We are delighted that our latest co-production “THE TRAP” by Bulgarian filmmaker Nadejda Koseva is opening the 28th SOFIA International Film Festival today. After its world premiere at the IFF Sao Paolo, the film can be seen in competition at the IFF Sofia. “The Trap” starring Alexander Trifonov and Yanitsa Atanasova is a co-production of Borough Films (Sofia) and COIN FILM (Cologne) and supported with funds from the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.
>>> about the festival
>>> about the film

Our Bulgarian-German co-production “Two Times Two” will premiere at the 64th Thessaloniki International Film Festival on 05.11.2023. The short film starring Samuel Finzi (written/directed by Andrey M Paounov) shows two parallel stories that are closely related and tell of the everydayness of violence across generations. More info HERE

Our co-production “The Trap” is running in the “New Directors” competition at the São Paulo International Film Festival. In her film, director Nadeja Koseva tells of the responsibility we humans have for our environment and for each other. A total of four screenings are scheduled. More information is available HERE.

The sixth feature film by Dutch auteur Nanouk Leopold (“Brownian Movement”, “Oben ist es still”) is a moving mother-son story of painful lightness. Absolutely touching and, despite all its harshness, full of shimmering life energy – right up to a sheer breath-taking finale. Outstanding: young actor Bas Keizer as the title character and Naomi Velissariou as his mother.

Our feature film “Vatersland” will celebrate its free-TV premiere on 13/09/2023 at 8:15 pm on arte! Director and author Petra Seeger has created a fascinating, autobiographical film that tells the story of a woman’s life, from her childhood in the 1960s to the present day.
You can catch the film until 19/09/23 on the ARTE player. The film can be found HERE

“Vatersland” is great memory cinema about the trauma of an entire generation. Sharp-eyed, feminist and at the same time immensely entertaining and humorous. After her award-winning documentary “In Search of Memory” about Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel, Petra Seeger processes her own past as an adolescent girl in a male-dominated post-war society in her first feature film. Unusually, the family photos and 16mm film footage used in the film come from the director’s private archive. (w-film)

Starring: Margarita Broich, Felizia Trube, Momo Beier, Stella Holzapfel, Bernhard Schütz, Matti Schmidt-Schaller a.o.
A co-production with FilmForm Cologne and Velvet Films

Our Co-production “Monte Verità” is available on the SRF player in Switzerland. It can be viewed HERE.

“In “Monte Verità”, Swiss director Stefan Jäger (“Der große Sommer”) recalls the world’s first hippie commune. The artfully arranged and sensitively narrated film takes its viewers to a place of longing that has lost none of its fascination to this day. Also and above all because the question of how we want to live is still as topical as it was a hundred years ago.” TV Spielfim

Our current theatrical production LOST TRANSPORT (co-produced with KeyFilm and Amour Fou) will be released nationwide in theaters on 4/27/2023 in distribution of W-Film. A cinema overview is available >>> HERE.

Before you have the opportunity to experience the NRW premiere on Wednesday April, 19 in the Apollo cinema in Aachen, including a film discussion with the director SASKIA DIESING and the leading actresses ANNA BACHMANN and EUGENIE ANSELIN. Info and tickets are available >>> HERE

The Lower Saxony premiere takes place on Thursday 20.04. in the Casablanca cinema in Oldenburg attended by leading actress Anna Bachmann. Info and tickets >>> HERE

About the film:
Inspired by true events surrounding a liberated deportation train, director Saskia Diesing delivers an unprecedented female perspective on the end of World War 2: Three women – a Jewish Dutch woman, a young German and a Russian sniper – defy differing sensibilities to stick together in an extreme situation. A strongly acted tribute to women’s resilience as well as a timeless story about humanity and forgiveness!

We are proud and happy that our WDR production “Saubere Sache” has been selected for INPUT 2023. The international professional conference for public television takes place in a different city every year, this time in Taipei from May 14-18. Our series will be seen and discussed by an international audience of experts.

