| German Films produced a promo reel introducing new German films and VR projects which had been presented at the most important international summer film festivals of 2022 – Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and San Sebastian International Film Festival – with short film clips and statements by the directors. German Films collaborated with maz&movie to produce an attractive showreel promoting German film on an international level and appealing to the audience. The reel was shown on the big screen at the American Film Market on 2 November, 2022 as part of a market screening and has now been uploaded to German Films’ vimeo page for the general public. Click here to watch! | |
| The German Films Distribution Support funding programme was established in 2005 to support foreign distributors’ release of a recent German feature film or documentary in the cinemas. Until now the maximum amount of subsidy was limited to € 10,000. However, grants of up to € 15,000 can now be requested for all applications submitted from 2023 onwards. The loan’s limit will stay at € 50,000. Apply now! | |
| Oscar® nominee Lisy Christl is our guest in the new episode of DEEP DIVE GENRE. The talented costume designer talks to us about her creative process and her work on QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT in particular. She even lets us in on the secret of why there’s always a large quantity of vodka on her teams’ list of expenses. Note: it’s got everything to do with the costumes! DEEP DIVE GENRE – A GERMAN FILMS PODCAST presents in-depth interviews with German creatives from the film industry. Each season will focus on a different genre. Season 1 is about war in films and series. You will get behind-the-scenes access to your favourite German movies and TV-series as well as a better understanding of the creative decisions behind them – as well as the people who bring these extraordinary stories to life. New episodes appear in the DEEP DIVE GENRE Feed every second Tuesday, beginning on 8 November, 2022. Click here or listen wherever you find your podcasts. | |
| Our latest #SHORT TAKE episode see us talking to the prolific actor David Kross - #TheReader / #Stasikomödie / #Prey - about the joy of being at the beach, his favorite shooting experience and his obsession with finding the best mattress, amongst many other things. Find out more about David and his latest work:
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https://lindenfels-pr.de/schauspielerinnen/david-kross SHORT TAKE: A GERMAN FILMS PODCAST has already racked up more than 8,000 listeners from various countries since the format’s launch - and more are joining with each new episode. You can find all of the episodes on our website and wherever podcasts are available. SHORT TAKE on Instagram! | |
| The focus of the next session for the English-language KINO! FILM SALON online film club on 11 December, 2022 will be on Jan-Ole Gerster’s A COFFEE IN BERLIN (OH BOY). This film, shot entirely in black & white, was a huge international festival hit and introduced German actor Tom Schilling to a wide audience outside of Germany. Set in the streets and bars of Berlin, the melancholic style of this tragicomedy is full of surprising turning points and strange encounters. A COFFEE IN BERLIN (OH BOY) was the hit at the German Film Awards in 2013 and received six prizes: Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Leading Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Score. Our film curator Jim Kolmar selected this movie: "Jan-Ole Gerster’s debut feature is an instant charmer, charting an eventful day in the life of Niko, a hapless university drop out. With disarming simplicity, we follow Niko as he navigates the petty challenges of everyday life…or at least his own eccentric brand of everyday life." A COFFEE IN BERLIN (OH BOY) sparkles with wry, vivacious energy, recalling early Jim Jarmusch and the more eccentric side of the Nouvelle Vague. Abetted by idiosyncratic performances and a jazzy score that underpins a surprising pathos, it’s a film of modest ambition that manages to speak volumes.
RSVP: https://bit.ly/kinofilmsaloncoffeeinberlin
Date and time: Sunday, December 11 at 11am - 12pm PT, 2pm - 3pm ET, 8pm - 9pm CET.
