On the evening of June 23, 2026, actor Dominik Maringer received the “German Film Peace Award– Die Brücke” in Munich on behalf of Cherien Dabis, director of ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU. We extend our warmest congratulations to her and thank the Bernhard Wicki Memorial Fund e.V. for this honor!
At the international Trento Film Festival (Italy), the immersive documentary by Jean-Gabriel Leynaud won both the SILVER GENTIAN FOR BEST ARTISTIC-TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTION and the CINEMA FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD. We are delighted to now celebrate a total of five international awards and congratulate the entire team.
Congratulations to director Cherien Dabis and the entire team: All That’s Left Of You has been selected as Jordan’s entry for the Oscars® shortlist in the Best International Feature Film category.
We are delighted to announce that ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU by Cherien Dabis will be released in German cinemas on November 20, 2025, under the German title IM SCHATTEN DES ORANGENBAUMS by X-Verleih.
The latest film HEN by Hungarian director György Pálfi celebrated its world premiere at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival. No sooner had it seen the light of day than it received an honorable mention for the Platform Award.
After a year of challenging shooting, we are thrilled to announce that ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU by Palestinian-American director Cherien Dabis will celebrate its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
See you in Utah from January 25, 2025
All That’s Left of You (اللي باقي منك) | 2025 Sundance Film Festival
We are very happy to announce that director Sylvie Michel has been awarded for her outstanding directing performance by this year’s Filmfest München in the section ‘New German Cinema’.
Congratulations and many thanks to the jury and Filmfest München.
About a year ago the last take was made and now the new film by Sylvie Michel celebrates its festival premiere at Film Fest Munich. The film is screening in the New German Cinema section and is nominated here for Best Director (Sylvie Michel), Best Screenplay (Sylvie Michel & Maria Teresa Curzio) and Best Acting Performance (Julie Kieffer & Léo Daudin).
Screenings:
Mon June 26 – 21:00 Sendlinger Tor
Wed June 28 – 18:00 City 3
Fri 30 June – 14:30 City 1
Great news from the European Film Academy: today they released the first feature films selected for the European Film Awards. We are happy to announce that Maha Haj’s new film MEDITERRANEAN FEVER is among the selected.
https://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/film/mediterranean-fever.21165
We are happy and proud to share that the second feature film by Palestinian director Maha Haj will be part of the Un Certain Regard section at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Congratulations and many thanks to the entire team.
The docu-fiction by Jolanta Dylewska celebrates its German premiere at this year’s goEast FF in Wiesbaden. Due to the corona pandemic, the film can be experienced online from 5 May until 11 May this year and can be found in the anniversary section Europe Europe.
https://www.filmfestival-goeast.de/en/onDemand/goeast_ondemand_en.php
We are very pleased to be participating at this year’s Berlinale 2020 with Daphne Charizani’s new film SISTERS APART, which was shot in Greece, Germany and Iraq in 2018. SISTERS APART is celebrating its world premiere at this year’s Berlinale Perspektive Deutsches Kino.
https://www.berlinale.de/en/press/press-releases/films-perspektive-deutsches-kino.html
On 21 November 2019 Elia Suleiman won the Jury Grand Prize in Brisbain, Australia for his film IT MUST BE HEAVEN.
https://www.asiapacificscreenawards.com/news-events/13th-apsa-as-it-happens
Jakub Kijowski and Jolanta Dylewska win the Golden Frog in section Best Documentary Feature Film for their camera workat at this year’s EnergaCAMERIMAGE – the international film festival of the art of cinematography inToruń!
https://camerimage.pl/en/laureaci-energacamerimage-2019/
After the great release as opening film at the Film Festival Cottbus SMUGGLING HENDRIX by Marios Piperides starts on November 14th in cinemas all over Germany. The film can be seen in Potsdam, Berlin, Halle, Ludwigsburg, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Bremen and many more.
Palestine selects IT MUST BE HEAVEN by Elia Suleiman for an Oscar nomination for International Feature Film category!
On 18 September 2019, SMUGGLING HENDRIX by Marios Piperides will celebrate its German cinema premiere at this year’s Filmkunstmesse in Leipzig.
We are happy to welcome the director and also the leading actors Adam Bousdoukos and Özgür Karadeniz.
