DOK.forum Marketplace – follow-up

What has become of the participating projects of the DOK.forum Marketplace?
In the Follow-Up we keep you informed about our success stories.

 

Marketplace projects 2023

FIGHTING DEMONS WITH DRAGONS

Director: Camilla Magid, Production: FINAL CUT FOR REAL, Producer: Heidi Elise Christensen, Distribution: Cinephil 

Festival: DOK.fest München 2024, Thesssaloniki Film Festival 2024 (world premiere), Nordische Filmtage Lübeck 2024

 

MY STOLEN PLANET

Director: Farahnaz Sharifi, Production: JYOTI Film GmbH, Producers: Anke Petersen, Lilian Tietjen, Pak Film - Farzad Pak, Distribution: CAT&Docs. 

Festivals 2024: DOK.fest München, Berlinale Panorama (Premiere), Thessaloniki Film Festival, IDFA, Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, International Film Festival Innsbruck, Der Neue Heimatfilm, Bildrausch Filmfest Basel

Award: Roman Brodmann Preis by Haus des Dokumentarfilms

 

Marketplace projects 2022

EXILE NEVER ENDS

Director: Bahar Bektaş, Production: Pink Shadow Films, Producers: Antonia Kilian

Festivals 2024: DOK.fest München, Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis 2023 (premiere), achtung Berlin Filmfestival

Awards: FFF Talent Award Documentary Film at DOK.fest München 2024, Hessischer Film- und Kinopreis 2024 in the categorie Best Documentary Film

 

HAUSNUMMER NULL

Director: Lilith Kugler, Production: Torero Film & now films, Producers: Rouven Rech, Bettina Morlock, Teresa Renn

Festivals 2024: DOK.fest München (Winner of Student Award), Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis (Premiere), achtung Berlin Filmfestival, Filmkunstfest MV

Awards: megaherz Student Award at DOK.fest München 2024

 

JONNY ISLAND

Director: Petra Mäussnest, Production: DOCDAYS Productions GmbH, Producers: Antje Boehmert, Petra Mäussnest

Festivals: DOK.fest München 2023

Nomination: Grimme-Preis 2024

 

LIGHT FALLS VERTICAL

Director: Efthymia Zymvragaki, Production: GRIS MEDIO SC, Producers: Efthymia Zymvragaki, Valentin Thurn, Angelo Orlando, Anna M. Bofarull, Patricia Sánchez, Iris Lammertsma, Maurizio Santarelli

Festivals: IDFA 2022 (World Premiere), DOK.fest München 2023, Festival de Malaga 2023

Nomination: IDFA 2022 – Best First Feature

 

Marketplace projects 2021

JENSEITS VON SCHULD

Directors: Katharina Köster, Katrin Nemec, Production: Trimafilm, Producers: Isabelle Bertolone, David Armati Lechner, Trini Götze, Distribution: Realfiction.

Festival: DOK.fest München 2024

Award: kinokino Audience Award – donated by BR and 3sat (DOK.fest München 2024)

 

Marketplace projects 2020

LOVE WILL COME LATER
(MERCI DE VOTRE VISITE, 2018)

Director: Julia Furer, Production: Franziska Sonder, Stella Händler

Festival: Zurich Film Festival 2021

Award: Pitch Award of Haus des Dokumentarfilms (DOK.forum Marketplace 2018)

 

AMONG US WOMEN
(AWALATJE – THE MIDWIVES, 2017)

Directors: Sarah Noa Bozenhardt, Daniel Abate Tilahun, Production: Evolution Film, HFF Konrad Wolf, ZDF

Festivals: DOK Leipzig 2021, Biberacher Filmfestspiele 2021, DOK.fest München 2022

Award: Pitch Award of Haus des Dokumentarfilms (DOK.forum Marketplace 2017)

 

Marketplace projects 2019

ALL ROADS LEAD TO MORE

Director: Afraa Batous, Production: Tondowski Films, Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (Co-Production), Producer: Alex Tondowski

Festivals: DOK.fest München 2023

 

CHAGRIN VALLEY

Director: Nathalie Berger, Produytion: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Producer: Philippe Grob

Festivals 2023: DOK.fest München, Vision du Réel

Award: Prix de la Compétition Nationale at Vision du Réel 2023

 

DREI FRAUEN

Director: Maksym Melnyk, Production, Distribution and Rental: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

Festivals: DOK Leipzig 2022, DOK.fest München 2023, dokKa 2023

 

JOHATSU – INTO THIN AIR

Directors: Andreas Hartmann, Arata Mori, Production: Ossa Film, Producers: Andreas Hartmann, Arata Mori, Distribution: CAT&Docs, Rental: Real Fiction Filme

