEN VÖGEL SIND OBEN by Sönje Storm, 85min,

    • GERMAN VESUVIUS | DER STEIN ZU WÖRLITZ by Chritin Turner, 5min,

    • HOW I SURVIVED THE PYONGYANG FILM FESTIVAL 3D by Martin Hans Schmitt, 75min,

    • THE HOMES WE CARRY by Brenda Akele Jorde, P:Film Five GmbH, 89min,

    • I AM RIYA by Gina Guzy, 53min, P: Giny Guzy, DFFB

    • IN LIMBO by Annina Lehmann, 16min,

    • INDEPENDENCE by Felix Meyer-Christian, 90min,

    • RED EARS | L'OREILLE ROUGE | DAS ROTOHR by Paul Drey, 30min,

    • LAMENTO by Binha Haase, 18min,

    • MAKE UP THE WORLD | DIE AUSSTATTUNG DER WELT by Bramkamp Robert & Weirich Susanne, P: BramkampWeirichGbR, 98min,

    • NORTHERN FORESTS by Julia Lazarus, 84min,

    • ONLY THE FORGOTTEN IS NEW by Mona Schier, 20min,

    • STILL LIFE | STILLEBEN by Andres Rump, 118min,

    • THE SYSTEM OF THE GARDEN | DAS SYSTEM DES GARTENS by Danila Lipatov, Karen Zimmermann, 69min,

    • TAPO – ABOUT WOMEN AND LIFE by Kawa Mela, 40min,

    • THIS IS OUR EVERYTHING by Frederik Subei, 82min,

    • UNCANNY ME by Katharina Pethke, 45min, P: FILMGARNITUR, WS: Filmdelights,

    • UNTIL THE SUN DIES | HASTA QUE SE APAQUE EL SOL by Jonas Brander, 90min, P: URUA FILMS,

    • VOLCAN PARAISO by Hans Böffgen, 92min,

    • WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE by Benjamin Knight, 92min,


     


     Press Release of March 28, 2023.


     


    as single page
    • 54 Visions du Réel, Nyon 2023 •
    • 53 Visions du Réel, Nyon 2022 •
    • 52 Visions du Réel, Nyon 2021 •
    • 51 Visions du Réel, Nyon 2020 •
    • 50 Visions du Réel, Nyon 2019 •
    • 49 Visions du Réel, Nyon 2018 •


     


    and the 55th edition of Visions du Réel will take place April 12—21, 2024. 

  • #StandWithUkraine

    30 HOT DOCS Toronto with nine documentaries MADE IN UKRAINE.   20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL by Mstyslav Chernov, 94min 89 DAYS by Pavlo Dorohoi, 20min ...

    30 HOT DOCS Toronto with nine documentaries

    MADE IN UKRAINE.


     



    • 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL by Mstyslav Chernov, 94min

    • 89 DAYS by Pavlo Dorohoi, 20min

    • EURODONBAS by Kornii Hrytsiuk, 73min

    • GUESTS FROM KHARKIV by Halyna Lavrynets, 20min

    • IRON BUTTERFLIES by Roman Liubyi, 84min

    • OUR ROBO FAMILY by Anastasiia Tykha, 19min

    • UNDER THE WING OF A NIGHT by Lesia Diak, 20min

    • WE WILL NOT FADE AWAY by Alisa Kovalenko, 100min

    • WHEN SPRING CAME TO BUCHA by Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz, 64min


     


     


     


     



     


     


    73 Berlinale Special Gala with Documentary on Ukraine


     



    Sean Penn, Volodymyr Zelensky in SUPERPOWER

     

     



    • SUPERPOWER by Sean Penn, Aaron Kaufman, USA 2022
      This past year the weight of the real world has had a significant impact on people’s lives. Among the films premiering this year at the festival there is one in particular that witnesses the shock we all felt. More than a documentary, SUPERPOWER is the chronicle of a film project that reality forced to change in to something less controllable but more meaningful. In a festival that will take place one year after the Russian invasion in Ukraine, it is important to show the film that Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman made under such difficult conditions. Like their colleagues who risked their lives in order to testify the cruelty of the war, they prove once more that art can inspire action worldwide.

    • EASTERN FRONT | SHIDNIY FRONT by Vitaly Mansky & Yevhen Titarenko, Latvia / Czech Republic / Ukraine / USA [Encounter]

    • IT'S A DATE by Nadia Parfan, Ukraine [Short]

    • IRON BUTTERFLIES by Roman Liubyi, Ukraine / Germany [Panorama]

    • DO YOU LOVE ME? | TY MENE LUBYSH? by Tonia Noyabrova, Ukraine / Sweden [Panorama]

    • IN UKRAINE | W UKRAINIE by by Piotr Pawlus, Tomasz Wolski, Poland, Germany [Forum]

    • WE WILL NOT FADE AWAY | MY NE ZGASNEMO by Alisa Kovalenko, Ukraine / France / Poland [Generation]

    • WAKING UP IN SILENCE | IM STILLEN ERWACHEN by Mila Zhluktenko, Germany / Ukraine, [Generation]

    • and

    • THE BLINDSIGHT by Ruslan Batytskyi, [Berlinale Co-Production Market]


    The EFM is supporting the industry with a package of special measures.
    find out more in the press release 73 BERLINAE of January 20, 2023.


     



    IRON BUTTERLIES by Roman Liubyi

    is premiering Januar 23 2023 at the Sundance Film Festival
    and 73 BERLINALE Panorama Dokumente 2023


    In summer 2014, sunflower fields and coal mines in eastern Ukraine turned into a 12 square kilometer crime scene. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel was found in the pilot’s body, implicated the state responsible for a war crime that remains unpunished.


    Since 2013, the film director Roman Liubyi has been working with the #BABYLON’13: Cinema of Civil Society group of independent film producers who came together during the Revolution of Dignity. Since 2015 Roman has been working on the full-length documentary project WAR NOTE, based on videos from soldiers’ cell-phones. In cooperation with the Security Service of Ukraine, Roman Liubyi has created two films based on materials from the major war-crimes cases. 


     


     



     

     

     


     



     


    THE HAMLET SYNDROME premiered in Amsterdam, NYC and Kyivi!


    An exciting weekend for THE HAMLET SYNDROME: incredible screenings and Q&A’s on IDFA, the next day flight to New York, and the same evening, our American premiere on DOC NYC. Sunday, our Ukrainian premiere in Kyiv. Bomb alerts and power outages before and after the screening, and no light on the streets, but the cinema shone the strength and determination of our protagonists. The screening finally took place, and even Rodion and Roman could attend! It’s heart-wrenching that the war has already lasted nine months, and trauma continues to sew its seeds into the everyday lives of ordinary Ukrainians.
    Source: FB/TheHamletSyndrome


    ...and upcoming screenings at 39 Kassel Documentary FF  & Human Rights FF, Zurich .



     

     

     


    The twenty-sixth edition of Ji.hlava, October 25-30, 2022 will open with 8TH DAY OF THE WAR by Ukrainian director Oksana Moiseniuk. The film was made on the eighth day of the Russian aggression in Ukraine and is not about the war as such, but about its impact on the Ukrainian diaspora in the Czech Republic.


     



    8TH DAY OF THE WAR by Oksana Moiseniuk

     

     


     



     


     



    65 DOK Leipzig October 17–23, 2022


     


    Svitlana Lishchynska received the Saxon Award for the Best Documentary Project by a Female Director at the opening ceremony of 65 DOK Leipzig.


    Saxon State Minister for Culture and Tourism Barbara Klepsch presented the Saxon Award for the Best Documentary Project by a Female Director, worth 5,000 euros, to Ukrainian filmmaker Svitlana Lishchynska for her project A BIT OF A STRANGER. It tells the story of Svitlana’s mother, daughter and granddaughter — three generations of a family from Mariupol who have lost their national identity due to the long-term imperial policy of Moscow and are currently facing the Russian war of aggression.


     



     © 2022 DOK Leipzig, Viktoria Conzelmann


     



    THREE WOMEN by by Maxim Melnyk

     


    In the Competition for the 65 DOK Leipzig Audience Award, the Golden Dove including 3,000 Euros went to THREE WOMEN by Maxim Melnyk. In encounters with three independent women, Melnyk documents rural life in the Ukrainian village of Stuzhytsya near the EU border. "This film brings us images of joie de vivre and lightness. Images that we don’t often see coming from that country at the moment. It creates connections and unites people through the screen," according to the statement by the audience jury.
    The DEFA Sponsoring Prize, which includes 4,000 Euros granted by the DEFA Foundation, went to Maxim Melnyk for THREE WOMEN as well.


     


     


     


     



     


    Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022 at 65 DOK LEIPZIG


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



    • BONEY PILES by Taras Tomenko, 80min

    • INFINITY ACCORDING TO FLORIAN by Oleksly Radynski, 70min

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

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

    • PRYVOZ by Eva Neymann, 72min


     


     



     


     



    THE HAMLET SYNDROME

     Kundschafter Filmproduktion | BALAPOLIS sp.zo.o.

     


     


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


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


     


     


     


     


     


     


     



    #lola22 DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS — German Film Award

    with Marina Stepanska and Alisa Kovalenko live from Ukraine


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



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

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


     



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


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


     



     


     


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


     



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


     


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


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


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


     



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


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


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



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

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

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

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

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

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


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


     


     



    MARIUPOLIS 2 by Mantas Kvedaravicius


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


     


     


     



     


     


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



    TRENCHES by French director Loup Bureau

    Photo © 2021 FILMS BOUTIQUE World Sales


     


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


     


     


     


     


     



    PUSHING BOUNDARIES by Lesia Kordonets, 102min

    Foto: 2021 DSCHOINT VENTSCHR FILMPRODUKTION AG 


     


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


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


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


     


     


     



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


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


     


     



     


     


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


     


     


     



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


     



     


     


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


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


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


     


    see also PR by IDFA .


     



     



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



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

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


     



     



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


     


     




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

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

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


     


     



     


     



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


     


     



     



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

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


     


     



    recomended Ukrainian films:



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

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

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

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

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

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


     



     


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


     



     


     [#dokfest2022 _ 37 DOK.fest Munich]


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

  • CPH:DOX March 15 – 26, 2023, Copenhagen

      The winner of the F:ACT AWARD is SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHERAN by Steffi Niederzoll. "This film is artfully crafted – from the visual language ...

     


    The winner of the F:ACT AWARD is SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHERAN by Steffi Niederzoll.


    "This film is artfully crafted – from the visual language to editing style, we are impressed by the filmmaker's creative vision and ability to execute. It's emotional but never sensational. It tells a tragic story but yet allows us to witness the warmth and resilience of human nature. It not only shows the courage of individuals standing up against systemic abuse and violence but also reminds us that even deaths can't defeat one's will to fight. The award goes to 'Seven Winters in Tehran'." The jury says.


