Cultural funding

If you would like to apply for funding from the German Federal Film Board (FFA) for your cinema project, you may have to submit a provisional project certificate from the BAFA.

If you invest in the modernization or improvement of cinemas or in new cinema buildings, you can apply for funding under certain conditions.

If you as a film distributor release an artistically ambitious film in cinemas, you can receive funding under certain conditions.

If you develop a screenplay or treatment for a children's film of particular artistic quality, you can receive funding under certain conditions.

If you would like to invest in your cinema, you can apply for funding under certain conditions.

If you want to digitize historically significant or valuable German films, you can apply for funding under certain conditions.

If your project has been nominated for the German Film Award or has received an award, you will be awarded funding for follow-up projects. You must apply to the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) for the use of the funds.

If you would like to plan and implement a German-Polish or Polish art or cultural project, you can apply for funding under certain conditions.

As a nationally significant cultural institution in Eastern Germany, you can apply for funding for cultural projects.

As an institution that cultivates and promotes a minority language and its culture, you can apply for funding for corresponding projects.

If you would like to realize an individual literary project of national importance, you can apply for a grant from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) for your project under certain conditions.

If you are developing an artistically outstanding program-filling documentary film project, you can apply for material development funding under certain conditions.

If you have developed a model project in political education, you can receive a grant for its implementation under certain conditions.

If you are an archive, museum, library, university or similar institution that preserves written cultural assets, you can apply for funding for model projects for the preservation of written cultural assets under certain conditions.

As a library, archive or similar institution, you can apply for funding for the preservation of written cultural assets under certain conditions.

If you convey culture or preserve cultural assets related to Eastern Europe, you can apply for funding under certain conditions.

If you want to produce an artistically outstanding feature-length film or documentary, you can receive funding under certain conditions.

If you produce feature-length children's films and short films with a significant German cultural flavor, you can apply for funding.

If you want to realize a feature-length children's film of particular artistic quality, you can receive a loan for project development under certain conditions.

The legal basis for the "Nationally Valuable Cultural Monuments" funding program expired on 31.12.2023. It is no longer possible to apply for funds from the funding program.

As a recognized provider of political education, you can apply for grants for your events under certain conditions.

If you need reference film resources for your particularly complex measures, you can apply for funding under certain conditions.

If you would like to carry out a project to protect or structurally strengthen journalistic work, you can apply for state funding under certain conditions.

Apply with your cinema for the Cinema Program Award.

As an owner-managed bookstore, you can apply for the German Bookstore Award under certain conditions.

As an independent publisher with an exceptional publishing profile, you can apply for the German Publishing Award.

If you are a commercial film distributor releasing artistically and culturally significant films, you can apply for the Distribution Program Award under certain conditions.

Suggest short films for the SHORT TIGER short film award.

If you are nominated for the German Short Film Award or receive an award, you can apply for funding for follow-up projects.

If you release a German theatrical film on DVD, video-on-demand or Blu-ray Disc, you can apply for funding under certain conditions.

If you are eligible to nominate, you can nominate a short film for the German Short Film Award once a year.

If you are developing a screenplay of artistic quality for a feature-length film, you can apply for funding under certain conditions.

If you wish to receive advertising time for your cinema film on television and radio, you can apply for a media benefit under certain conditions.

Has your screenplay been nominated for the German Screenplay Award by an authorized institution? Then you can submit your screenplay under certain conditions.