In 2020 326 German films in 62 countries generated a total Box Office of 32,2 million euros and were seen by more than 5,1 million cinema-goers around the globe.
This represents a drastic drop of around 70 percent from the results of previous years, and was mainly caused by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.
Detailed analyses of German films abroad in 2020 are available on the German Films Website.
Our FACE TO FACE campaign will once again be presenting personalities from the German film industry to the international film world during 2021. Films and series are created through teamwork - that's why German Films is highlighting a wider variety of film professions in its new FILMMAKERS campaign. Here are the Faces for 2021:
- FREYA ARDE, composer - ULÉ BARCELOS, costume designer - SARAH BLAßKIEWITZ, director - TUA EL-FAWWAL, actress - ANNEKATRIN HENDEL, director - LORNA ISHEMA, actress - LAILA PETERSEN-JAMA, storyboarder - JIEUN YI, cinematographer
How diverse is the German film industry? Does it truly represent the wealth of facets, ideas and strengths in society? This question is being asked more and more, and not infrequently with sobering results. But what consequences can the industry draw from the criticism that has been levelled at it for years now – by people with a migration or refugee background, black people, indigenous people and people of color, representatives of people with disabilities, and those fighting for gender equality? German Films asked 52 different players in the German film industry to provide information about these and other questions.
In the first sitting of 2021, German Films' "Distribution Support" awards committee decided to support 16 foreign theatrical releases of German films. In total 135,864.60 Euros were allocated.
43. MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (22.-29. April) 1 German film in the competition: BLOODSUCKERS (BLUTSAUGER) by Julian Radlmaier (Faktura Film)
German Films supports the Russian-speaking Podcast POCALIGARIM Since March 2021 German Films has been supporting the Russian speaking podcast POCALIGARIM. POCALIGARIM is a podcast about German Cinema, created in Moscow by Russian film journalists - Ksenia Reutova, Ira Posrednikova and Maria Buneeva. The main aim of the podcast is to showcase interesting insights about German Cinema in all its facets to a Russian speaking audience. Specialties are portraits, hot-button topics, history reviews and news about German film industry today.
The episodes of the podcast are released on Tuesdays, every other week, on the POLICARIM platform: https://taplink.cc/pokaligarim
The podcast is also available on Apple, Spotify, Castbox, Youtube, SoundCloud, Yandex Music and Google.
Latest episodes: March 22: Bruno Ganz: Angel from WINGS OF DESIRE, dictator from DOWNFALL March 9: We Children from Bahnhof Zoo - book, film, series February 23: German actresses and actors in American films and series February 9: Berlinale - democratic, scandalous, political
More Information about the Podcast POCALIGARIM can be found here.
