We are hiring!
Akkord Film is looking for a Production Manager [m/f/d] (32-40 hours/week), preferrably on site at our Hamburg studio.
We look forward to receiving your detailed application (in English or German) at bewerbung@akkord.film!
CG-Animation Production Manager (f/m/d), starting 1 June 2026 / 1 July 2026 (32-40h/week]
Akkord Film is looking for a CG-Animation Line Producer [m/f/d] (32-40 hours/week), preferrably on site at our Hamburg studio.
We look forward to receiving your detailed application (in English or German) at bewerbung@akkord.film!
CG-Animation Line Producer (f/m/d), starting 1 June 2026 / 1 July 2026 (32-40h/week]
Get ready to be enchanted by our chaotic rabbit kids from RABBIT ACADEMY with daily broadcasts starting March 27, 2026, at 6 p.m. on KiKA and on KiKA Player. In 52 x 11minute episodes, you can accompany city rabbits Max, Kela, and Chester on their adventures at a magical boarding school deep in the forest. These action-packed and emotional stories were created in co-production with SERU Animation, 2 Minutes (France) and FormArt (Hungary), in collaboration with SWR, KiKA, NDR, HR, and funded by MFG, nordmedia, MEDIA – Creative Europe, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, CNC and Hungarian Film Incentive. The series was directed by Emilie Rimetz and produced by Akkord Film (Dirk Beinhold, Valentin Greulich). It is inspired by the classic German children’s book by Albert Sixtus and Fritz Koch-Gotha, and the highly successful 3D-animated films RABBIT SCHOOL – GUARDIANS OF THE GOLDEN EGG and RABBIT ACADEMY – MISSION EGGPOSSIBLE.
The series RABBIT ACADEMY expands this universe with a fresh perspective: inspired by the films but faster, cooler, and in cartoonish 2D. We can‘t wait for the world to watch our show!
A great cinema moment on our way to a final movie: The film team happily screened the first final shots of our film GUARDIAN RABBITS – THE SECRET OF THE GOLDEN EGG at Hamburg Savoy Cinema. A lovely moment that captures the joy of collaborating on a truly special project with arx anima and SERU Animation.
Business insiders discovered rabbits from our upcoming series RABBIT ACADEMY during MipCom in Cannes! Eyewitnesses sighted them during the world’s biggest entertainment trade fair at the stand of international distributor Global Constellation from where they’re expected to hop onto screens worldwide. We’re excited about the strong presence!
Our SUPER ELFKINS have already delighted young and old alike in around two thousand cinemas in Europe and Asia, the latest appearance being at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Now, they are also conquering screens in Latin America: Colombia’s “National Children’s Weekend” provides the perfect launch pad for the film’s release on the 30th of October!
Elfie & Co.’s second big adventure is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and on various streaming platforms, such as Amazon, iTunes, Sky, MagentaTV, etc.
Have fun with our Elfkins!
Our Rabbit Academy is back in cinemas and on TV this Easter!
You can also follow their adventures on Blu-ray, DVD, and various streaming platforms such as Amazon Prime and YouTube.
We wish you a happy Easter and lots of fun with our long-eared friends!
Akkord Film is looking for a Production Assistant / Office Management [m/f/d] part-time (10-12 hours/week) at our location in Hamburg.
We look forward to receiving your detailed applications (in English or German) at bewerbung@akkord.film!
Office Management / Production Assistant [m/f/d] Part-time 10-12 hours/week
Cologne, hometown of THE SUPER ELFKINS, hosted the celebration of the film’s premiere with 800 guests attending last weekend. Celebrity voice artists, visual artists, producers and the director, as well as distributors and some of the film funding chiefs who enabled us to make the film, came together to celebrate the event. After further premieres in Vienna, Berlin, Hannover and Stuttgart, THE SUPER ELFKINS will make families happy starting Christmas Even in cinemas everywhere in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Check out the German version of The Super Elfkins, DIE HEINZELS – NEUE MÜTZEN, NEUE MISSION!
Coming to German speaking cinemas everywhere, this Christmas Eve!
Elfie and her companions whirl back into the German TV-program with The Elfkins – Baking a Difference. On the 29th of November, 7:30pm on KiKa, you can once again immerse yourself in the world of our favorite pointed hats. An Elfkins-foretaste for the upcoming cinema release of the second film: The Super Elfkins.
Earlier this month, Akkord’s Co-CEO Valentin Greulich was invited to Madrid by Cartoon Media to give feedback as an expert on junior projects. Akkord is looking forward to encouraging talented individuals in their endeavors!
We are overjoyed that THE SUPER ELFKINS has been so well received by Swiss audiences. There is nothing better than being honored by the very people for whom this film was made – children! Our ELFKIN heroes can’t wait for the Swiss theatrical release this Christmas Eve!
Christmas Eve 2024 marks the return of Elfkin girl Elfie and her entourage to German cinemas, followed by a worldwide rollout in 2025.
