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Maren Ade

Producer, Director, Writer, Actor
Born December 12, 1976 (47 years)
Maren Ade began studying at the HFF Munich in 1998 majoring in Production and Media Economics and then changed to the Film and Television Department in 2000 at the HFF Munich. In 2001 she founded the film production company Komplizen Film with Janine Jackowski and together they produced Maren Ade’s film The Forest for the Trees (2003). The film received several honours, including the Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005. During that same year it was nominated for the German Film Prize. Her second film Everyone Else (2009) was first shown in competition at the International Film Festival in Berlin in 2009 and received the Silver Bear as Best Film (the Grand Jury Award). Her third feature film Toni Erdmann (2016) had its world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2016 and received the Fipresci Award. The film went on to play at many international festivals and won numerous awards.

Maren Ade doesn’t only produce her own films, but also works as a producer for other films, like Tabu (2012) and Una Mujer Fantástica (2017).
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • The Forest for the Trees
  • Roads
  • So Much Water
Known For
  • Toni Erdmann
  • A Fantastic Woman
  • Spencer
  • Everyone Else
  • Skylines
  • The Forest for the Trees
  • Tabu
  • Synonyms
  • Ahed's Knee
  • Exile
  • Western
  • Roads
  • Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One
  • Sleeping Sickness
  • Nothing
  • Gentle
  • Giraffe
  • So Much Water
  • A E I O U: A Quick Alphabet of Love
  • Arabian Nights: Volume 3 - The Enchanted One
  • Hedi Schneider Is Stuck
  • Scarred Hearts
  • Love Island
  • O Beautiful Night

Filmography

2023
About Dry Grasses · as Co-Producer
2023
2022
2022
Corsage · as Co-Producer
2022
2022
Nothing · as Co-Producer
2022
Gentle · as Co-Producer
2021
2021
2021
The Story of My Wife · as Co-Producer
2021
Ahed's Knee · as Co-Producer
2021
The Girl and the Spider · as Co-Producer
2020
2019
A Febre · as Co-Producer
2019
2019
Skylines (TV Series)
2019
The Whistlers · as Co-Producer
2019
A Tale of Three Sisters · as Co-Producer
2019
2019
Roads · as Co-Producer
2019
Synonyms · as Co-Producer
2018
In My Room · as Co-Producer
2018
2018
aKasha · as Co-Producer
2017
2017
A Fantastic Woman · as Co-Producer
2016
Scarred Hearts · as Co-Producer
2016
2015
2015
2015
2015
2014
Love Island · as Co-Producer
2014
2013
Redemption · as Co-Producer
2013
So Much Water · as Co-Producer
2012
The Dead and the Living · as Co-Producer
2012
Tabu · as Co-Producer
2011
2009
2008
The Noise in My Head · as Co-Producer
2007

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