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Friday, 09 June 2023
Join us at 11mm2024
For the preparation and realisation of the upcoming 11mm - International Football Film Festival Berlin - in March 2024, we are looking for interested football…
Friday, 09 June 2023
The Line-Up for 11mm shortkicks
The line-up for the 11mm shortkicks Gala 2023 is set. 7 short films from 6 countries with a total length of almost 90 minutes are…
Monday, 24 April 2023
An evening of football short films with 11MM
An evening of football short films with 11MM Football short films from all over the world : On Monday evening, 26 June 2023, football culture…
Monday, 16 January 2023
No 11mm Festival in 2023
Unfortunately, there will be no 11mm Football Film Festival in 2023. We have decided this after careful consideration. But we will be back in 2024,…
Thursday, 10 November 2022
Footballfilm in Wales
At the end of the 2022 football culture season, the community of football film festivals announces a new addition: the "Wal Goch Festival" in Wrexham in…
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Stream 11mm films - only 11 euros
For german version click here. The 18th international film festival 11mm will take place from 12.-16. Mai 2022 - for the second time not only…
Friday, 06 May 2022
All Movies, All Times, All Guests, All Everything
In its 18th edition, the festival organized by the Berlin-based association Brot & Spiele presents over 50 feature films, documentaries, short films & series around…
Thursday, 05 May 2022
11mm Ukraine
On the occasion of the war, which started in the middle of the preparations for the 11mm Football Film Festival, we are dedicating a festival…
Thursday, 28 April 2022
Nominated for the 11MM Jury Award
Six films from this year's festival are nominated for the 11MM Jury Award. The selection is diverse: Friday: 21:30 BAB 2 ⚽ Robin‘s Hood An…
Wednesday, 27 April 2022
11mm with Olympic & European champion & Academy Award winner
After a one-year pandemic break, the international football film festival "11mm" celebrates its return to the big screen at Babylon Berlin from May 12 to…
Saturday, 23 April 2022
Three fantastic juries
For the first time in the history of 11mm, we have three juries awarding prizes for the films of the current year. The Golden 11…
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Swedish feature film "Tigers" opens 18th edition of 11mm
The 11mm football film festival 2022 will open on Thursday, May 12 with the Swedish feature film TIGERS. In his film, director Ronnie Sandahl tells…
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Guests at 11mm2022
We are looking forward to the following guests to come to the 18th International Football Film Festival 11mm: The list of guests is constantly updated.…
Thursday, 20 January 2022
Football is coming back to the big screen
After a year of pandemic break, we are very pleased to announce the next edition of the world’s first and largest film festival, which is…
Tuesday, 05 October 2021
Call for films 2022
11mm – The International Football Film Festival is entering the next round: From March 24th to 28th 2022 the Berlin club for sports and culture,…
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Double victory for Maradona
The German - Palestinian coproduction "Maradona's Legs (Ijrain Maradona) by Firas Khoury won the short film award "Shortkicks 2020”. The story of the missing lower…
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Audience award goes to "Das Wunder von Taipeh"
The audience award "Goldene 11" went to "Das Wunder von Taipeh”, by the Cologne-based filmmaker John David Seidler. The documentary tells the amazing story of…
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
The next title for Diego Maradona
The award-winning documentary "Diego Maradona" by the British film director Asif Kapadia adds another award to his collection: the jury, consisting of Katrin Müller-Hohenstein, Almuth…
Sunday, 18 October 2020
Football mad
Director Manuele Deho from Munich is not a football fan. Nevertheless, he has made a football film: "Football-Mad". He took a year to observe how…
Saturday, 17 October 2020
Guests at 11mm2020
We would like to thank all spectators and guests of the 17th International Football Film Festival 11mm: They were our guests: Pierre Littbarski (World Champion)…
Saturday, 17 October 2020
Photos from Opening Night
The first day of the 11mm Film Festival was a great success. We started this year's festival 7 months later than originally planned, and were…
Friday, 16 October 2020
A night in Red and White
The double feature with films about the 1. FC Union Berlin filled the big venue in the Babylon on Friday. The filmmakers Daniel Becht and…
Thursday, 15 October 2020
Your safety is our priority
Please note that wearing face masks is compulsory in the entire cinema and during events. As we need to comply with governmental measures on contact…
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
11mm streaming service
The 17th international film festival 11mm will take place from 15.-19. October 2020 - for the first time not only in cinema but as well…
Thursday, 08 October 2020
Trailer 2020 published
The opening of the international football film festival takes place at October 15. The trailer shows already a little insight into the wide variety of…
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Welcome, Soccer Movie Mom!
