| German Films will once again be present with an umbrella booth at the last major film fair of the year. After a two-year break, the American Film Market will take place for the first time as a face-to-face event in Santa Monica, and seven German world sales companies are on board in the hotel suites on the 6th floor of the Santa Monica Loews Beach Hotel – atlas international film, Beta Cinema, Global Screen, Media Luna New Films, Picture Tree International, Sola Media and The Playmaker Munich will be presenting their current line-up and productions in development. German Films will be showing the 40-minute showreel GERMAN FILMS @ AFM – GERMAN TALENTS @ SUMMER FILM FESTIVALS 2022 on 2 November, 2022 at 1pm at the Laemmle Monica Film Center #1 for interested market participants. Current highlights from the sales companies’ AFM portfolios will be presented as well as a compilation of German film productions from the most important summer festivals in Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Toronto, Venice and San Sebastián, along with very personal statements from the films’ directors. The video will also be available on vimeo. Read more here. For the first time, the representative of the German Film Office from New York will also be on site to support German Films. | |
| We’re happy to introduce DEEP DIVE GENRE - starting 8 November, 2022, there is a second podcast format in the German Films audio family. DEEP DIVE GENRE will focus on one genre per season and present in-depth interviews with German creatives of the film industry. Season 1 is about war in films and series. The season kicks off with an interview with German director extraordinaire Edward Berger, who talks about his newest film ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. Join us, won’t you? New episodes drop in the DEEP DIVE GENRE Feed every second Tuesday, starting 08.11.2022. Click here or listen wherever you find your podcasts. | |
| Our new epsiode of #SHORT TAKE sees Jakob Schreier, the co-creator, writer and actor of the cultseries FETT UND FETT, talking about his guilty pleasures, a reverse-spoiler that made watching RAIN MAN a compelling experience for him, and his unusual, but great attitude towards life. Find out more about Jakob and his latest work:
https://www.schauspielervideos.de/fullprofile/schauspieler-jakob-schreier.html 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 12 November, 2022 will be on Jakob Schreier's GOLD. The drama celebrated its world premiere as part of the Official Competition of the Berlin International Film Festival in 2013. The cast is led by Germany’s most prestigious actress Nina Hoss who appears in this film in her first role in a German western. Our film curator Jim Kolmar selected this movie: “Thomas Arslan’s stately Western unfolds with the grace of the classics, as enamored of the rugged mountain landscapes as it is fearful of the potential challenges they contain. Starring the luminous Nina Hoss, GOLD is a stark, tightly controlled exploration of genre tropes, following the journey of a group of German settlers using a visual language that is both intimate and epic. As with the great canonical Westerns, GOLD seethes with metaphorical promise, trusting us to accompany the lush storytelling into territory both known and unknown. RSVP: https://bit.ly/kinofilmsalongold
Date and time: Sunday, November 13 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. | |
| 28 new fiction, documentary, animation and experimental shorts produced in 2022 have just been added to the online short film catalogue. Selected by a jury from suggestions made by members of the AG Kurzfilm (German Short Film Association), they include films from the festival line-ups of Cannes, Locarno, and Oberhausen, among others. With this third and final update in 2022, a total of 104 German short films have now been added to the online catalogue this year. Click here for the latest additions. All those interested can search for German short films using a wide range of functions, keywords, themes, categories, running times, etc. International film professionals can also screen the films online after registering. The animation and documentary shorts from the recent update are also available for viewing in the DOK Leipzig’s Film Market Online Library within the “German Short Films” partner section until 30 April, 2023. | |
| The 47th edition of Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) will be held from 30 March – 10 April, 2023. As a longtime cooperation partner, German Films will have the opportunity to hand out 25 free waivers to German feature majority productions (fiction & documentary, min. running time 60 minutes, unfortunately no shorts). In order to get a free waiver, you have to register your film at our Film Submission Management System. The registration is open from 7 November, 2022 10am (MESZ). After your registration we will check if the film is eligible. After that, you will then be sent the free waiver code via e-mail from our Regional Desk manager Marita Luger. The code can be used for the submission of your film via https://filmfreeway.com/HKIFF. When submitting your film to HKIFF directly, please be aware of the Early Bird registration deadline (15 November, 2022) and the deadline for late entries (31 December, 2022). Please find further information here or get in touch with the Regional Desk Manager Marita Luger. | |
