The German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) is a film school in Berlin and was founded in 1966. It has established itself as an essential part of the city's media and cultural scene.

Together with the Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e. V., the Arsenal cinema and the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen, the academy is located in the Filmhaus of the Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz.

The DFFB is financed by the State of Berlin, represented here by the Governing Mayor and the Senate Chancellery. The DFFB is run as a non-profit limited liability company with the state of Berlin as its sole shareholder. The three-parity composition of the committees distinguishes the academy from comparable film schools.

One of the basic principles of the DFFB is that film cannot be taught, it can only be learned. There is a generalist basic training for all subjects in the first year at the Academy, in which all students, whether screenwriting, cinematography, editing, production or directing, have to fulfill various tasks such as cinematography and directing, as well as film production management. Only then is the course divided into the individual faculties. The affiliated screenwriting academy concentrates entirely on screenwriting from the second year onwards. The focus of the academy is the strongly practice-oriented studies. Through intensive cooperation with television stations, 8-12 feature-length fiction and documentary films are co-produced each year. (Source: Wikipedia)