Did Jens Soering murder his girlfriend’s parents in 1985 – or was she the killer? This docuseries digs into questions that still swirl around the case.

A production of Netflix ©2023

An array of social and professional milieus have grown up at the three prop houses Fundus Studio Babelsberg, Delikatessen Requisiten Fundus Berlin and FTA Props in Hamburg. Each depot has a different logic and its own particular community with its own experiences in dealing with things. Susanne, Miu, Andreas and the three Peters are experts in moving, processing, sorting and presenting up to 100,000 different things.

Lamps, cups, sofas, collection tins, flags, toy fish, plastic flowers, clocks, fake oil paintings and other film props blossom in unimaginable variety.

All this stuff changes hands countless times as it migrates from an old-world analogue order to diverse new ones. On the internet film props mutate into descriptions, photos and search terms. In the outside world of »made-up reality« they emerge as quotes from film and TV productions. Turning the focus onto film props reveals an eccentric history of German film, tracing their appearances in such movies as »Kolberg«, »Großstadtrevier«, »Welt am Draht«, »Prüfstand 7« or »Art Girls«, »Finsterworld« or »Sonnenallee«, but also in the daily soap »Verbotene Liebe«. In docu-fiction the props lead BiPOC actor and activist Thelma Buabeng into postcolonial provenance research in the props house and a daily thing-life of African objects.

A production of BramkampWeirich GbR ©2023

› DokLeipzig 2023
German Competition Documentary Film

AUF DER KIPPE tells the story of structural change in Lusatia, traces the arc from the post-reunification period to the present day, shows what moves Lusatians more than 30 years after reunification, what frightens them, what motivates them – with an approach to a future that has only just begun.

A production of zero one film and Celluloidtracks ©2023

› Official selection: German competition
DOK.fest Munich 2023

The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich – albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz.

Both shared a love for the classical German music. The world-famous conductor made a pact with Hitler and his henchmen. The young woman, brought to Auschwitz for being Jewish, was spared death for her musical talent. German music was used to justify the powerful position the Third Reich claimed in the world, and to distract listeners from Nazi crimes.

97-year-old survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfischs memories are chilling. Archive film footage, restored and colorized, brings the story to life, and bears witness to an agonizing chapter in history.

A production of 3B commissioned by DW ©2022

› Best Portrait Prize
41th Le FIFA Montréal 2023
The Jury:
»A necessary film that questions the past while shedding light on our times. A double portrait of musical figures under the Nazi regime. An update thanks to the colorization of exceptional archives. A demonstration of the universal power of music that recontextualizes the unavoidable question of the impossible separation of the work and the artist.«

› Special Mention of the Jury + Winner Best Documentary in Art and Power
Master of Art Award 2023, Sofia

› Official Selection Competition
FIPADOC, International Documentary Film Festival 2023, Biarritz

› Official Selection Competition
EPOS Festival Tel Aviv 2023

› Nomination Music Award
German Documentary Award 2023

› Winner Czech Crystal Award
Golden Prague Festival 2023

› Nomination International Emmy Awards 2023, Arts Programming

In August 1988, two armed bank robbers keep German police at bay for 54 hours during a hostage-taking drama that ends in a shootout and three deaths.

A production of Netflix ©2022

› Nomination Grimme Award 2023

› Winner Best Documentary + Best Editing
German Television Academy Award 2022

› Winner Best Editing, Nomination Best Documentary
German Television Award 2022

They are the juggernauts of the ocean. Dreadnoughts are war machines that »fear nothing«. Yet, while in June 1919 the Treaty of Versailles is still being negotiated in Paris, the German admiral von Reuter secretly orders the scuttling of the entire German High Seas Fleet in Orkney, Scotland. 74 ships sink to the ground almost immediately – so that the allied forces cannot consume them into their own fleets. This is the final chapter of WW1.

A production of neue artfilm comissioned by ZDF in collaboration with Arte ©2020

What do people do when nothing works anymore? What do we do with our fears, uncertainties, boredom and the dissatisfaction during lockdown? The »Corona Diaries« by filmmaker Elke Sasse are a global video diary about life with the pandemic. People from different countries document their lives with their cell phone camera: The nurse at the corona ICU in Spain, the lecturer in China, the construction worker in India, the bicycle courier from New York and many others.
»Corona Diaries« is a piece of contemporary history that connects us to people around the world in these difficult times – in our fears of becoming infected, losing our jobs and our existence. But at the same time, we experience a new way of working together, with solidarity and ingenuity.

