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News 04. Nov 24

We’re excited to announce the next round of our collaboration with the European Film Market (EFM) Toolbox program at the Berlinale! We’re seeking producers based in Hesse from marginalized communities who want to join either the Fiction Toolbox or Doc Toolbox program at the 2025 EFM in Berlin.

Call for entries

News 28. Jun 24

The Production Finance Market and its New Talent strand of the BFI London Film Festival are open to feature film projects, including feature documentaries.

Hesse @ Munich International Film Festival

18. Jun 24

The 41st Munich International Film Festival is showing six Hessian projects, three of which are in the running for the New German Cinema Award with a total of eight nominations.

FOCUS Germany Hosts Annual Coproduction Breakfast at 77th Festival de Cannes

News 19. May 24

»Focus Germany meets UK and Ireland«

Hesse at the 77th Festival de Cannes

News 16. May 24

German Films and FOCUS Germany appearing together at the »German Pavilion«, the platform for the German film scene at the Festival de Cannes (14 – 25 May, 2024).

»Die Zweiflers« named Best Series at Canneseries

News 11. Apr 24

The six-part ARD dramedy has won »Best Series«, »Best Music« and the »High School Award For Best Series« - congratulations!

Screenplay Award for »Herrhausen – The Banker and The Bomb«

News 25. Mar 24

Thomas Wendrich has won the screenplay prize at Series Mania in Lille for »Herrhausen – The Banker and The Bomb«.

»Shahid« wins two awards at the Berlinale

News 27. Feb 24

Hesse @ Berlinale 2024

News 03. Jan 24

The program of the 74th Film Festival is complete: We are looking forward to the horror film »Cuckoo« by Tilman Singer in the »Berlinale Special Gala 2024« section, «Elbow« by Aslı Özarslan in the Generation 14plus competition as well as »Shahid« by Narges Kalhor and »Well Ordered Nature« by Eva C. Heldmann in the Berlinale Forum.