
hej!
Franziska Kabutke is a cinematographer with focus on fiction, documentary and stop-motion animation based in munich.
For her, visual storytelling is not about getting lost in aesthetics, but about building atmospheres, relationships and inner states as immersive without drawing attention to itself.
In the last few years stop-motion animation has become an extension of her work as a cinematographer. The practical, hands-on aspect of this medium opens up new ways of thinking and raises different questions about creating visuality and narration. She finds this perspective shift deeply rewarding.
Since 2019 she has been studying cinematography at the renowned Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. Her films have been screened at international film festivals and were nominated for the „Cinematography Award“ at the Watersprite Film Festival.
Alongside her studies, she also works as a freelance director of photography.
Let’s connect and visualize your next story!
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filmography
Schattenflucht | stop motion | director: Amelie Kahlo | filmacademy Baden-Wuerttemberg & animationinstitut
bella brazil (WT) | documentary | director: Leonie Morgenstern | filmacademy Baden-Wuerttemberg
KAN KARDEŞI - THOSE IN BETWEEN (2026) | feature documentary | director: Esra Laske | third picture GBR & SWR
Am Beckenrand (2026) | documentary | director: Laura Hornberger | filmacademy Baden-Wuerttemberg
phoenix (2025) | fiction | director: Sofie Hirschmüller | filmacademy Baden-Wuerttemberg
gaïa (2025) | 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 (2022) | 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
nominations & awards
phönix (2026)
nomination "Nachwuchspreis Montage", Deutscher Kamerapreis
Hinter den Farben (2023)
won dokKa-Preis 2024 Ursula Blickle Stiftung: „Hinter den Farben“
won best documentary 2024 - Filmtage Oberschwaben
Die Vergänglichkeit des Bernd Hasselhuhn (2021)
nomination for the Cinematography Award, Watersprite Film Festival
won audience award, 13th Frankfurt International Lights Film Festival