More info about INPUT 2023 can be found >>> HERE

“Baghdad in my Shadow” will be shown on 14th February 2023 for the first time on TV at 10:55 PM on 3Sat. Or you can watch the movie HERE.
You can watch an interview on the programme “Kulturzeit” with the director Samir HERE (in German).

We are in the race for the
JUPITER AWARD 2023
you can vote >>>HERE<<<
until February 28, 2023

S A U B E R E   S A C H E
is nominated in
3 categories

SAUBERE SACHE
Beste Serie National

CRISTINA DO REGO
Beste Darstellerin National

BEN MÜNCHOW
Bester Darsteller National

EVERY VOTE COUNTS!
Thank you for your support!

JUPITER AWARD 2023
Deutschlands größter Publikumspreis für Kino und Fernsehen vergeben von CINEMA und TV SPIELFILM

Director ANDRÉ ERKAU
Script MICHAEL GANTENBERG,
D.O.P. FEE STROTHMANN
Production Design KATJA KANDZIORA,
Costume DANIELE GOSSENS-DOMMEL, MINSUN KIM, SARAH RAIBLE,
Make up JENNIFER PORSCHENG
Music DANIEL HOFFKNECHT,
Cutter SEBASTIAN GUTTE
ANKE BERTHOLD,
Editor WDR ELKE KIMMLINGER,
Producers CHRISTINE KIAUK, HERBERT SCHWERING

At the film festival Max Ophüls Preis in January 2023 the Tribute will be dedicated to the brilliant Sandra Hüller. In this context, our production “Brownian Movement” (director: Nanouk Leopold) will be screened on Sunday, 29th January 2023 at 11:00 am at Kino achteinhalb. On the 28th will be a public workshop talk with Sandra Hüller. More info about the events and Sandra can be found HERE (in German).

Our wonderful production designers Katharina Wöpperman from Vienna and Nina Mader from Zurich win an award in Hungary at the Film Fesztivál in Szolnok for their outstanding production design! We congratulate from the bottom of our hearts and are happy that Katharina was in Szolnok personally to present MONTE VERITÀ and to receive the award.
At the Augenblick Film Festival currently held in Alsace, the young audience jury gave their award to MONTE VERITÀ, and at the Swiss Film Days in Montpellier, the historical drama directed by Stefan Jäger won the Audience Award. These days MONTE VERITÀ will be screened at the Torino Film Festival.

Our feature film “Do you sometimes feel burned out and empty?” will be broadcast on Saturday, Dec 3rd 2022 at 8:15 pm on WDR. Actress Lina Beckmann won the German Film Critics Award for her role in this comedy (Script/ director: Lola Randl).
More on this film HERE (in German)

Nur noch 7 Tage – der Countdown läuft!
Wenn Ihr PAULA und JURI im Waschsalon wiedersehen wollt,
dann votet bis 30.06.2022 beim
>>> Voting JUPITER AWARD 2023

S A U B E R E   S A C H E
vornominiert in 3 Kategorien

SAUBERE SACHE
Beste Serie National

CRISTINA DO REGO
Beste Darstellerin National

BEN MÜNCHOW
Bester Darsteller National

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JUPITER AWARD 2023
Deutschlands größter Publikumspreis für Kino und Fernsehen vergeben von CINEMA und TV SPIELFILM

SAUBERE SACHE
>> Short Dramedy – Serien für zwischendurch << in der ARD Mediathek
Die 8teilige Serie SAUBERE SACHE dreht sich um Paula (Cristina do Rego) und Juri (Ben Münchow). Sie sind Ende 20 und treffen sich wöchentlich im Waschsalon. Die beiden kennen sich noch nicht lange und verhandeln in jeder Folge die „großen Fragen des Lebens“ mit Blick auf die rotierende Wäsche.

