18.11.2019 | Funding decision Committee 2
At its last meeting of the year, Committee 2 of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein supported a total of 27 projects with 545,400 euros - including a long-term observation by Hamburg Grimme Award winner Pia Lenz and a Turkish-German co-production by Riva Filmproduktion from Ottensen.
Eva is 83 and Dieter is 86. They danced together for the first time in 1951. They got married, had three children and lost a daughter. What remains of this - and what counts now? In a unique long-term observation, Hamburg filmmaker Pia Lenz tells the story in her DocumentaryAccomplices (95,000 euros, Pier 53 Filmproduktion, Hamburg) is the final chapter of this great love story. A total of 134 days of filming are planned in the region. Last year, Lenz was awarded the Grimme Prize in the "Information and Culture" category for her documentary "Alles gut".
In the Turkish-German co-productionSnow and the Bear (93,000 euros, Riva Filmproduktion, Hamburg) by Directors Selcen Ergun, young nurse Asli makes her way to a small mountain village that is increasingly cut off from the outside world by snowfall. One night, a man with whom Asli had previously had an argument disappears. She finds herself in the midst of confused power relations, secrecy and inner doubts.
Further production funding is available for the DocumentaryDreamers (50,000 euros, dirk manthey film, Hamburg) by Luc Peter and Stéphanie Barbey. The film follows 18-year-old Carlos, who came to Chicago illegally with his Mexican family at the age of nine and had the right to stay in the USA until he was 17. On his 18th birthday, his status changed: in the eyes of the law, he has been in the USA illegally ever since. The drama takes place on the Israeli-Syrian borderPasserby (40,000 euros, Red Balloon Film, Hamburg) by Director and Script Writer Ameer Fakher Eldin, in which a 52-year-old alcoholic farmer meets a wounded soldier from the Syrian war. The famous photographer Thomas Hoepker is at the centre of the DocumentaryHoepker - Beyond Life (40,000 euros, Granvista Media, Hamburg) by Hamburg filmmaker Nahuel Lopez. There is also a cash injection of 20,000 euros for Kiel-based Director and Script Writer Hille Norden, whose DocumentaryBaba: Home is somewhere else of a Syrian emigrant family. A hybrid of road movie and travelogue isAlgerian by Accident (20,000 euros, watchmen productions, Berlin) by Karim Ainouz, in which the filmmaker travels to Algeria, his father's country, for the first time.
Production is also supported:Berlin Revisited - Berlin as a place of longing (19,000 euros, Galeria Alaska Productions, Hamburg) by Jochen Hick, the short filmGold Coast (12,000 euros) by Karsten Wiesel, the DocumentaryThe Advocate (10,000 euros, Film Five, Berlin) by filmmaker Maria Binder, Karim Ashadu's short filmBrown Goods (10,000 euros) and Born in theRavensbrück concentration camp (7,500 euros) by Jule von Hertell. A total of twelve projects will receive production funding totalling 416,500 euros. Of this, 275,000 euros will go to six projects directed by women.
Project development is available for four films: The DocumentaryAmalie's shadow (20,000 euros, Tamtam Film, Hamburg) by Esther Niemeier,We, the wolves (15,000 euros) by Hamburg filmmaker Dario Aguirre, the DocumentaryMalfunction (10,000 euros, Kinescope Filmproduktion, Hamburg) by Constantin Hatz andClass relations (Lübeck) by filmmaker Peter Ott in the amount of 7,000 euros. As part of the German-Turkish Co-Production Development Fund of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, FFHSH and Istanbul Film Festival - Meetings on the Bridge, the DocumentaryWhitewash (20,000 euros, Jyoti Film) by Directors and Script Writer Ahmet Nedcet Cupur is receiving project development funding. Screenplay funding totalling 10,000 euros is available for the coming of age storyDry Country by Malte Thomsen.
Distribution and sales promotion receivesThe gods of Molenbeek (14,000 euros, RFF - Real Fiction Filmverleih) by Reetta Huthainen, which can be seen in cinemas from 21 November. Eight Hamburg cinemas will receive screening support totalling 32,900 euros.
The detailed overview of all funded projects from the Committee 2 meeting is available on the FFHSH website.
The funding decisions were made on Friday, 25 October 2019, by committee members Helge Albers, Birgit Glombitza, Timo Großpietsch, Maike Mia Höhne, Katrin Klamroth and Arne Sommer.
