Marcel Kolvenbach teaches as professor of documentary film (TV and Internet) at KHM Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.
SELECTED KHM STUDENT PROJECTS (academic supervision)
2025 DIE VORWAND
experimental short film (16mm)
by Signe Raunkjaer Holm
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2024 REPARATION DAY
short fiction film
25min Germany
by Walter Solon
REPARATION DAY LINK
Funding:
Film- und Medienstiftung NRW (Film and Media Foundation NRW)
LABA- A Laboratory for Jewish Culture - Fellowship, Berlin, 2022
PACT Zollverein residency, Essen, 2021
2024 EL SUEÑO
documentary film
72min Colombia
by Lisa Bühl
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Funding:
Participation in MIDBO DOC LAB 2019
BKM Cultural Film Funding 2020
Film schools Pitch - Max Ophüls Prize 2021
2023 PADDLED PANDEMIC PARADISE
experimental short film (16mm/digital)
15min Morocco
by Lisa Domin-Alouane
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Festivals:
Cologne Short Film Festival 2023
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2023, Germany (premiere)
Morocco Shorts International Film Festival Rabat 2023, Morocco
Nahui Ollin Film Festival 2023, Mexico
AltFF Alternative Film Festival 2023, Canada
2023 SPUREN NACH GRAFENECK
(Traces of Grafeneck)
documentary film
89min Germany
by Yvonne Lachmann and Nora Mazurek
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TV exploitation: WDR TV adaptation/purchase 2024
2023 OPERATION NAMIBIA
95min documentary film
by Martin Paret
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OPERATION NAMIBIA
Festivals/Awards:
Duisburg Film Week 2023: Carte blanche Award
Documentary Film Week Hamburg 2024
DokKa Karlsruhe 2024
German International Ethnographic Film Festival 2024
2021 LADIES ONLY
documentary film 16mm
80min, India
by Rebana Liz John
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LADIES ONLY
Funding: Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
Festivals/Awards
Busan IFF 2021
Kompass-Perspektive-Award – 72 BERLINALE Perspektive Deutsches Kino, 2022
29 Sheffield DocFest 2022
39 Kassel Documentary FF 2022
17 Ethnocineca IDFF Vienna 2023
2021 EWIG GAST
short film 16mm
by Maximilian Karakatsanis
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Awards:
Rating “particularly valuable“ Film Rating Agency Wiesbaden
Festivals
2021 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
2021 Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Greece
2021 Short Film Festival Hamburg, Germany
2021 Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine
2021 Reykjavík International Film Festival, Iceland
2020 NO
(Femizide in Mexico)
15min Scenic short film
by Bruno Manguen Sapina
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Awards and festivals
2021 Premiere at Guanajuato International Film Festival
2021 “Best Short“ 16th edition of Shorts Mexico
2021 Selected FFA & German Films Next Generation Short Tiger
2021 Nominated for German Short Film Award