Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (WCF) handed out eight production and two distribution grants in its latest funding round.
The titles were chosen from 195 submitted projects from 55 countries by a jury including Spanish producer Marta Andreu, German filmmaker Ayse Polat, German-Egyptian curator Viola Shafik and WCF head Vincenzo Bugno.
WCF is an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation and Berlin International Film Festival, in cooperation with the Federal Foreign Office and further support from the Goethe-Institut. WCF Europe was launched with the support of the EU’s Creative Europe MEDIA programme.
WCF PRODUCTION FUNDING:
I’m Coming for You, dir: Cyrielle Raingou (Cameroon)
Prod: JCMR Production (Cameroon), Liza Ndakopumba; Seera Films (Germany), Kesmat Elsayed
Funding: €40,000
Red Mist Descending, dir: Rakhsan Banietemad (Iran)
Prod: Mind Doc Film Production (Iran), Mina Keshavarz; Weydemann Bros (Germany), Jonas Weydemann
Funding: €40,000
La Libertad Doble, dir: Lisandro Alonso (Argentina)
Prod: 4L (Argentina), Lisandro Alonso; The Match Factory (Germany), Viola Fügen
Funding: €30,000
Aisha Can’t Fly Anymore, dir: Morad Mostafa (Egypt)
Prod: Bonanza Films (Egypt), Sawsan Yusuf
Funding: €25,000
A Margem do Rio, dir: Matheus Farias & Enock Carvalho (Brazil)
Prod: Gatopardo Filmes (Brazil), Enock Carvalho
Funding: €30,000
You Don’t Die Two Times, dir: Ager Oueslati (Algeria)
Prod: Taswir Edition Production (Algeria), Raouf Oueslati [Documentary]
Funding: €25,000
WCF Europe:
Ancestral Visions Of The Future, dir: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (Lesotho)
Prod: Mokoro Street Media (Lesotho), Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese; Agat Films (France), Marie Balducchi; Seera Films (Germany), Laura Kloeckner [Documentary]
Funding: €30,000
The Sky Is Mine, dir: Deepak Rauniyar (Nepal)
Prod: Aadifilms (Nepal), Deepak Rauniyar; Tannhauser Gate (Norway), Alan R. Miligan
Funding: €25,000
DISTRIBUTION FUNDING:
Goodbye Julia, dir: Mohamed Kordofani (Sudan)
Distribution: Rushlake Media
German cinema release: August 15, 2024
Funding: €7,000
Critical Zone, dir: Ali Ahmadzadeh (Iran)
Distribution: W-film Distribution
German cinema release: November 7, 2024
Funding: €8,000