DIRK VAN DEN BERG

Regisseur / Produzent

Dirk is a director, writer and producer with wide international experience. His last film AGAINST THE CLOCK aka DOOMSDAY CLOCK focuses on the greatest man-made threats to mankind and the story of the "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", founded by Einstein, Oppenheimer and other scientists in 1945 and still active today. The film premieres in late 2023 on ARTE.

Dirk directed and produced the film together with his French partner Pascal Verroust: the duo has been working together since 2016, when they met on…

THE SIEGE OF MECCA, the first comprehensive investigation of the hijacking of Islam's holiest shrine in Saudi Arabia. After five years of extensive investigative researtch, the film reveals previously unknown facts and shows never-before-seen footage of a crucial event of world history. MECCA was supported by ARTE France, NDR, WDR, HR, RBB, ORF, FFHSH Hamburg, CNC, INA France; world sales by PBS International.

In 2019 Dirk and Pascal followed up directing and producing 1979 BIG BANG OF THE PRESENT, about the pivotal year that gave birth to the 21st century and our modern era. The film, described as "a rollercoaster of history, was co-produced by ARTE, Toute L'Histoire, RTS, ORF, TVP and INA France, and sustained by CNC.

90 / 2x45 - directed / produced by Dirk van den Berg & Pascal Verroust

Uncovering the origins of our current era, showing never-before-seen footage and protagonists that made world history from a time that was the Big Bang of our present, this film takes audiences on a rollercoaster ride into the year 1979.

1979 BIG BANG (2019)

90m / 52m - directed and produced by Dirk van den Berg

The world's first investigative documentary into the battle for Islam's holiest shrine that cost thousands of lives, shook Saudi Arabia to its foundations, pushed the global balance of power to the brink of collapse and marked the beginning of religiously motivated terrorism.

90 / 2x45 - directed / produced by Dirk van den Berg & Pascal Verroust

Nuclear weapons, climate change, and digital disinformation are the greatest threats to mankind. This film narrates how humanity got to the brink of self-destruction, along the history of the "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", founded in 1945 and to this date the sole organization addressing interconnected global risks. Along the catastrophe-gauging ticks of the "Doomsday Clock", this film shows how we can still avert catastrophe from the threats we created ourselves.

35m - written & directed by Dirk van den Berg (2016)

The new instalment of our journey into the Origins of Music ("guzo" in the Amharic language means "the journey") with world-famous pianist Samuel Yirga. This time we travel to Gondar and the unexplored troubadour villages 850 kilometers north of the capital Addis Ababa.

THE SIEGE OF MECCA (2017)

DOOMSDAY CLOCK (2023)

45' - written & directed by Dirk van den Berg (2012)

A rare glance into Kashmir, one of the world's most remote and inaccessible regions in the North of India. Much of the people's life happens on water. This film is offers a glimpse into the unknown floating world of the "hangi", the water-people of Kashmir.

79' - written & directed by Dirk van den Berg (2013)

After the era of 'Swinging Addis' was killed by the grim Marxist regime of the 'Derg', it took until the 21st century that a new generation of young Ethiopian musicians began to fill the void. This is their story, their music, and a declaration of love to Addis Ababa.

GUZO - ORIGINS OF MUSIC (2016)