This year’s Hungarian submission for the 2026 Oscars in the “Best International Feature Film” category is finally coming to German theaters. Distributor MUBI Germany will release László Nemes’s Andor Hirsch on May 14, 2026. The film received support from the FFA and MBB, among others.

Congratulations to director Cherien Dabis and the entire team: All That’s Left Of You has been selected as Jordan’s entry for the 2026 Oscar® shortlist in the Best International Feature Film category.

It’s done!!! OLFAS TÖCHTER is nominated along with four other films for an Oscar in the category “Best Documentary Feature”, which will be awarded for the 96th time on Sunday, 10th March 2024.

The titles of the Cannes 2023 nominations have been announced! A high class line-up will walk the red carpet this year…and our co-production FOUR DAUGHTERS by Kaouther Ben Hania (“The Man Who Sold His Skin”) right in the middle of it! We are very excited about this. She is one of six female directors in competition for the Palme d’Or!

We are pleased to announce that MARIUPOLIS 2 is one of the five titles nominated in the European Documentary category for the European Film Awards 2022.

https://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/five-documentaries-nominated-for-european-documentary

We are very happy to announce that THE DAM by Ali Cherri will have its world premiere at Director’s Fortnight of this years Cannes Film Festival.
In addition MARIUPOLIS 2 will be part of the official program as “Special Screening”.

We are very happy to announce that the soulful and impressive debut THE GRAVEDIGGER’S WIFE by Somali director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed will celebrate its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in the section La Semaine de la Critique.
With the support of ZDF-Das kleine Fernsehspiel, ARTE, FFHSH and WCF, the German-French-Finnish co-production was shot in Djibouti.

http://www.semainedelacritique.com/en/film-selection

We are very pleased to be nominated for an Oscar in the ‘Best International Feature Film’ section with THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN. Congratulations to the director Kaouther Ben Hania, who thus brings Tunisia its first Oscar nomination. We remain excited!

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/2021-oscars-nominations-list-nominees-1234928711/

The Man who sold his skin by Kaouther Ben Hania goes into the next round for an Oscar as the Tunisian favorite in the International Feature Film section. We remain excited and keep our fingers crossed!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscars-academy-unveils-shortlists-in-nine-categories

We are delighted to announce that The Man Who Sold His Skin, written and directed by the Tunisian director and screenwriter Kaouther Ben Hania, has won two prizes in the Orizzonti section of the 77th Venice Film Festival.
The film won the Edipo Re Award which is one of the festival’s collateral awards. Syrian actor Yahya Mahayni won the Orizzonti Prize for Best Actor for his role Sam Ali in the film.

We are very pleased to announce that the new film by Kaouther Ben Hania THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN will have its world premiere at this year’s La Biennale Di Vinecia in the Orrizonti section at the beginning of September!

https://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2020/orizzonti

The thriller WEREWOLF by Adrian Panek, which has already won many awards at numerous festivals, is currently screened at the Neiße Film Festival in the three-country corner of Germany / Poland / the Czech Republic. So if you want to see it before the German release you can do so on:

Wed | 08.May | 20:00 | KunstBauerKino 1
Fri | May 10th | 20:00 | Kulturfabrik Meda
Sa | May 11 | 19:30 | Brána Trojzemí

 

On 17 January 2019 the Greek drama HAPPY BIRTHDAY by Christos Georgiou will have its German premiere at the Greek Film Week Hellas Filmbox in Berlin.

The debut thriller WEREWOLF by the Polish director Adrian Panek celebrated its world premiere on 19 September 2018 at the Gdynia Polish Film Festival and won the director’s prize and the prize for best music for Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz.

This weekend Paul Verhoeven and the team of ELLE celebrated in several ways. Already on Friday, the film won two CÉSARs in Paris. The film itself was voted for Best Film and Isabelle Huppert received the César as Best Actress.
http://www.academie-cinema.org/en/ceremony/awards.html

And on Saturday, one evening before the Oscars, Isabelle Huppert won the Independent Spirit Award as best female actress for her main role of Michele in ELLE!
https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/2017-film-independent-spirit-awards-winners-announced/

Congratulations!

 

 

Another great news today: two films are nominated for the César Award.
ELLE by Bruno Dumont clinched 11 nominations including best film, best director and best actress for Isabelle Huppert.
And SLACK BAY by Paul Verhoeven is nominated for best film, best director and best actor for Fabrice Luchini.

Very good news …and good luck!

On 26 February 2017 it’s time for: “And the Oscar goes to…”
We are pleased to announce the nomination of Isabelle Huppert as best actress in a leading role in ELLE (by Paul Verhoeven). We keep our fingers crossed.

At the 74th award of the Golden Globe Awards on January, 8th, ELLE was awarded as best non-English language film and Isabelle Huppert as best actress in the Drama category!
Congratulations!

The German release in cinemas takes place on 16.February 2017!

On 09 and 11.12.2016, our German-Jordanian-Dutch-Qatarian co-production will be shown in the MUHR Featur category at the International Film Festival in Dubai and celebrate the premiere in the Arab world.

https://dubaifilmfest.com/en/films/43297/blessed_benefit.html

We’re glad to announce that Soy Nero by Rafi Pitts was awarded the Grand Prix “Aleksandar Saša Petrović” for Best Film at the 22nd Belgrade Auteur Film Festival!
Congratulations!

http://www.filmneweurope.com/news/item/113784-festivals-soy-nero-wins-22nd-belgrade-auteur-film-festival

We are very happy that two of our German-French Coproductions will participate at 16ème Semaine du film français de Berlin.

