The Academy

The Academy

by | Dec 30, 2024

The Academy

A young, idealistic student seeks her way as an artist in the adventurous and ruthless world of an art academy and becomes part of a colourful community of artists and professors who all struggle with the absurdities of life, love and the art world.

Credits

Cast: Maja Bons, Luise Aschenbrenner, Jean-Marc Barr, Andreas Lust, Isolde Barth, Christoph Luser, Jörg Besser, Joscha Baltha, Dagobert, Jan Tsien Beller, Felix Phönix Lehmann, Jonathan Joél Albrecht, Miguel Abrantes Ostrowski, Janusz Szczurowski, Michael Brandner

Written by: Camilla Guttner
Director: Camilla Guttner
Director of Photography: Luca Bigazzi
Editors: Beatrice Babin, Christian Bach
Sound: Alex Rubin
Composers: Ege Ateslioglu, Meerkat Meerkat (Songs)
Casting: Anja Dihrberg
Production Design: Markus Dicklhuber
Costume: Mara Laibacher, Luisa Rauschert
Make-up: Julia Schlotke, Steffen Roßmanith
Producers: Marcos Kantis (Schiwago Film), Korbinian Kalleder (SuperCine), Josef Brandmaier (Penned Pictures), Camilla Guttner (Standing Ovation Production)
Commissioning Editor: Corinna Liedtke, Anke Hirschel (WDR), Birgit Kämper (ARTE), Nathalie Lambsdorff (BR)
Funded by: FilmFernsehFonds Bavaria, German Federal Film Fund, German Federal Film Board FFA, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM)

Year of production: 2024

Festival Participation

41st Film Festival Munich 2024
18th Ahrenshoop Film Nights 2024

Awards

Bavarian Film Award for Best Emerging Actress 2025 to Maja Bons

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Muxmäuschenstillˣ

by | Aug 15, 2024

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In a world that has fallen out of joint, walking upright means walking askew. Mux is askew. Mux is different. And Mux is back.
After years in a coma, the self-proclaimed revolutionary and world-improver awakens to a world he no longer understands. He is a stranger in his own land. And yet the question arises: Have we all been asleep, rather than him?
With his long-time caregiver Karsten and the Manifesto of Muxism in tow, Mux takes up the fight for a fairer world.

Credits

Cast: Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Tilman Vellguth, Bettina Hoppe, Sophie Roeder, Henriette Simon

Written by: Jan Henrik Stahlberg
Director: Jan Henrik Stahlberg
Directors of Photography: Ralf Noack, Carolin Hauke, Philip Jestädt
Editors: Sarah Clara Weber, Natalie Trapp
Sound: Phillip Lehner
Composer: Rainer Oleak
Casting: Stephanie Maile
Production Design: Kathrin Adam, Carola Gauster, Lada Stepanenko
Producers: Mirjam Erdem, Stella Wejchert
Line Producers: Charles Breitkreuz, Anna-Katrin Winkler
Producers: Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis (Mux Filmproduktion)
Co-Producers: Jana Kreissl, Tobias Gaede (Silva Film)
Funded by: Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), MV Film Funding

Year of production: 2024

Festival Participation
  • 34th Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin
  • 46th Max Ophuels Film Festival 2025 (Opening Film)
  • 41st Film Festival Munich 2024

Inside

Inside

by | Feb 17, 2023

Inside

“Inside” tells the story of Nemo an art thief who enters a collector’s penthouse apartment hunting for valuable works of art. As he enters, the security system locks everything down. And then malfunctions. He is locked inside. At Sirst, he expects his partners in crime to arrive, then the security guards or the police. Or the owner. But no one comes. Then he hopes and prays for a cleaning lady to come. A servant. Someone to clean the aquarium. Anyone. But no one comes. And days stretch out into months. He is locked inside a prison adorned with exquisite, strange, even eerie works of art: works that he both covets and admires, but which are now, for him, useless. Instead he must use all of his cunning and invention to survive. To break into all the locked spaces to Sind all the food and liquid he will need. The luxury penthouse – this locus of perfection and aspiration – has become a prison. A desert island. A torture chamber. And then a place of revelation.

