15.11.2024
"RAPTURE II - PORTAL" at IDFA Festival
World Premiere of Alisa Berger's experimental VR experience film as part of the VR Gallery at the IDFA DocLab for Immersive Non-Fiction
01.07.2024
“THE ALIENATED” at KARLOVY VARY IFF 2024
World Premiere of Anja Kreis' new feature film at the KARLOVY VARY IFF 2024 in the Proxima competition
28.05.2024
“INVISIBLE PEOPLE” at SICILIA QUEER filmfest, Palermo
Italian Premiere at the 2024 SlCILIA QUEER filmfest in the Nuove Visioni competition (May 25 - 31) - screenings on the 28th of May.
25.04.2024
“INVISIBLE PEOPLE” at Hot Docs, Toronto
North American Premiere at the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (April 25 - May 5) - screenings on the 2nd and 5th of May.
11.04.2024
“INVISIBLE PEOPLE” receives particularly valuable rating
“Invisible People” has received the “Prädikat Besonders Wertvoll” from the Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung FBW.
18.03.2024
World Premiere of “INVISIBLE PEOPLE” at CPH:DOX"
"Invisible People" by Alisa Berger will have its World Premiere at 21st edition of CPH:DOX* Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival in the NEXT:WAVE Competition
(March 13 - March 24).
12.10.2023
“RETRODREAMING” at SITGES Film Festival
Spanish Premiere at the 2023 SITGES Film Festival
(October 05 - October 15).
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30.09.2023
“RETRODREAMING” at Lucca Film Festival 2023 and Alisa Berger is part of the Jury
Italian Premiere at the 2023 Lucca Film Festival 2023 (September 23 - October 1). As K-Saram won the Best Short Film Award in 2022 Alisa will be joining the festival as a juror of the Short Film Competition.
01.05.2023
“RETRODREAMING” at Hot Docs, Toronto
Canadian Premiere at the 2023 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (April 27 - May 7).
05.04.2023
“RETRODREAMING” in Uruguay
RETRODREAMING - Latin American Premiere at 41° Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay April 5th - 16th, 2023.
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30.03.2023
“RETRODREAMING” in Chicago
RETRODREAMING showing at 33º edition of the Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
March 30 - April 5, 2023.
30.01.2023
Alisa Berger in Rotterdam Lab
Alisa Berger will participate as a Special Alumni in the Rotterdam Lab 2023.
14.01.2023
K-SARAM: Tale of the Pig Head screening at Sinema Transtopia
Alisa Berger's K-SARAM: Tale of the Pig Head will be opening the Sinema Transtopia.
10.12.2022
Alisa Berger in Les Arcs Industry Village
Alisa Berger will be participating in the Les Arcs Industry Village -
a 3-day event happening during Les Arcs Film Festival.
03.11.2022
“Retrodreaming” at NOFF
“Retrodreaming” will have its World Premiere at the 2022 New Orleans Film Festival.
31.10.2022
“Retrodreaming” receives valuable rating by FBW
“Retrodreaming” has received the “Prädikat Wertvoll” from the Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung FBW.
28.10.2022
“RAW” receives Development Grant from the Film und Medien Stiftung NRW
“RAW”, written and directed by Alisa Berger, has received project
development funding from the Film und Medien Stiftung NRW, and
will now begin pre-production.
12.10.2022
Anja Kreis pitches at EWIP
Anja Kreis pitched her project “The Alienated” (Suflete Curate) at European Work In Progress Cologne.
02.10.2022
“K-Saram: Tale of the Pig Head” wins Best Short Film
“K-Saram: Tale of the Pig Head” won the Jury Award for Best Short Film at the 2022 Lucca Film Festival.
23.09.2022
“Retreat” receives Development Grant from the Film und Medien Stiftung NRW
“Retreat”, written and directed by Alisa Berger, has received a 40,000 euro project development grant from the Film und Medien Stiftung NRW, and is moving into its production stage.
18.05.2022
Cannes Film Festival & Marché du Film 2022
Alisa Berger and FORTIS FEM FILM was selected by German Films for the Cannes ImpACT Lab.
