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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Yes
2025
Co-Producer
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
2025
Producer
During their vacation in the French countryside, a wealthy German family becomes entangled with a young hotel worker harboring sinister intentions.

Maria
2024
Producer
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
2023
Co-Producer
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
2023
Producer
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
2022
Producer
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
2022
Co-Producer
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
2022
Producer
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
2021
Producer
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
2021
Producer
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
2021
Co-Producer
A sea captain makes a bet in a cafe with a friend that he will marry the first woman who walks in.

The Fever
2021
Co-Producer
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
2021
Co-Producer
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
2020
Producer
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
2020
Producer
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
2019
Co-Producer
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
2019
Co-Producer
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
2019
Producer
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
2019
Co-Producer
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
2019
Co-Producer
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
2018
Co-Producer
"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
2018
Co-Producer
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
2017
Co-Producer
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
2017
Producer
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
2016
Director, Producer, Screenplay
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
2015
Producer
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
2015
Producer
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
2015
Co-Producer
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
2015
Producer
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
2013
as Angela Merkel (voice)
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
2013
Co-Producer
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
2012
Co-Producer
Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old...

Sleeping Sickness
2011
Producer
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
2010
Director
A short film by Maren Ade, using re-cut material from 'Everyone Else'.

Everyone Else
2009
Director, Writer, Producer
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
2007
Producer
Five young Europeans (German, English, and Irish) try to find answers to life's questions in India and Thailand.

The Forest for the Trees
2004
Director, Writer
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
2002
Producer
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
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
A short by Maren Ade.
Magic Word
N/A
Director
Set to shoot in 2026. Details TBA.