Florian Hoffmann
Festivals and Awards - Selection
2022 Stille Post - Achtung Berlin "Best Script" and "Best Actor"
2022 Berlinale Talents
2022 Stille Post - “particularly valuable” by the German Film Rating Commission (Germany)
2021 Whispers of War – Audience Award (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival)
2021 Whispers of War – Audience Award (Thessaloniki Filmfestival, Greece)
2020 Whispers of War - “European Work-in-Progress Award” (Filmfestival Cologne, Germany)
2019 Time of the Monsters (Author: Jacob Hauptmann) – “Best Script” (Sehsüchte Filmfestival, Germany)
2016 Arlette. Courage is a Muscle - "Directors' Award“ (North Carolina Filmfestival, USA)
2016 The Dictators' Hotel - “particularly valuable” by the German Film Rating Commission (Germany)
2016 Arlette. Courage is a Muscle - “Best Documentary“ (New York Bushwick Filmfestival, USA)
2016 Arlette. Courage is a Muscle - “Best Film“ (MakeDox, Macedonia)
2015 Arlette. Courage is a Muscle - “German Camera Award“ (Cologne, Germany)
Film / TV
2021 | Time of the monsters | Chromosom Film | rbb | feature film
2021 | Whispers of War | Chromosom Film, ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel | ZDF | feature film | script and director
2018 | I don't care doesn't count | Tara Biere Media Productions, dffb | 3Sat | documentary | script and director
2015 | Arlette - Courage is a muscle | PS Film, dffb | SRF, 3Sat | documentary | script and director
2015 | The Dictators' Hotel | dffb | documentary | script and director
Theatre
Audio
Florian Hoffmann wird 1987 in Berlin geboren. Nach seinem Abitur ist er in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit in West-Afrika tätig. Anschließend absolviert er ein Studium der Ethnologie, Soziologie und Politikwissenschaften an der Universität Basel (Schweiz). Er schließt sein Bachelor-Studium mit magna cum laude ab.
2011 beginnt er sein Regiestudium an der Deutschen Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb). Seit 2015 realisiert er als Regisseur seine eigenen abendfüllenden Spiel- und Dokumentarfilme. Seit 2016 lehrt er regelmäßig für das Goethe-Institut, die Heinrich Böll Stiftung sowie für den Fernsehworkshop Entwicklungspolitik.
Von 2019 – 2021 war er Mitarbeiter von Carolin Emckes „Archiv der Flucht“. Seit 2021 assistiert er unter anderem René Pollesch an der Volksbühne Berlin. Er war Mitglied der Berlinale Jury „Friedenspreis“ (2018) sowie Jury-Mitglied beim Dokfilmfestival München (2016).
Florian Hoffmann was born 1987 in Berlin. After high school he worked in the development cooperation in West-Africa. Afterwards he completed his studies in social anthropology, sociology and political science at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He spent his year of research at La Réunion. 2011 he became a student of directing class at the German Film- and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). During his study he was student of the Claire-Denis-Masterclass as well as the Andres-Veiel-Masterclass.
Since 2016 Florian teaches “documentary filmmaking” for the Goethe Institut, Abidjan and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung. In 2015 he was a jury member of the New Talent-Award at “Dokfest Munich” and in 2017 a member of the Berlinale Peace-Award jury.
