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Berlin / Potsdam – With over 5.7 million euros in funding for 26 film projects, MBB ensures a supply of films – after all, cinema has no time to die! In front of and behind the camera, women deliver strong themes – for instance Theresa von Eltz, who explores Einstein’s children, and Jessica Hausner, whose “Club Zero” takes the manipulation of students at an elite boarding school to the cruel extreme. Soleen Yusef is shooting “Sieger sein” (“Winning”) about Syrian girl Mona, who finds her place in the quarter of Wedding and in the world through football, and the Samdereli sisters are filming “Samia”, the true story of a Sudanese runner whose fate is impacted by the Taliban. In “Lady Nazca”, Paula Beer plays the extraordinary German explorer Maria Reiche, who solved one of the world's greatest desert mysteries in 1930s Peru, while Henriette Confurius becomes Dora Diamant, Franz Kafka’s last companion in life, in “Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens” (“The Glory of Life”). The life of Petra Kelly is the subject of Doris Metz’s documentary “Not for Nothing”.

The Wes Anderson family now includes model maker Simon Weisse and his team: they are supplying the gorgeous miniatures and backdrops for the cult director’s new project as well. Til Schweiger is filming the bestseller “The Café on the Edge of the World”. Documentary film creator Reiner Holzemer takes an exclusive look at the exceptional actor Lars Eidinger. And then there is a certain Keanu Reeves, who is returning to Berlin-Brandenburg for “John Wick 4” – welcome back! 

 
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PRODUCTION FUNDING

Girl You Know It's True
Wiedemann & Berg Film | Funding amount 1,15 Mio. Euro
Direction & Screenplay: Simon Verhoeven

Das Café am Rande der Welt  
Rat Pack Filmproduktion | Funding amount 800.000 Euro
Direction: Til Schweiger | Screenplay: Will Francis Geiger, John Strelecky
Cast: Til Schweiger, Tim Oliver Schultz, Paula Kalenberg, Timur Bartels

John Wick 4
Studio Babelsberg | Funding amount 600.000 Euro
Direction: Chad Stahelski | Screenplay: Shay Hatten, Michael Finch, Derek Kolstad
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Bill Skarsgård

Einstein - Das Drama des genialen Vaters
Lupa Film | Funding amount 500.000 Euro
Direction: Theresa von Eltz | Screenplay: Constantin Lieb, Jürgen Neffe
Cast: David Vormweg, Jella Haase, Alexandra Maria Lara

Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens
Tempest Film Produktion | Funding amount 500.000 Euro
Direction: Georg Maas | Screenplay: Michael Gutmann, Georg Maas
Cast: Henriette Confurius, Sabin Tambrea

Sieger sein
DCM Pictures | Funding amount 400.000 Euro
Direction & Screenplay: Soleen Yusef

Club Zero
Essential Filmproduktion | Funding amount 250.000 Euro
Direction: Jessica Hausner | Screenplay: Jessica Hausner, Geraldine Bajard

Untitled Wes Anderson Project
Studio Babelsberg | Funding amount 250.000 Euro
Direction & Screenplay: Wes Anderson
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Jason Schwartzman, Rupert Friend, Elisabeth Moss, Adrien Brody, Jeff Goldblum, Timothée Chalamet 

Lady Nazca
27 Films Production | Funding amount 200.000 Euro
Direction: Damien Dorsaz | Screenplay: Fadette Drouard
Cast: Paula Beer, Alice Dwyer

Northern Comfort
One Two Films | Funding amount 200.000 Euro
Direction: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson | Screenplay: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson, Halldór Laxness Halldórsson
Cast: Sian Clifford, Timothy Spall, Paula Beer

Samia 
Neue Bioskop Film | Funding amount 100.000 Euro
Direction: Yasemin Samdereli | Screenplay: Yasemin Samdereli, Nesrin Samdereli

Sein oder Nichtsein - Lars Eidinger
Reiner Holzemer Film | Funding amount 60.000 Euro
Direction & Screenplay: Reiner Holzemer
Documentary Feature

Petra Kelly - Not for Nothing
Bildersturm Filmproduktion | Funding amount 60.000 Euro
Direction: Doris Metz
Documentary Feature


DEVELOPMENT

Kakerlakak - The Movie
X Filme | Funding amount 70.000 Euro
Screenplay: John Chambers

Die (un)langweiligste Schule der Welt    
Storming Donkey Productions | Funding amount 25.000 Euro
Direction: Ekrem Ergün | Screenplay: Sabrina J. Kirschner

Roxy
tellfilm Deutschland | Funding amount 20.000 Euro
Direction: Joachim Masannek | Screenplay: Katharina Reschke


DISTRIBUTION

Fly (Katja von Garnier), Studiocanal, 150.000 Euro || Gunpowder Milkshake (Navot Papushado), Studiocanal, 80.000 Euro || Grosse Freiheit (Sebastian Meise), Piffl Medien, 35.000 Euro  || Was sehen wir, wenn wir zum Himmel schauen? (Alexandre Koberidze), Grandfilm, 20.000 Euro || Le Prince (Lisa Bierwirth), Port au Prince, 20.000 Euro  || Wem gehört mein Dorf? (Christoph Eder), jip film & verleih, 15.000 Euro