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Franziska Kabutke was born in 1996 in nuremberg and now based in munich. In 2017 she graduated her apprenticeship as a media designer in image and sound at a creative agency in her hometown. Afterwards, she began her studies in film & animation and photography at the technical university of nuremberg, faculty of design. After two years she pursued a different path, dedicating her studies in cinematography. For five months she worked at ARRI rental munich at the camera, light and grip department. She particularly was enthusiastic about the analogue film technology. Her dreams came true, after she got accepted at the renowned film academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2019. Alongside her studies in cinematography, she also works as a freelance director of photography and photographer.
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nominations & festivals
Die Vergänglichkeit des Bernd Hasselhuhn (2021)
nomination for the Cinematography Award, Watersprite Film Festival
won audience Award, 13th Frankfurt International Lights Film Festival
filmography
phoenix (WT) | fiction | director: Sofie Hirschmüller | filmacademy Baden-Wuerttemberg
Nicht vor meiner Tür (WT) (2025/26) | documentary | director: Laura Hornberger | filmacademy Baden-Wuerttemberg
Niemandsland (WT) | documentary | director: Esra Laske | third picture GBR & SWR
gaia | animation | director: Gwenola Heck | filmacademy Baden-Wuerttemberg & animationinstitut
Ein dicker Sommer (2024) | documentary | director: Laura Hornberger | filmacademy Baden-Wuerttemberg
Hinter den Farben (2023) | documentary | director: Julia Groteclaes | filmacademy Baden-Wuerttemberg & SWR
blackout 77 (2022) | fiction, short | director: Klaus Merkel | filmacademy Baden-Wuerttemberg
Who are EU (2022) | documentary | director: Maite Bengsch | filmacademy Baden-Wuerttemberg
forever young (2021) | fiction, short | director: Max Rainer | filmacademy Baden-Wuerttemberg
everything was forever, until it was no more (2021) | documentary | director: Vincent Kaya-Moeller | filmacademy Baden-Wuerttemberg
bittersüß (2021) | experimental, short | director: Lea Fleischer | filmacademy Baden-Wuerttemberg
januhairy (2021) | fiction, short | director: Lea Lembke & Karla Riebartsch | filmacademy Baden-Wuerttemberg
they say (2020) | fashion | director: Lea Fleischer | Phosphen Produktion
Die Vergänglichkeit des Bernd Hasselhuhn (2020) | fiction, short | director: Max Rainer | filmacademy Baden-Wuerttemberg
fesk (2020) | fiction, short | director: Lea Fleischer | Phosphen Produktion & Technische Hochschule Nuernberg Faculty of Design
moíra (2019) | fiction, short | director: Lea Fleischer | Phosphen Produktion
fool - parlant | music video | director: Lea Fleischer | Phosphen Produktion & Technische Hochschule Nuernberg Faculty of Design