Bombastic mood and catcalls

A highly explosive story from Director and Script Writer Linus Krebs: in the comedy Bomberman, 12-year-old Mario and 11-year-old Yunus are certain that a real terrorist is up to mischief in their neighbourhood. It's clear to the kids: the bearded Oriental is planning an attack. But what if they are wrong? The short film was shot over ten days in Schleswig-Holstein and the production was supported with 18,000 euros.

The winner for the best film title has already been announced: the Documentary Katzenjammer Kauderwelsch - A Comic-Pioneer-Story (15,000 euros, Yucca Filmproduktion, Heide) is about two brothers from Heide/Holstein who revolutionised the comic strip in New York at the end of the 19th century. Filmmaker Martina Fluck joins Tim Eckhorst, himself an important illustrator, on a search for clues in the USA.

Gisela Tuchtenhagen and Margot Neubert-Maric take a journey back into a dark chapter of the GDR in Ich muss jeden Tag daran denken (12,500 euros, Utbüxen Filmproduktion, Hamburg ). In this documentary, they talk to people whose everyday lives were characterised by torture, hunger and violations of human dignity and who tell their stories on behalf of 250,000 politically imprisoned GDR citizens. To Bio or not to Bio (10,000 euros) is about two neighbouring farmers: one runs a conventional livestock farm, the other is one of the first organic farmers in the country. And each of them is convinced of what they are doing. The Schleswig-Holstein filmmakers Kay Gerdes and Jess Hansen want to accompany the two farmers for a good year and show what similarities and differences there are. Gor Margaryan from Kiel is venturing into virtual reality territory with his project Medialer Wald (5,000 euros), in which archive footage that is over 100 years old is presented in a new guise using VR glasses. A total of five films will receive production funding totalling 60,500 euros, including two projects directed by women.

Funding for project development is available for Christian Merten's new short film: In Nachbar A.I. (5,000 euros), "Fetti", a boy with behavioural problems, moves to the Schleswig-Holstein countryside - where he makes the discovery of a lifetime. Robert Gücker's Die Stadtbaumeister about a city model of early modern Lübeck, which was made by schoolchildren in 1935, is also being supported with 4,500 euros.

In the Distribution and Sales section, four productions are being supported: Freistatt Mittelpunkt (Documentary and Exhibition) by Kai Ehlers with 7,500 euros, Ritual by Kai Zimmer with 3,500 euros, Moritz Jahn's Boje (Lichtspielfarm, Hamburg) with 2,000 euros and Film-Triologie: Kaliningrad, die Bewohner by Gudrun Wassermann, also with 2,000 euros

The funding decisions were made on Tuesday, 15 October 2019, by Arne Sommer, Maja Petersen and Manja Malz.