Armin Dierolf

Born in Waiblingen, south of Germany, Armin Dierolf learned his trade under acclaimed cinematographers Sophie Maintigneux (Eric Rohmer), Hans Fromm (Christian Petzold), Christian Berger (Michael Haneke) and Michael Ballhaus A.S.C (Martin Scorsese) at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). In addition to numerous short films, Armin lensed the documentary features IN THE YEAR OF THE DOG (Ursula Scheid), DANCING ALONE (Birnur Pilavci) and LIGHTER THAN ORANGE (Matthias Leupold, 2012). After graduating from the dffb in 2011, Armin was Director of Photography on fiction features WHITE SHADOW (Noaz Deshe), COLD SUNDAY (Ivan Pokorny), PETTING ZOO (Micah Magee), SIVAS (Kaan Müdjeci) and NACHSPIELZEIT (Andreas Pieper). Armin Dierolf was awarded the German Cinematography Award while still a student in 2006. His work has been screened at Cannes, Camerimage, Sundance, Venice and Berlinale. In 2012 Armin's dffb thesis film HEADLOCK (Johan Carlsen) won the New Berlin Film Award for best mid-length feature and in 2013 the documentary DANCING ALONE won again the New Berlin Film Award for best feature documentary. In 2013 the feature film WHITE SHADOW gets the Luigi de Laurentiis Award for BEST DEBUT FILM at 70th VENICE FILM FESTVIVAL and in the following year SIVAS gets the SPECIAL JURY PRIZE at the 71st VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2014. PETING ZOO has its Premiere in PANORAMA at 65th BERLINALE 2015, SARAH PLAYS A WEREWOLF is screened again in Venice'Settimana della Critica at 74th VENICE FILM FESTIVAL, while DRII WINTER is screened at the 72nd BERLINALE IN COMPETITION and receives a SPECIAL MENTION. In 2023 SOMEDAY WE'LL TELL US EVERYTHING is presented IN COMPETITION at the 73rd BERLINALE.