New featurefilms by Doris Doerrie, Esther Gronenborn, Ilya Khrzhanovsky, and Ole ChristianMadsen are among the projects supported with more than $5.3m (Euros 4m) by thethree German regional funds FFF Bayern, FilmFoerderung
The largestamount allocated by the Bavarian fund - $663,024 (Euros 500,000) - went toDoerrie's drama Hanami which has alsobeen supported by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and will begin shooting atlocations in Berlin, Bavaria and Japan from spring 2007, while the Munich fundand Leipzig-based
Meanwhile,two gangster dramas from different periods in history found favour with thefunding committee in Hamburg: Ozgur Yildirim's feature debut Chiko, which will be produced by FatihAkin's production outfit Corazon International and will star Moritz Bleibtreuand Denis Moschitto as petty gangsters in a contemporary Hamburg suburb; andDanish filmmaker Ole Christian Madsen's Flame& Citron, set in Second World War Denmark under German occupation, tobe produced by Nimbus Film with Wueste Filmproduktion.
Inaddition, FilmFoerderung
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