A production of berlin producers comissioned by rbb, in collaboration with Arte and Deutsche Welle ©2020

› Official Selection: DOK.fest Munich 2020

Berlin 1945 time-travels into the city’s most fateful year through the eyes of those, who experienced it: German people and Allied soldiers. A fast paced collage creates an in-the-moment narrative of how the war was won and lost. Hitlerboy Dirk and Goebbels watch their world implode, while Alice fears for her children in Auschwitz and Russian soldier Victor walks through the plundered Chancellery. When it’s all over, Germans learn democracy and socialism. Giving voice to Soviet, US, UK and French soldiers as well as to the German population anxiously awaiting the outcome of the fighting. BERLIN 1945 creates an innovative, comprehensive narrative of how the war was won and lost, how the city was liberated and how it emerged from the rubble.

A production of zero one film in coproduction with bauderfilm, rbb and Arte ©2020

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Part 2:
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› Nomination Grimme Award 2021

No other work in symphonic literature has undergone such wide and enthusiastic reception. To this day, the most-played work of all time moves people all over the world.
The premiere on May 7, 1824 was a huge success. To the surprise of the audience, Beethoven had used a choir, a groundbreaking innovation never seen before at symphony concerts. With the chorus of Friedrich Schiller’s »Ode to Joy«, the Ninth Symphony carries the connecting power of people, of joy and freedom. Without hearing, Beethoven created a masterpiece that has not only come to be used as the official anthem of the European Union and listed in the world documentary heritage of the UNESCO, but which is also used in numerous feature films and pop hits.
The film follows the traces of the Ninth on four continents and looks at current interpretations.

A production of sounding images for Deutsche Welle in collaboration with ZDF/Arte ©2019

› Winner of the German Camera Award 2020 for Outstanding Editing, Category: TV Documentary
The jury: »The editor Janine Dauterich succeeds in an impressive way in composing the life of Beethoven and especially his 9th Symphony in all its facets into a cinematic oeuvre. She finds a rhythm that skillfully uses tempo changes, accents and pauses in order to allow the core musical theme to unfold in a tense manner. Even everyday noises continue to play in time with the music. It is particularly impressive how the editing makes the later deafness of Beethoven’s tone tangible in the concert scenes. Different places and cultures are woven into a complex composition.«

› Winner »Best Documentary«, International Christian Film and Music Festival NY, 2020

› Winner »Arts and Culture Award«, AIB’s London 2020

› Special mention in the 67th edition of Ondas Awards – International Television Award, Barcelona, Spain
The jury: »For an extraordinary piece of work which brings us closer to classical music, teaching us to have fun with its positive vibe, for showing in a unique way an issue concerning disability in different parts of the world and, ultimately, for providing a message of universal hope.«

› Opening film for BAFF 2020, Beirut Art Film Festival, Lebanon

When Tamer Alawam was killed by a grenade in 2012, he left over 300 hours of film footage of the Syrian Revolution – images, which were meant to show Syria from inside. Overwhelmed by the flood of these images and driven by feelings of grief, responsibility and powerlessness, two young filmmakers and friends of Tamer in far away Germany start their own search for answers.
While one of them meets with Tamer’s companions to find out more about the motivations of his friend, the other begins collecting reactions in German society towards the war in Syria. A documentary about humanity, responsibility and the difficulties of finding the right way of action.

A production of ravir film ©2019

› Official selection: Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival 2021

› Official Selection: Peleponnisos International Documentary Film Festival Greece, 2020

› Official Selection: Intercontinental Film Festival New York, 2020

› Nomination Best Documentary
Icaro – Festival International de Cine en Centroamérica,
Guatemala 2019

With its fresh interpretations of Brahms, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is causing great waves of enthusiasm all over the world. Since 2015, the collaboration with Artistic Director Paavo Järvi has focused on Johannes Brahms’ symphonic works. Brahms as he has never been heard before is their aim.
The Brahms Code includes the symphony cycle, as well as extensive rehearsal material, Järvi’s comments on the works, biographical information about the composer, as well as the musicians demonstrating passages and explaining their interpretations.

