The German-Polish Film Fund supports Malgorzata Szumowska's next project
- Two other projects have been selected – a thriller by Kuba Czekaj and a historical drama scripted by Krzysztof Rak – and they all share a total of €200,000
The German-Polish Film Fund – which sees the German Federal Film Board (FFA), the MDM (Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung) and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg regional funds, and the Polish Film Institute join forces – has distributed €200,000 to three feature-film projects in its second round of support for 2018.
The selected projects include The Masseur by celebrated multiple Berlin awardee Malgorzata Szumowska, a co-production between Pola Pandora Filmproduktion (Berlin) and Nowhere (Warsaw). The film, which was granted €50,000, focuses on the character of a massage therapist called Wojtek, who has his regular clients from the Warsaw middle class, and tends to become a close friend for many of them.
The mystery-thriller project Lipstick on the Glass [+see also:
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The bilateral fund also contributed €50,000 to the financing of the historical drama Morphine, an adaptation of Szczepan Twardoch's novel of the same name, writing duties on which were entrusted to Krzysztof Rak (Gods [+see also:
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The next application deadline for the German-Polish Film Fund is 14 December 2018.
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