In late September already, the Elfkins will be making their way to Chemnitz, Saxony, where the film will be shown publicly for the first time at the Schlingel International Film Festival on September 28th.
Following that, over 1,000 attendees will celebrate our Hamburg team at the MICHEL Film Festival in Hamburg on the German Unification Day (October 3rd)
The Super Elfkins will then travel to Switzerland – to enjoy the spotlight at the Zurich Film Festival.
We would like to thank the film festivals for this brilliant festival kick-off!
We couldn’t be more proud of the many talented people who made this happen – the teaser-trailer for our film “The Super Elfkins” is finally out!
Get a taste of the incredible adventure that’s awaiting you in cinemas. Check it out and join us in the countdown to the film’s worldwide releases in 2025!
After 1.5 years of production, the first finished shots were approved by the core team at the Savoy Film Theater in Hamburg last week. The team from Vienna, Berlin, Madrid, Ludwigsburg and Hamburg came together for this emotional moment.
We can’t wait for the theatrical release this Christmas!
Just in time for Easter, our beloved film Rabbit Academy – Mission Eggpossible is premiering on German television and will be shown four times. In our big rabbit Easter adventure sneaky city rabbit Leo wants to get rid of Easter once and for all and teams up with the foxes – will Easter rabbits Max, Emmy and their friends manage to stop him?
We were amazed to see SOLA’s beautiful presentation of our upcoming family film The Super Elfkins at the European Film Market during the Berlin Film Festival last week. The film, in which Elfkin girl Elfie discovers a cool Elfkin gang, will be ready for delivery in early fall 2024 and released in German speaking territories by Tobis on Christmas Eve. (left to right: Dirk Beinhold, Solveig Langeland, Johannes Busse, Valentin Greulich, Barbie Heusinger)
Cookies, candlelight and – pointed hats! Our animated feature The Elfkins – Baking a Difference gets Christmas airtime on German television. December 26th, 6.50 a.m. on ZDF & 1.10 p.m. on KiKA. And 24/7 in ZDF’s streaming service – starting December 24th!
It’s getting cold again which means it’s time for a good book. Luckily the beloved witch from our TV series Petronella Applewitch is back in the McDonalds HappyMeal® all over Germany with a book telling the episode “The Moon Bellflower”. So, get cozy and find out if humans and witches can actually cooperate and what the moon bellflower is all about.
In their general meeting last week in Annecy, the members of Animation in Europe (European federation of animation producers organizations) confirmed Akkord Film’s CEO Dirk Beinhold as Vice Chairman. The new board for the next two years represents a diversity of members, including the three other vice Chairpersons, Moe Honan (Moetion Film – Ireland), Pablo Jordi (Pikkukala – Finland), and Ivan Agenjo (Peekaboo Animation – Spain). Philippe Alessandri (Watch Next Media – France) continues as Chairman.
With its call for more European animation productions on streaming platforms, Animation in Europe caused quite a stir in the media during this year’s MIFA, as well as in Kidscreen, C21Media, Cartoon Brew and many more publications.
Animation in Europe (founded in 2016) additionally announced the new membership of Estonia, Greece, and Portugal, bringing its total to 20 European member countries (including the UK).
With its six tv appearances on German television over Easter this year and the streaming availability on Amazon Prime, our film Rabbit School – Guardians of the Golden Egg was a huge success.
And of course, our rabbits are passionate travelers and also celebrated Easter with Rabbit Academy – Mission Eggpossible in other European countries. In Portugal, „Escola de Coelhos – Missão ovo dourado“ is No. 4, just like in Greece. And in Rumania and again in Austria, the film made it into the top 10.
With the re-release of Rabbit School – Guardians of the Golden Egg (2017) and Rabbit Academy – Mission Eggpossible (2022) in over 200 German cinemas Max and his friends have broken the incredible record of over half a million admissions in Germany. Including Austria and Switzerland our rabbits accumulated a total of about 640.000 admissions.
Rabbit power let’s go! While 2023 is the year of the rabbit in Chinese culture, it’s rabbit time in German cinemas over Easter with a re-run of our film Rabbit Academy – Mission Eggpossible. And in addition to that, Max and his friends have an incredible six TV appearances with Rabbit Academy – Guardians of the Golden Egg on German tv!
Berlin based feature film and TV animation production company is looking for an experienced Line Producer, leading up to a position as Head of (Animation) Production. Applicant should be a senior production professional with an extensive background in planning, structuring, managing and overseeing CG (and ideally 2D) animation productions and should be interested in a long-term
engagement at our headquarters in Berlin.
We look forward to your application (English or German CV and ideally salary expectations/history) at bewerbung@akkord.film!
Line Producer Animation (Head of Production) [m/w/d] (32-40 hrs/wk)
And the Oscar goes to…
In an internal Akkord Oscar betting game, our team speculated on who would win one of the coveted Academy Awards®. Especially this year it has been very exciting to see a German film win so many Oscars. And not just for fun: like last year, Akkord Film donated ten times the entire prize money to the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).