The company has a ten-year history of delivering acclaimed films, recent international titles include Chile’s Academy Awards entry The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025), Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun (2024), and Cannes’ Semaine de la Critique winner Tiger Stripes (2023) by Amanda Nell Eu.
Ritter previously served as Executive Vice President at Beta Cinema (2012–2025), overseeing a slate of celebrated films such as System Crasher, Amrum, From Hilde, With Love, The Happy Prince, Nowhere Special, Calibre, and Woman at War. He is Co-founder of the Oldenburg International Film Festival and former Head of Bavaria Film International, where he helped bring landmark titles including Good Bye, Lenin!, Sophie Scholl, The Man Without a Past, Head-On, and Let the Right One In to global attention.
Jonas Weydemann: „Thorsten Ritter and we have a long history together, not just since his successful international marketing of System Crasher. His vast experience, creativity, and commitment to film convinced us to bring him on board as a producer, especially to further develop our international production and co-production activities, with a focus on the UK and English language films in general. At Weydemann Bros, it’s all about the team, and we are delighted to welcome Thorsten to join us.“
Thorsten Ritter: “Working with Jonas, Jakob, and the team at Weydemann Bros is a dream come true. They are as passionate as they are sharp, always finding opportunity in every challenge. I’m excited to contribute my UK contacts and sales perspective, enabling us to discover inspired talents together and collaborate with established filmmakers across a wide range of projects – from films that dare to challenge us, move us, and shift the way we see the world to films that simply put a smile on our face. As long as they’re never trivial and paint-by-numbers – always made with conviction and a soul. Ideally, nothing less than the kind of films we never want to end.”
About Weydemann Bros.:
Weydemann Bros. produces films and series for the German and international market. The team is guided by the vision of an equally political and entertaining filmic storytelling. Weydemann Bros. develops projects together with authors and directors and builds long-term creative partnerships. Films by Weydemann Bros. have won over 100 prizes, among them ten German Film Awards, a Berlinale Silver Bear, an Un Certain Regard Award, a Grand Prix by the Critics Week in Cannes, a Leopard in Locarno, and a European Film Award. The films have been selected as official entries to the Oscars Best Foreign Language Film, have been preselected for numerous German Film Awards and were screened on international film festivals worldwide.
2019 Weydemann Bros. was awarded as one of Variety’s „10 producers to watch“ at the Cannes film festival, won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Producers in 2020 and the Hamburg film festival Best Producers Award in 2021.