We announce the theatrical release of Jürgen Ellinghaus' documentary TOGOLAND PROJECTIONS in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on November 28, 2024. Distributed by Drop-Out Cinema. Trailer & more info here.
TOGOLAND PROJECTIONS receives a Special Mention from the jury in the Diaspora Competition at the Luxor African Film Festival in Egypt. We are delighted with director Jürgen Ellinghaus! Trailer & more info here.
Jürgen Ellinghaus' documentary will be shown at the Nordic Film Days Lübeck, Germany, on 4 November 2023, 10:15 am, Stadthalle 7, followed by a colonial city walk in presence of the director. Trailer & more info here.
Jürgen Ellinghaus' feature-length documentary TOGOLAND PROJECTIONS will be presented by the world sales AndanaFilms and maxim film in the finished English version at the EFM - the European Film Market of the Berlinale - to a closed circle of international professionals on Tuesday, February 21, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. We would like to thank [...]
Last steps of post-production for TOGOLAND PROJECTIONS in Bremen: director Jürgen Ellinghaus (right) in conversation with colour artist Arno Schumann (left) and sound artist Anders Wasserfall (center).
A crisis-ridden 2022 is drawing to a close. Let us hope of a better 2023. Happy holidays and a healthy and happy new year! Picture: film shooting for TOGOLAND PROJECTIONS, a film by Jürgen Ellinghaus. Completion in early 2023.
The exhibition tour UTOPIA: REVISITING A GERMAN STATE IN AMERICA, curated by Oliver Behnecke and Peter Roloff and organized by maxim film, has long ended, but the keystone of the project was still missing, the English translations of Rolf Schmidt's emigration novel trilogy "Auswandererlied". The trilogy is now being published in English on the [...]
The cinema premiere with the German team will take place in the city46 in Bremen as part of a Heimspiel of the Filmbüro Bremen on Thursday, September 9th 2021 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets for the premiere and for the following dates are available here. Fri. 10.9. – 17:30 Sat. 11.9. -20:00 Sun. 12.9. – [...]
MUCHA: THE STORY OF AN ARTIST WHO CREATED A STYLE is invited to the Filmfest Bremen to the competitions Innovation and Bremen Film taking place April 14-18, 2021. Tickets for online screening here. Online Q&A for free here.
TOGOLAND: IMPERIAL PROJECTIONS will go into production next year. Under the direction of Jürgen Ellinghaus, who was born on the Weser river and now lives on the Seine, films are shown in front of our camera in Togo, West Africa, which were made over a century ago in the German colony "Togoland". Together with [...]
