At its current meeting, the Director's Cut Committee of the MOIN Film Fund awarded around 900,000 euros to eight projects, including the feature film debut of Hamburg-based directing duo Nicolaas Schmidt and Anne Döring and the drama "Hercules Falling" with "Game of Thrones" actor Dar Salim.

Six productions with North German participation can hope to win a total of 19 LOLAs at the German Film Awards 2024. Right at the forefront: the Berlinale film "Sterben" (Dying) by Hamburg-born Matthias Glasner with nine nominations. There were four nominations for "Stella. Ein Leben." by Hamburg-based Director Kilian Riedhof, and Hamburg filmmaker Ayşe Polat was also nominated three times for her Berlinale film "In the Blind Spot".