MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein has awarded €4.92m ($5.52m) across 31 film and series projects in a package disclosed on 5 November, including €600,000 ($673,000) for Julia Becker’s Tuna and €550,000 ($617,000) for Mohammad Rasoulof’s Grey Matter. FilmBunch calculated the total from the fund’s published decisions and its consolidated project list; the announcement rounded the package to more than €4.9m ($5.5m).
Key facts
- FilmBunch-established: the four funding-strand totals sum to €4,920,064 ($5.52m); no in-kind value has been added.
- High End: seven projects share €2.08m ($2.33m); Director’s Cut: 13 projects share €2,288,266 ($2.57m).
- Short films: three awards total €90,000 ($101,000); NEST: eight projects share €461,798 ($518,000), without individual allocations disclosed in the announcement.
- FilmBunch-established: five High End production awards total €1.95m ($2.19m), or 93.75% of that strand’s €2.08m; the remaining €130,000 ($146,000) supports distribution.
- These are funding awards, not evidence of payment or completed production financing.
The package brings together decisions taken by separate committees, rather than a single November meeting. The High End list dates its decision to 7 October, the Director’s Cut list to 21 October and the short-film list to 23 September. MOIN’s 5 November announcement supplies the consolidated account, including the eight NEST projects. It gives no individual NEST awards or date for that group’s decisions.
The distinction between the schemes is their production-cost threshold. High End handles films and series costing more than €2.5m ($2.81m), alongside cinema documentaries above €1.5m ($1.68m). Director’s Cut handles films and cinema documentaries below those respective levels, MOIN says. The threshold describes which committee considers a project; it is not the size of the subsidy awarded to it.
The production awards
Tuna, produced by Hamburg’s Oma Inge Film, receives the largest single award in the disclosed list. Written by Lena Krumkamp, Becker’s tragicomedy follows a woman running a seven-day Moroccan ultramarathon in memory of her partner. MOIN dates the start of filming to April 2027, with locations including Merzouga and Hamburg.
Run Way Pictures receives the Grey Matter award. Rasoulof’s drama centres on a German-Iranian surgeon whose encounter with a patient opens up her scattered family’s past. The fund says the production will include filming in Hamburg, but does not give a start date.
Maria Schrader’s Arbeit und Struktur, an adaptation of Wolfgang Herrndorf’s book starring Sandra Hüller, receives €250,000 ($281,000). Berthold Wahjudi’s Sommermärchen, funded through Director’s Cut, receives €500,000 ($561,000) and has 29 Hamburg shooting days planned for summer 2027. The same strand awards €400,000 ($449,000) to Detlev Buck and Cüneyt Kaya’s Unter Palmen aus Stahl, starring Helena Zengel, with 25 Hamburg shooting days planned for spring 2027.
The complete disclosed list
The tables reproduce all 31 projects in MOIN’s consolidated announcement, grouped by the relevant decision. Amounts are in euros. A production award does not establish the film’s total budget; distribution support is recorded separately.
