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One step further in the Oscar® race: İlker Çatak's Hamburg film "The Teachers' Lounge" has made it onto the shortlist in the category "Best International Film". Among the other candidates: The historical film "Kings Land" starring Mads Mikkelsen, which celebrated its German premiere at Filmfest Hamburg in autumn.

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In its current meeting, the German-Turkish Co-Production Development Fund of MBB, MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Istanbul Film Festival - Meetings on the Bridge is awarding almost 30,000 euros for the development of four new German-Turkish film projects.

Around 1.7 million euros were awarded to 31 projects by the Director's Cut Committee of the MOIN Film Fund at its current meeting - including the new film "Ficken für Freiheit" by Hille Norden from Schleswig-Holstein and the drama "5 Tage" by "Peterchens Mondfahrt" Director Ali Samadi Ahadi.

The Kurz + Innovativ Committee of the MOIN Film Fund awarded around 110,000 euros to four projects at its latest meeting. These include the short film "Lebensschulden" by Hamburg filmmaker Lena Hetzel about life in a youth detention centre and the VR experience "Golems" by Deborah and Dennis Reinmüller from Kiel.

The Hanseatic city in cinema mode: the Filmfest Hamburg is taking place this year until 7 October - and has 17 productions with northern German participation on board. These include two series highlights with Heinz Strunk and Fahri Yardim as well as the German premieres of "King's Land" with Mads Mikkelsen and "The Lesson" with Julie Delpy and Richard E. Grant - the thriller was filmed entirely in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. MOIN will also be on site with several events as part of the Industry Days.

Berlinale premiere, film award winner and now German Oscar candidate: the film "The Teachers' Lounge", shot in Hamburg, is in the running for the foreign Oscar.

The 80th Venice International Film Festival kicks off at the end of August - and MOIN Film Fund will be there with six projects. These include the historical drama "King's Land" with Mads Mikkelsen in the international competition and the film "Yurt", produced by Red Balloon from Hamburg, in the Orizzonti competition section. Germany is this year's focus country at the film festival.

Positive results from the first GetOnSet year: around 85 per cent of the film trainees found their way into the film world through the programme - and there were more than 150 applications for the second GetOnSet round. The success of the Hamburg Media School and MOIN Film Fund initiative underlines the importance of promoting young talent in the film industry.

In Schleswig-Holstein's oldest cinema, the KinoCenter in Rendsburg, State Secretary for Culture Guido Wendt presented the state's cinema award today (21 June) and paid tribute to the state's cinema culture:

Three short, two immersive: At its current meeting, the "Kurz + Innovativ" Committee of the MOIN Film Fund supported five projects with around 140,000 euros. These include the animated film "Butterfly Kiss" from the Hamburg-based animation studio "Fabian&Fred" and the 270-degree experience "InHuman - A New World" about the creation and destruction of the rainforest.

The Hamburg Media School, MOIN Film Fund and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg are jointly continuing the GetOnSet film trainee programme. Following the successful launch of the pilot project in 2022, the practical programme has proven to be an effective building block against the shortage of skilled workers in the film and series industry.

In its current meeting, the Director's Cut Committee of the MOIN Film Fund awarded more than 2.8 million euros to 27 projects - including the series "Schwarze Früchte" by showrunner and actor Lamin Leroy Gibba and the drama "Der Optimismus" by Hamburg filmmaker Steffen Goldkamp - both projects will be produced entirely in the funding region in the summer of 2023.

Two MOIN-funded films will be represented at the 76th Cannes International Film Festival this year: Turkish Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "About Dry Grasses" has made it into the official competition, while Faouzi Bensaïdi's film "Déserts" is screening in the "Quinzaine des Cinéastes" section. Also taking part: up-and-coming Hamburg actress Pauline Pollmann and Kiel-based short filmmaker Eugenia Bakurin.

Malika Rabahallah will take over the management of FILMFEST HAMBURG from 1 January 2024. The Executive Producer and long-time head of the funding department of MOIN Film Fund will succeed Albert Wiederspiel, who will leave FILMFEST at the end of 2023 after twenty successful years as festival director.

In its first meeting of the year, the Kurz + Innovativ Committee of the MOIN Film Fund awarded more than 140,000 euros to five projects. They include an animated short film about body sounds by Hamburg filmmaker Meike Fehre and a 360-degree film about the hardships of working on a cruise ship.

