International co-productions benefit from $11.4mGerman support
By Martin Blaney2008-12-05T17:22:00+00:00
New international co-productions by Poland's Agnieszka Holland, Serbia's Oleg Novkovic and Sweden's Björn Runge are among a raft of feature projects supported with a total of over $ 11.4m (Euros 9m) by German public film funders at their latest funding sessions.
Holland's German-Canadian-Polish co-production Hidden about the struggle for survival by Jewish refugees over 14 months in Nazi-occupied Lvov received over $ 1m (Euros 800,000) from the German Federal Film Board (FFA) and Leipzig-based MDM.
Producer Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv also picked up $ 406,000 (Euros 320,000) from the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund (FFHSH) for another drama set in the Second World War and focussing on the Nazi persecution of the Jews: Björn Runge's adaptation of Marianne Fredriksson's novel Simon (And The Oaks) to be produced with partners from Sweden and Norway.
Meanwhile, MDM awarded $ 288,000 (Euros 227,000) production support to Belgrade-based film-maker Oleg Novkovic's drama White White World which had been pitched at the Connecting Cottbus co-production market in November 2007 and now has ostlicht filmproduktion onboard as German co-producer.
Other projects supported include:
Michael Schaack's CGI animation feature Glennkill, based on the international bestseller by Leonie Swann
David Pinillos' comedy Bon Appetit, produced by Egoli Tossell Film with partners in Switzerland and Spain
Detlev Buck's Same Same But Different, adapted from Benjamin Prüfer's autobiographical novel Wohin Du Auch Gehst
Peter Timm's Berlin Wall comedy Liebe Mauer
Denis Todorovic's tragicomic culture clash Sascha about a 19-year-old boy from a Montenegrin Gastarbeiter family secretly coming out in Cologne.
Beta Film to handle sales on new Agnieszka Holland feature
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The film deals with the end of a relationship between two young men.
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