Dancing questions and dream jobs by algorithm

Directors Dennis Stormer from Schleswig-Holstein is shooting the social science fiction filmThe natives (20,000 euros) is the portrait of a young generation for whom self-realisation is the most important thing in life. Their dream jobs in their village are reliably calculated by an algorithm. Over time, however, it dawns on them that the privilege of self-realisation has led them down a lonely path where there is no room for community. The film is being made as a co-production with Switzerland.

With his coming of age documentaryOtherside(15,000 euros), Lübeck filmmaker Hanno Mertin takes a look at the lives of two young Iranian athletes who don't really want to fit into the Islamic Republic's image of women. What holds them back are society's expectations of women, the harsh hand of the government and the fear of never reaching their goal. They know they have to make a name for themselves - but do they have to face death for their lifelong dream?

Ann Carolin Renninger and René Frölke are travelling with their DocumentaryPendo (15,000 euros) in a Zurich cellar containing the remains of the Pendo publishing house founded in 1971. InDance of colours. The painter Max Pechstein (15,000 euros, IDA Film & TV Produktion, Kiel), Kiel filmmaker Wilfried Hauke deals with the moving story of the successful expressionist painter Max Pechstein, who remained an outsider among the painters of the "Brücke" artists' group throughout his life.Everything will be fine behind the dyke (12,000 euros, Hartfilm, Stapel) says Director and Script Writer Gabriele Kob, whose documentary observes three North Frisian villages that have committed themselves to the common good economy. Rudolf Fitzgerald Leonard's short film dramaDox (12,000 euros, Annika Birgel, Berlin) tells the story of a physiotherapist and her adolescent patient whose world is turned upside down by a controversial internet video. In the documentary short filmMarx quits (8,000 euros, mairafilm, Hamburg), dairy farmer Werner Marx sends himself and his 25 dairy cows into retirement - a film about retirement by Antje Hubert.

Further production funding goes to experimental filmdávny - from listening to time (5,000 euros) by Franz Danksagmüller from Lübeck, the short filmBird Girl (4,000 euros, Pernille Lund, in co-operation with Filmwerkstatt Aarhus) by Directors Ludvig Poulsen and Script Writer Sofie Grud and the DocumentaryRegina (3,000 euros) by Zoran Simić from Kiel. A total of ten projects will receive production funding totalling 109,000 euros. Of this, 36,000 euros will go to three projects directed by women.

Project development funding is available for DocumentariesI paint my world (3,000 euros) by Andrea Christina Furrer,Light and shadow - The Kankada sisters (3,000 euros) by Annika Rothe and Jil Lea Wend,My world is dance: abstract, ugly, moving, honest and beautiful (3,000 euros, Stoehrmedien, Kiel) by Quinka Stoehr andSand Hills (3,000 euros) by Tom Otte and Salka Tiziana Poeschel García-Courtoy.

Distribution and sales support is available forThe donkey's name was Geronimo (5,000 euros, GM Films, Berlin),Yasuni - Parrots, primates, pipelines (5,000 euros) andBeyond the visible - Hilma af Klint (5,000 euros, Ambrosia Film, Berlin).

The funding decisions were made by Arne Sommer, Maja Petersen and Manja Malz on Thursday, 25 April 2019.