Switzerland is submitting “A Piece Of Sky” ("Drii Winter") (written and directed by Michael Koch) to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood in the "Best International Film" category. In December 2022, it will be announced whether the film has been included in the shortlist of films that can be nominated for an Oscar. ... more
The 75th Locarno Film Festival has just announced its programme. The Filmstiftung-backed production "You Will Not Have My Hate" by Kilian Riedhof (Komplizen Film) will be shown as a world premiere in an open-air screening on the iconic Piazza Grande. Other Filmstiftung-backed co-productions have been invited to the Panorama Suisse sidebar: „A Piece Of Sky” ... more
The Venice International Film Festival has just announced that the Filmstiftung-backed „The Sitting Duck“ by Jean-Paul Salomé has been invited to screen in the Orizzonti sidebar. Cologne-based Heimatfilm produced the film with France’s Le Bureau Films. ... more
Just another four weeks to go and it’ll be that time of year again: gamescom, the world's largest games event, will be opening its doors to games fans and trade visitors at the Cologne Exhibition Centre from 23 to 28 August. ... more
The seventh year of the Baumi Script Development Award sees the €20,000 Baumi Script Development Award being shared in equal parts between the Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili for her treatment "Historia" and the German filmmaker Visar Morina for his project "Hatixhe and Shaban". ... more
On Sunday, 22 May, the eight leading German regional film funds hosted the FOCUS GERMANY Co-Production Breakfast again in Cannes to mark the festival’s 75th edition. Each year sees FOCUS GERMANY organising the Co-Production Breakfast with a country or partner region. ... more
The "International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk" has already supported a total of 108 Ukrainian filmmakers through its Emergency Fund. After already contributing 100,000 Euros to the fund in March, the German film funds will now provide additional support of 100,000 Euros – since the situation is still precarious. ... more
The Film- und Medienstiftung paid out 41 million Euros in its 30th year to films, high-end series, TV films, games, cinemas, festivals, location projects as well as training and further education. 22 million Euros was invested in production funding for fiction and documentary feature films, a total of 9.5 million Euros for series and TV funding, 1.3 million Euros altogether for project development, and around 1.4 million Euros for distribution and sales. ... more
The Filmstiftung-backed anthology series "Punishment" will be celebrating its world premiere on 5 April in the Grand Auditorium Louis Lumière at this year's Canneseries Festival which is being held from 1 to 6 April in cooperation with MIPTV to showcase international series from all genres. ... more
The Internationales Frauen* Film Fest Dortmund+Köln will open on Tuesday, 29 March. The festival, which is held alternately between the two cities, will be focused this year in Cologne as a physical event again. Individual films will also be shown at the Schauburg in Dortmund. In addition, a selection of the entire programme will be available for online streaming until 10 April. ... more
The programme for this year's Canneseries festival has now been unveiled. Two episodes of the Filmstiftung-backed anthology „Punishment“ have been invited to screen in the Competition: the films „The Thorn“ by Hüseyin Tabak and „The Diver“ by Oliver Hirschbiegel will have their world premieres as part of the „Competition Official Selection 2022“ at the series festival on the Côte d’Azur. ... more