A coproduction by Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images, Unitel and Deutsche Welle in collaboration with The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen ©2019

› SILVER AWARD 2020 der New York Festivals TV & Film

› German Record Critics’ Award - Quarterly Critics’ Choice 1-2020
Category: Music Film
The jury: »The title sounds like a thriller. And there is indeed an exciting, at the same time lucid introduction to the work behind this documentary. (…) Brahms is re-composed visually. The eye literally listens. In short: a brilliant cinematic accompaniment on the way for understanding hearing.«

Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra made history by being appointed the first female conductor and music director of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Australia. In 2004 she became the first Mexican woman to conduct in New York and in 2014, she led the Orchestre de Paris. Clearly breaking barriers is standard fare for Alondra. As a guest conductor she has led more than 70 renowned orchestras worldwid. She has done multidisciplinary collaborations with various actors and filmmakers and keeps on working on educational programs. The documentary traces the multiple facets of Alondra’s life, accompanies her on her binational tours and gives insight into Alondra’s family.

A production of Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images in coproduction with Deutsche Welle ©2019

A documentary about war in the digital age. An intimate insight into the everyday life of Syrian friends and families separated by the war documented in a completely new manner: through the phones of the affected people, that have become prime instruments of upholding relationships, hopes and meaning.

A production of sounding images in coproduction with berlin
producers in collaboration with WDR and Deutsche Welle ©2018

› German Camera Award 2019 – Nomination for Outstanding Editing
Category: Documentary

› Media&Migration Award 2018

› Official Selection: DokLeipzig 2018

Trifonov belongs to the crowd of highly talented and celebrated young pianists who has won numerous competitions and gives more than 100 concerts a year. For his interpretation of the Chopin piano concertos he chose Russian pianist and composer Mikhail Pletnev’s reorchestration.

A production of Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images comissioned by ZDF in cooperation with arte and Deutsche Welle ©2017

Globalisation makes people yearn for identity. When a sense of belonging vanishes one feels more and more disjointed with themselves and their native soil. Tradition and ritual become a vehicle that helps to uphold what becomes a fleeting concept: HEIMAT
In Neuss, deep in the West-German heartland people celebrate the biggest Schützenfest in the world. Once a year 5500 marksmen dressed in historic costumes and uniforms parade through their town – accompanied by more than 2000 brass band musicians. Women are meant to line the streets, wave from the town hall’s balcony or hand flowers to their husbands as if they were heading into the final battle for their fatherland. A tradition that survives even in today’s climate with challenges of digitisation and refugee crises.

The film takes an ethnological viewpoint to explore the meaning of HEIMAT and observes a society that evolves around a typical German tradition that remained unchanged for centuries, despite the many dark chapters its country has seen since.

A production of sounding images in coproduction with WDR ©2017

Teodor Currentzis has been shaking up the music world as he pushes genre boundaries, provokes with unusual actions and positions himself as the classical world’s pop star. In the Russian industrial city of Perm, Currentzis has been creating spectacular music productions with his young orchestra, the MusicAeterna.
The documentary looks at the extraordinary maestro, following him during the CD recording of Mozart’s »Don Giovanni« opera.

A production of Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images in coproduction with ZDF/arte, Deutsche Welle and Sony Classical ©2016

› Winner of the FIPA D’Or 2017 // Category: Musique et Spectacle
Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels 2017, France

› Winner of the EUTELSAT TV AWARD 2016 in Italy // Category: Best Programme

› Official Selection
World Film Festival Montréal 2016, Canada

Hundreds of thousands are leaving their countries, families and old lives behind, in search of some basic safety and freedom. In most cases, the mobile phone became a quintessential tool to facilitate the organization of ones who escape and the constant companion. This has led many to document their experiences.
Their memories provide the evidence for us.
The unique form of narration allows us a very personal glimpse into their lives before, during and after their escape. It leaves us with a realistic impression.

