Maren Ade

Maren Ade

1976-12-12 Karlsruhe, Germany 41 Credits

Biography

Maren Ade began studying at the HFF Munich in 1998 majoring in Production and Media Economics and then changed to the Film and Television Department in 2000 at the HFF Munich. In 2001 she founded the film production company Komplizen Film with Janine Jackowski and together they produced Maren Ade’s film The Forest for the Trees (2003). The film received several honours, including the Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005. During that same year it was nominated for the German ...

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Yes

Yes

2025

Co-Producer

Producing

Israel, in the aftermath of October 7. Y., a jazz musician struggling to make ends meet, and his wife Jasmine, a dancer, sell their art, souls and bod...

Delicious

Delicious

2025

Producer

4.7
Producing

During their vacation in the French countryside, a wealthy German family becomes entangled with a young hotel worker harboring sinister intentions.

Maria

Maria

2024

Producer

6.5
Producing

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

About Dry Grasses

About Dry Grasses

2023

Co-Producer

7.7
Producing

A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations ...

When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before

When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before

2023

Producer

5.5
Producing

Growing up on the grounds of one of Germany's largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow - different. For Joachim, the director's youngest son, the pati...

You Will Not Have My Hate

You Will Not Have My Hate

2022

Producer

5.9
Producing

The story of Antoine Leiris, who lost his beloved wife Hélène in the terrorist attack on the Paris "Bataclan". In a moving Facebook post, he counters ...

Corsage

Corsage

2022

Co-Producer

6.2
Producing

A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 ...

A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love

A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love

2022

Producer

5.2
Producing

Anna is 60 and her acting heyday is now behind her. She lives on her own but has a friend and confidant in her downstairs neighbour Michel, who is als...

Spencer

Spencer

2021

Producer

6.8
Producing

During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charl...

Prince

Prince

2021

Producer

5.0
Producing

Perhaps they should never have met, but fate wanted otherwise. Monika and Joseph. She is a curator, he is an immigrant from Congo, a businessman with ...

The Story of My Wife

The Story of My Wife

2021

Co-Producer

5.9
Producing

A sea captain makes a bet in a cafe with a friend that he will marry the first woman who walks in.

The Fever

The Fever

2021

Co-Producer

6.3
Producing

Justino, a 45-year-old member of the indigenous Desana people, is a security guard at the Manaus harbor. As his daughter prepares to soon depart to Br...

The Girl and the Spider

The Girl and the Spider

2021

Co-Producer

5.8
Producing

Lisa is moving. Upheaval all around: Her mother flirts with a handyman. An eccentric woman seems to be preparing for a glamorous event, a family next ...

Exile

Exile

2020

Producer

5.9
Producing

Exil tells the story of a chemical engineer of foreign origin who feels discriminated and bullied at work, plunging him into an identity crisis.

Giraffe

Giraffe

2020

Producer

5.5
Producing

A Danish summer: long days turn into blue nights. A tunnel is being built to connect Denmark and Germany. Three people meet and part ways again.

The Whistlers

The Whistlers

2019

Co-Producer

6.0
Producing

A Romanian police officer, determined to free from prison a crooked businessman who knows where a mobster's money is hidden, must learn the difficult ...

A Tale of Three Sisters

A Tale of Three Sisters

2019

Co-Producer

7.2
Producing

A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since the...

O Beautiful Night

O Beautiful Night

2019

Producer

6.1
Producing

This fiction feature debut by Xaver Böhm is the newest production from Komplizen Film. In this Faustian tale, anxious Yuri finds himself face-to-face ...

Roads

Roads

2019

Co-Producer

6.3
Producing

A young man from the Congo in search of his brother attempts to cross Europe's borders. In Morocco, he teams up with a sharp-witted British runaway wh...

Synonyms

Synonyms

2019

Co-Producer

5.8
Producing

A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

2018

Co-Producer

7.0
Producing

"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic clea...

In My Room

In My Room

2018

Co-Producer

5.9
Producing

Armin, in his fourties, is a freelancer with lots of time and little money. He’s not really happy, but can’t picture living a different life. One morn...

Scarred Hearts

Scarred Hearts

2017

Co-Producer

6.9
Producing

During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone t...

Western

Western

2017

Producer

6.7
Producing

A group of German construction workers set out for a foreign construction site in the Bulgarian province. The strange country awakens adventure feelin...

Toni Erdmann

Toni Erdmann

2016

Director, Producer, Screenplay

7.0
Directing Producing Writing

Without warning a father comes to visit his daughter abroad. He believes that she lost her humor and therefore surprises her with a rampage of jokes.

Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One

Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One

2015

Producer

6.5
Producing

In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand ton...

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

2015

Producer

7.1
Producing

Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights of her ordeal: “It hath reached me, O auspicious Ki...

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One

Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One

2015

Co-Producer

6.9
Producing

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his pr...

Hedi Schneider Is Stuck

Hedi Schneider Is Stuck

2015

Producer

6.4
Producing

A model family's happy life unexpectedly goes off the rails when the carefree Hedi, played by Laura Tonke, suddenly starts having panic attacks. First...

Redemption

Redemption

2013

as Angela Merkel (voice)

7.1
Acting

On January 21, 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July ...

Redemption

Redemption

2013

Co-Producer

7.1
Producing

On January 21, 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July ...

Tabu

Tabu

2012

Co-Producer

7.1
Producing

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old...

Sleeping Sickness

Sleeping Sickness

2011

Producer

6.4
Producing

Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sick...

A Summer Without Gitti

A Summer Without Gitti

2010

Director

Directing

A short film by Maren Ade, using re-cut material from 'Everyone Else'.

Everyone Else

Everyone Else

2009

Director, Writer, Producer

6.2
Directing Writing Producing

While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another co...

Hotel Very Welcome

Hotel Very Welcome

2007

Producer

5.8
Producing

Five young Europeans (German, English, and Irish) try to find answers to life's questions in India and Thailand.

The Forest for the Trees

The Forest for the Trees

2004

Director, Writer

6.6
Directing Writing

As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city, things turn out to be much tougher than she had imagined.

Karma Cowboy

Karma Cowboy

2002

Producer

Producing

In search of a person named Jerry Davis, a faceless narrator visits various people across the United States who are connected to him in different ways...

Vegas

2001

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Short film from Maren Ade that follows the love affair between a young woman and her boyfriend who is a gambler.

Ebene 9

2000

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

A short by Maren Ade.

Magic Word

N/A

Director

Directing

Set to shoot in 2026. Details TBA.