Hesse @ Munich International Film Festival
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. From 28 June to 7 July, Munich International Film Festival, Germany's second-largest film festival, enters its 41st round. With five film premieres and a series, Hesse presents an...
FOCUS Germany Hosts Annual Coproduction Breakfast at 77th Festival de Cannes
»Focus Germany meets UK and Ireland« FOCUS Germany, the association of the nine largest German regional funding organisations, today hosted the traditional Coproduction Breakfast on the occasion of the 77th Festival de Cannes. As the cinematic world converges on Cannes, FOCUS Germany continues its tradition of fostering collaboration within the...
Hesse at the 77th Festival de Cannes
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). The »German Pavilion« in the Village International of the Marché du Film is located near the Festival Palais and traditionally functions as a meeting place for the German and international film...
»Die Zweiflers« named Best Series at Canneseries
The six-part ARD dramedy has won »Best Series«, »Best Music« and the »High School Award For Best Series« - congratulations! »Die Zweiflers« celebrated its world premiere in the prestigious international series competition at the Canneseries festival, which took place from April 5 to 10. The series, which we supported with 475,000 euros, focuses on the...
Screenplay Award for »Herrhausen – The Banker and The Bomb«
Thomas Wendrich has won the screenplay prize at Series Mania in Lille for »Herrhausen – The Banker and The Bomb«. »Herrhausen - The Banker and The Bomb«, directed by Pia Strietmann and starring Oliver Masucci as Alfred Herrhausen, was shown in the international competition at the Series Mania festival in Lille, Europe's most important series festival....
»Shahid« wins two awards at the Berlinale
»Shahid« wins two awards from independent juries at the Berlinale. The forum contribution by director Narges Kalhor and producer Michael Kalb won the Arthouse Cinema Award 2024 (awarded by CICEA Confédération des Internationale des Cinémas d'Art et d'Essai) and the Caligari Film Prize 2024 (awarded by the Federal Association of Municipal Film Work) at the...
Hesse @ Berlinale 2024
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. »Cuckoo« at Berlinale...
Three funded films at the film festival Max Ophüls prize
»Gotteskinder« by Frauke Lodders, »Milchzähne« by Sophia Bösch and »Exile never ends« by Bahar Bektaş are screening in the competition program of the Saarbrücken festival for young filmmakers. The film festival Max Ophüls prize will take place for the 45th time from 22 to 28 January 2024. Based in Saarbrücken, the festival for up-and-coming filmmakers is...
»Scent of beetroot and the people who live forever« wins Golden Hercules
Maren Wiese and Petra Stipetić have won the 3,500 euro prize in the regional competition at the Kassel Dokfest. In this year's edition, 135 films and videos were submitted for the Golden Hercules. Petra Stipetić and Maren Wiese are graduates of the Kunsthochschule Kassel and work as freelance animation artists. Their twelve-minute animated film »Vom Duft...
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