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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 […]

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 […]

Our grad­u­a­tion film SCHWESTERHERHERZ (D: Sarah Miro Fis­ch­er, B: Sarah Miro Fis­ch­er & Agnes Maa­gard Petersen, C: Sel­ma von Pohlheim Gravesen, M: Ele­na Wei­he, P: Jan­na Fodor & Nina Sophie Bay­er-Seel) will cel­e­brate its world pre­miere as part of the Panora­ma pro­gramme of this years Berli­nale! The fea­ture film SCHWESTERHERHERZ, which is inter­na­tion­al­ly known as […]

It is with great sad­ness that we bid farewell to alum­nus Wolf­gang Beck­er, who passed away on 13 Decem­ber at the age of 70. He was best known for his film GOOD BYE LENIN!, which was not only an inter­na­tion­al suc­cess, but also shaped the image of an entire gen­er­a­tion. Wolf­gang Beck­er was born in […]

The doc­u­men­tary film SONNENSTADT by direc­tor Kristi­na Shtu­bert (C: Han­na Mayser) cel­e­brates its world pre­miere in the Ger­man Doc­u­men­tary Com­pe­ti­tion of the renowned DOK Leipzig. The DFFB grad­u­a­tion film, sup­port­ed by Leucht­stoff sup­port in coop­er­a­tion with rbb and Medi­en­board Berlin-Bran­­den­burg, fol­lows a group of peo­ple who found a utopi­an soci­ety in the seclu­sion of the […]