     Browse here the full DOX:NEWS 'And the winners of CPH:DOX 2023 are...' or  Winners of CPH:DOX 2023 announced.


     


     



     


    Marking the 20th anniversary of the International Documentary Film Festival CPH:DOX, the 2023 edition  offered an outstanding programme of 200 films, including 23 German documentary productions and co-productions, by both established and emerging filmmakers as well as talks, debates, performances, exhibitions, parties and much more from 15-26 March 2023.
    In addition, a selection of the official 2023 programme was available from March 24 – April 2  at the festival’s streaming platform PARA:DOX (geo-blocked to Denmark). The 20th anniversary of CPH:DOX became a record breaking year for us with an audience number reaching 125,680 - in total. 
    With an audience of 125,680, CPH:DOX 2023 became the most visited edition of the festival ever. Over the past 20 years, CPH:DOX has grown from a small Copenhagen event with just under 12,000 visiting guests to one of the world’s leading documentary film festivals with a large and engaged audience, both in the cinemas and online on the festival’s new streaming platform PARA:DOX.


     


     


     


    LineUp German documentary productions and co-productions:



    • ANHELL69 by Theo Montoya, 72min, WS: Square Eyes, [ARTISTS&AUTEURS]

    • BRUISES | MORETONES by Ginan Seidl, Daniel Ulacia Balmaseda, 90min,  P: Rosenpictures Filmprod. [NEW:VISION]

    • BURIAL OF THIS ORDER by Jane Jin Kaisen, 25min,  [NEW:VISION]_

    • BLIX NOT BOMBS by Greta Stocklassa, 83min, P: PINK, CORSO Film, Sisyfos Film Production, WS: Syndicado FS, [F:ACT AWARD]

    • CYBORG: A DOCUMENTARY by Carey Born, 87min, P: first born films, [CPH:SCIENCE]_

    • DANCING PINA by Florian Heinzen-Ziobn, 111min, P: FONTÄNE FILM, [HIGHLIGHTS]

    • ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED | ELFRIEDE JELINEK – DIE SPRACHE VON DER LEINE LASSEN by Claudia Müller, 96min, WS: sixpackfilm, [HIGHLIGHTS]

    • THE HAMLET SYNDROM by Piotr Rosolowski, Elwira Niewiera, 85min, P: Kundschafter Filmproduktion, Neue Celluloid Fabrik, BALAPOLIS sp.zo.o., [HIGHLIGHTS]

    • INTO THE VIOLET BELLY by Thuy-han Nguyen, 20min, [NEW:VISION AWARD]_

    • THE INVENTION OF THE TRUTH | DIE ERFINDUNG DER WAHRHEIT – DIE RELOTIUS AFFÄRE by Daniel Andreas Sager, 93min, P: Kinescope Film, [Special Premieres]

    • MERKEL by Eva Weber, 95min, [HIGHLIGHTS]

    • MODERAT: THE LAST DAYS by Elisa Mishto, Alexandre Powelz, 20min, P: Embassy of Dreams Filmproduktion, [SOUND&VISION]

    • THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION by Sergei Loznitsa, 80min, P: LOOKSfilm, ATOMS & VOID, [ARTISTS&AUTEURS]

    • PACIFICTION by Albert Serra, 162min, coP: Tamtam Film, D: Filmgalerie451, [PARAFICTIONS]_

    • PLASTIC FANTASTIC by Isa Willinger, 100min, P: Trimafilm, [Special Premieres]

    • SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHERAN by Steffi Niederzoll, 96min, P: Made in Germany Filmprod., [F:ACT AWARD]

    • SUN UNDER GROUND by Alex Gerbaulet, Mareike Bernien, 39min, P: pong film GmbH, [CPH:SCIENCE]

    • THEATRE OF VIOLENCE by Emil Langballe, Lukasz Konopa, 104min, Denmark/Germany, Producer: Helle Faber, WS: dogwoof, [DOX:AWARD]

    • TOTAL TRUST by Jialing Zhang, China/Germany, 97min [DOX:AWARD]

    • UNCANNY ME by Katharina Pethke, 45min, P: FILMGARNITUR, [CPH:SCIENCE]

    • UNDER THE FIG TREES by Erige Sehiri, 92min, [PARAFICTIONS]_

    • WERNER HERZOG – RADICAL DREAMER by Thomas von Steinaecker, 103min, P: 3B-Produktion, [HIGHLIGHTS]

    • WHEN SPRING CAME TO BUCHA by Marcus Lenz, Mila Teshaieva, 66min, WS: NEW DOCS, [CHANGE MAKERS]


     


    LineUp German interactive productions and co-productions:



    • BLACKTRANSARCHIVE.COM/WE ARE HERE BECAUSE OF THOSE THAT ARE NOT  by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, UK/Germany, 2020, Game [CPH:DOX’ INTER:ACTIVE]

    • LOCAL BINARIES by Lauren Moffatt, Germany, Spain, Denmark, 2022, AR, International Premiere  [CPH:DOX’ INTER:ACTIVE]

    • THE UNCENSORED LIBRARY by Reporters Without Borders, Germany, 2020, [CPH:DOX’ INTER:ACTIVE]

    • HIVEMIND with Danielle Bathwaite-Shirley in association with Trust and Serpentine’s R&D Platform. UK/Germany, [CPH:DOX’ INTER:ACTIVE]


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


    Juries of the five festival competitions DOX:AWARD, NEW:VISION, F:ACT AWARD, NORDIC:DOX and NEXT:WAVE.


     


     


     


    CPH:DOX’ industry events will include the financing and co-production event CPH:FORUM, CPH:CONFERENCE and INTER:ACTIVE symposium. The industry programme runs under the banner 'Business as Unusual' between March 19-24. Read more about the key dates and events in the industry programme here. For the tenth year running, CPH:FORUM and Eurimages are happy to present the Co-Production Development Award of 20,000€ for the best pitch. To express solidarity with the Ukrainian film industry, alongside the long-standing Co-Production Development Award, Europe's Eurimages Fund decided to award a new Special Eurimages Co-production Development Award at CPH:FORUM 2023 of additional 20,000€, that will go to one of the Ukrainian projects in the Forum line-up.
    The awards will be handed out during the CPH:INDUSTRY AWARDS Happy Hour Drink on Thursday, March 23 at 18:00.


     


     

    KEY DATES for filmmakers and professionals


    If you’re a filmmaker or an industry professional, please mark your calendar with these important dates and deadlines, to make sure you don’t miss out on any of the activities that CPH:DOX has to offer:


    INTRO:DOX Day (19 March)
    INTRO:DOX is a brand-new initiative envisioned to welcome emerging filmmakers from all over the world, working on their first or second non-fiction feature. INTRO:DOX will open the CPH:INDUSTRY 2023 programme with a full day of introductory sessions on Sunday, March 19, 2023, finishing off with a networking happy hour.


    CPH:FORUM (20-23 March)
    CPH:FORUM is our long-standing financing and co-production event. Highly acknowledged producers and directors from all over the world will take the stage to pitch 35 carefully selected projects in the intersection of non-fiction, fiction, visual art, journalism and science. Besides project presentations, CPH:FORUM offers pitch preparation and tailored one-to-one meetings between the presenting teams, potential co-production partners and interested financiers and distributors, and culminates with presenting the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of €20,000 for the event’s best pitch.


    INTER:ACTIVE SYMPOSIUM (20 March)
    The half day symposium will showcase the projects developed throughout the CPH:LAB training programme and will be used as the pivot of the debate about the business aspects of how to produce, finance and distribute this kind of audiovisual projects. The next edition of the Symposium will take place in Copenhagen and will be open for all accredited guests as well as ticket holders.


    DELEGATIONS (20 March)
    CPH:INDUSTRY offers a wide range of activities and networking events to help facilitate the match of potential business partners among nearly 2.000 film professionals from all over the world who are joining CPH:DOX annually.


    CPH:CONFERENCE (21-24 March)
    CPH:CONFERENCE is a unique industry event, presented and curated in partnership with the leading training initiative Documentary Campus. The next edition takes place in Copenhagen and is open to all accredited guests, as well as the public.


     


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    • CPH:DOX 2023 .
    • CPH:DOX 2022 .
    • CPH:DOX 2021 .
    • CPH:DOX 2020 .
    • CPH:DOX 2019 .


     CPH:DOX will return to the Copenhagen cinemas March 13-24, 2024. New submissions start May 15, 2023. Submit a film here. Rules&Regulations.

  • 73 BERLINALE February 16-26, 2023

              The Berlinale Documentary Award goes to EL ECO | THE ECHO by Tatiana Huezo, awarded as Best Director by the Encounters Jury as well.  ...

     



     


     


     


     


    • The Berlinale Documentary Award goes to EL ECO | THE ECHO by Tatiana Huezo, awarded as Best Director by the Encounters Jury as well. 
      In rural surroundings, young people discover the world. Luminous, intimate images of a grandmother, rainstorms, and school classrooms reveal a complex community. This deeply affectionate film shows time passing, a world opening up. It is a fascinating new piece in the director’s already distinguished body of work. Our award goes to Tatiana Huezo for El eco. [Jury Statement]

    • The Compass-Perspektive-Award as well as the 38 Friedensfilmpreis der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung [PeaceFilmPrize] goes to SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHERAN | SIEBEN WINTER IN TEHERAN by Steffi Niederzoll.
      'How does one overcome the feeling of powerlessness and show resistance?
      Spellbound, we follow the story of a young woman who defies institutionalised male violence. What also emerges is a sensitive portrait of a family torn apart by the battle against an unethical regime. Using a variety of documentary materials, the film follows a strict narrative arc.
      This film is painful and unsettling. At the same time, encountering the young protagonist Reyhaneh is inspiring, leaving us with a spark of hope. The 2023 Compass-Perspektive-Award goes to Seven Winters in Tehran by Steffi Niederzoll'. [Jury Statement Compass-Perspektive–Award]

    • The Caligari Film Award goes to Selma Doborac for DE FACTO.
      The jury states: "an extraordinary and highly intense film that, like hardly any other before it, makes us think philosophically about destructive (group) dynamics and the inhuman in human beings".

    • The Special Prize of the Generation Kplus by Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk for Best Short Film  goes to WAKING UP IN SILENCE by Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi.
      We would like to give the prize to a film that offers a tender glimpse into the daily rhythms of a dislocated childhood. This film’s effortless intimacy bears witness to enduring joy, strength and innocence against a backdrop of profound loss. We were moved by the film’s confident approach. It powerfully evokes a sense of place and history as it offers an important snapshot of the urgent present. [Jury Statement]

    • The Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film of the Youth Jury Generation 14plus goes to AND ME, I'M DANCING TOO | MAN KHOD, MAN HAM MIRAGHSAM by Mohammad Valizadegan
      Woman: A person who identifies as female.
      Life: The period of time between birth and death. The experience of being alive.
      Freedom: The absence of coercion and restrictions. The ability to express yourself as you wish.
      Dance: A ritual, a custom, a profession, a sport, a form of therapy, a social interaction or simply an expression of feelings. Dancing is liberation.
      The film not only moved and touched us, but it also made us thoughtful and, above all, combative, through the authentic presentation of topics which are unfortunately still as relevant today as they were years ago. [Jury Statement]

    • and...



