In the prestigious FOCAL International Awards 2016, Every Face Has a Name is shortlisted as one of three films in the category for history productions. The awards is a yearly highlight of film and media professionals in order to honour their excellence in the use of archive footage. The award ceremony will take place on 26th May, 2016 in London. Here you can read more about the FOCAL International Awards.

Every Face Has a Name is screening in Berlin on December 10. In connection with winning the award for Best Political Film at Filmfest Hamburg, the award founders at The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung is organising this special award screening.
Present for the screening will be Director Magnus Gertten and expert Matthias Heyl from Ravensbrück.
The screening takes place on Thursday, December 10 at 19.00 at Landesvertretung Hamburg, Jägerstraße 1, 10117 Berlin
Here you can read more about the screening.
http://www.julius-leber-forum.de/veranstaltungen/termine/198324/

We are happy to announce that IDFA in Amsterdam, the biggest documentary film festival in the world, has selected Every Face Has a Name for their 2015 program. Every Face Has a Name will screen in the Best of Fest section, which is their program for documentaries that have made an impact on the international festival circuit this year.

Every Face Has a Name is also selected for festivals in Brazil, Denmark, UK and Canada. Stay updated and get precise screening details via Every Face Has a Name on Facebook.

At the newly held EDOX festival, Every Face has a Name was presented with the audience award for best international documentary.

The film was also recognised this weekend at the Filmfest Hamburg with the award for Best Political Film. We are very honoured to receive these recognitions.
For a list all screenings and awards to go the section see .

We are happy to announce that Every Face Has a Name received an Honorable Mention at the 2015 Avner Shalev Yad Vashem Chairman’s competition for Artistic Achievement in Holocaust related film. The award is presented annually at the Jerusalem International film Festival.

The jury remarks were: “For thoughtful and creative documentary research, which leads to increased awareness of the basic human dignity of every individual; and for the preservation of knowledge and information by virtue of its exemplary use of archival footage, Every Face Has a Name is granted an Honorable mention”.

Upon presenting the award The Yad Vashem Visual Center stated: We are convinced that Every Face Has a Name will have a vast impact on contemporary viewers, as well as serving to promote a deeper understanding of historical complexity among future audiences.

Every Face Has a Name is on a summer tour to international film festivals. This includes upcoming screenings in San Francisco at the largest Jewish film festival in the world. As part of the summer tour we already had the pleasure of screening the film at MakeDox in Macedonia in June. Among the upcoming summer festivals are:
Jerusalem International Film, Israel – happening on July 9-19. Every Face Has a Name is screening on Friday, July 10 at 10:15 & Friday, July 17 at 20:30.
Super Supetar, Croatia – happening on July 14-19.
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival – happening on July 23 – August 9. Every Face Has a Name is screening four times during the festival at the following times and places: Cinearts Thurs. July 30 16:00; Berkeley Fri. July 31 14:15; Castro Sun. Aug 2 10:45 and at Smith Rafael Fri. Aug 7 14:30.

We are currently organising more festival screenings in Poland, Germany, UK, USA and many other places. So stay tuned at our Facebook page for updates.

Every Face Has a Name is not only reaching cinema audiences and TV-viewers around the World. The film is currently screening at key political institutions and influencing policy makers.

European Parliament: We are happy to announce that Every Face Has a Name will screen in the European Parliament in Brussels on June 24th at 19.00. We appreciate the kind collaboration with The City of Malmö EU Office and we look forward to bring our film to the center of European politics.

In connection with the screening Director Magnus Gertten states:
“My documentary shows when survivors from the German concentration camps arrive to the harbour of Malmö in April 1945 . The situation is similar to what’s happening all over the world today on a daily basis: War refugees arriving to a new country. During 2014 and the spring of 2015 thousands of war refugees and migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean on their way to Europe. For those who make it to the ports of southern Europe an uncertain future lies ahead. Right now this is one of the most important issues for the decision makers in the EU. If my film in any way could inspire the members of the European Parliament to make wise decisions based on humanistic values I would be a very happy film director.”

Swedish Cultural Committee: On May 21 The Swedish Film Institute gathered politicians of the National Cultural Committee for a one-day seminar on film politics. We are very proud that Swedish Film Institute included Every Face Has a Name in the program and screened it for all the involved politicians.

We are currently working on more screenings in collaboration with more key political institutions including a screening at the Swedish Parliament and one with the Malmö City Council.

Stay tuned at our Every Face Has a Name Facebook page for updates.

The North American Premiere of Every Face Has a Name will be at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival in mid-April. We look very much forward to meeting the audience in the Twin Cities. The film will take part in the Documentary Competition of the festival and Director Magnus Gertten will be present for the screenings. For precise updates on screening times, please follow Every Face Has a Name on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/EveryFaceHasAName

On the occasion of the International Premiere of Every Face Has a Name at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, the film was honoured with the FIPRESCI Award for best international documentary. The FIPRESCI Award is presented by The International Federation of Film Critics. Despite Every Face Has a Name just starting its international festival circulation, this is already the second award for the film. At the National Premiere at the Göteborg Film Festival the film received the Angelos Award.

Every Face Has a Name is selected for competition at Tempo Documentary Festival, which is taking place in March in Stockholm, Sweden.

Tempo is hosting the biggest Swedish documentary film competition and we look very much forward to being part of a great line up of Swedish during the Stockholm festival. Here you can see a list with all the nominated documentary films.

We are very happy to announce that Every Face Has a Name is selected for the biggest documentary film award in Scandinavia, the Göteborg International Film Festival’s Dragon Award. We are so much looking forward to the premiere on January 28 at GIFF.

Here you can read more about the screenings of Every Face Has a Name at Göteborg International Film Festival

Auto Images is launching Every face has a name, a new documentary in relation to the upcoming 70 year anniversary of the end of The Second World War. Using new archive techniques, Every face has a name will for the first time identify many of the anonymous faces appearing in a 70-year old archive film.  

On April 28, 1945, life begins again. Hundreds of survivors from the German concentration camps arrive to the harbour of Malmö, Sweden. While they take their first steps in freedom Swedish news photographers film them. Now, 70 years later the survivors are watching this archive footage for the very first time and as they discover themselves they re-experience the emotions from this special day.

Every face has a name is already sold to broadcast is 11 territories during the pre-production, including all five Nordic countries and Dutch broadcaster IKON. The worldwide rights for Every face has a name is handled by Berlin based Rise and Shine.

Here you can read more about Every Face Has a Name and see still images from the film.