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CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics’ Awards

CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024

CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz has been nominated for the German Film Critics’ Awards 2024 in the category Best Picture Composition!

Thanks to the selectors from the German Film Critics’ Awards who recognised Paul’s work as exceptional!

We agree and think this nomination is well deserved and all our fingers are crossed.

  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • Greta Fernandez
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • Jan Bluthardt
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024
  • Hunter Schafer
  • Dan Stevens, Mila Lieu, Hunter Schafer and Jan Bluthardt
  • CUCKOO DoP Paul Faltz nominated for the German Film Critics' Awards 2024

“It’s the idea that not everything is hiding in the shadows in a horror film, it can also be really scary if it’s really bright and this neon pops everywhere.” Paul Faltz said in this interesting interview he gave to nofilmschool.

And here is the great team which supported Paul during shooting CUCKOO, which are: First Assistant Camera ROLF ROSENDAHL – Second Assistant Camera ALTAN ÖZCAN – Second Assistant Camera Hesse MAXIMILIAN PRINZ – Steadicam Operator Camera JÖRG SÜSS – Operator Second Unit & B-Cam NICOLAY GUTSCHER – First Assistants B-Cam JÖRG GÜNTNER, THOMAS BADER, MATTHIAS FUCHS & LEO SIKSTEL – Second Assistant B-Cam LUKAS KLEINT – Additional Loader B-Cam MICHEL BESL – Vtr / Video Operator & Second Assistant Camera Second Unit FINN WEEGE – Vtr / Video Operator SVEN WECKER – Video Operator MORITZ VETTER – Camera Trainee Camera HANNA KORTUS – Assistant Tests LEO SIKSTEL.

DER MANN AUS ROM celebrated it’s premiere in Düsseldorf

DER MANN AUS ROM Premiere Düsseldorf

Last night DER MANN AUS ROM (De Man uit Rome) von Jaap van Heusden had it’s premiere in Metropol Düsseldorf.

We been a lovely night at our premiere in the Metropol Cinema Düsseldorf together with writer & director Jaap van Heusden, actress Daniela Holtz and some more people of our great team. Thanks to all of them and our supporters we managed to shoot this special film in autumn 2021, during the pandemic.

  • Jaap van Heusden at the Premiere in Düsseldorf
  • Jaap van Heusden at the Premiere in Düsseldorf
  • Jaap van Heusden at the Premiere in Düsseldorf
  • DER MANN AUS ROM Premiere Düsseldorf
  • Jaap van Heusden at the Premiere in Düsseldorf

Thanks to photographer Frederik Kiefer for taking these pictures.

Best Lead Performance nomination for Hunter Schafer

HUNTER SCHAFER nominated Best Lead Performance

Hunter Schafer has been nominated for BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE for the Independent Spirit Awards for her first lead performance as Gretchen in CUCKOO by Tilman Singer

To celebrate this amazing, and so well deserved, nomination, we have put together some BTS photos from Felix Dickinson and Monica Lek of this astonishing actress throughout the movie. 

  • HUNTER SCHAFER nominated for Best Lead Performance
  • HUNTER SCHAFER with CUCKOO director TILMAN SINGER
  • HUNTER SCHAFER nominated for Best Lead Performance
  • HUNTER SCHAFER nominated for Best Lead Performance
  • HUNTER SCHAFER nominated for Best Lead Performance
  • HUNTER SCHAFER nominated for Best Lead Performance
  • HUNTER SCHAFER nominated for Best Lead Performance
  • HUNTER SCHAFER nominated for Best Lead Performance
  • HUNTER SCHAFER nominated for Best Lead Performance
  • HUNTER SCHAFER nominated for Best Lead Performance

We love Hunter and cross our fingers ! 

German Cinema Release and Premiere

DER MANN AUS ROM German Cinema Release

Happy to share that DER MANN AUS ROM (The Man from Rome) will finally have it’s Premiere in Düsseldorf followed by German Cinema Release on December 12th.

CUCKOO in Midnight Shivers PÖFF

Dan Stevens as Herr König in CUCKOO

After THE MAN FROM ROME had been in PÖFF Competition last year, this year CUCKOO will be screened in the MIDNIGHT SHIVERS section.

Dan Stevens as Herr König in CUCKOO during the Midnight Shivers

Germany is the focus country this year at Northern Europe’s largest film festival and the associated Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event platform.

We are delighted that CUCKOO with three screenings in Midnight Shivers is part of this year’s edition. Other films are ‘Crocodile Tears’, ‘Dying’, ‘In Love, Yours Hilde’, ‘Greetings from Mars’, ‘Johatsu’, as well as ‘Riefenstahl’.