These 10 fantastic films were nominated for the German Film Award 2025 today

The German Film Prize, in which the Lolas are awarded annually, is the most renowned award for German film and has been organized since 1951.The award will of course take place again this year, on May 9th in Berlin.The event is moderated by none other thanwho not only in the celebrated new season ofcan be seen, but also as a cover star of the current Esquire edition.

Today the nominations for the coveted trophy have been announced, and one has to say that it seems to be quite well ordered for German film, becauseThe films nominated for the German Film Award are really fantastic-There are even two Oscar-nominated films.

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A drama that has made a lot of waves since his theatrical release at the beginning of the year is Tim FehsbaumsSeptember 5about theat the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. The film was not only nominated for the best script at this year's Oscars (but also won here), but has also been nominated for a Lola several times at the German Film Award: as the best feature film, for the best direction, the best script, Leonie Benesch for the best female leading role, the best camera, the best cut, the best sound design, the best scene, the best film music and the best mask image - for ten trophies! As a spectator, you accompany inSeptember 5The sports journalists of the American broadcaster ABC. Because when shots fall in the Olympic village at the Summer Olympics between four and five in the morning and a group of Palestinian terrorists takes eleven members of the Israeli team hostage, the news team sends live for 21 hours - and is therefore facing the most blatant challenge. The drama is so intense, so gripping, so well told that you only stand there with an open mouth.

AlsoThe sowing of the holy fig treeIs more than "just" a film, but became a political issue before it was published: because the director Mohammad Rasoulof escaped in his home country of Iran almost a multi -year sentence because he acted actively and publicly against the Iranian regime. Shortly after his escape we went to Cannes first, because there wasThe sowing of the holy fig treeNominated for a golden palm - and was also at this year's Oscars. He did not win both prices, but the chance of at least one trophy at the German Film Award are good - especially since the drama is nominated in six categories. The film takes place in large parts in the apartment of a family in Tehran. Iman (Misagh Zarah) has just been promoted to the investigative judge at the Revolutionary Court, which his wife Najmeh (Soheila Golestani) gives hope for a larger apartment. However, the new position of the father means more restrictions for the daughters Rezvan (Mahsa Rostami) and Sana (Setareh Maleki). You have to make sure that you meet, should behave inconspicuously. Unlike the strictly faith parents, the two grow up with smartphones and social media. When the protests in the country flare up after the violent death of Jina Mahsa Amini, the young women sympathize with the demonstrators. Tensions in the family are inevitable, especially since Iman is always more paranoid and more suspicious. One day his service weapon disappears and the situation is pushing.The sowing of the holy fig treeis an impressive, brave and important film that relentlessly shows the practices of the Iranian state apparatus and his interrogation methods.

An absolute discovery of the past film year was Chiara Fleischhacker's fantastic dramaVena. At the center of the film is Jenny (grandiose and therefore rightly also nominated for the best female leading role: Emma Nova), who-just like her friend Bollin (Paul Wollin)-is more methodical, but becomes unintentionally pregnant. It is already her second child, her first son is raised by her mother. So Jenny has to think about whether she really wants her second child - and she does. Outstanding is inVenaAbove all, the authentic and unadorned-honest view of the main actress, her problems, pregnancy, the decisions. Chiara Fleischhacker has succeeded in honesty that is incredibly good - especially in German cinema.Venais also not only nominated for the best film, but also the best camera/image design, because camera woman Lisa Jilg has also done an excellent job.

Sam Riley, actor and husband of Alexandra Maria Lara, is nominated with two films at this year's German Film Award: Firstly with the BiopicCranko(See below), on the other hand with Icelands by Jan-Ole Gerster. In it, Riley plays the tennis coach Tom in a run -down hotel resort in the dusty desert landscape of Fuerteventura. What sounds like a rather acceptable job at first glance is actually a daily repetitive nightmare, which is why he is increasingly escaping into alcohol and affairs. It is only when the family around Anne (Stacy Martin) and Dave (Jack Farthing) appears in the resort that this circumstances will also change Tom's life. And sustainable. For four trophies isIslandsnominated.

