Six German-Turkish film ideas supported

08.10.2021 | German-Turkish funding round

Ten years of the German-Turkish Co-Production Development Fund! In its current session, the funding round of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Istanbul Film Festival - Meetings on the Bridge supported six co-productions with a total of 53,000 euros. Following a digital edition in 2020, this year's anniversary meeting was once again held live in the Hanseatic city as part of Filmfest Hamburg.

The Committee has selected the following six projects for Fundings:

Another Possibility by Burak Çevik, 10,000 euros Co-production: Flaneur Films, Berlin

As Shadows Fade by Burcu Aykar, 10,000 euros Co-production: Jyoti Film, Hamburg

Gunes by Zeynep Güzel, 10,000 euros Co-production: Heartwake Films', Berlin

Yellow Letters by Ilker Çatak, 10,000 euros Co-production: If... Productions Film, Munich

Crystal of Happiness by Emre Yeksan, 8,000 euros Co-production: Achtung Panda!, Berlin

Tussifed by Dogu Yasar Akal, 5,000 euros Co-production: Salarfilm Produktion, Hamburg

The German-Turkish Co-Production Development Fund was founded in 2011 by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and the Istanbul Film Festival - Meetings on the Bridge. The aim of the fund is to strengthen German-Turkish cooperation and promote joint film projects between the two countries at an early stage of development. In its 10 years of existence, the German-Turkish Co-Production Development Fund has already been able to support a number of successful projects. Last year, for example, the film "When I'm Done Dying" by Nisan Dag, produced by Red Balloon, won the Best Director Award at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. In 2019, Emin Alper's drama "A Tale Of Three Sisters", a co-production by Berlin-based Komplizen Film, screened in competition at the Berlinale.

Image material A photo of the meeting can bedownloaded here and may be used free of charge for editorial purposes. In the photo (from left): Teresa Hoefert de Turegano (Medienboard), Gülin Üstün (Meetings on the Bridge), Helge Albers (MOIN), Kirsten Niehuus (Medienboard) and Malika Rabahallah (MOIN)

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