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Hackers, family experiments and the opening of a border

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- The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg supports 41 film projects with €5.12m, among them Sils Maria by Olivier Assayas

In its latest funding session the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg  greenlighted a cash injection of €4.505 million for the production of 26 film projects to be shot in the German capital. The thriller Who Am I stars Tom Schilling and Elyas M’Barek as activists in the Berlin-based hacker community.  Produced by the Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, the project received support of €800,000.

With his new project Die Therapie Crasher German film-maker Anno Saul (Kebab Connection, The Door [+see also:
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) is starting a family experiment for which the production company Chestnut Films received €250,000. The cast of the film includes Fahri Yardim, Milan Peschel, Peri Baumeister, Heike Makatsch, and Josefine Preuß.

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The award-winning writer/ director Christian Schwochow (Novemberkind [+see also:
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) who likes to team up with his mother Heide Schwochow describes in Bornholmer Strasse the moment when the Berlin Wall came down. The Ufa Fernsehproduktion received €300,000 support for the project, which will be joined by an ensemble cast including Charly Hübner, Milan Peschel, Ludwig Trepte, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, and Ulrich Matthes.

With Mullewapp – Eine schöne Schweinerei Studiocanal and Motionworks are producing a sequel to their new 3D-animated film for children. The Medienboard is spending €200,000 on the project so that the animal heroes can move on to new adventures.

Furthermore, the French director Olivier Assayas (photo - Carlos [+see also:
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) will come to Berlin and the high mountains in Switzerland to shoot the drama Sils Maria with Juliette Binoche, Kristen Steward and Daniel Brühl. Pallas film that acts as German partner in this Swiss-French-German coproduction reveived €200,000 backing from Berlin.

Among the six directors who received development funding for their new project is the acclaimed Berlin-based director Chris Kraus (Four Minutes [+see also:
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) who is working on his new film Die Blumen von gestern, which already won him the Thomas Strittmatter script award by the MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg earlier this year. 

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