    ...the GOLDEN BAER for Best Film of the 73 BERLINALE goes to the French documentary production


    SUR L'ADAMANT | ON THE ADAMANT by Nicolas Philibert, produced by Céline Loiseau, Gilles Sacuto, Miléna Poylo. The film portrays the floating structure located on the Seine in the heart of Paris de jour L'Adamant, a special day center for the treatment of adults with mental disorders.



    • Find all awards of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival here.

    • VOD of the press conference highlights with Tatiana Huezo starts at 05:10.


     


     


     


     



     


     


    73 Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2023 with a total number of 17 German Documentaries in the programme and some more as screenings at the EFM. Visit our virtual stand online at the EFM linking to the screening schedule of each of them or let's meet at our booth 18, groundfloor GROPIUS BAU. Access with market badge only.


     


     



     

     


     


    LineUp German documentary productions and co-productions @ 73 BERLINALE



    • AFRAID DOESN'T EXIST | ES GIBT KEINE ANGST by Anna Zett, 31min [Forum Expanded]

    • AND ME, I'M DANCING TOO | MAN KHOD, MAN HAM MIRAGHSAM by Mohammad Valizadegan, 21min, P: FilminIran, PakFilm GmbH, [Generation 14plus]

    • CALLS FROM MOSCOW | LLAMDAS DESDE MOSCÚ by Luís Alejandro Yero, 65min,  coP: COSMIC PRODUCTIONS,  [Forum]

    • DE FACTO by Selma Doborac, 130min, WS: sixpackfilm, [Forum]

    • THE EARLY RAIN WHICH WASHES AWAY THE CHAFF BEFORE SPRING RAINS | DER FRÜHE REGEN WÄSCHT DIE SPREU WEG VOR DEM FRÜHLINGSREGEN by Heiko-Thandeka Ncube, 12min, P: Heiko-Thandeka Ncube, [Forum Expanded]

    • THE ECHO | DAS ECHO | EL ECO by Tatiana Huezo, 100min, P: Tatiana Huezo, Radiola Films, WS: THE MATCH FACTORY [Encounter],

    • IN-BETWEEN WORLDS | ZWISCHENWELT by Cana Bilir-Meier, 18min, P: Cana Bilir-Meier, [Forum Expanded]

    • IN UKRAINE | W UKRAINIE by Piotr Pawlus, Tomasz Wolksi, 82min P: Kijora Film, coP: INDI FILM, [Forum]

    • IRON BUTTERFLIES by Roman Liubyi, 84min, P: Babylon '13, Trimafilm GmbH, [Panorama Dokumente]

    • KASH KASH – WITHOUT FEATHERS WE CAN'T LIVE by Lea Najjar, 90min, WS: MAGNETFILM, [Guest Perspective German Cinema]

    • LEAVING AND STAYING | GEHEN UND BLEIBEN by Volker Koepp, 178min, D: SALZGEBER [Forum] nominated for Berlinale Documentary Award

    • LONELY OAKS – ONLY YOUR LIFE BETWEEN | VERGISS MEYN NICHT– NUR DEIN LEBEN STEHT DAGEGEN by Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl, Jens Mühlhoff, 100min, P: MADE IN GERMANY Filmprod, [Perspective German Cinema] nominated for Berlinale Documentary Award

    • NUCLEAR NOMADS | NOMADES DU NUCLEAIRE | ATOMNOMADEN by Kilian Armando Friedrich, Tizian Stromp Zargari, 73min, P: HFF Munich, WS: RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES, [Perspective German Cinema]

    • SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHERAN | SIEBEN WINTER IN TEHERAN by Steffi Niederzoll, 97min, P: MADE IN GERMANY Filmprod, [Perspective German Cinema] nominated for Berlinale Documentary Award

    • UNDER THE SKY OF DAMASCUS by Heba Khaled, Talal Derki, Ali Wajeeh, 88min, P: Real Lava, Jouzour Film, WS: Submarine Entertainment, [Panorama Dokumente]

    • THE WAITING | DAS WARTEN by Volker Schlecht with Karen Lips, 15min 35sec, P: mobyDOK GmbH, [Short]

    • WAKING UP IN SILENCE by Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi, 17min 40sec, WS: Square Eyes,  [Generation Kplus]


     


     


     



    Berlinale Documentary Award [photo ©2022 Gundula Krause]


    The Berlin International Film Festival has long been committed to the diversity of documentary forms. A distinct award for the best documentary film was launched in 2017. The Berlinale Documentary Award, endowed with 40,000 Euros in prize money, will be sponsored by public broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb).


    In total, 20 documentary forms from the sections Competition, Berlinale Special, Encounters, Panorama, Forum, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino are nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Award. The prize money will be shared by the director and the producer of the winning film. The award will be presented during the official Award Ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on February 25, 2023. A three-member jury will pick the winner. Click here for more information.


     


     


     


     


     



     


     


     


    53 BERLINALE FORUM: Powerful documentaries stand alongside highly personal essay films, while works of fiction draw on pared-down plots or surrealist exuberance in equal measure. Whether narrow analogue formats or digital scans, 80s video footage or hand-coloured images from cinema’s early years: the 28 films that make up the 53rd Berlinale Forum main programme celebrate the diversity of cinematic forms, approaches and narratives, and explore the predicaments of the past and the present in unflinching fashion.
    With German documentary productions and co-productions such as:
    • DE FACTO • LEAVING AND STAYING • CALLS FROM MOSCOW • IN UKRAINE •


    18 FORUM EXPANDED is presenting a total of 33 works from 19 countries at the Forum Expanded cinemas, at the silent green Betonhalle, as well as at SAVVY Contemporary and in the Marshall McLuhan Salon of the Embassy of Canada in Berlin including German documentary productions and co-productions such as:
    • THE EARLY RAIN WHICH WASHES AWAY THE CHAFF BEFORE SPRING RAINS • AFRAID DOESN'T EXIST • IN-BETWEEN WORLD •


    PANORAMA screens extraordinary cinema, is a traditional audience favourite and - with its own audience award - has the festival’s biggest jury. Every year since 1999, the Berlinale’s biggest jury – the Panorama audience – has awarded the Panorama Audience Award for the most popular feature film and documentary. The section has always recognised its audience as its closest ally.
    • IRON BUTTERFLIES • UNDER THE SKY OF DAMASCUS •


    PERSPECTIVE The Perspektive Deutsches Kino section presents debut and second films produced in Germany but featuring universal, international stories. The selected narratives are multifaceted and courageous, their creators devise and realise them with curiosity, passion and originality.
    • KASH KASH – WITHOUT FEATHERS WE CAN'T LIVE • LONELY OAKS – ONLY YOUR LIFE BETWEEN  • NUCLEAR NOMADS •


    ENCOUNTERS is a platform aiming to foster aesthetically and structurally daring works from independent, innovative filmmakers. Its goal is to support new perspectives in cinema and to give more room to diverse narrative and documentary forms in the official selection. Conceived as a counterpoint and a complement to Competition, Encounters is a competitive section devoted to new cinematic visions. The films selected will challenge traditional forms and ask viewers to reconsider their positions in relation to them. Being a mirror of the different ways of production that have developed in the 21st century and reflecting this vibrant energy, Encounters will become a meeting point for filmmakers and producers, programmers and film critics, cinephiles and festival lovers. • THE ECHO •


     


     


     



     

     


    Visit our 'Companie Profile' AG DOK / German Documentaries online or let's meet booth 18 at GROPIUS BAU groundfloor under the umbrella of German Films, with Kordula Marisa Hildebrandt [t: +49 30 25920 - 842], who gladly will present your press material of your latest German documentary production or co-production.


    EFM 2023 Shipping Information:
    European Film Market
    Booth 18 [German Films / AG DOK / German Documentaries]
    contact: Kordula Marisa Hildebrandt
    GROPIUS BAU, Niederkirchnerstr. 7, 10963 Berlin, Germany


    'The European Film Market (EFM) of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival came to a successful close yesterday (February 22). After two online editions in 2021 and 2022 due to the pandemic, this year’s market, now once again on-site, reports record results with 230 stands and 612 companies from 78 countries and a total of over 11,500 market participants from 132 countries. These numbers are an impressive testament to the EFM’s position as one of the most significant audiovisual content trade platforms worldwide. 773 films were shown in 1,533 screenings, including 647 online screenings and 599 market premieres. The total number of buyers also rose to 1,302. 629 film projects were presented on the new Producers & Project Pages.' source: PR Feb 23, 2023
    Back in Full Force: The European Film Market (EFM) Reports Positive Results for the First Post-Pandemic Edition.


     


     



     

     


     


    EFM Market Screenings
    Focussing all activities at Potsdamer Platz, the EFM offers numerous state-of-the-art screening venues in different sizes, all in proximity to the EFM venues and the festival centre.



    • BE WATER – VOICES FROM HONG KONG by Lia Erbal, 94min, P: HANFGARN & UFER Filmproduktion,

    • THE BRIGHT PATH | HELLER WEG by Iryna Riabenka, 56min,

    • CRYPTOQUEEN: THE ONECOIN SCAM by Johan von Mibach, 88 or 52 or 4 x 25-33min, WS: JAVA FILMS, P: a&o buero

    • ELLIS by Sascha Just, 96min P: Freytag Productions, [with Ellis Marsalis Jr., Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Jason Marsalis, Ellis III. Marsalis]

    • GRETA'S BIRTH | GRETAS GEBURT by Katja Baumgarten, WS: viktoria11.de Dokumentarfilm

    • THE LOST SOULS OF SYRIA | LES SUPPLICIES by Stéphane Malterre, Garance Le Caisne, 103min, WS: The Party Film Sales

    • THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION | LUFTKRIEG – DIE NATURGESCHICHTE DER ZERSTÖRUNG by Sergei Loznitsa, P: LOOKSfilm, Studio Uljana Kim, ATOMS & VOID, D: PROGRESS Film

    • SHARING THE HARVEST | ERNTE TEILEN by Philipp Petruch, 84min WS: Philipp Petruch

    • TOGOLAND PROJECTIONS by Jürgen Ellinghaus, 96min, P: AndanaFilms, P: maxim film


     


     


     


    73 BERLINALE Press Releases click here.
    BERLINALE video channel click here.


     


     


     



     


    POWER FOR CHANGE!
    global forum for women film organizations @berlinale 2023


    As part of the Berlinale 2023, the global forum for women film organizations will shine a light on the work of women filmmakers who operate in war zones and other areas of danger and conflict currently shaking the world. On Friday February 17th at 10a.m. at the Embassy of Canada to Germany, Leipziger Platz 17, 10117 Berlin [admission 9.15 am]
    The aim of this event is to highlight the importance of female voices during times of crisis and in authoritarian regimes. Female filmmakers from Afghanistan, Iran and Ukraine are invited to the panel to share their perspectives. Get yout ticket here.