Festivals: Sunny Side of the Docs Juni 2019, Thessaloniki Film Festival 2024 (world premiere), CPH:DOX 2024, DOK.fest München 2024

Awards: VIKTOR Main Competition DOK.international at DOK.fest München 2024 (main award winner)

 

KASH KASH

Director: Lea Najjar, Production: Film und Fernsehlabor Ludwigsburg, Producers: Matthias Drescher, Jinane Dagher

Festivals 2022: DOK.fest München, Berlinale, dokKa

Awards: First Steps Award 2022, Deutscher Dokumentarfilmpreis 2023

 

KUSUNDA

Directors: Felix Gaedtke, Gayatri Parameswaran, Production: NowHere Media, INVR.space, Fasad, Poké Poké Creative

Festivals: Biennale di Venezia 2021, Silbersalz 2021, Tribeca Immersive 2021, IDFA 2021, Lagos International Festival of Animation 2021, Raindance Film Festival 2021

Awards: Storyscapes Award (Tribeca 2021), Best Documentary Experience (Raindance 2021), Grand Prize, Best Immersive Cinema (both VRNow Awards 2021), Best Interactive Entertainment (nextReality Contest 2021)

 

LUCHADORAS

Directors: Paola Calvo, Patrick Jasim, Production: Tumult Film, Sutor Kolonko, ZDF

Festivals: SXSW 2021, Hofer Filmtage 2021

Award: Granit / Hofer Dokumentarfilmpreis (2021)

 

SHE CHEF

Director: Melanie Liebheit, Gereon Wetzel, Production: Horse&Fruits Filmproduktion OG, Producers: Florian Brüning, Thomas Herberth, Distribution: Magnetfilm, Rental: Camino Filmverleih

Festivals: DOK Leipzig 2022 (Premiere), Vision du Réel 2023, DOK.fest München 2023, Crossing Europe 2023

Awards: FFF Talent Award Documentary Film at DOK.fest München 2023

 

SURF ON, EUROPE!

Directors: Constantin Gross, Lukas Steinbrecher, Production: VeyVey Films GmbH, Producer: Constantin Gross

Festivals: Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis 2024 (Premiere)

 

Marketplace projects 2018

27 STOREYS

Director: Bianca Gleissinger, Production: Egoli Tossell Pictures and Mischief Films, Producers: Ralph Wieser, Jens Meurer, Judy Tossell

Festivals: DOK.fest München 2023, Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis 2023 (World Premiere)

 

A PORTRAIT ON THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS

Director: Benjamin Rost, Production: MSZ Production and Consulting Márk Szilagyi, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Festivals: Internationale Hofer Filmtage 2020, Camerimage 2021, Biberacher Filmfestspiele 2021, DOK.fest München 2021

 

B12 – GESTORBEN WIRD IM NÄCHSTEN LEBEN

Director: Christian Lerch, Production: Südkino Filmproduktion GmbH, Producers: Johannes Kaltenhauser, Patrick Lange, Broadcaster: BR, Distributor: 24 Bilder

Festivals: DOK.fest München 2019, Kasseler Dokfest 2019

 

ENDLICH TACHELES!

Directors: Jana Matthes & Andrea Schramm, Production: HANFGARN & UFER and SCHRAMM MATTHES FILM

Festivals: DOK.fest München 2020, Kasseler Dokfest 2020

 

MONOBLOC

Director: Hauke Wendler, Production: Pier 53 Filmproduktion, Rau & Wendler, NDR

Festivals: DOK.fest München 2021, Braunschweig International Filmfestival 2021, Nordische Filmtage Lübeck 2021

 

REGELN AM BAND, BEI HOHER GESCHWINDIGKEIT

(ELECTIVE AFFINITIES, 2018)

Director: Yulia Lokshina, Production: wirFILM, HFF München

Festivals 2020: Max Ophüls Preis, DOK.fest München, Kinofest Lünen, Doc Lisboa, Neiße Filmfestival, Fünf Seen Filmfestival

Awards: Best Documentary Film (Max Ophüls Preis 2020), Student Award (DOK.fest München 2020), Preis der Deutschen Filmkritik 2020

 

TACKLING LIFE

Director: Johannes List, production: if... Productions

Festivals: DOK.fest München 2018, Travel Festival Leipzig 2018, OUTshine Film Festival 2018

Awards: German Documentary Film Music Award, BR kinokino Audience Award (both DOK.fest München 2018), First Steps Award Dokumentarfilm (2018)

 

WHEN A FARM GOES AFLAME

Director: Jide Tom Akinlemin, Production: Film Five

Festivals 2021: Berlinale, DOK.fest München, Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg, BFI London Film Festival, Shanghai International Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Biografilmfestival, FESPACO, Africa in Motion, Achtung Berlin Filmfestival, IDFA

