Hamburg's primeval rock and final stop Hallig

FUNDINGS PRODUCTION

InYunan (400,000 euros, Red Balloon Film, Hamburg), Directors and Script Writer Ameer Fakher Eldin tells the story of an exiled author who travels to a Hallig to end his life. There he meets an old woman who gives him new courage to face life. The German-French-Palestinian-Italian co-production will have 26 days of filming in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein - a large part of the film crew comes from Hamburg. Ameer Fakher Eldin's feature film debut "The Stranger" celebrated its premiere at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, where it was honoured with the Edipo Re Award and entered the Oscar race for Palestine 2022. The cast includes Sibel Kekilli and Hanna Schygulla.

Hitler Youth, film critic, actor, senior public prosecutor, Script Writer, punk musician and much more: Dietrich Kuhlbrodt from Hamburg has a life that could hardly be more colourful. In his new documentaryNonconforming (80,000 euros, Kinescope Film, Hamburg), Hamburg filmmaker Arne Körner immerses viewers in Kuhlbrodt's incredible biography, which leads all the way to the Sahara. There will be five days of shooting in Hamburg, with filming starting in August 2022. 80,000 euros in production funding will go toLioness (Heimathafen Film & Media, Hamburg) by Director and Script Writer Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo. When her rebellious daughter disappears, paramedic Helena has nothing left to lose and is torn between madness and sanity. Post production of the Estonian-Latvian film will take place partly in Hamburg. In the road movieDear Friend (75,000 euros, Fünferfilm, Hamburg), filmmaker Matilda Rogers accompanies a group of people on a road that seems to lead to nowhere. As they fight for justice, solidarity brings them back from despair.

FUNDINGS DEVELOPMENT

Fundings for project development go to two productions: Milan Skrobanek tells a love story between a blind man and a deaf woman inBetween the lines (30,000 euros, Curly Pictures, Hamburg). The story is to be set in Hamburg - co-author is Eibe Maleen Krebs ("Draussen in meinem Kopf"). InPetty Thieves (18,000 euros, Fünferfilm, Hamburg) by HFBK graduate Mate Ugrin is about the young loner Rio, who ekes out a living with jobs and petty theft in holiday resorts on the Adriatic coast and meets a mysterious seasonal worker. There is also screenplay funding forShaer - A poet (25,000 euros, let's be awesome filmproduction, Hamburg) by Hamburg-based Script Writer Ali Hakim and co-author Max König, about a rising star on the literary scene who is eventually caught up in his past.

FUNDINGS DISTRIBUTION AND CINEMA

Two productions were supported in Distribution: The DocumentaryDear Memories (30,000 euros, DCM Film Distribution, Berlin) by Hamburg filmmaker Nahuel Lopez about the life of Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker, andMother (11,000 euros, mindjazz pictures, Cologne) by Carolin Schmitz.

In the area of match promotion, everything is focussed on the outdoor season. The five sponsored events includeZeise Open Air 2022 (10,000 euros), theSummer night cinema 2022 from the Metropolis cinema (8,500 euros) and theSchanzenkino Open Air 2022 (8,000 euros).

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.

The funding decisions were made on 17 June 2022: Ali Samadi Ahadi, Bettina Brokemper, Gabor Greiner, Timo Großpietsch, Sabine Steyer-Violet and Helge Albers .