Freedom, friendships and women's rights

FUNDINGS PRODUCTION

In Ali Samadi Ahadi's drama5 days (330,000 euros, brave new work, Hamburg), women's rights activist Maryam is torn: should she put herself in danger and fight for human rights in Iran or live in freedom and peace with her family in Hamburg? The film will have three shooting days in the Hanseatic city.

Hille Norden's film is about two former schoolmatesFucking for freedom (250,000 euros, Leitwolf Filmproduktion, Hamburg): Nore and Jonna meet again by chance in their early twenties and move in together. In conversations, it becomes clear that Nore was never the precocious "femme fatale" who both admired and bullied Jonna, but experienced sexual assault as a young girl. While Nore struggles to reclaim the narrative for herself, a genuine friendship develops. The script for "Ficken für Freiheit" has already been nominated for the German Screenplay Award. There will be 22 days of filming in Hamburg - filming is scheduled to start in April 2024.

Set in Russia in 2004, the coming of age filmShort Summer (230,000 euros, Tamtam Film, Hamburg) by Director and Script Writer Nastia Korkia, who lives in exile in Hamburg: While her grandparents negotiate the end of their relationship, seven-year-old Katya spends one last summer with them in the country before she starts school. War is raging in nearby Chechnya, and Katya experiences a summer full of adventure, tenderness and hardship. Korkia wrote the script with Mikhail Bushkov.

In Mate UgrinsPetty thieves (120,000 euros, Fünferfilm, Hamburg), young Rio ekes out a living with petty theft on the Adriatic coast. His life changes when Andrea becomes his accomplice.

Directors and Script Writer Wilfried Hauke from Kiel dedicates his documentary biopicThe window in Stockholm (100,000 euros, IDA Film & TV Produktion, Kiel) follows the life of Astrid Lindgren - at a time when she was still unknown: the young Swede keeps a diary during the Second World War, finds herself in a deep life crisis and discovers the power of writing. The film was shot for a week in the subsidised region. Hauke wrote the script together with Hermann Pölking.

Further Fundings:

• Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Thomas Mann (80.000 Euro, Florianfilm Nord, Tetenbüll-Wasserkoog) Regie: André Schäfer; Drehbuch: Hartmut Kasper, Jascha Hannover

• Serebrennikov – every day is an empty stage (80.000 Euro, FAVO Filmproduktion, Hamburg) Regie/Drehbuch: Marcus Richardt

• Vater, Sohn und der Preis des Widerstands (60.000 Euro, S.U.M.O. Film, Berlin) Regie/Drehbuch: Götz Schauder

• Pastoral Pathways (50.000 Euro, Niko Film, Berlin) Regie/Drehbuch: Ahmet Necdet Çupur

FUNDINGS PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

• Something New Has Begun (30.000 Euro, Amerikafilm, Berlin) Regie/Drehbuch: Anne Döring, Nicolaas Schmidt

• Aber niemand sieht uns (20.000 Euro, Intuition Club, Schönkirchen) Regie/Drehbuch: Dennis Stormer

• Die Boxerin (20.000 Euro, Heimathafen Film & Media, Hamburg) Regie/Drehbuch: Sven Halfar

• -Grammatik (15.000 Euro, Fünferfilm, Hamburg) Regie/Drehbuch: Popo Fan

• Prituri se Planinata – The Mountain has fallen (15.000 Euro, Thomas Oswald, Hamburg) Regie/Drehbuch: Thomas Oswald

FUNDINGS SCRIPT

• The Turning Point (31.000 Euro, Johannes Miller, Hamburg) Drehbuch: Johannes Miller

• Neda (30.000 Euro, StoryBay Media, Hamburg) Drehbuch: Mia Farzaneh, Ashkan Najafi

• Libre (25.000 Euro, Riva Filmproduktion, Hamburg) Drehbuch: Antonia Leyla Schmidt

• Amok (21.000 Euro, Marlene Film, Hamburg) Drehbuch: Sékou Neblett

• Bambirak (20.000 Euro, Zamarin Wahdat, Hamburg) Drehbuch: Zamarin Wahdat

• Dicker als Wasser (20.000 Euro, Eléna Weiss, Hamburg) Drehbuch: Eléna Weiss

• Sun, oh the red sun (17.000 Euro, Perghuzat Enver, Hamburg) Drehbuch: Perghuzat Enver

FUNDINGS COMPLETION

• Und dass man ohne Täuschung zu leben vermag (25.000 Euro, Was bleibt, Lübeck) Regie/Drehbuch: Katharina Lisa Lüdin

FUNDINGS DISTRIBUTION

• Total Trust (40.000 Euro, Piffl Medien, Berlin) Regie/Drehbuch: Jialing Zhang

• Sultana's Dream (20.000 Euro, Luftkind Filmverleih, Berlin) Regie: Isabel Herguera; Drehbuch: Isabel Herguera, Gianmarco Serra

• Für immer (18.000 Euro, Weltkino Filmverleih, Feldafing) Regie/Drehbuch: Pia Lenz

• Helke Sander: Aufräumen (10.000 Euro, barnsteiner-film, Ascheffel) Regie/Drehbuch: Claudia Richarz

• Im toten Winkel (10.000 Euro, missingFILMs, Hamburg) Regie/Drehbuch: Ayse Polat

FUNDINGS CINEMA

• Chantal Akerman – Von Raum und Zeit (3.500 Euro, B-Movie Kino Kulturinitiative auf St. Pauli e.V., Hamburg)

• Hadithi Hadithi (3.000 Euro, , B-Movie Kino Kulturinitiative auf St. Pauli e.V., Hamburg)

• Bambino Kino 2023 (2.500 Euro, 3001 Kino, Hamburg)

• Präsentation afrikanischer Filme im Studio Kino (2.000 Euro, Filmtheaterbetriebe Hans-Peter Jansen, Hamburg)

An overview of all funded projects can be found here.

The funding decisions were made on 26 September 2023 by Vanessa Ciszewski, Anita Elsani, Sara Fazilat, Gabor Greiner, Timo Großpietsch and Helge Albers.