A production of berlin producers in collaboration with Deutsche Welle and WDR ©2016

› Winner – Best Documentary Feature
NYC Independent Film Festival 2017

› Winner of PRIX EUROPA // Category: Best European TV Documentary of the Year 2016
The jury: »They become visible with their faces and bodies when they strand at our shores and borders – alive or dead: refugees from Afghanistan, Syria and Eritrea on their way to Europe looking for a better future and a safe life. In this documentary they obtain personality and dignity as human beings. It is not possible to elude the emotional appeal of this documentary – yet, the professional skills applied through editing, storytelling and thoughtfully led interviews with the protagonists after their safe arrival make this film a masterpiece that goes far beyond a voyeuristic approach. It is a piece of global importance and has impact on European audiences.«

› Winner of the DIG AWARD 2016 // competition category: Long Reportage
Riccione, Italy

› Winner of UN PONTE TRA LE CULTURE / A BRIDGE BETWEEN CULTURES AWARD 2016
Sole Luna Festival Palermo, Italy
The jury: »[…] Scientifically speaking the film is a deep and courageous anthropological and at the same time journalistic research. From the artistic point of view, the direction is refined and intimate, the editing is sapient and effective.«

› Special mention for THE MOST INNOVATIVE DOCUMENTARY 2016
Sole Luna Festival Palermo, Italy
The jury: »For the originality of the new way of producing the documentary, through social networks, YouTube and the current communication tools. The migrants are the focus of a self-narration. The work of assembling all these contributions produces a story that shows ›the invisible otherwise impossible‹.«

› Winner of the HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD 2016
Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival // Glasgow, UK
https://www.mhfestival.com/news/talking-heads/289-myescape-living-in-the-age-of-the-exile

› Winner of the MEDIA & MIGRATION AWARD 2016
Film Festival Cologne, Germany

› Winner of the FESTIVAL OF LIBERTES AWARD 2016
Festival des Libertés Brussels, Belgium
The jury: »[…] This film invites us to deconstruct the preconceptions about migrations and confronts us not only with our own humanity, but also with our responsibility: are we, as Europeans, ready to accept the disastrous consequences of the repressive policies being conducted in our names all around the continent?«

› Winner of the HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE OF CATALONIA AWARD 2016
Human Rights Film Festival Barcelona, Spain

› Winner of the German Social Award 2017

› Winner of the 10th Marler Media Award Human Rights 2017 awarded by Amnesty International // Category: Dokumentation Inland

Leonard Bernstein was America’s ambassador to the world of music. He was one of the most influential musicians of the last century and inspired an entire generation with his music ensembles and symphony orchestras. An influential teacher, a brilliant conductor, a fine composer and an accomplished pianist. A man, who lived five lives and who exuded passion from every pore.

This portrait covers the whole spectrum of Bernstein’s life: From his world famous TV series Young People’s Concerts to the recording of his Mahler cycle and from the West Side Story to his Chichester Psalms. The film includes interviews with Bernstein’s children as well as with friends and companions such as Stephen Sondheim, Kent Nagano and Christoph Eschenbach.

A production of Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images and ZDF/3Sat in collaboration with Unitel Classica ©2015

› Winner of the CZECH CRYSTAL AWARD
Golden Prague Festival 2016
The jury justified their decision as follows: »By its extraordinary and attractive performance, using lots of unique archive footage, the document is able to aptly depict one of the greatest figures of world music and combine information and emotion in a single functioning unit. Just like Leonard Bernstein, such portrait helps, in educated and comprehensive way, to open and draw closer the fascinating world of classical music to the widest audience.«

› Quarterly Critics’ Choice 3-2016 // Category: DVD-Produktionen
German Record Critics’ Award

› Winner of the ICMA AWARD 2017 // Category: Video Documentaries

»Home is not a Place« shows a life plan beyond the ubiquitous conformity and lack of imagination. It tells of the yearning for freedom, shown here through the obsession for theatre, the pleasure of stage performance without glamour. And of the the daily life on tour and its trials and tribulations – life under extreme conditions.

A Pavel Schnabel Filmproduction ©2015

From November 7th to 9th 2014, the inner city of Berlin was temporarily divided from Bornholmer Strasse to Mauerpark and the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse, past the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie to the East Side Gallery: a light installation featuring 8,000 luminous white balloons commemorated the division of Berlin. Developed by Christopher Bauder and Marc Bauder, the installation’s emotional and visual power evoked the dimension and brutality of the Wall.

Large format screens at selected public locations showed the film collage FRAGMENTS OF THE WALL made from historic, often little-known archive footage.