Welcome as a new member of Brot & Spiele e.V., @soccermoviemom! How did get to know about Brot & Spiele? Read the German translation of…
Monday, 30 March 2020
What winners look like
About ball gowns, beer bottles and good mood When the 11mm stadium at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz is bursting at the seams.When the festival team crawls more than…
Thursday, 26 March 2020
Farewell to Rafael Henzel
It was one of the highlights of last year’s festival: The Brazilian radio reporter Rafael Henzel came with his family to Berlin and told his…
Thursday, 26 March 2020
Not to the movies, online we go!
Postponed. Pospuesto. Reporté. Rinviato. Ajornat. Verschoben. Whatever the language, it always sounds odd. The doors of our festival cinema Babylon were supposed to open today.…
Monday, 23 March 2020
11MM PRESENTS SHORTKICKS@HOME
#stayhome and #westayatworkforyou. DA big thank you goes out to all the great people who ensure that life goes on, even if differently. With #shortkicks@home,…
Saturday, 14 March 2020
11mm football film festival is postponed
We regret to inform you that in light of the recent events and international developments with the coronavirus, and according to expert’s advices, we are cancelling all…
Tuesday, 10 March 2020
11MM Keepers
In „The goalkeeper's fear of the penalty“ Peter Handkes main character argues, hat one should not focus on the scorer but on the goalkeeper in…
Tuesday, 10 March 2020
5 films and 5 jurors
In 2020, the festival awards the 11MM jury prize for the third time. For the competition, the committee of the festival has chosen 5 international…
Tuesday, 10 March 2020
Five times women in football
Although set in different regions of the world at different times, these five extraordinary documentaries have one thing in common: The firm intention of women…
Tuesday, 10 March 2020
Heroes and heroines in shorts
Awesome, adorable, unique and successful. On the football field, Heroes and Heroines are born, loved by fans, and brought to the screen by filmmakers. Paolo…
Thursday, 06 February 2020
Focus on goalkeepers and play-acting footballers
What do have Paul Breitner, Éric Cantona, Franz Beckenbauer and Pelé in common? Right, all four of them are former professional football players. However, apart…
Thursday, 23 January 2020
Internship Opportunities at 11mm
11mm – the International Football Film Festival in Berlin is only able to thrive because of the incredible hard work of the volunteers and interns…
Tuesday, 31 December 2019
Best wishes for 2020
2019 is over. A special year for the international football film festival 11mm with many great films and guests. We like to remember back. But…
Friday, 25 October 2019
Call for films 2020
11mm – The International Football Film Festival is entering the next round: From March 26th to 30th 2020 the Berlin club for sports and culture,…
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Women's Football worldwide
US-filmmaker Megan Shutzer was guest at the 11mm football film festival. We screened her documentary about female football players on east-African island Zanzibar. What a…
Tuesday, 09 April 2019
Football for Good
Streetfootball World presented "Football for Good" at the 11mm international football film festival. From the 21st - 25th of March Berlin‘s Babylon cinema swapped red…
Thursday, 14 March 2019
Trailer 2019 published
The opening of the international football film festival takes place at March 21. The trailer shows already a little insight into the wide variety of…
Sunday, 10 March 2019
Football Culture Capital Berlin
FR, 22.03.2019 / 19:00 BABYLON 1 Order TicketEntrance Fee 5 Euro „11mm - 16th international football film festival“ will be once again presented by the…
Sunday, 10 March 2019
Football Series
As second highlight of the festival 11mm focuses on „football series“ and opens with two episodes from Aljoscha Pauses „Being Mario Götze“ (23 March, 7:30…
Sunday, 10 March 2019
Women in Football
With a view to the Women’s World Cup coming summer in France, 11mm focuses on the worldwide development of women’s football by presenting ten new…
Sunday, 10 March 2019
11mm Jury Award
For the second time, the festival organizers grant the „11mm Jury Award“. A jury picks the „football film of the year“ out of 6 competition…
