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All articles by Martin Blaney
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NewsDOK Leipzig sets Roman Bondarchuk, Gal Rosenbluth projects among 2025 co-pro market selection
Documentary projects by Ukraine’s Roman Bondarchuk, Israel’s Gal Rosenbluth and Germany’s Julia Fuhr Mann among 35-strong line-up at German event.
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NewsFilmfest Hamburg unveils 2025 line-up
Lovely Day and Rental Family to bookend festival director Malika Rabahallah’s second Filmfest Hamburg
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NewsEuropean Work In Progress unveils projects for first Filmfest Hamburg edition
EXCLUSIVE: 27 filmmaking teams will pitch to an international industry execs and a jury for cash prizes.
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NewsFilmfest Hamburg unveils speakers for Explorer Conference 2025
XYZ Films’ Marie Garrett, French-Senegalese producer Yanis Gaye and UK producer Peter Carlton.
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NewsAustrian production incentive FISAplus relaunched with yearly cap
The well-liked incentive has previously backed projects including ‘Cliffhanger 2’ and ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’.
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NewsDaniela Elstner, İlker Çatak join first selection committee of Germany’s €41m Medienboard fund
Unifrance’s executive director Daniela Elstner and Oscar-nominated director İlker Çatak join fund’s first ever selection committee
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NewsSwitzerland’s Visions Sud Est fund sets out plans for final year before closing in September 2026
The fund will still be involved as a sponsor of the two awards it presents during Visions du Réel’s (VdR) industry platform and Locarno’s Open Doors programme in 2026.
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NewsSwitzerland’s ‘Lex Netflix’ investment obligation raises $37m to fund films and TV series
Netflix’s first Swiss TV series Winter Palace and Venice film Alpha were among the first productions to benefit from new investment obligation.
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NewsNigerian director Dika Ofoma’s ‘Till The Morning Comes’ leads winners at Locarno’s Open Doors
Winners also included Zimbabwe’s Naishe Nyamubaya, Burkinabe director Azata Soro and Congolese filmmaker Erickey Bahati.
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NewsSwiss cantons Geneva and Neuchatel to launch rebate schemes for filmmakers
The regional rebate schemes aim to attract national and international productions, and can be combined with national Swiss rebate.
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NewsGeneviève Dulude-De Celles’ ‘Nina Roza’ and Goran Rebić’s ‘In The Hidden’ lead Locarno Pro winners
Industry platform handed out prizes for platforms including First Look, Alliance 4 Development, Antaviana Spanish Previews Award and the Locarno Heritage Restoration Contest.
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NewsGerman film funds MOIN and FFA join the Five Nordics to launch initiative for cross-border collaboration
The venture will launch during the Industry Days at this year’s Filmfest Hamburg.
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NewsFatih Akin, Sergei Loznitsa films backed by German film funds
€12m in production support was allocated by three German film funds.
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NewsGermany plans major funding increase for production incentive programmes
Funding pot for country’s two main 30% incentive schemes would rise to €250m a year.
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NewsGermany’s Rapid Eye Movies launches world sales division
EXCLUSIVE: Cologne-based distributor-producer expands operations with new sales arm.
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NewsGerman box office flatlines in first half of 2025 but Steve Coogan starrer ‘The Penguin Lessons’ impresses
Walt Disney led the field of distributors with a market share of 26%.
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News‘Kika’, ‘Okamoto’ among Munich 2025 competition winners
Prizes also went to David Bim’s ’To The West, In Zapata’ and Cole Webley’s ’Omaha’.
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News‘Karla’, ‘Sechswochenamt’ dominate prizes at Munich’s German Cinema New Talent awards
Munich’s German Cinema New Talent awards showcases rising local talents.
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News‘A Poet’ producers win Munich’s €100,000 CineCoPro prize
The cash prize is presented by Germany’s FFF Bayern.
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NewsGerman production execs voice despair at slow progress of tax incentive reform
Several production service companies have gone bust as international production has moved outside of the country