A production of bauderfilm in coproduction with Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH ©2014

View here:
http://www.bpb.de/mediathek/199179/fragments-of-the-wall-mauerstuecke

Across European borders, the film explores different microcosms of the modern, bohemian world. It portrays creative individuals of the »30something« generation and witnesses how their private lives, work spaces, and very personal dreams, concerns and visions intertwine and function.
Although chances of achieving financial security may decline, the dream of creating something meaningful for society, in order to be an accepted part of it, remains strong. That’s what keeps the film’s protagonists pushing forward, despite the odds.

»It’s not about Fame« follows five creative professionals in different European capitals for more than a year. The film is a current snapshot of their lives that vary from the heights of individual fulfillment to the obstacles of everyday reality.

A production of lüthje schneider hörl film in coproduction with the University of Television and Film Munich ©2013

› Official Selection
Achtung Berlin, New Berlin Film Award 2014

A documentary celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir Georg Solti. Sir Georg Solti (1912 – 1997) was one of the 20th century’s most brilliant conductors and a leading figure of musical culture worldwide.

Born and raised in Hungary, György studied piano, composition and conducting with Bartók, Dohnányi, Kodály and Leo Weiner at Budapest’s Liszt Academy. The young Solti spent his formative years as a conductor in German-speaking countries.
In 1937, Toscanini selected him as his assistant at the Salzburg Festival. Before the outbreak of World War II, Sir Georg went to Switzerland as a refugee. In 1946, following the war, he was invited by the American military government to conduct a performance of Beethoven’s Fidelio in Munich. Soon he became the General Music Director in Munich and Frankfurt. Later as a mature and experienced maestro, he also appeared in Vienna, Bayreuth and Berlin.
These stops form the central points of the film: although he was the Musical Director of Covent Garden for 10 years and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 22 years, his artistic home remains the German-speaking field and its composers.

A coproduction of Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images with BR, Arte and ORF ©2012

› Winner of the GRAND PRIX GOLDEN PRAGUE
Golden Prague Festival 2013

The jury justified their decision as follows: »Rarely has a documentary revealed so much of one life and work of one of the greatest performer of our time Sir Georg Solti, whose centenary was celebrated in 2012. Incredible archive, well chosen interviewees and perfect cut combine to make this an entertaining and informative program of this year’s Grand Prix.«

Mauro Bigonzetti is considered the leading choreographer of the Italian ballet world. Through his work, ballet in Italy has broken free from the dominance of classically oriented companies and forged a new identity. His inimitable style: complexity and authenticity. Bigonzetti creates a microcosm of human sensibility which quickly draws in the audience. With each new choreography, his inventiveness seems unlimited.

A production of Monarda Arts commissioned by ZDF/3Sat ©2011

Carlos Kleiber, the eccentric and reclusive conductor, was a fabled perfectionist who was known as much for the rarity of his appearances as for the brilliance of his interpretations. Kleiber has achieved cult status in music circles and has a loyal fan base, but he never became a household name.

In complete contradiction to his contemporary Herbert von Karajan, Carlos Kleiber refused to participate in the international music business – he showed a strong repugnance for record company moguls, corporate sponsors, agents and journalists – and in fact he refused most interviews. His reclusiveness started in earnest in the early 1980s, when he walked out on a Vienna Philharmonic rehearsal and soon after broke with Deutsche Grammophon.

Musicians still go into rapture about making music with Kleiber, who whether in rehearsal or performance was incomparable. His performances were renowned for their hyperaware intensity. They were minutely expressive and dizzyingly dangerous. Everybody wanted to be a part of these exclusive musical moments, but only a fortunate few could. After a long illness, Kleiber left the classical music world wishing for more at the age of 74 in 2004.

The film uncovers some of the mysteries and tries to clear up preconceptions of one of the most elusive conductors: what where the real reasons he cancelled concerts so often? It sheds light on the relationships with his family, including his father and mother, traces the development of his career and covers the creation of his myth that began during the lifetime of the maestro. Carlos Kleiber has always been a major mystery to the world and probably even to himself. His closest family circle and children continue to respect his wishes not to grant access to any biographers. This is why the filmmaker had to do his research among the conductor’s musical companions, collaborators and friends.

