Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein’s regional film fund MOIN is set to receive additional funding of €10m for the next two years, bringing its total annual budget to €21.2m.
According to the city’s proposed budget for 2027/28, it plans to continue providing the additional €5m cash injections, which Hamburg had already allocated to MOIN for 2025 and 2026.
Commenting on this future support for MOIN’s operations, Hamburg’s senator for culture and media Carsten Brosda said that “by making the additional funding for the MOIN Film Fund permanent, we aim to build on the cultural and economic successes of Hamburg’s film funding programme in recent years and invest sustainably in the future of the film industry in Hamburg.”
The city of Hamburg would therefore continue providing a total of €13m to MOIN, with the rest of the film fund’s budget drawn from such sources as the neighbouring federal state of Schleswig-Holstein and public broadcasters NDR and ZDF.
The goal of the budget increase to boost the region’s standing as a leading production hub for film and television in Germany has already borne fruit since the additional funding started flowing last year.
MOIN was able to attract two industry events – European Work in Progress and International Film Distribution Summit – to relocate to Hamburg from their original venue in Cologne and will be hosting its second edition there from September 28-30 during the Filmfest Hamburg.
Moreover, Hamburg served as the location for a new industry platform, CineHamburg, which was the result of close collaboration between the German exhibitors’ association HDF and the film distributors’ association AllScreens.
CineHamburg’s first edition of a combination of trade show and conference programme was held from July 7-10 with international guests including Vue International’s Tim Richards, Disney’s Nick Rush and Warner Bros Discovery’s Toby Tennant and was supported by MOIN and the Hamburg Convention Bureau.
Further beneficiaries of the extra funding in 2025 and 2026 have included the launching of the Nordic Nest initiative to promote the co-development of film and TV projects between German and Nordic producers and screenwriters as well as additional financial support for cinemas in Hamburg as part of the “Hamburg Kinobonus” programme.
Recent film and TV projects supported by MOIN have included Danish filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel’s upcoming historical drama My Fairytale Life, Levan Akin’s Turkish-set drama Summer In Heat and sequels to animated feature The Whale Singer and hit comedy drama The Door-to-Door Bookstore.
In addition, this year saw a record sum of €1.3m in production funding from MOIN going to the TV series Hamburg Days, which tells the story of five young amateurs setting out in 1960 to prove their talent in the clubs of Hamburg’s Reeperbahn before the world came to know them as The Beatles.
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