Completed in-house productions

Isi (27) is stuck in a quarter-life crisis. With a graphic design degree in one hand and a drink in the other, Isi is stuck in a strange place “between” university and real life.

Genre: Coming-of-age dramedy
Running time: 84 minutes
Director: Helena Hufnagel
Screenwriters: Sina Flammang, Madeleine Fricke
Cast: Luise Heyer, Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen, Maxi Schafroth and others
Co-production: Bayerischer Rundfunk, Film-Debüt im Ersten, cocofilms
Funding: FFF Bayern

A young Russian-German, torn between love and his criminal past, fights for a fresh start in Berlin.

Genre: Coming-of-age drama
Running time: 93 minutes
Director: Stanislav Güntner
Screenwriters: Stanislav Güntner,  Alexei Mamedov
Cast: Mark Filatov, Emilia Schüle and others
Co-production: ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel, Nominal Film
Funding: FFF Bayern (debut film)

A cash seizure order leads Achim to Christoph, his very own class enemy. Achim – alias Zorro from his Young Pioneer days – still has a score to settle with him.

Genre: East–West comedy
Running time: 31 minutes
Director/Screenwriter: Martin Nudow
Cast: Christian Näthe, Thomas Kornack and others
Co-production: Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), HFF München
Funding: FFF Bayern (graduation film)

"In the film “Silber”, 17-year-old Liv moves to London with her mother Ann and her little sister Mia. When Liv meets the mysterious Henry, everything changes. He belongs to a secret circle that has the ability to dream lucidly. They do not yet suspect that the fulfilment of their dreams comes at a high price.

With the adaptation of Kerstin Gier’s bestseller “Silber” (working title), Constantin Film is producing a new film for Prime Video. Filming is currently taking place in Dublin and London in German and English. The film has been available exclusively on Prime Video worldwide since December 2023."

Text: Constantin Film press office

Role: Line Producer
Genre: Fantasy adventure
Running time: 100 minutes
Release: 28 December 2023
Production: Constantin Film GmbH
Platform: Prime Video
Director: Helena Hufnagel
Locations: Dublin, London

“Die Geschichte der Menschheit – leicht gekürzt” (The History of Mankind – Slightly Abridged) is a parody of human history with an all-star cast from the German comedy scene: Christoph Maria Herbst, Bastian Pastewka, Carolin Kebekus, Kostja Ullmann, Max Giermann, Christian Tramitz, Paul Sedlmeir, Carsten Strauch, Hannes Jaenicke, Rick Kavanian, Heino Ferch, Matthias Matschke and many more.

Role: Production manager and line producer (Bulgaria)
Genre: Comedy, history
Running time: approx. 100 minutes
Theatrical release: 16 June 2022
Production: Pantaleon Films GmbH, Gerda Film GmbH
Distribution: Warner Bros. Pictures Germany
Director: Erik Haffner
Locations: Cologne, Munich, Sofia (BGR), Madeira (PRT)
Film funding: Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, FFF Bayern, dfff

Tim is apparently incapable of having a relationship. But when he falls in love with his female mirror image, Ghost, he suddenly finds himself on the other side of dating hell.

Hilly Martinek and director Helena Hufnagel adapted Michael Nast’s bestseller “Generation Beziehungsunfähig” for the big screen. Frederik Lau and Luise Heyer play the leading roles.

Role: Production manager
Genre: (Anti-)romantic comedy
Running time: 84 minutes
Theatrical release: 29 July 2021
Production: Pantaleon Films GmbH
Distribution: Warner Bros. Pictures Germany
Director: Helena Hufnagel
Locations: Cologne, Munich
Film funding: Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, FFF Bayern, FFA, MDM, dfff

The film is set in a future in which a global catastrophe has wiped out almost all of humanity. Astronaut Blake, played by French actress Nora Arnezeder, is sent back to Earth from the space colony Kepler to explore the current living conditions there.