Awards: Ecumenical Jury Award, Special Mention Best Cinematography (both Achtung Berlin Filmfestival 2021)

 

Marketplace projects 2017

BELLA PALANKA

Director: Johanna Bentz, production: Film Five, TV editor: Nicole Baum (ZDF/3sat)

Festivals: Internationale Hofer Filmtage, Crossing Borders

Nominations: Grimme-Award 2019

 

BOY OF WAR

Directors: Cyprien Clement-Delmas, Igor Kosenko

Festivals: Molodist International Film Festival, Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, Kolkata International Film Festival, Beldocs International Documentary Festival, DOK.fest München, Finale Plzen Film Festival, Jihalava International Documentary Festival

Award: VFF Documentary Film Production Award (DOK.fest München 2019), Student Jury Award, Special Jury Mention (both Jihlava 2018)

 

GARAGENVOLK

Director: Natalija Yefimkina, production: Tamtam Film, sales: Rise and Shine

Festivals: Berlinale 2020, Filmkunstfest MV 2020, IDFA 2020, Sarajevo Film Festival 2020, Docaviv 2020, Astra Film Festival 2020, Trieste Film Festival 2021, Doc Point Helsinki 2021, Artdocfest 2021, Crossing Europe 2021, ZagrebDox 2021

Awards: Eurimage Audentia Award (Sarajevo 2020), Werner Herzog Filmpreis (2020), Heiner Carow Preis (Berlinale 2020)

 

GODS OF MOLENBEEK
(THE MERCURIUS OF MOLENBEEK, 2017)

Director: Reetta Huhtanen, Production: Zone2 Pictures Oy, Sales: CAT&Docs, Dstributor: Tondowski Films, Real Fiction

Festivals: DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Göteborg International Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival, One World International Film Festival, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Visions du Réel, Hot Docs, Docaviv, DOK.fest München u.a.

Awards: Best Foreign Language Film (Doxs! Documentaries for children and youth festival), Young Onion Award for the best newcomer’s film und Moral Approach Award (MakeDox), Golden Lynx Award for Best Documentary Feature (New Directors | New Films Festival), Special prize und Church Media Foundation prize (Tampere Film Festival), Audience Award and The Critic's Choise Award (DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival)

 

IMMER NOCH JUNG

Directors: David Schlichter and Fabian Halbig, Production: Nordpolaris

Festival: Filmfest München 2017

Award: Audience Award Filmfest München 2017

 

LAS HERMANAS DE ROCINANTE
(DIE PFERDERETTERINNEN – SPANIENS VERGESSENE TRAGÖDIE, 2017)

Director: Alexandra Kaufmann, Production: Evolution Film

Festivals: DOK.fest München, Festival dei Populi

Nominations: ARRI AMIRA Award and FFF Talent Award Documentary Film (DOK.fest München 2019)

Award: Publikumspreis (Festival dei Popoli 2019)

 

PA VA HÊNG, DUST OF MODERN LIFE
(THE DUST OF MODERN LIFE, 2017)

Director: Franziska von Stenglin, Production: Francis Pfitzner

Festivals: FID Marseille 2021, DOK Leipzig 2021

 

SOMETHINGS ARE HARD TO TALK ABOUT

Director: Stephanie Brockhaus, Production: Brockhaus/Wolff GbR, University for Television and Film Munich

Festivals: IDFA 2017, DOK.fest München 2017

 

WATERPROOF

Director: Daniela König, Production: Kloos & Co

Festivals: DOK Leipzig 2019, IDFA 2019

 

WEM GEHÖRT MEIN DORF?

Director: Christoph Eder, Production: Ostlicht Filmproduktion

Festivals: Max Ophüls Preis 2021, DOK.fest München 2021, Sehsüchte 2021, Crossing Europe 2021, Natur Vision Filmfestival 2021

Awards: MDM Nachwuchs-Förderpreis (2017), DFM Works-in-progress-Prize (DOK Leipzig 2019)

 

Marketplace projects 2016

CONGO CALLING

Director: Stephan Hilpert, Production: HFF München, ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel

Festivals: German Screenings DOK Leipzig 2018, Max Ophüls Preis 2019, Filmkunstfest MV 2019, DOK.fest München 2019, SWR Doku Festival 2019, Fünf Seen Filmfestival 2019

Awards: Audience Award (Max Ophüls Preis 2019), FFF Funding Award (DOK.fest München 2019), Best Cinematography (Filmkunstfest MV 2019)