Tuesday, 05 March 2019
The line-up for 11mm 2019 is set
The 16th annual 11mm football film festival (March 21st - 25th ) has selected more than 60 short and feature-length films. Films will be screened in…
Monday, 17 December 2018
"Nossa Chape" opens 16th edition of International Football Film Festival
The 16th 11mm International Football Film Festival will take place between the 21st and the 25th of March. The festival will open with a screening…
Thursday, 27 September 2018
Call for films 2019
11mm – The International Football Film Festival is entering the next round: From March 21st to 25th 2019 the Berlin club for sports and culture,…
Wednesday, 04 April 2018
„En la boca“ wins shortkicks Award
The 11mm shortkicks ceremony was emceed by journalist and anchor Inka Blumensaat. Seven short films from six different countries where screened at the 11mm shortkicks…
Wednesday, 28 March 2018
Journey back in time with the 1. FC Köln wins the 11mm Audience Award
The audience’s favorite was the German production “Das Double 1977/78”, a journey back in time to the best season in 1. FC Köln’s history. The…
Wednesday, 28 March 2018
11mm festival jury prize goes to Somalia documentary
The documentary “Men in the Arena“ by US director J. R. Biersmith has been awarded the 11mm jury award. The four-member expert jury, composed of…
Sunday, 25 March 2018
British Day at 11MM
We partner with British Council to bring british football culture to the Cinema BABYLON in Berlin. After the movie Shankly - Nature's Fire we had…
Thursday, 22 March 2018
11mm Jury Award
Hertha BSC’s manager Michael Preetz, Alba Berlin’s vice president and film scholar Henning Harnisch, the Italian correspondent for all things football Birgit Schönau and the…
Thursday, 22 March 2018
FOOTBALL IN RUSSIAN CINEMA
Russia and football?! They fit together – especially in cinema! Historical and romantic comedies, controversial and socially critical dramas all revolving around the game of…
Thursday, 22 March 2018
Exhibition: Amateur football in Russia
Since 2012 the photographer Sergey Novikov has been creating portraits of amateur football teams in Russia. His photographs illustrate the social importance of the football…
Friday, 16 March 2018
British Day of Football and Film
Football speaks the same language everywhere! For the first time, a British Day of Football and Film will be part of the festival. We are…
Saturday, 10 March 2018
Finally: The line-up is set
The 15th annual 11mm football film festival (March 22nd - 26th ) has selected more than 60 short and feature-length films. Films will be screened in…
Sunday, 04 March 2018
Trailer 2018 published
The opening of the international football film festival takes place at March 22. The trailer shows already a little insight into the wide variety of…
Tuesday, 06 February 2018
11mm 2018: Football & Power, british Films & russian Retrospektive
The 15th 11mm International Football Film Festival will take place between the 22nd and the 26th of March. The festival presents more than 60 films…
Friday, 06 October 2017
Mia san Mia - FC Bayern stars on a film premiere in Berlin
FC Bayern – An International Success Story World famous, yet unmistakably German. Hugely successful, yet highly criticized. FC Bayern is a unique phenomenon. The story…
Tuesday, 11 April 2017
Power of football
streetfootballworld teamed up with 11mm to once again present a film that featured the power of football to inspire social change. The Other Kids, directed…
Saturday, 08 April 2017
Referees in Focus
What constitutes a false decision – and are there fortuitous false decisions in football? At the “Referees in Focus” talk, former Bundesliga professional Nico Frommer,…
Saturday, 08 April 2017
Homage to Johan Cruyff
„Johan Cruyff ist der einzelne Spieler, der am meisten für die Entwicklung des Fußballspiels getan hat.“ With these words, Christoph Biermann, Chief Editor of the…
Friday, 07 April 2017
The Stranger
Moussa Cissokho only arrived in Europe from Senegal two years ago. He now works as the coach of the under-14s at BX Brussels in the…
Tuesday, 04 April 2017
Golden 11 for Salomon Kalou
In 2015 he won the African Cup of Nations with the Ivory Coast, in 2012 he denied Bayern their dream home Champions League victory and…
Sunday, 02 April 2017
The Football Grandmothers