24.01.2022
IFFR Rotterdam Lab 2022
Alisa Berger will represent FORTIS FEM FILM at IFFR Rotterdam Lab 2022. With the support of Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.
06.12.2021
"RETRODREAMING" at Atelier 105 - LIGHT CONE Paris
"RETRODREAMING", by Alisa Berger is in final post production stage within Atelier 105 residency at Light Cone Paris.
Light Cone will distribute the film in 2022.
19.11.2021
"K-Saram I: Tale of the Pig Head" World Premiere
"K-Saram I: Tale of the Pig Head", by Alisa Berger, will have its World Premiere at the Lublin Film Festival.
22.08.2021
"The Patriot" World Premiere
"The Patriot", by Anya Kreis, has its World Premiere at the IX Koroche Russian Short Film Festival.
17.08.2021
Best Director Award for Yana Ugrekhelidze at SIWFF
"'Instructions for Survival', directed by Yana Ugrekhelidze, is an achievement that surpasses any form of persuasion in terms of the film’s approach to an individual's life, vividly revealing the violence inflicted by a discriminatory society."
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21.06.2021
Berlinale TEDDY Jury Award presented to Yana Ugrekhelidze for "Instructions for Survival"
"The film is an essential act of militancy that powerfully reminds us that the personal is political."
17.06.2021
"Instructions for Survival" - Austrian premiere
"Instructions for Survival" had its Austrian premiere at the Transition International Queer & Minorities Film Festival.
19.06.2021
Best Documentary Film
"Instructions for Survival" wins Best Documentary Film at the 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival.
05.06.2021
Berlinale Compass-Perspektive-Award
This year's Compass-Perspektive-Award winner is "Instructions for Survival" by Yana Ugrekhelidze, awarded in the section Perspektive Deutsches Kino.
25.05.2021
"Armed Lullaby" wins - IFFF, Internationales Frauenfilmfestival Dortmund / ECFA Short Film Award for Best Animation
Yana Ugrekhelidze's animated short film is awarded the ECFA Short Film Award and wins at the IFFF.
26.04.2021
Production of "Das Fünf Ähren Gesetz" will be supported by BKM
The federal government awards production funding for the animated film "Das Fünf Ähren Gesetz" by Yana Ugrekhelidze.
18.03.2021
Production of "Die Tollen Menschen" and Script Development of "Retreat" supported by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
"Die Tollen Menschen", produced by Fortis Fem Film, written and directed by Anna Kruglova, has received production funding. "Retreat", screenplay by Alisa Berger, has received script development funding.
05.03.2021
Filmstiftung NRW funds "Das Fünf Ähren Gesetz"
Yana Ugrekhelidze's new animation film "Das Fünf Ähren Gesetz", receives a production grant by the Filmstiftung.
10.02.2021
"Instructions for Survival" is part of Perspektive Deutsches Kino at this year's Berlinale
The documentary by Yana Ugrekhelidze premieres at the 71st Berlinale- International Filmfestival as one of six selected movies in Perspektive Deutsches Kino.
10.12.2020
"Armed Lullaby" is in the BR Mediathek
"Armed Lullaby" is available to watch now in the of BR Mediathek.
21.11.2020
Interfilm-Jury: "Der animierte Dokumentarfilm über den Abchasischen Bürgerkrieg zeigt die Flucht aus der Sicht von vier Kindern und vier verschiedene Fluchtwege. Dieser Film berührt mit seinen ausdrucksstarken Bildern und dem Mut, unterschiedliche Techniken zu verweben. Die wortlose Sprache des Films ist still und aufwühlend, sie stellt der Grausamkeit des Krieges und dem Elend der Flucht eine sanfte Ästhetik gegenüber, verbindet religiöse Symbolik mit märchenhaften Imaginés und einer berührenden Musik."
10.11.2020
Animation project "Instructions for Survival" / "Das Fünf Ähren Gesetz"“ by Yana Ugrekhelidze has received a production grant from the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.
