The Sug­ar Tow­er
Pro­tag­o­nist
A Man Going His Own Way

We pro­vide train­ing in screen­writ­ing, cin­e­matog­ra­phy, direct­ing, pro­duc­tion and edit­ing & sound — in a cre­ative, inter­na­tion­al­ly con­nect­ed envi­ron­ment where stu­dents from around the world devel­op their unique ‘artis­tic voice’.

slack­ers wins prize for best script at gold­en­er spatz film fes­ti­val
ero­ge­n­e­sis gewin­nt den canal+ award bei der semaine de la cri­tique in cannes
impa­tience of the heart wins the main and act­ing prize at the 22. neisse film­fest
HAY UN DOLOR wins the main award of the ger­man com­pe­ti­tion at the 71. Kurz­film­tage Ober­hausen

News

1. July 2025

Ange­li­ka Levi becomes the new Artis­tic Direc­tor of the DFFB

Ange­li­ka Levi will take over the cre­ative lead­er­ship of the Acad­e­my start­ing in Octo­ber 2025. The Board of Trustees con­firmed her appoint­ment dur­ing its meet­ing on June 25, 2025 – fol­low­ing the rec­om­men­da­tion of the selec­tion com­mit­tee. For Levi, it is a return to her old place of work: she her­self stud­ied at the DFFB […]

3. June 2025

Ser­i­al Eyes # 12 Final Pitch

On 15 May 2025, the twelve par­tic­i­pants of Ser­i­al Eyes #12 pre­sent­ed their orig­i­nal series con­cepts at the pro­gram­me’s Final Pitch at SoHo House in Berlin. This closed indus­try event marks the cul­mi­na­tion of Europe’s lead­ing post­grad­u­ate train­ing pro­gramme for tele­vi­sion writ­ers and showrun­ners. Over the course of eight inten­sive months, these twelve aspir­ing writ­ers […]

17. April 2025

DFFB film at the Semaine de la Cri­tique

We have news from Cannes film fes­ti­val! Our Angst Film and Hel­lo Trou­ble co-pro­­­duc­­­tion EROGENESIS (D: Xan­dra Popes­cu, B: Xan­dra Popes­cu & Clara Puhlmann, C: Maayane Bouh­nik, M: Vanes­sa Heeger, P: Clara Puhlmann) has been select­ed for the com­pe­ti­tion of the Semaine de la Cri­tique at this year’s Fes­ti­val de Cannes! In EROGENESIS , the […]

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