"Vhakegula, Vhakegula," is the name of their football team, as the group of elderly ladies proudly tell. Translated, that's "Granny, Granny". Originally the South African…
Saturday, 01 April 2017
In search of an anthem
Might it not get boring, hearing the same song for 12 minutes of a film? Director André Schäfer asked himself this question. It ended up…
Friday, 31 March 2017
A crowded house with cheerful Iceland fans
The opening night of the 14th 11mm Football Film Festival was a celebration of all things Icelandic. The three supremely relaxed celebrity guests – Icelandic…
Thursday, 30 March 2017
Real Champions of Europe
While the majority of the guests at the festival were still flying high in the dreamland of Icelandic football, in Kino Babylon’s second cinema next…
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Football player as guests of 11mm
Football player, former professionals, coaches and staff ThursdayOpening Wie ein Vulkan Heimir Hallgrímsson, Coach of the Icelandic national teamThorben Marx, former professionalMike Hanke, former professional Friday Heinz…
Sunday, 19 March 2017
Footballing homeland North-Rhine Westphalia
The 11mm “Footballing homeland North-Rhine Westphalia” collection is comprised of gems from the Rhineland’s football culture, and marks the completion of a festival excursion through…
Sunday, 19 March 2017
European championship
They’ve all taken part in European Championships: Swedish football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic, England’s record goalscorer Wayne Rooney, the most expensive player of last year’s summer…
Sunday, 19 March 2017
Far away football worlds
12 documentaries and 1 feature film: this selection of international new releases lets us travel the world in the comfort of a cinema seat. Whether…
Saturday, 18 March 2017
Homage to Johan Cruyff
In the days following the first anniversary of his death, the festival devotes a cinematic homage to Dutch football icon Johan Cruyff. Documentaries will be…
Thursday, 16 March 2017
Advance sale started
Just two weeks to go, the opening of the international football film festival takes place on Thursday 30th of March. The trailer shows already a…
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
The line-up is set
The 14th annual 11mm football film festival (March 30 - April 3) has selected 60 short and feature-length films. There will three world, 17 German…
Sunday, 12 March 2017
11mm 2017 is just around the corner
There are only 18 days left until the Grand Opening of the 14th 11mm International Football Film Festival in Berlin. The opening film comes from…
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
You’ll never walk alone
The 14th 11mm International Football Film Festival takes place from the 30th of March until the 3rd of April, once again spread over three locations…
Thursday, 26 January 2017
The selection process starts
The Call for films ends this year with a new record. More than 200 football films have been submitted for the 14th edition of the…
Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Call for films 2017
11mm – The International Football Film Festival is entering the next round: From March 30th to April 3rd 2017 the Berlin club for sports and…
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Belgian Football Filmfestival
The 11mm Belgian Football Film Festival, a different way of experiencing football. The common theme running through this year’s programme is street football, in several…
Tuesday, 29 March 2016
More than a game
On March 21, streetfootballworld proudly presented the movie “Streetkids United II - The Girls From Rio” at the Babylon Cinema in Berlin. It tells the…
Thursday, 24 March 2016
Final whistle for the 13th 11mm International Film Festival
The French short film Sur la touche wins the shortkicks competition; the German documentary Zweikämpfer voted the people's favorite. The thirteen edition of the 11mm…
Monday, 21 March 2016
Golden 11 goes to "Zweikämpfer"
The Goldene 11 for the best football film of 2016 goes to director Mehdi Benhadj-Djilali and his documentary "Zweikämpfer". This touching portrait of unemployed footballers…
Sunday, 20 March 2016
Brazilian films
