The organisers of the 41st Toronto International Film Festival (08.-18.09.2016) announced the first titles for this year’s programme on Tuesday. Maren Ade’s Filmstiftung-backed comedy „Toni Erdmann“, this summer’s big festival and theatrical success, will be shown as a ¨Special Presentation¨. The film was the first one from Germany for eight years to have its world ...mehr
SpielFabrique, the Franco German acceleration programme for video games supported by the Film and Media Fund NRW (Germany), is pleased to announce the results of the first jury. ...mehr
Three years' work developing compressed into four days: held under the banner of "Running Shows" from Saturday to Tuesday, the Entertainment Master Class (EMC) reveals what constitutes the successful work of a showrunner. ...mehr
The Filmstiftung-backed TV film „Gotthard – Progress At Any Cost“ by Urs Egger will presented as a special screening during the pre-festival on the Piazza Grande. ...mehr
Cologne, 7 June 2016 – As part of a joint kick-off event, the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hannelore Kraft, today opened the 28th NRW Media Forum and the 16th ANGA COM at the Cologne Exhibition Centre. ...mehr
On Saturday, 21. May, the International Society of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) announced awards in three categories, with its award for the best film in the main competition going to “Toni Erdmann”. ...mehr
The countdown is on at the Croisette: just two more days before the jury of the 69th Festival de Cannes announces the prize-winners of the 2016 edition on Sunday. ...mehr
The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Germany's largest regional fund, is turning 25. On 27 Februar 1991, the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and WDR founded the Filmstiftung in Düsseldorf. ...mehr
A successful beginning for the second edition of the „Drama Series Days“ at the „European Film Market“ (EFM) as part of the 66th Berlinale: the focus was on „Commissioning Strategies“ in the Spiegelzelt. ...mehr
2015 saw the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW operating now in its fifth year as a funder and location agency for the film and media region of NRW. It supported a total of 406 projects with around 33.6 million Euros and thus continues to be the financially most powerful German regional fund despite budget cuts. ...mehr