06.02.2020
Lecture at Filmbüro NW
Alisa Berger, together with Lena Ditte Nissen, gave an artistic lecture on the future of film at the UTOPIA Filmsymposium by Filmbüro NW.
06.09.2019
"Armed Lullaby" is nominated for FIRST STEPS Award 2019
Yana Ugrekhelidze's animated short film is in this year's official selection, in the category Short and Animated Movies.
17.07.2019
"Folle Nuit Russe" is now playing in French Cinemas
thanks to ASC Distribution
"Folle Nuit Russe" by Anja Kruglova will be distributed by ASC Distribution in France.
17.06.2019
"The Astronauts' Bodies" wins Best Feature Film Award at Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin
Winning the award for Best of Festival Feature, "The Astronauts' Bodies" by Alisa Berger.
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15.06.2019
"Armed Lullaby" is awarded the Jury Award (ex-aequo) at Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, and participates in numerous international screenings
Yana Ugrekhelidze's animation short has been shown at:
Festival de Cine de Huesca, Spain 2019
Athens International Film and Video Festival 2019
Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2019
Filmfest Dresden 2019
filmfestkunst Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2019
Moscow International Filmfest 2019
Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA 2019
Filmfestspiele Cannes, Next Generation 2019
Sarajevo Film Festival 2019
CinèDoc-Tbilisi, International Documentary Film Festival 2019
Pyeongchang International Peace Film Festival 2019
13.06.19
Fortis Fem Film receives a scholarship from the
Mediengründerzentrum NRW
30.05.2019
Preproduction of "The Housewife" supported by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
„The Housewife“, by Alisa Berger and co-author Thorsten Krämer, received a preproduction grant for research in Japan.
30.05.2019
Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf Filmlab Scholarship
"Ghosts of the Body“, by Alisa Berger, is now part of the Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf Filmlab scholarship program.
12.03.2019
Two Fortis Fem Film projects will be supported by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
"Case Nr. 79087“, directed by Yana Ugrekhelidze, and "Ghosts of the Body", directed by Alisa Berger, are now supported by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.
03.03.2019
"Scythe Hitting Stone" wins the Grand Prix at the Festivals de Cinéma Univerciné Nantes
And the winners are...
"À bon chat bon rat", by Anja Kreis, for the award of the Jury Univerciné Russe, and "La Glace", by Oleg Trofim, for the Prix du Public. The jury also made a special mention of the film "Les Hirondelles mortes", by Natalia Perchina.
20.02.2019
Prädikat besonders wertvoll for "Armed Lullaby"
The FBW jury unanimously decided to award the film the rating of “particularly valuable”.
15.02.2019
"Armed Lullaby" at the 69th Berlinale
In 1993, the Abkhaz civil war forces Georgian children and their families to leave their hometown of Sukhumi. On the run from war, their path leads into the unknown.
15.12.2018
Gold Star of Central Java Award Winner: "The Astronauts' Bodies"
"The Astronauts' Bodies", directed by Alisa Berger, wins the Gold Star of Central Java Award.
06.12.2018
"Scythe Hitting Stone" awarded the Grand Prix
The film was awarded the Grand Prix des Long Métrages at the Poitiers Film Festival.
Two courageous films received by the 1,500 Euro Special Jury Award offered by HBO.
27.02.2018
"The Patriot" will be supported by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
The new short film by Anja Kreis will be supported by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW with 8000 Euro.
27.11.2018
Festival du Cinema russe a Honfleur: "Scythe Hitting Stone" (A bon chat bon rat) wins two awards
Scythe hitting Stone (fr. A bon chat bon rat) received two awards in France. The Prix François-Chalais for Best Scenario, and the Prix De La Région Normandie for Best Beginning.
18.12.2017
"The Housewife" will be supported by Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film
The screenplay by Alisa Berger will be supported by Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film.
30.06.2017
"Dead Snow" will be supported by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
The screenplay by Anja Kreis will be supported by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW with 10000 Euro.
29.04.2017
"Scythe Hitting Stone" wins the Grand Prix at the Russian Filmfestival of Debut "Motion" Dvijenie.