     


     


     


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    • 73 BERLINALE 2023
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    72 BERLINALE 2022
    • 71 BERLINALE 2021
    • 70 BERLINALE 2020
    • 69 BERLINALE 2019
    • 68 BERLINALE 2018


     ••• 74 BERLINALE, Februar 15—25, 2024 •••

  • 20 dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg, april 24-30, 2023

              With German productions and co-productions a.o. ALL SOUNDS WITHIN | TODOS LOS SONIDOS ENTRAN ADENTRO by Salka Tiziana, 26min, AN ...

     


     



     

     

     


    With German productions and co-productions a.o.



    • ALL SOUNDS WITHIN | TODOS LOS SONIDOS ENTRAN ADENTRO by Salka Tiziana, 26min,

    • AN OPEN MIND | DER OFFENE BLICK by Peter Nestler, 101min

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

    • EIGENTLICH EIGENTLICH JANUAR by Jan Peters, 100min,

    • INJUSTICE AND RESISTANCE | UNRECHT UND WIDERSTAND by Peter Nestler, 113min,

    • I'TIKAAF by Raaed Al Kour, Anna-Maria Dutoit, 30min

    • KAYU BESI by Andrianus 'Oetjoe' Merdhi, Max Sänger, 28min

    • KLASSENVERHÄLTNISSE AM BODENSEE by Ariane Andereggen, Ted Gaier, 82min

    • NÖRDLICH VON LIBYEN – DARIUSH UND ANTJE by Luise Müller, 60min

    • RETREAT by Anabela Angelovska, 30min

    • TARA by Volker Sattel, Francesca Bertin, 86min,

    • THREE WOMEN | DREI FRAUEN by Maksym Melnyk, 85min

    • WITHIN SIGHTS by Benjamin Hassmann, 30min

    • URBAN SOLUTIONS by Minze Tummescheit, Arne Hector, Luciana Mazeto, Vinícius Lopes, 30min


     


     


     


     



     MY MOTHER, A WAR AND ME by Tamara Trampe

     

     


    20 dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg dedicate a small tribute to the film-maker and dramaturge Tamara Trampe, who died at the end of 2021. In a panel discussion with long-time companions, it will be possible to look at the work of the exceptional documentarian.



    • MEINE MUTTER, EIN KRIEG UND ICH | MY MOTHER, A WAR AND ME by Tamara Trampe, Johann Feindt, 78min

    • WEISSE RABEN – ALPTRAUM TSCHETSCHENIEN by Tamara Trampe, Johann Feindt, 92min


     


    Download the PDF with the programme of the 20th edition of the dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg here.


     

  • 44 FF Max Ophuels Preis, Januar 23-29, 2023

     THE PRIZE OF FILM CRITICS as well as BEST ORIGINAL SCORE DOCUMENTARY goes to INDEPENDENCE by Felix Meyer-Christian with Helen Wendt and composer ...

     THE PRIZE OF FILM CRITICS as well as BEST ORIGINAL SCORE DOCUMENTARY goes to INDEPENDENCE by Felix Meyer-Christian with Helen Wendt and composer Marcus Thomas.



    Felix Meyer-Christian with Helen Wendt

     

     


    "...A young Afro-German woman from Berlin embarks on a search for her roots. In the process, not only is the changeable relationship between the GDR and Mozambique made clear, but above all the question of identity, belonging and independence is raised. Based on this personal story, the successful essay film traces other independence movements, lets people from South Sudan have their say, from Catalonia, Great Britain and also from Bavaria. The struggle for independence, be it Brexit or the national Bavarian party, is neither judged nor ridiculed, but taken seriously. By playing out independence on three levels, the personal, the political and the symbolic on the theater stage, the film develops a tremendous pull and thus appears unstrained and immediate. Only when the question of belonging is clarified can one be truly independent." [Jury Prize of Film Critics]


     


     


     


    The Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival is considered the most important newcomer film festival in the German-speaking world, giving voice and presenting the works of new talents from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 


     



     

     

     


     


    WETTBEWERB DOKUMENTARFILM with eleven films from German speaking countries, such as Austria, Germany and Switzerland, competing for four prizes:



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

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

    • MAX OPHÜLS PRIZE: PUBLIC PRIZE DOCUMENTARY FILM is endowed with 5,000 Euros by Dillinger and Saarstahl. The prize is awarded to an entry from the Documentary Film competition by a vote of the festival audience.

    • The award of the non-endowed MAX OPHÜLS PRIZE: PRIZE OF FILM CRITICS is decided by a three-member jury composed of the film critics' associations from Germany (BVMJ and VdFk), Austria (Austrian Film Critics' Guild) and Switzerland (SVFJ).


     


     


    LineUp German documentary productions and co-productions



    • 1 KILO – 3 EURO by Ani Mrelashvili, 16min, P: Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, [MOP-SHORTLIST]

    • 27 STOREYS by Bianca Gleissinger, 90min, P: Mischief Film, Egoli Tossell Pictures [Wettbewerb Dokumentarfilm]

    • 3 ROJ | 3 TAGE by Pesheng Ali, 8min, P: HBK – Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar, [MOP-SHORTLIST]

    • ARALKUM by Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi, 14min [MOP-SHORTLIST]

    • BERLIN BYTCH LOVE by Heiko Aufdermauer, Johannes Girke, 86min, P: SILENTFILM,  [MOP-WATCHLIST] 

    • BLUE SKY WHITE CLOUDS by Astrid Menzel, 91min, P: Freischwimmer Film GmbH  [MOP-WATCHLIST] 

    • CHEMKIDS by Julius Gintaras Blum, 27min, P: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, [MOP-SHORTLIST]

    • DAS ASOZIALE MANIFEST by Michel Decar, 7min, [MOP-SHORTLIST]

    • EINZELTÄTER – TEIL 2: HALLE [work in progress – part 2 of a trilogy ] by Julian Vogel, 80min, P: CORSO Film- und Fernsehprod. [Wettbewerb Dokumentarfilm]

    • GOLDHAMMER by André Krummel, Pablo Ben Yakov, 93min, P: GLOTZENOFF,  [Wettbewerb Dokumentarfilm] 

    • HAO ARE YOU by Dieu Hao Do, 90min, P: HANFGARN & UFER Filmproduktion [Wettbewerb Dokumentarfilm] 

    • IN YOUR HANDS | IN DEINEN HÄNDEN by Sophie Dettmar, 66min, P: KHM – Academy of Media Arts Cologne, [Wettbewerb Dokumentarfilm]

    • INDEPENDENCE by Felix Meyer-Christian, 90min, P: Costa Compagnie [Wettbewerb Dokumentarfilm] 

    • LAS FLORES by Miguel Goya, Tin Wilke, 19min [MOP-SHORTLIST]

    • RUKLA – CURRENTLY NO ENEMY IN SIGHT | RUKLA – MOMENTAN KEINE FEINDSICHT by Steffi Wurster, 87min, P: Büchner Filmproduktion, WS: NEW DOCS [Wettbewerb Dokumentarfilm] 

    • STAGING DEATH by Jan Soldat, 8min [MOP-SHORTLIST]

    • WELCOME TO URLAU | URLAU(B) by Eva Hartmann, 90min, P: Luzid Film GmbH, [Wettbewerb Dokumentarfilm] 


     


     


     


     


     


     



     

     

     


     


     


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    • 44 FF Max Ophüls Preis 2023
    • 43 FF Max Ophüls Preis 2022
    • 42 FF Max Ophüls Preis 2021
    • 41 FF Max Ophüls Preis 2020
    • 40 FF Max Ophüls Preis 2019


     

  • 52 IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam, Jan 25 – Feb 5, 2023

            with German documentary productions and co-productions such as: ASHES BY NAME IS MAN by Ewelina Rosinska, 20min, P: DFFB, [Short & ...

     


     



     


     


    with German documentary productions and co-productions such as:



    • ASHES BY NAME IS MAN by Ewelina Rosinska, 20min, P: DFFB, [Short & Mid-Length]

    • LA EMPRESA  by André Siegers, 94min, P: FÜNFERFILM UG, [Bright Future]

    • LANDEN by Vanessa Nica Mueller, 64min [Harbour]

    • MARINE TARGET by Lukas Marxt, 9min 36sec, D: sixpackfilm, [Short & Mid-Length]

    • PARADISO, XXXI, 108 by Kamal Aljafar, 18min 40sec [Short & Mid-Length]

    • YUGOTRANSPORT – WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME BUS | YUGOTRANSPORT – WIR SITZEN ALLE IM SELBEN BUS by Boris Hadžija, 23min, P: DFFB, [Short & Mid-Length]


     


    Find all German productions and co-productions at the 52 edition of IFFR at the website of GERMAN FILMS.


     


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    • 52 IFFR 2023 •

  • Four german documentaries are shortlisted for the European Film Award 2022

    and MARIUPOLIS 2 by Mantas Kvedaravicius is the winner of the award European Documentary 2022     Mantas Kvedaravicius was captured and killed ...

    and MARIUPOLIS 2 by Mantas Kvedaravicius is the winner of the award European Documentary 2022



     

     


    Mantas Kvedaravicius was captured and killed by Russian Forces in the end of March, 2022 in Mariupol while documenting Russia's invasion of Ukrainian territory.


    The 35 EUROPEAN FILM AWARD ceremony took place   December 10, 2022, 20:15 CET.


     


     


     


     



    #efa2022

     


     


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



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

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

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

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


     


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


     


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  • IDFA 2022, November 9–20

        GUESTS MEET GUESTS by German Films & German Documentaries, Sunday November 13, 2022, 6p.m. at Felix Merits, Keizersgracht 324. All IDFA ...

     


     


    GUESTS MEET GUESTS by German Films & German Documentaries, Sunday November 13, 2022, 6p.m. at Felix Merits, Keizersgracht 324. All IDFA Guests are invited to meet, exchange ideas, and have a drink.


