IN DEN BINSEN winner of the FBW-prize at the 36. interfilm Berlin Film Festival

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LAND OF GLORY by Borbála Nagy wins the German Short Film Award 2020

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Three prizes for “NOTES OF BERLIN” at the 42. Biberacher Filmfestspiele

“TÀBOR” by Stanislav Danylyshyn premiering at IDFA 2020

The German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB), founded in 1966, is one of the most prominent film schools in Europe. Focusing on the essential crafts of filmmaking, the school offers five specialisations: Screenwriting, Cinematography, Directing, Producing, and Editing & Sound. The DFFB is a place where young filmmakers from Germany and abroad come together to tell stories and to make creative and innovative films. Prominent DFFB graduates include Helke Sander, Christian Petzold, Angela Schanelec, Wolfgang Becker, Lars Kraume, and Emily Atef. The DFFB also offers attractive networking and specialisation opportunities through its internationally oriented education programmes: Serial Eyes, NEXT WAVE, UP.GRADE, and Filmnetzwerk Berlin.

In the coming academic year, we will accept the new students who are currently undergoing the selection process. This is part of the 2019 application process, which had to be interrupted due to the Corona Pandemic. As a medium-term effect of the pandemic, there will be no application procedure at the DFFB in 2020. Those who intend to study at the DFFB will find the application material for the fall 2022 programme on our website from September 2021.

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Two DFFB projects are screening in the short film competition EUROPA IM FILM

On the occasion of the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2020, the short film competition Europe in Film, which is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, will take place this year. The DFFB films KATZENJAMMER by Flavio Yuri Rigamonti and STADTPINGUIN by Florinda Frisardi will compete for the Audience …

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Success for DFFB students and alumni at the 54th International Hofer Film Festival

The 54th International Hofer Film Festival has come to an end, and once again there were many offerings from the DFFB. “Home of Films” is the motto of the festival, and it describes the success of our students and alumni well. Two of our student films celebrated their world premiere at this festival: BABY BITCHKA …

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DFFB FILMS

Duc Nguyen by Clara Zoe My-Linh von Arnim

Nico by Eline Gehring

Turkish Riviera by Senem Göcmen

At the DFFB, around 120 films — including 15 feature films — are written, directed, produced, and edited each year. They travel to around 200 film festivals worldwide and, in 2018, they won prizes in 25 festivals.

Here you can find a selection of DFFB films that are either brand new or currently travelling to the most important international festivals.