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FUNDINGS PRODUCTION

With "Some Had Crocodiles", he filmed his way into the hearts of many Hamburg residents, and now Director and Script Writer Christian Hornung is tackling his new project:In Sternbrücke - The last summer (120,000 euros, Tamtam Film, Hamburg), he paints a final portrait of the eponymous railway bridge before the historic structure is demolished in 2023. The bridge - a centre of Hamburg's subculture - was the setting for Fatih Akin's film "Soul Kitchen", among others, and adorns the cover of Jan Delay's album "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Soul". The Hamburg film team will have 40 days of filming in the Hanseatic city this summer.

In the Documentary, Hamburg-based Directors Thorsten Ernst and Tobias Lickes accompanyAll Inclusive (100,000 euros, Kloos & Co. Nord, Hamburg), four athletes from around the world who all live with different intellectual disabilities and are working towards taking part in the 2023 Special Olympics World Games. One of the protagonists is from Hamburg - one of the host cities of the Special Olympics - where ten days of filming are planned. The script was written by Gordon Volk from Hamburg and Malte Nieschalk from Schleswig-Holstein together with the Directors.

Directors and Script Writer Laura Laabs delivers a tour de force through 100 years of German history withRed stars over the field (100,000 euros, Amerikafilm, Berlin). Five days of filming are planned for the thriller in Schleswig-Holstein. A further 90,000 euros in production funding will go to the DocumentaryRien ne vas plus (Filmtank, Hamburg): HFBK Hamburg graduate Anton von Bredow, together with Italian Director Michele Cirigliano, tells the story of a fishing village whose biggest employer for many years was a monumental casino right in town.

The Hamburg band Tocotronic is at the centre of the DocumentaryTocotronic - In doubt for the doubt (75,000 euros, Hanfgarn & Ufer Nord, Hamburg) by Dietmar Post. The four-piece indie band is to be portrayed with a mix of concert and studio recordings and archive material - 22 days of filming are planned in Hamburg. Post wrote the script together with Lucia Palacios. In her Documentary, Hamburg-based Director and Script Writer Iris Pakulla follows the band's story.Angry Spirits (70,000 euros, Gebrüder Beetz, Hamburg) about a former nomad who returns to her old clan in the Gobi desert and is confronted with the destruction of nature. The filmmaker Tatjana Bozic lives as a single mother in a Western European metropolis and in her DocumentaryPeople in my House - In search of belonging (56,000 euros, Doppelplusultra, Hamburg) follows in their footsteps.

The DocumentaryThe invisible heroine (50,000 euros, Rejell, Hamburg) by Hamburg-based Director and Script Writer Matthias Freier is about a female detective inspector who hunts down one of Germany's worst serial killers in the 1980s and 1990s. Eighteen days of filming are planned in Hamburg and three in Schleswig-Holstein. Fundings totalling 50,000 euros will also go to the German-Turkish experimental filmNew Dawn Fades (StoryBay Media, Hamburg) by Director and Script Writer Gürcan Keltek about an actor with bipolar disorder. Citizen participation and local politics in Schleswig-Holstein are the subject ofA result of consultations (40,000 euros, Westerholt & Gysenberg, Heikendorf) by filmmaker Florian von Westerholt. The DocumentaryForgetMeynNot (35,000 euros, Made in Germany, Cologne) by Jens Mühlhoff, Kilian Kuhlendahl and Fabiana Fragale deals with the events in Hambach Forest in 2018. The German-Chilean productionMalqueridas (Dirk Manthey Film, Hamburg) by Tana Gilbert about motherhood in prison receives 30,000 euros in production funding.

FUNDINGS DEVELOPMENT

Five projects were funded in the area of project development. Wilfried Hauke sheds light on the early secret service years of the future Script Writer Astrid Lindgren in his DocumentaryThe window in Stockholm (50,000 euros, IDA Film & TV Produktion, Kiel) with unknown footage and scenic sequences. The series funded as part of the "Nordlichter" programme for young talentBRÜT (40,000 euros, Ohne Falsch Film, Hamburg) by HFBK Hamburg graduates Marian Freistühler and Oliver Bassemir is about a mushroom connoisseur and a birdwatcher who want to save the Wilhelmsburg Wild Forest from deforestation and fall in love in the process. Further funding in the area of project development goes to the dramaAguadolce (25,000 euros, Junafilm, Hamburg) by HFBK graduate Sebastian Egert, the DocumentaryBreak the System (20,000 euros, by Dorsch, Flensburg) by Anita Jürgensen from Flensburg and the psychodramaCharlotte (20,000 euros, PakFilm, Hamburg).

The Director's Cut Committee has also supported five scripts in the current round: The Hamburg-based dramaSarya (25,000 euros) by Yüksel Yavuz, the LGBTIQ dramaGrammar (25,000 euros Fünferfilm, Hamburg) by Directors Popo Fan, the coming of age filmNot away and not there (23,000 euros, Triple Pictures, Hamburg) by Viola Schmidt and Florian Borkamp, the children's filmRoxana, Xaver and the gold house (20,000 euros, Skalar Film, Hamburg) by Hamburg-based Script Writer Ricarda Saleh Rojas and the dramaUltima Thule (18,000 euros) by HFBK graduate Kaspar Peters.

FUNDINGS DISTRIBUTION AND CINEMA

In Distribution and Cinema, all projects submitted received full funding. These include Wendla Nölle's dramaEin großes Versprechen (28,000 euros, Filmperlen, Cologne), the dramaLand of Dreams by film artist Shirin Neshat (24,650 euros, W-film Distribution, Cologne), the multi-award-winning documentaryThe Other Side Of The River (16,000 euros, Jip Film & Distribution, Frankfurt a.M.) by Antonia Kilian and the dramaNeighbours (15,000 euros, Barnsteiner-Film, Ascheffel) by Mano Khalil.

The anticipation of the cinema summer is growing: For theFilm nights in Schanzenpark (3001 cinema) will receive funding of 9,500 euros. TheClose-up film series in the Metropolis cinema to accompany the exhibition in Altona will be supported with 4,000 euros. And 3,500 euros will go to the anniversary programme35mm for 35 years of B-Movie.

An overview of all funded projects can be found here.

The Director's Cut Committee is responsible for films and series with production costs of less than 3.5 million euros and cinema documentaries with production costs of less than 1.5 million euros.