Hosted by Jim Kolmar KINO! FILM SALON is a production of Telescope Film, in collaboration with the German Film Office. | |
| The seventh edition of the Torino Talent and Short Film Market (TSFM) was held from 27-30 November, 2022. The event has established itself in recent years as an important and very popular meeting point for the international short film industry at the end of the year. Parallel to the Torino Film Festival, it offers an extensive programme with market screenings, panels on current topics, project presentations and networking events. This year, Germany is the Country in Focus. As part of the special Focus activities organised under the auspices of AG Kurzfilm, the TSFM will host the closed industry preview of the new sixth edition of the "Emerging Artists" programme which presents new talent from the experimental film sector. The seven films selected by a jury of experts from this two-year initiative can be booked for international touring screenings from January 2023. The German-Japanese experimental film artist Sylvia Schedelbauer, who was recently awarded the Grand Prix of the Uppsala International Short Film Festival for her new film OH, BUTTERFLY!, held a public masterclass in Torino with screenings of a selection of her own short films and others she has curated. A panel will present the diversity of the German short film festival scene and discuss the future and potential of festivals specifically for short films (panelists: Katrin Mundt, EMAF Osnabrück, Maike Mia Höhne, Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Arne Papenhagen, FiSH Rostock, Moderation: Anne Gaschütz, Filmfest Dresden). The German-Iranian filmmaker Hoda Taheri (MOTHER PRAYS ALL DAY LONG) will take part in a panel on "Short Films As Tools For Empowering Underrepresented Communities", and Fabian Driehorst (Fabian&Fred) will discuss "Animation and XR". Olha Reiter (Wiz-Art Lviv) and Enrico Vannucci (Locarno Film Festival) have curated six German short films for the two "T-Port Lighthouse" market screenings. They will also be available for viewing online by registered users of the T-Port talent platform. German shorts presented at the Torino Talent and Short Film Market 2022: Emerging Artists Volume 6 – Contemporary Experimental Films and Video Art from Germany
CONNECTION by Serafima Orlova (2021, 6 min)
DIGITAL ASHES by Bruno Christofoletti Barrenha (2022, 12 min)
HOMESICK LUNGS (HOAMWEH LUNG) by Felix Klee (2021, 15 min)
JUICE (SAFT) by Mona Keil (2022, 5 min)
PAIN EXERCISES (GRUSS AN DIE MUTTER: WEH ÜBUNGEN) by Keren Shemesh (2022, 21 min)
THE SUNSET SPECIAL by Nicolas Gebbe (2021, 18 min)
WE ARE WHAT WE EAT by Natalia Ehret (2021, 2 min) Sylvia Schedelbauer – Screening and Masterclass
KICKING THE CLOUDS by Sky Hopkinka (US 2021, 16 min)
THE LAST MANGO BEFORE THE MONSOON by Payal Kapadia (IN 2015, 18 min)
MEMORIES (ERINNERUNGEN) by Sylvia Schedelbauer (2004, 19 min)
OH, BUTTERFLY by Sylvia Schedelbauer (2022, 19 min)
SEEDS by Philippa Ndisi Herrmann (KE 2016, 4 min) T-Port Lighthouse Programmes – Selected German Short Films
AGAINST ALL ODDS (ALLEN ZWEIFELN ZUM TROTZ) by Laurenz Otto
THE BOY WHO COULDN’T FEEL PAIN by Eugen Merher
DOOM CRUISE by Hanna Stragholz, Simon Steinhorst
NOT THE 80S (NICHT DIE 80ER) by Marleen Valien
SIS – BEST SISTER (SIS – BESTE SCHWESTER) by Lina Drevs
ZOON by Jonatan Schwenk | |
| The 20th German-French Film Meeting took place in Berlin from 23-25 November, 2022. This year's edition was held together with the French Film Week (FFW), creating new synergies and bridges between the two events, their respective audiences, participants and speakers. The two-day conference was aimed at about 150 German and French producers, institutions and professionals. Participants were invited to debate and exchange views about the current situation in the film industry. As was the case for last year, the new format was developed by Erwin M. Schmidt and the Franco-German Film Academy. The Rendez-Vous, German-French Film Meeting is an event organised by German Films and Unifrance in cooperation with the Franco-German Film Academy.