Having traveled all from the way from Brazil, the director Luciano Perez and producer Erika Azevedo of Os boias-frias de futebol discussed the financial plight…
Friday, 18 March 2016
11mm Festival starts with a bang
A near sell-out crowd of special guests and cinephiles made their way across the grass carpet of the BABYLON cinema to attend the opening film…
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
Legendary Football Clubs
Dresden, Osnabrück, Bielefeld, Münster, Cottbus, Kiel, Córdoba… all these cities have something in common. Their footballing golden years are in the past. Today, the reality…
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
Guests at 11mm 2016
We are delighted to welcome the following special guests as well as everyone in our audience to this year's 11mm International Football Film Festival. Thursday,…
Saturday, 12 March 2016
The Festival of Festivals
Thirteen years ago, when 11mm made its debut, it was the only football film festival in the world. Since then, cinema and sports fans all…
Friday, 11 March 2016
Trailer 2016
Just one week to go, the opening of the international football film festival takes place at March 17. The trailer shows already a little insight…
Friday, 04 March 2016
Country Focus: Great Britain
With six high-quality documentaries, England is playing a leading role at this year’s 11mm. The festival kicks off with GOAL!, which revisits the so-called “phantom…
Wednesday, 02 March 2016
Football en France
On March 18, the retrospective "Football en France", presented by the German-French Youth Project (DFJW) and the Institut Francais d’Allemagne, commences in the City Kino…
Wednesday, 02 March 2016
The Line-Up is Set
The 13th annual 11mm football film festival (March 17-21) has selected 70 short and feature-length films. There will four world, 27 German and 12 Berlin…
Monday, 29 February 2016
13th International Football Film Festival 11mm
The thirteenth edition of the 11mm International Football Film Festival will focus on the fiftieth anniversary of the controversial "phantom goal" at Wembley and the…
Friday, 19 February 2016
Line-Up To Be Announced on March 1
In four weeks, the 13th edition of 11mm International Football Film Festival will kick off in Berlin. The festival and production directors spent today wrangling…
Monday, 08 February 2016
Great Moments in Football
The 41-year-old Italian Osvaldo Casanova "paints scenes of football that leave an impression on us, are beautiful, ugly, controversial and admired. Scenes that belong to…
Saturday, 06 February 2016
Just four weeks until #11mm2016
After reviewing more than 150 submissions from around the world, including films big and small, the selection process for the 13th International Football Film Festival…
Monday, 01 February 2016
Winter Transfer from Italy
11mm - the International Football Film Festival - is partnering this year with the brand new Italian film festival "TERZO TEMPO," which will take place…
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Call for films 2016
11mm – The International Football Film Festival is entering the next round: From March 17th to 21st 2016 the Berlin club for sports and culture,…
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Congrats to Australia
Congratulations to our friendsat FootballFilm Festival on their first edition, with fantastic festivals in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne over the past weeks. Great to see…
Wednesday, 07 October 2015
11mm goes Brussels
1st Belgian Football Film Festival06. & 07. November 2015, Oudergem – Auderghem WHAT?The world’s greatest football-filmfestival comes to Brussels! Documentaries, feature films and short films…
Tuesday, 18 August 2015
3rd Long Night of the Berlin Filmfestivals
Festiwelt, the network of Berlin film festivals, unleashes the collective power of the festival world in one night in a 12-hour programme at Kino Zukunft…
Tuesday, 24 March 2015
A wonderful last night at the Football Film Festival
Congratulations! This year’s winner of the audience prize the Golden 11 is Mario Bucci. His documentary "Una Meravigliosa Stagione Fallimentare" (A Marvelous Season of Bankruptcy)…
Monday, 23 March 2015
Golden 11 Award goes to Bari
Congratulations: Mario Bucci is the winner of this year`s 11mm audience award “The golden 11”. His documentary “Una Meravigliosa Stagione Fallimentare” about the history of…
