The shortlist of the VFF Documentary Film Production Award 2025

Donated by the VFF Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film und Fernsehproduzenten mbH and endowed with 7,500 euros. Nominated are films with outstanding creative significance of the production:

BÄRBEL BOHLEY - TAGEBUCH EINER AUFLEHNUNG
Germany, Switzerland 2025, Fosco Dubini, Barbara Marx, 96 min. 
Production: Fosco Dubini and Cardo Dubini (Co-Production)
The East German civil rights activist Bärbel Bohley: an icon of the peaceful revolution of 1989.

DAS FAST NORMALE LEBEN
Germany 2025, Stefan Sick, 135 min. 
Production: Ulla Lehmann and Andrea Roggon, AMA FILM
Wild and strong! Four young girls growing up and their almost normal life.

FRITZ LITZMANN, MEIN VATER UND ICH
Germany 2025, Aljoscha Pause, 120 min.
Production: Aljoscha Pause, Pausefilm
A (time) travel by father and son through German cabaret history.

IM OSTEN WAS NEUES
Germany 2025, Loraine Blumenthal, 82 min.
Production: Gregor Streiber and Friedemann Hottenbacher
From East German Right-wing extremist to volunteer trainer for stranded young people from all over the world

SOLDATEN DES LICHTS
Germany 2024, Julian Vogel and Johannes Büttner, 108 min.
Production: Karoline Henkel, Jasper Ph. Mielke, Arto Sebastian, Julian Vogel, Wood Water Films
Wonder cures for cancer, a raw food influencer and a well-organised Reichsbürger sect. The apocalypse draws near.

VOM TRAUM UNSINKBAR ZU SEIN
Deutschland 2024, Tom Fröhlich, 87 Min.
Production: Wiebke and Roland Possehl, Populärfilm Media GmbH
What does a ship dream of? Former GDR cutters: a memorial, a deep sea trawler and a myth.