Premiere on Wednesday, 18.09.2019 | 21:00 Uhr | Passage Kinos Universum
https://filmkunstmesse.de/film/2958/smuggling-hendrix.html
Theatrical release on 14.11.2019!
v.r.n.l.: Claudia Oettrich (Verleih Filmperlen), Martin Hampel (Produktion Pallas Film), Özgür Karadeniz (Cast), Marios Piperides (Regie) und Adam Bousdoukos (Cast)
The latest film by Elia Suleiman IT MUST BE HEAVEN will also be screened in the Masters series at this year’s Film Festival in Toronto between 05 and 15 September.
For all those who wants to see the new film IT MUST BE HEAVEN by Elia Suleiman even before its release, there is now a chance between 3. and 6. July at the Filmfest Munich. The movie is shown in Competition “CineCoPro”.
Wednesday, 03.07.2019 | 10:00 a.m. | Atelier 1 | Press
Wednesday, 03.07.2019 | 20:00 hrs | ASTOR ARRI Cinema
Friday, 05.07.2019 | 17:00 | ASTOR Kino
Saturday, 06.07.2019 | 20:30 | Rio 1
We are delighted to present Elia Suleiman’s new film IT MUST BE HEAVEN as a two-time winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival: he was awarded the FIBRESCI Prize and received a Special Mention from the independent jury of film critics.
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The new film by Elia Suleiman IT MUST BE HEAVEN, shot in Nazareth, Paris and Montreal, celebrates its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival on 24.05.2019.
https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/films/it-must-be-heaven
Three awards for Smuggling Hendrix at Cyprus Film Days International Festival 2019! The Student Jury Award, the Audience Award and the Best Cypriot Film Award: “For exposing the absurdity of the ongoing division of the island of Cyprus with humanity and humour”.
We are pleased to announce that AYKA by Sergey Dvortsevoy will celebrate its official release in Germany on April 18, 2019.
The actress Samal Yeslyamova, who was awarded the prize for Best Actress in Cannes, will present the film in person.
17.04. | 19:00 | Hackesche Höfe | Berlin
18.04. | 17:00 | Kinobar Prager Frühling | Leipzig
04-18 | 18:30 | Puschkino | Halle
See you at the movie!
On 29.04.2019 the German-Polish co-production MAREK EDELMAN…AND THERE WAS LOVE IN THE GHETTO celebrates its world premiere at the hotDOCS Film Festival in Toronto / Canada. If you would like to visit us – here are the dates:
MO | 29.04. | 18:30 | TIFF Light Box 3
MI 01/05. 12:30, Hart House Theatre.
SA | 04.05. | 15:15 | Scotiabank Theatre 3
On Friday Claas Danielsen and Dana Messerschmidt from the MDM visited us at the Color Grading of Elia Suleiman’s latest work IT MUST BE HEAVEN in Halle.
SMUGGLING HENDRIX is nominated in five categories for the Hellenic Film Academy Award, including the BEST FILM (Producers: Janine Teerling, Marios Piperides, Thanassis Karathanos, Kostas Lambropoulos, Martin Hampel), BEST FIRST TIME DIRECTOR (Marios Piperides), BEST SCRIPT (Marios Piperides), BEST ACTOR (Adam Bousdoukos) and BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (Fatih Al). The award ceremony will take place on 23 April in Athen.
We are delighted that Samal Yeslyamove has won the Best Actress Award at this year’s Asian Film Award for her performance of AYKA in the same named film by Sergey Dvortsevoy.
https://asianfilmfestivals.com/2019/03/17/asian-film-awards-winners-2019/
FLAWLESS by Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon celebrates its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and competes for the best international narrative film.
5:00 PM – SUN 4/28 Village East Cinema-02
7:00 PM – MON 4/29 Village East Cinema-05
11:30 AM – SAT 5/4 Regal Cinemas Battery Park 11-6
On 28.04.2019 FLAWLESS celebrates its international premiere at the Film Festival Tribeca.
The second feature film of Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon will be shown in the section ‘International Narrative Competition’.
We are happy to announce that AYKA by Sergey Dvortsevoy is listed on the shortlist for an Oscar in the section ‘Best Foreign Language Film’.
We are very glad about another award for AYKA. Sergey Dvortsevoy’s drama won the Best Film Award at the FILMEX Festival in Tokyo.
AYKA is this year’s Kazakh entry for foreign language Oscar.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/akya-wins-grand-prix-at-tokyo-filmex-1163742
We are very happy to confirm that Cannes Best Actress winner Samal Yeslyamova is nominated for Best Performance by an Actress at the the 12th edition of The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA).
