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Fol­low­ing its world pre­miere at the Berli­nale, where it won the Best Fea­ture Film award at the 2025 First Steps Awards, THE GOOD SISTER is now being released in cin­e­mas across the coun­try. The film tells the sto­ry of Rose, who tem­porar­i­ly moves in with her old­er broth­er Sam fol­low­ing a break-up. The close bond […]

From 1 to 31 Decem­ber 2025, twelve new fea­ture films and doc­u­men­taries from eight coun­tries will be avail­able to watch for free at arte​.tv/​a​r​t​e​k​i​n​o​f​e​s​t​i​val in 32 coun­tries and six lan­guages. The DFFB is rep­re­sent­ed by two Ger­man con­tri­bu­tions: ARTHUR & DIANA tells the sto­ry of a chaot­ic road trip deal­ing with fam­i­ly role mod­els and […]

A fan­tas­tic night for the DFFB: At this year’s Ger­man Short Film Awards, two of our pro­duc­tions received a Gold­en Lola. GARNELIUS by Julia Ketel­hut won in the Medi­um-Length Film cat­e­go­ry, while MOTHER IS A NATURAL SINNER by Hoda Taheri and Boris Hadži­ja was award­ed Best Short Film up to 15 min­utes. The jury praised GARNELIUS […]

Sig­nif­i­cant dis­rup­tions to S‑Bahn ser­vices are expect­ed on 22 Novem­ber. Lines S46, S45, S47, S8, S85 and S9 will not run to their usu­al timetable due to oper­a­tional changes affect­ing the south­east­ern Berlin rail net­work. Vis­i­tors are advised to use alter­na­tive con­nec­tions or local bus ser­vices to reach the Adler­shof loca­tion reli­ably. Both the Berlin­er […]

In a state­ment issued fol­low­ing a con­fer­ence under the title “The Arts and Migration(s): Reflec­tions and Respon­si­bil­i­ties”, which was held in Valletta/​​Malta upon invi­ta­tion of the Arts Coun­cil Mal­ta from 27 to 29 Octo­ber 2025, the Euro­pean Alliance of Acad­e­mies express­es its deep con­cern about the increas­ing trans­for­ma­tion of Europe into a fortress where migrants […]

On 20 Novem­ber 2025, Min­is­ter of State for Cul­ture and Media Wol­fram Weimer will present the Ger­man Short Film Award in Ham­burg. We are delight­ed to have received one award and two fur­ther nom­i­na­tions that are still in the run­ning for a Gold­en Lola. The Ger­man Short Film Award 2025 in the cat­e­go­ry Medi­um-Length Film (30 […]

On Sat­ur­day, 22 Novem­ber 2025, we will open our doors to any­one inter­est­ed in study­ing film or want­i­ng to find out more about our acad­e­my. The Open House offers the per­fect oppor­tu­ni­ty to gain an insight into our cours­es, the acad­e­my itself, and the peo­ple behind it. Vis­i­tors can find out about the var­i­ous depart­ments, […]

We are delight­ed to announce that the DFFB doc­u­men­tary film A JEWISH PROBLEM by direc­tor Ron Roth­schild will cel­e­brate its world pre­miere in the Ger­man Doc­u­men­tary Com­pe­ti­tion at the renowned DOK Leipzig. The invi­ta­tion is a spe­cial hon­our for the work, which was cre­at­ed as part of the DFF­B’s doc­u­men­tary film work­shop under the direc­tion […]

The DFFB cel­e­brat­ed a major suc­cess at the FIRST STEPS Awards 2025. Last night (6 Octo­ber 2025), three of our films received awards in the main cat­e­gories of fea­ture film, doc­u­men­tary film and act­ing. The film­mak­ers received a total of €45,000 in prize mon­ey. The FIRST STEPS Awards are con­sid­ered the most pres­ti­gious awards for grad­u­a­tion […]

It is with great sad­ness that we must say farewell to Hart­mut Bit­o­m­sky. He was a stu­dent of the very first cohort of the DFFB, at first com­pelled to leave after one year, grad­u­at­ing in 1970 and ulti­mate­ly return­ing as direc­tor of the DFFB from 2006 to 2009. A doc­u­men­tary film­mak­er („Der VW Kom­plex“, „Reich­sauto­bahn“, „High­way […]

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 […]