Christoph Röhl

Christoph Röhl (born 1967 in Brighton) is an award-winning British-German filmmaker.

Career

Christoph Röhl studied film directing at the Berlin Film Academy in Germany where he made a number of short films that received numerous international awards including the National German Film Prize.

He founded the Met Film School on Ealing Studios and was its first School Director from 2003 to 2007.

His first feature film, "A Piece of Me", was released in German cinemas in 2009. His follow-up film was a documentary called We’re Not The Only Ones. The film dealt with the child sex abuse scandal at the well-known Odenwald School. It was praised for raising awareness of the abuse of boys and of the lifelong suffering it causes. The film was nominated for a German TV Award in 2011 and won the Robert-Geisendörfer-Prize in 2012. In 2014 he directed the film "The Chosen Ones" with Ulrich Tukur and Julia Jentsch in the lead roles. It was nominated for the Prix Europa Award 2014 and won Best Film at the Zoom Festival in Barcelona.

In 2014 he was presented with The World Childhood Foundation Award by Queen Sylvia of Sweden for "outstanding work in raising awareness of child sex abuse".

Filmography (Selection)

Awards

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