| After a digital-only event in 2020 and a somewhat smaller hybrid market in 2021, this year’s MIPCOM returned in full swing from 17 - 20 October, 2022 as a physical market in Cannes at the Festival Palais. As in previous years, German Films was again hosting the GERMAN PAVILION, an umbrella booth that included the sales companies Albatross World Sales, Euroarts, German Documentaries, The Playmaker Munich, Media Luna New Films, as well as Spiegel TV and some more German TV companies as meeting point partners. Although still a little less busy than in pre-pandemic years, MIPCOM has recovered well. With nearly 11,000 TV executives from across the globe attending, it was a successful and healthy market for all of the German participants. | |
| The Cinéma L’Arlequin in Paris opened its doors for the 27th Festival du Cinéma Allemand from 12 - 16 October, 2022. A very special focus was prepared for Laila Stieler, who presented RABIYE KURNAZ VS. GEORGE W. BUSH (opening film) as well as GUNDERMANN and LOVE LIFE to the Parisian audience with one lively Q&A after another. The diverse programme brought even more guests to Paris, including Moritz von Treuenfels, who presented Jöns Jönsson’s film AXIOM which subsequently became the festival audience’s favourite. In addition, we were able to invite the director Kilian Riedhof, who was joined by the screenwriter Jan Braren for the screening of YOU WILL NOT HAVE MY HATE by the French distributor Haut et Court for the very first time to a French audience. We had another well-attended screening this year with the Next Generation Short Tiger programme of short films. Laurenz Otto, the director of AGAINST ALL ODDS presented his film and the programme. The Festival of German Films in Paris was organised in cooperation with Arte and the Goethe-Institut in Paris. List of films | |
| 2022 was the second time German Films was present at the MIA Market. The international platform for audiovisual industry took place in Rome from 11 – 15 October, 2022 and gathered more than 2400 industry participants from 60 countries - an increase of 20% compared to the previous year. The umbrella booth, organized by German Films, featured German world distributors ArtHood Entertainment, Global Screen, The Playmaker Munich and Pluto Film. The German Films Industry Brunch was well attended and provided the perfect setting for effective networking of international distributors, German world sales and producers. More information about the MIA Market is available here:
https://www.miamarket.it/en/
https://businessdoceurope.com/8th-mia-closes-with-20-increase-in-participants/ | |
| The Finnish Film Affair is the industry event of Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy and an international showcase of Finnish films and Nordic talent which took place from 21 – 23 September, 2022. Held since 2012, the event plays host to approximately 400 film industry professionals from around the world each year. With the support of German Films, Finnish Film Affair invited six German producers to Helsinki this year to give them the opportunity to meet Finnish co-producers and the Finnish industry in general. The delegation included Philipp Budweg (Lieblingsfilm), Saralisa Volm (Poison), Meike Fehre (Ahoi Film), Marco Gilles (Eitelsonnenschein), Paulina Toenne (TamTam Film) and Veronica Soloman (Bendpanic Productions). Together with Creative Europe Media Desk Finland and Finnish Film Affair, German Films organised a panel to discuss co-producing with Germany with the German producers Heino Deckert (Ma.ja.de Filmproduktion) and Jamila Wenske (Achtung Panda!). | |
| The CEE pitch and co-production forum will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in Pilsen, Czech Republic from 2 - 4 November, 2022. A total of 49 feature film, series, TV special, student and short film projects from 16 countries were selected. 33 of them will be in the pitching competition featuring a number of fresh talents and students as well as established auteur filmmakers coming from Europe: France (seven), Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland (five each), Germany (four), Slovakia (three) and Slovenia (two), while one project each comes from Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania and Serbia. Feature Film
THE ISLANDS OF SALAMANDERS by Catherine Maximoff (France/Slovakia/Germany)
Producers: Patrice Nezan (Les Contes Modernes), Juraj Krasnohorský (Artichoke), Fabian Driehorst (Fabian&Fred) Short Films
SECOND HAND WAR by Anna Benner, Eluned Zoe Aiano (Germany/Czech Republic)
Producers: Natalia Imaz (parabellum film), Jakub Pinkava (Punk film) Rising Stars
THE CHICKEN'S CALLING by Rebecca Osterberg (Germany)
Production: Hochschule Wismar Out of Competition
MY NAME IS... by Eliza Płocieniak-Alvarez (Germany)
Producer: Carol Leander Ratajczak (Blaue Pampelmuse) - in collaboration with Kids Kino Industry (Poland) | |
| THREE STUDENT ACADEMY AWARDS® 2022 GO TO GERMANY!
