The coming week will see Cologne again becoming the meeting place for the international games sector. The seventh edition of the gamescom, the world's largest event for interactive entertainment, will open on Wednesday, 05.08.. The Koelnmesse is expecting to host more than 700 exhibitors from over 40 countries. ...mehr
The documentary essay „Francofonia" by Alexander Sokurov is competing at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival in the competition for the Golden Lion. The French-German-Dutch co-production about the Louvre and its unknown history under the German occupation was backed by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW with 85,000 Euros. ...mehr
Great cinema under the open sky: „The State vs. Fritz Bauer“ by Lars Kraume will celebrate its world premiere on the Piazza Grande at the 68th Festival del film Locarno, where up to 8,000 spectators can enjoy films in open air screenings each evening. Funded by the Filmstiftung with a total 1.2 million Euros, the drama was largely shot in NRW. ...mehr
New bilateral funding programme: The German-French agreement for the joint development of TV fiction series was signed at the Plage du Gray d'Albion during the 68th Festival du Film de Cannes. The aim of the fund is to develop TV fiction series which are made as German-French co-productions. ...mehr
The 61st edition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, the world's most significant and oldest short film festival, will take place in Oberhausen's Lichtburg from 30 April to 5 May, 2015. With Lars Henrik Gass as its director, the festival will this year be presenting a total of 504 shorts from all over the world. ...mehr
The most important decision-making body of NRW's film funding infastructure, the main jury of the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, met this week for the 150th time in order to take decisions on the funding of film and TV projects from North Rhine-Westphalia. Since the year of the Filmstiftung's founding, the main jury has backed 5,645 projects. ...mehr
The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW will be represented at the 68th Festival de Cannes with a debut feature: the international co-production „Mustang“ by Deniz Gamze Ergüven is screening in the „Quinzaine des Réalisateurs“ sidebar. The German co-producers are the Düsseldorf-based Vistamar Filmproduktion and Cologne's Uhlandfilm. ...mehr
The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW is represented at the 14th edition of New York's Tribeca Film Festival (15 - 26 April) with three films. The competition has invited "Sworn Virgin" ("Vergine giurata") by Laura Bispuri. Fatih Akin's "The Cut" will be presented in Spotlight and "El Cinco" by Adrián Biniez will screen in the Viewpoints sidebar. ...mehr
The 27th NRW Media Forum will take place in Cologne from Tuesday, 9 June to Thursday, 11 June and, in co-operation with the ANGA COM and INTERACTIVE COLOGNE, will be offering an enhanced, compact conference programme for the media, broadband and digital industries. NRW Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft will be opening the NRW ...mehr
Great cinema with 29 NRW-funded films in all the important Berlinale sections as well as the successful launch of the Drama Series Days as a new platform for quality series at the European Film Market: the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW had a strong presence at the 65th Berlinale. ...mehr