OPTICAL ART NEWS
What a year 2024!
In 2024 we accompanied the post-production of a lot of great films and series and are happy about all of their successes.
With The Seed of the Sacred Fig as the German Oscar entry, Wonderland as the most successful german cinema documentary, Nord bei Nordwest and the Tatort Münster as the most popular crime thriller, the recently released children's film Niko – Beyond the Northern Lights and all the other great productions, we have earned us a little break between the years and hope to see you all in 2025 again.
Thank you all and here’s to a great year 2025!
Niko 3 - Beyond the Northern Lights
Now in cinemas: Niko 3 – Beyond the Northern Lights
Niko is a flying reindeer boy whose biggest dream is to become a member of Santa's flying forces. But instead he loses Santa's sleigh and during pursuit to get it back he learns the importance of friendship and doing things your own way. In addition to the gripping and exciting story, the magical atmosphere in this magical world invites you to go to the cinema and is a lovely adventure about friends, family and Niko's courage to go his own way and to find out what he really wants.
We supported Niko in color correction and mastering and wish you a great time in theaters!
Der Buchspazierer now in cinemas
Now in cinemas: Der Buchspazierer by director and cameraman Ngo The Chau with Christoph Maria Herbst and Yuna Bennett in the leading roles. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Carsten Sebastian Henn.
Carl Kollhoff works in a bookstore where he packages books and delivers them to regular customers in the city. One day, nine-year-old Schascha joins him on his delivery tours. Carl is not at all enthusiastic about this at first, but lets her do it.
We were able to oversee the entire post-production of this great feature film and are looking forward to a great opening weekend!
Hamburg Film Festival 2024
This year we are again supporting the Hamburg Film Festival with our online transfer services, our post-produced entries and in cooperation with Subs Hamburg also in subtitling of many films.
premieres:
The Seed of the Sacred Fig Tree
Niko – Beyond the Northern Lights
Der Buchspazierer
Informant – Fear over the City
Subtitling:
Kings of Summer, The Shrouds, Everybody Loves Touda, Animale, Love, Stranger Eyes, Timestalker, Visiting Hours
We wish you best entertainment!
German Television Award 2024
"The Seed of the Sacred Fig"
as the German Oscar entry
In August 2024, The Seed of the Sacred Fig Tree was selected as the German entry for the category Best International Film the 2025 Oscars. We keep our fingers crossed for this outstanding film.
The Iranian-German-French Arte France co-production was produced from Hamburg by the production film company RunWay Pictures and supported by Moin Filmförderung. Hamburg film editor Andrew Bird was responsible for editing the political drama.
In Germany, the film is scheduled to premiere at the end of September as part of the Hamburg Film Festival. A regular theatrical release in German-speaking Switzerland is planned for November 2024, and in Germany and Austria for the end of December 2024.
From Darkness to Light
We are delighted about the international premiere of “From Darkness to Light” at the Venice Film Festival!
The documentary film “From Darkness to Light” by the US director Michael Lurie and the German-Australian documentary filmmaker Eric Friedler sheds light on the history of the film “The Day the Clown Cried", shows the making of the film as well as Jerry Lewis' decades-long struggle with his work. The documentary contains several minutes of original material as well as one of the last interviews Lewis gave about the film before his death.
In Venice The documentary is shown in the Classics section, which is dedicated to documentaries about cinema.
"The Seed of the Sacred Fig"
wins the Prix Special in Cannes
Second Grading Cinema in Hamburg...
In collaboration with Studio Funk, we are now offering another 4K grading cinema in Hamburg. A new 7m wide screen was installed there and a 300m fiber optic connection to the Optical Art Datacenter was created, where the image and sound data can be transported uncompressed and without latency.
With the Baselight Remote Console, our Baselights can then be controlled remotely, so that all data remains secure, on-premise, at Optical Art.
The first project that we were able to successfully complete in the new grading cinema was the Cannes winner: “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” by Mohammad Rasoulof.
Our new website is online...
The 90s may be back in fashion, but we have retired our old website and hope that you like the new one even more.
