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A total of 64 projects were submitted. The two largest allocations go to Oliver Hirschbiegel’s new film The Angel’s Face and to Freche Mädchen 2.
The Film Production category receives €3.02 million. Of this, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern is funding the thriller The Angel’s Face (Fanes Filmproduktion, director: Oliver Hirschbiegel), which follows the professional killer Giorgio Basile from a Sicilian child to a criminal in Mühlheim and features gangster and mafia themes, with €950,000. €850,000 is allocated to the sequel Freche Mädchen 2 (Collina Filmproduktion, director: Ute Wieland), following the twists and turns of teenagers.
€750,000 is awarded to the German-New Zealand co-production and adaptation of the bestseller Superhero (Bavaria Pictures Geiselgasteig, Miracleman Production, director: Anthony McCarten) about a 16-year-old boy with leukemia. €320,000 goes to Poll (Kordes & Kordes Film Süd, director: Chris Kraus) about the great love between writer Oda Schaefer and an injured soldier at the beginning of the First World War. Ralf Westhoff’s film The Last Beautiful Autumn Day (Ralf Westhoff Filmproduktion), about relationship problems, receives €150,000.
The Television Film category receives €2.16 million for seven projects. The highest grants go to two historical dramas: Bergwehen – The Midwife (Roxy Film, director: Dagmar Hirtz, ZDF) about a 19th-century midwife who is ahead of her time and faces resistance, and Die Wanderhure (TV60Filmproduktion, director: Hansjörg Thurn, Sat.1) about the daughter of a cloth merchant in 15th-century Konstanz who is accused and convicted for prostitution.
Additional projects include a Saxonia Media ARD production about blogging youths (Das BlogHaus), a teamWorx production for Pro Sieben about refugees from East Germany (Unsere beste Zeit), a ZDF animated series based on Kirsten Boie’s children’s book The Little Knight Trenk (ndf: Neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft), and two documentaries: “The History of Modern Bavaria” and The Concert of Voices, a production by Kent Nagano and the OSM for Bayerischer Rundfunk.
In youth film support, the FFF Bayern is funding nine projects with €705,000, including Tim Fehlbaum’s 2016 debut The End of a Night (Claussen + Wöbke + Putz) and a film about an unsuccessful folk musician (King of Hearts, K5 Film, director: Florian Puchert), as well as seven graduation films from students of the University of Television and Film Munich.
In project development support, €169,000 is allocated to six projects, including the adventure film The Star from India (MoreMovies Entertainment, director: Marc Rothemund) and the animated adaptation of Tomi Ungerer’s children’s book Der Mondmann (Schesch Filmcreation).
€65,000 is allocated to script support for three projects: Lange Schatten (Mark Monheim, Max Eipp, DRIFE – Deyle and Richter Filmproduktion) about boundaries between social circles in a youth clique, Die Capris (Ina Borrmann, Avista Film) about life in Saxony during the DDR era, and Sabbatical (Niels Laupert, Lea Sommer, Südart Filmproduktion) about the role expectations of a career-focused couple shaken by an unplanned pregnancy.
€802,000 is allocated to distribution support, including Männersache, Vorstadtkrokodile, Princess Lillifee, Slumdog Millionaire, All the Others, and We Are Pope.
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