Christmas has come early this year for Germany’s producers as national and regional funds paid out a total of more than €12m production support to such filmmakers as Fatih Akin, Feo Aladag, Rosa von Praunheim and Simon Verhoeven in their last funding sessions for 2012.
The third part of Fatih Akin’s Love, Death and Devil trilogy, The Cut, received €1m from FilmFörderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and €250,000 from the State Minister for Culture (BKM), while Feo Aladag’s second feature, Später im Sommer, was awarded €200,0000 from Film- und Medienstiftung NRW. The war drama set in Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush region will be produced by Independent Artists with Geissendörfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion and handled internationally by Wild Bunch.
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