FILM

Everything begins with a good story.
Whether her own production or commissioned work, she furnishes them with experience and her artistic signature. Her films turn to the obvious, the everyday, as well as the ostensibly foreign. They connect the personal with the social and open up the view into our core and onto the big wide world. Anna Ditges is also active as a dramaturgical consultant in the creation of treatments and scripts as well as in editing.

Parkplatz, Coney Island
© Anna Ditges New York 2009

For me, making films is like stopping time. Examining a life under a microscope. Observing a strange world up close. Empathizing. I can say in real life: Stop! Look here – a life, which could be yours.

Anna

Anna Ditges is a screenplay writer, director, producer and coach. She lives in Cologne. She is a member of the Filmbüro NW, the Verband Deutscher Drehbuchautoren of Pro Quote Film and WIFT. She is a graduate of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and is certified in the Travis Technique.

Since 2025, Anna Ditges has been running various writing workshops and teaching Film Direction & Editing at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences.

In 2024, Anna Ditges completes additional training as a business coach at the Industrie- und Handelskammer zu Köln.

In 2023, four episodes of the award-winning youth series Schloss Einstein are broadcast, directed by Anna Ditges and produced by Saxonia Media, MDR.

2021–2022 Anna Ditges develops The woman on the phone, a mini-series with Iris Berben, production Moovie GmbH, producer Sarah Kirkegaard, as screenplay writer.

2020-2021 Anna Ditges develops her feature film debut Under my skin – the fluid light of the divinity in the context of the mentoring programme Into the Wild. In addition, she hones her directing and performance management skills under Mark Travis in Los Angeles and takes part in his Director’s Lab, a sixteen-week international study programme for selected directors*

2018-2019 Anna Ditges completes the one-year Drehbuchwerkstatt München at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen.

2002-2017 Anna Ditges creates documentaries as an author-producer. I Want You – Meeting Hilde Domin is her multi-award-winning cinematic debut from 2008 which she directs and is also the cinematographer, editor and producer. The documentary film is shown at numerous international film festivals and is viewed by over 33,000 visitors in German arthouse cinemas. In 2015, the second cinema documentary film follows: Who owns the city – Citizens in action is also successful at international festivals, generating a great deal of social debate on the subject of democracy and codetermination.

2009 Anna Ditges receives a stipendiary for a two-month screenplay study course at the New York Film Academy.

2008 Anna Ditges furthers her studies as a producer at the Mediengründerzentrum NRW.

2002 Anna Ditges completes her studies (film/television direction) at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne with a degree in Audio-visual Media.