Six films nominated for the Music Award 2025
Shortlist for the German Documentary Film Music Award
The nominees for the German Documentary Film Music Award have been announced! The prize, endowed with 5,000 euros and donated by the Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung, annually honours a composition that combines in an outstanding way with the documentary film narrative:
DAS LIED DER ANDEREN
Switzerland 2024, Vadim Jendreyko, 136 min.
Komposition / Composition: Daniel Almada
Surprisingly hopeful: Vadim Jendreyko's journey to the beginnings and scars of Europe
IMMORTALS
Switzerland, Irak 2024, Maja Tschumi, 94 min.
Composition: Manouk Roussyalian
Face, eyes, voice - Milo and Khalili fight with the Iraqi youth for a better future
KEIN LAND FÜR NIEMAND
Germany 2025, Max Ahrens und Maik Lüdemann, 146 min.
Composition: Ophelia Hausmann
From the Mediterranean to the European Parliament to German municipalities: How do we want to deal with migration?
PING PONG PARADISE
Germany 2024, Jonas Egert, 116 min.
Composition: Cico Beck
The rise, hubris and fall of TTC Neu-Ulm. A fast-paced thriller about ping pong at the highest level.
SABAT
Germany 2024, Anna Maria Beeck, 90 min.
Composition: Max van Dusen
The friend from the photo album: Sabat, film student, diplomat from the Mongolian embassy in East Berlin, disappeared.
VRACHT
Switzerland 2024, Max Carlo Kohal, 80 min.
Composition: Mirjam Skal
Chamber play on a container ship: Rudmer dreams of being a captain himself one day
