X Filme Creative Pool

X Filme Creative Pool is a German television and film production company based in Berlin.

History X Filme was founded in 1994 in Berlin by the directors Tom Tykwer, Dani Levy and Wolfgang Becker and the producer Stefan Arndt. The inspiration for X Filme Creative Pool were the founders of United Artists, with the idea that artistic and, above all, economic independence should enable more creative work. The first film that X Filme produced was Dani Levy's Silent Night in 1995. In 1998, the company became synonymous with a new, young German cinema thanks to the international success of Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run. This was followed by other films that were successful at the box office and in some cases also with film critics, such as Tykwer's Heaven, Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! and Levy's Alles auf Zucker!. In 2000, however, 50.1% of the shares were sold to Berlin-based Senator Film.

In 2000, the company founded its own film distribution company , which works closely with the German branch of Warner Bros. using its distribution structure. X Filme has also been working with Warner Home Video in the home entertainment sector since the end of 2001, supplying content that WHV Germany and WHV Switzerland distribute through their traditional channels.

After Senator Film went broke in 2004, the partners tried to buy the company back from the bankruptcy estate. However, this was unsuccessful, so Becker, Tykwer and Levy founded Y Filme in February 2006. In February 2008, Senator Film announced its separation from X Filme while maintaining distribution arrangements. Stefan Arndt, Dani Levy and Tom Tykwer continued to manage the company. In May 2024, Tykwer took over the managing director position from Arndt, with Uwe Schott, a producer who had joined X Filme in 2009, joining Tykwer to head the company.

Filmography Feature films, television films and short films produced by X Filme, including co-productions and films distributed through its distribution arm : Film

Year German or Original Title English Language Distribution Title Director Type 1995 Stille Nacht Silent Night Dani Levy Feature 1997 Das Leben ist eine Baustelle Life Is All You Get Wolfgang Becker Feature Winterschläfer Winter Sleepers Tom Tykwer Feature 1998 Lola rennt Run Lola Run Tom Tykwer Feature Meschugge The Giraffe Dani Levy Feature 1999 Absolute Giganten - Sebastian Schipper Feature 2000 - Feature Der Krieger und die Kaiserin The Princess and the Warrior Tom Tykwer Feature 2001 - Feature - Feature Herz Heart Feature 2002 Heaven - Tom Tykwer Feature I'm the Father Dani Levy Feature 2003 Good Bye, Lenin! - Wolfgang Becker Feature Der alte Affe Angst Angst Oskar Roehler Feature liegen lernen Learning to Lie Henk Handloegten Feature 4 Freunde und 4 Pfoten - Gabriele Heberling Feature 2004 Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken Love in Thoughts Achim von Borries Feature True - Tom Tykwer Short Jargo - María Solrun Feature Lautlos Soundless Mennan Yapo Feature Edelweißpiraten Edelweiss Pirates Niko von Glasow Feature En Garde - Ayse Polat Feature Agnes und seine Brüder Agnes and His Brothers Oskar Roehler Feature Alles auf Zucker! Go for Zucker Dani Levy Feature The Red Cockatoo Dominick Graf Feature 2005 Underexposure - Oday Rasheed Feature Ich Dich auch Love Me Do Christiane Voss Documentary 2006 - Franka Potente Short Ein Freund von mir A Friend of Mine Sebastian Schipper Feature 2007 Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler My Führer – The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler Dani Levy Feature Goodbye Bafana Goodbye Bafana/The Color of Freedom (US) Bille August Feature Max Minsky and Me Feature The Three Robbers Feature Liebesleben Love Life Maria Schrader Feature Meine schöne Bescherung Messy Christmas Feature 2008 Melodies of Spring Feature Funny Games U.S. Funny Games Michael Haneke Feature Der Mongole Mongol Sergei Bodrov Feature - Michael Klier Feature 2009 Lulu & Jimi Lulu and Jimi Oscar Roehler Feature Die Gräfin The Countess Julie Delpy Feature Das weiße Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte The White Ribbon Michael Haneke Feature 2010 Das Leben ist zu lang Life Is Too Long Dani Levy Feature Drei Three Tom Tykwer Feature 2012 Little Thirteen - Feature Liebe Amour Michael Haneke Feature Lullaby Ride Christoph Schaub Feature Cloud Atlas - Lana and Lilly Wachowski, Tom Tykwer Feature 2014 Das finstere Tal The Dark Valley Andreas Prochaska Feature 2016 - Feature Vor der Morgenröte Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe Maria Schrader Feature 2017 Happy End - Michael Haneke Feature 2019 - Feature 2020 Die Känguru-Chroniken The Kangaroo Chronicles Dani Levy Feature 2022 The Kangaroo Conspiracy , :de:Alexander Berner Feature 2023 - Lars Kraume Feature 2025 Das Licht The Light Tom Tykwer Feature

Television

Year German or Original Title English Language Distribution Title Director Type 2015 Unter Gaunern - , Andreas Menck TV series 2016 - Sebastian Marka TV episode 2017 - Emily Atef TV series - :de:Philip Koch TV series episode Babylon Berlin - Henk Handloegten, Achim von Borries, Tom Tykwer TV series 2018 - Philip Koch TV series episode - Philip Koch TV series episode 2019 - TV series episode 2020 - Diminick Graf, Pia Strietmann TV series episode 2021 - , TV series - several TV series - TV series - Magnus Martens, Lars Kraume TV series

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