“Searching Eva” wins the “Special Mention Award” of the CPH:DOX Festival in Copenhagen

The documentary “Searching Eva” by Pia Hellenthal wins the Special Mention Award in the competition of the CPH:DOX Festival in Copenhagen. The jury’s reasoning praised “the innovative approach to an artist’s profile. The film language corresponds to a high degree to the facets of a character who is constantly searching for alternative approaches for everything…

“Queen of Niendorf” (Darling Berlin) celebrates US premiere at New York International Children’s Film Festival

With two sold out performances at New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF), the film “Queen of Niendorf” (Darling Berlin) by Joya Thome celebrated its US premiere. The New York International Children’s Film Festival was founded in 1997 to support the creation and dissemination of thoughtful, provocative, and intelligent film for children and teens ages…

“Kim hat einen Penis” (Darling Berlin) opens the film festival achtung berlin 2019

Philipp Eichholtz’s new film “Kim hat einen Penis” (Darling Berlin) is the opening film of the 15th achtung berlin – new berlin film award. The festival will take place from April 10th to 17th and will traditionally open with the film at the Berliner Kino International on Wednesday, April 10th. Philipp Eichholtz’s fourth feature film…

German film critics voted “Queen of Niendorf” (Darling Berlin) for children’s film of the year

“Queen of Niendorf” (German: “Königin von Niendorf”) has been awarded “Children’s Film of the Year 2018” by the Association of German Film Critics (VdFK). The award ceremony took place on Monday evening (February 02, 2019) during the 69th Berlinale in Berlin. The film by Joya Thome prevailed against the blockbuster “The Little Witch” (German: “Die…

“Queen of Niendorf” by Joya Thome nominated for the Prize of the German Film Critic

The film “Queen of Niendorf” (German: “Königin von Niendorf”) by Joya Thome is nominated in the category “Best Children’s Film” at the “Preis der deutschen Filmkritik 2018”. Thus, “The Queen” appears against “The Little Witch,” a film by Michael Schaerer, who was also nominated. The prize has been awarded for more than 60 years by…

The vampire movie “Montrak” by Stefan Schwenk is now on sale

The comeback of the German vampire movie is now on sale (release date: 08.02.2019). Grandios occupied with many famous German stars like Cosima Shiva Hagen (7 Zwerge – Männer allein im Wald), Julia Dietze (Iron Sky) or Sönke Möhring (Inglourious Basterds). The film is recommended by X-RATED, Germany’s # 1 Horror Magazine, and is winner…

“Searching Eva” by Pia Hellenthal in the official program of the 69th Berlinale

The documentary “Searching Eva” by director Pia Hellenthal will celebrate its world premiere on 11 February in the official programme of this year’s 69th Berlinale. This extraordinary portrait has been nominated for Best Documentary in both the Panorama Documents section and the Teddy Award. UCM.ONE starts “Searching Eva” in November 2019 in cinemas all over…

Homage to Will Tremper in the Filmmuseum Munich

For the 20th anniversary of the death of director and author Will Tremper, the Filmmuseum Munich will be showing its three Darling Berlin films “Flucht nach Berlin” (English: “Escape to Berlin”) “Playgirl” and “Die endlose Nacht” (English: “The Endless Night”) in December, culminating in a revival of the Tremper film “Sperrbezirk” has been lost for…

Joya Thome wins with “Queen of Niendorf” (Darling Berlin) the German Director’s Award 2018 for “Best Director Children’s Film”.

Joya Thome has been honoured for her film “Queen of Niendorf” (German: “Königin von Niendorf”) [Darling Berlin] in Munich with the German Director Award 2018 (Metropolis) in the category Children’s Film. The prize was awarded for the 8th time at a gala event in the Audimax of the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film in Munich.…