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Isa Willinger • Director of No Mercy

Interview: Isa Willinger • Director of No Mercy

“No one wants to be reduced to their gender – and women have a lot of experience in this regard”

The German helmer, who is one of the talents in German Films’ Face to Face campaign, breaks down her documentary and what it means to be a woman filmmaker  

11/02 | /Germany/Austria

Marijana Jankovic • Director of Home

Interview: Marijana Jankovic • Director of Home

“The hardest part was convincing the industry this story mattered”

The actress-turned-director talks about her multi-layered and sensitive story of a immigrant family from former Yugoslavia which moved to Denmark  

06/02 | IFFR 2026 | Big Screen Competition

Ben Voit • Director of Gropiusstadt Supernova

Interview: Ben Voit • Director of Gropiusstadt Supernova

“I can’t sit isolated in a room and invent a story - I let myself be strongly influenced by people, by situations”

The German director speaks about his first feature film, winner of the Best Feature Film award at the this year's Max Ophüls Prize  

02/02 | Max Ophüls Prize 2026

Moshe Rosenthal • Director of Tell Me Everything

Interview: Moshe Rosenthal • Director of Tell Me Everything

“I wanted to give my own vision of that time – one infused with memory and trauma, not nostalgia”

The filmmaker discusses his second feature, his personal link to its story and to its music and the reason he set most of it in the 1980s  

30/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Nicolas Steiner • Director of Do You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak?

Interview: Nicolas Steiner • Director of Do You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak?

“Funding constraints force you to be creative - what started as a limitation became a strength”

The director talks about his German-Swiss co-production, and about its cast and production conditions  

30/01 | Max Ophüls Prize 2026

Myrsini Aristidou • Director of Hold Onto Me

Interview: Myrsini Aristidou • Director of Hold Onto Me

“Cyprus itself is very quiet, and that emptiness forces you to look inwards – that energy was important for the film”

The Cypriot director breaks down her quiet and sensitive coming-of-age drama about a girl who reunites with her father after many years  

30/01 | Sundance 2026 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

German Films' Face to Face campaign unspools for the 11th time

German Films' Face to Face campaign unspools for the 11th time

Seven up-and-coming talents from the German film industry, hailing from different disciplines, will be introduced at the Berlinale next month  

27/01 | Industry | Market | Germany

Gropiusstadt Supernova awarded Best Feature Film at the Max Ophüls Prize

Gropiusstadt Supernova awarded Best Feature Film at the Max Ophüls Prize

Ben Voit’s coming-of-age drama joined other winners including Wolves by Jonas Ulrich, Noah by Ali Tamim and Days Yet Unknown by Jola Wieczorek  

26/01 | Max Ophüls Prize 2026 | Awards

Alison Kuhn • Director of Holy Meat

Interview: Alison Kuhn • Director of Holy Meat

“I believe the countryside holds an incredible amount of potential – stories, talents and creative people who simply lack infrastructure”

The German director discusses her fiction feature debut, in which contemporary theatre and the Catholic Church meet in an exceptionally disruptive way  

31/12/2025 | /Germany

Post-production in full swing for Peter Meister’s Bearhunting

Post-production in full swing for Peter Meister’s Bearhunting

The German filmmaker’s second feature is a dark comedy set in the year 1830, as a bear hunt gets under way in earnest  

15/12/2025 | Production | Funding | Germany

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