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The Arse­nal Filmin­sti­tut e.V., the Deutsche Kine­math­ek – Muse­um für Film und Fernse­hen and the Deutsche Film- und Fernse­hakademie Berlin (DFFB) are fur­ther expand­ing their col­lab­o­ra­tion. In the future premis­es of the DFFB, the lead­er­ship of the three insti­tu­tions signed an agree­ment that builds on their suc­cess­ful coop­er­a­tion at the for­mer Filmhaus at Pots­damer Platz. […]

Sev­er­al stu­dent films are fea­tured at this year’s achtung berlin film­fes­ti­val (15–22 April 2026). Every year, the fes­ti­val show­cas­es the lat­est film pro­duc­tions from Berlin and Bran­den­burg – high­light­ing the diver­si­ty and artis­tic strength of region­al film­mak­ing. The fes­ti­val kicks off with the DFFB grad­u­a­tion film MAMBO MATERNICA by Bor­bála Nagy (DoP: Moritz Friese, E: […]

Numer­ous projects by our stu­dents, alum­ni and lec­tur­ers are rep­re­sent­ed at the 76th Berli­nale – both in the offi­cial pro­gramme and in oth­er areas of the fes­ti­val. MY Wife CRIES by alum­na Angela Schan­elec is in the offi­cial selec­tion for this year’s com­pe­ti­tion. The film was pro­duced by alum­nus Kir­ill Krasovs­ki, with stu­dent Raf­fael­lo Lup­perg­er […]

Great recog­ni­tion for film­mak­ers asso­ci­at­ed with the DFFB: the stort­film DOG by Marieke de Zwaan and sev­er­al DFFB alum­ni have been nom­i­nat­ed for the 2025 Ger­man Film Crit­ics’ Award. In DOG, a taxi dri­ver checks in on his dog through a pet cam­era installed at home. When his wife appears on screen, he uses the […]

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 […]