Prof. Kevin B. Lee wins 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

15.07.2019

The Eurimages Lab Project Award, worth €50,000, was bestowed upon the desktop documentary Bottled Songs, written, directed and produced by Kevin B Lee and Chloé Galibert-Laîné. The doc explores the online propaganda of Islamic State. Through video letters that are received on the researchers’ screens, the documentarians reveal the role of mainstream media in generating everyday states of terror.

14.10.2026

LETsDOK 2026 – Filmscreening “Im Visier” von Absolvent Jonah Kay-Miko Lehmann

Der Dokumentarfilm “Im Visier” von Bachelor-Absolvent Jonah Kay-Miko Lehmann läuft im Rahmen der LETsDOK Dokumentarfilmtage am Mittwoch, 14. Oktober, 19:30 Uhr im “Kino Kleine Fluchten” in der Manufaktur in Schorndorf...

15.09.2026

Umfrage Bedarfe Masterstudiengang Comics und Comicforschung

An Interessierte für Comic und Comicforschung, an der Merz Akademie ist gerade viel in Bewegung. Für die Konzeption des neuen Studiengangs “Comics und Comicforschung” möchten wir handlungsfähig sein. Dazu haben...

10.09.2026

Student Nele David is a winner of the German Youth Photography Award

One of the winners of the 2025/26 German Youth Photography Award is Nele David for her bachelor’s thesis, “Start with Bismilla—In the Name of God.” The 2025/26 German Youth Photography...

01.09.2026

Thriller by graduate Gökhan Yildiz selected for “Sitges Coming Soon 2026″

“Naturmort”, the thriller by Gökhan Yıldız, a film graduate of the Merz Akademie, has been selected for “Sitges Coming Soon 2026.” Congratulations – we’re keeping our fingers crossed! The fantasy...