Regie ANDRÉ ERKAU
Drehbuch MICHAEL GANTENBERG,
Kamera FEE STROTHMANN
Szenenbild KATJA KANDZIORA,
Kostümbild DANIELE GOSSENS-DOMMEL, MINSUN KIM, SARAH RAIBLE,
Maske JENNIFER PORSCHENG
Musik DANIEL HOFFKNECHT,
Schnitt SEBASTIAN GUTTE
ANKE BERTHOLD,
Redaktion WDR ELKE KIMMLINGER,
Produzenten CHRISTINE KIAUK, HERBERT SCHWERING

We are very happy to announce that our web series SAUBERE SACHE directed by André Erkau with CRISTINA DO REGO and BEN MÜNCHOWwill be available in the ARD Mediathek starting TODAY 03/23/2022!
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The eight-part series “Saubere Sache” is about Paula (Cristina do Rego) and Juri (Ben Münchow). They are in their late 20s and meet weekly at the laundromat. The two haven’t known each other long, and in each episode they negotiate the “big questions of life” with an eye on the rotating laundry. The conversations between the two are funny, the dialogues often take a surprising turn, slip from fun into seriousness, and increasingly there is a sizzle between the couple.

Finally SAUBERE SACHE, our new web series (8×10 min.) will start on March 23, 2022 in the ARD Mediathek under the ARD label “Short Dramedy – Serien für Zwischendurch”. “Saubere Sache” had won in the challenge “WDR goes Series” in an online voting, associated with this was the production of the first season with CRISTINA DO REGO and BEN MÜNCHOW in the leading roles. Thanks to scriptwriter MICHAEL GANTENBERG (Phoenixsee, Unter Verdacht etc.), director ANDRÉ ERKAU (Gott du kannst ein Arsch sein!, Happy Burnout etc.), our WDR editor ELKE KIMMLINGER and our fantastic team with whom we developed and shot this great format.

Once a week Paula (CRISTINA DO REGO) and Juri (BEN MÜNCHOW) meet at the laundromat. Purely by chance, of course. They haven’t known each other for long, but it’s a bang when they start their verbal sparring. Once the laundry is in the machine, it’s all about topics: prejudices or clichés, sex or love, fame or fake? Paula and Juri lie to each other constantly, unintentionally of course, but with humor and depth. And they are regularly interrupted by numerous surprise guests, top-class casts including cinema stars such as BENNO FÜRMANN, SAMUEL FINZI, MARGARITA BROICH or TV stars and comedians such as TIMUR BARTELS (Club der roten Bänder), ZSÁ ZSÁ INCI (Fack ju Göthe 2), KHALID BOUNOUAR (Rebell Comedy), CARO FRIER (Queens of Comedy) and FELIX VÖRTLER (Phönixsee).

It is a great pleasure for us that after the world premiere in Locarno, our feature film co-production MONTE VERITÀ – Der Rausch der Freiheit directed by STEFAN JÄGER starring MARESI RIEGNER, HANNAH HERZSPRUNG, JULIA JENTSCH, MAX HUBACHER, JOEL BASMAN, PHILIPP HAUSS will be released in 70 cinemas nationwide starting December 16, 2021!!!! We thank the distributor DCM for their great commitment to bring our film to theaters during this difficult time. Thanks also to the cinema operators and all the viewers who will soon be intoxicated by “Monte Verità” in front of the screen.

“Monte Verità is as modern as its founders”. – Sueddeutsche Zeitung
“A journey through time to rediscover the curiosity and desire to see what was tried there” – ZDF Aspekte
“A film that brings utopia to life” – NDR Kultur

MONTE VERITÀ The thrill of freedom
1906. The young mother Hanna Leitner (MARESI RIEGENER) wants to escape the bourgeois corset and her husband Anton (PHILIPP HAUSS), who sexually harasses her. Hanna follows her doctor and psychoanalyst Otto Gross (MAX HUBACHER) to Monte Verità, a dropout commune in southern Switzerland, where she discovers a fascination with photography. Along with the young Hermann Hesse (JOEL BASMAN) and the feminist Ida Hofmann (JULIA JENTSCH), it is the psychic Lotte Hattemer (HANNAH HERZSPRUNG) who casts a mystical spell on Hanna there and urges her to make a decision. The historical drama MONTE VERITÀ, based on true events, raises the very topical question of how much self-determination a woman is allowed to have in her life without being criticized by society for it.

