This year's Global Game Jam will take place from January 27th to 31st. Various institutions from North Rhine-Westphalia participate in this year's online edition: SAE Institute Cologne and Bochum, Cologne Game Lab, Global Sauerkraut Jam (Cologne), Headup Remote Jam 2021 (Düren) and Mediencampus (Duisburg). ... more
The digital edition of Berlinale Series Market & Conference - from Tuesday, March 2 to Friday, March 5 - will also be focusing on the latest series and the future of the series market. ... more
Thursday will see the start of the 37th Sundance Film Festival which will be running until 3 February mainly in an online format and partially as a physical event. ... more
European Film Promotion (EFP) today announced the ten up-and-coming acting talents who will be presented online as the Shooting Stars for 2021 ahead of the 71st Berlinale. Albrecht Schuch has been selected to represent Germany. ... more
The 71st Berlin International Film Festival will not take place in the usual form in 2021 and have developed a new festival format due to the current COVID-19 situation. The 71st Berlinale in March will kick off with an online offer. ... more
The Filmstiftungs-backed drama "Louis van Beethoven" has been sold to 35 territories. Beta Film sold the biographical movie celebrating Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday to Italy (Sky), Spain (Filmin), Portugal (RTP), Lithuania (LRT), Hungary (MTVA), Croatia (HRT), Czech Republic (CT) and Russia (Kultura). ... more
The international co-production „Taming the Garden“ by Salomé Jashi will be celebrating its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Documentary Competition. The Sundance Film Festival is being held from 28 January to 3 February, 2021 online as well as in some physical events. ... more
The finale of the 33rd European Film Awards (EFA) came to a close on Saturday evening (12 December) in a live virtual awards ceremony from Berlin. Paula Beer received the 'European Actress 2020' statuette for her acting performance in Christian Petzold's Filmstiftung-backed romantic drama "Undine". ... more
ZDF's Director General Thomas Bellut will receive the International Emmy's 2021 Directorate Award. The Special Emmy of the International Academy will be presented to Bellut at the 49th awards gala in New York City on 22 November, 2021. ... more
Sudan has entered the Academy Awards race with the selection of "You Will Die at Twenty" by Amjad Abu Alala (Die Gesellschaft DGS) as the country’s first Best International Feature Film submission for the 2021 Academy Awards. The Filmstiftung supported the film’s postproduction with 25,000 Euros. ... more
As the European Film Academy (EFA) has just announced, the two Filmstiftung-backed productions „Berlin Alexanderplatz“ by Burhan Qurbani and „Undine by Christian Petzold will now be in the running in the European Film 2020 category at the 33rd European Film Awards. ... more