     



    IDFA 2022 Guests Meet Guests at Felix Meritis Zuilenlounge

    Foto: 2022 Melle Maivogel

     


     


     



    35 IDFA 2022, November 9–20 at Amsterdam


     


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


      


     


    LineUp of German productions and co-productions



    • THE 3 ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA | MELANCHOLIAN 3 HUONETTA by Pirjo Honkasalo, 106min, WS: Deckert Distribution, [©2004, Focus: Around Masculinity, Top 10]

    • ANHELL69 by Theo Montoya, 72min, WS: Square Eyes, D: SALZGEBER [Best of Fests]

    • THE ANTICIPATION OF RAIN by Naima Karim, 7min [IDFA DocLab]

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

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

    • CITIZENFOUR by Laura Poitras, WS: CAT&Docs, [©2014, Retrospective: Laura Poitras]

    • DANCING WITH DEATH ANIMALS by Maarten Isaäk de Heer, 10min, P: Menetekel Film [IDFA DocLab]

    • DANSE MACABRE by Thunska Pansittivorakul, Phassarawin Kulsomboon, 90min, coP: Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion, [Paradocs]

    • DORPIE by Julia Jaki, 77min, P: Film Five [Frontlight]

    • EUROPE by Philip Scheffner, 105min, P: pong film, WS: Square Eyes, [Paradocs]

    • GHANA AIRWAYS by Hakeem Adam, 60min, [IDFA DocLab]

    • GRANMA. TROMBONES FROM HAVANA by Stefan Kaegi, 120min [IDFA on Stage, IDFA DocLab]

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

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

    • LIGHT FALLS VERTICAL | ARE LA ILUM CAU VERTICAL by Efthymia Zymvragaki, 83min, P: Gris Medio, THURNFILM [Envision Competition, Focus: Around Masculinity]

    • LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY by Werner Herzog [©1997, Focus: Playing Reality]

    • THE LOST SOULS OF SYRIA | LES SUPPLICIES by Stéphane Malterre & Garance Le Caisne, 99min, P: Les Films d'Ici, Katuh Studio, WS: The Party Film Sales, [Frontlight]

    • MERKEL by Eva Weber, 97min, WS: Cinetic, coP: LOOKSfilm, [Frontlight]

    • MARIUPOLIS by Mantas Kvedaravicius, 80min, coP: Twenty Twenty Vision [© 2016, Special Screening]

    • MARIUPOLIS 2 by Mantas Kvedaravicius, 112min, WS: The Match Factory, coP: Twenty Twenty Vision [Special Screening]

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

    • MONEY, FREEDOM, A STORY OF CFA FRANC | L'ARGENT, LA LIBERTE, UNE HISTOIRE DU FRANC CFA by Lena Ndiaye, 102min, WS: Tact Production, coP: Film Five [Frontlight]

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

    • NOTES ON DISPLACEMENT by Khaled Jarrar, 74min, P: KASKE FILM, Jenin Films, Odeh Films, [Envision Competition]

    • A PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL by lian Metev, Ivan Chertov, Zlatina Teneva, 114min, coP: Sutor Kolonko [Best of Fests]

    • RETURN TO HOMS by Talal Derki, 87min, WS: Journeyman Pictures, ©2013, [Top 10]

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

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

    • SOCIAL BOUQUET by Constant Dullaart, [IDFA DocLab]

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

    • SUBTOTALS | MAJMOUAN by Mohammadreza Farzad, 16min, [Best of Fests]

    • SWARM by Maarten Isaäk de Heer, 10min [IDFA Doclab]

    • THEATRE OF WAR by Lola Arias, 81min, coP: Sutor Kolonko [©2018, Focus: Playing Reality]

    • THREADS OF GLASS | GLASFÄDEN by Ben Wahl, 35min, [IDFA DocLab]

    • TRAINED TO SEE – THREE WOMEN AND THE WAR | DREI FRAUEN UND DER KRIEG by Luzia Schmid, 106min, P: EIKON Media, WS: NEW DOCS [Frontlight]

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

    • WERNER HERZOG: RADICAL DREAMER by Thomas von Steinaecker, 103min, coP: 3B-PRODUKTION, D: RFF – Real Fiction Filmverleih, [Best of Fests]

    • WHEN SPRING CAME TO BUCHA | LEBEN NACH BUTSCHA – TRAUMA UND HOFFNUNG by Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz, 66min, P: wildfilms, WS: NEW DOCS [Luminous]


     


     


     


     


     


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


    Arne Birkenstock [Fruitmarket Kultur und Medien GmbH]
    Antje Boehmer, Neke Huff [Docdays Productions]
    Lina Dinkla [DOK Leipzig]
    Anja Dzierks, Stefan Kloos [Rise and Shine World Sales]
    Georg Gruber [MAGNETFILM - World Sales]
    Monika Haas [DOK.fest Munich]
    Kai Hermann [NOISE Film&TV]
    Michael Höfner [GMfilms]
    Nele Huff [Docdays Productions]
    Natalia Imaz [parabellum film GmbH]
    Tina Janker [HFF Munich]
    Michael Kalb [HFF Munich]
    Lena Karbe [Karbe Film GmbH]
    Adele Kohout [DOK.fest Munich]
    Sonia Otto [Gebrüder Beetz Filmprod.]
    Ulli Pfau [EIKON Media GmbH]
    Holger Recktenwald [Mindjazz Pictures Distribution & World Sales]
    Katharina Pethke [director of ©2022 Uncanny Me, ©2021 Everyman and I, ©2019 Elsa In-Between, ©2011 Louisa, ©2009 Burning within]
    Philip Scheffner [PONG]
    Luisa Schwamborn [NEW DOCS - World Sales]
    Nele Stoß [DOK.fest Munich]
    Stefano Strocchi [Unknown Media GmbH]
    Christoph Terhechte [DOK Leipzig]
    Alex Tondowski [Tondowski Films]
    Rebeccda Zehr [taro films]


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


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


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


    IDFA's markets


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


     


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


     


     


     


    DOCS FOR SALE CATALOGUE 2022
    including German productions and co-productions such as:



    • 300 TRILLION – THE DEPT TRAP by Rudolph Herzog, 83 or 52min, WS: First Hand Films, P: Neue Celluloid Fabrik [Docs for Sale]

    • ANGELS OF SINJAR by Hanna Polak, 110min, WS: Deckert Distribution, [Docs for Sale]

    • CRYPTOQUEEN: THE ONECOIN SCAM by Johan von Mirbach, 90min, P: a&o buero, WS: Java Films [Docs for Sale]

    • DANCING PINA by Florian Heinzen-Ziob, 111min, P: DOCDAYS Productions, WS: NEW DOCS [Docs for Sale]

    • THE DEAL | VERHÄNGNISVOLLE VERSPRECHEN – DAS NIGERIANISCHE NETZWERK by Chiara Sambuchi, 90 or 52min, P: DOCDAYS Productions, WS: NEW DOCS [Docs for Sale]

    • ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED | ELFRIEDE JELINEK - DIE SPRACHE VON DER LEINE LASSEN by Claudia Müller, 96min, WS: sixpackfilm [Docs for Sale]

    • ENLIGHTEMENT | AUFKLÄRUNG by Michael Schmitt, 4x52min, P: Weltrecorder, WS: RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES U.G. [Docs for Sale]

    • EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE by Marten Persiel, 93min, P: Flare Film, WINDMILL FILM [Docs for Sale]

    • THE EYES OF DANTE | GIL OCCHI DI DANTE | MIT DANTES AUGEN by Adolfo Conti, 52min, P: Doc Art, Leonardo Film, [Docs for Sale] 

    • FRITZ BAUER'S LEGACY by Sabine Lamby, Cornelia Partmann, Isabel Gathof, 98min, WS: MAGNETFILM, [Docs for Sale]

    • THE FOREST MAKER | DER WALDMACHER by Volker Schlöndorff, 87min, P: Zero One Film, WS: Patra Spanou Film Marketing & Consulting [Docs for Sale]

    • HOSPITALITY | 4 STERNE PLUS by Antje Schneider, 90min, WS: RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES U.G. [Docs for Sale]

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

    • ICE UNDER HIS FEET by Kirill Nenashev, 92min, WS: ANT!PODE Sales International, [Docs for Sale]

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

    • THE JOURNALIST AND HER JAILERS by Adithya Sambamurthy, 82min, P: Tondowski Films, WS: First Hand Films [Docs for Sale]

    • KASH KASH – WITHOUT FEATHERS WE CAN'T LIVE by Lea Najjar, 59 or 90min, WS: MAGNETFILM, [Docs for Sale]

    • LARS EIDINGER – TO BE OR NOT TO BE | LARS EIDINGER – SEIN ODER NICHT SEIN by Reiner Holzemer, 93min, WS: Reiner Holzemer Film [Docs for Sale]

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

    • THE RETURN OF INFLATION – THE GRAVY DAYS ARE GONE | DIE RÜCKKEHR DER INFLATION – DIE FETTEN JAHRE SIND VORBEI by Matthias Heeder, P: Kick Film GmbH, WS: RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES U.G. [Docs for Sale]

    • SAVOY by Zohar Wagner, 78min, WS: JMT Films Distribution [Docs for Sale]

    • SHE CHEF | WANDERJAHRE by Gereon Wetzel, 100min, WS: MAGNETFILM, [Docs for Sale]

    • SLEEPLESS BIRDS by Tom Claudon, Dana Melaver, 45min, P: Pangolin Doxx Films, [Docs for Sale]

    • THIS STOLEN COUNTRY OF MINE by Marc Wiese, 93 or 52 min, WS: MAGNETFILM [Docs for Sale]

    • THE STRAIT GUYS by Rick Minnich, 99min, WS: Hanfgarn und Ufer Filmprod. [Docs for Sale]

    • VERIFIED COUPLE | PORNFLUENCER by Joscha Bongard, 74 or 52min, WS: First Hand Films, P: Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg, [Docs for Sale]

    • VILLAGE X [four stories, each split in two 30min episodes] by Dominik Bretsch, 240min, WS: RISE AND SHINE WORLD SALES U.G. [Docs for Sale]


     


     


     


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


     


    IDFA Forum Pitch: Selected projects



    • Catching Them Young by Pankaj Johar, P: Penny Wise Films (India), Ventana Film (Germany)

    • Niñxs by Kani Lapuerta, P: La Sandía Digital Producción Audiovisual (Mexico), JYOTI FILMS, DIRKMANTHEY FILM (Germany)


     


      


    IDFA DocLab Forum takes place November 14-16, 2022.
    • Presentations & Pitches: November 14-15 (mornings)
    • One-on-one meetings: November 14-16


     IDFA DocLab Forum: Selected projects



    • The Chaos Simulator by Dov Heichemer, P: XR Coven (Germany)

    • DoX by Nimrod Shanit, P: HCXR - Holy City VR (Canada), INVR.SPACE GmbH (Germany)

    • Masquerade. Chapter One: Pillaro's Devil's Dance, by Juan Pablo Urgilés, P: Imán Transmedia (Ecuador), INVR.SPACE GmbH (Germany), Realidad 360º Argentina (Argentina)


     


     


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



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

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

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

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

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

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

    • Luminous
      The premiere-only section’s lineup includes a wide range of styles and formalist approaches, from observational to personal to experimental. The Luminous section presents 24 titles and a wide spectrum of stylistic approaches: from cinéma vérité to experimental; from artist-driven works to socio-politically engaged films. Together, they claim the personal as a window onto the universal. Explore the titles.

