Of gendernauts and G20 actions

20 years after her documentary Gendernauts, filmmaker Monika Treut returns inGendernauts Revisited (70,000 euros, Hyena Films, Hamburg) returns to San Francisco to reunite with the transsexual protagonists of her classic film. Back then, they were the "young pioneers" of the trans movement in a city that was considered a Mecca for outsiders. Today, they are between 50 and 80 years old and live in Trump-era America. How have their lives changed since then? Treut has been shaping feminist and lesbian cinema since the 1980s and received the Special TEDDY Award for her life's work at the 2017 Berlinale.

Images of the violent excesses, looting and arson at the G20 summit in Hamburg went around the world. The colourful protest performances on the streets, such as the "1,000 Gewalten" action, in which artists walked through the streets with faces painted in clay, were quickly overshadowed by the escalating violence. Rasmus Gerlach collects with his film projectPerforming G20 (45,000 euros, KINOKI, Hamburg) captures the most impressive moments of the art actions, talks to those involved and affected and thus creates a complex picture of the summit days.

Among the projects supported by the German-Turkish Co-Production Development Fund is the dramaWhen I'm Done Dying by Nisan Dağ (20,000 euros, Red Balloon, Hamburg). The film is about the young, talented rapper Fehmi, who gets the chance to escape Istanbul's slums. But his addiction to the deadly drug "Bonzai" jeopardises everything.

A total of six documentary film projects, one feature film and one animated short film will receiveProduction funding. Hamburg-based animated film artist Mariola Brillowska also received a grant. Her autobiographical film Hausverbot, which is set in Hamburg and Gdansk, will receive 15,000 euros in theProject development as well as five other film projects totalling 75,000 euros. These include thePre-Crime-SuccessorGig Economy by Monika Hielscher and Matthias Heeder (20,000 euros, Kloos & Co Nord, Hamburg) and the long-term documentary Helene Geht by Pia Lenz (20,000 euros, Pier 53, Hamburg) about love and saying goodbye. Former HfbK professor Lene Markusen will be honoured for herScreenplay funding of their dramaRomy and Julia 15,000 euros. Four further projects receiveLending promotion.

Cinema funding Two Hamburg film theatres will receive a grant of around 10,000 euros: B-Movie will receive a cash injection for the 2nd Hamburg Film-In (3,000 euros) and its Kidlat Tahimik retrospective (3,500 euros). The Metropolis cinema will receive further funding for the film series Kühne Pioniere des Kinos - Ridwik Ghatak (5,000 euros).A detailed overview of all funded film projects is available on our website.

The funding decisions were made by: Timo Großpietsch, Katrin Klamroth, Maria Köpf, Joachim Kühn, Arne Sommer, Andres Veiel. Committee 2 of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (FFHSH) is responsible for projects with production costs of up to 800,000 euros.