In its first meeting of the year, the High End Committee of the MOIN Film Fund has supported four projects with around 950,000 euros - including the new animation adventure "Seeräubermoses" by Hamburg-based Ulysses Films ("The Amazing Maurice"). In addition, the Nordbuster Committee is awarding more than 850,000 euros to Wüste Film for the tragicomedy "Drift" by Director Florian Dietrich, who will shoot his new film almost entirely in Hamburg following his surprise success "Toubab".

On the first Saturday of the Berlinale (18 February), the Hamburg film industry met for Tea Time at the Hamburg State Representation on the Spree. Directors Fatih Akin and "Rheingold" lead actor Emilio Sakraya as well as the "Mittagsstunde" team Charly Hübner and Lars Jessen were among those in attendance.

How diverse is the German film industry really? Despite important studies and surveys, there are gaps in the available data. The MOIN Film Fund wants to change this and is therefore cooperating with the Australian "The Everyone Project" with immediate effect. A pilot of the new "OMNI Inclusion" platform is to be launched across Germany in 2023 with the help of industry representatives.

When the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival takes place this year from 16-26 February, eight MOIN-funded productions will be screened in the capital - six of them as world premieres. They include "The Measures of Men" by Lars Kraume, Ayşe Polat's "In the Blind Spot" and the drama "The Teachers' Lounge" by İlker Çatak, which was shot in Hamburg.

The Hamburg-based production company Ulysses Films will be showing its animated film "The Amazing Maurice the Cat" at the renowned Sundance Film Festival in the USA from 19 January. The Terry Pratchett adaptation will be one of only three films to be shown in the children's section. Bastian Pastewka lends his voice to the orange-coloured street cat in the German version - cinema release is 9 February 2023.

From February 2023, Nicola Jones will take over as head of the Schleswig-Holstein location of MOIN Film Fund. The former CEO of the German Children's Media Festival "Goldener Spatz" will succeed Arne Sommer, who has successfully managed the Filmwerkstatt since 2014 and has left the company at his own request.

We are looking for a new director for Filmfest Hamburg as of 1 January 2024 - applications are open now and can be submitted until 8 January 2023.

In its autumn round, the Kurz + Innovativ Committee of the MOIN Film Fund is supporting six projects with over 150,000 euros. Among them: a short film adventure with animals in space animated entirely in Hamburg and a VR horror experience.

From 2 to 6 November, 14 MOIN-funded productions will be shown on the big screen at the 64th Nordic Film Days in Lübeck - including the multi-award-winning drama "Aus meiner Haut", the short film "Kalb" shot in Schleswig-Holstein and Pepe Danquart's documentary about the artist Daniel Richter.

In its current meeting, the Director's Cut Committee of the MOIN Film Fund awarded around 1.7 million euros to 21 projects - including the children's book adaptation "Greetings from Mars" with over 30 days of filming in the north and the new Nordlichter series by the Belton brothers from Hamburg.

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The twelfth Schleswig-Holstein Cinema Prize was awarded at the Astra-Filmtheater Plön on Tuesday evening.

Three reasons for series fans to rejoice: Fahri Yardim and Henriette Confurius are filming a new thriller series in the north. The first two Filmfest Hamburg series will premiere at the Filmfest Hamburg - and the film funding can also bring exciting series to the Hanseatic city in the future, as Senator for Culture Dr Carsten Brosda announced on the set of "Die Quellen des Bösen" by Hamburg production company Wüste Medien.

A total of seven MOIN-funded films will be screened at this year's Toronto International Film Festival from 8 to 18 September. In addition to the premieres of the two international co-productions "War Sailor" and "Snow and the Bear", the North German short film "Beben" has also made it into the programme.

The Venice International Film Festival begins on 31 August and a large part of the programme has now been announced. Included: the drama "Victim" with Hamburg leading actress Vita Smachelyuk in the Orizzonti section as well as the film "Aus meiner Haut" with Jonas Dassler and Mala Emde, which was shot entirely in Schleswig-Holstein and will be shown in the "International Film Critics' Week".

In its June edition, the Director's Cut Committee of the MOIN Film Fund supported 14 projects with around 800,000 euros - including a drama about an exiled author on a North Sea island and a documentary about the Hamburg jack-of-all-trades Dietrich Kuhlbrodt.