    • Frontlight
      The premiere-only section take an artistic approach to exploring the urgent issues of our time. This year's Frontlight section consists of 23 films, showcasing a leading cohort of truth-seeking filmmakers who don’t compromise on stylistic integrity. Together, they reflect on some shocking global developments in the media industry, the economic systems that preside over lives around the world and urgent political events currently unfolding around us. Explore the titles.

    • IDFA on Stage
      selection presents a boundary-breaking program of live cinema events — bridging film, new media, and the performing arts. Explore the selection below. The final title will be announced on October 20.

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

    • Paradocs
      The Paradocs program returns with a selection of 10 films, showcasing the year’s leading experimental documentary art. From surrealist works about subterranean spaces to nostalgic homages to a city, this section is truly genre-bending. Explore the selection.

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

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

    • Top 10
      Ten films selected by IDFA’s Guest of Honor, from influential masterpieces to hidden documentary gems. Long prolific in the spheres of documentary and journalism, Poitras’ fearless filmmaking has changed the world as we know it. Her unflinching examination of oppression, representation, and resistance, well-known from her own body of work, finds new affinity in her Top 10 program, in which Poitras curates ten films key to the human condition. Explore the titles in the program.

    • Focus Program: Around Masculinity
      From the alpha male to toxic masculinity, the focus program Around Masculinity interrogates the problematic social construct that is masculinity from a variety of perspectives. The curated section homes in on a blind spot in film history, inviting audiences to take a hard look at their heroes by re-reading classics. Other themes explored include fragile masculinity, masculinity seen through its relation to religion and nationalism and institutional domination of women by men.

    • Focus Program: Playing Reality
      Bringing the drama of documentary film center stage, the titles in this focus program creatively reimagine the concept of theatricality. The selection includes films that are centered around the performativity of language and voice; use re-enactment as a documentary film instrument; utilize the physical space of the theater; experiment with mise-en-scène; and more. More titles to be announced.


     


     


     


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

  • 25 RIDM November 17 – 27, 2022, Montreal

            Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) This year’s selection tallies up to 134 films from 49 countries that aim to reflect ...

     


     



     


     


    Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)



    This year’s selection tallies up to 134 films from 49 countries that aim to reflect the current state of the world, while also showcasing the sheer breadth of creativity and diversity in documentary cinema. Several discussions and activities, all free of charge, are also included in the lineup, thus enabling important conversations around documentary to take place, and bringing the ‘encounters’ (or ‘rencontres’) component of the festival to the forefront. 


    For this anniversary edition, the RIDM carries on with its mission to bring together the films of both established directors and new talents. A whopping 58 emerging filmmakers will present their first or second works at this year’s edition. The festival is also delighted to welcome 27 international filmmakers to its event, and to acknowledge the work of female directors, by presenting again this year a program in which a majority of films were made by women.


     


     


    LineUp German documentary productions and co-productions:



    • 5 DREAMERS AND A HORSE by Vahagn Khachatryan, Aren Malakyan, 82min, P: COLOR OF MAY Imanov & Blondiau, [Int. Feature Competition]

    • ANHELL69 by Theo Montoya, 72min, WS: Square Eyes, [Int. Feature Competition]

    • CHANGE OF SCENERY | TAPETENWECHSEL by Noa Blanche Beschorner, 6min, [Short and Medium-Length National Competition]

    • HERBARIA by Leandro Listorti, 83min,  [Int. Feature Competition]

    • MANGROVE SCHOOL by Filipa César, Sónia Vaz Borges, 35min, [Panorama - Against the Grain]

    • THE ONE WHO RUNS AWAY IS THE GHOST by Qinyuan Lei, 72min, P: Moserfilm, [Panorama - Against the Grain]

    • REPUBLIC OF SILENCE by Diana El Jeiroudi, 183min, D: Salzgeber, [Panorama - Essentials]

    • REWIND & PLAY by Alain Gomis. 66min, coP: Die Gesellschaft DGS, [Opening Film]

    • URBAN SOLUTIONS by Minze Tummescheit, Luciana Mazeto, Vinícius Lopes, Arne Hector, 30min, [International Short and Medium-Length Competition]

    • XARASSI XANNE | CROSSING VOICES | LES VOIX CROISÉE by Bouba Touré, Raphaël Grisey, 122min, coP: weltfilm GmbH, [Panorama - Horizons]


     


     


     


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    • 25 RIDM 2022 •


     

  • 39 DOK FEST KASSEL Nov 15-20, 2022

    + ONLINE until Nov 27.   ...and the A-38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle goes to ANNA by Julia Roesler. HOW TO SAVE A DEAD FRIEND by Marusya ...

    + ONLINE until Nov 27.


     



    • ...and the A-38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle goes to ANNA by Julia Roesler.

    • HOW TO SAVE A DEAD FRIEND by Marusya Syroechkovskaya gets awarded with the GOLDEN KEY.

    • WILL MY PARENTS COME TO SEE ME by Mo Harawe gets awarded with the GOLDEN HERKULES

    • find all Honorary Award 39th Kassel Dokfest here.


     



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    This year, Kassel Dokfest takes place in hybrid form. An extensive programme has been put together with numerous special programmes, 251 films as well as 19 media installations from 56 countries. Programme overview as PDF available here.


     


     


     LineUp german documentary productions and co-productions among others



    • 49 PROBLEMS (and my future is one) by Maxi Buck, 86min,

    • ANAF HOB – MIGUEL'S WAR by Eliane Raheb, 128min, P: Itar Productions | Eliane Raheb,

    • ANIMA, MY FATHER'S DRESSES | ANIMA – DIE KLEIDER MEINES VATERS by Uli Decker, 104min, P: Flare Film, D: FARBFILMVERLEIH,

    • ANNA by Julia Roesler, 18min, P: werkgruppe2,

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

    • DANCING PINA by Florian Heinzen-Ziob, 111min, P: DOCDAYS Productions, WS: NEW DOCS,

    • DUST OF MODERN LIFE | PA VA HENG by Franziska von Stenglin, 75min, P: Punchline Cinéma,

    • ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED | ELFRIEDE JELINEK - DIE SPRACHE VON DER LEINE LASSEN by Claudia Müller, 96min, WS: sixpackfilm,

    • EUROPA PASSAGE by Andrei Schwarz, 90min, P: WÜSTE Film,

    • EUROPE by Philip Scheffner, 105min, P: pong film, WS: Square Eyes,

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

    • THE HAMLET SYNDROM | SYNDROM HAMLETA by Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski, 86min, P: Kundschafter Filmproduktion,

    • HERBARIA by Leandro Listorti, P: Kino Rebelde, 84min

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

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

    • LADIES ONLY by Rebana Liz John, 79min, P: KHM,

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

    • NACH DER ARBEIT by Alexander Riedel, 120min, P: PELLE FILM Riedel und Timm GbR,

    • SOMETHING COMES TO LIGHT | ETWAS KOMMT ZU TAGE by Arianna Waldner Bingemer, 72min

    • SOBER TOGETHER | GEMEINSAM NÜCHTERN by Fabian Schmalenbach, 117min, P: Kinescope Film,

    • TARA by Volker Sattel, Francesca Bertin, 86min, P: FuFi Film | Volker Sattel,

    • WILL MY PARENTS COME TO SEE ME by Mo Harawe, 28min, WS: sixpackfilm

    • WIN WIN by Friedrich Rackwitz, 84min, P: NEOS Film, FORTIS GREEN FILM+Medien, HFF Munich,


     


     


     


     

  • 65 DOK Leipzig October 17–23, 2022

         The awards of the 65th edition of DOK Leipzig were presented on Saturday October 22, 2022 at the Schaubühne Lindenfels in Leipzig. Following ...

     



      


    The awards of the 65th edition of DOK Leipzig were presented on Saturday October 22, 2022 at the Schaubühne Lindenfels in Leipzig. Following the week-long festival, a selection of the award-winning films will be shown online throughout Germany in the DOK Stream from 24 to 30 October. Two feature-lenght debut films winning Golden Doves.


     


    The awarded german documentaries are:



    • The Golden Dove in the International Competition went to Theo Montoya for his debut feature-length documentary Anhell69. This co-production from Colombia, Romania, France and Germany portrays a queer young generation in a Colombia marked by violence and repression, in a very real ghost story told in atmospheric images. The 10,000-euro Golden Dove is sponsored by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk.

    • In the Competition for the Audience Award, the Golden Dove including 3,000 Euros went to THREE WOMEN by Maxim Melnyk. In encounters with three independent women, Melnyk documents rural life in the Ukrainian village of Stuzhytsya near the EU border. “This film brings us images of joie de vivre and lightness. Images that we don’t often see coming from that country at the moment. It creates connections and unites people through the screen,” according to the statement by the audience jury.
      The DEFA Sponsoring Prize, which includes 4,000 Euros granted by the DEFA Foundation, went to Maxim Melnyk for THREE WOMEN as well.

    • In the German Competition, filmmaker Sönje Storm was awarded the Golden Dove (3,000 Euros) for DEAD BIRDS FLYING HIGH | DIE TOTEN VÖGEL SIND OBEN, another first feature documentary winning the main prize. The director goes through old boxes left behind by her great-grandfather, Jürgen Friedrich Mahrt. This farmer and naturalist documented the local flora and fauna with the aid of photography and taxidermy and thus already observed the extinction of species as well as harbingers of today’s climate crisis in the early 20th century.

    • The Silver Dove in the German Competition Short Film, which includes prize money of 1,500 Euros and is sponsored by IG Metall Leipzig, went to Jonathan Brunner for BORDER CONVERSATIONS, a film that follows Polish activists in the border region between Belarus and Poland in the winter of 2021.

    • The 3,000-Euro MDR Film Prize for an outstanding Eastern European documentary was awarded to Marek Kozakiewicz for SILENT LOVE,  telling the story of a woman who attempts to obtain custody of her brother in a conservative part of Poland and to live with her partner in an alternative family arrangement.

    • The Film Prize Leipziger Ring honours a documentary about human rights, democracy or civil engagement, is granted by Stiftung Friedliche Revolution (Foundation of the Peaceful Revolution) and comes with 2,500 Euros. This year’s award went to PASTOR LOTHAR STOPS | KÖNIG HÖRT AUF, Tilman König’s documentary about his father, the former Jena pastor and left-wing activist Lothar König. The portrait received the ver.di Prize for Solidarity, Humanity and Fairness, which includes 1,500 Euros in prize money as well.

    • The 2,000-Euro Young Eyes Film Award, granted by Leipziger Stadtbau AG, went to  BLUE SKY WHITE CLOUDS | BLAUER HIMMEL WEISSE WOLKEN by Astrid Menzel. In this film, the director takes her grandmother, who suffers from dementia, on a canoe trip in northern Germany. The prize was awarded by the Youth Jury in cooperation with Filmschule Leipzig e.V.

    • The Gedanken-Aufschluss Award went to YONII by Julius Gintaras Blum, a portrait of a Swabian-Moroccan actor and rapper. The prize is awarded by a jury of prisoners at the Juvenile Detention Centre Regis-Breitingen.


