09.03.2023 | Now online!
An Oscar nominee, a cinema million and two Palme d'Ors in Cannes: in 2022, there was plenty of tailwind for film from Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. With 2,000 shooting days and production funding for 60 cinema films such as "Amrum" by Fatih Akin and Hark Bohm and for nine series such as "Helgoland 513" and "Davos", exciting new projects are waiting in the wings.
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HIGHLIGHTS
The year 2022 is an impressive one: The Oscar nominee Triangle of Sadness and the thriller Holy Spider won two Palmes d'Or in Cannes, Fatih Akin's Rheingold attracted more than a million cinema-goers, Karoline Herfurth landed an autumn hit with the MOIN-funded production Einfach mal was Schönes and Lars Jessen's Mittagsstunde was the most successful German arthouse film of 2022.
In 2023, audiences can look forward to a number of MOIN-funded cinema highlights, including İlker Çatak's Berlinale success The Teachers' Lounge (cinema release 4 May), Sophia, Death & I by Charly Hübner (31 August), Ponyherz by Markus Dietrich (24 August) as well as The Measures of Men by Lars Kraume and Sara Mardini - Against the Current by Charly Wai Feldman. Both will be released in cinemas on 23 March.
At the beginning of 2023, there was another success story made in Hamburg: In 2012, the foundation was laid in Hamburg with the Green Shooting Card, and a decade later, the time has finally come: In 2023, environmentally sustainable filmmaking will no longer be a decorative accessory, but mandatory for all film projects that want to receive Fundings in Germany.
In the area of diversity, one of MOIN Film Fund's goals is to ensure that female filmmakers receive as much funding as male filmmakers. In 2022, 5.4 million euros - 45 per cent of the funding in the area of production - went to film projects with at least one female Director on the team. Overall, film funding is working to make the German film industry more inclusive. This is why the OMNI Inclusion platform is to be launched in 2023 - an anonymised online survey tool that will be used to better record the diversity of the cinema and TV industry in Germany in future.
TURNING WORK
In 2022, 1,923 days of filming took place in Film-Norden, of which 629 were in Schleswig-Holstein and 1,294 in Hamburg. This resulted in 13 cinema films and four high-end series - among others, Director Alice Troughton shot the thriller The Tutor around Hamburg in late summer 2022. In one of the leading roles: French actress Julie Delpy. Hamburg-based production company Riva Film filmed the children's film Ponyherz over 18 days in Schleswig-Holstein, including around Ahrensburg and the Lauenburg Lakes. And the investigative duo Fahri Yardim and Henriette Confurius travelled to the Hamburg region for the dark series Die Quellen des Bösen (The Sources of Evil) by Hamburg production company Wüste Medien.
FUNDED PROJECTS 2022
In 2022, MOIN Film Fund awarded a total of 314 funding commitments with a total volume of 16.9 million euros. The regional effect during this period was three times the funding amount. For every euro of funding, the film teams spent 3.11 euros back in the funding region.
Most of the funding was used for the production of cinema films - a total of 9.1 million euros. These nine million euros will be used to produce around 60 cinema films in the coming years. These include short films such as Duty Free by Schleswig-Holstein filmmaker Hilke Rönnfeldt, documentaries such as Sternbrücke by Christian Hornung and feature films such as Amrum by Hark Bohm and Fatih Akin. At 800,000 euros, "Amrum" also received the highest amount of funding in 2022.
In addition, funding totalling 3.4 million euros went to 19 new series projects - including Maria von Heland's film adaptation of the youth book "Alea Aquarius", "Nix für Jungs" by the Belton brothers and "Last Exit Schinkenstraße" by Heinz Strunk.
At the Kiel location, innovative moving image formats were funded with 274,000 euros, including the Portuguese-Brazilian artist Lui Avallos with his VR experience "Queer Utopia" and "Banyorama: a VR experience about life on the street" by Directors Henning Westerwelle and the team from the non-profit Hamburg organisation GoBanyo.
