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# Saxony-Funded Films Take Venice Prizes
- URL: https://scrolletta.com/2026/09/14/mdm-funded-films-take-venice-prizes/
- Published: 2026-09-14T07:05:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-23T03:29:05.000Z
- Description: Two films backed by Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung (MDM), the funder for Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, won awards at Venice 2026.
- Author: Scrolletta Staff
- Tags: Money, MDM, DAU, Das Maedchen mit der Leica, Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Venice Film Festival, #pool-2026-09-15, #ai-generated

Two films backed by Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung (MDM), the funder for Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, won awards at Venice 2026\. Ilya Khrzhanovsky's "DAU," a German-French-Swedish co-production 20 years in the making about a physicist drawn into Soviet weapons research, won the Silver Lion for Best Director. The production received support from MDM, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Eurimages, and the Swedish Film Institute. Alina Marazzi's "Das Maedchen mit der Leica," an Italian-German co-production from Vivo Film and Komplizen Film that shot in Leipzig, Halle and Merseburg, won the 1964 Pop Art Award and the Pasinetti Special Prize. Both films received DFFF funding.

[MDM Online](https://www.mdm-online.de/aktuelles/nachrichten/mdm-gefoerderte-produktionen-in-venedig-ausgezeichnet?ref=scrolletta.com)