15.05.2019 | Committee 2
At its April meeting, Committee 2 of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein awarded almost 500,000 euros to 19 projects - including Helena Wittmann's deep-sea experimental film "Human Flowers of Flesh" and the documentary "Alles was man braucht" by filmmaker Antje Hubert, which is dedicated to the corner shop in rural regions.
Helena WittmannsHuman Flowers of Flesh (100,000 euros, fünferfilm, Hamburg) is an experimental film that touches all the senses. The filmmaker tells the story of protagonist Ida, who lives on a sailing yacht with her crew of five and whose life takes a new direction one day in Marseille through the French Foreign Legion. Wittmann's debut "Drift" was shown at the film festivals in Venice and Rotterdam, among others. The production company fünferfilm was last seen with "Olanda" at the 2019 Berlinale.
In her DocumentaryEverything you need filmmaker Antje Hubert (85,000 euros, mairafilm, Hamburg) sets out in search of "corner shops" - or rather the places where they used to be - and tells the story of shopping in the countryside. A journey through the villages in the north and east of Germany, which will take the filmmaker to Schleswig-Holstein for 14 days.
The DocumentaryPeople, Gods and other Creatures by Svetlana Strelnikova (55,000 euros, Doppelplusultra Film und TV Produktion, Hamburg) focuses on a small Greek island in the Mediterranean, where former Russian nuclear scientists analyse the coexistence of a small group of islanders: Dropouts from all over the world who have come to the island to actually live far away from social constraints.
A total of ten projects will receive production funding totalling 431,000 euros. Around two thirds of the funding, 296,000 euros to be precise, will go to five projects directed by women, including the experimental filmBorder Control by Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler (28,000 euros, Hamburg) and the puppet Stop MotionFrom the hand to the head by Arved Lindau and Lina Paulsen (28,000 euros, Hamburg). Other funded projects include the DocumentaryJonas in the Fields by Hamburg film artist Peter Sempel (37,000 euros, Hamburg), the animated short film Jack Mate by Directors Tobias Sandberger and Executive Producer Nils Hartlef (36,000 euros, Hamburg), the short filmStill life by Roland Puknat and Script Writer Vivien Salo (25,000 euros, Halstenbek), Sören Wendt's children's filmTractor comes along! (27,000 euros, Hamburg) with Script Writers Finn-Ole Heinrich and Dita Zipfel and the short filmWhat everything could be by Pourya Ezzati Pour (10,000 euros, Lüneburg).
There is a funding commitment in project development for two Documentaries: 15,000 euros will go to Adnan and Nina Softic forOn the Ground and a further 16,000 euros for Martin Prinoth'sCorrespondence of a War Photographer (Against Reality Pictures, Hamburg). In addition, seven films were awarded screening grants totalling 35,000 euros. The funded projects include the cinema campaignEine Stadt sieht einen Film (10,000 euros), theZeise Open Air 2019 (8,000 euros, Zeise cinemas) and theFilm nights at the Millerntor (5,500 euros, 3001 cinema).
The funding decisions were made on Wednesday, 17 April 2019 by committee members Helge Albers, Birgit Glombitza, Timo Großpietsch, Joachim Kühn, Arne Sommer and Andres Veiel.
