Between Husum and Hamburg

The short film is to be shot entirely in the north Tender Cords by Hamburg filmmaker and HFBK graduate Rosana Cuellar, which is about "not being able to say goodbye" in times of the coronavirus pandemic. Protagonist Sylvie desperately tries to maintain contact with her sick mother, who is not allowed to leave her care home. The film is being supported with 40,000 euros in production funding. Three days of filming are planned in Hamburg and two in Schleswig-Holstein.

Void is an experimental dance film by the two Hamburg-based Directors and Script Writers Senem Gökce Ogultekin and Levent Duran. The short film creates scenes of figures dancing, singing and making music in futuristic landscapes, abandoned power stations and moonscapes. The multidisciplinary project does not follow a linear narrative, but a "perceived" one that develops through the combination of association, sensation and atmosphere. The film receives 25,000 euros in Fundings and has six shooting days in Hamburg.

InA Distant Figure (15,000 euros, antiplot Film, Hamburg) by Executive Producer and Hamburg Media School graduate Kim Höver and Czech Director and Script Writer Ramón Durman is about the everyday life of a street cleaner in Hamburg whose night shift gets out of control. Also receiving 15,000 euros in production funding isBirds of War (Kimotion Pictures, Hamburg) by Directors Stefan Pellegrini. The film tells the story of the Danish girl Ingrid, who hides the German soldier Otto with her sister during the Second World War. The script was written by Josephine Maria Leopold. The film is a German-Danish co-production, with some of the filming taking place in Husum and the surrounding area. The animated short film is about the world of large numbersOne thousand times a million (15,000 euros) by Script Writer and Directors Sören Wendt from Hamburg: While feeding a small bird, a conversation begins between it and a worm, which skilfully takes the bird into the world of numbers and magic.

Banyorama - a VR experience of life on the street by Henning Westerwelle (Curious Company) and the team from the Hamburg shower bus GoBanyo aims to use immersive storytelling to create understanding and thus sensitisation for dealing with people on the street. Anna Stadie and Sven Wiesner are on board as co-authors. The project receives concept funding totalling 20,000 euros. WithFairytale media experience (10,000 euros, Pola Rader, Kiel), the Kiel-based filmmaker Eugenia Bakurin wants to create an interactive media art programme for children to introduce them to fairytale stories from different cultures as creatively as possible.

The "Kurz + Innovativ" Committee promotes both short films and innovative audiovisual formats, from XR experiences and 360-degree films to immersive story worlds.

A detailed overview of all funded projects can be found here.

The funding decisions were made on 20 May by Birgit Glombitza, Ingo Mertins, Britta Schewe, Insa Wiese, Ralph Heinsohn and Arne Sommer.

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