Wim Wenders Grant

The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW has been awarding the Wim Wenders Grant since 2014 once a year to promote innovative cinematic art.  Young filmmakers are supported to realise projects with new means to enrich the picture language.

Who can apply?

• applications are accepted from authors, directors and video artists with their first place of residence in Germany, and especially from NRW.

What are the funding conditions?

• support is awarded to projects with a cinematic approach that is innovative both regards content and in formal terms.
• the development of the respective project is supported with the grant.
• the prerequisite is that a project concept and a budget are submitted with the application.
• the funding is in the form of a grant.

How does it work?

• the prerequisite is that a consultation is held with the responsible funding official before submitting an application.
• the information and documents required for the application are set out in the application forms.
• there is one call for projects each year.
• the funding decisions are taken by a jury chaired by Wim Wenders.

Service centre

• submission dates and all further documents can be found here.