At the Cannes Film Festival, a group of German directors and filmmakers—Tom Tykwer, Ilker Çatak, Nora Fingscheidt, Helene Hegemann and Kurdwin Ayub—announce a German leg of the revived Dogma movement, tied to Dogma 25. The group says it plans to develop feature film projects under the movement’s rules, presenting the initiative as a way to produce “free and unpredictable” cinema. The announcement is made during a press conference at Cannes, where the filmmakers outline their intention to work collectively within the Dogma framework.
Variety reports the pledge involves creating five independent films under the Dogma umbrella, tying the move to the momentum that began when Dogma 25 launched at Cannes a year earlier with a Danish lineup of five films. Deadline similarly describes the formation of the Germany-based Dogma group and its intention to produce feature projects according to the updated Dogma rules.
Both outlets frame the initiative as an expansion of Dogma 25 into Germany, led by the five named filmmakers, with the next step being the development and production of the planned films under the movement’s constraints.
