FUNDINGS PRODUCTION

Directors and Script Writer Steffen Goldkamp from Hamburg will spend a total of 60 days filming in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein from July 2023. After David inThe optimism (500,000 euros, Tamtam Film, Hamburg) has served a juvenile prison sentence, his regained freedom smells mainly of the corridors of the German authorities. Frustration and lethargy soon supersede good intentions and he gradually gets caught up in the maelstrom of a series of robberies. The script for the film has already been supported as part of the 3x3 Incentive funding from MOIN Film Fund. The film is largely shot with non-professional actors.

In the seriesBlack fruits (450,000 euros, Studio Zentral & Jünglinge Film, Hamburg) by lead actor and creator Lamin Leroy Gibba, centres on the life of Lalo, a black, queer man in his mid-twenties. When he is thrown off course by the sudden death of his father, he tries to repress his loss by rushing into action - which not only throws his own life out of joint, but also the lives of his closest friends. The dramedy series will have 46 shooting days in Hamburg and 2 shooting days in Schleswig-Holstein and will be realised almost exclusively with BIPoC both in front of and behind the camera. Lamin Leroy Gibba wrote the script together with co-authors Lisa Tracy Michalik, Naomi Kelechi Odhiambo, Sarah Claire Wray and Sophia Ayissi. Directors are David Uzochukwu and Elisha Smith-Leverock. Executive Producer is the company Jünglinge Film ("Futur Drei"). Shooting starts in August 2023.

A further 450,000 euros will go toBefore the beginning (Riva Filmproduktion, Hamburg) by Directors and Script Writer duo Constantin Hatz and Milena Aboyan. The episodic film provides insights into the lives of prisoner Laura, former freedom fighter Evîn and policewoman Julia, whose paths cross by chance in a big city. There are 16 days of filming planned in Hamburg and four in Schleswig-Holstein this summer.

A series project comes from the Schleswig-Holstein Director and Script Writer Hilke Rönnfeldt: InMooring(405,000 euros, Leitwolf Filmproduktion, Hamburg) is about ship's officer Malika, who is sent to the small lock in Bremen as a test of her mettle by her captain after an incident on board for which she is responsible. The series is supported by NDR and nordmedia as part of the Nordlichter young talent programme. WithShadow(400,000 euros, Wüste Film, Hamburg), Directors Benjamin Teske devotes himself to the genre film: a young woman fighting for her life falls in love with a vampire who longs for death. Script Writer is Julia C. Kaiser. The team will spend 16 days filming in the funding region from October 2023. HFBK Hamburg graduate Luise Donschen is involved in the dramaPatty(130,000 euros, Fünferfilm, Hamburg) deals with the turmoil of reunification, in the artistic DocumentaryBaltic UXO(50,000 euros, Fünferfilm, Hamburg) by Agné Dovydaitytė and Alexander Belinski is about unexploded ordnance from the Second World War in the Baltic Sea.

FUNDINGS PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

InThe uninvited guest (40,000 euros, Junafilm, Hamburg) by Hamburg-based Script Writer and Directors Julia Drache is about 22-year-old Jessi, who has built a new life for herself in Finland - but suddenly her father, scarred by years of alcohol consumption, turns up on her doorstep to fulfil a promise. The film is shot in Hamburg and Finland. The coming of age filmShort Summer(40,000 euros, Tamtam Film, Hamburg) by Nastia Korkia is set in Russia in 2004 and shows seven-year-old Katya's last summer in the country with her grandparents before she has to go to school.

Further funding in the area of project development goes to:

• Aria (35.000 Euro, Riva Filmproduktion, Hamburg) von Ali Hakim (Regie, Drehbuch)

• Rudeltiere (30.000 Euro, Andrea Kühnel, Hamburg) von Martin Monk (Regie) und Cherokee Agnew (Drehbuch)

• Kolonialwarengeschäft (20.000 Euro, Auge Ja Auge Nein Filmproduktion, Berlin) von Marco Kugel (Regie, Drehbuch) und Keith Vries (Co-Autor)

• Solo (20.000 Euro, Other People pictures, Hamburg) von Christian von Brockhausen (Regie, Drehbuch) und Simona Dürnberg (Regie, Drehbuch)

• Willkommen in Klein Mohrdorf (20.000 Euro, zischlermann filmproduktion, Lübeck) von Oliver Schmitz (Regie) und Martin Rehbock (Drehbuch)

• Provokation in Beton (18.000 Euro, Pinkmovies, Hamburg) von Maike Mia Höhne (Regie, Drehbuch)

FUNDINGS SCRIPT

• Cosmic Ultras (25.000 Euro, Leitwolf Filmproduktion, Hamburg) von Vincent Schleuning (Drehbuch)

FUNDINGS COMPLETION

• Sultana's Dream (60.000 Euro, Fabian&Fred, Hamburg) von Isabel Herguera (Regie, Drehbuch)

• Liebe bis 120 (20.000 Euro, Heimathafen Film & Media,Hamburg) von Sharon Ryba-Kahn (Regie, Drehbuch)

FUNDINGS DISTRIBUTION

• Alma & Oskar (35.000 Euro, Alamode, München) von Dieter Berner (Regie, Drehbuch) und Hilde Berger (Drehbuch)

• Burning Days (15.000 Euro, CINEMIEN Deutschland – Pro-Fun Media, Frankfurt am Main) von Emin Alper (Regie, Drehbuch)

• Oběět/Victim (15.000 Euro, Rapid Eye Movies, Köln) von Michal Blaško (Regie) und Jakub Medvecky (Drehbuch)

• The Ordinaries (15.000 Euro, notsold, Hamburg) von Sophie Linnenbaum (Regie, Drehbuch)

• Blauer Himmel Weiße Wolken (10.000 Euro, Across Nations Filmverleih, Stuttgart) von Astrid Menzel (Regie, Drehbuch)

• Unser Fluss...Unser Himmel (10.000 Euro, barnsteiner-film, Ascheffel) von Maysoon Pachachi (Regie) und Darina Al Joundi (Drehbuch)

• Tanja – La Guerillera (8.000 Euro, mindjazz pictures, Köln) von Marcel Mettelsiefen (Regie, Drehbuch)

FUNDINGS CINEMA

• Eine Stadt sieht einen Film 2023 (15.000 Euro, B-Movie Kino Kulturinitiative auf St. Pauli e.V., Hamburg)

• Retrospektive Jean-Luc Godard (7.000 Euro, KINEMATHEK Hamburg e.V. Kommunales Kino METROPOLIS, Hamburg)

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 28 March 2023: Ali Samadi Ahadi, Gabor Greiner, Timo Großpietsch, Mia Spengler and Helge Albers.