For over a year, Gereon Wetzel and Jörg Adolph filmed on site at Düstere Strasse 4 in Göttingen, recording first-hand the organized chaos that is daily working life at Steidl Publishers. From book concept to design, from editorial and prepress to printing, the film exposes the craft of bookmaking today. Accompanying Gerhard Steidl on travels to artists' studios and galleries-from New York and Mabou, to Doha and Vancouver-Wetzel and Adolph also capture some of the unique characters and collaborations through which Steidl books come into being. Gereon Wetzel and Jörg Adolph are filmmakers whose passion is narrative, feature-length documentary films. They are the founders of DocCollection.

How to Make a Book with Steidl is made in collaboration with DocCollection and The Goethe Institute.