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 [...]

With the actual political decisions on the Covid 19 pandemic, it is now official: German cinemas will remain closed in December. MUCHA: THE STORY OF AN ARTIST WHO CREATED A STYLE will continue to pause. The premiere in Bremen with the German film team as well as screenings in Dresden, Frankfurt (Main), Karlsruhe, Lich, Munich, [...]

German premiere for MUCHA: THE STORY OF AN ARTIST WHO CREATED A STYLE at the ACUDkino Berlin on October 27, 2020 with Moravian wine and Bohemian beer. The partner of the premiere at the occasion of the German theatrical release (from left): Peter Roloff (co-producer maxim film), Dr. Tobias Hoffmann (Director Bröhan-Museum Berlin), Ira [...]

The Czech theatrical release of MUCHA: THE STORY OF AN ARTIST WHO CREATED A STYLE started in Prague with the film team in the impressive Kino Lucerna on September 28, 2020.

Peter Roloff's 360 video PETER premieres in the VR Competition at the Courant3D festival in Angoulême, France, September 29 to October 3, 2020. More about PETER here.

After the market premiere of our almost-finished MUCHA: THE STORY OF AN ARTIST WHO CREATED A STYLE at the European Film Market, from left: Special guest Tamson Omond, grand-granddaughter of Alphonse Mucha, Jakub Pinkava (executive producer, Punk Film), (Ondřej Beránek, producer, Punk Film), Peter Roloff (co-producer, maxim film), Martin Polák (dramaturg, Czech Television). Photo copyright: Kerstin [...]