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The appli­ca­tion peri­od for the 2025/​​26 aca­d­e­m­ic year is now open! You can find the appli­ca­tion tasks here, or head straight to our appli­ca­tion por­tal. Appli­ca­tion: Cin­e­matog­ra­phy Appli­ca­tion: Direct­ing Appli­ca­tion: Screen­writ­ing Appli­ca­tion: Edit­ing & Sound Appli­ca­tion: Pro­duc­ing We are very much look­ing for­ward to your sub­mis­sions and wish all appli­cants the best of luck!

Ser­i­al Eyes, the post­grad­u­ate pro­gram for series writ­ers orga­nized by the Ger­man Film and Tele­vi­sion Acad­e­my Berlin, launch­es the sec­ond round in April 2024 of their work­shop “Diverse Sto­ry­telling in Dig­i­tal Short Form Series”. Dig­i­tal short form series (a.k.a. web series) are shows designed for the inter­net with episodes rang­ing from 1 to 20 min­utes. Famous […]

Since the begin­ning of this semes­ter, the DFFB has been a mem­ber of studieren­den­WERK BERLIN, which offers stu­dents from all part­ner uni­ver­si­ties a wide range of ser­vices relat­ed to study­ing and liv­ing in Berlin. Our stu­dents can ben­e­fit from the use of can­teens and dor­mi­to­ries, numer­ous advi­so­ry ser­vices (includ­ing psy­cho­log­i­cal coun­sel­ing, stu­dent financ­ing, job oppor­tu­ni­ties […]

film pro­gram with exhi­bi­tion and work­shops Between Novem­ber 7 and 12, 2023, fem­i­nist else­wheres will cel­e­brate over 50 years of fem­i­nist film work in six days with a com­pre­hen­sive film pro­gram, work­shops and an exhi­bi­tion. fem­i­nist else­wheres draws on two events that took place at the Arse­nal cin­e­ma in Berlin: the First Inter­na­tion­al Women’s Film Sem­i­nar […]

We would like to inform you about an impor­tant devel­op­ment at the DDFB: We will not be admit­ting any new stu­dents dur­ing the win­ter semes­ter of 2024/​​25. This means that there will not be an appli­ca­tion process start­ing this fall. We under­stand that this news comes as a sur­prise to many, but we made this […]

»We ask you to echo the ral­ly­ing cries of Ira­ni­ans for free­dom. Become the voice of those peo­ple who are pay­ing with their lives for free­dom« Iran­ian film­mak­ers recent­ly request­ed in an open let­ter. The death of Mah­sa Ami­ni while in police cus­tody and the increas­ing repres­sions because of the coun­try­wide protests have shocked us […]

Ser­i­al Eyes, the DFFB’s post­grad­u­ate train­ing pro­gramme for writ­ers of tele­vi­sion series, is cel­e­brat­ing its tenth year. With the achieve­ment of this mile­stone, the DFFB has tak­en fur­ther steps to secure the programme’s suc­cess­ful future: a fresh­ly appoint­ed Head of Stud­ies, a new indus­try part­ner, a new advi­so­ry board, and a new set of 12 […]

Crew Unit­ed has launched the cen­tral plat­form “Film­mak­ers for Ukraine” for all Ukraini­ans affect­ed by the war. In par­tic­u­lar, those seek­ing help from Ukraine can find out about cur­rent and ver­i­fied offers of help from all over Europe. For peo­ple who want to get involved, the site also offers a good overview with numer­ous con­tact […]

The Ger­man Film and Tele­vi­sion Acad­e­my Berlin is shocked by Russia’s attack on Ukraine and is deeply dis­mayed by the events of the last few days. We strong­ly con­demn this mil­i­tary action and are deeply con­cerned for the peo­ple of the coun­try. Our thoughts are with the peo­ple of Ukraine in these dif­fi­cult times, espe­cial­ly […]

We are hap­py to announce three nom­i­na­tions for this year’s FIRST STEPS Awards. Two DFFB pro­duc­tion stu­dents are nom­i­nat­ed for the NO FEAR Award: Tama­ra Erbe for the film BABY BITCHKA (direc­tor: Anna Maria Roznows­ka, screen­writer: Anna Maria Roznows­ka & Tama­ra Erbe, cin­e­matog­ra­ph­er: Malte Siepen, pro­duc­tion: Tama­ra Erbe) and Sara Fazi­lat for NICO (director/​​screenwriter: Eline […]

For the first time, Alexan­der Nanau, DFFB alum­nus and suc­cess­ful doc­u­men­tary film­mak­er, has sub­mit­ted a doc­u­men­tary film on behalf of his home­land Roma­nia to com­pete for the Oscar for Best Inter­na­tion­al Film. In his project COLLECTIVE (direc­tor: Alexan­der Nanau, screen­writer: Alexan­der Nanau and Antoane­ta Opris, cin­e­matog­ra­ph­er: Alexan­der Nanau, pro­duc­er: Han­ka Kastelico­va, Bernard Michaux, Alexan­der Nanau, […]

Yes­ter­day evening, the Ger­man Film Crit­ics Asso­ci­a­tion announced the 2020 award win­ners. The award-win­n­ing films also include pro­duc­tions by two DFFB grad­u­ates: Melanie Waelde was pre­sent­ed with the Best First Fea­ture Award for her film NAKED ANIMALS. The jury explained its deci­sion with warm words: “Mean­while, the film itself takes off and dares itself to […]