A fairy tale at Mittagsstunde

14.10.2020 | Funding decision High End and Nordbuster

At its second meeting of the year, the High End Committee of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein awarded around 1.6 million euros to ten projects. Among the productions receiving funding are "Over & Out", the new film from Hamburg-based Oma Inge Film ("Systemsprenger") and the novel adaptation "Mittagsstunde" by Lars Jessen, which also received further funding from the FFHSH Nordbuster Committee.

More Schleswig-Holstein is not possible: WithMittagsstunde (300,000 euros, Florida Film, Hamburg), Director and Executive Producer Lars Jessen brings Dörte Hansen's bestseller of the same name to the big screen. The story about the fictional village of Brinkebüll is filmed entirely in Schleswig-Holstein and begins in the mid-sixties, when the surveyors came to prepare for the major land consolidation. Charly Hübner plays the leading role of Ingwer Petersen, the script was written by Catharina Junk. In addition to the High End Committee funding, "Mittagsstunde" is also being supported by the Nordbuster Committee with 400,000 euros due to its special cultural significance.

InButterfly Tale (475,000 euros, Ulysses Filmproduktion, Hamburg), Directors Sophie Roy places a little teenage butterfly at the centre of her story: Patrick can't fly, but won't let it get him down. This animated adventure uses humour to show that our similarities are more important than our differences - and that adversity makes our true personality shine. The script was written by Heidi Foss and Lienne Sawatsky.

Directors and Script Writer Julia Becker's road movieOver & Out (400,000 euros, Oma Inge Film, Hamburg) takes three school friends on a trip to Spain: Lea, Steffi, Toni and Maja swore to celebrate their weddings together at the age of twelve - that was 26 years ago. Now Maja invites them to Spain and the rest of the clique sets off. Hamburg-based Executive Producer Frauke Kolbmüller has already celebrated numerous international successes with her last co-production "Systemsprenger". Further production funding is available for the dramaThe house (200,000 euros, Wüste Medien, Hamburg) by Directors Rick Ostermann, who also wrote the script together with Patrick Brunken. The story is set in the near future and is based on a short story by journalist Dirk Kurbjuweit, with Tobias Moretti in the leading role. The documentary seriesSankt Pauli - Love & Murder Stories (Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion, Hamburg) by the two Script Writers Georg Tschurtschenthaler and Ina Kessebohm receives project development funding totalling 38,000 euros.

35,000 euros in screenplay funding for the seriesJordansand (Zhivago Film, Berlin) by Carola M. Lowitz and HMS graduate Susanna Mewe, which is to be shot entirely in the funding region. Moritz Bleibtreu's new cinema projectSolid (Paloma Entertainment, Hamburg) is being funded with 20,000 euros.

50,000 each in distribution funding will go to the animated films DieBoonies - A journey through time with bears (Little Dream Pictures, Hamburg) andOoops! 2 - Land in sight (Telepool, Munich), the political satireCurveball - We make the truth! (Filmwelt, Munich) receives 30,000 euros.

A detailed overview of all high-end funding decisions can be found here.

Christian Granderath, Murat Isgüder, Wenka von Mikulicz, Caroline von Senden, Ipek Zübert and Helge Albers made the funding decision in the High End Committee on 17 September. Maike Haas, Benjamina Mirnik-Voges and Philipp Hergarden made the funding decision in the Nordbuster Committee on 18 September.