Director STEFAN JÄGER, Script KORNELIJA NARAKS, DOP DANIELA KNAPP, Production design KATHARINA WÖPPERMANN, NINA MADER, Costume design VERONIKA ALBERT, Make up Design HELENE LANG, Editor NOEMI PREISWERK, Composer VOLKER BERTELMANN

in co-production with Tellfilm (Zurich), KGP Filmproduktion (Vienna) und MMC Movies (Cologne), supported by  Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and DFFF, released by DCM Film Distribution, sales The Playmaker

How nice that we meet again in the cinema!
How nice that the Film Festival Cologne takes place in “real”!
How nice that we can watch films together and talk about them!

We are represented with three programs at this year’s festival:

Sunday, October 24 at 6 p.m. in the program “WDR goes Series” we will premiere an episode of our 8-part short series “SAUBERE SACHE”, which we just finished. The director ANDRÉ ERKAU will be present as well as the leading actress CRISTINA DO REGO, who plays alongside BEN MÜNCHOW. Other roles will be played by SAMUEL FINZI and comedian KHALID BOUNOUAR.

Monday, October 25 at 2:30 p.m. COIN FILM will present a case study about our new co-production “LOST TRANSPORT” (directed by SASKIA DIESING) with the Netherlands and Luxembourg as part of the “BeNeLux meets NRW” meeting together with the Luxembourg production Amour Fou as a contribution to the discussion about the current situation of European co-productions.

Monday, October 25 at 7 p.m. in the Filmpalast Cologne we celebrate the NRW premiere of our current feature film “MONTE VERITÀ” (director: STEFAN JÄGER). In summer the film already had its premiere at the IFF Locarno and will be released in cinemas in Germany from December 16th distributed by DCM. In addition to the director STEFAN JÄGER, the main actors MARESI RIEGENER and the actors MAX HUBACHER and PHILIPP HAUSS will be present.

We are looking forward to exciting festival days in Cologne with you!
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Filmmaker Samir launches his latest feature film BAGHDAD IN MY SHADOW nationwide on 30 September. To kick things off, Samir celebrated the cinema launch at METROPOL in Düsseldorf in the best of storytelling moods.

Further dates:
Oct 01 | 19.00 h | Kino Casablanca, Nürnberg
Oct 02 | 20.30 h | Kino Friedrichsbau, Freiburg
Oct 03 | 17.45 h | Kino Kamino, Reutlingen
Oct 03 | 20.15 h | Kino Arsenal, Tübingen
released by ARSENAL

On Saturday, 28 August, Mario Adorf honoured the alleged mass murderer Bruno Lüdke with the prominent support of German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at a stumbling stone laying ceremony in Berlin-Köpenik. COIN FILM is currently developing the Bruno Lüdke case as the series TRUE MURDERERS (Teufelskreis) and we are very pleased that we were able to win the multi-award-winning director Hermine Huntgeburth (Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding, Die weiße Massai) for the direction.

The True Crime Story TRUE MURDERERS (Teufelskreis), funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, is being made together with the authors Jens Becker (Nellys Abenteuer), Linda Brieda (Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo) and Dominik Wessely, just awarded the Grimme Prize 2021 for Loveparade – Die Verhandlung. COIN FILM has already taken up the life of Bruno Lüdke in two documentaries (Die Erfindung eines Mörders – Der Fall Bruno Lüdke, Es hätte schlimmer kommen können – Mario Adorf).

Bruno Lüdke was accused of murdering 84 women and men during the Nazi era and was long considered the greatest serial killer in German criminal history. Although Bruno Lüdke was not proven to have committed any of these murders, he was accused of the acts by the Nazi regime and murdered. Some of his murderers went on to hold high positions in the young Federal Republic as criminal police officers and never had to answer for their crimes. Together with influential media-makers, they continued to spread the word about Bruno Lüdke’s guilt – an early case of Fake News.