Merle Grimme

Director

Awards - Selection

2025 |
New Stars Award – best debut film / director (Deutscher Filmball) | Clashing Differences
2024 |
New Faces Award – Nomination - best debut film | Clashing Differences
2024 |
Juliane Bartel Medienpreis – Nomination - fiktion & entertainment | Clashing Differences
2023 |
Jupiter Award – Nomination best feature film for television | Clashing Differences
2023 |
First Steps Award – big audience award First Steps | Clashing Differences
2023 |
German Cinema New Talent Award – best screenplay Int. Film Festival Munich | Clashing Differences
2023 |
Afrika Film Festival Köln - Audience Award – best feature film | Clashing Differences
2023 |
Queer Film Festival Weiterstadt - Don-Quijote Preis – Best Feature Film | Clashing Differences
2017 |
Zeit Legacy Study Film Competition Jury-award-winner | Der deutsche Kinderwunsch (EN The German Desire For Having Children)
2018 |
DOK.fest München - Nomination for Young Filmmakers Award | Regretting Motherhood
2018 |
Int. Fünf Seen Filmfestival - Nomination for Das Goldene Glühwürmchen | Regretting Motherhood

Film / TV - Selection

2027 |
Don't worry - be happy. I'm gone | feature film | Director: Merle Grimme | scriptwriter; in development; in development
2026 |
untitled UFA series | TV series | UFA | writer; in development
2026 |
untitled Gaumont series | TV series | Gaumont | creator; in development
2025 |
Doppelhaushälfte - Staffel 4 | TV series | Director: Merle Grimme | Iconoclast Films | ZDF | 3 episodes
2023 |
Clashing Differences | feature film and TV series | Director: Merle Grimme | a little. filmproduction, sperl film + fernsehproduktion, HFF München, ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel, Arte | Arte, ZDF | writer and director
2017 |
Regretting Motherhood | short documentary | Director: Merle Grimme | DREIFILM, HFF München | writer and director
2015 |
Mal Zeit (EN: Taking Time) | short documentary film | Director: Merle Grimme | HFF München
2013 |
Neugier | short feature | Director: Merle Grimme | Universität Hildesheim | writer and director
2013 |
Warten auf X - Experiment. Kunstprojekt. Dokumentation | short feature | Director: Merle Grimme | Universität Hildesheim | writer, director, editor; Zeitzeug Festival
2011 |
Hortensien Hotel | short feature | Director: Merle Grimme | Universität Hildesheim | writer, director

Theatre - Selection

Audio - Selection

Languages: German, English

Residence: Berlin

Training: Diploma - University of Television and Film Munich (HFF Munich), B.A. of Arts from the University of Hildesheim

 

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