We are very hap­py and excit­ed. Two DFFB films won  at the renowned “Ger­man Film­crit­ics Awards”. The DFFB direc­tors Julian Radl­maier and Alexan­dre Koberidze are the win­ners of yes­ter­days’ evening, award­ed by the Ger­man Film­crit­ics Assosi­a­tion.

Self­critism of a bour­go­is dog  (D: Julian Radl­maier, DoP: Markus Koob) won the award for Best First Fea­ture Film.

Let the sum­mer nev­er come again (D:/DoP:  Alexan­dre Koberidze) won the award for Best Exper­i­men­tal Film.

Ser­i­al Eyes, Europe’s pre­mier post­grad­u­ate train­ing pro­gramme for tele­vi­sion writ­ers and pro­duc­ers host­ed by the DFFB has opened its online appli­ca­tion plat­form. Writ­ers and producer’s from Ger­many and Europe are invit­ed to apply for the next round.

More infor­ma­tion on Ser­i­al Eyes as such and the online appli­ca­tion process on ser​i​al​-eyes​.com.

Ger­man auteur film direc­tor Chris­t­ian Pet­zold (Yel­la; Bar­bara) shares the invis­i­ble inspi­ra­tions for his new fea­ture film Tran­sit, which pre­mieres in this year’s Com­pe­ti­tion. Based on Anna Segher’s famous nov­el of the same name, Pet­zold had orig­i­nal­ly devel­oped the script togeth­er with lat­er deceased film­mak­er and friend Harun Faroc­ki: “Tran­sit was our favourite book, we read it once a year. It’s actu­al­ly our sto­ry: this being-thrown-into-the-world.“ In this talk, Pet­zold and actor Bar­bara Auer revis­it the pro­duc­tion process. They explain how they uncov­ered, rethought and refreshed the core and char­ac­ters of the his­tor­i­cal nar­ra­tion in inten­sive dia­logues and rehearsals with the cast and crew, whom Pet­zold calls his “par­ti­san group.“

Don’t miss it: Wednes­day, 21st Feb. 2018, 5 pm at HAU 2