Ido Fluks music film also has four chances of winning a LolaKöln 75. At the center of the narrative is the young Vera Brandes (Mala Emde), who wants to do something in the middle of the 1970s in the music world. As a concert organizer, she brings international music sizes to Germany, including-Ikone Keith Jarrett (John Magaro), who played a legendary concert in the sold -out Cologne Opera in 1975. However, this would not have been possible without Vera, even if everything threatens to fail shortly before.Köln 75shows how Vera prevails in the scene dominated by men and what hurdles she has to take to make your dream reality.

Always a candidate for the German Film Award is an exceptionist Andreas Dresen, who has already won the trophy four times (forHalf stairs,Cloud nine,Stop on the freely routeandGundermann). He should therefore also have a good chance forIn love, your HildeColoring, especially since the film has been nominated in seven different categories. In it he tells the true story of Hans and Hilde Coppi, who together in resistance to thehave committed, but the focus is clearly on Hilde, which Liv Lisa Fries played excellently. This Hilde fell in love with the workers' son Hans (Johannes Hegemann) in 1942 and together they spend a summer in the middle of a group of intellectuals who print and distribute leaflets against Hitler. But then they are arrested, Hilde has just become pregnant. And this expectant mother now has to put up with not only having to give birth to her child in prison, but also never to gain freedom.

A film that has also made a strong talk of talking is the one produced by Sandra MaischbergerAbout the Nazi propaganda director Leni Riefenstahl. She was a celebrated propagandist of the Third Reich, creator of Nazi films likeOlympiaAnd a close girlfriend of Adolf Hitler. Throughout her life (she died in 2003) she denied the Holocaust and denied herself against any criticism. This documentation by Andres Veiel is all the more impressive, for which he and his team evaluated the 700 boxes of Riefenstahl's personal estate in years. This creates an honest and unadorned look at the life of a woman who has staged herself as a "apolitical artist" until her death. This is also always clear by intermediate interview scenes, in which journalists try in vain to move Riefenstahl to a admission of guilt. Especially in today's time, in which news is manipulated again, an immensely important film. And it should go with the devil whenDifenstahlDon't win the price for the best documentary.

A film that was a little surprise last year is Fabian Stumm's tragic comedySad Jokes. The main role is mute in it: Joseph. He is also a director and father, but the Sonya (Haley Louise Jones), the child's mother, is instructed to a clinic after a failed attempted suicide, so that Joseph is forced to master his everyday life as a single father. At the same time, however, he does not want to lose and realize his artistic ambitions - but that is almost an impossibility of how Joseph has to find out painfully.

What was that murmur when the press release came out that Tom Tykwer was afterA hologram for the kingFrom 2016 will finally bring a new film to the cinema - and then also top -class with German drama icons such as Lars Eidinger and Nicolette Krebitz. Run at this year's BerlinaleThe lightThen immediately as an opening film, and finally officially in the cinema on Thursday. The film is extremely complex with five main characters, but that's exactly whatThe lightAlso so special and so exciting. The focus is on a dysfunctional family around Tim (Lars Eidinger) and Milena (Nicolette Krebitz), her three children and the Syrian homestead Farrah (Tala al Deen). Just when it looks like the family could pull together again, Farrah reveals her own fate for the family, and that falter all the more. For the best film isThe lightNot nominated, but for the best visual effects and the best sound design.

And again Sam Riley: except his filmIslandsIs that too CrankoOn the nominated list of the German Film Award. The title John Cranko (1927-1973) is a legend in the world of ballet; A star choreographer who stroked exalted movements from his repertoire and instead brought real feelings into the dance. After them, his dancers should research and translate them into movements - there had been no such thing before. And this revolution of the dance did not take place in New York City or Moscow, but in Stuttgart, where the South African became a ballet director in 1961. There, for example, he established Marcia Haydée, who was considered too thick and not pretty enough, and who later became one of the world's largest prima ballerinas. Sam Riley in particular shines once again and is therefore not for nothing that is nominated for the best male leading role for the German Film Award.