MA LOUTE (Bruno Dumont)

01.12.2016 / 20:30 / Cinema Paris Berlin – in attendance of the director

ELLE (Paul Verhoeven)

02.12.2016 / 20:30 / Rollberg Kino Berlin

03.12.2016 / 20:30 / Filmtheater am Friedrichshain Berlin

04.12.2016 / 20:30 /Cinema Paris Berlin – in attendance of the author

Blessed Benefit of Mahmoud al Massad was awarded the NETPAC Prize as the best Asian film at the 32nd Warsaw Film Festival on October 15th and the Special Jury Award for the leading actor Ahmad Thaler.

We are pleased to announce that our German-Jordanian-Dutch coproduction BLESSED BENEFIT by Mahmoud Al Massad will be screened at this year’s TIFF in competition. Blessed Benefit will celebrate its world premiere in Toronto.

AUDIENCE	DATE	TIME	VENUE (CAPACITY)
Public 1	09/09/16	4:30PM	Scotiabank 14 (307)
Press & Industry 1	09/09/16	11:15AM	Scotiabank 10 (224)
Public 2	09/11/16	7:15PM	Scotiabank 8 (183)
Press & Industry 2	09/14/16	7:00PM	Scotiabank 6 (137)
Public 3	09/16/16	9:00PM	Scotiabank 11 (227)

We are pleased to announce  that “Mariupolis” was awarded by Lithuanian Film Academy with “Silver Crane’2016” Award as the best documentary of the year. (01.06.2016)

We are glad about the award in the category ‘Best Film’, which won our coprodction SOY NERO by Rafi Pitts on April 24, 2016 at the International Film Festival in Bucharest.

We are happy to announce that our co-productions MA Loute by Bruno Dumont and ELLE by Paul Verhoeven have been invited to the competion of this year’s 69th Film Festival in Cannes.

We are happy to announce that “Wednesday 04:45″ by Alexis Alexiou has been awarded at the Hellenic Film Academy Awards on monday evening, 28^th march. The film won 9 awards (from 13 nominations) and was named as Best Film of the Year.

Best Feature
Best Director  (Alexis Alexiou)
Best Actor (Stelios Mainas)
Best Cinematography (Christos Karamanis)
Best Editing (Lampis Charalampidis)
Best Original Music (Yiannis Veslemes (Felizol)
Best Set Design (Spyros Laskaris)
Best Sound (Aris Athanasopoulos, Avi Mizrahi, Gil Toren)
Best Visual Effects and Cinematic Innovation (Ippokratis Chalas, Mihalis Samiotis, Alaxouzi Brothers, Dani Cohen)

 

We are honored about the nominations for BERLINALE AMNESTY-FILM AWARD 2016 of both of our this years BERLINALE contributions:

SOY NERO by Rafi Pitts
MARIUPOLIS by Mantas Kvedaravicius

 

We are happy to announce that our German/French/Mexican co-production “SOY NERO” by Rafi Pitts will have its world premiere in Competition at the 66th Berlinale. Rafi Pitts already attended the competition with “IT’S WINTER” in 2006 and with “THE HUNTER” in 2010.

 

Furthermore we are proud to announce that our Lithuanian/German/French/Ukrainian co-production “MARIUPOLIS” by Mantas Kvedaravicius has been invited for Panorama Dokumente and will also celebrate its world premiere during this year’s Berlinale.

The premiere dates will be released on 02.02.2016

Naomi Kawase won the award for Best Director at this year’s Valladolid International Film Festival for her film “Sweet Red Bean Paste“. Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce the dates of the German premiere of “The Farewell Party” with & by Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon:

21.09. Berlin, Hackesche Höfe Filmtheater, 20:00 Uhr (Tal Granit & Sharon Maymon)
23.09. Leipzig, Passage Kinos, 20:30 Uhr (Tal Granit & Sharon Maymon)
24.09. Wiesbaden, Caligari, 20:00 Uhr (Tal Granit)
24.09. München, City Kino, 20:00 Uhr (Sharon Maymon)
25.09. Pforzheim, Kommunales Kino, 19:00 Uhr (Tal Granit)
25.09. Stuttgart, Delphi, 20:00 Uhr (Tal Granit)
25.09. Augsburg, Thalia, 19:00 Uhr (Sharon Maymon)

 

“AN” by Naomi Kawase will be seen on the following days in Cannes:

Official screening:
THU, May 14th, 19:15, Debussy

Press Screenings:
THU, May 14th, 11:00, Debussy
FRI, May 15th, 16:00, Bazin

Market screenings:
SAT, May 16th, 13:30, Olympia 6
SUN, May 17th, 14:00, Star 2
TUE, May 19th, 12:00, Riviera 3

We are happy to announce that the international co-production “AN” by Japanese director Naomi Kawase will be the opening film of this years Un Certain Regard in the Festival de Cannes (13.05.-24.05.2015).

We are happy to announce that the new film of director Alexis Alexiou which had been relesed in cinemas in Greece on 12^th March 2015 will be celebrating his international premiere in competition at the film festival in Tribeca on 17/04/2015.

Public Screenings:
4/17/2015        8:00 PM      Regal-3
4/19/2015        9:30 PM      BTC-6
4/20/2015       9:45 PM       BTC-5
4/22/2015       10:30 PM     Regal-9

Press & Industry Screenings:
4/18/2015        1:30 PM      Regal-9
4/22/2015        4:45 PM      Regal-8