    Information about all of DOK Leipzig’s juries can be found here: Awards & Juries
    Find the press release with all award winners of 65 DOK Leipzig here – or browse the two articles online:
    • Announcing the winners of the Partnership Awards 2022
    • Two feature-length debut films winning Golden Doves .


     


    DOK Stream



     


     


    At 65 DOK Leipzig a total of 41,523 attendances having been registered. 30,596 attendees were counted at the cinema screenings, talks and industry events as well as at the DOK Neuland exhibition. From 17 to 23 October, audiences at the Leipzig venues were shown 255 films and extended reality (XR) experiences from 55 countries. Following the week of the festival, eleven award-winning films from the programme were available online throughout Germany in the DOK Stream for one week.
    The six programmes in the Retrospective The Female Documentarists of the GDR as well as the two Matinees on related themes were very well received. The two Master Classes by Mila Turajli? and Špela ?adež also met with enthusiasm. The free screenings at the Leipzig main station were again in high demand, as was the DOK Neuland exhibition of immersive XR experiences. 


     


     


     



     

     

     


     



     


     


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


     


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



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

    • ANHELL69 by Theo Montoya, 72min [International Competition]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    • DANIEL RICHTER by Pepe Danquart, 117min, P: B|14Film GmbH, [German competition]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    • A PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL by lian Metev, Ivan Chertov, Zlatina Teneva, 114min, coP: Sutor Kolonko [Panorama Middle and Eastern Europe]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


     Browse the full LineUp of the festival here.


     


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


     


     


     


     



     


    DOK Leipzig Retrospective to recognise female documentary filmmakers of the GDR


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


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


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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


     


     


     



     Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022


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



    • BONEY PILES by Taras Tomenko, 80min

    • INFINITY ACCORDING TO FLORIAN by Oleksly Radynski, 70min

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

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

    • PRYVOZ by Eva Neymann, 72min


     


     


     


     



     

     

     


    DOK Industry .


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


    Svitlana Lishchynska receiving the Saxon Award for the Best Documentary Project by a Female Director at the opening ceremony of 65 DOK Leipzig.



    Barbara Klepsch and Svitlana Lishchynska

    Foto by Viktoria Conzelmann


    Saxon State Minister for Culture and Tourism Barbara Klepsch presented the Saxon Award for the Best Documentary Project by a Female Director worth 5,000 Euros, to Ukrainian filmmaker Svitlana Lishchynska for her project A BIT OF A STRANGER. It tells the story of Svitlana’s mother, daughter and granddaughter — three generations of a family from Mariupol who have lost their national identity due to the long-term imperial policy of Moscow and are currently facing the Russian war of aggression.


     


     


     


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


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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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


     


     


     



     


    DOK Preview Germany with seven new German film projects ready for an international audience



    • 300 TRILLION by Rudolph Herzog, Neue Celluloid Fabrik

    • BOYZ by Sylvain Cruiziat, madfilms .

    • CALLS FROM MOSCOW by Luis Alejandro Yero, COSMIC productions

    • FOR THE TIME BEING by Nele Dehnenkamp, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

    • HEAVEN CAN WAIT by Sven Halfar, Heimathafen Film & Media GmbH

    • TELL THEM ABOUT US by Rand Beiruty, Tondowski Films

    • WENDSCHE HANKA by Grit Lemke, It Works! Medien GmbH


     



    ...and the D-Facto Motion Works-in-Progress Prize, a post-production grant of 10,000 Euros goes to 300 TRILLION by Rudolph Herzog, Neue Celluloid Fabrik. 

     

     


     


     


    Awards presented at the 2022 edition are:



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

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

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

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


     


     


     


     


     



     


     


     


     



     



     


     


     


    Tuesday, October 18 from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., our traditional AG DOK Panel [sorry in German only] will take place at the Zeitgeschichtliches Forum (Grimmaische Straße 6, on the 3rd floor) as part of the DOK.Leipzig Festival, this time on the following topic:


    Die ARD nach der sogenannten 'Krise im RBB'


    ARD after the so-called 'Crisis at RBB'
    What reforms do the supervisory bodies need to prevent such systemic failure in the future?



    The broadcasters urgently need supervisory bodies that are capable of fulfilling the expectations and tasks placed upon them. What organizational and personnel changes do the ARD bodies need in order to be prepared for the challenges ahead? We will discuss these questions with Saxony's Minister of State for Media, a WDR broadcasting councillor, a long-time media politician, a director and former editorial director of SWR, and an academic, in order to chart paths for strong public broadcasting that can fulfill its important social function in the future.



    Guests:



    • Oliver Schenk
      Head of the Saxon State Chancellery, Minister of State for Federal Affairs and Media
      Tabea Rößner Journalist, author and editor, member of DIE GRÜNEN [The Green Party] in the German Bundestag since 2009

    • Petra Schmitz
      Member of the WDR-Rundfunkrat [WDR Broadcasting Council] since 2016, Head of the Documentary Film Initiative (dfi) at the Filmbüro NW until 2020

    • Goggo Gensch
      Director, author, curator, from 2017 to 2019 director of the SWR Doku-Festival and the German Documentary Film Award, member of the AG DOK and section head of the documentary film section in the DAfF

    • Dominik Speck
      Research associate at the Institute of Journalism at TU Dortmund University and author of the expertise Öffentliche Anteilnahme ermöglichen. Transparenz, Aufsicht und öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunk in Deutschland [Enabling Public Participation. Transparency, Supervision and Public Broadcasting in Germany] (commissioned by the DGB).



    Moderation: Vera Linß, moderator and journalist



     © 2022 Erik Meininger, AG DOK
    Press Release – German only –


     


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  • 56 Hof IFF, October 25-30, 2022

      The 56 IFF Hof Documentary Award GRANIT 2022 goes to SHADOW CHILD – ANDREAS REINER – IMAGES OF THE OTHER LIVE by Jo Müller     The 56 IFF ...

     



    The 56 IFF Hof Documentary Award GRANIT 2022 goes to

    SHADOW CHILD – ANDREAS REINER – IMAGES OF THE OTHER LIVE
    by Jo Müller

     


     


    The 56 IFF Hof Documentary Award GRANIT, endowed with 7,5600 Euros, goes to SHADOW CHILD by Jo Müller, according to the jury consisting of Angeliki Antoniou, Günter Schwaiger and Jens Meurer. The prize is donated by the Hofer Hermann and Bertl Müller Foundation.
    From the citation: "The soulful portrait of a stirring artist whose life is identical to his moving photography. The film is powerful, honest and unpretentious in an unpretentious way. Simple! Swabian! Great!"


     


     



     

     

     


     


     


     


     


     



     

     

     


     


    WE ARE NOT ALONE: Documentaries have always been a particular focus at Hof International Film Festival. Society is a complex subject and this year’s documentaries offer a fine-tuned perspective on what is happening in our world. Many films deal with the impact of the pandemic, but also with other unsolved problems on this planet. But if we start to understand where these problems come from, if we begin to understand each other better, solutions can be found. At least, this is the motto of many of the films.


     


    LineUp of German documentary productions and co-productions



    • ANGELIQUE by Elisabeth Kratzer, 27min

    • THE AUSTRONAUTS OF FEUERBACH | DIE AUSTRONAUTEN VON FEUERBACH by Johann Schilling, 28min

    • BIS MORGEN by Kevin Biele, 19min

    • EIGHT BROTHERS AND SISTERS | ACHT GESCHWISTER by Christoph Weinert, 89min

    • THE DEMINERS by Michael Urs Reber, 74min

    • FIRST WAVE | ERSTE WELLE by Christian Plähn, 55min

    • GLAUBE NIE, WAS ICH SINGE – WENZEL by Lew Hohmann, 106min

    • IT’S RAININMG WOMEN | DIE GLÄSERNE DECKE | LASIKATTO by Mari Soppela, 86min

    • LAST ROUND | LETZTE RUNDE by Elizaveta Snagovskaia, 78min

    • LOST IN LIMBO | EMRAH UND DAS GLÜCK by Johanna Bentz, 46min

    • NO BREAD WITHOUT CIRCUSES | KEIN BROT OHNE SPIELE by Susanna Wüstneck, 88min

    • NO EXIT – ACTOR IN PURGATORY | GESCHLOSSENE GESELLSCHAFT – SCHAUSPIELER IM FEGEFEUER by Lukas Benjamin Engel, 119min

    • RE:PLAY – THE LAST SEASON | RE:PLAY – DIE LETZTE SPIELZEIT by Clara Schmieder, Laura N. Junghanns, 89min

    • SHADOW CHILD – ANDREAS REINER – IMAGES OF THE OTHER LIFE | SCHATTENKIND – ANDREAS REINER – BILDER DES ANDEREN LEBENS by Jo Müller, 88min

    • SILVER HAIR STILL ROCKS by Matthias Lukoschek, Andrea Rüthlein, 95min

    • STILL WATERS | STILLE WASSER by Kevin Koch, 30min

    • WIN WIN by Friedrich Rackwitz, 84min, P: NEOS Film, FORTIS GREEN FILM+Medien, HFF Munich,

    • WURLITZER OR INVENTING PRESENT TIME | WURLITZER ODER DIE ERFINDUNG DER GEGENWART by Antje Starost, Hans Helmut Grotjahn, 95min


    Find all films of the programm here.


    Find daily updates at
    • https://www.facebook.com/hoferfilmtage,


     


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  • 26 Ji.hlava IDFF, October 25-30, 2022

              The full festival line-up of the 26th Ji.hlava IDFF, comprises 376 films in 22 sections. The festival will offer 97 world premieres ...

     


     



     

     

     


    The full festival line-up of the 26th Ji.hlava IDFF, comprises 376 films in 22 sections. The festival will offer 97 world premieres, 37 international and 23 European premieres.


    The twenty-sixth edition of the festival will open with 8TH DAY OF THE WAR by Ukrainian director Oksana Moiseniuk. The film was made on the eighth day of the Russian aggression in Ukraine and is not about the war as such, but about its impact on the Ukrainian diaspora in the Czech Republic. The Contribution to World Cinema Award will be presented at this year's Awards Ceremony to Slovak filmmaker, a prominent representative of the Czechoslovak New Wave of the 1960s, Dušan Hanák. His masterpiece PICTURES OF THE OLD WORLD ©1972 will be screened at Ji.hlava on Saturday evening.


     


     


     


    LineUp of german productions and co-productions a.o.