A celebration on the longest day of the year: MOIN Film Fund celebrated its annual industry get-together at Kampnagel on Tuesday evening with around 1000 guests from film and TV, culture and politics. Among the guests were Otto Waalkes, Jonas Nay, Pheline Roggan, Charly Hübner and the cult band Scooter.

In its latest meeting, the High End Committee of the MOIN Film Fund supported ten projects with around 800,000 euros. Among them: the sequel to the true crime series "Reeperbahn Special Unit 65", a family film about four chaotic sisters and a documentary about the Vendée Globe regatta centred around Hamburg's Boris Herrmann. More than 550,000 euros will also go to four productions from the Nordbuster committee, including an animal-themed Schleswig-Holstein project.

Small but mighty: the Kurz + Innovativ Committee of the MOIN Film Fund has awarded 125,000 euros in funding to three short films at its latest meeting. Schleswig-Holstein filmmaker Hilke Rönnfeldt's "Duty Free" takes us to a floating sales container on the Baltic Sea, while Hamburg-based animation company Telescope tells the story of an old lady and her dragon.

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This has never happened before: three films with Hamburg participation are screening in competition at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, including the new film by Ruben Östlund. Three other MOIN-funded productions can be seen in other sections - the short film "Beben" was shot almost entirely in Schleswig-Holstein.

"Pacifiction - Tourment sur les Îles" is another film with Hamburg participation in the Cannes competition. Executive Producer of the film: the Hamburg company Tamtam Film ("Some had crocodiles"). In the "Un Certain Regard" section, the new film by Emily Atef ("3 Days in Quiberon") can also celebrate its world premiere.

A portrait of the Hamburg cult band Tocotronic and the new film by "Manche hatten Krokodile"-Director Christian Hornung about the Hamburg Sternbrücke: The Director's Cut committee of the MOIN Film Fund has awarded around 1.2 million euros to 29 projects - including ten documentaries that received production funding.

Sustainability has played a central role at MOIN Film Fund for more than ten years. With immediate effect, the company now also fulfils the criteria of the German Sustainability Code, thereby demonstrating its commitment: The requirements for the film industry apply just as much in-house.

Multiple national and regional funding organisations are often involved in the funding of film and series projects in Germany. A standardised review process is now being planned.

In the first funding session of the year, the High End Committee of the MOIN Film Fund awarded around 2.5 million euros to 14 projects. A total of 1.2 million euros will go to six series productions from the north of Germany. The series highlights include a crime drama starring Fahri Yardim and an end-time drama set on Helgoland.

The Kurz + Innovativ Committee of the MOIN Film Fund met just before the turn of the year. The result is six projects with around 130,000 euros in Fundings. These include a rural coming-of-age story by Friedrich Tiedtke from Schleswig-Holstein and an animal-political VR experience by Hamburg-based animation studio Fabian&Fred.

In the last High End session of the year, the MOIN Film Fund awarded around 800,000 euros to five projects. These include the psychological thriller "The Tutor", which was shot entirely in Film-Norden, and the animated adventure "Seeräubermoses", based on the novel by Hamburg's honorary citizen Kirsten Boie.

First Locarno, now short film LOLA: On Thursday evening, HFBK graduate Nicolaas Schmidt was honoured with the German Short Film Award for his film "First Time (The Time For All But Sunset - Violet)". The film has already celebrated its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival.

The German-Russian documentary film festival "Territorium Film" celebrates its tenth anniversary edition this Friday. The opening ceremony will take place via livestream in parallel in the plenary hall of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament and at the festival venue in Kaliningrad. Since it was founded in 2011, the film festival can look back on around 90 films screened, 140 film guests and more than 20,000 visitors.

In its third meeting of the year, the "Kurz + Innovativ" Committee of the MOIN Film Fund is supporting five projects with a total of around 100,000 euros - including the new short film by HFBK graduate Leonie Kellein and an immersive journey to the Amazon region.

A total of eleven coveted LOLAS went to the north of Germany at the German Film Awards Distribution on Friday evening - including the LOLA in Gold to the Letterbox production "Ich bin Dein Mensch" and the LOLA in Bronze to the MOIN-funded political satire "Curveball".

