TEACHING GUIDESfor selected DEFA films |
2026 Programming AwardDeadline: April 1, 2026 |
12th Biennial Summer Film Instituteat UMass Amherst | June 22-28, 2025 |
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Our Teaching Guide #6 for Blond Tango is out and available for free download. The new teaching guide was developed by Carla Steinbrecher (University of St Andrews, Universität Bonn). |
The DEFA Film Library launched a Programming Award in celebration of its 30th anniversary in 2023. This award of up to $1,000 will be offered annually. |
The 2025 Summer Film Institute will take place June 22-28, 2025 co-directed by Maria Stehle (Univ. of Tennessee) and Stephan Ehrig (Univ. of Glasgow). |
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Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...
Young Berliner Heinz Stielke is a fanatic member of the Hitler Youth. He has only just achieved the rank of Rottenführer when he finds out that his father, who died as a hero for his fatherland, was Jewish. From one day to...
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Good Luck! Images of an Encounter
46 young men and women arrived from Mozambique in Lauchhammer and joined an apprenticeship as mechanics at a heavy equipment company. (Production: Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, former Hochschule für...