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# Berlin Funds Adrien Brody and Rachel Zegler Starrer "Last Dance"
- URL: https://scrolletta.com/2026/10/02/karim-ainouz-last-dance-medienboard-funding/
- Published: 2026-10-02T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T16:26:31.000Z
- Description: Berlin's regional fund backs a Karim Aïnouz film with a Hollywood cast alongside new work by Rasoulof, Scherfig and Çatak.
- Author: Scrolletta
- Tags: Made In Europe, Karim Aïnouz, Adrien Brody, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Lone Scherfig, İlker Çatak, #pool-2026-10-02, #ai-generated, #focus-y10

Karim Aïnouz's "Last Dance", written by Emily Ziff Griffin with Adrien Brody, Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt in the cast, takes €200,000 (roughly $234,000) for Berlin's INFLAMÁVEL in the autumn round of regional funder Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, which splits €4.3 million (\~$5 million) between 14 productions and 10 development projects. Mohammad Rasoulof's "Grey Matter" and Axel Ranisch's UFA Fiction feature "Deine Freunde" get the top grants at €700,000 (\~$820,000) each, Lone Scherfig's "Honeytrap" for Zentropa Berlin gets €400,000 (\~$470,000), and İlker Çatak and Helene Hegemann take €300,000 (\~$350,000) each for Dogma 25 films, Çatak's "Dogma 25 - Heureka" with Leonie Benesch and Hanna Schygulla. Development money goes to Kirill Serebrennikov's "Urninge" and Volker Schlöndorff's "Afrika"; 62 projects applied for €14.24 million (\~$16.7 million).

**Primary**: [Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, press release, 2 October 2026](https://www.medienboard.de/presse-events/pressemitteilungen-und-publikationen/mitteilung/News/mbb-foerdert-24-filmprojekte-mit-43-mio-euro?ref=scrolletta.com), [Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, full commitment list, 2 October 2026](https://www.medienboard.de/fileadmin/user%5Fupload/pdf/Anhaenge%5FPM/2026-10%5FFoerderzusagen%5FFilm.pdf?ref=scrolletta.com)