A coproduction of Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images with ZDF/3Sat ©2011

› Quarterly Critics’ Choice 3-2011 // Category: DVD-Video Productions
German Record Critics’ Award

› Awarded with the ffff de Télerama 2011

The film focuses on one specific facet of Herbert von Karajan’s artistic work: he was the first conductor who was obsessed with the filming of his musical performances in order to preserve a cultural heritage. Also as a film and TV director, he was an aesthete, a perfectionist, and a true pioneer.

He once said: »Actually, I should have been born in a later era.« Television engineering was still in the fledgling stages when Karajan started. Still, his visual approach and rigid rules how to film an orchestra and soloists – and of course how to present himself as a conductor – have an impact on everybody who produces recordings of concerts and opera for the screen till now.
Karajan’s exceedingly high expectations demanded a great deal of his entire film crew, and due to strong characters on both sides of the creative fence this repeatedly lead to simmering tensions.

A coproduction of Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images with RBB and BR in cooperation with Arte @2008

› Winner of the CZECH CRYSTAL // Category 2: Documentary programs dedicated to music and dance
Golden Prague Festival 2008

› Winner of the MIDEM CLASSICAL AWARD 2009 // Category: DVD: Documentary

Where the US states Idaho, Oregon and Nevada meet lies »The Big Empty«. Whoever chooses to live life here is not after a normal way of life but in search of the Buckaroo way of life – the true life of a cowboy. The Buckaroos, a scattered community of ranchers, are a tough but warm-hearted folk. Values like traditions, community, honesty and humanity are a big part of their lives – lives that one seems to know from westerns or commercials.

A production of KRAFFFTWERK Fred J. Gattys Filmproduction commissioned by ZDF/Arte ©2007

A production of the University of Film and Television »Konrad Wolf« Potsdam Babelsberg ©2004

Selected and assembled excerpts from video tutorials show young women and men who are putting on a so-called »black mask« or »charcoal mask«. The carbon-based peel-off face masks are designed to remove skin imperfections (»blackheads« and »whiteheads«). The practice, which is sometimes reminiscent of »Blackfacing«, happens worldwide; it is also used by People of Color and across all genders. With 18 digital picture frames, film clips of 26 actors are moved into the context of a portrait gallery.
They appear in a patchy grid between black areas, act in threes, form groups, synchronize. This arrangement and changes in speed deconstruct their actions: applying the »Blackmask«, drying and tearing off the mask with pain.

A production by BramkampWeirich @2018

The main charcter in this media installation is the intelligent »Good Luck« claw crane. It’s in constant conflict with mirrored balls in many sizes. His goddess Fortuna (Sophia Loren) appears as his opponent, masquerading as a shooting gallery owner. From a projected movie scene, she tries to influence the big lottery (La Riffa).

A production by BramkampWeirich @2017

Lonely and isolated in Australia, Simon, a middle aged man travels to Cambodia searching for love. Once there, Simon begins a fragile self exploration as he is confronted by his sexual desire against his need for love.

A production of Introvert Films & Tappertsort ©2016

› Nominated Best Actor in a Feature – Richard Stables for the Queens World Film Festival, New York 2018

› Winner – Best Feature Film at the 5th Indian Cine Film Festival, India 2017

› Winner – Best Direction for the 1st Great Message International Film Festival, India 2017

› Official selection for the 35th Long Island International Film Festival, New York 2017

› Official selection for the 2nd Festival Internacional De Cine Independiente De Trujillo, Peru 2017

› Official selection for the 8th EKO International Film Festival, Nigeria 2017

› Official selection for the San Jose International Film Awards, Costa Rica 2017

This science-docu-fiction / mockumentary combines the narrative forms of TV, cinema and the Internet, and documents the emergence of the feature film »Art Girls«.

Three women media artists work together for a group exhibition during which they become the first to discover the symptoms of an evolutionary leap. Whereas human beings’ collective intelligence begins to emerge, their everyday lives begin to assume fantastical characteristic.

A production by BramkampWeirich @2014

Forms of communication between the living, the dead and the undead are related to the tradition of Chinese funeral offerings. Despite the prevalence of industrial production, these paper imitations of objects of mass consumption are largely crafted by hand. They play a role in a ritual context by being sacrificed and burnt, for the most part during the Qingming Festival, the Chinese day of the dead.
These paper objects assist the dead in their passage to the afterworld, and enable surviving family members to maintain contact with them long after their burial. This is done by interpreting the rising smoke and the flight of the ash.

