In the Focus of Darling Berlin: Short films by Eberhard Weißbarth in the cinema at Berlin’s Bundeplatz

On the occasion of the 70th birthday of the Berlin director Eberhard Weißbarth, the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek and the film distributor picture & sound Eberhard Weißbarth – for the first time elaborately restored and digitized as retrospective his excellent Berlin short films as a short film program – in the charm of the 80s! The…

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.…

Luzie Loose wins with “Swimming” the “Hofer Goldprize” for the best director

The film “Schwimmen” (English title: “Swimming”) by Luzie Loose has won the “Hofer Goldpreis” award for Best Director at the Hof International Film Festival. The award is given in memory of the longtime director of the Hofer Filmfestival Heinz Badewitz, who died in 2016. The prize was handed over by Edgar Reitz, who had the idea…