 

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Credits

Cast: Willem Dafoe, Gene Bervoets, Eliza Stuyck

Written by: Ben Hopkins
Director: Vasilis Katsoupis
Director of Photography: Steven Annis
Production Design: Thorsten Sabel
Art Curator: Leonardo Bigazzi
Editor: Lambis Haralambidis
Composer: Frederik van de Moortel
Producer: Giorgos Karnavas (Heretic), Marcos Kantis (Schiwago Film), Dries Phlypo (A Private View)

Festival Participations
  • Hellenic Film Academy Awards 2024
  • 23rd Columbus Film Critics Association Awards
  • 30th Palić European Film Festival
  • 27th Sofia International Film Festival
  • Reims Polar – International Thriller Film Festival 2023
  • 73rd Berlin International Film Festival
Awards
  • Hellenic Film Academy Awards 2024:
    Best First Film Director – Vasilis Katsoupis; Best Actor – Willem Dafoe
  • 27th Sofia International Film Festival:
    Best Director – International Competition (Vasilis Katsoupis)
  • 30th Palić European Film Festival:
    Special Mention – International Competition (Vasilis Katsoupis)
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Szene aus Ostfriesensünde
Szene aus Ostfriesensünde
Szene aus Ostfriesensünde

Desaster

Desaster

by | Feb 13, 2023

Desaster

After the surprise success of “Bis zum Ellenbogen”, the new, pitch-black gangster comedy by and with Justus von Dohnányi, Jan Josef Liefers, Stefan Kurt, Anna Loos and Milan Peschel.

The two professional killers Ed and Mace get the order from the corrupt lawyer Dr. Würsch to rob gunrunner Mischa in his villa in St. Tropez. A plan that other petty criminals also forge, and so begins an absurd chase for big money, in which people die for all they’re worth without a single shot being fired.

Credits

Cast: Justus von Dohnányi, Jan Josef Liefers, Stefan Kurt, Anna Loos, Milan Peschel, Max Simonischek, Angela Winkler, Oskar Ortega Sanches

Screenplay: Justus von Dohnányi
Director: Justus von Dohnányi
Camera: Ralf Noack
Editing: Olivia Retzer
Production design: Johannes Fischer
Props: Maxi von Dohnányi
Costume: Katrin Aschendorf
Mask: Peter Bour
Sound: Claudia Mattai del Moro
Production Management: Jonas Witsch
Co-producer: Ellenbogen Film, Radio Doria Entertainment, STUDIOCANAL
Producer: Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis, Michal Pokorny
Commissioning Editor: Hessischer Rundfunk, Jörg Himstedt
Broadcaster: HR, arte
Funding: German Federal Film Board, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
Production year: 2015

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Scene from Disaster
Scene from Disaster
Scene from Disaster
Scene from Disaster
Scene from Disaster
Scene from Disaster
Scene from Disaster

Manifesto

Manifesto

by | Feb 13, 2023

Scene from Manifesto
Scene from Manifesto

Manifesto

The Nationalgalerie at Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin presents a solo exhibition of Berlin-based artist Julian Rosefeldt from February 10 to July 10, 2016. Manifesto is an installation consisting of 13 parallel films and a tribute to the moving tradition of artists’ manifestos. Rosefeldt’s work emphasizes the literary beauty and performative energy of artists’ manifestos. He has collaged numerous original historical manifestos into 13 poetic monologues and presents them as a living, highly contemporary call in moving images.

Credits

Cast: Cate Blanchett

Screenplay: Julian Rosefeldt
Director: Julian Rosefeldt
Camera: Christoph Krauss
Editing: Bobby Good
Production design: Erwin Prib
Costume: Bina Daigeler
Mask: Morag Ross
Production Management: Anna K. Guddat
Production management: Vasily Zygouris
Executive producer: Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald, Vasily Zygouris

Producer: Julian Rosefeldt
Commissioning Editor: Cornelia Ackers (BR)
Production year: 2015