TV-Doc /
Premiere: arte, 02.10.16, 11:15am /
Director: Adolfo Conti /
Producers: Costanza Julia Bani, Fabian Martin Diering and Amalia Carandini /
Production Companies: Molly Aida Film GmbH (Germany) and Doc Art (Italy) /
Co-Produced by: NDR/arte /
Funded through: Creative Europe MEDIA TV Programming /
Licensed by: RSI (Switzerland), AVRO (The Netherlands), SKY Italia, ERT (Greece) /

The Little Black Dress: nothing like this little piece of black fabric has been the leader and witness of women’s transformation in taste and fashion. From Chanel to Audrey Hepburn, from Dolce & Gabbana to Karl Lagerfeld and Iris Van Herpen: the past, the present and the future of the Little Black Dress. The countless interpretations of this dress make us ask ourselves: what is and what will be the essence of fashion’s creative act? How did and does “the frock that everybody will wear”, as the American Vogue declared … Read More »

Creative Documentary /
In Development /
Director: Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher /
Producers: Costanza Julia Bani, Fabian Martin Diering and Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher /
Production Companies: Molly Aida Film GmbH (Germany) and Supernormals (USA) /

Concrete Empire website

From 1967 to 1986 Albania built 750,000 bunkers for a war that would never happen. With a population of only 3,5 million, the bunkers totalled one for every four citizens. The construction of these concrete domes – ordered by the dictator Enver Hoxha -, led to years of seclusion, economic crisis, and corruption.

“Concrete Empire” is a feature length documentary that explores the history of the Albanian people; their trials, tribulations and triumphs during and after communist rule.
The film poses many questions: How is a community shaped by the extreme paranoia of a single person and its resulting isolation? How do individuals live through extreme hardship? How does a nation redefine … Read More »

Creative Documentary /
Theatrical Release: March 2017 /
Director: Signe Astrup /
Producers: Costanza Julia Bani, Fabian Martin Diering and Signe Astrup /
Production Companies: Molly Aida Film GmbH and Sineast Filmproduktion (Germany) /
Funded through: BKM / DFFF /
Co-produced by: Bayerischer Rundfunk, Cine+ (Germany) and DR-K (Denmark) /
Licensed by: UR (Sweden) /
Distribution: Salzgeber Medien (Germany), Illumina Films (World Sales – The Netherlands

Forgotten Army Website

“The Forgotten Army” tells the story of former GDR (German Democratic Republic) soldiers, who after the Berlin Wall fell, haven’t come to terms with their past. Divided between radicals and legalists they are unable to find a real new identity in re-unified Germany. Since 1989 more than 250,000 border guards, high officers of the National People’s Army and Stasi officers not only lost their jobs, but also their homeland and their identities. They all did what they were told to do, … Read More »

Fiction Feature /
In Development /
Director: Saverio Pesapane /
Producers: Costanza Julia Bani, Fabian Martin Diering, Giovanni Pompili and Vlad Ketkovich /
Production Companies: Molly Aida Film GmbH (Germany), Kino Produzioni (Italy) and Ethnofund (Russia) /
Development funded through: Goethe Institute Moscow, AG DOK and DRA e.V. (Deutsch-Russischer Austausch e.V.) /
Nominated for: Biennale College Filmfestival Venice 2016 /

Boris, a Yakut/Russian around 20, wants to go to the „continent“ – as they call the rest of Russia in Siberia – and leave his hometown behind: Mirny, a former Soviet mono-city built on permafrost and diamond mine on the border of the biggest excavated hole in the world. Forced to save someone dear in the taiga, he has to confront himself with the old shaman and hunting traditions he has lost sight of and might change his mind.