High End: 7 projects, €2.08m
| Title | Director | Recipient | Award and purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuna | Julia Becker | Oma Inge Film | €600,000, production |
| Grey Matter | Mohammad Rasoulof | Run Way Pictures | €550,000, production |
| Ordinary Men | Philip Koch | Weydemann Bros. | €350,000 ($393,000), production |
| Arbeit und Struktur | Maria Schrader | Komplizen Film | €250,000, production |
| Die Hanse Saga (series) | Wilfried Hauke | IDA Film & TV Produktion | €200,000 ($224,000), production |
| Ghost Song (Geister) | Fatih Akin | Warner Bros. Entertainment | €100,000 ($112,000), distribution |
| Butterfly – Rückkehr nach Gran Canaria | Itonje Søimer Guttormsen | Port au Prince Pictures | €30,000 ($33,700), distribution |
Director’s Cut: 13 projects, €2,288,266
| Title | Director | Recipient | Award and purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sommermärchen | Berthold Wahjudi | if… Productions | €500,000, production |
| Am Anfang von Irgendwas | Willy Hans | Fünferfilm | €400,000, production |
| Unter Palmen aus Stahl | Detlev Buck, Cüneyt Kaya | Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion | €400,000, production |
| Morphe | Hilke Rönnfeldt | North Ship Film | €390,000 ($438,000), production |
| Paul und die Flussbande | Chloé Mazlo | Luftkind Filmverleih | €300,000 ($337,000), production |
| See You Soon | Martin Prinoth, Martina Mahlknecht | Jyoti Film | €86,266 ($96,800), production |
| Elfis Geheimnis | Monika Treut | Filmgalerie 451 | €80,000 ($89,800), production |
| Alles wird wieder so wie früher (working title) | Malika Musaeva | zero one film | €40,000 ($44,900), project development |
| Knut, Bruno, Panda | Claudia Tuyết Scheffel | a group therapy film | €36,000 ($40,400), project development |
| Head to Head | Ghasideh Golmakani | Ghasideh Golmakani | €10,000 ($11,200), completion |
| Holy Wood Dust | Viktor Kossakovsky | mindjazz pictures | €26,000 ($29,200), distribution |
| All My Sisters | Massoud Bakhshi | Little Dream Pictures | €10,000, distribution |
| Morgen vor langer Zeit | Luise Donschen | Grandfilm | €10,000, distribution |
Short films: 3 projects, €90,000
| Title | Director | Recipient where stated | Production award |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Door In the River | Nana Xu | Not named in the consolidated list | €40,000 |
| Qarbon Baby | Popo Fan | Fünferfilm | €30,000 |
| May the sun and the dogs be my guide | Catalina Gonzalez Gonzalez | Catalina Gonzalez Gonzalez | €20,000 ($22,400) |
NEST: 8 projects, €461,798 combined
MOIN identifies the following eight projects but does not publish their individual awards in the consolidated list. Decisions are made by a community of former NEST recipients.
| Title | Filmmaker(s) named | Company where stated |
|---|---|---|
| Der König von Wellingsbüttel | Andi Rogenhagen | Wüste Film |
| Frau und Kolonie | Sönje Storm | Not stated |
| Hundstage | Markus Reinhardt, Nathalie Eckmann | Not stated |
| Im Spiegel | Sebastian Winkels, Simon Brückner | Pinkmovies |
| Moving | Kai Jou Liao | Not stated |
| Peace, Love and Mayhem | Felix Ahrens, Sonja Schönemann | CURLYPICTURES |
| The Red Shoes | Marita Mayer | Not stated |
| Zwischen zwei Türen | Ashkan Najafi, Hoda Muini | Not stated |
What the totals establish
FilmBunch’s cash tally is €2,080,000 + €2,288,266 + €90,000 + €461,798 = €4,920,064. The five High End production awards sum to €1.95m; dividing by that strand’s €2.08m gives 93.75%. Neither calculation includes services or vouchers. The remaining High End awards total €130,000 for distribution.
Dollar equivalents use the ECB reference rate for 5 November, the date of the consolidated disclosure, of €1 = $1.1224. MOIN’s lists do not establish when money was paid, the balance of each project’s finance plan or a release date for the new productions. No new application deadline is disclosed in the announcement.
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Our reading
For producers, the package’s composition matters as much as its headline total. The High End decisions provide a defined production contribution to five projects, while two titles receive distribution support. Treating the entire strand as new production finance would overstate what the decisions disclose. The same separation matters in Director’s Cut, where development and completion awards sit alongside production grants.
The NEST list presents a different limit: the eight recipients can be identified, but their shares of the combined allocation cannot. That prevents a title-by-title comparison with the other committees. The disclosed shooting plans give several productions a timetable; they do not settle the remaining financing or show that an award has been drawn down.
Sources
- MOIN, High End decision list, 7 October 2026
- MOIN, Director’s Cut decision list, 21 October 2026
- MOIN, short-film decision list, 23 September 2026
- MOIN, 5 November consolidated announcement and complete 31-project list (German)
- MOIN, English-language announcement and title forms
- European Central Bank, USD reference rates