MOIN on course: more budget, more film, more north

Helge Albers, CEO of MOIN Film Fund: "2024 was a year in which we not only celebrated great successes, but also set an important course for the future."

FIGURES 2024.

10 million euros more funding budget for the years 2025/26

• 315% regional effect

• 12 million euros for 226 funding measures, of which

  • over 6.8 million euros went to 44 new cinema productions

  • 1.3 million euros. euros to new film, series and immersive ideas (NEST funding)

• 1,673 shooting days in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein

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HIGHLIGHTS 2024

After İlker Çatak's "The Teachers' Lounge", Mohammad Rasoulof's "The Seed of the Sacred Fig Tree" also made it into the Oscars - Hamburg thus brought German film to Hollywood in 2024 and 2025.

MOIN-funded productions also celebrated national successes in 2024: Nine German Film Awards went to the North, including the Golden Lola for "Sterben" by Matthias Glasner and the Bronze Lola for Ayşe Polats "In the Blind Spot". The series "Festmachen" by Hilke Rönnfeldt and "Player of Ibiza" by the Kleinen Brüder from the "Nordlichter" programme for young talent were awarded the Grimme Prize 2025. With cinema releases such as "The Outrun" with Saoirse Ronan and the audience favourite "Der Buchspazierer" with Christoph Maria Herbst, which delighted over 600,000 cinema-goers, MOIN 2024 set strong accents in the cinema year.

Hollywood star James McAvoy and Director Robert Schwentke shot their thriller "Control" on Sylt last year and İlker Çatak returned to the Hanseatic city for 27 days of filming after being nominated for an Oscar for his new drama "Yellow Letters". Fatih Akin's "Amrum" was also shot in 2024 - the film brings the North Sea to the Cote d'Azur in May and celebrates its premiere in Cannes.

10 MILLION REASONS FOR THE FILM NORTH

The biggest highlight for the future: at the end of 2024, the City of Hamburg decided to increase the MOIN funding pot by 10 million euros for two years - a major boost that will allow the local industry to breathe a sigh of relief. The tense situation in the film industry is also making itself felt in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, as it is everywhere in Germany: At 1,673 shooting days, the production volume was below the previous year's level. Nevertheless, the regional effect remained at a high level: for every euro of funding, the film teams spent around 3.15 euros in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.

In total, the 2024 Committees approved funding totalling 12 million euros for 226 measures. More than half of this - 6.8 million euros - went towards the production of 44 new cinema films.

Helge Albers, CEO of MOIN Film Fund: "The film industry in Germany is still under pressure, but the budget increase is a real booster for the north of the country - both creatively and economically. Major projects such as Fatih Akin's 'Amrum' or 'Die Ältern' by Sönke Wortmann show what potential the location has when the framework conditions are right."

OUTLOOK 2025

Major film shoots are planned for 2025 that will put the north back in the spotlight. These include "Die Ältern" by Sönke Wortmann with 25 days of filming, "Geister weinen nicht" by Fatih Akin with 41 days of filming, and "Die Stadt" by film artist Helena Wittmann with 33 days of filming.

NEST LAUNCHED: BIG NAMES, STRONG FABRICS

With the new NEST funding programme introduced in 2024, MOIN Film Fund has created a unique space in which new film material can grow. From established Script Writers such as Ipek Zübert, Kerstin Polte, Detlev Buck and Kim Frank to newcomer perspectives: Only the strength of the idea counts at NEST. In 2024, 36 projects were supported with a total of 1.3 million euros - that's an average of almost 9,000 euros more per project than in the previous year with classic screenplay funding. The direction is clear: MOIN Film Fund is focussing on quality through early, individual support and is providing significantly more funding for this purpose.

OMNI FOR ALL

In 2024, MOIN initiated OMNI Inclusion Data, a unique nationwide platform for diversity management in the film industry. Since the Berlinale 2025, it has been open to the entire industry - supported by partners such as Netflix, the Austrian Film Institute, UFA, ARD Degeto, Bavaria Film, Hessen Film & Medien, nordmedia and the MFG Baden-Württemberg. Together, they are committed to ensuring that diversity in the film industry not only remains an aspiration, but also becomes measurable and effective through concrete data. More information at omni-inclusion.de

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