AS SHADOWS FADE
Trapped by the Turkish traditional, heteronormative family ideal, Esin lives like a ghost, unaware of her passions. When she falls for the fiery, playful Deniz, a distant family friend who takes refuge in their house, she discovers the possibility of a genuine life. Their intimacy pushes her to transcend her boundaries, towards a dark place of secrets, deceit and heartache.
DIRECTOR
Burcu Aykar
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
in development
GENRE
Feature Film
CO PRODUCTION
Liman Film
FUNDERS
German Turkish Co-Development Fund
MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Meetings on the Bridge IKSV Istanbul
SØR Fund Norway
MARKETS
Best Project Award 32nd Ankara Film Festival 2021
Mattepost Post Production Online Award @Meetings on the Bridge 2022
Transylvania Pitch Stop Award @Meetings on the Bridge 2022
Best Adapted Screenplay @Anatalya Film Festival 2022
MY STOLEN PLANET
"My Stolen Planet" is a diary-style narrative by Farah, an Iranian filmmaker. Born during the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, she captures moments of joy and defiance in her daily life, navigating the contrast between domestic freedom and external oppression. Simultaneously, she collects 8mm archives from people she doesn't know. Relying on others' recordings, she gains a new perspective on losing memories.
Her connection with Leyla, an Iranian professor who left Iran during the revolution, adds a name and story to one of her archive's faces. Farah's mother, suffering from Alzheimer's, motivates her to fight against forgetting. In the fall of 2022, the Women, Life, Freedom uprising became a turning point in Farah's life, as well as in the lives of many others in Iran.
This is a homemade history.
DIRECTOR
Farahnaz Sharifi
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2024
GENRE
Feature Length Documentary
82 min.
COPRODUCTION
Pakfilm Germany/Iran
FESTIVALS
Worldpremiere @Berlinale Panorama
TIDF#26 - International Premiere in competition @Thessaloniki International Film Festival
48th HKIFF Hong Kong International Film Festival - Reality Bites - Asian Premiere
Visions du Réel - Highlights - Swiss Premiere
Dokfest Munich - Filmmakers in Exile - Regional Premiere
Hot Docs - Persister - North American Premiere
MARKETS
DocFest Munich Masterpitch 2023
Berlinale Producers Hub 2023
AWARDS
Second Panorama Audience Award 2024
German Documentary Music Award 2024 for the
Composition of Atena Eshtiaghi
Golden Alexander @TIDF#26 Thessalonik International Documentary Film Festival
FIPRESCI Award @TIDF#26 Thessalonik International Documentary Film Festival
Nomination Roman Brodmann Preis - Haus des Dokumentarfilms - Europäisches Medienforum e.V.
LIFE IN THE SHADOWS
Years after his classmates were massacred at his school in Pakistan, director D.K. records the lives of Machid, who attends the same school, and Khatima, who works in the cemetery where the dead students are buried.
Jury statement Sunny Side of the Docs 2023:
“This project successfully highlights the significance of portraying the narratives of marginalized individuals who are often unheard in society.”
DIRECTOR
Anonymous
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
in development
GENRE
Feature Length Documentary
CO PRODUCTION
Kamay Film, Ilyas Yourish - Afghanistan
MARKETS
Hot Docs Dealmaker 2023
Sunny Side of the Docs 2023, Winner New Voices
Special Award - Pitch the Doc Prize
DMZ Docs Pitch, Korea – Global Pitch
ABO ZABAAL PRISON 1989
In search of understanding and healing, filmmaker and activist Bassam Mortada explores his fathers arrest, imprisonment and torture in 1989, reconstructing and reconsidering the experience that traumatized his family.