GWENDOLYN

Director: Ruth Kaaserer, Production: Soleil Film

Festivals: DOK Leipzig 2017, Diagonale Graz 2018, Fünf Seen Filmfestival 2018

Awards: Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Fritz-Grabner-Award (all Diagonale 2018)

 

HI, AI
(WE ARE THE ROBOTS, 2016)

Director: Isa Willinger, production: Kloos & Co

Festivals: Max Ophüls Preis 2019, CPH:DOX 2019, IDFA 2019, Visions du réel 2019, Hot Docs 2019, Sheffield 2019, Camerimage 2019

Nomination: Best Documentary Deutscher Filmpreis

Award: Max Ophüls Preis 2019

 

 

SEWOL – DIE GELBE ZEIT

Director: Minsu Park, production: Dreamlead Pictures, Nominal Film

Festivals: DOK.fest München 2017, SWR Doku Festival 2018

Awards: Kulturpreis Bayern, Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis, Grimme-Awards: Editing, Directing, Script, Information and Culture (2018)

SPACE DOGS
(STRAY DOGS, 2016)

Regie: Levin Peter, Elsa Kremser, Production: Raumzeitfilm Produktion

Festivals: DOK Leipzig, Max Ophüls Preis, Locarno Film Festival, Viennale, DOK.fest München, Docs Barcelona, Athens International Film Festival, Make Dox, CPH:DOX, RIDM

Awards: German Composition Funding Award (DOK.forum Marktplatz 2016), Vienna Filmprize, MehrWert Filmprize (both Viennale 2019), Best Cinematography (Diagonale 2020)

 

Marketplace projects 2015

GUARDIANS OF THE EARTH
(THE CONFERENCE, 2015)

Director: Filip Antoni Malinowski, production: SOLEIL FILM GMBH, co-production: Perfect Shot Films

Festivals: CPH:DOX, Docpoint Helsinki, DocsMX, UNAFF – United Nations Association Film Festival, Watch Docs IFF, Transitions Film Festival

 

LOST IN FACE
(LOST IN FACE, EIN LEBEN OHNE GESICHTER, 2015)

Director: Valentin Riedl, production: Corso Film Roelly Winker GbR, sales: NEW DOCS

Festivals: DOK.fest München, Max Ophüls Preis

 

WHO'S AFRAID OF ALICE MILLER?
(DER SOHN, 2015)

Director: Daniel Howald, production: SwissDok GmbH, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRG SSR, sales: SwissDok GmbH

Festival: Soloturner Filmtage, DOK.fest München 2021

 

THE OSLO DIARIES (Koop CoPro Israel)

Directors: Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan, production: Hilla Medalia

Festivals: DOK.fest München, Hot Docs, Sundance

 

Marketplace projects 2014

TANZ AUF DEM VULKAN
(JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE, 2014)

Director: Maya Reichert, production: R&S Filmproduktion, Fruitmarket Filmproduktion, Kaamos Film

Festivals: DOK.fest München 2019

MORITZ DANIEL OPPENHEIM

Director: Isabel Gathof, production: Feinshmeker Film, distributor: RealFiction

Festivals: Moscow Jewish Film Festival, Jüdisches Filmfestival Berlin-Brandenburg

VOM TÖTEN LEBEN
(DIE WAFFENSTADT, 2014)

Director: Wolfgang Landgraeber, production: Eikon Südwest GmbH

Festivals: DOK.fest München 2016, SWR DOKU Festival Stuttgart 2017

 

ZEICHNEN GEGEN DAS VERGESSEN

Director: Bärbel Jacks, production: Final Frame GmbH

Festivals: DOK.fest München 2015, Jüdisches Filmfestival Wien 2015, Camerimage Film Festival 2015, DocPoint Helsinki 2016, JFF Zagreb 2016, Washington Jewish Film Festival 2016

Awards: 3 Gold Medals (New York Festivals 2015), Hauptpreis (Garden State Film Festival 2016), Hauptpreis (Fimucinema / Teneriffa 2015)

 

Marketplace projects 2013

GIRLS DON'T FLY

Director: Monika Grassl, production: INDI FILM GmbH, sales: Rise and Shine World Sales

Festivals: DOK.fest München, Chicago Film Festival, Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Durban International Film Festival, Hot Docs

LOVE ALIEN

Director: Wolfram Huke, Production: HFF München

Festivals: DOK.fest München, Internationale Hofer Filmtage, American Documentary Film Festival, Starter Filmpreis

TRANSIT HAVANA

Director: Daniel Abma, production: Kloos & Co. Medien, co-production: Witfilm, sales: Rise & Shine Worldsales

Festivals: DOK.fest München, FilmFestival Cottbus, Favourites Filmfestival Bremen, China Women's Film Festival, Berlin & Beyond Film Festival, Frameline San Francisco