From 30 September to 9 October 2021, Filmfest Hamburg invites you to the city's cinemas for the 29th time. The festival selection includes several North German productions that have already impressed at international festivals. These include the recent Locarno winners "No One's with the Calves" by Sabrina Sarabi and "Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash" by Edwin.

A total of three films supported by the MOIN Film Fund can hope to win a LOLA at the 71st German Film Awards. "Tides" by Tim Fehlbaum leads the field with six nominations. "Curveball - Wir machen die Wahrheit" by Johannes Naber and "A Symphony of Noise" by Enrique Sánchez Lansch also have a chance.

Actress Saskia Rosendahl has won the best actress award in the "Concorso Cineasti del presente" section at the Locarno Film Festival for her leading role in the drama "No One's with the Calves". Executive Producer of the film, which had 16 shooting days in Schleswig-Holstein and two in Hamburg, is the Hamburg-based company Weydemann Bros. The main prize of the evening went to the Indonesian film "Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash", which was co-produced by Fatih Akin's company bombero international.

A total of four films supported by the MOIN Film Fund will be screened in competition at the 74th Locarno Film Festival from 4 to 14 August this year: "Systemsprenger" producers Weydemann Bros. from Hamburg are celebrating their world premiere in Switzerland with "No One's with the Calves" - and Fatih Akin's company bombero international is sending an Indonesian action comedy into the race.

Is it Christmas already? In its second meeting of 2021, the High End Committee of the MOIN Film Fund awards around 1.5 million euros to 14 projects - including the Hamburg-produced animation adventure "Niko's Arctic Adventure" and a diving thriller that will be shot in the film water tank "Offtec" in Schleswig-Holstein, among others. The Nordbuster Committee is also funding two scripts with 50,000 euros each.

On Thursday, cinemas in Hamburg will finally open their doors again - and the City of Hamburg, together with the Film Fund, is providing the accompanying programme: with an unprecedented free ticket campaign and a doubling of the cinema programme prize funds, the cinemas in the north are to be given an easier start to the cinema summer. This brings the total amount of Hamburg's coronavirus aid to around 1.2 million euros.

From producing in the digital age, the reinvention of public broadcasters to diversity as a business opportunity: the second Explorer Konferenz will take place at the beginning of October, docked to FILMFEST HAMBURG. On 8 October, everything will once again revolve around producing for cinema, streaming & TV. The half-day conference will focus on the challenges and opportunities of the current upheaval in the film industry - partly on three stages in parallel.

Hungarian Berlinale winner Ildikó Enyedi (Golden Bear for "Body and Soul") is in competition at the 74th Cannes International Film Festival with "The Story of my Wife". The European co-production with leading actress Léa Seydoux was filmed in 2019 at historical locations in Hamburg, among others. Also included: Bruno Dumont's "France", which was co-produced by Red Balloon Film from Hamburg - and also stars Léa Seydoux.

Exciting film fare for the start of spring: the Director's Cut Committee of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein has supported a total of 22 projects with more than 1.6 million euros at its latest meeting. The funded projects include an episodic film about a bomb disposal operation in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel neighbourhood and Charly Hübner's feature film debut based on a novel by Tomte frontman Thees Uhlmann.

From a naval remand prison to an underwater puppet theatre: the latest meeting of the Kurz + Innovativ Committee of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein was quite maritime and creative. Three short films and two innovative projects are being supported with a total of 110,000 euros.

A good start to the new year: at its first meeting of 2021, the High End Committee of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein awarded more than two million euros to a total of ten projects. Among them are Fatih Akin's new gangster biopic about the German rapper and label CEO Xatar and Bully Herbig's media satire "1000 Zeilen" starring Elyas M'Barek and Jonas Nay.

Desire to go to the cinema despite the pandemic? The "Eine Stadt sieht einen Film" event organised by Hamburg's arthouse and district cinemas will be launched as an online edition for the first time on the weekend of 27 and 28 February. The Hamburg classic and milieu thriller "Supermarket" by Roland Klick will be available to stream free of charge on these two days - including a digital location tour and other programme highlights.

Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein awarded eleven treatment and idea grants in the course of 2020. These project outlines, which were supported with a total of 64,000 euros, include a genuine neighbourhood story and a cross-platform online series.

In its last funding session of the year, the "Kurz + Innovativ" Committee of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein awarded around 150,000 euros to six projects. The funding round includes the new stop-motion work by the Lauenstein brothers and hard film material by Hille Norden from Kiel.

