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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DREAMERS
documentary

DREAMERS

At the age of 9, Carlos arrives from Mexico to Chicago with his three brothers and his parents. The day he turns 18, his future becomes uncertain. According to US law, Carlos is now undocumented. The slightest mistake can lead him to deportation. From defeats to successes, DREAMERS tells the story of Carlos now 38 years old, his brothers and the fate of 2.5 million people growing up in a country that still does not recognize them as its own.
83 min., B/W , 2023
MALQUERIDAS
documentary

MALQUERIDAS

They are women. They are mothers. They are prisoners serving long sentences in a correctional facility in Chile.
74 min., color , 2023
THE MECHANICS OF THINGS
documentary

THE MECHANICS OF THINGS

It all began with: A broken and battered father and his daughter who dreams of “fixing” him. A cat falling from the 8th floor and becoming a paraplegic. A medical experiment involving 12 paralysed people in China. A road accident in Italy. And this is how The Mechanics of Things brought it all together in a crazy collective adventure to try and fix the unfixable
101 min., B/W , 2023
LA CASA
documentary

LA CASA

In Santiago, Chile, a social revolt breaks out and almost at the same time the city is hit by a global pandemic that forces confinement. The outside world shuts down and our attention shifts to the interior of a condominium house that reveals an unexpected multidimensional universe.
72 min., color , 2018
LOS REYES
documentary

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.
78 min., color , 2018
SMALL PLANETS
documentary

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.
96 min., color , 2018
The Hidden City
documentary

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.
80 min., color , 2018
Game Over
documentary

Game Over

A young man obsessed with war games becomes a sniper in Afghanistan following his dreams.
78 min., color , 2015
Surire
documentary

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.
80 min., color , 2015
OCHENTAYSIETE
fiction

OCHENTAYSIETE

OCHENTAYSIETE is a drama about friendship and forgiveness, a movie that shows the innocence of adolescent friendship and its maturation process.
95 min., color , 2014
MOTODROM
short film

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.
35mm 9 min., /SW , 2006
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