The 35th Sundance Film Festival, which was initiated by Robert Redford, will open on Wednesday, 23 January. Visar Morina's Filmstiftung-backed drama ¨Exile¨ has been invited to screen in the World Dramatic Competition.
he International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will be starting on 23 January with four Filmstiftung-backed productions in its programme that have already have a remarkable festival journey behind them.
The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will be presenting the International Emmy Awards to the world's best TV programmes for the 47th time following on from the International Emmy World Television Festival which is being held in New York from 23 - 24 November.
the European Film Academy (EFA) announced on Saturday in Seville, the Filmstiftung-backed mafia drama „The Traitor“ by Marco Bellocchio has received four nominations and the biopic „Gundermann“ (dir: Andreas Dresen) one nomination to participate in the race for this year's European Film Awards.
Today, the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and the Wim Wenders Stiftung presented the winners of the Wim Wenders Grant for the sixth time in a row at Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf.
The Venice International Film Festival announced today that the Swedish director Roy Andersson will be represented in this year's Competition with the international co-production „About Endlessness“. Andersson had previously been awarded the Golden Lion in 2014 for the Filmstiftung-backed film „A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence“.
Germany is the "Country of Honour" of the 30th edition of the European documentary market Sunny Side of the Doc, which begins today (Monday) and will be running in La Rochelle, France, until 27 June.
A jury of film and television professionals will meet for the 13th time on Wednesday, 19 June, for the Semi-Final Round of Judgings in Cologne to determine the international nomination candidates in four categories. The nominations in all 20 categories will be announced at MIPCOM in the autumn.
Today the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW invited to its annual press conference. CEO Petra Müller presented the results and highlights of 2018 and gave an outlook for 2019.
The evening's big winner with 6 Lolas was „Gundermann“ by Andreas Dresen, the largest number of awards won by one film this year, 4 Lolas were presented to „Styx“ by Wolfgang Fischer and 3 Lolas went to „All About Me“ by Caroline Link.