JULIAN VOGEL

AUTHOR & DIRECTOR

Vita/Filmography

From 2009 until 2016 Julian studied documentary film making at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. In 2011 he studied one semester as an exchange student at La Fémis/Paris, where the fictional short DALILA was shot.

In the same year, his documentary, TILMAN IN PARADISE was nominated for "best student documentary" at IDFA. From 2012 - 2016 he was holding a scholarship of the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes".

He started working as a freelance writer/director for TV in 2013 with PALAST and 16xDEUTSCHLAND: RHEINLAND-PFALZ.

In 2015, he shot a branded documentary for the airline SWISS which, together with 3 other films of the campaign SEATS FOR SWITZERLAND, won the ADC Switzerland Award in Gold.

In 2016, Julian completes his Diploma Film FLO'S PICTURES, an intimate portrait of the deceased father of his best friend.

From 2018 to 2021 he shoots the documentary-trilogy EINZELTÄTER (WT) about people who lost loved ones in the rightwing-terror attacks of Munich 2016, Halle 2019 and Hanau 2020.

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2011 | 28 min | 16 mm colour |

24th IDFA 2011 I nominiert – Best Student Documentary
hotDOCS Canadian International Documentary Festival 2012 I official competition
13th Short Film Festival Landshut 2012 I Best Documentary
2015 VOD on spiegel.tv
17. Sehsüchte Festival 2012 I in competition
2nd Sandfly Film Festival 2012 I nominated for best film
28th Hamburg Short Film Festival I official competition
IT'S ALL TRUE - International documentary film festival 2012 Brazil I official competition
2annas short film festival 2012 Riga /Letonia I official competition

2012 | 15:20 min | 35 mm | la fémis / Filmakademie Baden-Würtemberg

Palm Springs International ShortFest 2013 I official competition
25th Filmfest Dresden 2013 I official competition
14th Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival 2013 I official competition
International Student Film Festival (FIFE) 2013 Casablanca / Morocco I official competition
1."OPEN PLACE" International Short Film Festival 2013, Rezekne/Letonia I official competition
28th Independent Film Fest Osnabrück 2013 I official competition
11th Manlleu Film Festival 2013, Manlleu / Spain I official competition
"Le Jour le plus Court" 2014 I 29 screenings in different cinemas throughout france

2016 | 98 min | HD | Filmakademie Baden-Würtemberg

38. Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis, Saarbrücken/Germany - documentary competition
2nd PerSo - Perugia Social Film Fest 2016, Perugia / Italy - official competition - honorable mention
LA Underground Film Forum 2017 - honorable mention

2023 | 86 min | 4K | ZDF / CORSO FILM

Bester Dokumentarfilm beim Hessischen Film- und Kinopreis 2023
Duisburger Filmwoche - Gewinner: 3Sat Dokumentarfilmpreis
Lichter Filmfest 2023 - Bester Regionaler Langfilm
Let's Dok 2023
Hessen Film Tour 2023
Grimmepreis 2024
Nominierung Roman Brodmann Preis 2024

2023 | 85 min | 4K | ZDF / CORSO FILM

Dokfest München 2023 I deutscher Wettbewerb, nominiert für den Produzentenpreis
Duisburger Filmwoche - Gewinner: 3Sat Dokumentarfilmpreis
Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival
Grimmepreis 2024
Nominierung Roman Brodmann Preis 2024
Dokka Festival 2024

2013 | 82 min | HD | Filmakademie BW / RBB

Achtung Berlin Festival 2013 - in Contest