Munich
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) is a
German
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film director
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and
screenwriter
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.
Life and work
In 2001 Lola Randl started to study
film direction
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at the
Academy of Media Arts Cologne
The Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) is an art and film school started 1990 in Cologne, Germany
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-m ...
. She graduated in 2006 with the
short film
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''Wohlfühlwochenende''. After her studies in
Cologne
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, she attended the Screenplay Workshop (Drehbuchwerkstatt München) at the Munich University of Film and Television and left in 2007 as a graduate.
' (2008) was Lola Randl's feature film debut and premiered at the
58th Berlin International Film Festival
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.
Filmography (selection)
*2004: ''Nachmittagsprogramm'' (short film) — film direction, screenplay
*2006: ''Feel-Good Weekend / Wohlfühlwochenende'' (short film) — film direction, screenplay
*2008: ''Die Leiden des Herrn Karpf – Der Besuch'' (short film) — film direction, camera, screenplay
*2008: '' / Die Besucherin'' — film direction, screenplay
*2009: ''The Suffering of Mr. Karpf – The Birthday / Die Leiden des Herrn Karpf – Der Geburtstag'' (short film) — film direction, camera, screenplay
*2012: ''The Dragonfly and the Rhinoceros / Die Libelle und das Nashorn'' — film direction, screenplay
*2013: '' / Die Erfindung der Liebe'' - film direction, screenplay
*2014: ''Landschwärmer'' (
TV series
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) - film direction, camera, screenplay
Awards and nominations
* ''Nachmittagsprogramm'' (2004):
**2004: Regensburg Short Film Week: ''Best German Short Film'' Award
* ''The Suffering of Mr. Karpf – The Birthday'' (2009):
**2009:
Berlin International Film Festival
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: ''Prix UIP Berlin (European Short Film)''
**2009:
European Film Awards
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: nomination for ''Best Short Film Award''
* ''The Dragonfly and the Rhinoceros / Die Libelle und das Nashorn'' (2012):
**2012:
Oldenburg International Film Festival
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: nomination for ''German Independence Award: Best German Film''
* ''The Invention of Love'' (2013):
**2013: ''Oldenburg International Film Festival'': nomination for ''German Independence Award: Best German Film''
**2013: ''Oldenburg International Film Festival'': nomination for ''German Independence Award: Audience Award''
**2013:
Zurich Film Festival
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The festival's main focus is to promote emerging filmmakers from all over the world. In three competition categories only first, second ...
: nomination for the ''Golden Eye''-award in the category ''Best German Language Feature Film''
**2016: Nomination for the German TV award
Grimme-Preis
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IMDb
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