On 29.11.2018 the decision is made. We keep our fingers crossed.
We are very proud to announce that Sergey Dvortsevoy’s AYKA is this year’s winner of the All about Freedom Festival in Gdansk.
Furthermore, AYKA has been awarded the Best Film Award in the category Cinema Extraordinaire at the International Film Festival in Bergen.
And last but not least, at the 55th International Antalya Film Festival, the Best Actress Award went to Samal Yeslyamova for her portrayal of the AYKA title character.
Congratulations to all participants!
Our co-production AYKA by Sergey Dvortsevoy is shortlisted by the European Film Academy for the European Film Award.
The European Film Awards with the presentation of the winner will take place on 15 December in Seville / Spain. We keep our fingers crossed.
Full list: https://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/49-feature-films-selected-for-european-film-awards
Samal Yeslyamova won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the leading role in AYKA by Sergey Dvortsevoy.
We are overwhelmed, we are happy and we would like to express a big THANK YOU to all who have managed to realize this film.
The film was amongst others supported by Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung and ZDF / ARTE.
© by egemen.kz
We are very pleased and excited that Smuggling Hendrix won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the Tribeca Film Festival.
What wonderful news. Audiences and Jury Loved the film. We congratulate Marios Piperides and the whole team and thank all supporters.
Jury Comment: “For its unique, comedic exploration of a complicated absurd political situation told in a clear, personal compelling way, the Best International Narrative Feature Award goes to Smuggling Hendrix.”
https://www.tribecafilm.com/stories/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2018-tribeca-film-festival-awards
http://www.cineuropa.org/it.aspx?t=interview&l=en&did=352733
http://cineuropa.org/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&l=en&did=352660
Fantastic news reached us from Cannes: AYKA by Sergey Dvortsevoy will celebrate its world premiere at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival.
Already with his first feature film “Tulpan” Dvortsevoy was represented 10 years ago in the section “Un Certain Regard” and won in addition to the Best Film Award, also the Prix de la jeunesse and Prix de l’education nationale. The more we were pleased to be invited in competition.
The international coproduction (RUS / D / PL / KAZ / CHN) was among others also supported by the MDM and co-produced by ZDF – thank you very much.
WATCH OUT! On November 30, 2017, FAMILY by Veronica Kedar will flicker across the screen for the first time in Germany.
All art film- and thriller fans are cordially invited to visit the German premiere at the B3 Biennale of the moving image 2017 in Frankfurt am Main.
http://www.b3biennale.de/DEUTSCHLANDPREMIERE-Family-OmeU-hebraisch-englische-UT.html
“CENTAUR” by Aktan Arym Kubat is the Kyrgyz candidate for the best foreign-language film at the Oscar®. We are very happy and keep our fingers crossed. The film starts on 28 December 2017 in German cinemas.
We are very happy to present CENTAUR by Aktan Arym Kubat as Best Film at MOOOV Filmfestival in Belgium. He won the CANVAS Award on sunday night, 30.April. Congratulations!
Aktan Arym Kubat’s CENTAUR just received the CICAE Art Cinema Award in the Panorama section at the Berlinale ! The international jury selected the film “because our knowledge of ancient stories and values, who we are and where we come from is an antidote against any kind of conflict.”
Congratulation!
https://www.berlinale.de/en/das_festival/preise_und_juries/preise_unabh_ngigen_jurys/index.html
After Rahul Jain’s documentary film MACHINES has already received many good reviews in the media, the Special Jury Award for Cinematography is now being presented to Cameraman Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva. We are very happy. Congratulations
In the press release of the Berlinale, the first eleven films for the Panorama section were finally publicly announced. We are pleased that our German-Kyrgyz-French-Dutch coproduction CENTAUR by Aktan Arym Kubat will be present and could celebrate it’s world premiere in Berlin.
http://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/panorama/pan-presse-detail_34900.html
We are pleased about the producer price for Rahul Jain’s documentary MACHINES in Amsterdam (23.11.2016).
The prize is awarded by thirty international programmers, among others. Tribeca, KVIFF, MoMA, Encounters and Hot Docs each year at the IDFA.
We are happy to announce that our co-productions MA LOUTE by Bruno Dumont has been invited to the competion of this year’s 69th Film Festival in Cannes.