DIRECTOR
Bassam Mortada
DOP
Mohamad el-Hadidi
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
in Postproduction 2023
GENRE
Feature Length Documentary
MARKETS
Robert Bosch Film Prize, winner 2019
LES ENFANTS
TERRIBLES
Filmmaker Ahmet Nacdet Cupur returns to his small home village in the southeast of Turkey to follow his brother Mahmut while he frees himself out of his marriage - arranged when his wife was still a child - and his sister Zeynep studies long hours after her work in a factory to get a school degree and the chance to build up her own existence. Their parents and the people in the village do not receive these decisions with cheers…
DIRECTOR
Ahmet Necdet Cupur
DOP
Ahmet Necdet Cupur
Lucie Baudinaud
EDITOR
Mathilde Van de Moortel
Elif Uluengin
Nicolas Sublarti
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2021
GENRE
Feature Length Documentary
CO PRODUCTION
TS Production France
Liman Film Turkey
MARKETS
Vision du Réel 2019
Docs Barcelona 2019
Copro Market DokLeipzig 2019
Winner Poster Award Meetings on the Bridge 2020
Winner of Work in Progress Antalya Film Forum 2020
FESTIVALS
International Feature Film Competition @Visions du Réel 2021
Official Section Panorama @DocsBarcelona 2021
Competition Programme @Sarajevo Film Festival 2021
fARAD, Rumania 2021
National feature film competition @Adana Film Festival 2021
International Competition @Flahertiana FF, Perm Russia 2021
Official Selection @BFI London Film Festival 2021
Section Documentaire @Cinemed Montpellier 2021
West Lake IDF, China 2021
Guangneung, South Korea 2021
Documentary Section @Camerimage 2021
Family Topography section @RIDM Montréal 2021
German Premiere @Kasseler Dokfest 2021
Best of Fests @IDFA 2021
Selection @European Film Awards
official selection @Zurich HRFF 2021
Crime & Punishment Festival @Istanbul 2021
Section Competition Revolution @Cinemamed, Belgium 2021
Cinema Verité IDF, Iran 2021
Fipadoc Panorama Section, France 2022
Doc Point Helsinki, Finland 2022
int. Documentary Competition @SIFF, Bulgaria 2022
section Filmlandschaften @26. Filmfestival Türkei Deutschland, Nuremberg 2022
Türkische Filmtage, Munich 2022
Filmreihe Typisch Türkisch, Cologne 2022
Pordenone Docs Fest, Italy 2022
Zagreb DOX, Croatia 2022
Millenium IDF, Belgium 2022
Docs Against Gravity, Poland 2022
HADOC Festival, Portugal 2022
Neisse IFF, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic 2022
One World Romania, 2022
Türkisches Filmfestival Berlin 2022
Rome International Filmfestival 2022
Sinema Transtopia, Berin 2023
AWARDS
Special Jury Award @Visions du Rèel 2021
Human Rights Award Sarajevo 2021
Best Film, Best Editing, Special Jury Mention to Zeynep Cupur
@Adana Film Festival 2021
Second Silver Nanook and Audience Award @Flahertiana Film Festival, Perm, Russia 2021
Mention @Cinemed Montpellier 2021
Jury Special Award @Crime and Punishment Festival Istanbul 2021
Young Jury Award @Cinemamed Belgium 2021
Best Film international competition @Cinema Verité, Iran 2021
Best Documentary @Turkish Film Critics Association (SIYAD) Awards 2022
Grand Jury Prize @Pordenone Docs Fest, Italy 2022
Best Cinematography @Rome International Documentary Filmfestival 2022
Zalab Prize @Rome International Documentary Filmfestival 2022
WEBSITE
LIFT LIKE A GIRL
On a busy, noisy high-traffic street corner in Alexandria, Egypt, a seemingly vacant corner lot surrounded by chain link fencing is the training site of Egypt’s most elite champions - female weightlifters. Zebiba (Arabic for “raisin”) has been training at the site for five years, since she was 9, following in the footsteps of Egypt’s most famous athletes of all time - including the first Arab, female, two-time Olympic medalist weightlifter, Abeer Abdel Rahman, and World champion and Olympic athlete, Nahla Ramadan. Nahla’s father, the visionary Captain Ramadan, has bred champions, female champions, from his makeshift corner-lot training site for over two decades - 4 Olympic, 9 World and 17 Pan African champions. Now it is Zebiba’s turn. But can Zebiba put aside her youthful instincts, and direct her focus to be the weightlifting champion the Captain is sure she is?
DIRECTOR
Mayye Zayed
DOP
Mohamed El-Hadidi
EDITOR
Sara Abdallah
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2020
GENRE
Feature Length Documentary
CO PRODUCTION
Cleo Media
Rufy’s Film Egypt
a coproduction with ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel
on Netflix in non german speaking countries
FESTIVALS
TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival [World Premiere] 2020
DOK Leipzig [European Premiere] Winner of Golden Dove 2020
DOCNYC [US Premiere] 2020
CIFF - Cairo International Film Festival [MENA premiere] 2020
MED Film Festival, Italy 2020
THESSALONIKI Documentary Festival 2021
Sofia Film Festival 2021
JEONJU Int. Film Festival 2021
Krakow FF 2021
Sheffield DocFest 2021
Doc Edge 2021
ONE WORLD Int. Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2021
SIFF Shanghai International Film Festival 2021
GABES CINEMA FEN 2021
GUKIFF 2021
Safar London Filmfestival 2021
Flahertiana FF, Perm Russia 2021
Zwickl Dokumentarfilmfest Schwandorf 2023
AWARDS
Golden Dove in German competition @DOKLeipzig 2020
Bronze Pyramid Award for Best First or Second Film @CIFF2020
Audience Award @CIFF 2020
Isis Award for Best Egyptian Film highlighting Women's Economic and Social Role @CIFF2020
Best Documentary @Critics Award for Arab Cinema, Festival de Cannes 2021
Best Director @GUKIFF South Korea Filmfestival 2021
Nomination @Cinemaforpeace Foundation Award for Women's Empowerment
Filmprize for Global Learning @Filmtage Globale Perspektiven
WEBSITE
CALLE DEL ARTE
Calle des Arte is a documentary directed by Viviane Blumenschein, which accompanies Clemencia Labin, the inhabitants and the artists before, during and after the Velada Santa Lucía 2012.
DIRECTOR
Viviane Blumenschein
DOP
Björn Knechtel
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2013
GENRE
TV Documentary
FUNDERS
Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein in collaboration with ZDF/arte