TOGOLAND PROJECTIONS is invited at FESTOA - Togolese Festival in Germany. The screening takes place on June 20, 2025, at 5 pm at the Afrika Haus, Bochumer Str. 25, Berlin. Trailer & more info here. 

TOGOLAND PROJECTIONS is invited at the Santos Film Fest – Festival de Cinema de Santos - in Brazil. The festival takes place from June 24 to July 2, 2025. Jürgen Ellinghaus' documentary will be presented within the section Mostra Humanidades at the Cinemateca de Santos. Trailer & more info here. 

We are delighted to have won two film awards for TOGOLAND PROJECTIONS at the Festival Internacional de Cinema Austral in the Argentinian province of Córdoba: „Largometraje Destacado“ (Outstanding Feature Film) and „Diseño de Producción Destacado“ (Outstanding Production Design). Trailer & more info here. 

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 [...]