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465 articles available in total starting from 09/04/2018. Last article published on 08/10/2025.

Otilia Babara • Director of Love Is Not an Orange

Interview: Otilia Babara • Director of Love Is Not an Orange

“This is why the archive footage was so powerful: it makes it clear that this is not a one-off story”

In her first feature-length documentary, the Moldovan director tells the story of her fellow countrywomen through some intriguing video footage  

20/10/2022 | DOK Leipzig 2022

CinÉast unveils the programme for its 15th edition

CinÉast unveils the programme for its 15th edition

This year's line-up will feature a selection of new film productions from Eastern Europe, seven of which will be competing against each other, with several awards up for grabs  

06/10/2022 | CinÉast 2022

Edward Berger • Director of All Quiet on the Western Front

Interview: Edward Berger • Director of All Quiet on the Western Front

“What we associate with the two wars is shame, grief, destruction and guilt; I wanted to make a film out of this heritage”

We chatted to the German director about his Netflix-financed adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s bestseller, also selected as his country’s Oscars submission  

03/10/2022 | Zurich 2022

Hans-Christian Schmid • Director of We Are Next of Kin

Interview: Hans-Christian Schmid • Director of We Are Next of Kin

“Handheld cameras are often intuitive – when characters start moving, they do too”

The German director discusses his adaptation of the novel based on a real-life kidnapping  

30/09/2022 | Hamburg 2022

Uli Decker • Director of Anima – My Father's Dresses

Interview: Uli Decker • Director of Anima – My Father's Dresses

"The categorical distinction between fiction and documentary is artificial: like the boundary between male and female, there is so much in-between”

The director discusses her documentary, in which she blends elements from the documentary form, animation and fiction  

30/09/2022 | /Germany

Lea Najjar • Director of Kash Kash

Interview: Lea Najjar • Director of Kash Kash

“It was necessary to constantly refocus on this microcosm and find a way to express something bigger through it”

The winner of Best Documentary Film at this year’s First Steps Awards talks about her approach to the singular world portrayed in the movie and its protagonists  

29/09/2022 | /Qatar/Lebanon/Germany

Shooting is under way on historical thriller Red Stars Upon the Field

Shooting is under way on historical thriller Red Stars Upon the Field

German director and author Laura Laabs directs a crime story interweaving different eras in Germany's history  

29/09/2022 | Production | Funding | Germany

Torsten Frehse • CEO, European Work in Progress

Interview: Torsten Frehse • CEO, European Work in Progress

“It's a way to get a first impression of the filmmaker’s ‘signature’, which is especially important with younger directors”

In Cologne, ongoing film projects will be presented as works in progress to a professional network of producers, distributors and festival programmers  

27/09/2022 | /Germany

Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness comes out on top at the 2022 Filmkunstmesse

Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness comes out on top at the 2022 Filmkunstmesse

A slew of recently premiered international film productions have been presented to German distributors and programmers at the Leipzig-based event  

26/09/2022 | Festivals | Awards | Germany

Aron Lehmann adapts a female-centric bestseller with What You Can See From Here

Aron Lehmann adapts a female-centric bestseller with What You Can See From Here

The film, based on the novel by German author Mariana Leky, stars Corinna Harfouch and Luna Wedler in the lead roles  

21/09/2022 | Production | Funding | Germany

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