The 79th Venice International Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, and the Filmland NRW is represented with two films that the Film- und Medienstiftung supported with production funding and a grant. For the German-French co-production "The Sitting Duck", leading actress Isabelle Huppert was also in NRW in front of the camera. ...mehr
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. ...mehr
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". ...mehr
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. ...mehr
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. ...mehr
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. ...mehr
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. ...mehr
In light of the humanitarian emergency and war in Ukraine, solidarity is more important than ever: the German film funds strongly condemn Putin's invasion and wish to send a sign of solidarity with Ukrainian filmmakers and their families by this joint initiative. ...mehr
The award ceremony of the 72nd Berlinale has just ended in the Berlinale Palast at Potsdamer Platz. The international jury under president M. Night Shyamalan presented two Silver Bears to the production "Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush" by Andreas Dresen. ...mehr
Current trends and developments in the world of series will again be the focus of this year’s Berlinale Series Market which will take place from 14 to 15 February as part of the European Film Market (EFM). The business platform is being held in a digital format for the second year in a row. ...mehr