KINESCOPE FILM is an independent film production company based in Bremen with offices in Hamburg and Cologne.
The team led by producer and director Matthias Greving has been producing national and international feature films, series, documentaries, and reports for cinema, TV, and streaming services since 2015, including award-winning productions such as ELAHA (director: Milena Aboyan), which was nominated for the 2024 German Film Award in the categories “Best Feature Film” and “Best Female Lead”, and DIE HÄNDE MEINER MUTTER by Florian Eichinger (Munich Film Festival, awards for “Best Director” and “Best Leading Actor”). KINESCOPE FILM focuses on young film talents with their own signature style as well as experienced female directors and authors.
In 2018, KINESCOPE FILM produced the six-part documentary PORN CULTURE for Sky. 2019, the two-part documentary DIE AKTE BND: WAFFENGESCHÄFTE DEUTSCHER REEDER was shown as “Story im Ersten” after seven years of research. The international production BAUMBACHER SYNDROME with actor Tobias Moretti celebrated its world premiere as the opening film at the Hof Film Festival in 2019. In the documentary section, the focus is on music documentaries: Starting with ANNE CLARK – I’LL WALK OUT INTO TOMORROW and LOOK ME OVER – LIBERACE, both for the big screen – via A-HA – THE MOVIE, KOSMOS LIGETI – 100 YEARS OF GYÖRGY LIGETI and the 50th anniversary of John Neumeier at the Hamburg Ballet with DONA NOBIS PACEM through to live coverage of the BAYREUTHER FESTSPIELEN for Sky Deutschland, Sky Austria, Sky Italia and Sky UK. This format won the Broadcast Award in 2016, was nominated for a Grimme Award in the “Entertainment and Information” category in 2018, and was honored with the Bavarian Television Award in 2019. Further live musical shows followed as international broadcasts and recordings, including with HANS ZIMMER from Krakow and Dubai, DAVID GARRETT from Rome, Taormina, and Verona, as well as MATTEO BOCELLI, JONAS KAUFMANN, and CHILLY GONZALES.
With director Marie Noëlle, Kinescope Film approaches the biography of one of the most important German artists in HEINRICH VOGELER – AUS DEM LEBEN EINES TRÄUMERS and successfully expanded the feature film series about Bremen and Worpswede artists in 2024 with the film BERNHARD HOETGER – ZWISCHEN DEN LEBEN. Preparations are currently underway for the filming of the third part of the so-called “Zeitwende” trilogy about the artist PAULA MODERSOHN-BECKER. The children’s film TOUR DE FRANZI is also being pre-production with the support of Der Besondere Kinderfilm. The true crime project ROSA RIESE is currently in production in the documentary film sector.
Kinescope Film produces serial formats in both the factual and fiction sectors: The four-part true crime series SCHWARZER SCHATTEN – SERIENMORD IM KRANKENHAUS as a co-production with Sky Deutschland and Radio Bremen attracted a lot of attention in 2021, as did RETOURE for NDR, directed by Torsten Wacker, the following year. In 2022, KINESCOPE FILM produced the documentary BOLSCHOI and the debut feature film GEWALTEN (director: Constantin Hatz), which took part in the Berlinale in the same year and won the Heiner Carow Prize.
While the feature film ELAHA (director: Milena Aboyan) also premiered at the Berlinale in 2023, it was nominated for the German Film Award in the categories “Best Feature Film” and “Best Female Lead” in 2024. The film won the prize for “Best Young Actress” (Bayan Layla) at the Bavarian Film Awards in advance, as well as over twenty other awards. The documentary DAS GAZPROM-GEHEIMNIS and the reportage series THW – ABENTEUER EHRENAMT were also completed in 2023. After ERFUNDENE WAHRHEIT – DIE AFFÄRE RELOTIUS premiered for Sky Deutschland at the CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, this project won both the German Camera Award (“Doku Screen”) and the German Television Award (“Best Camera Documentary”).
In July 2024, the documentary WOHIN DIE FLÜSSE VERSCHWINDEN – LEBEN IN DER WASSERKRISE was shown on television for the first time. It caused quite a stir in the area of the environment, resulting in the documentary being nominated for the German Environmental and Sustainability Film Award, among others. The documentary ARMENIENS NATIONALPARKS was also broadcast on ARTE in 2024, and the concert recording THE WORLD OF HANS ZIMMER was broadcast on ZDF in December.
In 2023, Kinescope Film co-produced the successful children’s film GRÜSSE VOM MARS with Leitwolf Film and celebrated the premiere of Annelie Boros’ cinema documentary DIE ZÄRTLICHE REVOLUTION at the Nordic Film Days. The film will go on a cinema tour in 2025 before being shown in the ZDF format Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, as will the documentary NONKONFORM (director: Arne Körner) about Dietrich Kuhlbrodt. KINESCOPE FILM also produced the opening of the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen in 2024 and successfully participated in the Max Ophüls Festival 2025 with GOD’S OTHER PLAN.
The debut film GOTTESKINDER (director: Frauke Lodders) is currently showing in German cinemas after winning awards at the Schlingel Festival, Warsaw, and many other festivals. The documentary series DIE SEENOTRETTER about the missions of the DGzRS can be seen on television and in media libraries. The four-part documentary series GAME OVER about the Credit Suisse case—a co-production with Contrast Film—will also be shown first in cinemas in spring and then be available for streaming.
Shooting begins in March 2025 for the high-end series SCHWARZES GOLD, a six-part historical drama set in Lüneburg Heath at the beginning of the 20th century. It is being produced in collaboration with NDR.
With more than 60 projects in development and around 20 other films, concerts, documentaries, series, and serials, KINESCOPE FILM is looking forward to an exciting 2025 and continues to focus clearly on European and international co-productions with partners from the UK, Switzerland, the US, Canada, Hungary, France, and Poland. These include feature film and documentary projects in particular, as well as animated films with Hollywood stars such as Glen Keane.
As part of SWISS STUDIOS AG, we are committed to major pan-European film projects and live the partnership between the German-speaking countries.