Monday, 23 March 2015
11mm shortkicks
"Life is change," says one of Germany's most charming football bloggers, Stefanie Fiebrig of textilvergehen.de. She's one of the members of jury for tonight's Shortkicks…
Monday, 23 March 2015
Club histories - politics and nostalgia
Sunday at the 11mm Festival was all about football clubs and their unique individual histories. The spectrum ranged from the political Brazilian documentary "Democracia em…
Monday, 23 March 2015
The Runners-Up of Meiderich
Sometimes it's the teams that come in second that leave the most lasting impression. The truth of that axiom was on display on Sunday at…
Monday, 23 March 2015
Images from an afternoon of integration
Six short films, discussions, curious kids and Mr. Meteor. Heinz Boock has been a card-carrying member of sixth-division club BFC Meteor, where he's known as…
Sunday, 22 March 2015
Naldo to present award
Since last Thursday, football fans have been enthusiastically taking in the extensive program of sports and cinema at the Kino Babylon movie theater on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz…
Saturday, 21 March 2015
A night full of memories
"Football is the language for telling stories." There's no better way to sum up Friday at the 11mm Festival than the words of Johan Kramer.…
Friday, 20 March 2015
Moving perspectives (Film and Discussion)
The Berlin NGO Discover Football travelled with twelve women to Brazil during the 2014 World Cup. There they met with women’s football players and inspected…
Friday, 20 March 2015
Great opening night
The twelfth edition of the 11mm Football Film Festival has gotten off to a great start. In keeping with tradition, the organizers welcomed guests from…
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
11mm Champions League
In June the two best European teams are going to play the 2015 Champions League final in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. In anticipation of this…
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Two World Cup Runners-Up on Opening Night
On Thursday, March19 the 11mm Football Film Festivals kicks off with “Messi (The Movie),” an extraordinary documentary about Lionel “Leo” Andrés Messi Cuccittini, the man…
Saturday, 14 March 2015
International Football Film Festival 2015
The twelfth edition of the 11mm Football Film Festival takes place from March 19 to 23 in the Kino Babylon cinema in Berlin. The festival…
Monday, 09 March 2015
11mm Trailer History
Waiting for the brand new trailer for the 11mm International Football Film Festival 2015. Do you remember our old ones? 11mm Football Film Festival 2014…
Sunday, 08 March 2015
11mm World Champion
On the occasion of the 2014 World Cup and its great outcome 11mm allows itself to look retrospectively at the tournament with its big final…
Wednesday, 04 March 2015
Just another night
During the festival time March 19-23 in our venue Kino Babylon Berlin-Mitte we invite you to join us watching our selection of the top 40…
Wednesday, 04 March 2015
Many cultures, one ball
Starting on March 19 until March 23 the International Football Film Festival 11mm attracts football enthusiasts and cineasts to visit the Kino Babylon. As implied…
Wednesday, 02 April 2014
The Grand Finale of the 2014 11mm
The final day of the 11mm Football Film Festival. As always you can follow all the action on the 11mm TagTicker by the medienakademie berlin.…
Tuesday, 01 April 2014
11mm shortkicks Gala with Film and Music
The winner of the prestigious Golden 11 for the best short film was Dutchman Jan-Dirk Bouw’s “I love Hooligans.” It received at least points from…
Tuesday, 01 April 2014
Ronny and Naldo as Jurors
Brazilian football professionals Ronny (Hertha Berlin ) and Naldo (Wolfsburg) showed they know a thing or two about cinema at the 11mm shortkicks gala. In…
Tuesday, 01 April 2014
Fortuna Düsseldorf can win after all
The film “Fortunas Legenden” (Fortuna’s Legends) by Lars Pape and Holger Schürmann celebrated a glorious victory at the 11mm Football Film Festival. The documentary about…
Thursday, 24 March 2011
International Football Film Festival
Starting March 25th until March 30th, the 8th International Football Film Festival will be held in Berlin. As its name implies, the festival revolves around…