The event is supported by various partners from both countries, with Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg in particular for this year. | |
| The actor Farba Dieng was one of the talents of the BLACK NIGHTS STARS programme as part of the Discovery Campus event at this year’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival! A total of eight talents from the Baltic Sea region and one from Ukraine were selected as this year’s BLACK NIGHTS STARS and presented to the international film industry. An international jury selected seven young talents from the Baltic Sea region - and one from Ukraine as a sign of support for the acting community in Ukraine. The 2022 line-up was Aamu Milonoff (Finland), Karlis Arnolds Avots (Latvia), Daria Polunina (Ukraine), Albert Arthur Amiryan (Denmark), Farba Dieng (Germany), Lena Barbara Luhse (Estonia), Petras Šimonis (Lithuania) and Maarja Johanna Mägi (Estonia). Farba Dieng is a 28-year-old actor, who was born in Lille, France. He is fluent in French but also in German because he spent his whole childhood and youth in France and Germany. Farba, who is an autodidact regarding his acting skills, made his breakthrough performance playing the role „Babtou“ in the feature film TOUBAB, directed by Florian Dietrich. For his performance in TOUBAB, Farba received the Bavarian Award (Bayerischer Filmpreis) for Best Newcomer Actor in 2021. Since then, he has appeared in such exciting projects as the Netflix series SKYLINES by Maximilian Erlenwein and Soleen Yusef, the mini-series BREAKING EVEN directed by Boris Kunz, the feature films CORTEX by Moritz Bleibtreu and WOLKE UNTERM DACH by Alain Gsponer. He recently appeared in the new TV series THE NET. This exciting project consists of three different series shot in Germany, Austria and Italy. To get to know the actor Farba Dieng better, check out his portrait A NATURAL TALENT in our German Films Quaterly 4-2022. BLACK NIGHTS STARS is a programme which was launched by the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in 2017 with the goal of helping young actors from the Baltic Sea region - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Russia - to gain international visibility and promote themselves inside and outside their home territories. The programme facilitates connections with international film professionals and training in practical skills needed in their future international careers. | |
| TYSKE FILMDAGE OSLO
A fine collection of the best in German cinema is being presented by Oslo’s TYSKE FILMDAGE (27 November - 1 December, 2022) which is being organised by the Goethe Institut Norway with support from German Films. The programme is a colourful mix of new German films and a unique opportunity to see them on the big screen in a unique cinema atmosphere in Oslo. Stories from contemporary reality, from the past, family stories and stories about friendship will be shown. Five days of cinema fun for movie buffs, occasional moviegoers and everyone else as well. The festival kicked off on 27 November, 2022 with Cem Kaya’s documentary LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH at Vega Scene in Oslo. Here is the current programme. EUROPEAN SHORT FILM PITCH 2022 / 2023
The European Short Film Pitch has been supporting the development of short film projects, young talents and European co-productions since 2007. Twelve projects in development representing 13 countries were selected for the 16th edition of 2022/2023, including the German-French-Belgian project ROBERT (THE ROBOT) by the Berlin-based director Aaron Lucas. The first four-day workshop focusing on script development and further preparation of the projects took place in November. In February 2023, the projects will be presented to the international industry at the hybrid Coproduction Forum in collaboration with the Travelling Film Festival in Rennes (France). Short films that are currently in postproduction can still apply for the works-in-progress pitches until 12 December, 2022. More information here. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TO TIFF WRITERS STUDIO 2023
International screenwriters still have until 19 December, 2022 to apply to participate in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Writers' Studio programme. The lab and mentoring programme will take place from 20-24 March, 2023. Writers can apply with their current feature-length film project if they have already written at least one feature film or TV series. For detailed information about the programme and how to apply, please click here. ANNECY MIFA PITCHES - CALL FOR ANIMATION FILM PROJECTS
The MIFA Pitches will be held during the Annecy International Animation Film Festival (12-17 June, 2023). They enable authors and producers to have an exchange of ideas and get in touch with potential international partners for projects at an early stage of development. The best projects will be awarded prizes. Projects can apply in the categories of short film, feature film, TV series/TV special and digital experience (interactive/transmedia). The rules and regulations can be accessed on the festival website. The deadline is 6 February, 2023. KASH KASH WINS GOLDEN FROG
The DoP Jonas Schneider won the main prize, the Golden Frog, for KASH KASH in the Documentary Features Competition at the Camerimage Festival. Camerimage is the world’s most important festival for the art of cinematography. KASH KASH was the only German production among the winners. | |
| German productions and co-productions in Tallinn, Leuven, Toruń and Poitiers. | |
| Awards for German productions and co-productions in Montclair, Uppsala, Bilbao, Cork, Chicago. | |
| International theatrical releases in December of German films supported by the German Films Distribution Support Programme. MIA AND ME – THE HERO OF CENTOPIA in Estonia (Distributor: Unlimited Media, World Sales: Studio 100, Theatrical Release: 2 December, 2022)
MIA AND ME – THE HERO OF CENTOPIA in Latvia (Distributor: Unlimited Media, World Sales: Studio 100, Theatrical Release: 2 December, 2022)
HOLY SHIT! in South Korea (Distributor: Lumix Media, World Sales: The Playmaker Munich, Theatrical Release: 7 December, 2022)
MOONBOUND in Belgium & Luxembourg (Distributor: Santa Fé Productions NV (Paradiso), World Sales: Sola Media, Theatrical Release: 7 December, 2022)
RABBIT ACADEMY: MISSION EGGPOSSIBLE in Spain (Distributor: Distribución de películas Barlovento, World Sales: Sola Media, Theatrical Release: 9 December, 2022)
YOU WILL NOT HAVE MY HATE in The Netherlands (Distributor: Imagine Film Distributie Nederland, World Sales: Beta Cinema via Imagine Film Distr. Belgium, Theatrical Release: 22 December, 2022) All details correct at time of going to press. Note: changes may occur at any time. | |
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