What’s new?
After its successful release in German cinemas last year and on festivals world wide, our production "THE MOSCOW TRIALS" directed by Milo Rau is now available on DVD and VOD. The film is published by German Arthouse distributor "good! movies" and contains film and a lot of extra material in Russian, English, German and French. The film can be ordered here.
"The Congo Tribunal" - the newest theatre and film-project of award winning director Milo Rau will start on may, 28th with an international hearing in Bukavu. In a coproduction with Langfilm and the IIPM, Fruitmarket covers exclusively this historic event for a theatrical documentary and a transmedia platform directed by Milo Rau.
In the form of a tribunal with an international cast and filmed on-location in Eastern Congo and in Berlin, the theatre & film project “The Congo Tribunal” examines the causes and backgrounds for the war now ongoing for almost 20 years in the Great Lakes region. The result is a humanly harrowing, profound analytic tableau of the neo-colonial world order.
Our team is shooting in the Congo since the beginning of may for the third time. The Bukavu hearing will be covered by seven cameras in the historical colonial college of Bukavu and will be followed by a further hearing in the Sophiensäle in Berlin.
We are thrilled to announce that "Beltracchi - The Art of Forgery" has been shortlisted for the German Documentary Film Award. We keep our fingers crossed and look forward to the award ceremony, 18th of june in Ludwigsburg.
Back in Japan - Osaka spring. Photos by Thomas Schneider.
Shooting in India for our documentary "The Nights of all Nights", written and directed by the Samdereli Sisters, just started.
Some "Behind-the-Scenes" Pics by Thomas Schneider:
Milo Rau and his team headed to Congo for the second research trip of "The Congo Tribunal".
Find a detailed travel diary in four parts on TAZ Online (in german):
"Beltracchi - The Art of Forgery" is coming to US theaters this summer! And take the chance to see the film and director Arne Birkenstock at Reel Art Film Festival Toronto and the Kino Festival NYC!
Our Cinema Documentary "Sound of Heimat", written and directed by Arne Birkenstock and Jan Tengeler, received the German Record Critics' Award.
The German Record Critics' Award was established in 1980 to set the "most rigorous standards for supreme achievement and quality" in the field of music recording. The „Annual Awards“ are presented to as many as 15 outstanding productions, and „Certificates of Special Merit“are awarded to three artists and producers for lifetime achievement in recording.
BELTRACCHI - THE ART OF FORGERY by Arne Birkenstock (Prod. Arne Birkenstock, Helmut G. Weber, Thomas Springer – Fruitmarket Kultur und Medien GmbH, Tradewind Pictures GmbH) is the winner of the German Film Award for Best Documentary. The prize, which comes with a €200,000 in funding for a new project, was presented during the gala ceremony at the Tempodrom in Berlin last night. The film tells the story of Wolfgang Beltracchi, who tricked the international art world for nearly forty years with his forgeries of early 20th century masters in the largest art forgery scandal of the postwar era.
With nearly € 3 million total in prize money, the German Film Prize ‘Lola’ is the highest endowed film prize in Germany. It is presented annually by the German Film Academy.
