Veit Helmer is one of the few German filmmakers who, as a wanderer between the genres, is able to cross what are regarded as the hermetically sealed boundaries between the… Read More

After focusing in past editions of our Filmmaker Portrait primarily on artistic achievements, today we would like to introduce Germany’s most commercially successful short-film maker, Jörg Wagner. With STAPLERFAHRER KLAUS… Read More

In choosing the film BENIDORM as winner of the German Short Film Award 2006, the jury recognized the work of a filmmaker who has managed to make an impression with… Read More

Films to chase away boredom: Stephan-Flint Müller «Fliegenpflicht f«r Quadratk«pfe« («Bow Tie Duty for Squareheads«) was without question one of the most popular and successful German short films of recent… Read More

If one were to list filmmakers whose short films have been much in evidence at festivals during the last few years, there is one name that would fall frequently: Matthias… Read More

Our latest filmmaker portrait looks at the work of Clemens von Wedemeyer. Born in Göttingen, von Wedemeyer studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Academy of Visual Arts) in… Read More

If one can speak of Germany as having its own “short film establishment”, then Jochen Kuhn is by all means a charter member. He has been active as a film… Read More

Carsten Strauch, for several years now one of the most likeable figures on the short comedy scene, is the subject of our third filmmaker portrait. We hope that this may… Read More

Our filmmaker portrait for this issue is devoted to Corinna Schnitt. Born in 1964 in Duisburg and now living in Cologne, Schnitt has been intriguing audiences at international festivals with… Read More

“What we’re doing is film research” In this first issue of Filmmakers portraits we would like to introduce two of the most ambitous and by now best-known short-film makers in… Read More