We met last year and clicked right away. Now it’s finally happening. Very excited to welcome Joana Caiano to our roster.
Besides her lovely personality, we are big fans of her films and are looking forward to supporting her as a young director as she continues to grow in our industry.
Joana Caiano is a Portuguese director, based between Lisbon and London, who is in love with humour, social dilemmas and above all, a perfectly timed awkward silence. After graduating from Bournemouth Film School, she completed further courses at the National Film and Television School in the UK, including Comedy Writing and Directing Actors. She’s a director across all formats - from commercial to narrative, all the way to music video - bringing a storyteller’s perspective to set.
Welcome @joana_caiano !
We’ve been quite busy over the past few months building a couple of „treehouses“ with Bosch. Happy to share one of the first finished pieces.
By Ben Callner
Client: Bosch Powertools
Carolin Bohn & Nora Garcia Franco
Agency: Heimat TBWA @heimattbwa
Creative Director: Sebastian Hoelzer
Artdirector: Robert Wagner
Copywriter: Baski Asatiani
Creative: Diogo Festa Ferreira Brandao
Consulting: Anja Schwarzmann, Malene Maschmann, Lena Bodin
Producer: Thilo Strecker
Director: Ben Callner @bencallner
DOP: Mathias Schöningh @mathias_schoeningh
Executive Producer: Jan Fincke
Producer: Vincent Taeger
Production Coordinator: Laura Keiser
Post Producer: Michel Hoffmanns
Production Design: Bader El Hindi
Art Director: Claire Grittens
Styling: Bridget Baker
Photographer: Jan Kopetzky
Postproduktion: CZAR Film
VFX & 3D: BaconX
VFX Producer: Crystal Campbell, Daniella Strand
VFX Supervisor: Jonas Drehn
Editor: Andrej Gontcharov
Additional Editor: Facundo Sanchez
Colorist: Sam Gilling
Online: Neil Reynolds
Versioning: Anastasiia Vorobeva
Music, Sounddesign & Mix: JvM Music
JURY 2026
Meet jury member JAN FINCKE - MD & Partner of CZAR Film, Germany.
Swipe to learn more about Jan, and keep an eye out on the YDA website as we gradually reveal the full jury team for 2026.
SKUNK is back
Proudly announcing @koenmortier ‘s feature film @skunkthefilm
Starting 9th of April in certain cinema‘s all over Germany.
Soundtrack by Amenra
Their lead singer Colin even plays the father in the film.
For those who find it hard to settle for just one. Especially when you’re at the front of the line at Burger King.
By Lars Timmermann
Client: BurgerKing @burgerkingde
Yvonne von Eyb / Elâ Winnefeld / Henrike Seedorf
Agency: Grabarz & Partner @grabarzundpartner
ECD: Robin Seufert
CD: Sara Peterek
Agency Producer: Petra Ahrens
Account: Denise Ewald
Director: Lars Timmermann @larstimmermann
DOP: Adrian Langenbach @adrianlangenbach
Executive Producer: Thorne Mutert
Producer: Julia Weber
Production Coordinator: Karin Schelhas
Postproducer: Charlie Herzmann
Production Designer: Betty Hagemann
Styling: Josepha Mars
Food Styling: Frank Weymann
Editor: Alex Kutka
Postproduction: CZAR Berlin
Colorist: Max Baule
Online Artist: Tim Hildebrandt & Anastasiia Vorobeva
Sound Studio: StuFu Hamburg
Sound engineer: Jochen Kömpe (StuFu)
Music Composer: Wolfsrudel Music @wolfsrudelmusic
Well, we didn’t want to keep this beauty of a spot from you.
A story about growing up and the feeling of being out of place.
By Vincent René-Lortie @vincentrenelortie
Oh, these news, these wonderful news - that @simonverhoeven_official ’s film has climbed to Nr.1 in the German cinema and arthouse charts.
In case you haven’t seen it yet, grab some popcorn, maybe a few tissues, and go see it on the big screen!
@warnerbrosde
Latest Spot by @oneday.xyz for Piguet Galland.
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