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Great news: Four DFFB grad­u­a­tion films have been nom­i­nat­ed this year for one of the pres­ti­gious FIRST STEPS Awards — in the cat­e­gories Fea­ture Length Film, Doc­u­men­tary Film, Screen­play, the Michael Ball­haus Award, and the Götz George New­com­er Award. The fol­low­ing films are nom­i­nat­ed: The fea­ture film THE GOOD SISTER by Sarah Miro Fis­ch­er has […]

We are pleased to announce that the diplo­ma film THE GOOD SISTER (D: Sarah Miro Fis­ch­er, S: Sarah Miro Fis­ch­er & Agnes Maa­gard Petersen, DoP: Sel­ma von Pohlheim Gravesen, E: Ele­na Wei­he, P: Jan­na Fodor & Nina Sophie Bay­er-Seel) has been invit­ed to the pres­ti­gious Zabal­te­gi Tabakalera sec­tion of the 73rd San Sebastián Inter­na­tion­al Film […]

This year, the DFFB is rep­re­sent­ed at the renowned Locarno Film Fes­ti­val (August 6–16) with chi­nese film­mak­er Ruan Lan-Xi’s fea­ture film. THE PLANT FROM THE CANARIES (DoP: Jonathan Steil) will cel­e­brate its world pre­miere in the Cineasti del pre­sente com­pe­ti­tion. The film tells the sto­ry of May, a Kore­an woman in her ear­ly thir­ties, who […]

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 […]

As part of the 42nd FILMFEST MÜNCHEN, the Ger­man Film and Tele­vi­sion Acad­e­my Berlin (Deutsche Film und Fernse­hen Akademie Berlin), togeth­er with five oth­er Ger­man film schools, orga­nized a pan­el dis­cus­sion on diver­si­ty in the film indus­try on June 30. The Project “Boost­ing the Next Gen­er­a­tion” was ini­ti­at­ed by the MaL­isa Foun­da­tion, Film Uni­ver­si­ty Babels­berg […]

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 […]

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 […]

This year’s pitch­ing event DFFB Con­nect took place on 8 April 2025 in the Säälchen am Holz­markt. Stu­dents pitched their (grad­u­a­tion) projects, a doc­u­men­tary film and a series. After­wards, there were quick, sev­en-minute round table dis­cus­sions with the pro­duc­ers, edi­tors and agents present, who got to know all the stu­dents and their projects even bet­ter. Any­one […]

Our post­grad­u­ate train­ing pro­gramme Ser­i­al Eyes, as part of the STREAM net­work, has demon­strat­ed fur­ther com­mit­ment to improv­ing and expand­ing the Euro­pean series land­scape. STREAM (Series Train­ing Resources, Engage­ment and Media) con­sists of 10 of Europe’s lead­ing insti­tu­tions for fur­ther edu­ca­tion in the series indus­try. Through shared val­ues and goals, the ini­tia­tive pro­motes col­lab­o­ra­tion, knowl­edge […]

The achtung berlin film­fes­ti­val starts soon! The 21st edi­tion runs from 2 to 9 April 2025. Eleven DFFB pro­duc­tions are includ­ed in the fes­ti­val pro­gramme and stu­dents and alum­ni have also worked on oth­er films and series. Here you can find infor­ma­tion about the pro­duc­tions and screen­ings. Filme der DFFB DIE FARBE DER LUFT Wet­tbe­werb […]

The 75th edi­tion of the Berli­nale is com­ing up! This year, a DFFB grad­u­a­tion film will cel­e­brate its world pre­miere in the Panora­ma and numer­ous alum­ni and lec­tur­ers will present their works to the pub­lic between 13 and 23 Feb­ru­ary 2025. Here you can find all infor­ma­tion about the events and films: Grad­u­a­tion film DFFB […]

The DFFB was rep­re­sent­ed with sev­er­al pro­duc­tions at this year’s Max Ophüls Prize in Saar­brück­en, one of the most impor­tant film fes­ti­vals for Ger­­man-lan­guage new­com­er films — and was delight­ed to receive some remark­able awards. UNGEDULD DES HERZENS: Best Fea­ture Film, two awards for Best Young Actor Our copro­duc­tion with rbb and Schi­wa­go Film UNGEDULD […]