Launched in 2004 as a joint initiative between the festival and the German Federal Cultural Foundation to support filmmakers in places with a fragile filmmaking infrastructure, the fund has supported more than 320 films over its 22 years of existence.
Territories covered by the initiative include Latin America, the Caribbean and the Pacific region, Africa, the Middle East, Central and Southeast Asia, the Caucasus, as well as Bangladesh, Nepal, Mongolia and Sri Lanka.
Its funding model is rare among European funds for Global South productions, in that the recipients are obliged to spend 90% of the money they receive in the country of production, rather than in Germany or on German cast and crew.
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