A platform for filmmakers looking for residency opportunities
These residencies are all designed to enable creative development and facilitate exchange among film talents from around the world and professionals from the Berlin-Brandenburg film industry. Berlin is a great city of diversity and freedom that values talent and creativity.
For more information click on the specific programmes below.
Samuel Maoz, Israel, BERLIN ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY (BERLIN AiR) 2011
Pia Marais, South Africa/Germany, BERLIN AiR fellow 2018
Karim Aïnouz, Brazil, HAUS AM SEE fellow 2017
Pola Beck, Germany, BERLIN AiR fellow 2018
Jan-Ole Gerster, Germany, BERLIN AiR fellow 2015
Ritesh Batra, India, BERLIN AiR fellow 2013
Berlin Artist-in-Residency (Berlin AiR)
The Medienboard initiated BERLIN ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY (BERLIN AiR) offers international filmmakers creative time in some of the world’s most inspiring cities.
Filmmakers from the following regions have the possibility to come to Berlin:
- Hong Kong Goethe Institute, Hong Kong
- India Goethe Institute Bhavan, Mumbai
- Israel Israel Film Fund, Tel Aviv
- Lebanon Fondation Liban Cinema, Beirut
- Mexico Guanajuato Film Festival, Guanajuato
- Palestine Filmlab Palestine, Ramallah
- Paris Ville de Paris, Direction des Affaires Culturelles, France
- Rome Roma Lazio Film Commission, Italy
- Sub-Saharan Africa Ouaga Film Lab, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Turkey Meetings on the Bridge, Istanbul International Film Festival, IKSV, Istanbul
Please contact the relevant partner institutions for application information.
Filmmakers from Berlin-Brandenburg have the possibility to go to:
- Guanajuato Guanajuato Film Festival, Mexico
- Hong Kong Goethe Institute Hong Kong
- Los Angeles Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, USA
- Paris Ville de Paris, Direction des Affaires Culturelles, France
- India Goethe Institute Bhavan, Mumbai
- Rome Roma Lazio Film Commission, Italy
- Tel Aviv Israel Film Fund, Israel
Berlin-Brandenburg based filmmakers apply through the BERLIN AiR website organised by the NIPKOW PROGRAMM. For the Villa Aurora scholarship please apply here.
Ceylan Özçelik, Turkey, BERLIN AiR fellow 2018
Gabriel Herrera Torres, Mexico, BERLIN AiR fellow 2018
Nara Normande, Brazil, BERLIN AiR fellow 2019
Zeynep Dadak, Turkey, BERLIN AiR fellow 2018
The selection process is done with the respective international partner institutions. The stay in Berlin is organised and guided by the NIPKOW PROGRAMM. The BERLIN AiR is specifically designed to meet individual needs (for example, script consultants, networking possibilities). The Medienboard is a door opener in the local film and media industry. Fellowships are for 2 or 3 months (depending on the partner agreement) and include travel expenses, accommodation, as well as a monthly cash allowance of €1,200.
For further information on the programmes visit the Medienboard:
Nipkow Programm
À-la-carte project development to enhance international co-productions
Established in 1992 and based in Berlin, the NIPKOW PROGRAMM offers international professional filmmakers a curriculum tailored to meet their individual needs and aspirations. In addition to one-to-one mentoring by experts from the European film industry, participants are given the opportunity to attend special training seminars and workshops held by seasoned professionals, focussing on various aspects of packaging, promotion, sales and new technologies.
Meenu Gaur, India, NIPKOW PROGRAMM
Min Bahadur Bham, Nepal, NIPKOW PROGRAMM
Reem Morsi, Egypt, NIPKOW PROGRAMM
Whether the participating project concerns a feature film, documentary, series, animation or trans-media work, the aim of the NIPKOW PROGRAMM is to cultivate future international co-productions that will have the potential to attain worldwide distribution.
The fellowship has a duration of 3 months, provides individual consultations and group workshops and includes a cash allowance of €1,500 per month; travel and accommodation must be organised by the participants themselves.
For further information and application criteria, please visit the NIPKOW PROGRAMM:
Haus am See
Tranquillity and financial independence in a lakeside manor – for full immersion in project development
Tucked away on a lush green peninsula on the Scharmützel Lake in Brandenburg (75 km from Berlin) and once frequented by the likes of Maxim Gorki and Stefan Zweig, this sprawling estate now hosts filmmakers.
I was able to leave everything behind and focus just on writing. Foresee my characters future.
Read between the lines."
Magda Jaroszewicz, HAUS AM SEE fellow 2019
Karim Aïnouz, Brazil, HAUS AM SEE fellow 2017
HAUS AM SEE supports filmmakers who have outstanding fictional or documentary projects that are in the treatment phase.
Applications are available to either non-German filmmakers with projects relevant to Berlin/Brandenburg (thematically linked or to be filmed or post-produced there) or to German filmmakers from Berlin/Brandenburg working on an international film project. Participants will receive the unique opportunity to present their film project during the FILM OHNE GRENZEN Festival in a moderated panel to an audience of representatives of the film industry and filmgoers.
The fellowship has a duration of 3 months and includes accommodation on the idyllic estate of Eibenhof in Bad Saarow, as well as a cash allowance of €12,000 in total.
For further information on the programme and application criteria, please visit HAUS AM SEE: