We are happy to announce the participation of the project BREATHLESS (all 5 films) at the following festivals: Visions du Réel, Nyon - Séance Special as well as Planete Doc Review, Warsaw. Aditionally ONE DAY TODAY WILL BE ONCE is part of the "German Competition" at "Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen", MILLTOWN, MONTANA will be at Oberhausen in the "NRW Competition" and it will be screened at "Crossing Europe Filmfestival" in Linz. The Film TIME'S UP is invited to the "Nice Shortfilm Festival".

The AG KURZFILM selected TIME´S UP and MILLTOWN, MONTANA for the DVD “GERMAN SHORTS”. This DVD promotes the 12 best Shorts of Germany from 2009 as presented at BERLINALE 2010.

During BERLINALE the EDN (European Documentary Network) invited to a panel at the EFM called "Meet The Makers", where Stefan Kloos explained the background of the project BREATHLESS. The panel was a such a big success that it will be reloaded during a masterclass with Stefan Kloos and the BREATHLESS project at Thessaloniki Film Festival on March 17. 

For the channel arte we will produce with the artist Florian Thalhofer a crossmedia project about the Galata Bridge in Istanbul. Please get more information about the project at Istanbul 360°.

You will find our company to present our newest Sales catalogue at EFM during the Berlinale. Please contact our office in Berlin to get further information about our up-to-date program or to make an appointment with our sales manager Diana Karklin or Stefan Kloos.

The world is getting more beautiful every day, thanks to the modern technics of beauty surgery. Filmmaker Claudia Lisboa is the only one in her family who refuses this trend. We are happy to have the film BEAUTY REFUGEE in our new sales catalogue. Please learn more about the film at World Sales.

Just released is the Live-DVD of their last Tour "Machmallauter" by Die Toten Hosen. We produced the bonustrack with all backstage-stories around the sensational gig at Berlin Waldbühne. Also realesed in limited edition is the legendary benefiz-concert at SO36 which is also supported by a glorious film called "Mit wehenden Fahnen" which is produced by us.

BREATHLESS goes on screen at the end of the year. Please check out following dates at the cinemas:
Frankfurt am Main, Mal Seh´n Kino, December 30, in presence of director Rainer Komers and DOP Michel Klöfkorn
Berlin, fsk Kino, December 30, with the directors Jan Peters and Marie-Catherine Theiler, Host: Claus Löser
Köln, Filmpalette, December 29, Preview with director Rainer Komers
Halberstadt, Zuckerfabrik, December 30, with director Anca Lazarescu

Further dates are:
Dresden, Kino im Dach, 7.1.-13.1.2010
Berlin, Kino Krokodil, from 14.1.2010
Hannover, Kino im Sprengel, 29.+30.1.2010 (in a Special "Jan Peters")
Leipzig, Cinematheque, 18.1.2010

Congratulations to Rainer Komers for the Blicke Preis 2009 for his film MILLTOWN MONTANA.

The film DIE KINDER VOM FRIEDRICHSHOF by Juliane Großheim is awarded at the Kasseler Dokfest with a special mention. The Jury says: Juliane Großheim gives a deep view inside of the commune of Friedrichshof by the fate of the second generaton." Congratulations. Find more about the film here: World Sales.

From november 20 til 24 Stefan Kloos will present our new filmprogram during the IDFA FORUM in Amsterdam. Please see our new films at WORLD SALES.

Stefan Kloos will attend the DocFest in Sheffield this week. You will meet him at the Meet-Market and also he will be in the delegation of AG DOK. Please contact us to make an appointment.

Die Weltpremieren der BREATHLESS-Filme in Leipzig und Jihlava waren ein großer Erfolg. Vor allem in Jihlava konnte der Film I Love My Boring Life von Jan Gogola feiern. Er gewann den Hauptpreis

After two years of preparation, selection, development and two workshops with international mentors and of couse the production and finishing we would like to invite you to the premiere of the german-czech documentary-filmproject BREATHLESS - DOMINANCE OF THE MOMENT on Tuesday Oktober 29 at 19:00 during the 51. DOK Leipzig. Please find more information to the whole project under www.breathless-films.com

Theatrical release of the film THE AMOUNT OF SMALL THINGS. From this week on the film will be screened at FSK Kino in Berlin Kreuzberg. In the middle of Septembre the film will be also released as DVD. For more information contact our shop here.

Broadcasting-Premiere: NO WAVE - UNDERGROUND '80 - BERLIN, NEW YORK August 13th 22:30 at ARTE.
Bankruptcy as a catalyst for artistic potential: New York and the Western part of Berlin were economically run-down in the early Eighties. Against this backdrop, in both cities emerges an underground culture that radically breaks with the pop cultural tedium which the eraly 70s hat left behind. A wild and uncompromising scene of young artists working in film, music, painting and theatre trigger off a unique exchange between the subcultures in New York and Berlin and create one of the most inspired and excitign artistic movements of the late 20th century. 

With Jim Jarmusch, Blixa Bargeld, Alex Hacke, Lydia Lunch, Nick Cave and others. More about the film at No Wave.

Our Sales Department Rise and Shine, Stefan Kloos and Vanessa Ciszewski will be at SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC in La Rochelle from June 23-26 to present  our World Sales-Programm. You will meet them at AG DOK and/or EDN. Please take notice of our new films If One Thing Matters, Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, Leningrad - The Man Who sings and Southafrica 2010. Please also check the informations on our Homepage.

The Film SONBOL by Niko Apel got a nomination for the German Documentary award Deutscher Dokumentarfilmpreis . The award will be given for the first time by SWR, Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg and the house of documentary HDF in Stuttgart. The Awards are held on Juni 18 in Ludwigsburg during the DOKVILLE 2009.

RISE AND SHINE is proud to inform you that one of our films will be in competition at Visions du Reel next week: THE REVOLUTION THAT WASN’T by Aliona Polunina will be screened at following dates:
Friday 25 April at 14.30, World Dreams Capitole 1
Monday 27 April at 16.00, World Dreams Capitole 2

Our managing director, Stefan Kloos is attending Nyon from Friday 24th to Monday 27th and he would be pleased to meet you at Visions du Reel.

THE AMOUNT OF SMALL THINGS will be screened April 25 at 16:00 in the Schauburg 2 during the International Women's Film Festival, Dortmund/Köln. Please find more informations about the festival under www.frauenfilmfestival.eu.

The Jury of the Kiev Documentary Film Festival awarded THE REVOLUTION THAT WASN'T by Aliona Polunina with the "FIRST AWARD" for its courage to take the important contemprorary subject, the creativ use of the cinematographic language and to encourage the further development of the young filmmaker. Congratulations.

Stefan Kloos and Lena Müller will represent RISE AND SHINE at the MIPTV in Cannes. Delegates at MIPTV can visit RISE AND SHINE for more information on all new releases at stand no. 01.15 (German Films/AG DOK) and 04.35 (Marketplace/MEDIA).

Niko Apel´s film SONBOL is the freshly appointed winner of Germany´s oldest and most prestigious TV award, the “Adolf-Grimme-Preis”. We are very proud of this award that shows us how important also the film about this divorced women in Islamic Republic Iran is. More informations at rise-and-shine.de. Don't miss it. There are still many terretories available. Please contact our sales department: info(at)riseandshine-berlin.de

Congratulations to Anne Misselwitz for the price of Dortmunder Preis für Bildgestalterinnen 2009 in the category documentaries for the film Der Die Das. The jury says: "Immer auf Augenhöhe. Respektvoll, zurückhaltend, liebevoll. Geduldig, gelassen, beobachtend. Eine Klasse im ersten Schuljahr, ein Ort, den wir alle kennen, an dem häufig die ersten Konflikte entstehen. Wir tauchen ein in die Welt von Fuat, Laethicia, Bright und Sanita. Anne Misselwitz ermöglicht uns durch ihre intuitive Kameraführung ein unmittelbares Miterleben und Mitfühlen. Ihr unvoreingenommener Blick, der nie bewertend oder aufdringlich ist, hinterlässt Spuren."

We are happy to announce that SONBOL has been nominated for the Adolf-Grimme-Preis, Germany´s oldest, most important and most prestigious TV-award. The winners will be anounced at a pressconference on March 25.

We are very happy that the film THE REVOLUTION THAT WASN'T by Aliona Polunina is awarded with the "Alpe Adria Cinema Award for the best Documentary" at Trieste Film Festival. The jury says: Because it shows in a very focused way the today reality in Russia, which is not presented by the medie. A new approach to describe politics in the way it affects everyone's life.

The film FIRE UNDER THE SNOW directed by Makoto Sasa has been selected to be presented in competition for the Audience Prize at the Montreal Human Rights Film Festival 2009 (MHRFF). The film will be presented within the framework of the festival, which will take place in Montreal March 12-22, 2009.

We are very proud of the selection of our project WHERE GOD AND THE DEVIL MEET for "Discovery Campus Masterschool 2009". For more informationen please click here.

We are glad about the invitation of the film THE REVOLUTION THAT WASN'T by Aliona Polunina to the 20th edition of TRIESTE FILM FESTIVAL which is held from 15 til 22 January 2009. The film will compete for Best International Documentary.

Two prices got  WORLDSTAR in Portugal at "Prémio de Cinema para Filmes sobre Arte" in Lisbao. The film won the award for the "Best Film in Competition" and also the award for "The film which reflects best the importance of art in life and society". The festival is held for the first time this year. 

The Film DER DIE DAS won the "Förderpreis des Landesmedienzentrums Rheinland-Pfalz" at the "25. video/film Tage" in Gera. 

