For over 30 years, the German film-production company Ma.ja.de. has consistently delivered documentaries and feature films selected at international festivals and securing worldwide distribution.Ma.ja.de. was founded in 1991 by Heino Deckert and has since worked with outstanding international filmmakers such as Sergej Loznitsa, Pirjo Honkassalo, Vitalij Manskij, Viktor Kossakovsky, Ulrike Ottinger, Ai Weiwei, Heidi Specogna and Thomas Heise.Ma.ja.de. Filmproduction has produced more than 120 documentary films to date. In 2005 Ma.ja.de. Fiction has been founded. Our films have been shown at all the world's major festivals, including six films at the Cannes Film Festival, two of them in competition, and seven films in Venice. Ma.ja.de. was the executive producer of nine of these productions.In 2024, the documentary ARCHITECTON by Victor Kossakovsky celebrated its world premiere in competition at the Berlinale. In 2023 THE UNIVERSAL THEORY screened in Venice Competition and won the Critics' Award. In 2021, INVISIBLE DEMONS by Rahul Jain celebrated its premiere in Cannes. In the same year, STAND UP MY BEAUTY by Heidi Specogna and Srđjan Dragojević's HEAVENS ABOVE premiered in Locarno and Oleg Sentsov's RHINO in Venice. HEIMAT IST EIN RAUM AUS ZEIT by Thomas Heise was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2020 German Film Awards. It premiered at the 2019 Berlinale, where it was awarded the Caligari Prize and the main prize at Visions du Réel. AQUARELA by Victor Kossakovsky was shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2020 and, together with HEIMAT, was the only German film on the shortlist of the European Film Awards 2019.THE CAVE by director Feras Fayyad, a co-production with Danish Documentary, won the People's Choice Award in Toronto in 2019. In 2020, the film won two Emmys and the German Documentary Film Award and was nominated for an Oscar.