    • 5 DREAMERS AND A HORSE by Aren Malakyan, Vahagn Khachatryan, 95min, [Doc Alliance Selection]

    • BORDER CONVERSATIONS by Jonathan Brunner, 30min, [Short Joy]

    • THE CARS WE DROVE INTO CAPITALISM | by Boris Missirkov, Georgi Bogdanov, 93min, [Constellations]

    • ELFRIEDE JELINEK – LANGUAGE UNLEASHED | ELFRIEDE JELINEK – DIE SPRACHE VON DER LEINE LASSEN by Claudia Müller, 96min [Testimonies]

    • JOURNEY INSIDE A CITY by Sarah Munaf, 12min, [Fascinations]

    • LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH | LIEBE, D-MARK UND TOD by Cem Kaya, 98min,[Siren Test]

    • SHALL I COMPARE YOU TO A SUMMER’S DAY? by Mohammad Shawky Hassan, 63min [Constellations]

    • MYRIAD.WHERE WE CONNECT. [Virtual Reality]

    • THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION by Sergei Loznitsa, 112min, [Testimonies]

    • NATURE | LA NATURE by Artavazd Pelechian, 64min [Special Event]

    • SERIOUS GAMES I-IV by Harun Farocki, 47min [Notes on War]

    • SHALL I COMPARE YOU TO A SUMMER'S DAY? | BASHTAALAK SA'AT by Mohammad Shawky Hassan, 63min, [Constellations]

    • SURVIVOR MANIFESTO – THE ART OF MAKING KIN | SURVIVOR MANIFESTO – DIE KUNST DER WAHLFAMILIE by Dan Dansen, 11min, [Fascinations]

    • THREE SISTERS by Iman Behrouzi, 12min,  [Short Joy]

    • TURBULENCE by Telemach Wiesinger, 15min, [Fascinations]

    • where... by Thomas Kutschker, 10min, [Virtual Reality]


     


     The award for the most notable international documentary film was granted to 07:15 – Blackbird by Judith Auffray, the best Czech documentary is Kapr Code by Lucie Králová. The award for the best Central and East European documentary and for the best sound design went to Croatian film Deserters by Damir Markovina. The award for the best debut went to Bloom by Canadian director Fanie Pelletier, and Javier Codesal from Spain received the award for original approach for his Greater Gospel. The Swiss director Mateo Ybarra received the students' prize as well as the best editing award for Over Our Hills. The jury of the Testimonies section appreciated Into the Weeds: Dewayne "Lee" Johnson vs Monsanto Company by Canadian director Jennifer Baichwal. The best experimental documentary film is The Sound of Time by Venezuelan director Jeissy Trompiz. Glasswork by Zdenk Picpauer was named the best Czech experiment. The Contribution to World Cinema award was granted to legendary Slovak filmmaker Dušan Hanák. See all awards and jury statements here.


     


     


     


    next: 27 Ji.hlava DFF October 24-29, 2023


     

  • 60 New York Film Festival, Sept 30 – Oct 16, 2022

    #NYFF60 takes place at Film at Lincoln Center and in venues in all five boroughs         17 DAYS | 120 FILMS | 40 COUNTRIES   As part of its ...

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

     

     


     


     


    17 DAYS | 120 FILMS | 40 COUNTRIES


     


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


     


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


     


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



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

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

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

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

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

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


     


     


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


     


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


     


     


     


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


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     

  • 20 Doclisboa, October 6-16, 2022

        Doclisboa Festival Internacional de Cinema, October 6-16, 2022        celebrates its 20th anniversary, with a huge amount such as 15 German ...

     


     



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

     

     


     


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


     


     


    LineUp German productions and co-productions



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    • SECRET FRIEND | AMIGO SECRETO by Maria Auguste Ramos, 101min, [FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON]

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


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


     


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


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


     


    NEBULA


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


     


     


     

  • annually MIPCOM at Cannes in October

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

     



     


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


     



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


     



    Björn Jensen, Eva-Maria Pellikan, Simone Baumann

     

     


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


    37 MIPCOM 2021 a.o. with


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


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


     


    as single page

  • 30 FILMFEST HAMBURG Sept 29 – Oct 8, 2022

    CALL FOR SOLIDARITY Iranian filmmakers are calling their friends, colleagues, the global film industry and the press to continue supporting ...

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


     


    BACK TO THE CINEMA WITH VERVE


     



     #FFHH22

    30 FILMFEST HAMBURG Sept 29 – Oct 8, 2022

     


     


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


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


     


    LineUp of German documentary productions and co-produktions #FFHH22



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

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

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

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

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

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

    • REEPERBAHN SPECIAL UNIT 65 | REEPERBAHN SPEZIALEINHEIT FD65 by Georg Tschurtschenthaler, Carsten Gutschmidt, Ina Kessebohm, 90min, P: Gebrüder Beetz,


     


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


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


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


     


     


    ••• the editor also recommends



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


    as single page
    • FFHH22 •


    ••• 31 FILMFEST HAMBURG September 28 – October 7, 2023 •••

  • LETsDOK September 12–18, 2022

                LETsDOK all across Germany September 12–18, 2022      The German nationwide documentary filmdays LETsDOK 2022, organized by the ...

     



     

     


     


     


     


    LETsDOK all across Germany September 12–18, 2022


     


      


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


     


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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


     


     



    YES WE CAN ... Agricultural Change NOW!

    © 2022 DENKmal-Film Verhaag GmbH

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

     

     




    LETsDOK all across Germany 2022


     


     


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



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

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

    • ALLES WANDELT SICH by Egon Bunne, 8min

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    • FRIDA KAHLO by Ali Ray, 90min,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    • QUERFELDEIN by Christoph Schuch, 79min

    • RAULIENS REVIER by Alice Agneskirchner, 87min

    • RITUAL DER SCHWARZEN SONNE by Gerd Roscher, 86min

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

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

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

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

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

    • TÜRKENSTRASSE by Gerhard Ledebur, 28min

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


     


     



     PRESS:



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

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


     


     


     


    Trailer LETsDOK 2021.


    as single page:
    • LETsDOK 2022 •
    • LETsDOK 2021 • D •


     


     


     

  • 75 Locarno Film Festival, August 3–13, 2022

    showcasing six German documentary productions and co-productions... and THE HAMLET SYNDROME is the winner of Grand Prix Semaine de la critique. ...

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


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


     



     

     

     



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


     


    German documentary productions and co-productions:



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

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

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

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

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

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



     


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


     



    PIAZZA GRANDE

     

     


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


     


     


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


     


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


    as single page:
    • 75 Locarno FF 2022 •


     ••• 76 Locarno Film Festival, August 2-12, 2023 •••

  • German Documentary Award 2022

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

     


     



    GERMAN DOCUMENTARY AWARD

     


     


     



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

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

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

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

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


     



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

    Video of the award ceremony, June 24, 2022

     


     


     



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


     



    Wim Wenders presents the Ehrenpreis – Deutscher Dokumentarfilmpreis to 

    WERNER HERZOG


     


     


     


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


    The Nominees are:



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    • STORIES OF DADS | VÄTER UNSER by Sophie Linnenbaum

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

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

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

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



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


     



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

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

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


     


     


    as single page:
    • German Documentary Award 2022 •
    • German Documentary Award 2020 •
    • German Documentary Award 2019 •
    • German Documentary Award 2018 •


     


     


     


    Editor german documentaries Ingri Mola
  • DOCAVIV May 26 – June 5, 2022

     and CoPro24 May 31 – June 1, 2022   LineUp German productions and co-productions DOCAVIV May 26 – June 5, 2022 • International Competition: ...

     and CoPro24 May 31 – June 1, 2022



     


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



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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


     


     


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


    • Tina Leeb, Fastforward

    • Reinhardt Beetz, Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion

    • Nicole Joens, Cindigo

    • Jürgen Kleinig, Neue Celluloid Fabrik

    • Gerhard Schick, Film und Kontext

    • Dirk van den Berg, Outremer Filmproduktion


     


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


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


     


    as single page:
    • DOCAVIV 2022 •
    • DOCAVIV 2018 •


     


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


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


     


     


     


     


     


    Editor german documentaries Ingrid Molnar
  • International Film Festivals in Germany

    The festivals with markets are: BERLINALE | efmDOK.fest Munich | DOK.forumDOK Leipzig | DOK INDUSTRY      Schedule of the international documentary ...

    The festivals with markets are:


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


     


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


     



    44 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis January 23—29, 2023 [FB] ___Submission___ starts September 1 until End of October


     


     



     

    74 BERLINALE – International Filmfestspiele Berlin, Feb. 15—25, 2024
    Online submission for 2024 will be activated in mid-September.

    efm - European Film Market further information  [FB]

      


     



    20. dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg, April, 20–24, 2023
    Find out more information about 20. dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg at the festival's website: https://dokfilmwoche.com/en/home/


     


     


     


     



    40 INTERNATIONALES FRAUEN FILM FEST Dortmund+Köln, April 18—23, 2023 in DORTMUND. The festival takes place annually, alternating between Dortmund and Cologne [FB] 


     


     


       38 DOK.fest Munich, May 3—21, 2023
            [FB]
       ___37 DOK.fest Munich 2022__


     


     



    IKFF - 39 Hamburg International Short Film Festival, June 6–11, 2023
    ___Submission___ until February 2023 [FB]


     


     



    #FFMUC | 40 FILMFEST MÜNCHEN in Munich  June 23—July 1, 2023. All films screened at FILMFEST MÜNCHEN are selected by the festival programmers.


     



    NaturVision Filmfestival, Ludwigsburg, July 20—23, 2023 [FB]


     


     



    31 FILMFEST HAMBURG, September 28 – October 7, 2023
    #FFHH23 _ Submission _ opens in March [FB]


     


     



    57 Internatonale Hofer Filmtage | Hof International Film Festival, October 24—29, 2023
    [FB] For futher Information please visit the website of the festival.


     


     



    66 DOK Leipzig, October 8—15, 2023
    International Leipzig Film Festival for Documentary and Animated Film [FB]  Submission until July 15, 2023
    18 DOK Co-Pro Market will take place during DOK LEIPZIG.
    66 DOK Leipzig please visit the website of the festival.


     


     


     



    65 Nordic Filmdays Lübeck, November 1–5, 2023  [FB].
    __ online submission starts Spring 2023  and ends August 1, 2023.
    __FB__


     


     


     



    47 DUISBURGER FILMWOCHE, df#47 the festival of documentaries produced in Germany, Austria and Switzerland  in Duisburg, November 6—12, 2023. Deadline for submission is August 6, 2023. For further information concerning 48 DUISBURGER FILMWOCHE please visit the website of the festival. [FB]



     doxs! festival - creative European documentaries for children and adolescents, Duisburg, November. For further information concerning next dox! please visit the website of the festival. [https://www.do-xs.de,  filmwoche@stadt-duisburg.de]


     


     

    40 KASSELER DOK-FEST, Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Video Fest, November 14—19, 2023. The 40th Kassel Dokfest is being planned as a hybrid form, it will take place on-site from November 14 to 19, 2023. The online offer will be available until November 26, 2023. Submission will be possible from mid-April until July 1, it is always free of charge and a premiere is not a requirement.
    [FB]


     


    among others...

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      is the national information and advisory center for the promotion of German films worldwide. German Films’ range of activities includes: ...

     



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    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.

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