Matthew Rimmer
The Talented Mr F follows two filmmakers trying to find their stolen movie https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-19/talented-mr-f-documentary-german-film-festival/106690906 #copyright #film #plagiarism #moralrights
Two German film students track down their stolen movie in new doco

What do you do when your stolen film wins a slew of awards for the thief? In the case of these filmmakers, you travel across the globe to hunt him down.

May 19 at 9:24pmWeb
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He stole their film – so they made a movie about him as revenge https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/he-stole-their-film-so-they-made-a-movie-about-him-as-revenge-20260519-p5zynv.html #copyright #film #plagiarism
He stole their film – so they made a movie about him as revenge

When two young filmmakers in Germany discovered an American was passing off their work as his own, they confronted him – with the cameras rolling.

The Sydney Morning Herald