Graduate Phoebe Ammon wins the 2021 Audience Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Screenplay Prize for “Höhlen-Ecki”. Congratulations on winning the award again! To ensure that there are more good screenplays and...
Congratulations! Our graduate Leon Rüger wins the “Best Music Video Annual Award” at the Berlin Indie Film Festival for his graduation film Hybrid. The Berlin Indie Film Festival was founded...
HFM presents: Spaces for Animation – 1st Pop-Up Event on July 2, 2021 The Haus für Film und Medien Stuttgart (HFM) cordially invites you to an online panel discussion on...
Lockdown, curfews, canceled flights, and online teaching: These are all not perfect conditions for a semester abroad, in which the focus is, after all, on exchanging ideas with other students...
Filipa César and Diana McCarty, two filmmakers and media activists, have been jointly appointed to a professorship of Film and Video at Merz Akademie. In their artistic work, the duo...
The 2020 Audience Award of the Drehbuchpreis Schleswig-Holstein goes to Phoebe Ammon for BOMBENGRANATENEVENTS. Congratulations! In 2020, the third edition of the Schleswig-Holstein Screenplay Award took place under special circumstances....
The documentary animation film, a Chinese-French co-production, deals with China’s one-child policy from the perspective of two young girls and thus has a very personal connection to the filmmaker’s history.
China has a long tradition in the field of animation, which is increasingly being recognized internationally. Weijia Ma uses experimental animation techniques in her work to explore narratives of contemporary...
20 years professor at the Merz Akademie! In a corona-secure celebration at the end of the 2020 summer semester, the Merz Akademie bid farewell to Christoph Dreher, Professor of Film...
I definitely want to spend the internship abroad. That was clear to Merz Akademie student Lucas from the very beginning of his studies. Above all, the development of his own...