16/07/2013 - The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW backs 15 film and television productions with €5.43 million

After his autobiographical family drama Sources of Life [+see also:
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Award-winning Turkish-German director Özgur Yildirim, who had his big break with the drama Chiko [+see also:
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Filmfabrik received €600,000 for the family drama Von glücklichen Schafen by writer-director Kadir Sözen, which will also almost entirely be shot in North Rhine-Westphalia. A financial injection of €500,000 goes to Saphirblau, the second part of the time travel trilogy by Felix Fuchssteiner that is produced by Lieblingsfilm. Production support of around half a million euro also went to Blinker Film for the drama Hotel Lounge, in which Maria Furtwängler stars as a development worker in an Arabic conflict area where she falls in love with a man who is 20 years her junior.

Acclaimed German director Dominik Graf has come up with the crime story Die Zielfahnder – Flucht in die Karpaten in which Ronald Zehrfeld is chasing a Roumanian criminal. The action drama is produced by Wiedemann & Berg, which received €410,000 support.

The established Cologne-based Pandora Film that presented films such as The Congress [+see also:
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