Dirk Manthey Film

Film Production Company

Hamburg based

About Dirk Manthey Film
Dirk Manthey Film ug is founded in 2000 in Hamburg. Since then DMF has produced a large number of films, both feature films and documentaries. The portfolio of our films includes both films that allow us to tell their stories through image and sound/music as well as films that specifically address social grievances and thus make them visible and tangible. Since its foundation DMF have been focused on international co-productions. In Europe as well as in Latin America. Over the years, we‘ve built up good networks in many of the countries which with we produce and have acquired an understanding of many cultural and also film-industry specific idiosyncrasies. Apart from the activities as a production company „Dirk Manthey Film / Dirk Manthey“ has taken charge of line producing, executive producing and post production supervising for high budget fiction and docu-fiction films in the last years.
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SMALL PLANETS

SMALL PLANETS

»small planets« is a film about isolated places and their inhabitants. In the era of globalization, when the world community seemingly moves together, we find groups of people living in isolated places, marginalized by the rest of the society.
LOS REYES

LOS REYES

Chola and Fútbol are a couple of street dogs that live in the Los Reyes skatepark. A microcosm is organized around them, composed of things, animals and young adolescents in conflict with an adult world that they reject but are required to enter.
The Hidden City

The Hidden City

This descent into the visceral depths of a European city most resembles a science fiction film, and that includes its mysterious, claustrophobic atmosphere and powerful soundtrack. When Victor Moreno films a tunnel tube, it’s like a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Luminescent footsteps hover like stars, welding sparks form a celestial inferno, water creeps spookily along a wall—suddenly, there’s beauty in a ventilator shaft.
Surire

Surire

The Surire salt flat is located in the Chilean high plateau at 4,300 meters over the sea level, on the border with Bolivia.
Game Over

Game Over

A young man obsessed with war games becomes a sniper in Afghanistan following his dreams.
OCHENTAYSIETE

OCHENTAYSIETE

OCHENTAYSIETE is a drama about friendship and forgiveness, a movie that shows the innocence of adolescent friendship and its maturation process.
MOTODROM

MOTODROM

The world of the hellriders in their wooden barrel: men and motorbikes, speed and stunts, gasoline and adrenaline. A dying fairground attraction, portrayed in a thrilling homage with 5000 rounds per minute.

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