Role: Line producer (reshoots)
Genre: Science fiction
Running time: 104 minutes
Theatrical release: 26 August 2021
Distribution: Constantin Film Verleih GmbH
Production: BerghausWöbke Filmproduktion, Vega Film, Constantin Film Produktion, Studio Babelsberg, SRF Swiss Radio and Television / SRG SSR
Director: Tim Fehlbaum
Location: incl. Munich, Basel, Lusatia, Studio Babelsberg
Film funding: FFF Bayern, FFHSH, FFA, dfff, MBB, Zürcher Filmstiftung

When Helga (62) crashes through the floor of her living room, she finally realises that she is stuck. Perhaps her encounter with Ryszard, a Polish cleaner, can give her life a new direction.

Role: Line Producer
Genre: Tragicomedy
Running time: 98 minutes
Festival premiere: Munich Film Festival
Production: BerghausWöbke Filmproduktion GmbH
Director: Mareille Klein
Location: Munich
Film funding: FFF Bayern, dfff

Three young people in search of dignity, justice and recognition. They are survivors of human trafficking and want to reclaim the humanity that was taken from them. They will tell their story – they will tell it to us. We will follow them back to the beginning. Back to the beginning of what makes us human in the first place.

Role: Line Producer
Genre: Documentary
Working title: Fieber
Running time: approx. 100 minutes
Status: In post-production
Production: filmallee GmbH
Broadcaster: Bayerischer Rundfunk
Director: Helen Simon
Locations: Germany, Czech Republic, South Africa
Film funding: FFF Bayern, BKM, Eurimages, dfff, Gerd Ruge Grant

What happens in a family when the end of the world is imminent? “Pälzisch im Abgang”, a provincial comedy full of local colour and the gruff Palatinate dialect, exposes the trivialities of life and tells, with pace and plenty of black humour, of the last weeks before the apocalypse.

Role: Line producer and production manager
Genre: Comedy, TV miniseries
Running time: 6 × 30 minutes
First broadcast: 27 October 2015
Production: teamWerk. Die Filmproduktion GmbH
Broadcaster: SWR
Director: Matthias Schmidt
Locations: Stuttgart, Bad Dürkheim
Film funding: MFG

As her life falls apart around her, teenager Lena (Emilia Schüle) loses herself in the depths of the internet and social media when she starts chatting with the mysterious Noah (Jannik Schümann).

Role: Production manager
Genre: Youth thriller
Running time: 96 minutes
Theatrical release: 22 September 2016
Production: Rafkin Film Produktion GmbH
Distribution: Alpenrepublik
Broadcaster: ZDF, Arte
Director: Florian Gaag
Locations: Munich, Hamburg, Berlin
Film funding: FFF Bayern, FFA, FFHSH, BKM, Kuratorium jdF, dfff

A desert trip takes a fatal turn and forces two brothers to fight their way back to civilisation through the merciless expanse of the Sahara. But as they search for a way out, instinct and reason collide – and lead in opposite directions.

Inspired by a real survival story that was not only a physical challenge but became the ultimate test of loyalty, love and one’s own self.

Genre: Survival thriller
Running time: 90 minutes
Screenwriter: Torben Maas
Funding: FFF Bayern (script)

To claim his inheritance, a long-term unemployed would-be bodybuilder must not only take his late great-aunt’s pampered royal poodle into his all-male flatshare, but also meet the exclusive standards of care, which are regularly checked by a dubious estate executor.

Genre:Ruhr Valley comedy
Running time: 120 minutes
Screenwriter: Gustav Munkelmann

So that her dreamy son can finally take part in a long-awaited live action role-playing (LARP) event, a single mom reluctantly has to stand in as the adult chaperone for her unreliable ex – and survive long enough in a fairy-tale forest full of foam-sword-wielding orcs and silicone-eared elves until her unreliable ex finally shows up and takes responsibility.

Genre: Family comedy
Running time: 110 minutes
Director: Félix Koch
Screenwriters: Lena Krumkamp
Co-producer: SevenPictures Film GmbH
Funding: FFF Bayern (script and project development)

When a young Wehrmacht soldier deserts and hides in the woods around his hometown, hoping to return to his family alive one day, a manhunt begins that tears the community apart and confronts every inhabitant with a momentous decision: do they support the resistance, or will they hunt down a traitor to the people?

Based on true events.

Genre: Historical drama, miniseries
Running time: 7 × 45 minutes
Screenwriters: Angela Gilges, Christopher von Delhaes
Funding: FFF Bayern (script and project development)