FUNDING

Ideas in motion

Whether it's a feature film, high-end series, XR project or short film: we look forward to your material and formats and would like to provide you with the best possible funding. Let our experienced team advise you and see together what options are available to you. We support your projects from the first treatment to the final release.

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Moving Images North

Feature film

Is your next cinema production in the starting blocks? We support your project from the first treatment to the cinema release.

Documentary

Showing what's going on in the world - on a large and small scale: we support cinema documentaries at various stages - you can find out which ones here.

Animated film

Breathtaking fantasy worlds or stories that life writes: Anything is possible in the animation sector!

Innovative audiovisual formats

Be different, be bold: We want to support innovative ideas in the moving image sector and accompany them from the idea to realisation.

Short film

A special art form: hardly any other film allows as much freedom as the short film. We've got your back - with various funding opportunities.

One thing is clear: the north is always worth a visit

Our region is

our stories

Series

Fresh locations in series: If you want to shoot high-end series with unused motifs, come to us in the north in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. We offer numerous funding opportunities.

Cinemas

Lights out, film off: Nowhere else can stories be told as well as in the cinema. To ensure that this remains the case, we support the local cinema scene.

Distribution

Whether festival or cinema: films have to reach their target audience. We provide support to ensure that this works as well as possible.

Further support

In addition to our well-known funding instruments, there are other exciting funding programmes in which we collaborate with other institutions.

Submission deadlines

Come to NEST

NEST replaces the previous types of funding for treatments and scripts, ideas and concepts. Your applications can now be submitted online via the NEST portal.

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Looking ahead

Discover our initiatives for more environmental awareness, diversity and transparency in our company and in the film industry.

Green Production

The north turns green

All information on special fundings for sustainable production.

Green Production Seite

Diversity

For more diversity in the media landscape

Information about extra fundings for diversity in the media industry.

Diversity Seite

Transparency

How we act

Take a look at our annual reports, balance sheets and our Code of Conduct.

Transparency and responsibility

Header image: Shooting "The Golden Glove; Credits: bombero int / Warner Bros. / Boris Laewen