The film DRIFTER by Sebastian Heidiger will be screened at the Festival de Cinéma Allemand in Nantes which will be held from November 12 until 18. For more informations please click here. 

We are proud to announce that the film THE REVOLUTION THAT WASN'T by Aliona Polunina got a "Special Mention" at the Filmfestival DOKLeipzig 2008 and that the film also won the "Special Price" at IDFF in Jihvala 2008.

WOLRDSTAR will participate at the Noordelijk Filmfestival. The festival is held from November 5 til November 9 in Leeuwarden. Also the film will be part of the festival "Filmer à tout prix" in Brussels from November 17 til 23.

Enrique y Judita is going to be screened on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 at 23:00 in the Auditorium of the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, the CCCB. All the info can be find at www.docupolis.org.

We are happy to share the news that SUNDANCE INSTITUTE has selected our documentary film project THE OTHER CHELSEA by director Jakob Preuss for a grant from the SUNDANCE DEVELOPMENT FUND. Out of 325 applications THE OTHER CHELSEA was one of only three European projects selected and the only one from Germany.
Please also check our website for the wonderful TRAILER .

Full press release Sundance Development Fund: http://www.sundance.org/press.html

We’re happy to announce the film THE SECRET OF DEVA has been selected into the "International Short Competition" at 6th TIDF. The "Taiwan International Documentary Festival" will take place from October 31 til November 9, 2008 in Taipei.

The Film Drifter is nominated for "Best Documentary" of the First Steps Awards. The Awards are held on August 26 at the Theatre Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.

Don't miss  WORLDSTAR on sunday July 6 at 12 pm in SF1. Reruns will be broadcasted on monday July 7 at 00:50 and on saturday July 12 at 10:05 a.m.

From June 23-26 Stefan Kloos will attend the SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC in La Rochelle to present our new World Sales-Program. Stefan Kloos will be locatet at AG DOK. Our new films are Drifter, Enrique Y Judita and The Amount of Small Things. Also see the informations at our homepage. 

THE SECRET OF DEVA was awarded at the f ilm festival Planete Doc Review in Warschau with a special mention. The jury says: "For showing how two young girls try to fulfill their dreams in a poor society. Their hard and long fight is filmed with the right distance: a cold eye and a warm heart." Congratulations!

BEIJING BUBBLES: First DVD-deal signed for Germany, Austria, Switzerland: LIEBLINGSLIED RECORDS will produce the DVD of BEIJING BUBBLES as a special double package in the territories above for a release in Summer 2008. It will be distributed by ALIVE.

Licenses for further territories are available. Please contact: stefan.kloos(at)kloosundco.de

WORLDSTAR won Le Prix du Conseil Général in Vannes (F). The Jury says: "Les image en noir et blanc ou colorées en monochrome permettent de mettre en évidence les clichés de l'artiste, mais surtout son mode de vie proche de dénuement au moment où il doit faire avec une certaine célébrité."

Further WORLDSTAR will be screened at following Festivals: April 27th Dokumentarfilmwoche, Hamburg and April 19th Academia Film, Olomouc (CZ) and Visions du Réel, Nyon (CH).

THE SECRET OF DEVA läuft beim großen Dokumentarfilmfestival PLANETE DOC REVIEW in Warschau vom 9. bis 18. Mai 2008. Mehr Infos unter www.docreview.pl

DVD WORLDSTAR available for mail order here.

Am 17. März läuft WORLDSTAR im Kino Blackbox im Filmmuseum Düsseldorf.

WORLDSTAR läuft täglich im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Miroslav Tichý" im Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main (bis 8. August 2008). Mehr Infos unter: www.mmk-frankfurt.de

CHANGE OF ADDRESS! We move from Prenzlauer Berg right on the waterfront of river Spree in Kreuzberg. From March 1, our new offices will be at Schlesische Straße 29-30, Aufgang O. Phone and E-Mail will stay the same.

Stefan Kloos will join the AG DOK-delegation to attend the WORLD CONTENT FORUM in Prague on February 25-26 and to present our World Sales-programme to buyers from Eastern Europe.

Stefan Kloos has just returned from DOCS BARCELONA where he and director Jakob Preuss enjoyed a very successful pitch of our new film project THE OTHER CHELSEA to Commissioning Editors and financers from around the world. THE OTHER CHELSEA was one of 24 projects selected out of more than 125 submitted for the pitching forum in Barcelona.

THE SECRET OF DEVA won the Audience Award at the 19th TRIESTE FILMFESTIVAL in Italy.

BERLINALE 2008: Stefan Kloos will be at the EUROPEAN FILM MARKET from February 7 til February17 to present our latest films in development as well as our world sales catalogue. KLOOS & Co. Medien will be based at stand No. 23 (MEDIA).