The film opens up a new conduit to mysterious and unfulfilled desires.

A production by BramkampWeirich @2014

Tirolean lad Anderl Gruber meets his very first love, the Italian beauty Francesca Calzolari. On the day, war breaks out between their to home countries.
WWI seperated the young couple. Anderl has to fight a brutal war on the rocky frontlines of the Dolomites. While Francesca finds herself surrounded by enemies.

A production of Sigma Film in cooperation with Vent Productions ©2014

An Esther Löwe production ©2013

Ritch boxes in a gym, is unemployed and secretly sleeps in model homes. He has never gained control of his life. When he suddenly faces his stepfather again after 10 years, they both lose their last balance.

An Anna Wendt Filmproduction in cooperation with the University of Film and Television »Konrad Wolf« and Kinderfilm ©2011

› FilmArt Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2011

› Montreal World Film Festival 2011

› São Paulo International Film Festival 2011

A production of the University of Film and Television »Konrad Wolf« Potsdam Babelsberg ©2010

A 3-channel video installation recalling the female killer commando which, in 1969, were instructed by Charles Manson to carry out the brutal murders of seven victims, including Sharon Tate, the wife of Roman Polanski. The work was initially inspired by a press photo depicting three young women who had been involved in the Tate-LaBianca Murders. On their way to court, the three young murderers behaved like an upbeat girl band and sang a song by their leader.

A production by BramkampWeirich commissioned by Hamburger Kunsthalle @2009

A production of the University of Film and Television »Konrad Wolf« Potsdam Babelsberg ©2009

A production of the University of Film and Television »Konrad Wolf« Potsdam Babelsberg ©2009

A production of the University of Film and Television »Konrad Wolf« Potsdam Babelsberg ©2008

The 3-channel video installation White Lies, in which the artist deals with common narrative structures and the interplay between reality and fiction. In total, the three synchronously presented but casually combined film sequences create a flexible logic, which always represents just one among many possible realities. Inner and outer perception of the figures become an essential part of the projected reality.

A production by BramkampWeirich @2007

A production of the University of Film and Television »Konrad Wolf« Potsdam Babelsberg in cooperation with the Academy of Arts ©2006

A production of the University of Film and Television »Konrad Wolf« Potsdam Babelsberg ©2006

A production of the University of Film and Television »Konrad Wolf« Potsdam Babelsberg ©2006

During his approximately ten years as a dancer, Vaslav Nijinsky set a new standard both technically and expressively, while in his choreographic work he pointed the way towards modern dance. His personal fate and mental illness that forced him to spend the last 30 years of his life in various asylums and in the keeping of his wife gave his short artistic career an even more aweinspiring and sensational quality. All three aspects – the dancer, the choreographer and the person Nijinsky – form the starting point for John Neumeier’s latest creation.

A coproduction of NDR/arte, NHK and C major Entertainment in cooperation with Staatsoper Hamburg and signed Media ©2017

A production of BFMI in coproduction with ZDF/Arte in association with Hamburg Ballett ©2015

In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet share the same social background and are both potrayed as victims of their families’ expectations.

In Mats Ek’s choreography, to Tchaikovsky’s music, Juliet’s family wants to marry her off to an influential family to improve their social status while Juliet dreams of a man who loves and understands her.
She falls in love with Romeo, who is a member of a gang roaming the streets, and refuses to marry the man chosen for her with tragic consequences.

Juliet stands for every young woman who wants to escape a life determined by her family’s and society’s expectations.

A production of BFMI in coproduction with SVT in cooperation with the Royal Swedish Opera ©2013

John Neumeiers’s sophisticated interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen’s »The Little Mermaid« (1836) explores fundamental questions of unrequited love and loss.

Neumeier interweaves the story with elements of Andersen’s biography, making the writer a figure in his ballet. The mermaid’s feelings and her tragic destiny become a reflection of Andersen’s own longings.

The mermaid traverses two worlds: the serenity and simplicity of underwater life as well as the complex, often absurd and flamboyant lives of humans. Her unrequited love for the prince causes her unending torment but she transcends it in the end through her own strength.