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences honoured the winners of the 49th edition of the Student Academy Awards® during a ceremony in Los Angeles on 20 October, 2022. Of the 10 short films receiving awards, three were produced at German film schools. Narrative film awards went to ALMOST HOME by Nils Keller (Gold Medal) and ROOMS by Welf Reinhart (Silver Medal), both films were produced at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF). LAIKA & NEMO by Jan Gadermann and Sebastian Gadow (Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF) won the Silver Medal in the Animation category. While German film schools previously have been very successful at the Student Academy Awards®, this year's achievement is quite extraordinary since US and international films were competing together for the first time in each category. The winning films were selected from a total of 1,796 submissions from 614 film schools. All of the Student Academy Award-winning films are also eligible to participate in the upcoming Oscars®. GERMAN SALES COMPANIES @TIFFCOM
As the industry event of Tokyo International Film Festival TIFFCOM was an online edition again this year, German Films was collaborating with TIFFCOM to give German sales companies the opportunity to present their films at online market screenings under the auspices of the German Pavilion. TIFFCOM Online was held from 25 - 27 October, 2022. The sales companies atlas international film, Picture Tree International, Magnet Film, Films Boutique, Pluto Film and Albatross World Sales participated in the German Pavilion. TorinoFilmLab PRESENTS: THE TFL FILM PARADE
The TorinoFilmLab is throwing a watch party to celebrate its 15th anniversary, the TFL Film Parade will be showing a selection of titles picked from among over 150 films developed within the TFL’s programmes between 7 - 13 November, 2022. 7 days, 7 stories for free on Festival Scope. Discover the selected titles on Festival Scope. Explore the films' focus on Letterboxd. | |
| Awards for German productions and co-productions in Bristol, Sapporo, Montreal, London, Hamptons, Limassol and Chicago. | |
| International theatrical releases in November of German films supported by the German Films Distribution Support Programme. YOU WILL NOT HAVE MY HATE in France (Distributor: Haut et Court Distribution, World Sales: Beta Cinema, Theatrical Release: November 2, 2022)
MONSTER FAMILY 2 in Slovenia (Distributor: Blitz Film & Video Distribution, World Sales: United Entertainment, Theatrical Release: November 3, 2022)
A STASY COMEDY in Hungary (Distributor: ADS Service, World Sales: Picture Tree International, Theatrical Release: November 3, 2022)
THE CONFERENCE in Israel (Distributor: Red Cape Distribution, World Sales: Global Screen, Theatrical Release: November 10, 2022)
YOUNG WINNETOU AND THE LOST BUFFALOS in Slovakia (Distributor: Continental Film, World Sales: The Playmaker Munich, Theatrical Release: November 10, 2022)
THE FORGER in Argentina (Distributor: Compañia Distribuidora Independiente, World Sales: Beta Cinema, Theatrical Release: November 10, 2022)
YOUNG WINNETOU AND THE LOST BUFFALOS in Hungary (Distributor: ADS Service, World Sales: The Playmaker Munich, Theatrical Release: November 10, 2022)
RABBIT ACADEMY: MISSION EGGPOSSIBLE in Spain (Distributor: Distribución de películas Barlovento, World Sales: Sola Media, Theatrical Release: November 11, 2022)
MIA AND ME - THE HERO OF CENTOPIA in Lithuania (Distributor: Unlimited Media, World Sales: Studio 100, Theatrical Release: November 11, 2022)
VEINS OF THE WORLD in Spain (Distributor: Surtsey Films, World Sales: Global Screen, Theatrical Release: November 14, 2022)
YOU WILL NOT HAVE MY HATE in Belgium (Distributor: Imagine Film Distribution, World Sales: Beta Cinema, Theatrical Release: November 16, 2022)
THE FORGER in Chile (Distributor: Cinematografica Distribuidora Internacional, World Sales: Beta Cinema, Theatrical Release: November 17, 2022)
RABIYE KURNAZ VS. GEORGE W. BUSH in Italy (Distributor: Just Wanted, World Sales: The Match Factory, Theatrical Release: November 24, 2022)
THE CONFERENCE in Norway (Distributor: AS Fidalgo, World Sales: Global Screen, Theatrical Release: November 25, 2022) All details correct at time of going to press. Note: changes may occur at any time. | |
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