The FFHSH-funded short film "Maman Maman Maman" by Director Lucia Margarita Bauer received the special prize of 20,000 euros at the German Short Film Award Distribution on Wednesday evening. Executive Producer is Ann Carolin Renninger (joon film) from Schleswig-Holstein. Another Lola went to HFBK graduate Roxana Reiss and her experimental graduation film "Alturas".

In its tenth session, the German-Turkish Co-Production Development Fund of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Istanbul Film Festival - Meetings on the Bridge supported three co-productions in development. This year, the decision was made in a virtual meeting instead of at Filmfest Hamburg as is traditionally the case.

In its most recent funding session, the Director's Cut Committee of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein awarded around 900,000 euros to 23 projects, including the drama "Maret" with "Styx" star Susanne Wolff and a documentary about the Syrian ex-professional swimmer Sarah Mardini with Oscar-winning Director of Photography Zamarin Wahdat.

In its second meeting of the year, the High End Committee of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein awarded around 1.6 million euros to ten projects. Among the productions receiving funding are "Over & Out", the new film by Hamburg company Oma Inge Film ("Systemsprenger") and the novel adaptation "Mittagsstunde" by Lars Jessen, which also received further funding from the FFHSH Nordbuster Committee.

The Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein, Daniel Günther, honoured Directors and film producer Lars Jessen with the state's art prize on Wednesday evening.

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg wants to contribute a total of 5.5 million euros to the planned cancellation fund for corona-related filming interruptions in Germany. The FFHSH expressly welcomes this step.

In its second funding session in 2020, the Director's Cut Committee of the FFHSH has funded 31 projects with almost 1.2 million euros. The funded films include an Indian road movie by Hamburg production company Tamtam Film and a culinary voyage of discovery to Albania by Schleswig-Holstein filmmaker Andrea Jeska.

The new FFHSH Committee "Director's Cut" for projects with production costs of less than 3.5 million euros met for the first time at the end of May. In response to the coronavirus-related shooting stops, the focus was on the development of new film material. A total of 18 projects were funded with over 400,000 euros.

The Senate has also decided on further openings in the cultural sector with the new ordinance passed today: Hamburg's cinemas and district cultural centres can reopen to visitors under certain conditions.

On Tuesday evening, Jana Schiedek, State Councillor for Culture and Media, presented the Hamburg Cinema Awards. In a digital "Home Edition", 15 arthouse and district cinemas were honoured for their 2019 programme year. Special prizes were awarded for the first time to the initiatives "A Wall is a Screen", "Flexibles Flimmern" and Schanzenkino 73.

Three films from Hamburg were among the big winners of the 70th German Film Awards: With 8 prizes, Nora Fingscheidt's drama "Systemsprenger" was the big winner at the awards ceremony on Friday evening. Further LOLAs went to "I Was, I Am, I Will Be; by Ilker Çatak and "Lindenberg! Do your thing" by Hermine Huntgeburth.

The Schleswig-Holstein Cinema Prize was distributed online for the first time. "The coronavirus pandemic has prompted us to rewrite the script for the Cinema Prize," said Culture Minister Karin Prien in her message of greeting in the video clip produced by Filmwerkstatt.

A separate cinema emergency aid programme for Hamburg, a tripling of cinema programme prices in Schleswig-Holstein, participation in the nationwide rescue package and a new funding programme for creative professionals in the north of the country: A comprehensive package of measures is intended to support the film and cinema industry in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein quickly and sustainably. The two states will provide an additional 3.7 million euros for this purpose.

In the nominations for the German Film Awards 2020 announced today, a total of 23 nominations went to six FFHSH-funded films. Among the nominees are Nora Fingscheidt's "Systemsprenger", Hermine Huntgeburth's "Lindenberg! Do your thing" and "I Was, I Am, I Will Be" by HMS graduate Ilker Çatak.

A visit to the capital for a cup of tea: on Saturday, around 650 guests from the film scene met for the "Berlinale Tea Time" at the Hamburg State Representation on the Spree. The occasion was the 70th Berlin International Film Festival. Among the guests: Hamburg-based "Curveball"-Executive Producer and actor Fahri Yardim, Lindenberg actor Jan Bülow and "Systemsprenger"-star Helena Zengel.