Merle Grimme

Director

Awards

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

Film / TV - Selection

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

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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