Next Generation: DFFB - German Film and Television Academy Berlin

One of Europe's most important film schools and a place for filmmakers to make creative and innovative films. The Academy traditionally places strong emphasis on craftsmanship, innovation, and interdisciplinary cooperation and maintaining a balance between skills acquisition and the development of an individual artistic style. Since 1966 the DFFB has been a place for ambitious young filmmakers and was one of the first film schools in the Federal Republic of Germany.
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  • A Fish Swimming Upside Down

    A Fish Swimming Upside Down

    Drama

    2020

    1h.43min

    16+

    In a tense love triangle, a woman's presence stirs dark desires and complex emotions in a father and son, challenging moral norms.


  • Notes of Berlin

    Notes of Berlin

    Comedy, Drama

    2021

    1h.43min

    12 FSK

    A film in episodes based on the trend blog "Notes of Berlin" that sheds light on the urban madness of everyday life.


  • Second Thoughts

    Second Thoughts

    Drama, Comedy

    2021

    1h.25min

    12 FSK

    In poetic tableaux, filmmaker Zora Rux tells a surrealistic-comic story about the search for the true self.


  • Thirty

    Thirty

    Drama, Independent

    2019

    1h.54min

    16+

    A senistive drama that authentically and lovingly captures the lifestyle of a group of young urbanites on the brink of a quarter-life crisis.


  • Dancing Alone

    Dancing Alone

    Documentary

    2012

    1h.38min

    16+

    In this autobiographical doc, Biene Pilavci portrays her family life, which during childhood was often marked by violence at the hands of her parents.


  • Reported Missing

    Reported Missing

    Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thriller

    2012

    1h.27min

    12 FSK

    A reactor safety engineer follows the trail of his disappearing daughter through the Kafkaesque West German province.


  • Faust 1 Superstar

    Faust 1 Superstar

    Drama, Music, Dance, Theater

    2015

    51min

    16+

    A new edition of Goethe's material, with a musical Faust in a Kreuzberg setting.


  • The Tour Guide

    The Tour Guide

    Documentary

    2013

    26min

    16+

    In Berlin, traces of national socialism and Hitlers reign are everywhere, even today.


  • Wada

    Wada

    Drama

    2015

    28min

    16+

    As in the movie Butterfly Effect, an event at one end of the world can change everything at the other end of the world.


  • If I Was A Tree

    If I Was A Tree

    Documentary

    2014

    26min

    12

    A young woman travels to Israel with her father, a Jew who denies being Jewish, and her mother, who suffers from not being recognized as a Jew.


  • Poem of the Day

    Poem of the Day

    Documentary

    2015

    30min

    16+

    In a poor area of Medellín, Columbia, 12 year-old Kevin sells poems and reads them aloud to people, who can't read.


  • Anyways

    Anyways

    Drama

    2015

    27min

    12 FSK

    After the death of Leo's father, Conny has to take care of their daughter alone. The new circumstances overwhelm Conny.


  • Come And Play

    Come And Play

    Drama

    2013

    31min

    12 FSK

    A boy playing with a toy gun in the woods is pulled into an altered reality.


  • Guillo

    Guillo

    Documentary

    2016

    40min

    12

    Guillo left his comfortable city life and went to live in the jungle, near the border to Panama. Lonely, without electricity and far from society.