A production of San Francisco Ballet Association, NDR/Arte and THIRTEEN for WNET in association with BFMI and C Major Entertainment ©2011

› Klassik Echo 2012
Category: Music DVD Production of the Year

› Nominated for Rose d’Or 2012
Category: Arts Documentary and Performing Arts

Caravaggio is one of the most mysterious and revolutionary figures in the history of art, a painter who gained a reputation for the dramatic intensity of his creations. Caravaggio was an obsessive artist whose life equally dramatic, a balancing act between the sanctioned and the forbidden, between admiration and violent rejection.

Caravaggio is the focus of a work created by Italian choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti with the Berlin State Ballet.

A production of Arthaus Musik coproduced by ZDF/3Sat ©2009

Marco Goecke cleverly maneuvers his quirky ›signature‹ style to closely follow the original tale by German romantic E.T.A.  Hoffman, who discloses the mysterious depths of the adolescence of the girl Clara. Like a Tim Burton of ballet, Goecke displays his dance wizardry in the evocation of a shadowy fairytale realm where childish innocence and fantasy spill over into the fears surfacing from the depths of the unconscious.
Goecke’s ›ballet noir‹ is like a dark mystery that gradually eases into the audience’s minds. In a Goecke choreography, it is never possible to tell dream from reality. Here he captures the essential ambiguity of Hoffman’s tale, lost both in Dumas and in Tchaikovsky’s ballet: the transformation from girl to woman.

Goecke’s unique vision has been received enthusiastically by public and critics alike.

A production of ZDF/3Sat ©2007

Five dances mirror various inner conflicts and emotions: human vulnerability in the face of unforeseen influences (Apocalypse); the glamorously narcissistic desire to expose oneself while tensely poised between being natural and playing a role (Bellissimo); hopeless, self-imposed commitment (Lady Macbeth); self-control of one’s own behaviour through self-observation and surveillance (Fleischlos/Incorporeal); or the outbreak and alienation of certain suppressed facets of one’s personality (Mina). Mina links the individual dances and guides the audience through the film.

A production of the University of Film and Television »Konrad Wolf« Potsdam Babelsberg in cooperation with ZDFtheaterkanal ©2007

› Prix Visionica, Polen 2007

› Out Now! Film Festival, Bremen 2007

› Aye Aye Film Festival, Nancy 2007

› Art Film Festival, Asolo 2007

› Sehsüchte Studentenfilmfestival, Potsdam 2007

› Tanzplattform Deutschland, Hannover 2008

› OPUS Klassik 2023 Innovation Award for Sustainability

› 33rd Film Festival at Vienna’s Rathausplatz 2023

A production of Apollofilm ©2023

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A production of Elekin producciones ©2020

A production of Louisiana Museum of Modern Art ©2019

A production of BFMI & Katharine Mehrling ©2018

A production of Louisiana Museum of Modern Art ©2018

A production of Wahoo Production in coproduction with Opéra de Monte Carlo ©2017

A production of LGM Télévision with the participation of ARTE France and Warner Classics ©2015

› Klassik Echo 2016
Category: Music DVD Production of the Year

A production of Wahoo Production in coproduction with Opéra de Monte Carlo ©2015

A production of Wahoo Production in coproduction with Mezzo and La Monnaie / de Munt ©2015

A production of Wahoo Production in coproduction with Mezzo and Theater an der Wien ©2014

A production of Wahoo Production ©2013

See on Arte Live Web – Les Salons des Musique.

A production of Sombrero & Co in cooperation with Arte France in coproduction with TVR 35 Bretagne ©2013

A production of Louisiana
Museum of Modern Art ©2013

A production of Louisiana Museum of Modern Art ©2012

A production of sounding images commissioned by ZDF in cooperation with Arte and Unitel ©2012

A production of Glyndebourne Productions Ltd ©2012

A production of Los Angeles Philharmonic Association ©2011–2012

A production of Unitel in coproduction with Arthaus Musik in cooperation with Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and Classica ©2011

A production of Unitel Classica and Arthaus Musik in cooperation with Salzburger Festspiele ©2011

A Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images production for Sony Classical International ©2010

A production of Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images commissioned by ZDF/3Sat ©2010

A production of Unitel Classica ©2008

A production of Unitel in coproduction with ZDF/3Sat and Classica in cooperation with the Salzburg Festival ©2007

A production of Unitel in coproduction with Classica in cooperation with the Bayerische Staatsoper ©2007